Rs. As. 



Pie, 



8500 







1500 







10,000 







3000 







762 Proposed formation of a Canal for Irrigation [No. 128. 



establishment of villages at a distance from the Asun and Jumna rivers, 

 and the want of population depending on this circumstance will, I ima- 

 gine, until a Canal is made, interfere altogether with the improvement 

 of this portion of the Doon. 



5. The amount of my estimate (Rs. 90,307 : : 0) which depends 

 ■ entirely on the difficulties of the first three and a half miles of the 



course of the Canal is high, but the return of water, rent, mills, etc. 

 when the water-course is doing its proper work, would render such an 

 outlay admissible. 

 Thus :— 



17,000 Acres, or 27,200 Puk. Begas, @ 5 



annas per Bega, 

 Mills, corn, sugar, sawing, etc. 



Total, 

 Deduct Repairs and Establishment. 



Balance net profit, 7000 



or equal to 7f per cent. 



6. For a detail of the work I must refer you to figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 

 9, 10, the latter being the longitudinal section, the capital letters 

 noted on each referring to particular points ; the position, elevation, or 

 depression of which will be easily recognized. 



7. It was found impracticable to establish a head at Domayut, the 

 steppes into to the river from the high land being not only exceedingly 

 high, but the relative level of the Jumna's water being low, full advan- 

 tage was not attainable so far down the river ; the head which I have 

 established is immediately under the village of Kuttha Puttha, and at 

 the highest point that the mountains would admit of ; the head is favor- 

 ably situated for a supply of water, and as the depth of digging at that 



" In a note from the manager of the Hopeton Grant, dated 25th inst. he observes 

 with reference to the land which would be benefited by the Kuthur Puthur Canal, 

 ' the whole of the lands which you noted as to be commanded by his Canal are still 

 lying waste. Some attempts that I made to cultivate in the outskirts are likely to 

 prove abortive, for the Prithipoor well is almost dry, and the people in that neigh- 

 bourhood have to drive their cattle to the Jumna for water ; they cannot stand out 

 against want of water.' This is characteristic of all the tract coming under the influence 

 of the proposed Canal ; the Puthipoor well is, I believe, the only one in existence in 

 its neighbourhood. Water therefore is not only necessary for irrigation, but for the 

 common purposes of life, and consequently, for the concentration of people for agri- 

 cultural purposes."— Vide his letter of 26th May, 1842. 



