162 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



'This estate occupies 53,853 desatins, and must bedivided 

 into two principal parts : a south-western near the river 

 Iput, and a north-eastern near the railway from Smolensk 

 to Orel. By this railway the distance to Briansk is not 

 above 40 versts from the north-eastern part of the 

 Okonlitz estate. A considerable development of the 

 wood trade in Briansk, and the constant decrease of private 

 estates, will in a short time oblige the wood dealers to 

 have recourse to the Okonlitz estate, the more so, that 

 with the opening of the railway to the western Dwina, 

 they can get by it goods for Riga. The products of 

 forest technical manufacture can be most profitably 

 obtained from the Okonlitz station, because, being near 

 a part of the country where there is no wood, there is no 

 local demand for forest materials, and therefore everything 

 that is unprofitable to transport by rail may be manu- 

 factured ; and with the abundance of pine plantations, of 

 which there are 1,600 desatins on this estate, the abun- 

 dance of pitch to be obtained from fallen trees allows a 

 possibility for the pitch business to exist for several years 

 coming, Towards the end of this century there will ensue 

 a rapid increase of income from the Okonlitz estates, if 

 until then the sales be made on the general principle of 

 fellings for immediate payments, without a hasty seeking 

 of buyers on however exclusive conditions This is the 

 most desirable system of sale from the Okonlitz estate, 

 but with the payment of duty> not from the quantity of 

 materials manufactured, but from the number of fallen 

 trees, for only in this case will the felled timber be most 

 economically converted into goods. 



' In the first Tronbteheosk forest district is worthy of 

 remark from its size, the crown estate Ouspenskaia, of 

 30,548 desatins. This estate is remarkable in that it has 

 on lease 1,561 desatins, and waste area, 5,422 desatins ; 

 of forest, 23,319 desatins; of which pine occupies 12,061 

 desatins, and the remainder is under different broad- 

 leaved species. The total crown estates in this forestry is 

 33,199 desatins, and there are 10,046 desatins belonging 



