Show THINKS ISLANDS ARE RICH L surgeon hai has abundant faith in fu FW ture of philippine philippines S during my stay in the philippines raid dr J at M feeney recently sur geci la in the eleventh infantry at the ebbitt house 1 I was in nearly every part of the archipelago and I 1 am pro lared to say that site size con considered eldered it la 10 the richest country in the world dr feeney after a sojourn of five pra 5 in the islands hae has just Te returned turned and ie Is full of enthusiasm as to the value of our aslone in the east fast i 1 I believe ho he continued that more gold will bo be taken out of tb the province of panto bontea in northern luzon than will ever bo be obtained from alaska I 1 went in there on a chase after deer and wild caribou and found that cores scores of natives bd bid b id pats of gold about them which they had taken out of the ground in the most primitive bashton this Is the country of the savage Igo rotto rotte tribes who are generally styled head hunters it also has copper 11 apparently unlimited quantity As soon as some method of at conveying title to mining property la Is adopted there Is going to be a grand rush to these mountain mountains I 1 already a goodly number cf uld old miners from the western states are hugging claims that they expect will make them rich washington post |