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2 38. The Palcin Road is 24 miles long, 20 feet broad, and passable for carts ; it
3 cost Rs, 1,400. Itis avory useful bit of rvad, for it connects a chain of forest roads
4 now about 564 miles in length, and without a break.
5 Rani Tazrit Roap.
6 39. From Chukrata to Muhona, distance about 3 miles, there is a very good
7 pony road, which was made by tho Public Works Departinent. The Rani Taht Road
8 is a continuation of this ; it commences ut Mahona, and runs along tho hill side at an
9 easy gradicnt for 5 miles, oponing out a lot of fuel forest on tho slopes, east of Deo-
10 bun and the extensive forest of Rani Taht, which will also be worked principally for
11 firewood.
12 This was a difficult road to make, for it had to be taken through some awkward
13 limestone precipices which required a great amount of blasting; it is now opened, and
14 laden ponics can pass along easily and safely. Cost, Rs. 5,000.
15 The TonsE VALLEY Foot-pPatr.
16 40. It was at first proposed to make a broad road fit for laden ponies, to cost
17 Rs. 23,000, but when it beeame known that the demand fordeodar sleepers was limited,
18 and that the great difficulty which the Forest Officors at first experienced of getting
19 sufficient supply of labour to carry on the sleeper works in the Tonse forests was
20 rapidly disappearing, it seemed a waste of money to expend such a large sum in con-
21 structing a regular road, when a foot-path, costing less than one-quarter, would answer
22 the purpose just as well. A geod path has boen made from Kalasie (in the Dehra Doon)
23 to the Tewni suspension bridge (where the Simla and Mussoorie Road crosses the Tonse),
24 a distance of 55 miles. This path is passable for a led pony throughout, and ridoable
25 for a good part of the way; it is in no place more than 150 yards from the river’s bank,
26 and consequantly is thoroughly suitod for supervising the floating operations, for which
27 purpose it was made. Totul cost, Is. 5,000.
28 41, The Dartmeer wirc-rope suspension bridge was put up to keep communication
29 open between the villages (which are on the left bank of the Tonse) and the forest
30 works (which are on the right bank). Formerly there was a rough wooden bridge which
31 was continually getting swept away, and then all communication and supplies were cut
32 off fromm the work- people until another bridge could bo put up. This was a constant
33 source of anxiety to tho officer in charge, and it was thought advisable to erect a
34 permanont wire-rope bridge. Tho cost was Rs. 700.
35 NAINTWAR WoOoDEN BribDGE.
36 42. Formerly there was a very shaky wooden bridge over the Tonse at Naintwar,
37 which was considered unsafe for the labourers from Surars and the Roopin Valley, who
38 were constantly crossing and re-crossing to and from the Dartmeer works. Trees were
39 given, and the inhabitants of the district put up a good, firm, wooden bridge, under
40 the superintendence of a Forest Officer.
41 Tnk BHAGERUTTEE Roap
42 43. Was carried up to the village of Jhala (the upper limit of the regular road) by
43 Mr. Denmeade, the Executive Enginoer in charge, who, having finished all that was
44 required of him from the Forest Department, returned to the Public Works Department
45 in November last. During the winter, the whole of the lower part of the road, which had
46 not been repaired since it was first made, was widened out and put into thorough
47 repair by a Forest Officer, and now the whole road from Bour village, whero it joins the
48 Mussoorie and Nynee Tal Road, up to Jhala, a distance of about 90 miles, is passable
49 for laden ponies, and rideable throughout. This road has taken a long time to make,
50 and has cost a good deal, but itis really a good bit of work, and is well worth tho
51 money that has boon expended on it.