1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1894-95,
2 The exports by road to Khewani, a considerable salt mar-
3 ket in the Rohtak. district, are less by maunds 2,340 (maunds
4 1,70,617 in 1893-94 and maunds 1,68,277 in 1894-95), owing to
5 the revival of the trade in Sambhar salt, To Hissar there is
6 .an increase of maunds: 1,399; to,Sirsa an increase of maunds
7 282; to Bikanir an increase of maunds 1,618; and to Ajmere
8 of maunds 232. Elsewhere, to other markets, there are decreas-
9 es all owing to the causes that affected the trade to Bhewani,
10 viz.,—the cheapening of Sambhar and the revival of its trade.
11 Patiala took by road less Didwana salt by 3,784 maunds ; Jey-
12 pur and Shekhawati less by 2,145 maunds; Jhalrapatan less
13 by 335 maunds; Kotah less by 15,095 maunds (maunds 20,939 in
14 1893-94, and only maunds 5,844 in 1894-95), and Tonk less by
15 maunds 955.
16 The Didwana exports by road to Nawa, 40 miles off, and
17 thence by railway to Delhi and other markets in the Punjab,
18 and the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, were -less by
19 maunds 88,563 (maunds 2,19,681 in 1893-94 and maunds 1,31,118
20 im 1894-95) for the same reasons that influenced road exports
21 to Bhewani. Soon after the price of Sambhar salt was reduced to
22 4 annas a maund, Didwana salt completely disappeared from the
23 markets in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh east of
24 Agra, and from the Rohilkhand markets and was forcéd back to
25 its former area of consumption, viz.,—Karnal, Sahdranpur, Mu-
26 zaffarnagar, Meerut and the Bulandshahr districts:
27 50, The next statement furnishes particulars regarding
28 the duty-free salt supplied tothe Jodbpur Darbar:— ;
29 Destination.
30 8
31 F ;
32 Year. Ge zg *
33 » | 3 z 4 3
34 8 a a 2 - g & g é
35 = 2 - 3 g g a ma
36 4 # 3 ED a P g | 8 g
37 oe a a z = os Ss M FS]
38 Mds. | Rs. Mds. | Mds. | Mas. | Mds. | Md Mas. | Mads.
39 1893-941 43,408 2,713 | 16,196 | 12,042 | 10,180 2,713 94 2,183 43,408
40 1894-96 | 43,408 2;713 | 18,479 } 12,759 8,533 2,776 81 43,408.
41 The quantity delivered during the year was exactly the
42 same as that issued during the previous year, vz. maunds 43,408.
43 The untaken quantity, vz.,—maunds 16,592, lapsed again this
44 year. The local Raj officials are unable to give to the Assistant
45 Commissioner any reason for the failure to remove the full
46 quantity of salt of this kind which the Darbar is entitled
47 to, but this is the fifth consecutive year in which less than the
48 full 60,000 maunds of Didwana duty-free salt have been pur-
49 chased by the Darbdar.
50 51 <A comparative statement of the opening and closing
51 balances and of the quantity of salt manufactured and sold,
52 including excesses and deficits discovered on clearance of heaps,
53 during the past two years will be found hereunder :—
54 Stock. | Sales.
55 re y Balance at
56 Balance at |. Extracted, Sales, inelud- close of the
57 Year. beginning of including ex- Total. ing deficits yeur.
58 the year, |cesses3u heaps in heaps
59 year, cleared, cleared.
60 Nds Mds Mads. Mads. Mads.
61 1893-94 « | - 6,00,875 63,475 6,64,350 5,01,141 4,63,209
62 1894-95 1,63,209 4,16,508 5,79,717 8,91,121 1,88,596
63 a hee Sed
64 4 8? )
65 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
66 DIDWANA
67 Issue of duty-free salt.
68 Stock and sale account.