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DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY*

OF THE

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

FOR THE PERIOD
JULY 1, 1908, TO JUNE 30, 1909

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MAJOR GEORGE P. AHERN

DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY

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DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY

OF THE

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

FOR THE PERIOD
JULY 1, 1908, TO JUNE 30, 1909

MAJOR GEORGE P. AHERN

DIRECTOR OF FOREStRY

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MANILA

BUREAU OF PRINTING

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Forestry

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CONTENTS.

Page.

Need for larger appropriation 5

Conference of forest officers, 1908 7

Conference of forest officers, 1909 7

Personnel „ 8

Division of administration 8

Caiflgins 8

Communal forests 9

Fire protection 9

Registration of private woodlands 9

Division of investigation 9

Inventory of forest resources 9

Educational work 10

Instruction 10

Propaganda work 11

Museum and herbarium collections 12

Durability tests and timber-testing laboratory 12

Publications 13

Appendix :

Statistics —

Certification of agricultural or forest character of public lands 17

Utilization of forest products.... 17

Amounts cut, by species, of important timbers 18

Imports and exports of forest products '. 19

Revenue from forest products 19

Expenditures «... 20

91621 2 3

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF
FORESTRY, FISCAL YEAR 1908-9.

Manila, P. I., June SO, 1909.

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the work of the
Bureau of Forestry for the period July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909.

The work of the year has progressed rapidly and satisfactorily, ac-
cording to the programme laid down at the beginning of the fiscal year.
The work in the field shows the results of the labors of men much
interested in their work, a majority of whom have had from three to
eight years' service in the Philippine forests. The difficulties in the
way of rapid field work in the Philippines are many, due to the great
number of comparatively unknown tree species, the lack of transporta-
tion, and lack of reliable data. Men need at least one year in the field
before rapid work can be accomplished. Much credit for the rapid field
work now being accomplished is due to the assistance furnished by well-
trained subordinate officers.

Two of the experienced foresters have, after three years of field work,
recently taken their accrued leave and are using part of their time in
studying the forests of the East and of Europe. One of them has been
granted an additional year's leave of absence to enable him to take special
work at the Yale Forest School.

The appropriation allotted to the Bureau during the past few years
has been too small to properly care for the vast property committed to
its charge. The Forest Act provides as follows :

Sec. 2. The public forests and forest reserves of the Philippine Islands shall be
held and administered for the protection of the public interests, the utility and
safety of the forests, and the perpetuation thereof in ° productive condition by
wise use.

The experience of European and Eastern governments has been that
the returns from the administration of forest properties are in direct
proportion to the amount expended (according to size and distance of
market) .

The following table tells the story of the remarkable results* obtained
from a businesslike administration of such properties. In this table

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there is no statement of the enormous rise in value of the original capital
stock.

Germany (Prussia)

India I.

Java

Japan

Philippine Islands —

2,465,000
19,000,000

2, 700, 000
12,000,000

6,000,000

Cost per
hectare

^6.90-
.45-
.64
.08
.018

Net rev-
enue per
hectare.

T*6.i

.39
.61-
.16
.0J6

Force.

Forest-
ers.

806

312

30

325

9

Ran-
gers
and
guards.

Total
expenses.

Net revenue.

3,739 n7, 000, 000 ri5,776,000

,203 ;

1,000 !

1,434 I

25

8,532,000
1,728,000
1,000,000 I
110,000 ;

I

7,416,000

1,628,000

2,000,000

100,000

The virgin forest area of the Islands comprises approximately 40,000
square miles, or one- third of the total area. Besides this there is estimated
to be 20,000 square miles of second-growth timber which will yield con-
siderable quantities of small-sized timber and firewood.

To illustrate the results to be obtained by using a larger number of
forest officers, the Bureau will place as large a permanent force as cir-
cumstances will permit in the Provinces of Bataan and Occidental
Negros, in order to begin a more intensive management of the forests
in the two provinces mentioned. These forest areas will be carefully
mapped, their resources studied, trails will be improved, and an effective
patrol inaugurated. This work will stop much of the present forest
destruction by makers of caiflgins; and it will enable the Government
to collect revenues from people who are gathering forest products for
commercial use without paying the Government charges on the same.

