COTTON MILLS IN INDIA

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3689, 29 July 1886, Page 4

COTTON MILLS IN INDIA

It is only m tho largest towns on the Western Bide of India that cotton mills hare been established. The capitalists on that side have wisely gone to the points where they could get close to their coal, cotton, and purchasers, nnd where, by saving the cost of carriage up-coun-try, they could competo very profitably with the Bombay mills. The mills at Nagpur, Indore, and Hingunghat may be pointed to as illustrating this, and it might be asked why the example cannot be followed m other parts of Indiu. A good field for such enterprise appears to await tho intention of capitalists m the shape of a cotton spinning and weaving mill for Bihar. If placed somewhere about Patna it would command custom from a dense population, it would have at hand a large amount of cheap and ready skilled labour, and its position on tb.e East Indian Railway, at the junction with the Bengal and North-West-ern and the Tihut Railway, would give it exceptional facilities for distribution. It would command cheap coal, and the cotton from tho north-west, and would have somo 830 miles of land carriago m its favour m competing with imported English manufacturers. Though whether it wonld be wise to co compote is another question.