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Show ' pni'lppme Forests. After several years' Investigation of the forests of the Philippine Islands, Dr. II. N. Whltford Is enabled to make some statements concerning their extent and richness which will be likely to surprise many readers. He says, for Instance, that the virgin forest area of the Islands, covering tS.000,000 acres, contains 200,000,000,-000 200,000,000,-000 board feet of lumber, and he contrasts con-trasts this with the 400,000.000,-000 400,000.000,-000 feet of timber growing on the 200,000,000 acres contained In the forest reserves of the United States. In other words, the Philippine forests are, acre for acre, four times as rich aa those of this country. Other authorities agree with Dr. Whltford In the opinion tb when the world's eyes are opened the va!ue of the tropical foreats a great asset will have been added to tbe common wealth of mankind. |