An additional appropriation of 1*20,000 has been granted for this
special work in the two provinces mentioned. It is the aim of this
Bureau to extend the area of intensive management as means are pro-
vided and men are trained. Thirteen thousand pesos have been allowed
for educational work to be used in training high school students, both
in the school and in the field.

Although the older and well-established forest services throughout
the civilized world cost from 55 per cent to 60 per cent of the total
forest revenues, a young service such as ours, which must train new men,
build trails, carry on independent investigations and other lines of work
that bring in no immediate return, should at first receive a more liberal
allowance. The present forest revenues (^250,000) could all be used
to good advantage by this Bureau. We would be willing, however, to
vouch for good results* should 75 per cent of the forest revenues be
allowed for the first few years. Good results from this liberal treatment
of the Bureau would be so apparent within a few years that no further
begging pleas would be necessary.

CONFERENCE OF FOREST OFFICERS.

In accordance with a precedent established in 1906, all of the foresters
were called to Manila during the latter part of June, 1908, for the
purpose of holding the annual conference. Filipino forest officers were
also ordered to Manila to attend a school of instruction.

The conference lasted from July 27 to August 3, and was opened
with an address by the undersigned, which was followed by papers and
discussions on the following subjects :

Forest administration: Annual reports; inspections; exploitation problems;
milling problems; cooperation with other Bureaus.

Forest investigation: Annual reports; botanical collections; forest resources
of Mindanao; forest maps.

Educational work: Methods of propaganda; instruction of Filipino forest
officers; instruction in schools.

Forest policy: Forest reserves; communal forests; homesteads; forest laws and
regulations.

Minor forest products: Paper-pulp material.

Mangrove products.

Plan of work for coming year.

The programme of instruction for the Filipino forest officers included
the following subjects: Office work; preparation of trail notes; land
classification ; determination of wood specimens ; methods of interesting
the public in the importance of forests; quiz on forest manual, circulars,
etc.

In the field the work was practical and consisted of trail notes to
cuttings near Limay; inspection of cuttings; measurement of felled
timber and reports on same; estimation of stands of timber; tree studies;
botanical and wood collections ; working-plan notes, etc.

The object of bringing together all of the forest officers into the field
in one locality was to obtain uniformity of methods of work, as well
as to instruct subordinate officers in the details of forest work, and also
to make a preliminary cutting plan for the Cadwallader Lumber Com-
pany.

The fourth annual conference of Philippine foresters • was held in
Manila June 7 to 12, 1909, at which all of the foresters serving in the
Philippines were present. The programme of the conference, including
an address by the undersigned, was as follows :

Office methods ; annual reports of foresters ; reorganization plans ; conservation
and forest reserves; homesteads, land laws, and caifigins; education and pro-
paganda plans; reforestation plans, forest nurseries, etc.; forest types; licenses,
concessions, and communal forests; forest law; timber testing, durability tests;
museum; future needs of the Bureau and resume of Indian forest service; principal
timbers of the East; botanical notes; plans for forestry course in Agricultural
School; cooperation with the Bureau of Internal Revenue; grading and Govern-
ment inspection of lumber.

PERSONNEL.

The personnel of the Bureau is practically the same as that authorized
after the passage of the Reorganization Act (No. 1407) of 1905.

In view of the increased field work of the Bureau it has been necessary
to employ a number of young Filipino students, who are employed during
vacation periods with the various field parties. Some are also given
work after school hours, in the office, preparing and labeling the large
botanical and wood collections sent in by the various field parties. Two
additional American foresters, and one Filipino who has studied forestry
in the United States, have entered the service.

DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION.

The field force of this division consists of four foresters, nine head
rangers, four rangers, two assistant rangers, and five temporary rangers ;
a small force to distribute over 60,000 square miles. This division is
charged with the supervision of the work of conservation of our forest
resources.

