1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 PANJAB MINES.
3 Through traffic and ordi-
4 nary sales.
5 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
6 In issues there was, compared with 1896-97, a large
7 -increase of maunds 1,37,935 at the Warthganj depdt (the salt
8 of the Mayo mine); a good increase of maunds 15,766 at the
9 Kalabagh quarries ; a small increase of maunds 312 at Nur-
10 pur; and a falling off of maunds 24,043 at Warcha.
11 17. The figures relating to the through and ordinary
12 trade of the Division during the past four years will be found
13 in the following comparative table :—
14 Distribution of traffic.
15 1894-95. 1895-96. 1896-97. 1897-98.
16 : Mads: Mds. Mds, Mds.
17 Throngh traffic Si 15,94,719 18,01,987 17,67,409 19,09,377
18 Ordinary et or 2,46,689 8,21,459 2,59,060 2,48,622
19 Total ine 18,413,408 21,238,476 20,26,469 21,57,999
20 Through traffic business is carried on at the Warthganj depdt
21 only, in connection with the Mayo mine. Compared with the
22 entire trade, it amounted during the year to 88-47 per cent.
23 against 87°21 per cent. in 1896-97. The quantity of salt sold
24 under this system during the past year exceeded the sales of
25 1896-97 by maunds 1,41,968, and was also in excess of the
26 figures of the two years preceding.
27 Sales under ordinary trade were less than those of 1896-97
28 and 1895-96 by maunds 10,438 and maunds 72,867 respectively,
29 and exceeded the figures of 1894-95 by maunds 1,933 only.
30 The trade in the rock salt of the Mayo mine is very wide-
31 spread, and the large proportion of through traffic sales
32 shows the popularity of the system under which money can be
33 paid into the most distant treasuries, and the salt despatched
34 through the agency of the Department. This system, which
35 worked with the greatest smoothness during the year, not only
36 facilitates trade operations, but cheapens salt to the consumer.
37 18. The following statement shows, for the past four years,
38 the quantities of salt cleared and removed from the Panjab
39 Mines Division by railway, road, and river for consumption :—
40 (1) in the Panjab and in Sindh, Kashmir, and Baluchis-
41 tan ;
42 (2) in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Bengal,
43 and other places.
44 For consumption within the Panjab {For consump-
45 (including Kashmir, Sindb, and tion in
46 Baluchistan), other places. Grand
47 Year. Total.
48 By rail. at ieee Total, By rail.
49 Maunds. Maunds. | Maunds, Maunds. Maunds.
50 189495... ee 13,95,065 | 1,774,815 15,69,880 2,13,766 17,838,646
51 1895-96 we -_ 17,81,924 | 1,48,751 19,30,675 |. 220,413 21,51,088
52 1896-97 ws oes 16,38,179 | 1,69,179 18,07,358 2,421,205 20,48,563
53 1897-98 — .. see 17,26,319 | 1,46,338 18,72,697 3,05,876 21,78,533
54 Of the salt destined for the Panjab, Sindh, Kashmir, and
55 Baluchistan, 92:19 per cent. was removed by railway and
56 7:18 per cent. by road and river. For other places, all remo-
57 vals were by railway.
58 The clearances for the Panjab, Sindh, Kashmir, and Balu-
59 chistan show a satisfactory increase of maunds 65,299 over
60 ( 14 )