Page:Gazetteer of the province of Oudh ... (IA cu31924073057345).pdf/36

 28 HAR Roads and communications. There are no metalled roads in the dis- trict. The railway runs through from Lucknow to Shahjahánpur, trains stopping at six stations in the district in a length of sixty-two miles; it was opened at different times in 1871-72. There are also 329 miles of roads raised and bridged. The principal are:- From Lucknow to Shábjahávpur. Hardoi to Sitapur. to Fatehgarh (only partially bridged). to Bilgram, thence to Mehndighét. Sandila to Mádbogaoj, Bilgrám, and Sándi. Hardoi to Piháui. None of these are imperial roads. None of the stations in the line of railway have as yet become centres of traffic. Sandíla, the centre of a fertile grain-producing tract, and a town with a population of 15,500, otily contri- buted about Rs. 1,600 in fares and traffic receipts to the railway in 1871. But in 1874 Hardoi and andila have loped a very large trade in supplying Lucknow with bread-stuffs ; the former sends 500 tons a month of grain alone. Sheds have been erected by the company, and as many roads convorge on Hardoi, a fine traffic may reasonably be expected. The passengers arriving at and leaving Hardoi in the first half-year of 1873 were 30,340, at Sandíla 24,376_-vide table under heading “Commerce and Manufactures." The minor district roads are : 1. From Hardoi viá Bargadiaghất to Sitapur. This is twenty-two miles long within this district. The stages are—ītauli, six miles from Hardoi ; Bharail, five miles further; Kinau, five miles, and Nímsár, six miles. The only river is the Gunti. 2. Sitapur and Mehndighát road, i.e., from Bargadiaghát in this dis- trict to the border of the district (banks of the Ganges). Total length of this road is thirty-three miles. The stages are--Besia, six miles from Nímsár; Lodhia, seven miles from Besia; Mádhoganj, eight miles ; Matia- mau, six miles; and the bank of the Ganges, six miles. The rivers are the Gumti and the Kalyáni. 3. Gopámau to Pibáni. The stages are only Gopamau and Piháni at the distance of eight miles from each other. 4. Piháni to Kulábharghát on the Gumti. The length of this road is ten miles. The stages are Balheri and Kulábharghát, the latter at the dis- tance of six miles from the former. Local weights and measures.—The tahsildars of Hardoi and Shahabad report as follows:-A local kachcha bigha is twenty qadams long by twenty broad, the qadam being fifty-two arguls or finger's breadth. The angul is three-quarters of an inch, therefore the qadam is thirty-nine inches; the bigha will then be a square of sixty-five feet, or an Prinsep's usefal area of 469 square yards. But the bigha in general tables, page 127. use is much larger than this. In Bangar, Shahabad, Pachhoha, Pali, and Gopamau three local bíghas go to the regulation bigha of 3,025 square yards; in Pindarwa, Piháni, Mansurnagar two and a half;