All applications for licenses to gather forest products must receive the
recommendation of a forest officer of this division. The following
licenses were in operation during the past year: 1,058 timber; 555 fire-
wood; 819 minor products; 624 gratuitous. Many licensees take out a
very small quantity of forest products, or none at all, during the year.
Three hundred and seventeen cutting areas were inspected by forest
officers, special attention being paid to the larger operators. Seven areas,
where these large operations are being conducted, were studied in detail
and reports and maps submitted.

Approximately 3,000 kilometers of trail notes were taken by officers
of this division on trips through regions which had not been previously
mapped.

Eight hundred botanical specimens were collected by members of this
division and sent to Manila.

Fourteen hundred and eighty-eight parcels of land, desired either for
homesteads or for lease or sale were inspected; 1,357 of these were re-
ported as being more valuable for agricultural purposes, and 131 more
valuable for forest purposes and therefore not available for transfer to
private use.

CAINGINS.

Renewed efforts were made during the year to suppress the making
of caingins in good forests, with some success in regions frequently in-
spected; but it will be impossible to suppress this evil until a larger
force is provided.

During the fiscal year, 343 permits to make caingins on public wood-
lands were granted by forest officers, and 30 permits on private wood-

lands were granted by municipal presidents. Complaints for making
caingins without permit against 181 persons have been filed for prosecu-
tion in accordance with section 25 of the Forest Act.

COMMUNAL FORESTS.

A circular from this Office was addressed to forest officers, requesting
them to invite the attention of municipal officials to the provisions of
the Communal Forest Act (No. 1872).

Ninety-four municipalities, townships, etc., have made application for
communal forests. These requests are forwarded to forest officers, with
instructions to examine a suitable tract, to map and report on same.
Wlien the forest is set aside, a forest map (in colors) is forwarded to
the municipality, with the papers duly authorizing the establishment of
the forest tract for municipal use. During the year twenty-one com-
munal forests were duly established.

FIRE PROTECTION.

Fire wardens are employed in the pine regions of Benguet and Lepanto-
Bontoc. The Igorots employed in this work take much interest in
suppressing fires and in awakening a sentiment against the indiscriminate
setting of fires in the pine forests and vicinity. This work will be
extended during the coming year.

REGISTRATION OF PRIVATE WOODLANDS.

Four titles to private woodlands, with a total area of 713 hectares,
were registered in the Bureau during the fiscal year. The total number
of titles to private woodlands registered in the Bureau is 179, with an
area of 285,026 hectares (704,014 acres), of which approximately 50
per cent to 75 per cent contain commercial wood.

DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION.

The main work of this division during the past year has been con-
centrated along two lines : inventory of forest resources and educational
work*

INVENTORY OF FOREST RESOURCES.
MAPS, EXTENT, AND STAND OF FOfiESTS.

Since the close of last year, data ior land classification maps have
been collected for the following regions : Northern Luzon, Masbate, Ticao,
and parts of Leyte, Negros, and Mindanao. This work, together with
that done in previous years, places the Bureau in a position to know
more accurately than ever before what forest wealth the Islands contain*

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CHARACTER OF THE FORESTS.

From a commercial standpoint, the forests can be divided roughly
into two classes; the dipterocarp forests and all others. While the divi-
sions overlap in some instances, yet in the main they are distinct. All
the large bodies of forests show that from 33 per cent to 89 per cent of
their total stand of trees over 40 centimeters (16 inches) in diameter is
composed of members of the Dipterocarpaceae, and, furthermore, that the
main bulk (46 per cent to 95 per cent of the total) of these forests is
composed of so few species that they can, from a lumberman's standpoint,
be regarded as pure stands. As these stands are heavy, running from
5,000 to 40,000 or more board feet per acre, with an estimated average
of 10,000 board feet for the whole, they are readily adapted to lumbering
on a large scale. It is roughly estimated that 75 per cent of the forest
area of the Islands is found in the dipterocarp forests. The Islands must
look to them for the bulk of timber handled for export. They produce
woods of all grades, from the hard ai\d durable Yacal, through the hard
but less durable Apitong and Guijo, to the soft grades of Tanguile and
Lauan.

