1 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
2 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
3 SULTANPUR SALT
4 WORKS.
5 Distribution of exports. | 18938-94,] 1894-95.1 1895-96. | 1896 96.
6 Mds. Mds, Mds Mads.
7 Road traffic,
8 To Punjab 630 1,202 1,478 2,662
9 To North-Western Provinces 2,595 2,551 10,197 7,871
10 Total 3,225 3,753 11,675 10,533
11 Granp Toran 66,468 | 94,614 | 1,08,183 | 1,113,877
12 The quantity sent to Delhi was small; Sulténpuri salt is
13 not generally consumed in the city of Delhi. Formerly des-
14 patches used, in the first instance, to be consigned to Delhi, to
15 be re-booked thence as the requirements of the different marts
16 to the eastward dictated. As the trade has steadied, this prac-.
17 tice has ceased, and salt is now booked direct to areas of con-
18 sumption.
19 There is a slight falling off in the trade with the North-
20 Western Railway. In 1895-96 the entire quantity despatched,
21 maunds 6,955, was booked to Sahdranpur. During the past year
22 maunds 81 were sent to Meerut, maunds 470 to Muzaffarnagar,
23 and maunds 5,913 to Sahdranpur. The salt sent to Meerut
24 is believed to have been utilised in soap manufacture. The
25 consignment to Muzaffarnagar was apparently an experimental
26 one. There has always been a steady trade between the salt
27 works and the mart of Saharanpur. Sultdnpuri salt is not .
28 consumed in the Sahdranpur district, but allimports are sent on
29 into the Dehra Dun district and the hills north of Dehra,
30 where the salt is liked and isin demand. It is in this direction
31 that there has been a decline in the trade, due probably to high
32 prices of food grains.
33 Cawnpur is the only mart on the East Indian Railway
34 which imports Sultanpuri salt, and the quantity despatched to
35 it during the past year amounted to maunds 81,463 against
36 maunds 77,648 in 1895-96, an increase of maunds 3,515, Here
37 also Sulténpuri salt is ‘not locally consumed, but is exported
38 from Cawnpur by railway, road and river into the districts of
39 Unao, Rai Bareli, Partabgarh, Sulténpur, Bara Banki, Hardoi,
40 Kheri and Sitapur in Oudh.
41 The trade with the Bareilly.Pilibhit Railway increased from
42 maunds 9,940 in 1895-96 to maunds 12,505 during the past
43 year, a difference of maunds 2,565, This increase resulted
44 from larger bookings to Pilibhit itself. The salt sent in this
45 direction is said to be largely consumed in the tardi and the
46 Lower Himalayas.
47 There was a slight increase in the quantity booked to the
48 Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, but consignments to its branch
49 from Lucknow to Rae Bareli ceased.’ The traders state that
50 the rates of traffic on this railway are unfavourable, and that it
51 is more profitable to despatch the salt from the works to Cawn-
52 pur in the first instance and to distribute it thence.
53 The quantity of salt removed by road from the works
54 amounted during the past year to maunds 10,533 compared with
55 maunds 11,675 in 1895-96, a decrease of maunds 1,142. There
56 ( 2% )