The expenditure for five years of the Bori Range from 1897-98 to 1901-02. 



CHAPTER IV. UTILIZATION OF THE PRODUCE. 



ARTICLE i. Marketable products. 



20. The chief marketable product is teak, all sizes of which can be readily 

 sold, provided a good road for export is constructed to the Railway. Bamboos 

 which attain a very fine siz& would also be exported if such a road existed. 



ARTICLE 2. Lines of expert. 



21. There is only one line of export, namely, by road through Khapa to the 

 Great Indian Peninsula Railway Station at Bagra. This road is now under 

 construction and a maximum gradient of i in 20 will enable timber of the largest 

 dimensions to be exported. 



The attempt to use the Sonbhadra for floating has been definitely abandoned 

 and a thorough examination of the ghat between Dhain and Pinkapata shows 

 that the scheme was never feasible. 



ARTICLE ^.Markets. 



22. The important markets are Bhopal, Indore, Burhanpur, Bombay and 

 Berar as well as small towns lying on the railway in the Hoshangabad District. . 



ARTICLE 4. Mode of extraction and its cost. 



23. The system generally in vogue in the district is to mark trees for felling 

 and sell them standing to contractors by auction. It is doubtful, however, if this 

 system is either possible or desirable in this highly valuable teak forest. In this 

 case fellings will probably have to be departmental. It is estimated that Rs. 2 

 per acre will cover the cost of all operations including removal of climbers un- 

 desirable species and stool dressing. The sale of the material felled on the ground 

 should recoupe the cost of this operation. 



