1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PUNJAB MINES,
3 Sales and deliveries at the
4 Waccha, Kalabagh and
5 Nurpar Mines.
6 Indus Preventive Line,
7 cost of establishment.
8 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
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10 23. The following abstract shows the sales and deliveries
11 of salt at each of the salt mines situated at Warcha, Kalabagh
12 and Nurpur during the past four years :—
13 &
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15 ‘ Warcha. Kalabagh. Nurpur.
16 Year. ees Natt = fr
17 Sales. Deliveries. Sales. Deliveries Sales. Deliveries.
18 Mads. Mads. Mds, Mds. Mads. Mds.
19 1890-91 ro 1,09,100 1,08,529 24,300 24,813 4,436 4,436
20 1891-92 aie 1,24,971 1,26,210 34,285 83,077 4,344 4,344
21 1892-93 ‘avd 1,210,967 1,07,526 44,815 43,059 4,432 4,432
22 1893-94 ive 1,07,271 1,09,754 67,266 70,695 4,808 4,614
23 Kalabagh is the only mine at which the trade for the year
24 has shown any marked improvement, and this, as previously ex-
25 plained, is due to.the interruption caused to the trade at Warth-
26 ganj in July and August 1893 by floods and the breaching of
27 the railway line near Haranpur, whereby the demand was tem-
28 porarily diverted to Kalabagh for removal by the Mari-Kun-
29 dian Branch of the Sind-Sagar Railway. The Nurpur Mine is
30 merely kept open for the supply of farodi or warchoused salt
31 for the use of the inhabitants of the villages in the protected
32 area surrounding the mine. No change was made in the rates
33 paid for excavation and storage at these three mines during the
34 year. The rate at Warcha and Nurpur is Rs. 38-12-0 per 100
35 maunds, and at Kalabagh, where the salt has to be carried a
36 long distance from the quarries to the salt depdts, Rs. 4 per 100
37 maunds. The Warcha Mine continued to receive Mr. Bolster’s
38 attention during the year, and it is now safe and in excellent
39 order, and capable, if the necessity should arise, of turning out
40 a gr eatly i increased supply of salt of first class quality.
41 24. The following is a comparison of the cost of the estab-
42 lishment maintained on the Indus Preventive line for the past
43 two years :— ¢
44 Fixed
45 Year. establishment.
46 Contingencies. Total.
47 Ks, Rs, Rs.
48 1892-93 ,., aes se 42,907 4,459 47,366
49 1893-94 wee oe 44,399 5,029 49,428
50 The increase in fixed establishment is due to annual incre-
51 ments to officers falling due during the year and to the trans-
52 fer to this section of the Punjab Mines Division of ccrtain offi-
53 cers and men of higher grades. The increase in contingencies
54 is due to the larger number of seizures in which rewards were
55 paid effected on the northern part of the line in the Hazara
56 district. The establishment posted here did good work during
57 the year in suppressing the smuggling of Kohat salt from Dar-
58 band and Amb. The seizures effected will be described when
59 the penal action of the Department comes under consideration
60 further on in this report.
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