FOREST ROADS TO BE BUILT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200020043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: May 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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'ring the peat portion of the current year, 1~ mountain
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roads have already been. completed for the national economy,. while
be finished before the end of this
the remaining ~O roads will
month.
The forests are a valuable national resource. There is no
econor~ic activity that is not directly or indirectly connected
with the use of 'wood and its derivatives. The development of the
large measure on the correct and r?at~
national economy depends in ional exploitation ..of the forests. Here, however, the problem of
Prior to 9 September 191th, there was a
transportation arises.
lack of well develoPed transport and the forests were worked crude
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ly, and greedily destroyed. The entrepreneur-capitalists,..thirst"
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ing for easy and quick gains, felled the trees near the-settle-
and deeply furrowed hills through-
., . rnents andthe valleys, the bared
out our mountains are the mute witnesses of this looting. The
. exploitation of distant forests was haphazard, and the trans-
mules was most. primitive. More than
portation by horses and
wood decayed each year, because of in-
100,000 cubic meters of
adequate transportation.
It was only after 9 September 1944 that the issue of the
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planned and rational exploitation of the forests, and their
renovation.. and development, w ..wasphoed on a correct basis. A
transportation network had to be established for this purpose,
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which would penetrate the most remote corners of our mountains.
The forest service employs several kinds of transport;
mountain roads, mountain railroads, mountain cables, water
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canals and mazul (?)
The basic transportation system is provided by the mountain
roads, which were intensively developed in the Rhodopi, Pirin,
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Strandja, Stara Planina mountains and others. Thanks to the
efforts of the peoples authorities and to the valuable assist-
ance of the USSR during the last 7 years alone 600 kilometers
of stone?surfaced mountain; roads, and 1,500 kilometers of new
mountain roads have been completed. Compared to past construc-
tion, tht:s is 1.~ times more than that completed between 1878
and 9 september 19LU ?
This year mountain roads are being built in the districts
of Devinsko, Tetevensko, Smolensko, Razlojko, Kazanlushko,
Kustendilsko, Samokovsko, etc., in general, wherever the best
untapped forestry regions exist.
What are the requirements for a mountain road?
Mountain roads are made for automobile and ox cart trans-
portation. The essential characteristics from which the service-
ability and the maximum exploitation may be judged are; the road-
bed, slope gradation, the radius of curvature, the width of the
curves the width of the road, and the maximum load for the bridges.
p he few roads built in the past are useless because of their faulty
construction. They are only three meters wide; they have been
unevenly levelled; and their slopes are excessive -- 1S percent
in some places. They are now being retraced and corrected. The
new
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roads built to the best specifications possible, are divided
into three classes, depending on the width of the roads first
6 meters; second -- S meters; and third --'ii. meters. The first-
class roads are built with a view of transporting more than 20,000
cubic meters of lumber annually. Those of the second class
8,000 to 20,000 cubic meters; and those 'f
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third class
2,000 to 8,000 cubic meters. These improved roads have encouraged
motor transportation, and, whereas 1 cubic meter of lumber hauled
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to all lovers of natural beauty.
of our beautiful fatherland.
They lead to the moving panoramas
The construction of mountain roads, undertaken by the ,,Gorstroitt
by oxcart cost 1,000 leva, the same volume, transported a distance
of 30 kilometers by truck, now costs 900 leva. Through improved
transportation, the annual yield of the forests is now exploited
100 percent, while in the past, barely ~0 percent was used.
The importance of the mountain roads does not stop with
this. These roads are the arteries connecting the mountain
people with the general stream of economic, cultural, and public
life of the country. These roads are traveled today by trucks
carrying economic and cultural benefits to the most remote dwell-
ings. s. The life of the mountaineers is already more prosperous
and cultured.
Finally, the mountain roads, built through the most pictur
esque regions of our country, make these regions easily accessible
State Economic Enterprise and its subsidiaries throughout the country,
will continue in the future, so that not one corner of our mount-
ains will be without a road.
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