1 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
2 REVIEWBYSECTIONS. and cheaper salt from Bombay has to be competed with. Com-
3 ISAMBHAR.
4 Territorial distribution by
5 rail.
6 pared with 1896-97, a larger quantity was consigned to Bengal.
7 Further information in regard to the distribution of the trade
8 will be found in the following paragraph.
9 Al, The clearances of rail-borne salt will be found classi-
10 fied by railways in the following statement -—
11 Quantity of salt carried.
12 + Increase
13 or
14 1894-95. 1895-96, 1896-97. Sep etna:
15 Mds. Mas. Mds, Mads. Mds,
16 Bombay, Baroda aud Ceutral India, in- 15,58,140 17,48,631 17,388,703 1€,62,411 —86,292
17 cluding Réjputéna-Malwa Railway. :
18 North- Western Railway ses 92,786 1,09,875 1,14,550 1,21,372 +-6,823
19 East Indian Railway stk es 4,06,818 4,383,257 4,836,280 4,738,970 +-37,690
20 Indian Midland Railway ... oie 8,113,751 8,113,088 3,41,699 8,40,210 —1,489
21 Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway —,.. |) am 9,28,604 | . 9,29,846 9,58,590 28,744
22 995 :
23 Rohilkhand and Kumaun Railway a. ri : ‘ 2,91,720 2,17,776 2,49,563 + 31,788
24 Bengal and North-Western Railway, 99,432 1,07,285 78,935 1,09,575 +80,640
25 including Tirhoot State Railway. '
26 Bengal-Nagpur Railway ... -_ 1,813 8,813 9,187 +374
27 Eastern Bengal State Railway es 187 on . oe
28 Great Indian Peninsula Railway : 18 jee 15
29 Total ow 84,78,482 88,41,973 38,66,602 89,14,893 +-48,292
30 Compared with 1896-97, there was an increase in the trade
31 of seven railways, and a decrease in the traffic of two lines.
32 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.—San-
33 bhar salt is only carried over the narrow-gauge section of this
34 line, that is, the Rajputana-Malwa Railway and its different
35 branches. During the year under review, the traffic of this
36 line decreased by 86,292 maunds. There was a falljag off of
37 24,600 maunds in the trade of the section from Ajmere to
38 Khundwa, the bookings to Indore being only 375 maunds, com-
39 pared with 5,247 maunds during 1896-97, and it would appear
40 that Sambhar has been displaced to some extent by Baragara
41 salt in that direction. Elsewhere, the trade of the different
42 sections has fluctuated, owing partly to market exigencies and
43 the condition of stocks, and partly to salt having been booked
44 through from the Lake to stations on railways to the eastward,
45 instead of breaking bulk at centres like Cawnpore and Agra.
46 North-Western Railway.—There has been a steady in-
47 crease in the trade of this railway during the past four years.
48 Hitherto, the traffic has been confined to the section of the line
49 lying in the North-Western Provinces between Ghaziabad and
50 Saharanpur, but during the past year a small quantity of Sam-
51 bhar salt pushed its way up the southern Panjab section as far
52 as Rohtak.
53 Hast Indian Railway.—The trade of this line has also
54 been progressive during the past four years. The increase in
55 the trafic was widely distributed, and during the year under
56 report there were notable expansions,—(1) between Mirzapur
57 ( 40 )