The remaining 25 per cent of the forest area is found in the "mixed
hardwood" type, the mangrove swamps, and the pine forests. The
mixed hardwood type furnishes, among others, the hard and durable
Molave and Ipil, and the highly prized Narra, Tindalo, Acle, and Banuyo.
The forests that contain these are ill adapted to lumbering on a large
scale, as the trees are scattered over large areas. Exceptional stands
will yield as high as 5,000 board feet per acre for very limited areas.
The local demand for these is so great, and the cost of lumbering so
high, that it is not expected that they will produce any great amount
for export trade. x

EDUCATIONAL WORK.

The need of this work was outlined in the last report. Progress has
been made along two lines: instruction and propaganda.

INSTRUCTION.

A number of young Filipinos have been taken into the Bureau as
student assistants and given the title of temporary rangers. These men
have been given instruction in the various lines of forestry work. During
part of the month of August, a rangers' school was conducted, as men-
tioned above, on the forest tract of the Cadwallader Lumber Company,
at Limay, Bataan Province. The instruction was given in connection
with the making of a preliminary working plan for the company's logging
operation. This made the work practical. During the year, fourteen
temporary rangers were carried on the pay roll. Of these, nine have

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been kept, as adapted to the work. Some idea of the amount of work
done by these men can be obtained from the following figures :

Number of kilometers of trails run and plotted 6,015

Number of homesteads inspected 184

Number of cuttings inspected 29

Considerable office work has also been done by these men, and a large
number of herbarium and wood specimens have been collected. The
Bureau has for some time recognized that Filipinos must be the backbone
of the forest service. With a view to increasing the efficiency of the
service, by educating the Filipino in things forestry, there has been
established a course in that science in the new Agricultural College.

The immediate educational work of the coming fiscal year will be
along the lines of the' past year. A number of high school men, grad-
uates and third year students, have been obtained. After some instruc-
tion in Manila, they will be divided among the various field parties,
and will actually perform, under the direction of foresters, all forms
of forest work.

The position of head ranger is open to these men, and the most prom-
ising will be encouraged and assisted to obtain such training, either
here or in American forest schools, as will enable them to pass the
forest assistant examination. Those who succeed in passing this exam-
ination will be appointed foresters, and will then be eligible to any
position in the upper grades of the service. As soon as practicable, the
greater part of the actual management of the public forest will be turned
over to these men, and the small American force will be used for the
general direction and inspection of the forest work.

PROPAGANDA WORK.

Forestry, although practiced in the Philippines since 1863, has never
been well understood by the Filipinos. They realized neither the value
of the forests nor the benefit which might be derived from them if
properly managed. To attempt the proper care of the forests without
the aid of the people would be a difficult undertaking. It was, therefore,
thought necessary to start a systematic campaign of propaganda. A
Filipino forest officer, a graduate of the Yale Forest School, was de-
tailed to give a course of illustrated lectures. Besides awakening interest
in forests, his object was to interest high school boys in the forest
service.

In all, sixty-one lectures, mostly illustrated, have been delivered by
him and other forest officers, and it is estimated that 50,000 people have
been reached in this way. With the same object in view, 40 newspaper
bulletins relating to forestry matters were issued to 36 newspapers and
other periodicals printed in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Visayan, Bicol,
and other languages.

The result of this propaganda has created widespread interest.

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MUSEUM AND HERBARIUM COLLECTION.

The museum in Calle Anloague is ready for occupation, and the ex-
hibition part of the collection will be moved there at the beginning of
the new fiscal year.

During this fiscal year, there have been added to the museum collection
about 1,900 wood specimens, making a total of over 4,200 numbers now
oil hand, representing nearly 800 species. Of the important woods, a
large number of duplicate hand specimens have been prepared, so that
there are available for distribution practically all of the commercial
woods commonly found in the Manila market, besides many species of
importance locally in other parts of the Islands. There have been
distributed during the year to other Bureaus, to the Jbrade both in America
and Europe, to educational and scientific institutions, etc., about 2,400
hand specimens.

As the number of species in the collection increases, it becomes con-
stantly more practicable to determine specimens submitted for identifica-
tion. Hundreds of specimens have been submitted during the year.
It may be stated that it is now possible to identify, either positively or
with a fair degree of certainty, about 90 per cent of such samples.

