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pany state : "We employ approximately 2,500 to 3,000 pounds 

 of papaya gum per year and obtain it at from $1.90 to $2.20 

 per pound. At present there is a great scarcity of good gum." 

 Another firm writes: "We are willing to pay $3 per pound for 

 really good juice and will take all that we can get at that price." 

 There seems to be no reason why the Philippines should not 

 supply the world's market with good, clean, active gum produced 

 under careful supervision and by scientific methods. 



The report of the Iloilo sugar laboratory is made separately 

 on page 57. 



DIVISION OF MINES 



Personnel. — The staff of this division was seriously depleted 

 during the year 1913 after it was definitely determined that a 

 reduction in the staff for the ensuing year would be necessary. 

 Where formerly we had five civil service men and one temporary 

 geologist in this division, we now have only three authorized posi- 

 tions for geologists. At present the chief of the division and 

 one other geologist are on duty. Mr. F. A. Dalburg went on 

 leave in May, 1913, and subsequently resigned, effective No- 

 vember 14, 1913, and Mr. Paul R. Fanning went on leave on 

 June 14, 1913, and did not return owing to the fact that his 

 position was not provided for by the appropriation bill. Mr. 

 Percy D. Kincaid, a temporary employee, resigned and left the 

 service on April 30, 1913. Dr. Warren D. Smith, formerly chief 

 of the division, resigned on June 16, 1914. Mr. Wallace E. Pratt 

 was appointed chief of the division, effective June 16, 1914, and 

 the work of the division, except the drafting and some of the 

 assaying, was performed by him alone until Mr. Victor E. Led- 

 nicky, a new appointee, arrived from the United States and 

 began service on October 22. Mr. A. E. W. King, of the division 

 of general, inorganic, and physical chemistry, was assigned to 

 assist with the assaying. By strenuous efforts Mr. Pratt and 

 his assistants have completed a large amount of standard work, 

 but it is essential that the staff of this division be maintained 

 at not less than the full quota of three well-trained and well-paid 

 scientific men if the work which the division does is to continue. 

 Mr. I. J. Davis, a civil engineer in the employ of the Federal 

 Government, was appointed an assistant of this division in 

 March, 1914, without remuneration, and has devoted his spare 

 time to work in the laboratory. Mr. R. A. Rowley, professor 

 of geology in the University of the Philippines, has been con- 

 tinuing his petrographic study of Palawan rocks — begun when 

 he was a partial employee of the Bureau of Science — and has 



