With regard to cotton spinning and weaving the number of spindles in all India in 1922-23 was 7,245,119, and of looms, 137,238. The production of yarn in 1922-23 was 705,893,600 lb. and of cloth, 405,253,700 lb. Companies. On March 31, 1922, there were 5,189 joint stock companies incorporated in British India and in the Indian States of Mysore, Baroda, Gwalior, Hyderabad and Travancore, and in operation, with paid-up capital of Rs. 2,30,54,89,000. Mineral Production.—The quantity and value of the minerals produced in India in 1922 were as follows: The average number of persons employed daily in the coal mining industry in 1922 was 200,913, of whom 117,742 worked underground. Commerce. The following table applies to the sea-borne external trade of India, which in 1834-35 amounted to Rupees 14,34, 22,900 : Of the exports of merchandise in 1923-24 Rs. 349,00,96,245 represented the products the country. Rs. 13.07.47,631 were re-exports of imported foreign merchandise The returns of quantities and values of imports and of exports are based on the bills of entry and shipping bills respectively. The value is the wholesale value at the place of import or export, less trade discount, duty not being included in the value of dutiable goods. The accounts present the countries from which the goods have been consigned to India and the countries for which goods shipped from India are intended. No distinction is maintained between general, special, and transit trade; but goods of foreign origin, when re-exported. are shown in detail separately from those of Indian origin. In many cases the Indian States impose Customs duties on goods imported from other parts of India. The imports and exports, excluding Government stores and Governmen treasure, were distributed as follows in 1923-24 : Imports Exports Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. 82,46,60,796 18 49,55,024 20,07,32,188 136,47,02,223 22,30,90,562 132,29,90,604 39,50,81,995 35,91,28,7547,91,86,033 39,95,73,004 Imports and exports of bullion and specie were as follows: Gold is used chiefly in the form of ornaments, and much of it is imported in small bars. The distribution of commerce by countries was as follows (merchandise alone) in years ending March 31, 1923 and 1924: The trans-frontier land-trade (excluding treasure) was during five years : The Trade (excluding treasure) with the leading trans-frontier countries was as follows: 1 Partly internal and partly trans-frontier trade. 2 Exclusive of the figures for the months July 1923 to February 1924 for which returns of the N.W.F. Province have not been received. The value of the different classes of goods (private merchandise on was as follows: |