The work of collecting herbarium specimens with wood samples has
continued during the past as in previous years. The Bureau of Forestry
series of botanical specimens in the Bureau of Science herbarium now
show a total of 18,109 numbers, an increase of approximately 4,000
over last year. The collecting of both herbarium and wood samples has
usually been incidental to the work in mapping and inspecting cuttings
and homesteads, so that the actual cost of making the collections has
been little.

Collecting is the best means of focusing the attention sufficiently on
the tree to become acquainted with it. Thus, not only are the museum
and herbarium enriched by the work done, but foresters and other
officials are obtaining a working knowledge of the trees in the forest.
Kew men should, therefore, be encouraged to make such collections.
Special attention to this work is to be given in regions in which collec-
tions have "not previously been made, in order to increase our knowledge
of the distribution of the principal forest trees.

DURABILITY TESTS AND TIMBER-TESTING LABORATORY.

Durability tests have been continued on the same lines as last year.
At the testing ground in Lamao, Bataan, 577 additional tests have been
started. The data on many of the tests begun in previous years are
now available. Also, there have been marked by forest officers in various
parts of the Islands a number of timbers actually employed in construc-
tion,* with the purpose of inspecting them periodically and recording data
thus obtained.

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As no manager could be obtained for the laboratory at the beginning
of the year, no work has been done except the preparation of museum
specimens, hand specimens, and test pieces. In November a manager
was engaged, who has had charge of the laboratory and museum work.
It is expected that a large number of woods will be tested during the
coming year.

PUBLICATIONS.

The following publications have been issued during the present fiscal
year :

Bulletin No. 8 — The Forests of Mindoro.
Bulletin No. 9. — Philippine Lignum-vitse.

Circular No. 8. — A Few Pertinent Facts Concerning the Philippine Forests
and Needs of the Forest Service That Should Interest Every Filipino.

The following is nearly ready for the printer :

Bulletin No. 10. — Preliminary Working Plan of a Timber Concession at Port
Banga, Zamboanga, Mindanao.

Partial data have been collected for the following:

1. Easy Identification of the Principal Philippine Trees.

2. A Primer of Philippine Forestry.

3. The Forests of Luzon.

George P. Ahern,
Director of Forestry.
The Secretary of the Interior,

Manila, P. I.

APPENDIX.

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STATISTICS.

Statement of applications for homesteads, purchase and lease of public lands,
certified to Bureau of Lands as more valuable for agricultural or forest
purposes.

Fiscal year.

Homesteads.

Sale.

Lease,
agri-
cul-
tural-
pur-
poses.

Grand
total.

Agri-
cul-
tural
pur-
poses.

Forest
pur-
poses.

Total.

Agri-
cul-
tural
pur-
poses.

Forest
pur-
poses.

Total.

1905 T.

80

818

881

2,466

1,528

6
16
19
51
187

86

884

900

2,507

1,710

8
20
28
49
26

.-
8

8
21
28
50
29

--

12
26*

27

94
866

985

2,588
1,766

1906. —

1907

1908

1909. _

Total

5,258

279

5,587

126

5

131

66

6,784

Note. — Number of applications for homesteads, purchase or lease of public lands,
pending inspection and certification on June 30, 1909, 1,093. ,..«^i

Under the law of Congress of 1902 (Philippine Act) no public land can be sold, if*»fd,
or homesteaded unless it is certified by the Bureau of Forestry as being more valuable
for agricultural than for forest purposes.

Report of the utilization of forest products from public and private forests, July
1, 1908, to June SO, 1909.

Provinces.

Agusan

Albay

Ambos Camarines.

Antique

Bataan

Batangas

Benguet

Bohol

Bulacanl

Cagayan

Capiz

Cavite

Cebu

Ilocoe Norte

Ilocos Sur

Iloilo

Isabela

La Laguna

La Unlon-

Lepanto-Bontoc _

Leyte

Mindoro

Miaamis

Moro

Nueva Ecija

Nueva Vizcaya

Occidental Negros .

Oriental Negros

Palawan

Pampanga

Pangasinan

Rizal

Samar

Sorsogon

Surigao

Tarlac

Tayabas :

Zambales

Total

Timber.

