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2 47. The total number of trees selected was 3,213, and the number
3 felled 2,423, which is 477 short of the number prescribed by the forest Work-
4 ing plan. The cause of the incomplete felling was the extreme care and long
5 time taken in selecting the trees, which threw the felling back, but this year’s
6 deficiency will be added to the full number to be felled next year, and the
7 work of selection and felling will be commenced as early as possible, so as to
8 leave nothing undone at the end of the next season. No Asna nor Huldoo
9 trees were felled, as these kinds of timber are unsaleable at remunerative prices,
10 48, 1,440 sallogs, and 343 sleeper pieces were carted out of the forests
11 Cartage of Sul timber fromthe Kberi to depdts during the year 1871-72, and 937 logs
12 forests, were carted out aftar the close of the financial
13 year. This short out-turn was due to the failure of the carting contractor, but
14 the deficiency will he made up by the early commencement of carting next
15 year, under departmental supervision.
16 49. 51 logs were carted from the Suthiana Dopdt to Sree Nuggur
17 Ghat on tho Sardah river in April and May 1871, for despatch to Byramghat
18 by that route.
19 50. The total number of logs rafted during the year was 3,138. Of
20 . these, 2,506 arrived at Byram Ghat, 553, at
21 Timber rafting operatiuns. Shitaba Ghat, 13 at Bundee Ghat, and 7
22 were taken down to Cawnpur by the Gurra and Ganges rivers; 19 logs
23 were lost in transit, and 40 were en route at the close of the financial year.
24 51, 321 canoes have been made for rafting purposes, out of the hollow
25 es eee ann sal trees in the Kheri forests, and 164 in the
26 pcre (aera se Baraich forests, at a cost of from Ks. 20 to 25
27 each. With these the work of rafting during this rainy season willbe done at
28 less than half the cost incurred last year, and the boats are worth from Rs. 50
29 to 100, each. -
30 52. Three thousand maunds of excellent fuel were rafted to Byram
31 Fuel operations. Ghat for the Railway, and 10,000 maunds were
32 collected on the banks of the Sohelee river.
33 .53. In addition to the annual out-turn of sal timber from the Kheri
34 Export of wood sold in tho forest and forests brought to depdts by departmental
35 vemoved by purchasers. agency, the following quantities of wood of
36 various kinds, sizes, and qualities, are estimated to have been removed from
37 the forests of the three divisions by purchasers.
38 From the Kheri forests about 10,000 cubic feet.
39 » y Baraich _,, » 80,000 ‘0
40 ” », Gonda ” ” 30,000 ”
41 Total 1,20,000 cubic feet.
42 54. 1,000 green sheeshum trees sold to the Futtyghur Ordnance De-
43 partment in the Ist Section of the Baraich forests, are included in the above
44 estimate, and also a large number of green Koosoom and Dhao trees sold in
45 the Gonda forests. The balance of the wood exported by purchasers consisted
46 principally of dead sal.
47 55. There isa marked improvement in the quality of the sal timber
48 brought out of the forests by Government Agency, and particularly in the
49 logs received at the Byram Ghat timber depdt. This is the result of careful
50 alseuion and logging in the forests, and ao further process of picking out the
51 good logs for the main timber market at Byram Ghat.