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Tinwa. On reaching the Sittang the rafts are enlarged and contain 
1,000 stems or over. 
(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
The price of bamboos in Pyinmana is Rs. 5 to Rs. 6 per 100 for Kyat- 
haung in the rains and Rs. 8 per 100 in the open season. Tinwa are 
generally sold at a little over half that rate. 
The cost of cutting and dragging to the river, an average distance of 
1| miles, comes to Re. 1-8 per 100 for Kyathaung. The cost of floating, 
from the centre of the forest to the Sittang, costs Rs. 3-8 and the cost of 
floating in large rafts to the mill at Myozo is estimated to cost Rs. 2-8. 
The total cost of landing Kyathaung at the mill, therefore, works out to 
Rs. 7-8 per 100. Tinwa being much smaller and more easy to handle, 
the total cost is put at Rs. 6 per 100. 
(9) Cost of landing dry inter nodes per ton at the mill. 
From Appendix II, it will be seen that a Kyathaung bamboo yields 
25'6 lbs. and a Tinwa yields 12-05 lbs. of dry internodes. Therefore, it 
takes 87 Kyathaung and 186 Tinwa to make up a ton of dry internodes. 
The cost of exploiting 100 Kyathaung to the mill costs Rs. 7-8 and of 
100 Tinwa Rs. 6, so that the cost of landing one ton of dry internodes 
of Kyathaung at the mill works out to Rs. 6-8-5 and of Tinwa to 
Rs. 11-2-6. 
(10) Labour . 
The general opinion of the local officers is that sufficient labour will 
be forthcoming in the rains to exploit one and a half million bamboos 
and that petty contractors will be found to do the work. If more labour 
is necessary it will have to be imported. The price of labour is 8 annas 
per man, but in the harvest season it is generally higher. Burman 
carpenters and masons are procurable at Re. 1 per day, while Chinese 
carpenters can earn as much as Rs. 2 per day. 
(11) Chemicals. 
The cost of lime is 8 annas per 100 lbs. in Pyinmana. It is procured 
from a village called Chaungza, in the Paunglaung Range, about 6 miles 
east of the railway. The lime-stone is obtained from surface workings, 
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