First
group.

Ou.

meters.

10

311

1,101

5

84

185

127

3,607

189

1

72
168
455
202

213
112
363

1,817
17

7,014

981

28

1,229
364

6,722
11
896
120
432

2,057

87

339

4,865
990

85,857

Lower
groups.

Ou.meter8.

499

1,610

24

16, 161

1,282

7,890

1,269

5,918

1,683

2,797

81

849

58

890

591

589

873

81

714

2,010

8,601

138

8,745

1,857

7

19,748

400

100

1,889

1,458

139

672

1,993

160

1,606

9,942

6,685

108,404

Total.

Cu.meters.

10

810
2,711

29
16,195
1,866
7,976
1,454
6,045
5,240
2,936
82

421

821
1,845

793
1,273

878

294

826
2,863
10,416

155

15,759

2,288

80

20,972

764
6,822
1,350
2,354

259
1,104
4,050

247
1,945
14,807
7,675

»143,761

Minor products.

Firewood. Charcoal. Dyewood,

Cu.meters.

991
4,047

126
22,201
8,652
99
4,618
8,270
2,284
17,606
8,709
8,798

311

565
14,876

2,529

276

102

4,242

5,457

'T328
463

14,766
326

1,038
21,860

5,242
19,983

8,950

9,049
8

3,271
85,881

5,468

221,635

Cu. meters.

1,166
1

29

24
118
498

*"l0
424

12

185

2,036
77
58

Quintals.*

18

18,198

8
T584
6,182

18,228

17

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Report of the utilization of forest products from public and private forests, July
1, 1908, to June SO, 1909— Continued.

Provinces.

Minor products.

Tan bark.

Dye bark.

Wood oils.

Gum mastic
(almaciga).

Rattan.

Agusan

Quintal.*

Quintals. *

Liters.

Quintals.*

Kilos.

5,990

82,088

1,045,017

3,585

38,970

129

752

2,068

33,983

336,693

8,963

1,375

30,914

275

11,231

75

2,449

403, 620

50,582

127,315

9,331

205,920

54,037"

172,334

80,598

30,924

196

18, 398

34, 165

41, 262

424, 371

16,706

16,309

108, 663

240,106

Albay

13
36
23

82
296

Ambos Camarines

Antique

Bataan

Batangas

31

29

Benguet

Bohol

326

8
122
25

224

Bulacan

19

Cagayan

Capiz

127

6,016

147

Cavite

Cebu

355

11

11,300

Ilocos Norte

Iloros Sur

Iloilo.

116

310

La Laguna

La Union

Levte

613
3,410

13
306

17,047

1

Mindoro > ..

Misamls

73

7,896

Moro

5,864
394
189
323
632

Nueva Eciia

Occidental Negros

6

85,691

9,373

184,035

Oriental Negros

Palawan

638

694

Pampanga

Pangasinan _

74

Rizal

14

Samar

611

528

13

13

394

91

1,246

Sorsogon

12

Surigao

Tarlac

16
388
19

Tayabas _

Zambales

18

Total

14,204

1,148

314, 982

9,967

3,639,389

■ Metric quintal of 220.46 pounds.

b Approximately 4,763 cubic meters, or 3.3 per cent, cut from registered private
woodlands.

Gutta-percha and rubber metric quintals.... 375

Pitch do 462

Dillmman (vine used for tying fish traps) kilos.... 10,152

Statement showing amounts of important .timbers cut in the Philippine Islands,
during the fiscal year 1909, according to invoices received by Bureau of
Internal Revenue.

Species.

Lauan

Apitong-

Guijo

Ipil

Yacal

Molave .
Narra _„.
Tanguile.
Dungon.

Amount
cut.

Cu. meters.
24,649
9,535
9,452
7,926
7,745
6,140
3,735
2,537
1,984

Species.

Supa

Calantas .
Amuguis.
Macaasin
Tindalo_.

Acle

Betis

Malugay

Amount
cut.

Cu. meters.
1,312
815
696

650
587
429
122

19

Imports and emports of lumbtr in the Philippine /•fondi.
IMPORTS.

Fiscal yew.

