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2 the non-fulfilment of his contract, wore carted to the bank of the Ganges, at a cost of
3 one anna and nine pies per cubic foot, and realised 4 annas and 6 pies per eubic foot.
4 Thirty s&l logs, containing about 1,552 cubic feet, were despatched to Agra vid
5 the Ganges, Rajghat, and Allyghur, as an experiment, to find out what they would
6 fetch in the Agra market. Tho cost of transport was 12 annas and 6 pics per cubic
7 foot, and I have lately heard that some of them have been sold at Rs. 2-4 per cubic
8 foot. When the whole are sold, 1 will send in an account of the expenses and receipts.
9 Twenty sil logs wero sold to the Ganges Canal from the Sunnaye Depét, con-
10 taining 1,103 cubic foct ; 26,099 s&l kurrecs, which were prepared in 1870-71, and
11 stacked in the Sannaye Dopét, were sold to a native merchant of Meerut for
12 Rs. 37,743-12-0.
13 The rate for first-class kurrees over 12 feot in length was Re. 1-4-6 per cubic
14 foot, and for those of 12 feet ana under at Re. 1-0-6 per cubic foot.
15 Denra Doon Drvision.
16 47. No depdt was formed in the Dehra Doon this year, so all sums realised on
17 timbor were credited under the Budget heading A.II. ; 44,940 kurrees of sil (Shorea
18 robusta), sein (Pentaptera tomentosa), and jamun (Sizygium jambolanum) were sawn
19 in the Lachuwallu forest, part of which have been sold: the remainder are on the banks
20 of the Gangos, and will be sold next winter.
21 Its, 33,475 worth of timber of different kinds was supplied to the Ganges Canal,
22 Rs. 388 worth tothe Jumna Canal, Rs. 274 worth to the Timlee Pass works, and
23 Is. 686 worth to the Mohun Pass works.
24 48. The following is an extract from Captain Bailey’s annual report regarding
25 prospects of the Dehra sal forests, if fire can be kept out, and a system of conservancy
26 be adopted :—
27 Para, 12. ‘I have now had a whole senson’s work in the Doon, and have fre-
28 , quently passed through all the forests. The result
29 gas ie Ailaeelag Ee adenine has been that I am See that there is no sfl in
30 real eras adopted. the forest. that will be fit to saw for some years to
31 come ; all the good timber has long ago been cut, and the forests are now trying to
32 recover themsolves, which, if they are allowed to grow, I have no doubt that they
33 will do. And I believe that, if wo can keep down the fires and crecpers and other
34 saurces of injury, they will agnin produce as fine timber as thoy did in former
35 years.
36 ‘¢ Throughout nearly all the sil forests there is a considerable growth of young trees
37 of various sizes, a very large proportion of which have as yet escaped injury, and it
38 is to these that I would look for my first crop of mature trees. Nota tree, bad
39 or good, should be cut now; all are required to produce shade and keep down the
40 grass. Gradually, as the forests grow, the crooked and hollow trees may be taken
41 out, and a considerable sum will be realised on them. In the meantime, sil sced
42 should be frecly sown broadeast in the forests, so as to endeavour to fill up vacant
43 patches, and to produce an even crop of young scedlings, instead of the grass that
44 now pushes its way into ovory vacant spot, and which, when it gets burnt in the hot
45 months, is the cause of so much injury. These seedlings would form the scoond crop,
46 and may be gradually thinned out as they grow up, caro being taken that they are
47 never thin cnough to admit of grass growing. When the first crop (in which a certain
48 amount of injured trees would doubtless be found) has become maturo and has been
49 cut down, this crop of secdlings would form the forest; and if the fires have been
50 kept out and proper conservancy measures adopted, it should be in first-rate order,