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(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
The cost of cutting 100 Cephalostachyum pergracile (Tinwa) bamboos, 
dragging them to a by-stream and floating them to the edge of the 
reserved forest, for instance to the village of Shawbon, comes to Rs. 2, 
and for Bambusa polymorpha (Kyathaung) Rs. 3 per 100. The cost of 
making them up into rafts and taking them down to the factory site 
will come to Re. 1 per 100, or a total cost of Rs. 3 per 100 for Tinwa 
and Rs. 4 per 100 for Kyathaung. The royalty on bamboos is annas 5 
per 100, while Tinwa bamboos, 20 feet long, sell at present in the Okkan 
market for Rs. 4 to Rs. 6 per 100 and Kyathaung, Rs. 5 to Rs. 7 per 
100, according to quality. 
For the Hlaing Yoma Reserve the estimates are as follows : Cost 
of cutting and dragging to a cart-road, Rs. 2 per 100 for Tinwa and Rs.3 
per 100 for Kyathaung. Carting costs 3 annas per mile, and the average 
distance of the forest from the Railway is 8 miles, or Re. 1-8 per cart. 
A cart can take 100 Tinwa or 33 Kyathaung, so that the total cost of 
landing Tinwa on the station works out to Rs. 3-8 and for 
Kyathaung Rs. 7-8, per 100. To these estimates must be added the cost 
of loading and railing the stuff some 15 miles to Okkan, say Rs. 2 per 100, 
which raises the total cost to Rs. 5-8 and Rs. 9-8 per 100, respectively. 
(9) Cost of landing dry internodes per ton at the factory site. 
The weight of dry inter nodes yielded by one average Tinwa bamboo 
is 7-6 lbs. and that by a Kyathaung 15‘4 lbs. (see Appendix I), there¬ 
fore it takes about 295 Tinwa or 145 Kyathaung to yield a ton of dry 
internodes. The cost of landing the bamboos from the Okkan Reserve 
at the proposed factory site is Rs. 3 and Rs. 4 per 100 respectively, so 
that the cost of landing dry internodes of Tinwa at the mill works out 
to Rs. 8-13-7 per ton and of Kyathaung at Rs. 5-12-9 per ton. 
The cost of landing bamboos from the Hlaing Yoma Reserve is 
Rs. 3-8-0 and Rs. 7-8-0 per 100 respectively, so that the cost of 
landing dry internodes ot Tinwa at the mill works out to Rs. 10-5-3 per 
ton and of Kyathaung at Rs. 10-14-0 per ton. Were the site of the 
mill fixed at Insein, 8 annas would have to be added to the cost pel* 
ton. In the event of the nodes being utilised, the average cost of 
Tinwa and Kyathaung together works out to Rs. 10 per ton in round 
figures, and this is the figure taken by Raitt for his estimates. 
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