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proportion to the spread of education and trade. Moreover, if good ay 
material were readily obtainable by the paper-mills they would not be s0 he 
on making arrangements, throughout India, to collect all the waste paper 20" 
ever inferior its quality may be. abe 
The probable annual receipts and expenditure for such an out-turn woul 
as follows :— 
Receipts. Tee 
By sale of 1,90,000 maunds of pulp, delivered at Dehra Dun Railway Station, 0,000 
at 3 rupéeescpermaund! jaz)! scidae. a baste bacon cbse lenenaimmanmaM 
Expenditure. 
Purchase of 5,70,000 maunds of spruce, at 11 annas permaund ... Pe i 
Wear and tear of machinery and buildings, at 10 per cent. on 1,50,000 15,000 a 
rupees ... ge i x es r 
Manager’s pay, at 800 rupees per month sec = a vee i) "100 
Mechanical engineer’s, at 450 rupees per month _... fe nd vet B 
3 Foremen, at 50 rupees each per month rtki oe an as toe 1,080 
3 Ditto at 30 rupees each per month be ne oxy ot oe 4'320 
60 Workmen, at 6 rupees each per month re aa 0 ox) see 
Carting 1,90,000 maunds of pulp to railway, at 3 annas per,maund per 26 35,605 
miles... seat ut 5,300 
Miscellaneous charges... ax ei cx: oct ane ons 00, 
Profit on capital of 5,00,000 rupees—i.e,, 20 per cent. per annum ... 1,0; 
5,170,000 
The capital ired would be as follows :— 
e capital required would be as follows ise za Rupees 
Cost of machinery... ag o re x Ay: Tou 1,50,00 
Setting up, leading water, and erection of buildings ... 70,000 0. 
Working capital aa om ocx 0 met eet 3,50) 
5,00,000 
Total as cen: -7) amie 
ough 
This is the prospect which seems to await any capitalist enterprising ©? “h 
to take up the business ; and, if mechanically ground pulp is able to give * a 
a profit, what would be the profit on chemically prepared wood fibre for Pr 
and cloth? For, although it is somewhat more expensive to manufacture, 
yield is as much as 60 to 66 per cent. of the weight of the wood against 33 Hs 
cent. of mechanically ground pulp. Doubtless Government would be Pee 
to meet any capitalist willing to start the business with an agreement to g1Vv@ 
the first refusal vié Dagpathar, at acertainrate for a certain number of Ye!" 
as well as to lend him a plot of land for his factory with a right to lead we on 
from the river to propel the machinery, so that he could make his own caleula ; 
as to whether it would pay him or not. Government at the same time W° 
benefit by the opening out of a market for spruce, for which there is nO 
demand. , ; 
There should be no difficulty in getting water power sufficient to arive, 
the machinery required for the factory, as I believe the fall of the Tous att 
at the foot of the hills is about 45 feet permile. Should a market for sp", 
be in this way developed, it would most probably pay the Forest Depart 
to grow spruce on a rotation of thirty or forty years. 1 
The Canadian pulp factories have bought up large areas of forest he 
which I am informed they are treating on a twenty-year rotation, but then “dé 
growth of American spruces, especially the Douglas spruce, is very rapids ” 
the table published in Lhe Indian Forester for May, 1899. Reatsi, 
The trees in the plantation of spruce, near Veoban, in the Jaunsar Divi i 
made in 1874, when the plants were put out at one year old, now average’ ty 
feet in height and 4°6 inches in diameter; but the plantation is not de? nob 
stocked, and the locality is one with an eastern aspect, while spruce doe 
