1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1!90?-1902.
2 8. Maunds 69,16,711 of salt were sold during the year at Sales and issues of salt
3 the full rate of duty as compared with maunds 74,80,928 in, Which paid cuty,
4 4go01-01, or a decrease of maunds 5,64,217. Sales at the “Ppendix ll
5 Sambhar Lake fell off by maunds 4,76,982 owing to the
6 inferior quality of.salt produced under the unfavourable manu-
7 facturing conditions that prevailed there; there was a de-
8 crease of maunds 1,82,424 tn the sales at Pachbadra in conse-
9 quence of a higher price being charged for the salt at that
10 source towards the end of the year; and the quantity of salt-
11 petre salt excised shows a falling off of maunds 2,718 due to
12 trade fluctuations, and the transfer of the saltpetre refineries
13 at Calcutta to the Bengal Salt Department. This decline ~
14 was oily partially met by an improvement in the trade of other
15 sources, v7g., maunds 76,612 at Didwana, maunds 20,858 in
16 the cis-Indus and Kalabagh Mines Division, and maunds 437
17 at the Sultanpur Salt Works. The rumour that the duty was
18 about to be reduced also had a detrimental effect upon the
19 trade of the year, purchases being limited as much as possible
20 to actual requirements.
21 The issues of salt which paid full duty (maunds
22 72,28,281) were in excess of the quantity cleared in 1900-01
23 (maunds 70,54,847) by maunds 1,73,434. The quantity
24 removed from the Sambhar Lake was less than in !goo-o1 by
25 maunds 68,485, and clearances from saltpetre refineries were
26 also less by maunds 2,718. The removals were larger, how-
27 ever, elsewhere, vzz., by maunds 81,198 at Didwana, maunds
28 1,15,610 at Pachbadra, maunds 46,852 in the czs-[ndus and
29 Kalabagh Mines Division, and maunds 977 at the Sultanpur
30 Salt Works. The increased issues from Pachbadra were due,
31 in some degree, to an improvement in the facilities for the
32 removal of salt by railway. The figures show that the markets
33 received more salt than in 1g00-01, and that therefore the
34 supply was not affected by the decline in sales during the
35 year.
36 There was a small increase of maunds 16,601 as com-
37 pared with 1g00 o1 in the quantity of salt on which special
38 rates of duty were charged (maunds 5,65,253 against maunds*
39 5,48,652). The falling off of maunds 11,355 at the Kohat
40 Salt Mines (maunds 4,26,023 against maunds 4.37,278) was
41 due to the blockade of the Mahsud Waziris. Sales at the
42 Mandi Mines were better by maunds 27,956 (maunds 1,39,230
43 against maunds* 1,11,274) owing to the demand being more
44 fully met at the quarries. During 1900-01 one of the quarries
45 had been closed for several months by landslips. At these
46 sources issues kept pace with sales in both years.
47 g. The quantity of salt sold free of duty was in excess gait sold and issued to
48 of the sales of 1g00-of by maunds 57,643, but the issues Se ee
49 were smaller by maunds 10,012. The quantity purchased nies aod duty, oie
50 and removed by the Rampur Darbar was the same in both — 9” payment of balf
51 years, viz., 5,000 maunds. In consequence of the improv- , | tit
52 : oe : ppendix III.
53 ment of agricultural conditions in the Jodhpur State, the
54 Darbar purchased maunds 1,91,645 against maunds 1,34,002
55 in 1900-01 through the State contractor, who is under an
56 agreement to take a fixed quantity of salt during the year.
57 Issues of this Jodhpur salt amounted to only maunds
58 42,420 against maunds 1,52,432 iN 1goo-o! owing to the
59 inability of the contractor to remove all the salt that he had
60 purchased during the year.
61 * These figures differ trom the figures of the Report for 190001 by maunds 5,516
62 owing to an error in the sales of that year of the Mandi Mines (see Appendis II),
63 ( 3)