1907.
1908.
1909.

From the United State*.

Dutiable.

Feet B. M.

10,734,000
6,791,198
5,420,520

For United States Army (free of
duty).

Oregon
Pine.

Feet B. M.
», 008, 000
5,003,897
8,010,223

Redwood.

FeetB M.

19, 110
10,000

Other
woods.

Feet- B. it.

63,190

From other
countries.

FeetB. M

2,574,000
2,888,483
1,179,755

Tot*I.

FeetB. M.
16,816,000
13,765,828
14,620,498

EXPORTS.

To the
United
States.

To other
countries.

Total.

1907

FeetB M.

181,000
615,000
573,600

Feet B. M

71,000
310,000
120,900

Feel B. JT.
252,000
925,000
694,600

1908

1909

Import* and exports of other forest products, fiscal year 1909.

Charcoal imported from countries other than the United States.. ..kilos.... 15,433

Almaciga exported to the United States do 339,500

Almaciga exported to other countries do 515,573

Gutta-percha and rubber exported to countries other than United

States .' kilos.... 42,800

All other gums and resins exported to the United States ...do 15,916

All other gums and resins exported to other countries do. 39,760

Sapan wood exported to other countries cubic meters.... 3,670

Revenue from sale of forest products, fiscal year 1909.

Province.

Agusan

Albay

Am bos Camarines

Antique _.

Bataan

Batangas

Bohol

Bulacan

Gagayan _

Capiz

Cavite

Cebu

Ilocoe Norte _.

Ilocos8ur

Iloiio

Isabela

La Laguna—

La Union

Leyte

Manila

ri99.

4,005.

11,093.

224.

4,962.

1,461.

1,161.

4,736.

7, 144.

3,065.

1,235.

5,995.
936.

2,665.
15,083.

3, 437.

1,042.

1,571.

6,497.
96,043

i.71 |
• 95 I

17

66

43

Province.

Mindoro__

Misamts

Moro_ _.

Mountain

Nueva Ecija

Nueva Vizcaya ...
Occidental Ntgros
Oriental Negros...

Palawan

Pampanga.

Fangasinan _

Rizal

Sam a r

Sorsogon

Surigao

Tarlac.

TayalMM

Zam bales

Total

626.70
497.58
497.97
393.86
518.60
104.26
892.77
788.76
172.82
486.18
860.88
623.55
400.45
097.79
970.89
548.10
538.16
802.63

251,380.00

20
Ewpenditures of Bureau of Forestry, July 1, 1908, to June SO, 1909.

OF^CE FOBqE AND GENEBAL EXPENSES.

Salaries and wages 1*22,636.62

Per diems T. 59.45

Postage and telegrams 614.94

Transportation .f! .....:>. 578.80

Other field expenses .^-.V..*r. v 32.07

Office rent 1.431.40

Printing and binding , 1,262.47

Supplies, etc 2,346.99

Purchase wood samples, etc 464.45

Refunds after expiration of contract service 1,565.03

Repairs and miscellaneous expenses 2,326.01

F33,318.23

DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION.

Salaries and wages f*:?4,120.06

Labor hire 788.02

Per diems 4,913.47

Postage and telegrams 256.81

Transportation 4,494.42

Other field expenses 1,430.35

Office rent 384.00

— 46,387.13

DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION.

Salaries and wages f*25,885. 33

Labor hire : .' 3,233.24

Per diems 2,382.51

Postage and telegrams 34.40

Transportation 1,871.86

Other field expenses ,........:.... 146.20

33,553.54

Expenditures of fiscal year 1909 113,258.90

Outstanding liabilities, fiscal year 1908 (paid during fiscal year

1909) . 1,790.18

Total expenditures fiscal year 1909 115,049.08

Outstanding liabilities fiscal year 1909 186.07

115,235.15

BEC APITULATION .

Appropriation for fiscal year 1909 1*110,000.00

Balance from fiscal year 1908 „ 5,382.14

Miscellaneous receipts — 488.15

Total amount available 115,870.29

Total expenditures, fiscal year 1909 115,049.08

Balance on hand June 30, 1909 821.21

Outstanding obligations 186.07

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