1 SALT REVENUE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OFFICIAL YEAR 1894-95,
2 4 7
3 against maunds 74,72,294 issued in' 1893-94, being an increase
4 of maunds 5,51,013 or 7°37 per cent. A comparative detail of
5 the issues of both years is here given :—
6 9%
7 1893-94. | 1894-95, | Increase. | Decrease.
8 Mds. | Mads. Mds. Mds.
9 65,01,965 | 70,57,804 5,55,839
10 Full duty paid “
11 Issued to Native States free of duty we | 2,08,408 | 2,06,707 wet. 1,701
12 Ditto ditto free of price and duty ... 87,610 88,510 900 wee
13 Kohat salt (paying duty at a special rate) ... | 6,90,285 } 5,91,497 1,212 See
14 Mandi — ditto ditto “0 1,34,026 1,28,789 wee 5,237
15 Total wae | 74;72,294 | 80,283,807 | 5,57,951° 6,938
16 More full-duty-paid salt to the extent of maunds 5,55,839
17 was issued, the details for the year under report being as fol-
18 luws ;—Sambhar salt, maunds 40,21,618; increase maunds
19 12,31,477 or 44°13 per cent., the decrease in the sales of 1893-
20 94 as compared with those of 1892-93 having been maunds
21 23,14,460 or 45°34 per cent., owing to causes explained in last
22 year’s annual report, Punjéb Mines rock salt maunds 18,41,408,
23 being a decrease upon the sales of 1893-94 of maunds 2,31,212 |
24 or 11°15 per cent:, causes for which falling off in the sales of
25 this kind of salt will be explained hereafter in the section of
26 : this report treating about the Punj4b Mines Division and its
27 trade. The issues of Sultinpuri salt, amounting to maunds 94,614,
28 have satisfactorily increased by maunds 28,i46 or 42°34 per
29 cent., but are less than in 1892-93 by maunds 29,567, the falling
30 off being even larger if compared with years preceding 1892-93.
31 Didwana salt, maunds 3,47,718, being a decrease of maunds
32 1,09,778 or 24 per cent., owing to the renewal ofthe manufacture
33 of Sambhar salt, the lowering of the price of that salt from 8 to
34 4 annas a maund, and the consequent revival of its trade.
35 Pachbadra salt, maunds 6,97,31%, being a falling off of maunds
36 3,61,950 or 84:17 per cent. as compared with 1893-94, owing to
37 the same causes that have adversely affected the dealings in
38 Didwana salt, ‘Pachbadra sales were, however, still far in ad-
39 vance in 1894-95 of the sales of this description of salt in 1892-93,
40 during which year they amounted only to maunds 3,29,263. In
41 the Internal Branch there was practically no difference between
42 the issues of full-duty-paying saltpetre salt in 1893-94 and
43 1894-95, the quantities for each year being maunds 55,977 and
44 maunds 55,133, showing a small falling off against the year
45 under review of maunds 844.
46 In the case of the two kinds’ of salt paying special rates of
47 duty, the Kohat sales of 1893-94 and 1894-95 were practically
48 equal, the quantities for the two years being maunds 5,90,285
49 and maunds 5,91,497 or maunds 1,212 in favor of the issues >
50 of 1894-95. The Mandi salt sales were maunds 1,28,789
51 or maunds 5,237 less than in 1893-94, in which year they
52 amounted to maunds 1,34,026.
53 Further particulars of the variations, so far as they are
54 known, of the manufacture, sale, realizations and course of
55 trade of each ‘description of salt will be given later on in the
56 appropriate sections of this report.
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58 GENERAL REVIEW.