1 €
2 REPORT ON THE ADKINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
3 S €
4 REVIEW BY SECTIONS. It will be seen that whereas 1892-93 was the most
5 SAN BHAR. unfavourable year for manufacture that we have experienced
6 during the 24 years of our lease of the lake, the year now unter
7 report has been on the whole favourable, ‘the outturn of salt
8 being maunds 44,51,154, The season for the production of salt
9 in favourable years begins at Sambhar by about the middle of
10 October, and usually lasts up to the middle or end of June.
11 Such was the case this year. The season of 1893-94 did not
12 close until nearly the end of June 1894, at which period the
13 stock balance of salt in hand, which, deducting sales, was maunds
14 18,66,903 on the 31st of March 1894 at the close of the official
15 year, had increased to over 52 Jakhs of maunds after deducting
16 sales. This is a satisfactory and safe balance to close the
17 working season with, and consequently on the 15th of June
18 1894 the selling price of Sambhar salt at the lake was, with
19 the approval of the Government of India, reduced from cight
20 annas a maund to four annasa maund, plus in each case a char, ge
21 of three pies per maund for through-trattic salt made to cover
22 the cost of filling the bags, weighing, sewing-up and loading
23 them and consigning the despatches by railway according to
24 request of the trader. If traders purchase the salt from the
25 stores at the lake and do the filling, sewing-up, Ivading and
26 booking themselves or through their own local agents, they do
27 not pay this additional fee of three pies per maund.
28 Detaile of sales. 34, As regards sales, the subjoined abstract furnishes de-
29 tails for 1893-94 and the three preceding years:—
30 i ef | eee ey
31 ——
32 Sales to purchasers at
33 the lake for reroval
34 by road.
35 Year,
36 ‘Bunjarahs, | Others
37 &e. (local).
38 Ordinary rail-borne.
39 Total of columns 1] and 2.
40 Through-traffic,
41 Total sales.
42 Mas. Mds, Mas. Mas. Mas. Mas.
43 4890-93 1,32,920 | 4,119 22.01,753 23,238,783 19,438,453 42,82,236
44 1891-92... 96,048 3,715 20,12,530 21,12,293 24,535,010 45,7, 012
45 1892-93 Aes 1,56,209 4,235 10,21,300 20,581,794 30.27,507 51,009,602
46 1893-94 1,52,089 | 3,072 11,07,v18 12,62,779 15,32,302 27,45,141
47 Bunjarah trade. The Bunjarah carried trade ae only a small decrease of
48 8,520 maunds—that is, maunds 1, 56,209 in 1892-93 and maunds
49 1,52,689 in 1893-94. As the foe of the division as a whole
50 fell off by 23 lakhs of maunds, the Bunjarah trade might have
51 been expected to bear a proportionate share of this decrease.
52 That it did not do so is owing to the fact that the Bunjarahs find-
53 ing fodder and water unusually abundant after the rainy season
54 of - 1893, came early in the year and got away their chief pur-
55 chases before the price was raised. Ordinary rail-borne trade
56 Ordinary rail-borne trade, transactions or purchases made at Sambhar by traders or their
57 agents and consigned by themselves fell off from maunds
58 19,21,300 to maunds 11,07,018, or by 42°38 per cont and
59 the through- -trafiic trade declined from maunds 30,27,807 to
60 maunds 15,32,362, or by 49°39 per cent.
61 ‘Lhrough-traffic trade. Concerning the total decrease of maunds 23,14,460 in the
62 trade of the division, it appears that maunds 2,01,046 occurred
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