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NOETLING : PETROLEUM IN BURMA. 



steadily going on, as will be shown by the figures of the following 

 table :— 



Table showing the monthly production of the Yenangyoung native 

 reserves from 1886 to i8g4 in viss at j'Sf lbs. 





18S6. 1887. 



1888. 



1889. 



1S90. 



1891. 



1892. 



1893. 



1894. 



January 





588,320 



489,380 



503,240 



557,430 



403,150 



521,755 



697,210 



755,300 



February 





516,470 



415,150 



518,570 



501,800 



454,570 



395,880 



693,585 



665,950 



March 



... 



369,820 



488,550 



537,770 



569,180 



571,100 



352,520. 



838,530 



804,283 



April . 



407,060 



... 



520,700 



52S.S70 



550,270 



77,090 



234,215 



769,970 



735,100 



May . 



532,120 



601,390 



539,750 



540,900 



533, 260 



608,600 



505,630 



629,510 



836,700 



June . 



462,510 



586,260 



530,290 



551,040 



608,130 



928, 2go 



55".640 



766,500 



801,350 



July . . 



370,520 



522,050 



534,170 



525,130 



66t,2lo 



712,330 



723,050 



816,490 



822,800 



August . 



657,090 



494,650 



535,070 



542,960 



579,450 



572,635 



811,315 



802,750 



811,180 



September . 



422,660 



494,720 



523,730 



53',2I0 



627,960 



570,650 



816,405 



724,920 



790,540 



October 





502,910 



516,000 



548,770 



608,500 



631,200 



725. iSs 



634,940 



813,360 



November . 





503.740 



519,260 



539,500 



567,500 



638,960 



725,695 



793,000 



778,120 



December 



506,130 



470,670 



512,360 



539,690 



387,740 



635,221 



718,750 



750,490 



844,880 



Total 



3,4lS,09O 



5,651,200 



6,125,410 



6,408,650 



6,761,430 



6.S03.796 



7,oS2,040 



8,917,895 



9.459.563 



Average per month 



488,415 



513,745 



510,450 



534,054 



563,452 



566,983 



590,170 



743,158 788,297 



Although this table explains itself a few words may be said regard- 

 ing the extraordinary low production in April 1891. This is solely 

 due to the disorganisation of the oil trade which immediately 

 followed the termination of the agreement made in March 1886 

 between the native well owners and the Burma Oil Company ; the 

 natives refused to sell their produce expecting to obtain a higher 

 price for it, but as by that time the Burma Oil Company was 

 independent of the supply from the native wells, the opposition soon 

 broke down as the well owners found no buyers for their oil, and in 

 the following month work was resumed in the ordinary way. 



We may observe from the figures in this table that the average 

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