1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 SULTANPUR SALT
3 WORKS.
4 Distribution of trade by.
5 rail and road.
6 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
7 season was favourable so far as the weather was concerned,
8 and much more salt could have been produced if it had been
9 needed, but as a matter of fact the Works turned out salt much
10 below their full strength, and limited the supply to the demand
11 as nearly as possible, fresh new salt being cleaner, better looking,
12 and more valuable in the market than salt which bas been.
13 pitted or stored. There was an increase of only one in the
14 number of factories at work in 1895-96, the numbers being 53
15 each in 1893-94 and 1894-95, and 54 in 1895-96.
16 28. The accompanying abstract shows the distribution of
17 Sultdnpuri.salt by railway and by road during 1895-96 and
18 three preceding years :—
19 Distribution of exports, 1892-93. | 1893-94. | 1894-95. | 1895-96.
20 Mas. Mds Mas. Mdé.
21 To Delhi bes ase one as 10,683 | 5,067} 1,840 100
22 To places-on and near the North-Western Railway, 5,744 4,544 6,535 6,955
23 Ditto. ditto. the Oudh and Rohilkhand 7,180 1,232 1,200 270
24 Railway.
25 By the Hast Indian Railway on eo {: 95,287 | 49,685 | 70,159 77,648
26 To places on. and near the Pilibhit and Bareilly 1,096 { 2,715 | 11,127. 9,940
27 Railway.
28 To places on and near the Rewari and Ferozepur ook sce s. 15
29 Railway. :
30 To places on and near. the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka 150 4
31 Railway.
32 To places on and near the Lucknow-Rae Bareli eh 2: sed 1,530
33 Railway,
34 To places.on and near the road in the Delhi, }]: 4,041 3,225 3,753 11,675
35 Karnal, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Hissar, &c., dis-
36 tricts.
37 Total «- | 124,181 | 66,468 | 94,614 | 1,08,133
38 Consignments to Delhi have fallen to the nominal amount
39 of 100 maunds only for the entire year, which means that Sul-
40 tdnpuri salt, which has never been used in the neighbourhood.
41 of the city where Sambhar salt is almost exclusively consumed
42 is being more and more generally booked through to the retail
43 markets without breaking bulk at Delhi. The bookings to
44 places onthe North-Western Railway, chiefly td Saldranpur,
45 whence the salt is transported to Dehra Dun for consumption
46 in that tract, are 420 maunds. more than in 1894-95, while
47 those direct to stations on the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway
48 are only 270 maunds, against 1,200 maunds in 1894-95. By
49 the East Indian Railway, the bookings, chiefly to Cawnpore,
50 have increased from maunds 49,685 in 1893-94, and maunds
51 70,159 in 1894-95, to maunds 77,648 in the year under review.
52 These bookings are ultimately conveyed for consumption into
53 Oudh ; and it is believed that the consignments break bulk at
54 Cawnpore in orderto receive an adulteration there with the
55 cheaper saltpetre salt of saltpetre refineries, which also arrives
56 at Cawnpore in considerable quantities, after which they are
57 sent on for retail sale to the tracts across the Ganges in which
58 Sulténpuri salt is still so much liked. The direct trade to
59 places on and near the Pilibhit and Bareilly Railway is not
60 so large as it was in 1894-95 by maunds 1,187 ; but the trade
61 by road in that direction has increased. The Lucknow-Rae
62 Bareilly Railway, recently opened, received during the year
63 direct consignments amounting to maunds 1,530, and the Rewari-
64 Ferozepur Railway one small despatch of 15 maunds. The
65 bookings by road increased from maunds 3,753 in 1894-95 to
66 maunds 11,675 in 1895-96. The Punjab districts close to the salt
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