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(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
The present price of Kyathaung in Toungoo is Rs. 6 per 100 and 
Rs. 6 to Rs. 7 per 100 for Tinwa. 
The cost of cutting and dragging Kyathaung to the floating streams 
is put at Re. 1-8 per 100 ; the cost of floating to the Sittang, from the 
centre of the Kabaung or East Swa Reserves, is estimated to cost Rs. 3-8 
per 100 ; and the cost of preparing large rafts and floating them down 
the Sittang, an average distance of 30 miles, is put at Re. 1-8, giving a 
total of Rs. 6-8 per 100 landed at the mill. Tinwa, being smaller and 
easier to handle, can be brought out for Rs. 5 per 100. 
(9) Cost of landing dry internodes 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 inter¬ 
nodes. The cost of exploiting 100 Kyathaung to the mill costs Rs. 6-8 
and 100 Tinwa Rs. 5, so that the cost of one ton dry Kyathaung inter¬ 
nodes at the mill works out to Rs. 5-10-6 and of Tinwa to Rs. 9-4-9. 
(10) Labour. 
Mr. Rorie, the Divisional Forest Officer, Toungoo, anticipates diffi¬ 
culty in procuring an adequate supply of labour, and it is fairly certain 
that it will be necessary to import coolies from outside the district. In 
order to indicate the wages now being paid at Myozo, the proposed mill 
site, it may be stated that a cooly earns Rs. 13 to Rs. 15 per month 
working at the Myozo Saw-mill, and that the Engineer-in-charge is paid 
Rs. 110 per mensem. 
(11) Chemicals. 
The cost of lime at Toungoo is 8 annas per 100 lbs. and this must be 
either procured from the Pyinmana Division (see page 58) or from 
Rangoon or Moulmein. It is just possible that the other necessary 
chemicals could be run up the Sittang in boats, but on this point it is 
difficult to make any statement with certainty. Otherwise they would 
have to be railed up from Rangoon to Kywebwe and carted two miles 
to Myozo. 
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