Identifier: indiancotton00inte (find matches)
Title: Indian cotton
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872-
Subjects: Cotton manufacture Cotton trade
Publisher: (Manchester)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o< oa H ° > 2* 1 * c —J <Ubo o ID O . _ -u- en t- c <u _^S S -itj c Oh * --a -55 .Sjg E —, 3 -a G «J fi - 88 INDIAN COTTON. 1905, and on the Lower Bari Doab in 1907. The expenditure up to the end of 1911-12 was: Upper Jhelum £1,712,000, Upper Chenab £1,814,000. Lower Bari Doab £809,000. The Upper Chenab Canal, though not fully completed, was opened in April, 1912. The scheme constitutes a very material advance towards converting the Punjab, from the Indus on the west to the Jumna on the east, into a vast irrigated tract permanently insured against famine, and an important granary both for
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Marala Shutters at the head of the Upper Chenab Canal. Indian requirements and for export; it is calculated to turn the waters of the Punjab rivers to the greatest advantage, without in any way interfering with the possibility of further schemes for utilising the Beas for the Sutlej valley, and the Indus for the Sind-Sagar-Thal. The Sutlej Valley Project, now under consideration, aims at utilising the surplus supply of the Sutlej and Beas rivers, and would,besides improving the water supply of the several inundation canals now dependent on the Sutlej, extend the benefits of irrigation into the great desert south of the river. The cost is estimated at £6,000,000 and the irrigate area at 3,000,000 acres. Practically 80 per cent, of all Punjab cotton is grown on irrigated land ; the remaining 20 per cent, is raised under rain cultivation, called barani. The rain crops are mostly near the base of the hills.Twenty-five per cent, of the area irrigated is the outside limit which can be put under cul

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