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per cubic foot for logs averaging 10 cubic feet or more, 1^ 

 cents per cubic foot for smaller logs, $3 to $52 per 1,000 stacked 

 cubic feet for fuel and workwood over two inches in diameter at 

 the small end, and $3 to $20 per 1,000 stacked cubic feet for 

 smaller stuff. These prices include felling the trees, cutting the 

 timber, excepting the logs, into 5^/2 feet lengths, carrying it to 

 the road and stacking it. Another contractor takes the timber 

 to the depot at the railroad, using the government tram and 

 trucks at 16 cents per 1,000 cubic feet per mile. The average 

 haul is 23^ miles. A further 32 cents is paid for handling. 



The total cost for logs at the depot averages five cents per 

 cubic foot and for fuel 42 cents per 100 cubic feet. 



The Divisional Forest Officer holds monthly auctions at the 

 depot of the produce of the plantation. The purchasers are 

 native merchants, who ship the wood by rail to the neighboring 

 cities of Lahore and Amritsar (the seat of the manufacture of 

 Persian, Turkish and Kashmir carpets for American purchasers). 

 The logs of Shisham are used for furniture, carts, beds, beams in 

 houses. The mulberry is used for vehicles, furniture and sport- 

 ing goods ; large quantities of it are manufactured into the hockey 

 sticks, tennis rackets and cricket bats used by the thousand, both 

 by British regiments in India and in native schools. The wood 

 is carefully picked over, everything that patience and ingenuity 

 can turn to an industrial purpose is so used and the remainder 

 is sold for firewood. 



The prices realized are good. The best Shisham logs sell at 

 the depot for 44 cents a cubic foot quarter girth measure. The 

 average realized for the Shisham logs is about 36 cents per cubic 

 foot. The mulberry logs sell for an average price of 18 cents per 

 cubic foot. Quantities of billets 53/^ feet long and 3 to 10 

 inches in diameter are sold mixed with firewood which are after- 

 wards sorted out and industrially used. Including these billets, 

 firewood over two inches in diameter sells for $3 to $50 per cord. 

 The smaller firewood, less than two inches in diameter, sells for 

 $1 to $17 per cord. 



The land is valued at $3 to $30 per acre. Irrigation costs 

 $6,000 per year for the whole plantation for the water used. 

 The cost of digging the trenches and establishing the plantation on 

 new ground is $4 to $16 per acre. Supervision and care is 



