TABLE 45.--Production of Building materials and Road

GRANITE.

LATERITE.

LIME.

LIMESTONE AND
KANKAR.

Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value.

(e)

3,126,587 25,87,512 25,87,512 194,550

6,296 10,043 1,426 5,456

40,589 287,642 7,32,637 9,241 1,54,271 313,531 4,46,267 2,108,716 25,16,763 96,89,880 728,562

34

17

(b)

7,180 1,39,190

8,097 40.469 226,935 6,57,572 58

870

:

8,116

..

of sand used for glass manufacture.

granite laterite, limestone, etc.

are not available.

of dolomite.

SURARY

at Rs. 1,969 (£148). This beryl is shipped to Germany and the United States of America for use as beryllium-ore, i.e., for the extraction of the metal. The Indian beryl is of high grade and fetches from £7 to £10 per ton c.i.f. in America and Europe, so that it is obviously undervalued in the returns. There appears to be no previous example of the production anywhere in the world of beryl on such a large scale.

The production of native bismuth from the Tavoy district, Burma, was in 1935, 224 lbs. valued at Rs. 211 (£16) and in 1936, 112 lbs. valued at Rs. 112 (£8). In 1937, 246 lbs. were produced.

Bismuth.

The total estimated value of building materials and road-metal produced in India and Burma in the year under consideration was Rs. 1,22,77,392 (£923,112) against Rs. 1,08,62,263 (£816,712) in 1936. Certain returns supplied in

Building materials and road-metal.

cubic feet have been converted into tons on the basis of certain assumed relations between volume and weight.

The production of limestone and kankar during the year amounted to nearly 3 million tons, and if weight of material won were the criterion, then limestone would be rated next to coal in order of importance. The increased output of limestone of recent years is partly due to its use as a flux in the iron and steel industry and in the manufacture of cement.

There was a rise in the output of clays from *318,512 tons valued at Rs. 2,93,373 (£22,057) in 1936, to 1936, to 346,989 tons, valued at Rs. 3,40,420 (£25,596) in 1937. Practically the whole of the large production of Madras is from Travancore State for the manufacture of tiles and bricks.

Clays.

Corundum.

The production of corundum in the Salem district, Madras, amounted to 28 tons valued at Rs. 6,181 (£465) in 1935 and in 1936 the output was 1 tons valued at Rs. 420 (£32). No production was recorded in 1937. There was, however, an ouput of 56,560 tolas (13 cwts.) of corundum ⚫ and of 13,718 tolas (3 cwts.) of sapphire with corundum in 1934 and 1935, respectively, from Soomjam in the Padar district of Kashmir. In 1936 there was an output of 49,155 tolas, the figure being received too late for inclusion in last year's Review, and in 1937, 1,869 tolas; (See also Sapphire, p. 367).

* Revised.

TABLE 46.--Production of Clays in India and Burma during 1937.

Felspar.

The output of felspar in 1934 was 628 tons valued at Rs. 6,311 (£474), which rose in quantity to 702 tons in 1935, with a fall in value, however, to Rs. 4,943 (£372), rising again to 784-5 tons valued at Rs. 6,037 (£454), in 1936 and falling to 487 tons, valued at Rs. 3,390 (£255) in 1937. This total is made up cf 143 tons from Mysore, valued at Rs. 858, 76 tons from Alwar State, Rajputana, valued at Rs. 665 and 268 tons from Ajmer-Merwara, valued at Rs. 1,867.

IDKARY

There was a rise in the reported production of fuller's earth from 6,649 tons valued at Rs. 71,672 (£5,389) in 1936 to 7,416 tons valued at Rs. 75,017 (£5,640) in 1937. The increase was mainly from Khairpur State.

Fuller's earth.

TABLE 47.-Quantity and value of Fuller's earth produced in India during the years 1936 and 1937.

In 1937 there was an output of about 330 tons of garnet sand valued at Rs. 1,650 (£124) from Tinnevelly district, Madras.

Garnet sand.

In 1935 there was an output of 557 tons of graphite valued at Rs. 11,481 (£863), composed of 406 tons valued at Rs. 9,274 from Betul district, C. P., 150 tons valued at Graphite. Rs. 2,157 from Kolar district, Mysore, and 1 ton valued at Rs. 50 from Vizagapatam district, Madras. In 1936 this fell to 388 tons valued at Rs. 4,400 (£331), 237 tons valued at Rs. 1,380 being from Betul district and 151 tons valued at Rs. 3,020 from Kolar district. In 1937 there was no production from Betul district, but 228 tons, valued at Rs. 8,892 (£669) from Patna State, Eastern States Agency, 10 tons valued at Rs. 1,000 (£75) from Vizagapatam, and the Kolar output more than doubled, to 320 tons, valued at Rs. 6,410 (£482), the total being 558 tons.