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Quantity 





Date (1906) 



Auction 











Tons 



cwts. 



lbs. 



Nov. 17 



Fraserpet 



235 



18 



32 



„ 19 



Hunsur 



509 



1 1 



4 



„ 22 



Seringapatam 



303 



15 



28 



„ 26 



Bangalore 



129 



I 



34 



v 29 



Hassan 



250 



I 



98 



Dec. 3 



Chikmagalur 



344 



I 



— 



n 6 



Tarikere 



256 



I 



84 



„ 8 



Shimoga 



530 



8 



14 



» 13 



Sagar 



175 



12 



— 



» 17 



Tirthahalli 



199 



16 



— 





Total: 



2934 



6 



70 



This shows that our hope has not been realized that the Govern- 

 ment in view of the expected smaller demand from the European 

 manufacturers, would put up for auction a correspondingly smaller 

 quantity. If, in spite of this, the prices at the auction kept up to 

 2O°/ higher than those of the previous year, this must be solely 

 attributed (as we know from a reliable source) to the attitude of a 

 group of native buyers, who appeared to make this article an object 

 of speculation. The favourable economic conditions of India have 

 induced native capitalists to form Syndicates for raising the prices of 

 ginger, pepper, cloves, etc., and it is believed that it was also intended 

 to include sandalwood in the number of the various materials to which 

 particular attention was to be paid. Of the total sales, which only 

 amounted to about 2454 tons, about one half (1214 tons) passed into 

 the hands of the natives, whilst about 760 tons sufficed to meet the 

 demand from Europe and the United States. About 480 tons, i. e., 

 more than i6°/ of the quantity placed on sale, found no buyers at 

 all, so that the Government found it necessary to invite for this re- 

 mainder fresh tenders by January 5 th . The fact that this delay 

 had to be extended to the end of January, shows sufficiently that the 

 tenders did not come in very freely. 



The dreaded spike disease, the outbreak of which we first reported 

 in October 1902, has recently again caused a stir. According to a 

 communication from the Conservator of Forests in Mysore to our 

 friends in Tellicherry, dated September 7 th 1906, the district affected 

 is confined to about two square miles of country in the State Mysore, 

 in the Hassan District, near the frontier of Coorg, and has not 

 increased during the last two years. The diseased zone comprises 

 about one third of the sandalwood district of Mysore, and it was 



