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(10) Labour. 
Cooly labour is fairly plentiful, though some may have to be imported 
for working in the mill. The wages earned by men are from 4 to 6 anna s 
per day and women 2f to 3 annas. Good carpenters and masons are 
available in Mangalore at 12 annas to Re 1 a day. Carts are 
fairly plentiful but, were bamboos to be carted in large quantities from 
the Puttur forests, more carts would have to be introduced. 
(11) Firewood. 
Firewood is very plentiful in these forests, and the demand com¬ 
paratively small. Its price is from Rs. 3 to Rs. 4 per ton at Uppinangadi 
and Rs. 6 per ton at Panimangalore. 
(12) Chemicals. 
Shell-lime is available in large quantities on the coast : it is so Id in 
bags of 160 lbs. each, and the price of 100 such bags is Rs. 28. 
The Bombay Steam Navigation Company’s steamers call at the port 
of Mangalore, so that the cost of importing the necessary supplies, 
chemicals and fuel by sea should not be excessive. The terminus of 
the Madras Railway is situated at Mangalore, by which chemicals 
could be imported when steamer traffic is stopped during the mon¬ 
soon. 
(13) Miscellaneous facts. 
The site chosen for the factory at Panimangalore is, generally speak¬ 
ing, a healthy one, the country being open and flat. The forests from 
which the bamboos can be exploited are feverish just after the rains. 
The coast rivers are, generally speaking, more silted up in this district than 
is the case in North Kanara, which is probably due to the excessive 
denudation of all tree-growth on the waste lands. For this reason, the 
streams are shallower, rendering navigation more difficult, and at the 
same time, rendering the rivers more liable to excessive floods in the 
monsoon. 
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