1 CISANDUS MINES.
2 Smuggling of Kohat
3 salt into the country
4 cis-Indus,
5 (
6 KOHAT MINES.
7 Salesand issues.
8 Appendix IL.
9 Territorial distribution
10 of the trade.
11 Appendix VI.
12 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
13 run over by a truck loaded with salt. His right foot was so
14 badly injured that it had to be amputated,.and a bone in the
15 left one was fractured. The brakesmen on the truck did
16 their best to draw the boy’s attention to the danger that was
17 threatening him, but he paid no attention to them, and'it was
18 not possible to stop the truck in the short distance,
19 An accident at the Kalabagh quarries, which at first ap-
20 peared to be of no importance, ended with fatal consequences.
21 A quarry labourer of about 40 years of age slipped and fell
22 while loosening blocks of salt with a crowbar and about 20
23 sérs of earth fell from the quarry wall upon his back. He was
24 slightly cut and bruised, but evidently sustained some internal
25 injury, as peritonitis supervened while he was in hospital,
26 and the case ended fatally. °
27 There were no accidents in the mines at Warcha and
28 Nurpur.
29 At. Enquiries were again made with regard to the smuggl-
30 ing of Kohat salt into the country ¢és-Indus between Mari and
31 Khushalgarh. The temptation to pass salt across the Indus
32 is strongest along this section of this course of the river, as
33 it is nearest to the Malgin quarries. No seizures were effect
34 ed, but it appears probable that small quantities of Kohat
35 salt are consumed in czs-Indus villages near the river.
36 Smuggling on an extensive scale, however, has not occurred.
37 The trade of the Kalabagh quarries shows that the railway
38 traffic with marts on the left bank of the Indus between
39 Attock and Ghazi Ghat increased from maunds 18,494
40 in 1900-01 to maunds 19,258 during the year under report,
41 and that there was also an increase in the river traffic between
42 the same points from ,maunds 5,312 to maunds 6,376.
43 The trade of the Warcha depét with the important marts of
44 Bhakkar and Leiah on the left bank of the Indus increased .
45 from maunds 7,560 to maunds 10,260, And, finally, maunds
46 1,449 of salt were issued at Kalabagh itself on the right
47 bank of the Indus for local consumption, as compared with
48 maunds 1,125 in Igoo-o1. It is, however, still necessary to
49 maintain the existing restrictions én the possession and trans-
50 port of salt czs-Indus.
51 42, The quantity of Kohat salt which paid duty (maunds
52 4,26,023) was less by maunds 11,355 than the quantity on
53 which revenue was realised in 1900-01 (maunds 4,37,378)-
54 This was the result of a falling off in the trade with Bannu
55 and the Derajat in consequence of the, blockade of the Mah-
56 sud Waziris. Issues differed from sales by maunds 244
57 only, as traders resort to the mines, and remove their salt, as
58 soon as possible, after depositing the duty in treasuries,
59 43. Compared with 1900-01 destinations of consign-
60 ments declared at the mines show a decrease of maunds 1,110
61 in the quantity for British territory (maunds 3,39,284 against
62 maunds 43,37,394),* and of maunds 12,869 for independent
63 country across the border (maunds 89,495 against maunds
64 1,02,364).* There was an increase of maunds 33,889 in the
65 quantities booked to marts in the Kohat and Peshawar dis-
66 tricts, but a decrease of maunds 34,999 occurred in the book-
67 ings to the Bannu and Derajat districts, and the Kurram
68 valley, the falling off in consignments to Bannu, whence the
69 Waziris obtain the greater part of the salt they require,
70 * These figeres differ from those given inthe Report for 1g00-o1 by maands 16,275
71 owing to toe Kurram valley having been classed in that year as independent’ terri-
72 tory.
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