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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: ECONOMICS. [PaRT III : 
When the ore is carted to the dock instead of being railed on the dock 
tramway, the cost varies from 6 to 10 annas, according to lead and other 
circumstances. Stacking ground rent at Rs. 7 per 500 square feet is 
also charged. The third item can sometimes he avoided by arrangmg 
to rail the original ore-train into dock a short distance from the vessel. 
The ore can then be unloaded by Dock Contractors and dumped along- 
side the vessel. The charges would then be as follows : — 
A. p. 
Unloading wagons and dumping by the side of the vessel . . 1-6 
Siding chai'ge .......... 2-0 
Wharfage 8-0 
11-6 
The charges incurred at Bombay vary therefore from annas to Rs. 1-8, 
the latter limit being given to allow for the fact that there are often 
expenses incurred by the shippers that are not included in the foregoing 
figures. Rs. 1-4 can perhaps be taken as an average figure. 
Manganese-ore railed to Calcutta has to be ferried across the River 
Hughli from Shalimar to the Kidderpore Docks in the Bengal-Nagpur 
Railway steam ferry-boats, which carry 23 
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railway wagons each. Ihis charge is appar- 
ently included in the cost of railing the ore from the forwarding station 
to the docks. The charges per ton incurred at the Docks are^ : — 
A. p. 
Dumping on wharf pending shipment ...... 2-0 
Shippiog charge ......... 6-6 
River due ........... 1-6 
10-0 
As extra charges there are : — 
If shipped at night ......... 1-fl 
Removal if incurred ......... 4-0 
Rent, if incurred, Rs. 4 per cottah per month. 
The dumping charge may be avoided if the ore does not have to 
wait pending shipment. The Calcutta charges vary therefore from 8 
to 15 annas, with an average figure of about 10 annas. 
At the Port of Vizagapatam the railway siding is on the beach, 
where the ore is dumped from the railway 
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wagons ; from there it is taken by a short 
lead to the surf boats and carried out in these to the steamer lying 
1 Kindly supplied by the Secretary to the Commissioners of the Port of Calcutta. 
