Rs. a. p. 



B I c ... ... ... ... ... 1,199 i 10 



B I d ... ... ... ... 75 ii 10 



B II c ... ... ... ... ... 151 46 



Bill/ ... ... ... ... ... 58 2 7 



Total B ... ... ... 1.484 4 9 



Total A and B ... ... ... 2,827 9 i 



CHAPTER IV. 



UTILIZATION OF THE PRODUCE. 

 Marketable products. 27. Marketable products are as follows : 



Sal timber for export. Tinsa, saj, lendia, bija, dhawa, dehangan poles and logs for 

 local consumption. 



Bamboos and firewood for local use. 



The minor forest products are lac, horns, hides, harra, ral, honey, wax, tikhur, bichandi 

 (root of a shrub) and fruits of mohwa and achar, grass for thatching and fodder. 



28. There is only one line of export for sal timber, namely, to Nainpur Railway 

 Line of export station, a distance of 34 miles. A good fairweather road at 



present exists to this place and can be maintained at small 

 annual cost. 



Other forest produce will find its way along existing tracks to the market towns such 

 as Mandla, Bamni and Baihar 



29. Lately there has been no steady demand for sal timber. The construction of the 

 MarketJ Bengal-Nagpur Railway and of the Gun Carriage Factory at 



Jubbulpur has for the present made a large demand for sal 



timber, and it is hoped that the Ordnance Department will be a steady consumer in the 

 future. The construction of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway within 40 miles of the forest has 

 greatly facilitated the work of transport, and it is hoped that by putting a steady supply of 

 eal timber in the market annually purchasers will be attracted and a steady demand created. 

 Jubbulpur and Nagpur are the places where a market is looked for. 



30. Extraction of timbers can be done by carts directly to the railway from most 



parts of the forest, only in certain of the most difficult places 

 c jf od will a hauling elephant be necessary. 



From December till April abundance of local carts will be available for transport, 

 these local carts are only capable of removing 18 cubic feet of sal at one time, and if 

 larger logs than this have to be exported, the large class of carts called " Bandis" will 

 have to be obtained from elsewhere which will not be easy. However by squaring the 

 timber it should be able to transport, by means of local carts, logs to meet even a special 

 demand for timber of large size. 



The question of roads has been carefully considered and all the main roads which it 

 is necessary to make have been plotted on the map. The cost of extraction and carting 

 of timber to the Railway Station will vary from 4 to 5 annas a cubic foot according to the 

 situation of the annual coupe. 



31. Sal timber. The only steady market which has as yet been found for sal 

 Net value of produce timber is the Ordnance Department who will require annually 



a certain amount of first class sal timber. The Gun Carriage 



Factory and the Ordnance Department at present pay the Forest Department Rs. 1-2 and 

 Rs. 1-8 per cubic foot respectively for sal extracted from the Motinala and Phen Reserves. 

 The cost of carting this timber from these reserves is 14 annas per cubic foot, whereas it has 

 been calculated that timber can be carted to Nainpur from the Banjar Reserve at Re. 0-5-6 

 per cubic foot and thence transported at an additional cost of 2 annas per cubic foot by rail to 

 Jubbulpur, thus a saving of 6 annas 6 pies per cubic foot in transport alone is effected by work- 

 ing the Banjar Reserve instead of the Motinala and Phen Reserves. The selling rate of sal 

 timber has been discussed under " Financial Results, " and it is there shown that a profit of 

 1 2 annas per cubic foot may reasonably be expected. 



32. The following table shows the net value of other produce. It should be borne 



in mind, however, that the amount of these products is in some 

 f thCr instances small and in others the demand can be fully supplied 



from forests more closely situated to the market : 



