Show THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE philippines the variety and extent of the mineral resources of the archipelago are manifest from mr deckers table of twenty ot the islands with their respective spec tive mineral products luzon coal gold copper lead iron sulphur marble kaolin Catan duanes gold marinduque lead silver coal gold copper carlaray Carr aray coal batan coal hapu coal Mas bate rhoal Rom blon marble samar gold coal Sl buyan gold Semi rara coal panay coal oil gas gold copper iron sulphur leyte coal oil cebu coal oil gas gold lead silver iron negros coal bohol gold gold mindanao coal gold copper platinum sulu archipelago pearls we reproduce the above table which shows plainly that the Islands have many natural advantages the coal mines will be ot special advantage to the united states as it will save the enormous expense ot shipping coal to the far cast for our ships both war a well as merchant ships it will readily be seen that the philippine islands are about the roost valuable lands a nation could wish tor in the china waters |