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Show PHILIPPINE MINING. Enough Shown to Justify a Further Examination Ex-amination of Resources. From the time that the Philippine Islands wero first acquired by' the United States thero have been reports of gTcat mineral resources In them. The llttlo work that had been done undor Spanish rule, It was said, hnd revealed promising deposits of gold, copper and coal; while t.bn possible cxlslenco of other deposits In the large unexplored areas of tho islands was pointed out. says the Engineering ami Alining Journal. Under American rnlo a mining department was organized and bjBgnn systematic work on as large a scale as the limited moans assigned to It permitted. Necessarily Its work has biicn alow, as It was possible to employ only a Hinall force; though as far as It has gone the results have beon creditable to those in charge. ,So far it ban revealed the existence ex-istence of coal nnd Iron ore In" considerable consider-able quantities, but the copper deposits of Luzon have not yot beon reached. Soipe work has been done In tho district? where gold was said to exist, and this work bus boon supplomtinled, In Masbate and elsewhere, else-where, by a number of 'American prospectors, pros-pectors, who have enguged In the search for tlio. precious mtols. II. cannot be said, np vet. that the Indications Indi-cations point to the Philippines; as a groat mining country of the future. Enough has boon found, however, to show that further explorations are warranted, and that it Is quite possible that, a mining Industry In-dustry of respectable proportions rnav grow up in tho future. For this pupone cnpltal and liitolllgont direction will bo needed. The former supplied, the latter can be found without difficulty. So far, hov.'pvr, American capital has beon vcrv alow In finding Its way to the East, and little hns boon done to overcome the general gen-eral ignorance of the possibilities there which exists at home. |