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2 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 19041902.
3 1900-01. There was a sufficiency of fodder and water in the
4 desert country over which the trade routes of this source
5 pass, and an increase in the traffic was the result. Clearances
6 at this source keep pace with the sales, as purchases are not
7 tnade, as a rule, until animals for the removal of the salt are
8 available. The issues amounted. to maunds 2,97,127 as com-
9 pared with maunds 2,315,929 in 1900-01, or an increase of
10 maunds 81,198.
11 The sales and deliveries of duty free salt to the Jodhpur
12 State were also larger by maunds 9,625, maunds 25,011 having
13 been taken by the Darbar, as compared with maunds 15,386 °
14 IN ¥900-O1.
15 24. The salt brine of the wells of this source is inexhaus-
16 tible in quantity, and manufacture is therefore not affected by
17 variations in the rainfall. No salt was made at the commence-
18 ment of the year, as the stock balance was sufficiently large to
19 meet the demand, but production began towards its close, and
20 extended into the current year. The balance of stock at the
21 end of the year, maunds 2,40,065, was ample for all require-
22 ments, supplemented as it was by the quantity produced in
23 April and May 1902.
24 The salt stocked during the year cost 4°29 pies per
25 maund to manufacture and store, as compared with 4°93 pies
26 in 1g00-or. Salt is paid for according to quality at rates
27 ‘varying from 2 to 3 pies a maund, and fluctuations in cost
28 occur on this account, and also in connection with the amount
29 of carriage available for storage.
30 2°, Maunds 1,38,543 of salt which had paid full duty
31 at Didwana were consigned from this source to the Kucha-
32 ‘man road and Makrana railway stations on the Rajputana-
33 Malwa and Jodhpur-Bikaner Railways, and were booked
34 thence to the marts of Bhiwani, Delhi, Panipat and Karnal in
35 ‘the Punjab, and to Mozaffernagar and Nagina in the United
36 Provinces of Agra and Oudh Similar bookings in 1900-01
37 amounted to maunds 1,11,161. Maunds 1,58,584 were
38 removed by road as.compared with maunds 1,04,768 in
39 1900-01, viz., maunds 1,11,273 to the districts of the Punjab
40 marching with Bikaner and Jaipur territory, against maunds
41 75,486 in Igoo-ot ; and maunds 47,313 against maunds
42 29,282 in the previous year to the Ajmer district, and the
43 Siates of Bikaner, Jaipur, Kotah and Bundi in Rajputana.
44 26. Owing to the recurrence of unfavourable conditions
45 of manufacture af the Sambhar Lake, the strain on the
46 resources of the Pachbadra Salt Source continued during the
47 year, and at last became so great that it was doubtful whether
48 the stock of salt available would be sufficient to meet trade
49 requirements until the beginning of the manufacturing season
50 of 1902-03. In these circumstances the price of Pachbadra
51 salt was raised from one anna and three pies to one anna and
52 six pies a maund with effect from the 27th of January 1902,
53 and this sufficed to check the excessive demand and to
54 divert some part of the trade back to Sambhar.
55 There was a decrease of maunds 1,82,424 in the sales of
56 salt which paid full duty, maunds 9,31,522 only having been
57 sold as compared with maunds 11,13,946 in !go0-of. The
58 quantity of duty free salt purchased by the Jodhpur Darbar
59 was, however, larger by maunds 41,650 (maunds 1,56,200
60 € 9 )
61 DIDWANA.
62 Appendix III.
63 Manufacture and stocks
64 of salt,
65 Appendix V. ,
66 Territorial distribution
67 of traffic.
68 Appendix VI,
69 (3)
70 PACHBADRA.
71 Sales and issues.
72 Appendices II and III.