1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PUNJAB MINES.
3 Increase in sales and deli~
4 veries,
5 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
6 merchants themselves through their own agency, and sales of salt
7 faroded, or warehoused, for retail consumption on and below
8 the salt range within the protected area :—
9 increase or
10 Year. Sales, Deliveries. (decrease over
11 sales.
12 neue ame pee: a os
13 Maunds, Maunds. Maunds,
14 1892-98 aes see aa ies 21,06,441 | 20,883,686 22,755
15 1893-94 es 8 Ve ies 20,72,620 20,68,221 —4,399
16 1894-95 ie see eee one 18,41,408 17,83,646 -— 57,762
17 1895-96 és ane vee ev 21,23,476 21,51,088 + 27,612
18 1894-95. 1895-96.
19 a aa mean eal 1
20 3 3 S 3
21 3 £ "3 Bee
22 £ | 88 B | §8
23 3
24 g§ | £3] 8 § | #3] ¢
25 < PS Bz] a Pa 5
26 2 | ga | 3 2 - | fu [a] 4
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28 a 6 & ra = 6 ro &
29 Sales
30 i
31 Warthganj os 15,94,719| 60,808} ... 16,55,027/18,01,987| 1,838,658 ... |19,40,640
32 Nurpur aus wes 4,122] ... 4,122 ae 4,486... 4,486
33 Warcha Por ae 1,01,935} ... 1,01,935 beg 85,198 85,198
34 Kalabagh nee ses 80,3824)... 80,324] is 93,152... 93,152
35 Total ae Pein 2,46,689] ... 18,41,408}18,01,987 eae eee [21,28,476
36 Clearances,
37 Warthganj ee |35,86,222) 54,282! 6,391 15,96,895|18,97,587 1,27,411) 6,725}19,71,678
38 Nurpur een ee a 4,316) 4,316 a cae 4,530} 4,530
39 Warcha eee one 1,00,037; 5,048) 1,05,085 sae 76,408 5,318} 81,726
40 Kalabagh see “ee 74,376| 2,974 77,350 oe 90,127) 8,082] 93,159
41 Total see [15,36,222) i eaciaa 18,729) 17,88,646)18,87,537 saa 19,605} 21,51,088
42 Compared with 1894-95 the sales of the year under report
43 show an increase for the whole division of maunds 2,82,068, and
44 have only once been exceeded, namely in 1889-90, and then
45 only by maunds 17,505,
46 A. large increase in the sales was expected owing to the’
47 stocks usually held by traders having been allowed to fall very
48 low before the close of 1894-95, as explained at length in the
49 annual report for that year, and it was then reported that the
50 merchants had already, when the year was closing, begun to
51 replenish their stocks. April 1895, therefore, closed with an in-
52 crease in the sales of maunds 85,536, and this increase grew until in
53 August it had reached to maunds 3,02,065, the highest point it
54 touched throughout the year. It had fallen again by the end of
55 February to maunds 1,96,012, but during March a brisk trade
56 sprang up with Kashmir, owing, it is said, to the revenue farm-
57 ing contract being about to change hands. This ran up the
58 increase again very seasonably, and the year closed, as stated, with
59 an increase of maunds 2,82, 068, that is, with sales amounting
60 to maunds 21,23,476, against the previous year’s sales of maunds
61 18,41,408. The average annual sales for the past four years
62 amount to maunds 20,35,986, and those for the past ten years,
63 including the present year, to maunds 19,76,759, which figures
64 show, I think, the extent to which the Punjab markets have
65 been replenished during the past twelve months.
66 The total clearances from all the four depéts of the Division
67 amounted in 1895-96 to maunds 21,51,088, being an increase,
68 compared with 1894-95, of maunds 3,67,442. The average
69 ( 10 )