1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR TH@ OFFICIAL ‘YEAR 1895-96.
2 (3) country stationery Rs. 6, less stationery was purchased REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
3 ‘this year; (4) miscellaneous, Rs. 109, due to smaller expen- DIDWANA.
4 diture on account of European-and country medicines.
5 43. The next statement shows the-distribution of the salt Distribution of fully
6 . : ; . taxed salt,
7 which was excised at, and exported from; Didwana during the
8 past two years :—
9 i
10 | = By road. ¢
11 i Lave C3
12 gs 4
13 3 g
14 ad i)
15 Year. ae = Total,
16 6 8 £
17 Pa ‘3 . i 3 >
18 Sa) 2p gd gh we hae oe a
19 EE 3 2 2 a 3 > 3 2 | 3 8 :
20 oe = iss B as] ay Ss a 4 s mq | Delbi.
21 Mds. Mds. |] Mds. | Mds. | Mds. | Mds. | Mads, Mds. | Mds. | Mds..{| Mds. | Mis. Mas.
22 1804-05 ... | 3,47,713] 1,68,277| 9,647! 1,6441 ... | 1,347/ 23,984) 12,595| 282] 5,844] 951 1,91,118] 3,47,718
23 1895-96 ... | 8,28804] 1,765,811] 2,642 1,760, 171/88 24,883] 13,338) 54) 1,986 1,06,173] 8,28,304
24 Bhiwani, a large market in the Hissar district, continues
25 to be the chief importer of Didwana salt, and though the excise
26 salt trade of the division ‘fell off ‘on the whole, the business done
27 with Bhiwani by road, across Shekhawati and Bikanir,
28 increased by maunds 7,534, or from maunds 1,68,277 in 1894«95
29 to maunds 1,75,811 in the year just at an end. To Hissar
30 practically the same quantity of salt was exported in both
31 years. For Sirsa there was an increase of maunds 116,
32 and for Hansi of 171 maunds: but for Patiala there was a
33 decrease of maunds 1,311, caused by Sultdnpuri salt taking
34 the place of Didwana there. Similarly and for the same reason,
35 there was a decrease in the exports to Jeypur of maunds
36 2,651. The duty paid trade to Bikanir increased by
37 maunds 813; that to Ajmere diminished by maunds 178,
38 and the trade to Kotah and Bundi shrank from maunds
39 5,939 in 1894-95, to maunds 1,986 in 1895-96, owing to the
40 lowering of the price of Sambhar salt to four annas a maund),
41 and its sale at that rate throughout the year. The decline of
42 maunds 24,945 in the quantity of Didwana ‘salt exported by
43 road to Nawa, and thence by railway to Delhi, Muzaffarnagar,
44 Kurnal, and Sahdranpur, is due partly to the lower price charged
45 for Sambhar throughout the year, whereas for 24 months of
46 1894-95, the price was 8.annas a maund, and secondly, to the
47 difficulties to be overcome on the road from Didwana to Nawa
48 for want of water and grass, owing to the drought, which made
49 camels and pack-bullocks scarcer than ordinary, and more ex-
50 pensive to hire.
51 44, The subjoined statement furnishes particulars regard- Issue of daty-freo salt.
52 _ing the duty free salt supplied to the Jodhpur Durbar :-—
53 4 Distribotion.
54 as]
55 Ps 8 ;
56 & a =f
57 bs rs . s a
58 Year. 3 g a 3 & ¢ ¢
59 ~~ 3s & s 2 s 5
60 =] vo 4 ° ~~ 3 oO a ~
61 s = g 2 e'}e/a] 3 $
62 7) = 3
63 fc Ee a a a & | 8 i ee
64 meentenerevenee pramremmemnegns f asaneneenrt—anren a a | a | | |
65 —
66 1894-95 ... | 43,408 | 2,713 | 18,479 | 12,759 | 8,538 2.776}... 861 | 43,408
67 1895-96 ... | 41,374] 9586 | 18,081 | 13,161 | 6,430 {3,106 | 153] 448 | 41,374
68 The quantity delivered fell short by maunds 2,034 of that
69 issued 1n 1894-95, and as out of the 60,000 maunds of duty free
70 salt for consumption in Marwar, yearly deliverable to the
71 ( 31 )