1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PANJAB MINES.
3 Sales and clearances.
4 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1897-98.
5 Sales and clearances.
6 . 1896-97. 1897-98.
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8 £ 38 g g 32 3
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17 Sales.
18 Warthganj 17,67,409 72,820 re 18,40,229 | 19,09,377 66,391 19,75,768
19 Nurpor A4llL} A111 ‘ss 4,465 4,465
20 Waschs ‘ 99,028 | ave 99,028} as 73,512 73,512
21 Kalabagh 83,101 tee 83,101 eee 1,04,254 1,04,254
22 Total + | 17,67,409 | 2,59,060 | .» | 20,26,469 | 19,09,877 | 9,48,622 21,57,999
23 ee eee Peso SO
24 Warthganj eee oe | 17,82,1380 70,202 7,058 | 18,59,390 | 19,831,083 | 59,271 6,971 | 19,97,825
25 Nurpur ae Ses wee tee 4,153 4,153 4,465 4,465
26 Warcha oes ave aes 94,242 5,578 99,820 dus 70,076 5,701 75,777
27 Kalabagh ase ow oes 81,794 3,406 85,200 es 97,806 3,160 | 1,00,966
28 Total ve | 17,82,180 | 2,46,238 | 20,195 | 20,48,563 | 19,381,083 | 2,27,153 | 20,297 | 21,78,533
29 The sales of the year under report are the largest of the
30 four yearly periods. The figures exceed those of 1896-97 by
31 maunds 1,31,530; those of 1895-96 by maunds 34,523; and
32 those of 1894-95 by maunds 3,16,591. The average annual
33 sales of the past four years amount to maunds 20,37,338, and
34 those of year under review exceed this average by maunds
35 1,20,661.
36 Compared with 1896-97, there was a large increase of
37 maunds 1,35,539 in the trade of the Warthganj depot (which
38 is supplied’ from the Mayo mine) ; a good increase of maunds
39 21,153 at the Kalabagh quarries; a small increase of maunds
40 354 in the petty local trade of Nurpur ; and a falling off of
41 maunds 25,516 at Warcha.
42 The increase in the trade of the year under report was
43 principally due to the general return to prosperity of the
44 country after the agricultural depression which followed the
45 failure of the monsoon rainfall of 1896, and partly also (i) to
46 the gradual return to its normal condition of the trade with
47 the Kashmir State, and (2) to the enhancement of the duty on
48 Kohat salt having resulted in an increase in the consumption
49 of Cis-Indus salt along the river Indus, and in the northern
50 portion of the Hazara district. In every direction the trade
51 of the Division was satisfactory during the year.
52 The clearances of the year were in excess of those of
53 1896-97 by maunds 1,29,970; of those of 1895-96 by maunds
54 27,445; and of those of 1894-95 by maunds 3,94,887, The
55 clearances of the past four years average maunds 20,40,457,
56 and the figures-of 1897-98 exceed this quantity by maunds
57 1,38,076. From this it will be seen that the volume of salt
58 actually issued for consumption was steadily maintained.
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