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1,309,212 tons of dry internodes. Estimating that the forests can be 
cut over once in five years, the possible sustained yield of dry internodes 
works out at 261,842 tons per annum. 
(7) Lines of export. 
The bamboos will have to be dragged a maximum distance of two 
miles to the rivers after being cut, and floated down to the Sittang and 
again some 20 miles down that river to Myozo, the proposed factory 
site. The chief floating streams are as follows :— 
(i) The Kabaung, a large stream down which bamboos can be 
floated up to the end of February. This river taps the Bon- 
daung and Kabaung Reserves. Above the point where its 
tributary the Kyetsha Chaung comes into the main stream, 
the bed is rocky, so that the area above this point has been 
excluded from this scheme. To overcome this difficulty 
of floating in streams with rocky beds, Mr. Walker, 
Burma Forest Officer, has suggested cutting up the 
bamboos into sections, each section to contain at least 2 
internodes, so that an air-tight chamber occurs in each piece 
and then to float them down separately. This has never 
been done but would seem to be a by-no-means impossible 
way of getting over the difficulty. 
(ii) The Swa river, which taps the East Swa Reserve, enters the 
Sittang some 40 miles above the proposed mill site at Myozo. 
Its tributary the Saing Chaung, which is also a large stream, 
taps the Saing Yane Reserve. It is a good floating stream 
down which bamboos can be brought from the village of 
Lonyanbauk up to the end of February. 
(Hi) The Thaukyegat is a large perennial stream on the east bank 
of the Sittang, and joins that river just below Toungoo. It 
possesses the great advantage in that bamboos can be float¬ 
ed down its channel throughout the year. 
(iv) Bamboos can also be obtained by floating them down the other 
small streams which occur on the east bank of the Sittang, 
to the north of Toungoo. 
(Vi Small quantities of a few hundred tons can also be extracted by 
carts from the hill forests directly west of Myozo, the lead 
by road being not more than seven miles. 
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