Part III.] E. Benskin and A. Rodger : Note on Thitsi. 27 
Forest Officer gives the following details regarding traders and quantity 
of thitsi available :— 
Range. 
Name. 
Village. 
Quantity 
that can be 
supplied per 
annum. 
Yeu 
. 
. 
. 
. 
Mg. Kyi Zo 
Mg. Shwe Pan . 
| 
Thanwindaw . 
About 10,000 
1 
viss. 
Mg. Pyu . 
J 
Kyunhla 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Mg. San E ' . 
Inhla 
About 250 viss. 
Mg. Po Kan 
Yeyein . 
,, 100 viss. 
Prices vary very much. Black thitsi is most expensive and fetches 
up to Rs. 200 per 100 viss in Mandalay. 
Near Kanbalu the tappers sometimes get Rs. 90 per 100 viss for the 
red thitsi and Rs. 100 for the black. 
If the demand becomes good, there are sufficient trees in the reserved 
and unreserved forests to provide a very large quantity of thitsi 
annually. 
XIII. Upper Chindwin .—The thitsi is extracted by licensees, and 
Rs. 698 has been realized from them during the last 10 years. The 
Divisional Forest Officer does not think that the trade can be much 
stimulated. 
XIV. Myittha .—Under present arrangements licenses in Form VIII 
are issued, approximately one-third of the division being opened to 
extraction in any given year. Duty is collected on the thitsi extracted 
at Rs. 10 per 100 viss. During the 10 years 1905-06 to 1914-15, 25,442 
viss of thitsi were extracted and Rs. 2,546 was realized as revenue. 
Maukkadaw is the centre of the trade and enquiries regarding it 
should be made there. Mg. Tun U, Mg. Tun Win, and Mg. Yo are the 
principal dealers there, and others are Mg. San Lin and Mg. Po Thit at 
Konyin, and Mg. Kyauk Lon at Moktha. Each of these men could 
probably supply 250 viss annually, the present rate being Rs. 14 per ten 
viss, while before the war it was Rs. 20. The Divisional Forest Officer 
thinks that when trade improves, the quantity available could be 
largely increased. 
XV. Lower Chindwin .—Licenses are issued and royalty collected 
at Rs. 10 per 100 viss, the figures for the 10 years 1905-06 to 1914-15 
being 29,342 viss extracted, realizing Rs. 5,362. The thitsii s collected 
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