Show PHILIPPINE TIMBER There lies ahead of the hardwood and furniture industries of the Philippines a splendid future The rhe islands possess the tile most beautiful woods In the tile world and they are reaching their development just justat at a time when the world woi-id is looking hooking for hardwoods The Tile timber Is not located In thick stands but is well ell scattered covering It has lIas been hen estimated an area arcs aggregating acres Of this tIlls great amount less than 1 per cent is Under under under un un- der private ownership Most of these Ilese woods wood which have no equal in richness of color durability brilliance of ot polish and size of timbers are difficult to transport transport transport trans trans- port by water Their texture Is so close clos and slid their specific gravity so great t tl tt they quickly sink Their weight averages about 75 Th pounds to the cubic foot height from 50 to feet teet the tile natural annual growth being estimated by the tho insular government at on one billion four hundred million cubic feet felt nearly all of which Is now going to waste In 1904 1304 the bu bureau bureau bit bu- reau of forestry had record of or some MS different species now the list has in increased increased increased in- in creased to the tIle species being well ell mixed Monroe mixed Monroe Woolley In Cassiers Cassier's Magazine l for February February- |