1 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
2 1898-99, 1899-1900, Difference.
3 THROUGH TRAFFIC Mads. Mas. Mas,
4 SYSTEMOF TRADE. Cis-Indus Mines § Through traffic .. 19,80,816 — 20,90,977 +1,10,661
5 Division. Ordinary trade es 1, 27,805 1,67,242 + 89,437
6 Total ee =21,08,121 22,58,219 +1,50,098
7 3 Through traffic we 14,388,784 9,72,080 —4,61,704
8 Sales of salt under the Sambhér Lake ... \ nme trade 1. 26,25,658 21,98,935 —4,26,718
9 system. ccc nnng ae
10 : Total » 40,59,437 81,71,015 —8,88,422
11 § Through traffic ae —: 41,496 10),00,397 +4,58,901
12 Pachbadra Source 2 Ordinary trade i 1,060 +1,060
13 € —— —e_— — ee
14 Total we 5 41,496 10,01,457 +4,59,962
15 ee Papen ea
16 T Through traffic vee 89,55,596 40,638,454 ++ 1,07,858
17 otal = «4 Ordinary trade ". 27,58,488 23,67,287 = 3,86,221
18 Granp Torar ve 67,09,054 64,80,691 —2,78,363
19 Per cent. Per cent, Per cent.
20 Proportion of the through traffic trade nee 58°96 63'19 +423
21 er
22 Practically the whole of the Pachbadra trade is now through
23 traffic, and at Khewra the ordinary trade is comparatively
24 insignificant. At Sdmbhar, where there are some large firms
25 with branches in the North-Western Provinces and elsewhere,
26 ordinary trade transactions are still large, and the through
27 traffic represents approximately one-third of the total volume
28 of trade only.
29 Through traffic traders, 49. The next statement shows the number of traders in
30 each of the provinces supplied by the Department who dealt
31 direct with the salt depéts in 1899-1900, and the number ‘of
32 markets which they represented :—
33 North- Weat- . Raj- Central Central
34 ern Provinces. | O™dh. | Panjéb. | paténa, { India. | Provinces, | Behar. | Total.
35 ed Kemet) SY | apna
36 Name of Division. | 3s |s Is [3s [3 Js [8 |e | 3S j8 fs is {3
37 5S | iq 25les| 28 [bg SS ieg/2 8) Ze | 28 | 2a 2s lee] 28 es
38 BE | 23 \BF(5 4] £3 (aie: (2 2128! 28 Eq |BE(2E| BE [22
39 Z* 7 A Z71e F ZF % Ale ain Fin Hl we zy a“|z Zo mA
40 Sémbhar sak 329 42162133] 140} 6j 79 | 10] 78 yW 1{ 4] 1] 693! go
41 Pachbadra i 151 23 | 78115 1{ 1 4187 | 17 {159 7 10} «|. | 671 | 73
42 (2) | (2
43 Cis-Indus mines,., 112 19 | 56117 11,869 1196 | 2] Ld we] ew. | 67 | 12 | 1,606 1245
44 Sap tl RA [ab lina A i e's Calcot hon dee
45 Total =. 592 84 (196 | 45 11,510 {208 [768 28 [237 18 11 | 71 | 13 [2,970 }402
46 (a) Includes 2 traders and 1 mart (Shik&rpur) of Sindh,
47 Altogether 2,970 traders, representing 402 markets, dealt
48 direct with the Department during the year. The system
49 affords a powerful check upon artificial enhancement of the
50 price of salt by the formation of “rings” or “ corners” in the
51 trade, A comparison of the cost (including duty, price of the ,
52 salt, cost of clearance and railway freight) of the delivery by
53 rail of rock salt at Rawal Pindi, Lahore, Ambéla, Ferozpur and
54 Multdén in the Panjab and at Jaunpur and Gorakhpur in the
55 North-Western Provinces, and of the cost of delivery of
56 Sambhar salt at Delhi in the Panjib and at Agra, Jhansi, Cawn-
57 pore, Allahabad, Hardoi and Moradabad in the North-Western
58 Provinces, with the retail sale prices of salt at the same places
59 in 1899 as recorded by the Statistical Bureau, shows that on
60 the average of the 14 markets the retail sale price exceeded the
61 cost of delivery of the salt at the railway station by 5 annas
62 3 pies amaund only. The average excess of the wholesale
63 prices of salt, as recorded by the officers of this Department,
64 (28)