1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1895-96.
2 , REVIEW BY SECTIONS
3 Sales to purchasers at the
4 Jake for removal by road.
5 Year.
6 ' Total of
7 pele columns a a Total sales.
8 Banjaras, Others (local) < 1 and 2. i
9 &e. *
10 Mads, Mds, Mads. Mds. Mads. Mads.
11 1892-93... 1,56,209 4,285 19,21,300 20,81,794 20,297,807 | 51,09,601
12 1893-94 ww. 1,52,689 8,072 11,07,018 12,62,779 15,32,362 | 27,95,141
13 1894-95 ... 1,67,612 3,643 17,69,585 19,40,840 20,90,778 } 40,831,618
14 1895-96 ... 1,70,316 3,175 26,00,699 27,74,190 9,41,584 | 87,15,774
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16 The trade in banjara carried salt, and that removed by road, Banjara trade, and ree
17 bears but a small proportion to the total trade of the Division, ““*”™"
18 but it remaivs very steadily from year to year at about the
19 same figure. The banjaras carry their salt towards Kotah
20 and Bundi at right angles to the Rajputdna Railway to the
21 tract between it and the Indian Midland Railway, and the salt
22 otherwise removed by road supplies the neighbourhood of the
23 Sambhar lake in Jeypur and Shekhawati.
24 One feature of the railway carried trade, as displayed in Bail-borne trade,
25 the above table, is the change that occurred in 1895-96 in the
26 proportion between the quantity of salt removed by the traders
27 themselves or their agents (ordinary trade), and that consign-
28 ed to traders by the Department (through-traffic trade). As
29 between 1894-95 and 1895-96 alone the difference is very great,
30 the through-traffic trade in the former year being 54°16 of the
31 whole railway carried trade, while in the latter year it amount-
32 ed to only 26°58 per cent, The Assistant Commissioner ex-
33 plains the cause of this. Much of the pan salt produced in
34 1894-95. was fine, and though white and good, would cake in the
35 heaps when stored and subjected to heavy pressure. It was
36 therefore determined to get rid of it, and, in order to do so satis-
37 factorily to the traders, it was issued along with the best kyar
38 salt in store in the proportion of half and half, in separate bags
39 of course. The system took with the traders, and heavy local
40 sales occurred on the ordinary system, until this pan salt was
41 disposed of. In the case of through-traffic salt, indents for
42 which are received from all parts of the Upper Provinces, it
43 would not have been right to issue this fine pan salt along
44 with kyar salt without first consulting the persons indenting
45 for the salt, and this of course could not be done.
46 The entire quantity of salt that was sold during 1895-96
47 was maunds 37,15,774, and the quantity that was zssued, or
48 passed into the market for consumption during the year, was
49 maunds 40,21,752, the difference being the result of the opening
50 and closing uncleared balances, At the close of March 1895,
51 the balance awaiting despatch at the lake, chiefly for want of
52 rolling stock, was maunds 4,67,335, and at the close of March
53 1896 1t was maunds 1,61,357, so that during the year the quan-
54 ‘tity that entered the markets was more than the sales by
55 maunds 3,05,978. The issues and clearances by railway, out of
56 this total of maunds 40,21,752, amounted to maunds 38,41,973,°
57 as compared with maunds 34,78,482, or more by 10°45 per cent.
58 The only direction in which the Sambhar salt trade received a
59 noticeable check during the year was in the eastern districts
60 of Oudh and the North-Western Provinces, into which, for a
61 few months of the year, Calcutta salt made its way higher up
62 ( 25 )
63 *