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COTTER : SODA INDUSTRY OF STND. 



43. Dabho . 

 ii. Smo-i Kt 

 46, Padru 



Name of Dhand. 





Present condition. 



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Excessive water. 



oten-wari . 



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Excessive water. 



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Excessive water. 



Of the 45 dhands above listed, the condition in season 1918-19 



was as follows : — 



Nine dhands were producing. 



Fifteen dhands were dry. 



Twenty-one dhands had excessive water. 



All the dry dhands were dhands which had dropped off the Khair- 

 pur lists since 1899. They all lie to the north of the dra-ins of Pur 

 Chandav or Sano-i. Probably in the course of years the desert sand 

 has blown over much of the land to the north of the dra-ins, filling 

 up the hollows in many places, bo that dhands are now smaller or 

 entirely dried up in this area. Mr. Mahommed Khan informed 

 me that the Pur Chandar dhand, formerly supposed to be fath- 

 omless, has grown smaller of late years by the encroachment of the 

 desert sand, and that the local people no longer place any credence 

 in the old legends of its great depth. 



The fact then that fifteen dhands were dry has nothing to 

 do with the rainfall of 1918. If this fact is recognised it will be 

 seen that in the Kot Jubbo area, the season immediately preceding 

 my visit must have been an excessively wet one, since only Dine 

 dhands produced, and the rest of the recently worked dhands con- 

 tained excessive water. But the most curious feature is that of the 

 nine producing dhands six, viz., Abdul Rahim, Suii Nandhi, Suji 

 Wadi, Pharanwaro, Gadanwaro, Ganwarwaro, are names which 

 occur in the old list of 1899, but are not found in the recent list of 

 1918. This means that the very excessive rainfall caused water 

 to collect in several of the old usually dry dhands which again, 

 after a lapse of years, yielded chaniho. 



(1) Pakhyaro was by far the largest producer in season 



1918-19, although there was an excess 

 Producing dhand< { wa ter in the dhand, so that chaniho 



between thetwo drains. . , . , . , ,, 4l 



was obtained only from the aoutp 



