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 WHERE THE TIMBER WILL COAIE FROM. 



So far from this being- the case, the fact is that ahnost this 

 entire contract will be filled with timber cut from the arable 

 lands of the Olaa and Puna Sugar Companies, which, in ordi- 

 nary process, they; are clearing for the cultivation of sugar 

 cane. 



Heretofore the timber cleared from similar lands has been 

 removed at large expense and burned on the ground to get 

 rid of it. 



Under this contract the timber will be removed at no ex- 

 pense to the plantations and a handsome stumpage will be 

 paid to them instead. 



Just how much more Ohia there is available for lumbering 

 cannot now be definitely stated, without much more careful 

 examination than has heretofore been given to the subect, 

 but it is entirely conservative to say that there is ten times 

 as much more available Ohia as that involved in this contract 

 without in any way interfering with water conserving forests. 



Comparatively little of the Ohia forest available for lum- 

 bering is suitable for cultivation. The great bulk of it is on 

 land so rocky or so steep, or at such elevations as to make 

 agriculture impracticable for any products now known to be 

 profitable. 



In consequence of this fact the great bulk of the Ohia forest 

 land will continue to be forest land. Whether they will con- 

 tinue to produce only Ohia timber is a question which the 

 future must determine, after intelligent study by forestry ex- 

 perts has been given to the subject. It may very well be 

 that it will pay to substitute the slow growing Ohia tree, as 

 the mature Ohia forest is removed, with the quicker growing 

 hardwood trees wdiich are so easily propagated here. 



NO' FEAR OF FOREST DESTRUCTION. 



The people of Hawaii need have no fear that the present 

 move to make valuable the heretofore waste forests of Hawaii, 

 is a move toward denudation of the forest and the carrying 

 on of the policy of forest destruction which has heretofore 

 prevailed so generally. 



The one railroad tie contract above referred to means that 

 there will, within the next five y;ears, be brought into this 

 Territory approximately two and one-half million dollars in 

 gold coin which, but for that contract, would never have come 

 here. 



It means that this contract will demonstrate that lumber 

 production can be made one of our leading industries. This 

 is with the proviso, however, that such lumbering is done 

 under intelligent supervision and is followed up by intelligent 



