1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 SAMBHAR.
3 Maxufacture.
4 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
5 the sales of the year have been large, the closing balance of
6 stock in hand on the 31st of March 1895 is maunds 48,82,430,
7 which has since been increased, when manufacture ceased on
8 the 15th of June 1895, to upwards of 63 lakhsof maunds. The
9 cost of manufacturing the 70,35,016 maunds of salt produced
10 in 1894-95 was Rs. 2,09,958, or 5°73 pies per maund. In
11 1893-94 the cost of producing maunds 44,51,154 came to 5°86
12 pies per maund.
13 37. The statement included in this paragraph exhibits a
14 comparative abstract of the quantities of the several varieties
15 The figures for the year under review are very satisfactory.
16 Pan salt'is a favourite kind of salt in the market because of its
17 whiteness and uniformity of size, and the‘outturn was far in
18 excess of that of any previous year recorded, increasing from
19 maunds 19,03,156 to maunds 22,15,918. Salt extracted from
20 the lake-bed, that is, salt which deposits spontaneously on the
21 natural bed of the lake without any assistance from protective
22 works or otherwise, attained the figure of maunds 6,60,623. Of
23 this variety only maunds 1,047 were obtained in 1893-94, owing
24 to the quantity of unevaporated brine that remained in the lake
25 throughout the year. Sometimes very large quantities of this
26 salt are obtained, as, for instance, maunds 16,03,219 in 1890-91,
27 but the quality is often inferior to that of the varieties of manu-
28 factured salt. During the season now at an end the quality
29 of the lake salt gathered is fairly good. The last and most
30 important variety of salt obtained is that which is manufactured
31 in deep permanent pans or kyars of which we have now a large
32 number in complete working order. These pans or kyars are
33 our great stand-by in case of need, and this year their utility
34 has again been well proved. They yielded maunds 41,58,475
35 of salt of the best quality and such as is most highly esteemed
36 . by traders and consumers, or 59 per cent. of the entire year’s
37 -production. Excluding 1892-93, they have yielded in 1890-91
38 maunds 33,94,988 ; in 1891-92 maunds 22,32,175; in 1893-94
39 maunds 25,46,951 ; and in 1894-95 maunds 41,58,478.
40 On the subject of manufacture the Assistant Commissioner
41 of the Division, Mr. Lyon, says :—‘‘ The year commenced well
42 and maunds 17,63,795 were extracted in April 1894. Work
43 continued brisk in May, and the extraction in that month
44 ‘amounted to maunds 14,78,113. As the weather became hot
45 and the brine was lost owing to salt forming all over the lake
46 the supply in the walled enclosures (kyars) became exhausted,
47 and extraction at these works and the contractors’ pans rapidly
48 fell off in the following month of June. Early in July the
49 works all closed by the setting in of the rains. Very little
50 i. obras
51 of salt manufactured during the past four years :— .
52 Method of manufacture. 1891-92. | 1892-93, | 1893-94. | 1894.95,
53 —rZ ——— | re ear penn Ft yD
54 Mas. Mds. Mds, Mds.
55 In pans ... = ce . | 764367 | 11,880 | 19,03,156 | 22,15,918
56 -Lake-bed extraction ... ase we | 4,45,567 eae 1,047 | 6,60,623
57 Walled enclosures a tes eos | 22,382,175 | 98,786 | 25,46,951 | 41,68,476
58 Total wee’ | 34,42,109 | 90,666 | 44,51,154 | 20,86,016
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