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Two .fair-sized canoes lashed together are sufficient to float some fifteen The number of logs which have passed down or sixteen average-sized logs. the Rapti during the past three years is estimated at 5,977. No correct register has been kept of the timber imports from Naipfil down the Kauriala, but in 1868 about 44,000 logs were sold at the Naipalese dep6ts on the^ These logs have been coming down ever since, river and its tributaries. no sales having been allowed since that year. It is, however, reported that 75,000 logs are now collected at the dep6ts, and that a sale of these will be Timber is no longer sold to contractors in the forests as effected shortly. formerly. It is cut by Darbar agency and carted to the depots, where it is sold by auction. The logs average about 40 cubic feet, and sell at the dep6ts at about 12 annas per cubic foot. The price at Bahramghat is about Rs. 1-4 per cubic foot, but Rs. 2-12 if cut and squared. The main timber mart on the Gogra

(Kauriala) is at this last-mentioned place on the right bank of the river, whence the logs ^^e conveyed southward to Lucknow a,nd Cawnpur maS'"^''^* by road. large quantity, however, is worked up into scantlings at the Government workshops which are established here.

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have not as yet turned out much timber from the Bahraich forest sections. During this past year, ''^™" ^lo^evsr, the Bharthlpur section has suppKed a large me^tforeatr"' number of sissoo trees to the Gun-carriage Agency, which has a dep&t and workshops at Bd.zpur, a frontier village in the extreme north-west corner of the district. The contractors for dry wood also have succeeded during the past years in removing from the forests a vast quantity of inferior timber which is said to have clogged the market to a con-

The Government

forests

siderable extent.

The Bahraich

district is generally credited

with a source of wealth, of

which I have in vain sought for any trace, viz., the ^Tte NSnpara cattle a N^^p^ra breed of cattle. The less said about this famous breed the better, for the cattle of the Nanpara district are as wretchedly small and weak as those of any other part of Oudh. In the Khairigarh ilaqa, however, on the other side of the river opposite Ndnpara and Dharmanpur, the class of cattle is very fine, and it is possible that some of these bullocks coming from the north vid Nanpara have obtained for that place a name which it does not deserve.

The Khairigarh animals are deservedly famous, and are thoroughly appreciated in this district, to which numbers are annually brought by wellto-do cultivators, who themselves visit Khairigarh to make their purchases. couple of young steers of this breed will cost as much as Rs. 60 to Rs. 80, while three-year-olds wiU cost fully Rs. 120 the yoke.

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of the railway from Bahramghat to Lucknow may be expected to give a great stimulus to the trade of Bahto railway j-aich, and will serve in some measure to break the

The opening Hie °^'

development of

isolation of the district its

commerce.

which at present checks the