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The estimated cost of such works as may be proposed 

 should be given iu the report. The application of a plan 

 may necessitate the construction of very considerable export 

 works and roads, but such undertakings should form the 

 subject of separate reports and should only be briefly 

 referred to in the working-plan. 



Example : — Boundaries.' — The forests hare been merely temporarily demarcated 

 ty mud pillars many of which have already fallen down. In some cases it will be 

 possible to treat colleclively as one block several at present separately demarcated, 

 for instance, Sikri, Rupani, and Cbatri ; and also Kalwara, Sani, I'adii, Bohar, Chi- 

 rindi and Bambo. But where this is inexpedient the forests should be re-demarcated 

 by masonry boundary pillars. It is important that new pillnr8 should be of the best 

 possible description. Forest records of former years show that demarcation work has 

 frequently had to be done time after time owing to the cheap and unstable nature oE 

 the materials used. It is therefore proposed to construct of the most suitable stone 

 (generally slate) found in the locality, solid masonry pillars about 2 feet square at 

 base, 1 foot 6 inches square at top, and 2 feet 6 inches high, on a solid founda- 

 tion 3 feet square. It is estimated that each pillar of this description will cost from 

 E2 to E4 according to its position. Owing to the oonfignration of the ground, one 

 pillar is frequently not visible from the next, and there is often, in consequence, uB" 

 certainty as to how the boundary runs. The remedy is to cut a two-foot path or line 

 tlirough the forest from pillar to pillar, whenever the boundary is not a natural one 

 ora path does not already exist. In paragraph 6 it is estimated tliaf; there are 73 

 miles of artificial boundary ; so that, if 8 miles were made every year, the whole 

 work would be completed in about tea years. 



Fire-protection. — As stated in Part I, it is accepted that unless forests open 

 to rights are fire-protected their deterioration must continue, and they must in course 

 of time, disappear in accessible places, especially if the demand of right-holders for 

 timber and fuel is supplied, as in the past, from such localities only. Jt is therefore 

 proposed to extend protection to the following blocks : — 



All the other forests in the area dealt with, viz., Jogi Chur, Ander-Majhera and 

 Kauria Chaur are already protected. The Buriwala-Mebara block is an island, and 

 requires no fire-lines for its protection ; but grazing might be stopped in it at the 

 beginning of the fire season. The extra cost which this protection will involve 

 is estimated, on the cost of similar protection in other areas in the division, at 

 B460 a year. This will bring the total cjst of fire-proteetion in the tract to 

 R900 annually. 



Communications and buildings, — Tlie roads, bridges, and buildings enumerated 

 in paragraphs 80 to 86, except the sleeper-carrying paths in the blocks which have been 

 woriied out, should be kept in repair. A year before the selection fellings in the 

 Peota forest are brought to a conclusion it will be necessary to make a good bridle-path 

 by widening the present path from Deota ; and a similar path should be made 

 biter to Bamsu from Deota to Sahlra along the main ridge, a short one joining it from 

 !Bamen. Scads, passable for paok animals carrying food for the sawyers and coolies, 

 most also be made along the right bank of the Tons from Tadiar, passing by the month 

 of the Bamsugad to that of the Kunigad, down which wil 1 come all timber from 



