142 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES
The following table shows the principal classes of these companies : —
Companies working
Banking and Insurance
Railways and Tramways
Other Trading ....
Tea planting
Goal mining
Cotton mills
Jute mills
Mills for wool, silk, hemp, &c. Cotton and Jute screws and presses
Sugar
Land and Building
Paid-up capital
£ 0,011,000 8,979,000
14,170,000 4,175,000 4,778,000
12,005,000 7,018,000 1,584,000 1,790,000 587,000 2,368,000
These figures exclude companies not incorporated in India, although carrying on business there. At the end of March, 1919, the number of such companies working in India was, so far as known, 597, with a paid-up capital of nearly 477,108,000Z., besides over 141,346,000/. debentures. Rail- way companies accounted for about one-seventh of the paid-up capital and about half of the debentures, and other important companies were navigation companies (paid-up capital 22,365, 0001), jute mills (1,994,000Z. ), rice mills (24,000Z.), tea planting companies (18,126,000Z.), gold mining companies (2,106,0002.), and other mining companies (5,205, O00Z.)
Mineral Production. — Statement showing the values of the minerals produced in British India and Indian States during 1917 and 1918.
Mineral
Coal
Gold .
Petroleum .
Manganese-ore 1 .
Salt
Saltpetre
Lead and lead-ore.
Tungsten-ore
Building materials
and road metal . Micai . Tin-ore and tin Jadestone ' . Ruby, sapphire &
spinel Monazite Iron-ore Silver . Copper-ore . Alum . Barytcs . Potash .
1917
£
4,511,645
2,22i,S89
1,092,985
1,501,080
983,157
527,669
397,478
623,074
£
6,017,089
2,060,152
1,131,904
1,481,735
1,644,211
589,190
450,477
726,321
240,776
238,355
508,173
625,741
94,495
134,635
07,502
124,113
51,831
40,310
56,489
58,819
39,977
47,298
23 7, 2 Hi
296.0W
30,162
4,053
3,707
900
—
2,948 46
Mineral
Magnesite
Clay
Chromite
Steatite
Agate .
Gypsum
Diamond
Ochre .
Corundum
Antimony
Amber .
Graphite
Platinum
Bauxite .
Moljbdenite
Asbestos
Bismuth
Aquamarine
SniiKirskite
Apatite .
Total value
1917
"~ £
14,559
9,020
26,215
6,470
255
1,034
1,826
1,629
3,875
139
684
547
19
620
626
308
163
297
13,206,566 15,771,085
1918
£
4,641 13,623 52,068 10,921
1,139 2,625 1,959 4,100
87
361
2
894
lie
180
4 3,400
1 Export values.
The quantity of coal produced in India (including Indian States) was 20,722,493 tons in 1918; of manganese-ore, 517,963 tons ; wolfram, 4,431
