1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 SAMBHAR.
3 Manufacture and sales,
4 Rainfall.
5 REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
6 33. The statement below shows the quantities of salt
7 manufactured and sold during each of the past ten years end-
8 ing with 1897-98 :—
9 Quantity of salt | Quantity of salt
10 Year. manufactured. sold.
11 Mds. Mads.
12 1888-89 ... ses _ oe 535 60,48,159 85,96,049
13 1889-90 ... ie ase ise ies 20,42,200 38,34,805
14 1890-91 .., ase ose tes ees 58,938,453 42,82,236
15 1891-92 .., i ad a a 84,42,109, 45,67,912
16 1892-93 ... oie eee Pr ee 90,666 51,09,601
17 1893-94 ... aa See nee eee 44,51,154 27,95,141
18 1894-95 .., des Ss se a 70,35,016 40,31,618
19 1895-96 ... Ses cas eos ne 51,29,304 37,15,774
20 1896-97 .., ei ee oe ae 30,85,846 39,31,210
21 1897-98 ... bes ons tee sie 18,31,629 41,038,440
22 The past year was a very poor one for manufacture. The
23 rainfall was deficient, the brine was inferior, and other condi-
24 tions, which will be described further on, were most unfavour-
25 able. The quantity of salt obtained during 1896-97 was
26 small, but the outturn of the year under review is less than
27 the figures of that period by maunds 12,58,217. Taking the
28 ten years of the table together, the average yearly outturn
29 amounts to maunds 39,05,353, and this exceeds the quantity
30 produced during the past year by maunds 20,73,724. Full
31 particulars on this important subject will be found in the
32 paragraphs which follow.
33 Sales were very satisfactory. The average of the ten
34 years amounts to maunds 39,96,778, and the figures of the past
35 year exceed this quantity by maunds 1,06,662 ; while as com-
36 pared with 1896-97, an excess appears of maunds 1,72,230.
37 34. Statistics of the rainfall at the Sambhar Lake during
38 the ten years which ended with 1897-98, appear in the follow-
39 ing table :—
40 of
41 rainy days.
42 September,
43 Novemter.
44 December
45 January.
46 February,
47 March.
48 Total.
49 Number
50 ey es en es ns OO CNC EONS free]
51 . | 0°84) 1-26) 6:34) 22:27
52 1888-89
53 B
54 1889-90 O01) oe | sce | coe | one | 0°54) 22°69 | 50
55 1890-91 / .. 6°13] 0°01) 0°31) 0°97] ... | 0°66/12-09 | 45
56 1891-92 we 2°10 | 0°33] ... | ... |0°83)0-02} .., | 11:89 | 47
57 1892-93 axe | 0°09} 0°86] 0°54) 0°31} 40°81 | 69
58 1898-94 we 002| 1°75) 0-121 0-48] ... | ... | 27-68 | 60
59 1894-95 a 2:97 | ... | ss | 3°64! 0°67| 0-06) 0°35) 27-22 | 70
60 1895-96 ww 0°34 w+ | 0°10} 0°04) 0-06} 0°02) 15°63 | 44
61 1896-97 ws 2-95 10°20} 1-17 0°12}... | 0-03] 0°03) 15:28 | 44
62 1897-98 49
63 1:29 | 0-45) 0-00} 0°00 | 0°63} 0°00} 14-96
64 In my last annual report, I showed that the rainfall of
65 1896-97 was very unfavourable to manufacture. That of the
66 past year was still more so. Only 13°60 inches of rain fell dur-
67 ing the three monsoon months of July, August, and September
68 1897, and the latter half of the year, the cold season, was
69 practically rainless and very dry. The rain which fell was
70 so distributed over the surrounding country, that the two rivers
71 which flow into the Lake were never in full flood, and they
72 ( 30 )