1 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA.
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3 REVIEW BY SECTIONS. rains began, only maunds 39,923 were therefore extracted in .
4 SAMBHAR,. that month and maunds 2,619 in August, and this closed the
5 manufacture of the season. Within the months named no salt
6 had formed in the lake outside of the boundaries of the kyars;
7 and a great deal of the space on which pans are constructed
8 was still under‘ water. The rains of 1893 were over the
9 average, but every effort was made to manufacture as much
10 salt as possible from the kyars, the pans, and the lake. The
11 kyars were filled as early as possible in the season; and as
12 the brine receded from the shore, the space on the lake edge too
13 . was covered with pans. All the lake works were, moreover,
14 put into thorough repair as early as possible. The extraction
15 of salt commenced first at Sambhar and at Gudha, where the en-
16 closed brine was dense; and later it was possible to manufacture
17 pan salt at the Japog extremity of the lake, at Nawa, and in the
18 exposed area of the Gudha section. Little lake-salt formed
19 before the year under report closed owing to the excess of water
20 in the lake. The first salt after the rains was extracted in
21 October, and the work increased steadily during the subsequent
22 months. The following abstract shows the quantities of salt
23 , extracted during the year up to the setting in of the rains and
24 after the rains had ceased :—
25 Kyar salt. | Pan salt. | Lake salt. | Total.
26 Mds, Mds, Mds. *" Mds.
27 First period sae ve 10,47,365 8,265,436 tes 18,73,801
28 Second period ... San 14,99,586 10,76,720 1,047 25,77 ,353
29 ee
30 Total v.| 25,46,951 | — 19,03,156 | 1,047 | 44,51,154
31 “The year has closed with a good prospect. The kyars
32 contain from 15 to 16 lakhs of maunds of good salt. From the
33 pans 5 or 6 lakhs more will be extracted, and the lake enclo-
34 sures are expected to give at least 20 lakhs of maunds.” I
35 may add that at the end of June 1894, when the manufacturing
36 season had ended, the quantity of salt that had been brought to
37 store for the whole manufacturing season beginning in October
38 1893 and ending on the 30th June 1894 was maunds 64,66,813,
39 and that the stock balance in hand on the 30th of June 1894
40 was maunds 52,47,116. My acknowledgments are due_ to
41 Messrs. Lyon and Holford, the Assistant Commissioner and O1-
42 ciating Assistant Commissioner, and to the manufacturing offi-
43 ‘cers under them for their exertions during the season that has
44 ended.
45 Stocks, manufueture and 44, The statement next following shows the stocks of salt
46 ee in hand, the quantity manufactured, including excesses found on
47 clearance, the issues including free deliveries and deficits in
48 heaps cleared, and the closing balances of stock in 1893-94 and
49 each of the three preceding years :—
50 Manufacture, &c. Issues,
51 Closing
52 Deficits balance,
53 in heaps Total.
54 cleared,
55 Year. » Quantity
56 Opening | of suit
57 balance, | manufec-
58 tured.
59 Excesses
60 in heaps. Sales.
61 cleared.
62 Free
63 deliveries.
64 Mas. Mds. Mds. Nds. Mas. Mas. Mds. Mds. Mds,
65 1e90-91 « | 58,95,347 | 58,938,458 1,87,032 | 1,14,75,832 | 42,82,236 24,410 ] 2,20,729 | 45,297,375 | 69,48,457
66 1801-92 w+ | 69,48,457 | 84.42,109 | 2,75,138 | 1,06,65,699 | 45,67.U12 24,010 | 212,531 | 48,04,403 | 58,061,246
67 1802-93 a | 58,61,246 90,666 40,607 69,92,579 | 51,09,601 16,410 | 5,84443 | 57,10,454 [| 2,892,125
68 UK0S-O4 e | 2,823,125 | 44,51, 154 89,788 48,283,007 | 27,985,141 28,610 | 1,34,413 | 29,56,164 | 18,606,003
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