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2 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1901-1902.
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4 'maunds 3,207 at more than 6 annas a maund, maunds SULTANPUR
5 SALT WORKS,
6 11,823 at from 5 to under 6 annas maunds 20,562 at from 4
7 to under 5 annas, maunds 28,072 at trom 3 to under 4 annas,
8 and maunds 1,325 at prices under 3 anras.
9 The stock of salt at the close of the year amounted to
10 maunds 2,675 as compared with maunds 2,639 at the end of
11 1900-01. Large stucksare not kept at these works, as the
12 salt sells to the best advantage when freshly produced, and
13 manufacture becomes active at the end of the official year
14 when summer is approaching,
15 51. There was a decline of 989 per cent. in the pros THROUGH TRAF.
16 porticn of through traffic trade during the year. At the FIC TRADE.
17 Khewrah depét and the Pachbadra Source, where very “Ppendx IX.
18 nearly the whole of the transactions are with traders resident
19 in areas of consumption, the volume of the trade was affected
20 by ‘that of sales, but at the Sambhar Lake there was a sharp
21 decline from maunds 14,40,222 in 1g00-of to maunds 5,41,432
22 during the past year. This was owing to the inferior and
23 varying qualities of salt stocked at Sambhar under the
24 unfavourable manufacturing conditions that prevailed during
25 the past year. When salt of good and even quality is on sale
26 at the lake, traders resident in the areas of consumption
27 apply to the Department for their supplies, without the inter-
28 vention of middlemen, but in the absence of these conditions,
29 local traders and agents are employed to consign despatches
30 of different qualities to markets where they will be acceptable
31 to consumers. The system will resume its normal condition
32 at the lake, when a recurrence of seasons favourable to
33 manufacture enables the Department, to stock salt of the
34 former superior quality.
35 The revenue realised from salt sold under the through
36 trafic system amounted to Rs 93,42,950. Of this sum,
37 Rs. 90,74,820 weré deposited in 167 treasuries and sub-
38 treasuries in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the
39 Punjab, Rajputana, Central India, Behar, Sindh and the
40 Central Provinces; Rs. 46,852 were paid into 16 Post Off-
41 ces, namely, 8 in the United Provinces, 2 in the Punjab, 4 in
42 Rajputana, 1 in Central India and 1 in the Central Provin-
43 ces; and Rs. 2,21,278 were collected at 25 stations on the
44 Indian Midland Railway.
45 52. The Department dealt direct under the through traffic Number oftraders who
46 system with 3,227 traders at 397 marts during the year, as De —
47 compared with 3,473 traders at 434 martsin 19 o-o1. The Apzvendix X,
48 decrease of 245 in the number of traders and of 37 in the
49 number of marts represented was owing to the decline of
50 through traffic trade at‘Sambhar, and the smaller sales under
51 the same system at Pachbadra during the year.
52 53. The following isan account of receipts and expendi- Through traffic ree
53 ture in connection with the bagging and clearance of through _—<ipts and charges.
54 traffic salt, prepared in accordance with the principles des-
55 cribed by Mr. Dane in paragraph 55 of his report for
56 1900-01 :—
57 Receipts. Charges,
58 OF ixed. Gan tingent, Total.
59 Rs.! Rs, Rs, Rs.
60 Cis-Indus Mines ... 66,481 5000 40,881 45,881
61 Sambbar vs» 8,478 7,000 5,082 12,682
62 Pachbadra «ss 14,223 3,000. 32,813 26,813
63 Total we 89,182 15,000 80,376 95,375
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