10 WYNNE: TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT, 



The Hon'ble R. E. Egerton, 1870. — Access has also been obtained 

 to a MS. note by the Hon'ble R. E. Egerton, Financial Commissioner 

 in the Punjab, regarding the salt of this region, dated December, 1870. 

 In this the principal points of information, the names of some of the chief 

 localities, prices, weights, and size of 'tubbis' are briefly mentioned, 

 and some remarks made as to the duty charged beyond the Koorum 

 (Kuram) river, the conditions as to trade, and the management of sales. 



/. A. E. Miller, Esq., 1870. — A short note attached to this paper 

 by the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, dated also December 

 1870, gives a slight idea of the position o£ the salt excavations, mentions 

 the five which are being worked, what tribes were permitted to take 

 salt from each, and the rates of sales, also that the cost of excavation 

 varied. 



Captain Plowden, 1872. — A MS. memorandum (without its an- 

 nexed map) on the subject of the salt resources of the Kohat district 

 by Captain Plowden of the Punjab Commission was submitted for 

 information by the Deputy Commissioner of Kohat. This is an ample 

 and valuable record of the history of the so-called salt mines, of the 

 method of working them, and the revenue derived therefrom, as well as 

 numerous particulars relating to the fiscal statistics of the salt. It will 

 be necessary hereafter in considering the economic aspect of the salt 

 quarries to refer again to this memorandum containing much information, 

 which it is to be regretted is not obtainable in a published form. 



Other MSS. — Besides the MS. paper by Dr. Verchere previously 

 mentioned, seventeen letters of various dates, and other papers, including 

 a precis by E. O'Brien, Esq., (Acting Secretary to the Financial Com- 

 missioner), of records relating to the salt mines of Kohat have also been 

 perused; none of these contain any geological matter; they refer 

 generally to fiscal affairs, and were within reach of Captain Plowden 

 when drawing up his exhaustive memorandum upon these subjects, the 

 history of, and general information regarding, the Trans-Indus Salt 

 Quarries. 



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