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=Kohat Salt Quarries, 1908=

The Kohat District of the North-West
Frontier Province possesses important salt quarries at Jatta (or Jatta
Ismail Khel), MalgTn, Kharak, and Bahadur Khel, lying in the east
and centre of the District. Bahadur Khel, on the Bannu border, con
tains about forty quarries and Jatta sixteen. At the former place a mass
of rock-salt crops out between two hills, 8 miles long by ¼ mile
broad, the quarries worked lying in a small part of this area. Kohat
salt is grey to black in colour, and less esteemed than that of the
Salt Range, though analysis shows it to be of good quality. It is
purchased by traders direct from the miners under the supervision
of the preventive establishment, which consists of two superintendents
at Bahadur Khel and Jatta, an assistant superintendent at MalgTn,
5 inspectors, and 334 subordinates. Numerous outcrops have to be
watched. The quantity excavated in 1903-4 was 16,493 tons, paying
a duty of Rs. 6,73,961. The gross income during the six years ending
1902-3 averaged Rs. 6,63,825. The salt is largely exported beyond
the border and to Afghanistan, but it also supplies the four Districts
of the Province which lie west of the Indus. The export trade is
chiefly in the hands of Ghilzai, Mohmand, Afridi, and other trans-
border traders.

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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''

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