AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY
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Some statistics of mills, factories, &c, in 1918 or 1918-19, are given as follows for British India (works or factories employing generally 50 persons or more are included in the statistics; :—
Number of
Mills, Factories,
Ac
Persons
employed
(daily
Other information
avenge)
[Output: 581 mln. lb. yarn; 326 J mln. lb. woven goods. Spindles. l 6,175,676. Looms, 108,059 I Capital authorisedi. 17.327,000/.
Cotton mills
235
207,669
(Capital authorisedi, 9,S48,OOOJ. Looms, 40,043. Spindles. \ 839,919.
Jute mill* ....
7«
175,500
Woollen milli .
6
7,832
/Capital authorisedi, 1,743,0001. { Production, 8,801,000 lb. /Capital authorisedi, 327,000*.
Paper mllli
7
5,405
1 Production, 67,332,000 lb. •
Government arms and 1
ammunition factories, .
14
33,459
—
and arsenals . . . '
Breweries.
16
1,895
Production, 8,214,000 gallons.
Cotton ginning, clean- \
ing, and pressing mills J
1,405
100,981
and factories. . ./
Dockyards
14
21,507
—
Iron and brass foundries .
5A
8,599
—
Iron and steel producingi works . . ./
o
20,320
-
Jute presses
12:.
—
Lac factories
70
—
Petroleum refineries.
8
—
Printing presies
141
—
Railway workshops and\
86
118 115
other factories . f
Rice mills.
575
47,724
—
Saw mills ....
1M
12.S16
—
Silk Filatures .
—
Sugar factories
38
10,157
—
Tile and brick factories .
202
22.49S
—
Engineering workshops .
115
25,567
—
1 So far as known.
With regard to cotton spinning and weaving the following tahle gives some further details for India (including Indian States) : —
Tear ended March 31
Spindles
Yarn production
Looms
Cloth production
Lbs.
09 2, 770,851 651,903,307 722,4X^579
681,107,231 660,575,015 615,040.464 035,760,245
No.
- ,. *.=
103,311 10S.417 110.- 114.S05 116,094 (a)
1914 .
1915 .
1916 .
1917 . 191S . 1919 .
No.
6,620,576 6,598,108 '088 6,670,162 6,614,269 0,590,918 (a)
Lbs.
274.388,550 277,005.900 352,254,554 377,728,816 3Sl,404,170 349,580,450 383,846,936
.
(a) Complete figures not yet available.
Companies. — On March 31, 1919, there were 2,789 joint stock companies incorporated in India, under the Indian Companies Act of 1913 and the Mysore Companies Regulation III of 1895 (repealed by Regulation VIII of 1917), and in operation, with paid-up capital of 71,076,000*. (1/. -^Rs. 15).
