' The principal estates of this forestry are: — Recetitzk, 5,020 desatins 1,380 fathoms; of this there are under forest, 4,645 desatins 2,355 fathoms; on lease, 118 desatins 1,580 fathoms; in the management of the forest guards, 97 desatins 400 fathoms; under the remaining appurtances, 5 desatins 2,880 fathoms; waste area, 152 desatins 1,985 fathoms; under pine, 685 desatins; under fir, 45 desatins; under mixed kinds, 2,657 desatins;
under birch and alder, 1,226 desatins. At the annual cuttings on this estate one meets with fellings, the value of which often attain 100 roubles.
'The bordering estate, Poldevsky, 16,263 desatins 1,875 fathoms, is under similar conditions of sale. The division of these estates from each other has no importance whatever in an economical point; both the estates are organised; the bordering corner lines between them are quite useless. It would have been much more useful in a commercial view for making estimates if both had been grouped together with regard to the distance of their quarters or sections from the town of Karatchev, and from the line of railway, &c. Such grouping of quarters of thi§ mass of forest, in an economical point of view, is much more practical than the division of the estates according to the boundaries of the general survey. The whole extent of the Karatchev forest district is 25,142 desatins 2,194 fathoms, of which there is in the possession of the peasantry only 1,525 desatins 2,384 fathoms.