Show ISLAND FORETS VAST 0 c t tRice 0 Riches Rice SaM Said Snit to Exist In Philip Philippine p Z pine Woods V Vo ds 0 0 TE ARE ABE VALUABLE TRES t PETS ARE ARB A BEING ISSUED ISU TO CUT OUT THE T TIMBER TER Washington Washl ion Nov 26 The division of customs end and d insular affairs of the war wr a sum summary summary department has bait made public mary mar of the first report of the Philip Philippine Philippine pine bureau of forestry forer organized organize in its it present form under an order of the military governor dated April Apri 14 1 1900 1000 It Its ts first work was wa confined to ascer ascertaining taming the te conditions of the records received from the Spanish government under which that bureau Spish had not only I had the te care car of the forests forss but also the survey surey of the public pubIc lands The laws lawsin in force at the time of American oc occupation are said to be in line Une with wih the most advanced advance foreign of Europe but were not fully enforced enforce of and ev er everything eve and licensed the cutting any e hing The result re 1 was that aible rubber ruber gutta guta percha and lang trees were taken and even the most valuable used as firewood The Theold Theold Theold old regulations were translated and re revised revised revised taking effect in their new form formon on July 1 last lat rhey They provided for a system of licensing l by b which permits permit to cut timber can be secured the fees being Cae based upon the different vane varie varieties ties Ues of f which 36 are named name in the or order order order der After the regulations were promulgated pro promulgated promulgated more than fifty additional species spie of trees became known and oth OUI others ers era are being brought to the knowledge of the th bureau almost every ever week weel The director Captain Ahern estimates the total number of tree species in the archipelago at nearly 0 Trees Are Ard Varied ared 0 There are no pure nure forests of any one e species specie rarely more than three or four to ur trees tre of one variety being found grouped group grouped r red ed together so that a lumberman look looking of kind of tim timber timber lug ing for a shipload one tm ber would woul find it practically impossible 4 to cut that and no other and cargoes must toe be e assembled from different J points Captain Ahern states tha t from different sources of information he is isled isle Isled led le Io to eleve th public forest lands comprise from to possibly the area area pf of the Philippines or from twenty Co to t forty million minon acres There are fully five million acres of virgin forest owned by the state in the islands of Mindoro owne and Paragua The island of Mindanao with an area of o osme some twenty acres is almost entirely covered with timber Umbel and evenIn even evenin evenIn in the province e of in Luzon there are more than acres of forest for st stIn I In Iii many other provinces of Luzon especially in the country close to Ma nila nUa much timber tzer to fill large contracts s the lumbermen are obliged to go quite quie a distance from the city in order to find a suitable trat jac Some Trees Are Immense Captain Ahern mentions tracts of virgin forests to be seen on the south southern ern em islands whee e form TOrm ten to twenty tw ty thousand cubic cu lc feet e of ber ben per acre was wan was standing with trees more mo e than ISO feet In height the trunks clear cler of branches for 60 feet and more than four feet fet in diameter He states that in these thes forests forets there are millions of cubic feet of timber Umber which should be cut out in order to thin this dense growth so s that the maximum annual could be obtained d There are area a e gum rubber and trees gm seventeen df and the The oil oi from blossoms of the te latter tree is the base of many per perfumes perfumes fumes fm There are no forest roads or river driveways in the inlands considered worthy of mentioning At present the trees are felled far fa from any road roa anc and hauled out very slowly by one or OJ more caroo with the result that many tracts are left untouched |