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species (see Appendix II), 200 Kyathaung and the same nuniber of 
Tinwa were cut and measured. The former gave average measurements 
of 10T" mid-girth and 49 feet in length, the thin tops being cut off. 
In the same way 200 Tinwa were cut, giving an average mid-girth of 
6-3" and a length of 38 feet. The weight of these bamboos green and 
of the dry internodes is dealt with under the heading (6) Outturn. 
(5) Factory site. 
The obvious site for a factory is somewhere on the Sittang river, 
but no suitable place exists over its course through the Pyinmana Division 
as the Railway runs at some distance from the river. It will, therefore, 
be necessary to fix a site lower down in the Toungoo Division, and the 
place suggested by Sindall in his report on the possibility of pulp manu¬ 
facture in Burma (1906) is at the village of Kywebwe, which lies on 
Railway some 18 miles below Toungoo (see map). On visiting this 
place it was found that the river was two miles distant from Kywebwe 
and that it would be better to place the mill at Myozo, on the Sittang, 
which here runs between high banks (see map). A road, which was at 
the time of inspection in very bad order, joined the river with the rail. 
To exploit bamboos from the Pyinmana forests would necessitate floating 
an average distance of 40 miles down the Ngalaik and its tributaries 
and 120 miles from the junction of the Ngalaik and Sittang to the mill 
at Myozo. 
All chemicals, except possibly lime, would either have to be railed up 
from Rangoon, a distance of 186 miles, or brought up the Sittang in 
boats, as the river is sufficiently deep to allow boats of 25 tons burden 
to ply up to Myozo. 
(6) Outturn. 
A certain number of bamboos are exploited annually from the Pyin¬ 
mana forests by purchasers and right-holders; in 1909-10 the number 
taken out by the former was 72,700 and by the latter the number is 
estimated at 300,000. Compared with many other divisions in Burma 
this is a very small number. 
The possible outturn of Kyathaung and Tinwa bamboos is based on 
the enumerations made in the Pyinmana and Toungoo Divisions and on 
weighings taken of a large number of cut stems. It has been thought 
advisable to take the average of the countings in both Divisions, as the 
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