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NOETLING : PETROLEUM IN BURMA. 



(b) Timbering — 



1,800 wooden staves at the rate of Rio per 100 . 180 



(c) Machinery, ropes, etc., say ...... 3° 



Grand Total . 610 



2. Estimate of cost of a well 150 cubits = 225 feet in depth: 



(«) Wages for digging— 



80 cubits for ... . , . 120 



10 cubits for . . . . . . .45 



10 cubits for ...... 60 



10 cubits at R7-8-0 per cubit .... 7S 



10 cubits at Rio per cubit .... 100 



10 cubits at R 12 per cubit .... 120 



20 cubits under special arrang 

 per cubit . . 



gement, say R20 



Total 



(4) Timbering- 

 Say 2,400 wooden staves at Rio per loo . 

 (c) Machinery, ropes, and other accessories 



Grand Total 



400 



920 



240 

 30 



1,190 



We may therefore assume that an estimate of Ri ,200 for a well 

 up to 250 feet will be very near to the mark. 



Section III. — The number of wells in the Native 

 Reserve. 



A. Period previous to 188S.— U we look through the earlier ac- 

 counts about the oilfields we notice a remarkable uncertainty about 

 the number of pit-wells in the Yenangyoung oilfield. This might 

 of course be expected as none of the previous visitors had time 

 enough to go through the tedious task of counting the wells one 

 by one. This was only achieved by the survey, during the years 

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