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2 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
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4 REVIEW BY SECTIONS, source, &c., which no other salt bas to contend against. This de-
5 PACHBADRA. ficit of Rs. 10,151-5-3 is therefore set offagainst the profit made on
6 through-traffic transactions at Sambhar, where, if the statement
7 be referred to, it will be fougd that there was up to the close
8 of 1893-94 a working profit of Rs. 80,349. The fee charged to
9 indenters for Pachbadra salt on the through-traffic system is
10 three pies per maund, and the cost of the services rendered at
11 the salt source in return for the fee amounted during the year
12 that has ended to 5:34 pies per maund. It will be less in the
13 current year. One of the causes of the increase of this charge
14 in 1893-94 was that there was a large accumulation of bags
15 waiting to be filled with salt, which had been indented for, and
16 which had been received into our custody when bad weather
17 set in, wetting, and sometimes rotting, these bags. As this
18 damage occurred through no fault of the traders, we replaced
19 the bags in cases in which they were found to have become
20 unserviceable.
21 Stocks, manufacture and 56. The following statement gives particulars of the
22 issues, stock balances, the salt extracted from pits, the excesses and
23 deficits found on clearances, the issues during the past two years,
24 and the closing balance at the end of 1893-94. It will be seen
25 there was no balance of salt remaining in heaps at the close of
26 the year, but that, on the contrary, the sales were in excess of
27 the extracted stock by maunds 64,995. This need cause no
28 uneasiness. The demand for salt during 1893-94 was so brisk
29 as soon to absorb all the stored stock; and labour being
30 scarce in this remote and thinly-populated locality, the
31 new salt could not be stored, but was filled and removed to the
32 railway station for despatch as soon as it, was taken out of the
33 pits. No break occurred at any time in the issue of salt to the
34 trade. The salt was brought throughout the year faster to
35 the railway station than the railway could load and send it on to
36 destination, and the debit or minus balance of maunds 64,995
37 merely represents a week’s extraction from the pitsand about ten -
38 days’ purchases by traders. There are from 10 to 12 lakhs of
39 maunds of ripe salt in the pits available at once for the trade.
40 Labour to extract it and a sufficient supply of railway wagons to
41 remove the salt to the markets it is consigned to are the two
42 necessities at Pachbadra; and as the demand fore Pachbadra salt
43 has in a great measure ceased since the price of Sambhar salt
44 was reduced, the’ debit balance will soon disappear, and the
45 stock register show a weekly increasing balance of stock in
46 hand at the source :-—
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48 32 Su Ps Quantity sold and delivered free 3
49 — 2° S58 during the year. oa
50 1 SA BSmpeag ~
51 3 ° SEG Ss g ae
52 Year. a8 2 tse Total, ae
53 & a g's .
54 a Bao Quantity a
55 gt, | Pee8e Pe at ocean mer
56 | 2 3 So 2G @ z a
57 228 | 2232 ag
58 Mas. Mas, Mads, Mds. Mads. Mds, Mads.
59 1892-93 ... | 7,49,726 1,15,389 | 8,65,115 | 4,79,263 1,000 | 4,80,263 | 3,84,852
60 1898-94... | 3,84,852 7,65,421 | 11,50,273 | 12,04,268 | 11,000 | 12,15,268 | —64,995
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62 On this subject the following extract from the annual -
63 report of the Assistant Commissioner of the Division is re-
64 produced :—
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