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established the Tata Research Institute
I at Bangalore for the education of Par
see young men.
One of the big schemes of this man
was to utilize the rivers of the hills
! back of Bombay to generate electricity
for the cotton mills. This is now being
done by the building of great dams
across the necks of three valleys, thus
making reservoirs with a surface area
Of 5000 acres and a storage capacity of
! 100000, 600 cubic feet. The power will
be conducted to Bombay, a distance of
forty-three miles, by overhead wires.
India's Big Steel Works.
More important than ali the above are
the plans of the elder Tata for a steel
and iron industry for Hindustan first
heard OF them through the viceroy's
minister of commerce and industry at
Calcutta, and I have learned more from
D. J. Tata, the son of J. N Tata, here at
Bombay 1 met Mr.. Tata in his office
and we talked for an hour about these
steel works They have been started
with a capital OF sS,0O0,OOO and are al
ready we'll under way. They are sit
uated about $50 miles from Calcutta and
not far from great beds of iron and
coal American managers metallurgiSts
and engineers have been employed,
and the enterprise is being pushed for
all it is wqfth- The company has made
a contract with the government to take
10000 tons of steel rails per annum
for a term of ten years, and the officials
have also agreed to build a railroad for
them at a cost of $4,000 600, to carry
their ore to the mills Mr.. Tata says
that the company will probably pay
dividends within four or five years He
thinks the profits will be at least Is
per cent and that the business will
steadily grow. He tells me the plant
will consist OF two blast furnaces six
open hearth basic steel furnaces of fer
ty tons each, three merchant bar mills
and blooming and rail mills. 1t will
produce 10000 tons of pig iron and
$4,000 tons of finished steel Der scar.
Millions in Steel.
If these works succeed they will be
the beginning of an industry which may
run high into the millions India is al
ready importing something like SIS, 000,-
600 worth of iron and steel. It annual
y takes S30.000,O00 worth of railway
steel and rolling stock, as well as ma
chinery and hardware to the amount of
$40, 900, 900 more The government de-
mands are enormous. Its railways are
longer than those of the United King
dom, and it has eighty-seven railway
shops, whose average force is 1000
hands 1t has arSenalS and GeckyardS
employing $4,000 men, and it imports
great quantities of such materials as
these works demand. In addition to
this. factories and mills are now SPRING
ing up over India. and they all need ma
chinery. There are almost 1000 cotton
mills as well as jute mills, sugar mills
and foundries making iron and brass.
At present Great Britain is monopolizing
the importations. 1t ships about all the
machinery and mill work, the most OF
the railway materials and the greater
part Of the iron and steel. If India
can make her own goods OF this kind it
VIII result in the employment of mil
lions of the natives and viii increase
the wealth and prosperity of the coun-
try
Coal and Iron Deposits.
During my talk with Mr.. Tata asked
him to tell me about the mineral re-
sources of India. Said he:
We had to study them before plan
ming the steel works. Ny father, you
know, originated the idea He took it up
. years ago with the hope Of max
ing this a great manufacturing nation.
He had made some study of Eng
land and believed that the greatness
came from its iron and coal. He wanted