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The river from Uppinangadi to Panimangalore is also full of boulders 
and shallows, though, no real difficulties occur to prevent floating from 
September to the end of January. After January, the river runs low and 
rafts containing over 40 bamboos are difficult to manage. 
(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
The cost of cutting and exploiting 100 bamboos from the Uppinangadi 
forests to Panimangalore works out as follows :— 
H. a. p. 
1. 
Cost of cutting 100 bamboos ..... 
6 
0 
0 
2. 
99 9 
, dragging to road ...... 
2 
0 
0 
3. 
99 9 
. carting 15 miles to Valol at 2 annas a mile for 3 
carts containing 33 bamboos each . . 
5 
10 
0 
4. 
99 9 
, toll on 3 carts at 4 annas each 
0 
12 
0 
5. 
, floating from Valol to Panimangalore 
2 
0 
0 
16 6 o 
The cost of exploting 100 bamboos from the Puttur Range works out 
as follows :— 
. a. p. 
1. Cost of cutting 100 bamboos . . . . .600 
2. „ „ dragging to road . . . . . .200 
3. ,, ,, carting 40 miles at 2 annas per mile taking 33 
bamboos and including toll . . . .15 12 0 
23 12 0 
The weight of 100 air-dried bamboos is 5,803 lbs. (see Appendix VI), 
so that the cost of landing one ton of air-dried bamboos at Panimangalore 
from the Uppinangadi forest comes to Rs. 6-6 and from the Puttur 
forests Rs. 9-4 per ton. 
(9) Cost of landing air-dried internodes per ton at factory site. 
From Appendix VI, it will be seen that the dry nodes are, in round 
figures, 20 per cent, by weight of the entire culms, so that the cost of 
landing dry internodes from Uppinangadi at Panimangalore works 
out at Rs. 7-10-6 and from Puttur at Rs. 11-13 per ton. On the other 
hand, if the nodes are also utilized, these figures must be reduced by 
20 per cent, for this locality. 
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