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exceeds two miles, while in most cases it will not be half that distance. 
In the case of the bamboos to be procured from the Gund plateau, which 
lies in the upper reaches of the river, they will have to be dragged a 
maximum distance of three miles to the edge of the plateau and then be 
slid down the steep sides of the Ghats to the river bank. There also 
exists a very fair road suitable for carts on the right bank of the stream 
from Kadra to Sulgeri, which is to be extended to Bobrigadda. The 
question of extraction, provided cooly labour is available, presents no 
serious difficulties. 
(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
As before stated, the extraction of the culms is rendered difficult owing 
to the palisade of thorns round the base of the clumps. The cost of 
cutting 100 culms is therefore put at Rs. 6 throughout. The cost of 
dragging to the river, a maximum distance of two miles, is put at 
Rs. 2 for the valley forests and Rs. 4 from Gund, while the cost of 
floating 100 bamboos from the centre of the area near Bobrigadda 
would be Rs. 2 and from Gund Rs. 5. The total cost of extraction, 
therefore, works out to Rs. 10 from the valley and Rs. 15 per 100 from 
Gund. The market rate for bamboos at Karwar, including royalty, is 
Rs. 10 to Rs. 14 per 100, according to quality. 
(9) Cost of landing air-dried internodes per ton at the factory site . 
The figures for the valley forests are taken from paragraph 9, page 79, 
of the Ankola valley scheme, and as the cost of landing green bamboos at 
Balamani is Rs. 10, the cost of delivery of the dry internodes at the 
factory site, obtained from the valley forests, works out at Rs. 9 per 
ton. Separate figures for Gund are given in Appendix IV. The inter¬ 
nodes from one bamboo weigh 68 lbs, therefore the number of bamboos 
required to make a ton of air-dried tubes is in round figures 33, the cost of 
lauding which at the factory site comes to Rs 4-15-2. The reason why 
it is cheaper to deliver one ton of air-dried internodes from the 
further area is that the individual culms from that area (Gund) are 
much larger and heavier than those found in the valley forests, while the 
actual labour required for their extraction is not in proportion to their 
size owing to the facility of floating them down the river. 
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