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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. III. 
It is noteworthy that the great bulk of the larger sized timber extract¬ 
ed hitherto under the prescriptions of working-plans has come from the 
Mjitmaka (Hlaing river) drainage, which includes the forests of the Zigon 
and Tharrawaddy Divisions and the Shwele forests of the Prome Division. 
All this timber was extracted by Government agency. It may be men¬ 
tioned that the present Zigon Division until recently formed part of the 
Tharrawaddy Division and still forms the northern half of the Tharra¬ 
waddy Civil District. 
The small size 
Small size 
mana timber. 
of Pyin- 
of the timber extracted from the Pyinmana 
forests under working-plans prescriptions (see 
Appendix IV, column 14) is explained by the fact 
that previous to the British occupation of Upper 
Burma these forests had been heavily overworked, and the quantity of 
large timber left for extraction during recent years has been compara¬ 
tively small. The forests themselves, with the exception perhaps of the 
Sinthe reserve, are capable of producing timber of large size, and it is 
only a matter of time until the average volume of logs may be expected to 
increase to something approaching the standard of Zigon, Tharrawaddy, 
and other Lower Burma Divisions. 
The statistics given here naturally refer only to forests under working- 
plans, and do not include figures relating to the 
Figures refer only to large areas of teak forests in Upper Burma which 
working-plans. reS " la ‘' have hitherto been worked only under rough 
girdling schemes and for which the preparation of 
regular working-plans has been commenced only within recent years. 
As far as we are aware, the Ruby Mines’Division, Upper Burma, 
can claim the honour of having produced the 
Record teak log. largegt teak l 0 g yet recorded. This log, which 
was launched into a feeder of the Shweli river by Messrs. Darwood & Co., 
about 1898, measured 82| feet in length, over 12 feet in girth at the base 
and over 7 feet in girth at the top, and contained 507 cubic feet of timber. 
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