1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PUNJAB MINES.
3 Management of the mines.
4 Accidents in the Mayo
5 Mines duriug the year.
6 Sales and deliveries.
7 Decrense in sales and deli-
8 veries.
9 REPORT ON THE ADMIN‘STRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
10 reckon with it; and if it is found necessary after due enquiry
11 has been made, the rate paid for excavation and delivery at the
12 loading stations inside the mines must be increased.
13 14. The Miyo Mines as well as the other mines and
14 quarries in the division .Nurpur, Warcha and Kalabagh) con-
15 tinue to be satisfactorily managed by Mr. Bolster, the Assist-
16 ant Commissioner of the Division.
17 15. No fatal accident occurred in the mines or on the
18 tramway during the year, and only fuur injuries, more or less
19 serious, were sustained. One woman lost part of one of her
20 little fingers froma fall. One man lost a toe from a truck
21 running over it. Two men by the same accident had a forearm
22 and a forearm and hip-bone fractured. This last accident oc-
23 curred through two men ignorant of how a brake should be
24 applied, taking charge of a full truck of salt at the mine mouth,
25 without the contractor’s knowledge, and starting it for the
26 depot. Instead of anplying the brake, they unscrewed it, and
27 the truck ran down the incline of 1’ in 35’ at great speed.
28 It kept the rails unsil a very sharp curve was reached, but
29 there left them and bounded over the parapet, clearing 47
30 feet horizontally and landing 13 feet below the rails in the
31 gorge. The two men stuck to the truck and went over with it.
32 The truck did not upset, but the force of the fall jerked the
33 men into the air and threw them another six and a half feet
34 further forward. One man had to have his arm amputated,
35 probably because he refused at first to go to hospital. The
36 other man was at work again in a fortnight.
37 16. The entire sales and deliveries of Punjib Mines
38 rock salt from the four depdts in the division for the past
39 four years are shown in the following statement :-—
40 Inerease or
41 Year. Sales. Deliveries. decrease
42 over sales.
43 Mds, Mds. Mds.
44 1890-91 aes au eee Wea 19,40,281 18,85,028 — 55,253
45 1891-92° set tate vee, vee 19,78,498 20,08,973 + 30,475
46 1892-93 or ae av an 21,006,441 20,83,686 — 22,755
47 1893-94 - ,,, oon eee “xe 20,72,620 20,68,221 — 4,399
48 The sales are less than those of 1892-93 by maunds
49 33,8215; but, with this exception and that of 1889-90, they are
50 larger than those of any previous year. They exceed those
51 of 1890-91 and 1891-92 by maunds 1,32,339 and maunds 94,122
52 respectively. The deliveries or clearances are only maunds
53 15,465 short of those for 1892-93, and at the close of the year
54 the clearances or deliveries of the year only fell short of the
55 sales by maunds 4,399. The average sales and clearances for
56 the past four years, including 1893-94, are maunds 20,24,460
57 and maunds 20,11,477; so that the sales (maunds 20,72,620)
58 ~ and clearances (matunds 20,68,221) of 1893-94 exceed the
59 average by maunds 43,160 and maunds 56,744 respectively.
60 ( 1s )