1 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
2 REVIEW BY SECTIONS. This increased traffic occurred in connection with the section
3 SAMBHAR.
4 between Sambhar and Ajmere and with the newly opened
5 Chitorgarh-Udaipur branch of the railway. The trade with
6 Indore itself fell off from maunds 6,360 in 1895-96 to maunds
7 5,247 during the past year, owing probably to the competition
8 of Baragara salt. Along the part of the line from Sambhar,
9 vid Bandikui, to Agra, there was a decrease in the traffic of
10 maunds 37,943, only maunds 4,87,867 having been carried,
11 compared with maunds 5,25,810 during 1895-96. There was
12 a decrease in the trade with the Jaipur mart, and along the
13 line from Bandikui to Agra there was a falling off at nearly
14 every station, the imports into Agra declining from maunds
15 2,61,390 in 1895-96 to maunds 2,33,620 during the past year, a
16 difference of maunds 27,770. On the section of the line be-
17 tween Achnera and Cawnpur, there was an increase of maunds
18 8,147, maunds 7,26,365 having been carried, compared with
19 maunds 7,18,218 during 1895-96. This improvement occurred
20 principally in connection with the marts of Hathras and Kas-
21 ganj (in the Aligarh and Etah districts), whence salt is
22 largely sent into Rohilkhand. At Cawnpur, imports fell
23 off from maunds 4,62,005 during 1895-96 to maunds 4,46,062
24 in the past year, a decline of maunds 15,943. There
25 was an increase in the traffic on the part of the line between
26 Bandikui and Delhi, maunds 2,95,843 having been carried in
27 comparison with maunds 2,81,190 during 1895-96, or a differ-
28 ence of maunds 14,653. This increase was due to an improve-
29 ment in the trade at several stations on this section, but notably
30 at Delhi itself. On the Rewari-Ferozepore branch there was a
31 falling off in the traffic of maunds 8,072, only maunds 23,958
32 having been carried during. the past year in comparison with
33 maunds 32,030 during 1895-96. This decrease occurred at the
34 mart of Bhewani in the Hissar district and was probably due
35 to the drought and scarcity in that part of the country. Briefly,
36 it may be said that the decrease in the traffic of this railway
37 occurred on the part of the line between Sambhar and Agra
38 and on the Rewari-Ferozepore branch.
39 The traffic of the North-Western Railway shows an improve-
40 ment of maunds 4,675, maunds 1,14,550 having been carried
41 during the past year compared with maunds 1,09,875 in 1895-
42 96. The trade here is with the section of the line which runs
43 from Ghaziabad through the Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Saha-
44 ranpur districts. There was a falling off in the imports into
45 the Saharanpur mart: but an increase elsewhere, principally at
46 Meerut and Muzaffarnagar. It will be remembered that this
47 part of the country suffered but little from the drought of the
48 past year.
49 The figures opposite the East Indian Railway inciude the
50 trade of the Delhi-Umballa Kalka section. Along the main
51 line Sambhar salt was carried as high up as Karnal and down-
52 ward as far as Moghal Sarai. The quantity of salt sent to
53 stations on the main line during the past year amounted to
54 maunds 3,47,597 compared with maunds 3,19,612 during 1895-
55 96, or an increase of maunds 27,985. This improvement is
56 distributed over a large number of stations. On the Jabbalpur
57 Extension there was a decrease of maunds 24,962, the quantity
58 of salt carried in the past year amounting to maunds 88,683
59 only against maunds 1,13,645 in 1895-96. On this section of
60 the line there was a decrease in the trade of every station
61 except one (Jaitwar), the decline being most marked at Sutna,
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