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2 No. II.
3 FOREST DEPARTMENT, PUNJAB.
4 Statement showing the cost of Timber purchased on account of the Northern State
5 Railway during the year 1871-72.
6 — 4 en aaah icennenrtabaie
7 a ces Ae! wenivers: (et daie-<n wane ert enemn
8 Nrvirsion No. of Logs, |Cubical Contents Amount RKWaRKS,
9 expended.
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11 Lower R&Vi... we 4,628 77,506 83,501
12 Averaging Rs. 1-1-3 per
13 cubic foot.
14 272. The ‘‘ Depét and Sale Rules” are reported every-
15 where to work well.
16 Rules.
17 273. The rafting of timber and improvement of the river-way are subjects
18 Improvement of river Tequiring earnest attention. We have gone on year after
19 way and style of raftmg year rafting, no better than the old native practices allow-
20 SrantteN _ ed; not a step,—save an improvement in the method of fas-
21 tening logs mentioned in last year’s report,—has been taken. We want from
22 every river officer a comprehensive report on the whole line of his river, with
23 surveys, if necessary, and definite proposals for improving the river-way and for
24 careful observation as to whether the present system of building rafts is not
25 susceptible of improvement, and the places from which, tt is said, rafting alone
26 is possible, could not be moved higher up.
27 (C.) Yield of Special Forest Tracts.
28 274. These are separated as not being possible to account for along
29 aoe with forests which generally have one means of transport—
30 Scat Sa the great rivers.
31 Kdldtop.—(Lower Ravi Division) yielded—
32 77 deodar trees, containing 4,144 cubic feet ;
33 132 A. Snuthiana ditto 15,502 oe
34 Of this quantity 2,189 cubic feet were disposed of, and 17,457 cubic feet remain-
35 ed ee in timber sheds at the close of the year. The supposed ‘inferior’ wood
36 of A. Smithiana here sells at about 8 annas a cubic foot, shewing that it is the
37 abundance of deodar that causes the feeling about pines more than anything
38 else, for when deodar becomes scarce the pines are suddenly discovered to be quite
39 cood for many purposes,
40 275. Baklo.—566 trees of P. Longifolia were here sold at Rs. 4 each, to
41 Rablo, inal yield the Goorkha Regiment at Baklo, but these trees will be
42 the last that can be yielded at any rate in such numbers,
43 for several years to come.
44 Rambuo and Chil forests 276. Bids Division.—Bamboo forests and Chil forests.
45 (Biss Divinon). 5,22,589 Bamboos were sold from Karanpur, and 60,375
46 at Dhamtaél (Nurpur Tabsil).
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