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2 Method illustrated by 254. In illustration of the above remarks I may give
3 Biau figures. the Bids figures. Thus—
4 The transit counting at beginning of 1871-72, shows—
5 In transit .-- 4,878 logs.
6 During year were launched, as per register sas BIO 5p
7 Total .. 0,451 logs.
8 Received in depdt (out of the above) .-. 3,590 logs.
9 Landed and sold at Firozpur (having gone beyond the depots) ... 67 ,,
10 Counted as stranded after leaving flood in the “ Kahnwan Jhil” ... 459 ,,
11 Counted as in transit between Upper depdts and Wazir Bholar
12 sale depdt ... 5,428,
13 Total ... 9,504 logs.
14 shewing an excess of 2,053 logs in course of transit. But the first given stock
15 was added to by waif during the year, which amounted to 1,043 logs, leaving
16 1,010 logs excess to the good. These probably are fully covered by the old
17 timber forfeited by the late Wazir Gushdon, and logs in ‘j4ms’ that could not
18 be counted.
19 ee 255. The arrivals of timber in depdts are detailed
20 Depét receipts of tmbor- in Statement No. 24.
21 Depot sites. 256. The depdt sites may be briefly alluded to.
22 Jhelam.—Thcy remain unchanged ; a good house for the accommodation
23 of the officer in charge, as well as of the Rawalpindi Assistant Conservator and
24 of the officer of the Northern Fuel Reserve Division, has been very‘nearly com-
25 pleted, at a cost of Rs. 4,500.
26 257. Chenédb.—The depdts on the Wazfrdbad side are removed to
27 Chenéb system of oatch- Jhikar, and on the north bank a temporary depét at
28 ing timber. Sammé was established for the Northern Railway. Mr.
29 Watters has devoted a portion of his report to an explanation of the Chendb
30 peace system of catching and rafting. It was Mr. Hillier’s plan
31 not to catch logs above Aknur. Mr. Watters has eight
32 safe catching dep6ts above Akntr, where the principal catching is done. I
33 entirely agree with Mr. Watters ;1n the first place, as a matter of principle,
34 Fonaeenane chases catching should always be done at the highest point possi-
35 ' ble; and next, because just below Aknur, within quarter of
36 a mile, a large branch “the Bagh” runs off, and then another branch ‘the
37 Mirankhor,” both separating into numerous nullahs ; these, together with the
38 nallahs of ‘the Ghag,” cover the whole of Baijwdt with a perfect net-work of
39 little streams. Now, no timber was landed befure Akntir ; all that passed by the
40 first depdt (as a quantity must) would get into these nullahs, while by giving it,
41 so to speak, the chance of 14 catching places instead of only six, before the
42 nallahs begin, much loss is saved. The cost of using the upper stations is
43 infinitely less than the cost of getting timber out of the net-work of nullahs,
44 Thesystem of catching, therefore, in the “ Rias{ range” will not again bechanged.
45 Depts eroded in tho 258. Rdu.—Depdts are unchanged, but the dépdt
46 Ravi. at Behri has suffered from erosion, and that at Trimmt is
47 feared also.
48 259. Btas.—The great flood completely covered the Nadaon Depdt and
49 the Kéhnwin part of Naushehra. No change of sites was made. I may
50 ‘ mention that the “Kahnwdén Jhil” bund was broken
51 dite de and as the integrity of this work saves us a great expense in avoiding
52 stran
53 ed timber, I have proposed, with the approval of Government to bear
54 nearly one-half the cost of the repuir estimate.
55 Bias ;
56 “* bund,’
57 Satloj now Sale Depdt. 260. Satle.—Major Batchelor writes—
58 “The sale depot has heen changed this year from the river side to near the Philor port.
59 This isthe main depét, and all timber that arrives from trausit depéts, will have to be