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MANAGEMENT OF TEAK FORESTS. 



Plantations. 

 Stump fee. 



Improve leased 

 forest by seed 

 sowing. 



Public buildings 

 supplied. 



Anamallics. 



ooe time ten elephants and thirty carts were at work, as 

 time compelled us to use our utmost exertions to get out as 

 much wood as possible, not only to expedite the building of the 

 Barracks, but to take advantage of the lease which expired 

 in a certain time. Afterwards it was renewed for ninety- 

 nine years, and some planting was begun ; but I did not per- 

 severe in it as the lessee demanded a stump fee, and the 

 land and climate being better further west in the Govern- 

 ment Forest of Wynaad, I planted sixty acres there. The 

 cost of carriage, some eight miles, was a charge, but then 

 there was no stump fee, and the Teak grew straighter and 

 faster further west. It would be still advisable in the west of 

 Mudumalli Forest to put in germinated seed, as this would 

 not be a plantation, and no stump fee would be payable. 

 Amongst the public buildings supplied from these forests 

 in addition to the Wellington Barracks were the Lawrence 

 Asylum, all the bridges on the new Coonoor Ghat, Court- 

 house of Ootacamund, Bangalore Barracks, numerous 

 bridges in Wynaad. The surplus timber was sold by 

 auction in Mysore and Ootacamund. I may here observe 

 that in addition to all this emergent work, I was constantly 

 at the Barracks superintending the work, and pushing it 

 on. To expedite matters, I had twelve sets of sawyers, and 

 thirty carpenters at work, at Gundulpett just outside the 

 forest, they made up doors, windows and flooring, for two 

 years they were employed, this in addition to a numerous 

 staff at Wellington. I merely mention this to show the 

 amount of work that had to be got through between 1856 

 and 1860, though I was not in the Forest Department at 

 this time. I was obliged to do all the work of a Forest 

 officer in addition to my engineering duties which were 

 heavy. In 1860 having, by orders of Government, taken 

 charge of the Forest Department, I had an opportunity of 

 inspecting the various forests, and representing to Govern- 

 ment their requirements. 



After a visit to the Anamallies, in 1860, it struck mo that 

 sufficient attention had not been paid to the housing of the 



