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58 Handbook of the Sapphires, garnets, and topaz have been discovered in Batang Padang, Kinta, and Upper Perak. Marble.—There is an abundance of fine marble scattered over the State, some of it very handsomely veined with grey, red, and black, some again is nearly black, veined with white, while other kinds are mottled with different shades of greys and olive greens, and in Kinta there is some pure white marble. A company has been formed to work the marble at Gunong Cheroh near Ipoh in Kinta. Large works have been erected and steam machinery is being employed to cut it up and polish it. As far as can be seen now there seems to be every prospect of this industry being a success, as the marble is pronounced by the ItaHan foreman to be of excellent quality. Granite.—The granitic ranges of which so large a portion of Perak consists afford an unlimited store of this useful stone. The granite that is worked near Taipeng and at Bukit Gantang is of a grey colour, and rather large grained. It is quarried for roadmakiDg, Blake's crusher being used to reduce it ; blocks are also cut for building purposes, culverts and landmarks. The work is principally carried on by convicts, a quarry having been opened near the gaol at Taipeng with a tramway running into the gaol yard, where the rough blocks of stone are dressed. Some handsome red and green granite occurs in Batang Pedang. China Clay.—In most of the tin fields of Perak the stratum underlying the " wash " or tin-bearing deposit, is pure white China clay or kaolin. There must be many millions of tons of this material in Perak, but it is doubtful if it could be worked with profit, on account of the cost of transport to Europe. If Chinese potters could be induced to start works here, a large trade might be carried on with such fine material to work upon, and white firebricks could be made of the refuse. Bricks are made from the same stuff in Cornwall, in the China clay works, and sell for a high price, being used both as fire and as ornamental building bricks. Brick Earth.—Plenty of good brick clay is scattered over the country, and the material for making fire-bricks is also to be had in abundance, as mentioned above. Very fair bricks are now made in Perak, and sell for about $7 per 1,000 ; but they are small, and like everything of Chinese manufacture, they are susceptible of great improvement ; and when the clay is weathered, well mixed, and
Federated Malaij States, moulded, and the bricks are equally burned, they will be of excellent quality. Tiles are now being made at Chenderiang in Batang Padang, and are of much better quality than the Malacca tiles, being harder, less absorbent, and of a better shape. Very good tiles are also being made at Batu Grajah, Kinta. The railway contractors have been turning out excellent machine-made bricks in Batang Padang, Kinta, and Larut, and a Chinaman in Krian makes good machine-moulded tiles. Pottery.—The manufacture of pottery is nearly confined to the Malays, and is only carried on in a small way in two or three districts. It is unglazed, or only glazed with damar on the lower part. Some of the shapes are very graceful. The patterns are pressed into the work by means of stamps, and tools are used to produce dots and lines. Eaised work is also employed in decorating the ware, being put on in strips after the vessels are formed. Stamped raised work does not seem to be employed, and the potters wheel has not yet been introduced amongst the Malays. Coarse earthenware cooking pots are made to a limited extent in Larut by Indian and Chinese potters. Posts and Telegraphs.—The following return of the covers Posts and which passed through the post offices in Perak since 1881 TeUgraphs. show what rapid strides the country is making : 1881 17,327 1883 102,963 1886 202,646 1891 536,115 1893 1,027,166 1895 2,057,023 1900 4,600,904 Nineteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five Money Orders were issued from Perak post offices, to the amount of $583,743 in 1900, payable in Perak, India, Ceylon, the Straits, other Native States, China, Japan, etc., while 8,090 Money Orders, to the amount of $174,312, were paid in the State. Postal orders are also issued for payment in England. Until the year 1884 the only telegraph lines in existence in the State were those running between Matang, Taiping, and Kuala Kangsar, a total distance of 26 miles. Since then new lines have been erected, until now (1900) the total length of telegraph and telephone wires in use is 680 miles, exclusive of the railway lines, connection with the outside world being made through Penang on the north side and through —
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