140 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES
The following table deals with irrigation :—
Years ended
31 March
Major
works
Minor works
Total
Area irrigated
Acres 15,162,440 14,096,554 14,874,029 14.564,231 14,241,354
Gross revenue realised
. Gross
Area revenue
irrigated realised
Area irrigated
Acres 22,998,435 22,231,453 21,948,071 22,349.459 22,068,357
Gross revenue realised
1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Rs.
4.93,21,328 5,74,40,396 5,64,24,840 5,75,21,647 5,86,52,966
Acres '( Rs. 7,835,995 2,12,38,789 8,134,899 2,29,41,874 7,074,042 1,99,17,595 7,785,228 2,08,40,951 i 7,827,003 2,13,51,083
Rs.
7,05,60,117 8,03,82,270 7,63,42,435 7,83,62,598 8,00,04,049
Irrigation works, for which capital accounts are kept, paid 7 '79 per cent, in 1908-09 on their capital outlay. The estimated value of the crops irrigated by such works in 1908-09 was 61^ crores of rupees.
The following table shows the extent of reserved forests in 1910-11 :—
Sq. miles
Central Provinces
including Berar
. 21,384
Bombay
. 14.006
Burma
. 26,077
Bengal
. 4,254
Madras
. 20,080
United Provinces of Agra and Oudli
Eastern Bengal and Assam
Panjab
Coorg .
Sq. miles
3,958
6,491
1,952
520
Sq. miles Ajmer . . . 142 Baluchistan , . 289
Andamans . . 156 North West Frontier
Province . . 250
In 1910-11, there were in British India, 226 cotton mills, containing 78,984 looms and 5,961,950 spindles, employing a daily average number of '214,149 persons. Fifty-eight jute mills, employing 216,390 persons, with 33,169 looms and 682,527 spindles ; four woollen mills at work, employing 3,216 persons ; eight paper mills, employing 4,604 persons ; paper made in 1910, 59 million^lbs. ; twenty-four breweries, the quantity of beer brewed during 1910 being 4,191,000 gallons.
In 1910-11 there were 2,251 joint stock companies registered under the Indian Companies Act and in operation with paid-up capital of 42.488,119Z.
' The following table refers to the principal classes of joint stock companies
in 1910-11 :—
Companies working
Banking and Insurance
Railways and Tramways
Trading .
Tea planting
Coal mining
Cotton mills
Jute mills
Mills for wool,
Sugar
.silk, lieuip, <fen.
Paid up capital
£
5.418,439 2,479,380 5,815,907 2,355,123 3,892,517 9,973,472 4,447,658 578,584 540,635
Mineral Production.— The values of the chief minerals produced 1910 and 1911 are given as follows : —