Gazetteer of the Gurgaon District 1883-4 [Punjab]

· 1884 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1Chapter I, B.

2Geol

3an ora.

4Sulténpur salt

5sources.

6Process of manufac-

7ture.

8Fauna

9{ Punjab Gazetteer,

1010 CHAP. I.—THE DISTRICT.

11is published in extenso in the Provincial volume of the Gazetteer

12series, and also as a separate pamphlet.

13There are ten clusters of vill south-west of Delhf, situated

14partly in the ar ea and partly in the Rohtak district, where

15manufacture of salt by the evaporation of brine raised from wells has

16been carried on from a period long antecedent to British supremacy.

17They are known as the Sulténpur Mahal, are spread over an area of

18about 20 square miles, and oe the villages of Sultdnpur, Safd-

19pur, Mahmddpur, Sadhrana, Kélidwds, Ikbdlpur, Mobdrikpur, Basfr-

20ur, Zahfdpur and Sailana. Three of these tracts have been British

21erritory since 1836, having been included in the Jh&raa parganah,

22which lapsed in that year on the death of Begam Sumroo. The

23others only came to us after the mutiny, five having till then belonged

24to the Nawab of Jhajjar and two to the Naw&b of Farrukhnagar.

25The salt is called Sult4npun, and is of good quality, containing about

2690 to 95 per cent. of sodium chloride. The subjoined table gives full

27details as to the size of the saline tracts, and the number of wells

28as they stood in 1870. Since then the number of wells has decreased

29to 322, but the number. of pans has risen to 4,487.

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42Sulta4npur 14 174, 70} 435

43Sadhréna 8 20 284

44Saidpur 7 Mz 8 60

45Mahmddpur 10 193, ° 14] 138

46Mobérikpur 18 20; 120 {1,308

47Basirpur 16 17 60 | 530

48Ikbélpur 17 19 18 | 243

49Kélidwas 10 16 4 35

50Zahid pur 16 21 58 | 602

51i 19 20 15 | 164

52Average.

5313°5 | 18°7 | 390 |3,799

54The manufacture of the salt is exclusively from natural brine

55derived feom wells. The brine seems inexhaustible, as some of the

56works have been in operation apparently for the last 200 years, and

57no deterioration is obeervable. The brine is evaporated by solar

58heat in shallow chunam-lined pans, which vary in extent from 200

59feet by 60 feet to only 60 feet by 40 feet, and in depth from 10 to 12

60inches. To each well is attached one or more sets of pans, each sct

61consisting onan average of about 9 pans so arranged that there is a

62slight fall from each pan into the one next bevond it. When after