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bazaars buying lac. They also send agents to the markets along the 
Bengal-Nagpur main line and to the Central Provinces at the time 
when the lac crops are coming into the markets. The method of 
sale of stick-lac in Jhalda is by open negotiation and in Balarampur 
and most other markets by the cloth method. 
The following are the manufacturing centres showing number of 
factories, total number of stoves and possible daily output in maunds 
of shellac 
Names. 
Number 
of 
factories. 
Total number 
of 
stoves. 
Possible outturn 
in maunds of 
shellac. 
Balarampur ... 
27 
400 
300 
Jhalda 
»5 
* 5 ° 
no 
Chandil 
3 
40 
30 
Chas 
3 
! 5 
11 
Purulia 
3 
40 
30 
Barabazar 
2 
25 
18 
Mitrah 
1 
10 
7 
Total 
54 
680 
506 
Working regularly, say 300 days a year, the factories in Man 
bhum district could turn out 1,50,000 maunds of shellac. 
The principal manufacturers are : — 
Balarampur. 
Hiralal Lalcharid 
Harnandan Rao Chuni Lai 
Ratanlal Lunawat 
Lachminarayan Surajmal 
Surajmal Jiwanram 
Baldeo Dass Surajprasad 
Karikaran Bariram 
Rakantlal Basantlal 
Bechulal Baijulal 
Gajhadhar Jaydayal 
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