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2 Tho whole longth was laid down by the end of April. During May and June
3 wo had many experimental trials, and each one showed us some defect, and it was not
4 actually put into real working order until the end of June. 730 sleepers were sent
5 down on the 2nd July, and over 1,000 on the 3rd; and unless some unforeseen
6 accident happens, they will continue to go down at this rate throughout the rains. As
7 far as it has gone this slide has proved a success. At the end of tle working season
8 I will subinit a report on it, giving drawings and a full description.
9 From the foot of the slide to the bank above tho river, a wooden tramway,
10 2-foet gauge and 1} miles in length, has been constructed along a plateau which is not
11 of sufficient downward slope for a slide. The tramway terminates at a precipitous bank
12 800 feet from the Tonse River, and about 400 feet above it. From tho top of this bank
13 a wooden trough has been made, which shoots the sleepers right into the Tonse. The
14 trough is constructed of the same sized timbers and on tho same principle as the canal
15 slide, but the joints have to be more securely fastened.
16 BuHAGERUTTEE DIVISION.
17 54, The following numbers of different descriptions of deodar sleepers have
18 been delivered to the Rajpootana State Railway from the Bhageruttee Division during
19 1871-72 :—
20 Delhi -- 20,009 scantlings 6 ”’xX8”x4”%= 20,009 sleepers.
21 Agra eee 147,500 do. 6 ’xX8”X47= 147,500 do.
22 pe ee. 30,200 do. 11 ’7x8’x4”== 60,400 do.
23 af eo» 45,331 do. 32’ X 87K 47= 22,665 do.
24 Total sleepers eos 250,574
25 The railway receipts have not yet beon received for the later dispatches, and
26 probably this number may be reduced some 12,000 or 15,000 by rejections.
27 55. During the year, 15,245 deodar trees were felled, which yiolded 50,400
28 logs. Of these, 48,737 wero launched, which, with 21,000 in the river from the pre-
29 vious year, gave 64,737 logs to the floods of 1871. Of those, 27,000 reachod the Doon,
30 and yielded the 250,574 sleepers above noted.
31 On clearing out all logs from the forests at the commencement of this working
32 season, 14,496 logs were launched, which, with 37,737 in the river, makes the number
33 up to 52,233. Of these, about one-third, or say 17,411 logs, are 14 feot in length, and
34 would sell as building timber; the remainder, say 34,822, are 7 feet long, and useless
35 for anything but sleepers. Calcalating 8 sleepers per log, they will yield 313,398,
36 or say three lakhs of accepted sleepers, of which about one-half may be expected
37 during the present year, and the remainder in 1873-74.
38 56. One hundred deodar trees from a forest near Mussoorie were sold to Mr.
39 Scott, a merchant of that station, at Rs. 10 per tree.
40 VI—-FInanciaLt Resutts.
41 57. This subject was fully treated in detail at the commencement of the
42 report, so the outstandings aro all that have to be noticed hero. The outstandings
43 at the commencement of the ycar were Rs. 1,95,268, and at the close of the year
44 Rs. 4,41,917.
45 The more extensive the works, the greater will be the sum shown as outstandings,
46 for the end of the financial year is the head of the working season.