1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1894-95,
2 different lines of railway by the through-traffic system of sale pryrew By sections
3 during the past three years :— PACHBADRA.
4 1892-93. | 1893-94. | 1894-95.
5 a Bal a eee
6 Lines of railway. Quantity |} Quantity | Quantity
7 . ae of of of
8 salt, salt, salt,
9 Mds. Mds., Mads.
10 Jodhpur-Bikanir Railway id Po rT 1,260 2,047 1,890
11 Réjputéna-Malwa Railway eee ie aac 62,398 | 8,26,721 | 1,94,232
12 Indian Midland Railway ‘is eee ew. |. 98,441 | 1,651,520 | 1,46,225
13 Great Indian Peninsula Railway .., ee ore 18,113 15,435 8,505
14 Cawnpore-Achnera Railway ee cee ase aes 17,100 7,245
15 Bengal and North-Western Railway... aes A sti 4,575 473
16 Delhi Umballa and Kalka Railway ... oon rt 157 ek ise
17 East Indian Kailway aie oea ‘ee 157 | = 1,65,098. 92,452
18 North-Western Railway are Pre aes exe 4,568 2,520
19 Lucknow-Sitapur-Bareilly Railway .., ee ae tos 42,147 27,445
20 Rewari-Ferozepur Railway sor ave ta stg 1,918 Bs
21 Rohilkand and Kumaun Railway... a: see oe : 1,102 |° 630
22 Oudh and Rohilkand Railway sa toe ies 157 | 1,00,837 | 40,675
23 8,30,068 | 5,22,292
24 Once more it is scarcely possible to make any useful com-
25 parison of the annual figures shown, because in 1892-93 Sam-
26 bhar salt was selling at 2% annas a maund and practically shut
27 Pachbadra out of every market except in Rajputdna and Cen-
28 tral India ; in 1893-94 circumstances already well known led to
29 the price of Sambhar being finally raised to eight annas a maund,
30 giving Pachbatira, and along with it Didwana salt and Bara-
31 gara, an opening in Northern India, which they took full and
32 prompt advantage of. In the year under report Sambhar was
33 once more reduced in price, and had it not been for the large
34 orders for through-traftic salt. already placed at Pachbadra as
35 the time, a much greater reduction in the business done at Pach-
36 badra would have been experienced. As it was, indents for no
37 less than maunds 59,220 of salt were transferred on application
38 from Pachbadra to Sambhar as soon as the news was known.
39 Compared with 1893-94 the through-traffic trade of 1894-95
40 decreased over every line of railway. We may omit the purely
41 local trade on the Jodhpur-Bikanir line.’ The Rajputdna-Mal-
42 wa trade fell off by seven stations and no less than 1,382,489
43 maunds, The Indian Midland Railway carried less salt by 16
44 stations and maunds 5,295, The Hast Indian Railway took
45 less by seven stations and maunds 72,646. The Oudh and Ro-
46 hilkand Railway indented for less by nine.stations and maunds
47 60,162, On the Lucknow-Sitapur line the trade decreased by
48 one station and 14,702 maunds. Less salt was carried by the
49 Cawnpore-Achnera line by one station and ‘maunds 9,855.
50 On the Great Indian Peninsula Railway the trade declined by
51 two stations and 6,930 maunds of salt. In this connection “it
52 is interesting and instructive,” the Assistant Commissioner of
53 the Division, Mr. Buckley, says, “to compare the trade of the
54 past three years with these areas, which may be said to be regu-
55 lar consumers of Pachbadra salt, since it will show what I
56 may call our regular trade has been, and what we may look
57 forward to at this source :—
58 1892-93. | 1893-94. | 1994-95.
59 Mds, Mds. Mads,
60 Bhilsa, Indian Midland Railway ... a se 10,867 9,292 10,287
61 Bhopal ditto or vez see 28,665 31,027 29,865
62 Khoraye ditto Wy ens iat see 8,032 8,977 7,560
63 Saugor ditto ‘ “8 ae as 32,760 34,807 38,272
64 Sehore ditto os a 4,567 4,252 5,512
65 Beawar, R4jputéna-Malwa Railway ... ed T 87,485 | 37,197] 28,665
66 en
67 Total we 1,22,3876 | 1,25,552 | 1,20,111