1 16
2 45. Collections.
3 Depit. | Colleetion. | Cost. | Sold. | Rate. | Asnount in Rapeca Remarks,
4 Cubic feet,
5 Mysore ae 8,636 0—7—3} 36,834 1~—0—11 38,911 Average for teak tone
6 Carts Cart Cart 1—4~-0 per cubse
7 Aatharvante ... eee 273 3—0—0 of 8--7—4 52 foot.
8 Gundlupété ; 84 4—0-—0 i) 11—5—8 110
9 Sandalwood.
10 Collections in Tons at Storcs. Average Rate. | Amount in Rupees. | Remarhe,
11 176 206 $73 15 11 77,015" Good wood,
12 } 41 5 0 n arly,
13 104 106 9 11 4 1,029 Bark and white wood.
14 Owing to reductions in the collecting agency, the rates of collection are lower by
15 Rs. 2—3—0 per ton. The selling rates are Ks. 31—9—0 higher than in 1870—71.
16 46. Nanpmrooa Rance.—No timber is felled in this range; but 18,836 bamboos
17 were cut and collected at a cost of Rs. 317=+5—9; 15,761 were sold and reahzed
18 Rs. 607—2—9. Nine small pieces of junglewood left on hand from previous years
19 were sold for Rs. 3.
20 Sandalwood.
21 Collection in Tons in Storcs | Cost per ‘Ton | Sold. | Rate. | Amount in Rs, Remarks.
22 137 ey 149 280—5—8 41,773 Good wiol, Lut chijs included.
23 ~i—4
24 42 43 8—]—I1 132 Rark and white wood.
25 47. Here the ordinary sales of sandal could not be held. The koti, an old
26 building, the bad state of which has frequently been reported, loaked much, and wood
27 was sold from time to time, as only parts of the store were available tor use. It has
28 since been given up to the Military Department, and I have applied for the building of
29 anew koti. ‘These small gales, and at unfavorable seasuns, told against the average
30 rates, which in this range reached only Rs 280—5—8 per ton, and I fear a hike result.
31 this year.
32 DISTRICT FORESTS.
33 48. During the year under report the District-forests were under tho charge of the
34 Revenue authorities. The scheme alluded to in para 51 of the Report for 1870—7],
35 for the better working of these forests, was on 12th July 1871 submitted to the Chief
36 Commissioner, and was sanctioned by the Government of India on 12th March 1872.
37 It provides for the management, by the Forest Department, of the far greater portion
38 of all these forests, for the establishment of a number of small depéts for the genoral
39 supply of wood to the public, thus rendering practicable the gradual abolition of the
40 license system: it provides for the better conservancy of the forests by affording them
41 protection and bringing fuel-cutters and charcoal-burners under supervision and regula-
42 tion, and provides for the aiding natural reproduction by artificial mcans.
43 49. The settlement of the Soraba Talook was effected in April 1871, when this
44 Department: applied for a quantity of forest lands to be held by the State, 35,525 acres
45 were made over to it, and will be utihzed. Till the new establishments now sanctioned
46 for the District Forest scheme were raised and at work, it would have been injudicious
47 to stop felling by license in these tracts, and they have been merely held by the
48 Department.