1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1897-98,
2 those of 1896-97. The figures are below those of 1895-96, ag REVIEW BYSECTIONS,
3 in that year there was an abnormal demand in Kashmir owing PANJAB MINES.
4 to the revenue farming contract being about to change hands,
5 butthey are in excess of the quantity cleared during 1894-95 by
6 maunds 3,02,777.
7 The trade with the North-Western Provinces and Bengal
8 shows an increase of maunds 64,671 over 1896-97, and the
9 trade is steadily progressive.
10 19. The rail-borne trade of the Warthganj depot, connected Bail-borne trade of ‘the
11 with the Mayo mine, will be found classified by railways in nePigeny Donets
12 the statement below :—
13 Name of Railway. 1894-95. | 1895-96, | 1896-97, 1897-98.
14 Through traffic. Mads, Mas. Mads, Mads.
15 North-Western Railway ves 12,56,674 15,69,855 14,983,945 15,67,974
16 East Indian Railways .., aes 82,633 92,055 1,18,040 1,51,780
17 Oudh and Robilkhand Railway ... 1,15,918 * 1,09,508 1,09,320 1,88,825
18 Rewari-Ferozpur Branch of the Réj- 16,581 25,324 23,990 24,179
19 putina-Malwa Railway.
20 Indian Midland Railway tes ie 150 25 25
21 Bengal and North-Western Railway, 565 980 160 4,200
22 Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway at 63,851. 39,665 36,650 44,100
23 Total on 15,36,222 18,37,537 17,82,130 19,381,083
24 Ordinary Trade.
25 North: Western Railway to 27,163 1,02,678 40,387 29,989
26 Total oe 27,163 1,02,673 40,387 29,989
27 GRanp Toran vee 15,63,385 19,40,210 | 18,22,517 | 19,61,072
28 Through Traffic.
29 The North-Western Ratlway.—Compared with 1896-97,
30 there was an increase of maunds 74,029 in the bookings to
31 stations on this railway. The improvement was very wide-
32 spread, and was principally due to favourable agricultural
33 conditions in the Panjab during the year. To some extent
34 also, the increase in the trade was owing to a return to its
35 normal state of the traffic with Kashmir, and to C7s-Indus salt
36 having displaced Kohat salt along the Indus.
37 The Hast Indian Railway.—Here also there was an
38 increase in the traffic, the figures of the year under report
39 exceeding those of 1896-97 by maunds 33,740. The trade
40 with the section of the line in the North-Western Provinces
41 was not large, as rock salt is not much consumed by the
42 people of the country through which it passes ; Rajputana salt
43 being preferred. But there was a great improvement in the
44 traffic-with the province of Behar in Bengal ; rock salt having
45 been sent during the year as low down as Bhagalpur and
46 Sahibganj.
47 The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.—In comparison
48 with 1896-97 the trade with this railway during the year
49 increased by maunds 29,505. The chief centre of consumption
50 on this line is the country served by the section between
51 Fyzabad and Benares, In the Fyzabad and Jaunpur districts
52 the consumption of rock salt is now large, and is steadily
53 increasing. One feature of the trade is an increase in the
54 traffic with Rai Bareli, over the Lucknow-Rai Bareli line,
55 which indicates that rock salt is pressing into southern Oudh.
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