24 MANAGEMENT OF TEAK FORESTS. 



not work there. There are streams near Gooloor Hill in 

 Beni, on the Survey Map, which lead into the "Nogo" 

 river, from thence into the Cubbany River to Nungengode ; 

 these streams might be utilized for floating, especially if a 

 large plantation of a thousand acres was made there. I 

 planted sixty acres at Beni, and the growth of the trees was 

 good. It is a fine site for a large plantation, the soil ia 

 good, the slopes are easy, the hills carry fine timber. 

 Blackwood also grows well on them. As mostly all our 

 timber had to be carted up to the Neilgherries for public 

 works, it was not thought advisable to open up the floating 

 capabilities of these streams, but as Madras offers such a 

 good market for Teak, and the Mysore Railway is open, it is 

 time to look to that city for a market. The same may be 

 Floating Nellum- said of the Auamallies and Nellumbore. The floating on 

 the Nellumbore river should be put a stop to. I wrote some 

 eight years ago, recommending that a steamer, towing some 

 four or five flat twenty-ton boats similar to those in use on the 

 Buckingham Canal, should be used. The voyage from the fur- 

 thest parts of the plantation to the Railway Station at Beypore 

 would not take more than ten hours, and the boats could 

 be towed back in the same time. The cost would certainly 

 be less than the present charge which is about two annas a 

 cubic foot. The present system is a most pernicious one. 

 First bamboos which are scarce have to be cut and stored 

 at a great expense of time, money and labor, and where 

 labor is required for other work, the diverting of it, is at 

 the expense of the plantations. Having collected the 

 bamboos, they are made into a raft, on this the teak logs 

 are placed, and a half flood chosen for floating for if you 

 float iu a full flood, and your raft goes ashore, it must be 

 taken to pieces as no power of elephants can push it off. 

 Then the river, a narrow one, is blocked by numerous rafts, 

 thefts of timber are common, the lashings are cut loose, the 

 marks erased, and the owner vainly seeks the aid of the 

 Police. Thci rafts frequently take three weeks to go to 

 Beypore, sometimes they are left high and dry for months, 



