1 '
2 Sale price of salt at
3 the Rajputana Sources.
4 Appendix VIL.
5 THE PUNJAB SALT
6 SOURCES:
7 (1)
8 CIS-INDUS AND ,
9 KALABAGH MINES.
10 Sales and issues.
11 Appendix Il.
12 Territorial distribu.
13 tion of salt issued.
14 Appendix VI.
15 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NGRTHERN INDIA
16 exceeding in any year the charges properly debitable against
17 these Sources, one-half of the excess shall be paid to the
18 Darbar. The figures below, which show the financial result
19 during the past year of the administration of the three Sources
20 named, are therefore placed on record :~—
21 Receipts.
22 p Rs.
23 By sale of 2,32,273 maunds of salt at Didwana we 10,888
24 » oo» 9» 12,28,496 » 9 9 » Pachbadra ves 95,982
25 » oo» 9 4,066 oy Palodi aks 381
26 Total ... 14,64,835 Total eee -1,07,251
27 Charges.
28 : id we = 386,
29 To fixed and contingent charges, Pee " a A aa
30 excluding treaty payments. Falodi 7 “a
31 Liabilities under Article VI of the Agreement «+ 3,76,000
32 ”? ” > x 3% 87 sf 125,000
33 Total e. 6,66,950
34 Net debit balance «» 5.59,699
35 34. The statement forming Appendix VII shows what
36 the sale price of salt at the Rajputana Sources should be,
37 under the system prescribed in the Resolution of the Depart-
38 ment of Finance and Commerce, No. 326, dated 17th January
39 1882. The figures for the 19 years from the ist April 1882
40 to the 31st March 1go1 show that maunds 9,20,75,619 have
41 been produced at an average cost of 3 annas and 2 pies a
42 maund, (a fixed sum of Rs. 5,00,000 a year instead of the actual
43 outlay having since 1889-90 been charged on account of
44 treaty payments), and that maunds g,15,50,467 of salt have been
45 sold at an average price of 3 annas 7 pies a maund. The profit
46 rp to date is therefore 5 piesa maund. The results of the pro-
47 duction and sales for the year are, however, again unsatisfac-
48 tory. The average cost per maund of the 21,10,569 maunds.
49 of salt produced during the year was 0-5-4 and the average
50 price realized was 0-3-4. The loss per maund was therefore
51 0-2-0 a maund compared with a loss of 5 piesa maund in 1899-
52 1900.
53 35. There was no great expansion in the trade in Punjab
54 rock salt during the year, the sales from the four depéts at
55 Khewrah, Warcha, Kalabagh and Nurpur having amounted to
56 maunds 24,05,520 compared with maunds 23,91,239 in 18¢9-
57 1900, an increase of maunds 14,281 only. The sales of salt from
58 the Mayo Mine increased by maunds 53,719, but there was some
59 falling off at Wareha and a large falling off at Kalabagh. The
60 issues, as usual, kept pace with the sales, and at the close of the
61 year were less than the salesby maunds 4,102 only. Itis a
62 matter for regret that this salt has not made more way in the
63 North-Western Provinces. The quality of the salt is good,
64 the supply is constant and practically inexhaustible, and the
65 arrangements made by the Department for the despatch of the
66 Mayo Mine salt by railway from the Warthganj Depét are, as
67 the late Mr. Reader, the Officiatirg Inspector of Mines, ob-
68 served, very nearly perfect. The Warcha and Kalabagh Depéts
69 are less favourably situated, and ¢o'44 per cent. of the total
70 quantity of salt sold during the year came from the Mayo
71 Mine at Khewrah.
72 26. The distribution of the salt issued is shown in Ap-
73 pendix V{. The bulk of it is consumed in the Punjab, but
74 maunds 3,07,925 were sent during the year to the North- West-
75 ern Provinces and Oudh and maunds 1,32,328 to Behar. The
76 ( 12)