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2 plas, 1,113 third class trecs, and 5,783 saplings, were counted, or an average of 27
3 rees to the acre, besides saplings The proportion of saplings is very marked
4 (nearly nine times as much ag theo first a mi and if the surveys show oven approx-
5 mately the standing timber, these tracts are valuable. Proposals for Reserves
6 in them aro now before the Commissioner of the division for consideration.
7 The proportion of trees standing would lead to the impression that these forests
8 had tnany years ago been heavily worked, and had afterwards been abandoned
9 on the Aha of more accessible tracts. Tho large timber was, together
10 with the then sccond class timber, probably felled and removed, und the presont
11 stocks, which were at that time probably third class and saplings, have now
12 become second and third class, with the addition of a large stock of saplings.
13 17. The Officiating Deputy Conservator, Captain Losack, was employed
14 tA the rains on a journey down the river
15 Brahmini, from its head waters at the Kool down
16 to Cuttack, for the purpose of inspectigy it to see
17 whether it was suitablo for the transport of timber, there being immense stocks
18 of SAl in Sarunda which have not hitherto been tapped. He passed down the
19 whole length of the river to Cuttack and submitted a report (appendix), which
20 was considered sufliciontly favorable for sanctioning an experiment, and accord-
21 ingly Government sanction was obtained to the felling of 50 treosto be floated
22 down during the following scason.
23 8. Sy the time Captain Losack was able to reach the scene of oper-
24 ations (March), the rivers had reached their lowest
25 point, and much difficulty occurred in getting tho
26 large logs he had felled into a main stream and to a place of safety, whence
27 it could ke floated down during the rains. The water had to be tasced up by
28 throwing dams across the streams, to enable the workmen to move the logs on
29 from jwol to pool. This and other difficulties incident to the introduction
30 vf a new kind of work were, however, with praiseworthy determination,
31 vyradually overcome, and with the assistance of the elephants employed in
32 ‘ushing and dragging, the 50 logs were at length got to a place of safety, and
33 ready for floating so soon as the streams will admit of it. The climate in
34 Sarunda is unfortunately very pestilential,—even during the least unhealthy parts
35 of the year; and all the people taken by the Deputy Conservator to the district
36 fell sick, he however escaping. ‘lhe Commissioner remarks as follows on the
37 subject :—
38 “ One great difficulty will, I fear,%o found in the unhealthiness of Sarunda.
39 I had a large number of fever cases in camp while in the pergunnah, and for
40 many days after 1 had emerged from it ; yet I could not an chosen a morc
41 favorable time for my visit.”
42 19. During the dry season the Deputy Conservator was occupied in
43 inspecting forest tracts the property of private in-
44 dividuals in Pygtna division, Gat having
45 called for a report on the forests of the settled districts. He visited portions
46 of the Patna, Gya, and Shahabad districts, after which his further journey
47 into Chumparun was stopped on his receiving orders to proceed inmnediately
48 to Sarunda to tell timber.
49 20, Among the appendices will be found a tabular statement giving details
50 of the private forests in the Bhaugulpore division, and also a detailed state-
51 ment regurding stick-lac, furnished by the Deputy Conservator in reply to
52 questions sent to him.
53 21. Referring to the forests belonging to one Urjoon Sing (mentioned in
54 paragraph 30 of report for 187 rai on reference, to
55 the Deputy Commissioner, Singbhoom, ho reparts
56 that the difficulty of getting at these forests had hitherto protected them, and
57 that nothing more has been done than to stop the tapping of the trees for colloc-
58 tion of dhuna.
59 Rhatgulpore inspection of the
60 Brahmini river.
61 s q s
62 ‘limber operations,
63 Inspection of private forcats.
64 Protection of Urjoon Sing’s forests.