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2 and 20-feet lengths, and will be floated down during the rains. It is not yet known
3 how much of this cheer timber will be required for Chukrata; but if there is a
4 surplus, it can be sold to merchants, or perhaps the Jumna Canal works will require
5 sone of it. ‘There are altogether about 10,000 logs.
6 51. The Tonse deodar sleeper works are going on well; 7,486 10-feet sleepers
7 wore delivered at Delhi during the year, and 14,32} 6-fcet slecpers at Agra. Besides
8 the delivery of these, the following work was done: In the Dartmeer forest 17,404
9 logs were cut, and all of them rolled either into or closo to the river.
10 52. In the Lambortach forest 128,000 sleepers have been sawn, of which 20,0Q0
11 havo been ecarriod to and stacked at the head of the slide, and 25,000 at the head of
12 the tramway. The tramway, which is a little over one milo in length, is in working
13 order, and sleepers are being taken along it daily ; but the slide was not quite finished
14 when I last heard from Jounsar. This slide is 6,300 feet long, almost perfectly
15 straight, from 10 to 11 inches broad, and has a gradient of from Lin 7 to lin1. It
16 will shoot the sleepers into the Pabur River, about 3 miles above its junction with the
17 Tonse.
18 53. In tho Mundhole forest there are 120,000 sleepers sawn, of which 70,000
19 have bcen carried to spots convenient to the head of the canal slide. This slide
20 differs considerably from the Lambertach one; it runs down a water-course, crossing
21 and re-crossing according to the features of the banks, and is 4 miles and 250 feet long.
22 It is of a much more easy gradient, varying from 1 in 5 to 1 in 100, and a good flow
23 of water, supplied by means of wooden troughs leading from the stream, is always kept
24 running down it. The original design was the late Captain Lillingston’s idea: he had
25 intended to construct the slide entirely of blocks of deodar, of such a size as to be here-
26 after convertible into two narrow-gauge sleepers. Two blocks of double sleeper thickness
27 (64’ x 9” x 84”), laid side by side, formed the bottom, and two blocks of double breadth
28 (6)’ x 17” x 5”) formed the sides. Logs of wood 44 feet long were laid across the line,
29 like sleepers on a railway, and firmly fixed on the ground or on wooden trestles, at such
30 a distance that each joint would just meet the centre of the log, notches having been
31 cut in the logs about 32 inches broad by 8 inches decp. The timbors composing the slide
32 were laid down from log to log and wedged in with wooden wedges, the sides over-
33 lapped the bottom, and thus the inside measuroment of the slide was 17 inches broad by
34 8 inches dcop. About half a mile was completed in September, before Captain Lilling-
35 ston’s death. We sent down some sleopers, and it seemed to answer very well. Some
36 more of the slide had been put down in November, when I again tried it, and found that
37 the breadth was too great, for the velocity of the sleepers inercased with the distance they
38 travelled, and thoy came down the steep slopes at such a pace that all the water was
39 sent flying right and loft. As soon as tho slide gotdry, they began wabbling about,
40 first hitting one side and then the other, damaging the slide and loosening the joints,
41 and eventually either jumping clear out and smashing to atoms, or turning over
42 edgoways, and jamming with one that was going down properly. Besides this, from the
43 bottom being mado of two pieces of wood, and there being so many joints, the
44 slide leaked tremendously, and the proper amount of water could not be kept in it.
45 I thorefore ordered that the rest of the slide should be formed of scantlings speci-
46 ally sawn for it, measuring 14’ x 12” X 5”, which when put into position would give an
47 inside moasurement of 12 inches broad by 7 inches deep; and that certain portions of
48 the old slide should be taken up and rolaid. There were plenty of cheer trees on the
49 slopes leading to the water-courso; rome of those were felled, and sawyers set to work
50 at once. The upper half mile and two other small portions have been left as they
51 were, but the remainder has all beon made of cheer wood of tho size above mentioned.
52 There is of course not nearly so much leakage as in the broad-gauge slide; the sloepors,
53 being 84 inchos broad by 4% inchos thick, cannot got jammed, neither do they wabblo
54 or jump.