1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1895-96.
2 As the result of the reduction ef the price of Sambhar salt REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
3 it will be seen that no through-traffic salt was sent to stations
4 on either the Cawnpore-Achnera, the East Indian Railway,
5 (for the shipments were only maunds 532 against maunds 92,452
6 in 1894-95), the North-Western Railway, the Lucknow-Sitapur-
7 Bareilly Railway,the Rewari-Firozepur Railway, the Rohilkhand
8 and Kumaun Railway, and the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway,
9 whereas in 1894-95 the consignments to these lines aggregated
10 maunds 1,70,967. In other words, the area of the consumption
11 of Pachbadra salt was once more restricted, as if was prior
12 to 1893-94, to Raéjputdéna, Central India, and the Central Pro-
13 vinces. In the order of importance, as a distributary of Pach-
14 badra salt, the Indian Midland Railway leads with maunds
15 1,69,807, which were consigned to 17 stations. Though there
16 was a decrease of two in the stations? more salt by maunds 23,582
17 was consigned to this line. The exports of this salt to stations
18 on the Rajputdna Railway between Agra and Ajmere, and
19 Delhi and Bandikui, fell off by maunds 44,002. Trade with
20 the Great Indian Peninsula Railway stations in the Central
21 Provinces increased from maunds 8,505 to maunds 12,933,
22 During the year the Udeypur-Chitore Line was opened, and
23 carried maunds 16,340 of Pachbadra salt. The Jodhpur-
24 Bikanir Railway had an increase of maunds 1,353. The mar-
25 kets of Bhilsa, Bhopal, Khorai, Saugor, and Sehore, on the
26 Indian Midland Railway, and of Beawar on the Réjputdna-
27 Malwa Line, and the areas around them, may be said to be the
28 regular consumers of Pachbadra salt, and over 40,000 maunds
29 more salt was sent to these markets than in 1894-95. The
30 exports to Bhilsa rose from maunds 10,2387 to maunds 20,752 ;
31 to Bhopal, from maunds 29,865 to maunds 34,387 ; to Saugor,
32 from maunds 38,272 to maunds 46,615 ; to Beawar, from maunds
33 28,665 to maunds 44,240, and to-Khorai, and Sehore, from
34 maunds 7,560, and maunds 5,512, to maunds 8,977, and maunds
35 6,777, respectively ; the aggregate exports to these markets for
36 the past four years being -—
37 Maunds.
38 In 1892-93 we 1,22,876
39 » 1893-94 . 1,25,552
40 » 1894-95 . » = 1,20,111
41 AND
42 » 1895-96 tae zi . 1,61,748
43 Excluding the years 1894-95 and 1893-94, when the demand
44 for Paclibaiira salt was extraordinarily great owing to the
45 scarcity of Sambhar salt, the through-traflic trade of the past
46 ear is the largest yet known at this salt source, as the follow-
47 ing figures show :—
48 Maunds.
49 1887-88 (when the railway opened) w=. 2,388,875
50 1888-89 kee aks . 2,22,527
51 1889-90 we 2,27,907
52 1890-91 .. 1,45,610
53 1891-92 +. 4,238,170
54 1892-93 .. 1,75,688
55 1893-94 . 8,30,068
56 1894-95 is . §,22,292
57 1 1895-96 3,53,455
58 Excepting 1893-94, and 1894-95, the through-traffic trade
59 of the last year was better by overa lakh of maunds than the best
60 of the other years, aud even including these two abnormal years
61 it is better than the average of all previous years by half a
62 lakh of maunds. Itis believed that the satisfactory results
63 obtained in the year just ended are due (1) to the punctuality
64 with which business is conducted at Pachbadra under
65 Mr. Buckley’s efficient management, and (2) to the extremely
66 good quality of the salt supplied. Were the salt in any way
67 inferior, were it not in fact really superior to Sambhar and Baras
68 (35)
69 PACHBADRA.
70 Increase in the through+
71 traffic trade of the salt
72 ‘source explained.