1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICAL YEAR 1893-94,
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3 one quarter of the price is withheld until the actual, outturn FEVIEW BY sections.
4 hy weight at the time of the sale of the salt is ascertained :— PACHBaDRa.
5 1 Mads,
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7 Estimated by Superintendents ... tee es 720,794
8 Actual outturn ae an - 7,65,421
9 é Deticit in outturn a iu . wat 36,940
10 Paid for at time of estimation, being amount estimated,
11 minus 25 per cent. és és Ae 6,83,854
12 Balance paid for on clearance - 81,567
13 7,65,421
14 Total quantity paid for
15 57. On the subject of the condition of the pits, the charac- Ronaition of pits; ‘gusty
16 ter of the salt, and the prospects of the coming crop of salt, the pre" PE
17 following interesting remarks are recorded by the Assistant
18 Commissioner of the Division :—
19 “Excluding the two pits we have experimentally restored,
20 there are 413 pits registered as working as under :—
21 In Bara Sambra one as _ tas 8t .
22 » Chota Sambra wee was wee ow. L121
23 » Posali 73
24 » Hiragarh 138
25 Toatl we / 418
26 “Of these during the past year 69 as under have beer
27 emptied :—
28 In Bara Sambra 2
29 » Chota SambLra ~ on ie 13.
30 » Posali tie sad see vas 28
31 ” Hiragarh ae se ee rrr) 26
32 Total see 69
33 “ Since the close of the year 25 pits as under have beer
34 emptied or are under extraction :—
35 In Bara Sambra 2
36 vw» Posali 13-
37 » Hiragarh oo 10
38 Total one 25
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40 “T anticipate that before the rains set in, 15 to 20 pits more
41 will be emptied. Taking 20 as the number of pits which will
42 possibly be emptied before the monsoon bursts, and adding the
43 69 and 25 pits detailed above, 119 of the most productive and
44 best pits in the tract will be empty and unproductive until the
45 spring of 1896. Some of the 119 may be ready to harvest
46 earlier, but it is not safe to count on any of them being fit to
47 re-empty before the first quarter of 1896, as, with but few
48 exceptions, none of the 119 can be set with morali before next
49 summer, as they all contain too large a volume of weak brine.
50 Deducting 119 from the total number on the register, there
51 remain 294 pits. The best pits have been emptied, and it is
52 doubtful whether more than 200 of the remainder contain
53 marketable salt. Allowing that 200 of the unopened pits
54 contain marketable salt, it seems uncertain judging by what
55 is known of their contents, that they will on the whole
56 prove as productive as the pits which have been emptied. In
57 September last f estimated that there were 20 lakhs of market-
58 able saltin the pits, and that estimate Iam not prepared to
59 change, though I should not be surprised to find it under the
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