long period of scarcity and famine now prevailing. These figures are given below parallel 

 with those for the past three years : 



1887-88. 1891-92, 1896-97. 1898-99. 

 Bs. 



Timber and firewood ... 



Bamboos 



Grazing grass and other minor produce 



Miscellaneous 



Totals 



Bs. 



11,920 



1,758 



41,893 



507 



56,078 



3,880 



3,829 



19,876 



1,054 



28,639 



CHAPTER IV. UTILISATION OF THE PRODUCE. 

 ARTICLE 1. Marketable Products ; Quantities consumed in past Years. 



52. A list of the principal marketable products and their uses is given as Appendix V. 



53. The following statement gives a brief abstract of the average quantities of these 

 products annually consumed during the five-year period 1887-88 1891-92, i.e., the period im 

 mediately preceding the previous famine which culminated in 1896-97 : 



ARTICLE 2. Lines of Export. 



54. The principal lines of export, which are all shown by black lines in the accompany- 

 ing trace of the Division on the scale 1 inch = 2 miles, are as follows. The paths (ghats) 

 leading from the Vindhyan plateaux into the low-lying cultivated lands of Jubbulpore and 

 Narsinghpur on the east and south of the district, respectively, are all steep and not practicable 

 for wheeled transport : 



Northern Range. 



Bardha Panchamnagar fair-weather road. 

 Fatehpur Manakpur footpath. 

 Lohari Kajpura fair-weather road. 

 Mariadoh Patan footpath. 

 Hatta Kumhari fair-weather road. 

 Mariadoh do. do. 



Central Range. 



Damoh Jubbulpore bridged and metalled road. 



Saugor do. do. 



Patharia-Saugor fair-weather road. 



Hatta-Faizabad road. 



Batiagarh bridged and metalled road. 



Hindoria-Patera bridged and metalled road. 



Ghat-Piparia-Katni fair-weather road. 



Balakot fair-weather road. 



Bhuri-Sasna-Keolari fair-weather road. 



Tejgarh-Chirai-Somelkhera fair-weather road. 



Indian Midland Railway line from Saugor to Katni via Damoh. 



South-Western Range. 



Taradehi Kudpura-Mohli fair-weather road. 

 Abhana Tejgarh-Taradehi-Saugor fair-weather road. 

 Tendukhera Patan- Jubbulpore bridged and metalled road. 



Jhapan-Saugor fair-weather road 

 Deori Ghat. 

 Chanda do. 

 Barman do. 

 Pindrai do. 



