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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It is a Dipterocarp forest, that is, composed 

 mostly of almon, lauan, apitong and tanguile. 



In the well-forested region of northeastern 

 Mindoro is another suitable tract of some 

 200 square miles. It is located west of Lako 

 Xaujan and about thirteen miles from Cala- 

 pan, the provincial capital. This also is a 

 Dipterocarp forest. A rough survey showed 

 an average stand of about 20,000 board feet 

 per acre. Logs may be rafted across the lake 

 and down the river to the coast or a tram- 

 way built direct to Calapan, which is about 

 iwelve hours by steamer to Manila. 



On the northern half of the peninsula of 

 Bataan, across the bay from Manila, is an- 

 other forest tract suitable for a large lum- 

 bering operation. Although logging is much 

 more difficult here than on the other tracts 

 mentioned, the proximity to Manila makes it 

 a good proposition. 



The public forests of the Philippine Islands 

 are not sold, but are exploite<l under a license 

 system. In the case of large operations in- 

 volving the investment of considerable capital 

 in permanent enterprises, exclusive licenses 

 are granted for periods up to twenty years 

 for definite large tracts of timber, which 

 licenses are practically equivalent to conces- 

 sions. 



Applications for exclusive licenses on tracts 

 not exceeding 2,500 acres in area arc for- 

 warded by the Director of Forestry, after due 

 investigation, to the Secretary of the Interior 

 with recommendations. The secretary may 

 then grant an exclusive license if he decides 

 that it is in the public interest. For an area 



of more than 2,500 acres when the Secretary 

 of the Interior is convinced that the granting 

 of an exclusive license is in the public in- 

 terest, proposals for bids to secure the said 

 privilege are published in the Official Gazette 

 and other newspapers. The license will then 

 be granted to the highest and best bidder 

 who offers to install the most complete and 

 efficient plant most promptly and to do the 

 greatest amount of annual development work 

 and who furnishes the best bond as a guar- 

 anty of performance. 



The right to reject any and all bids is 

 expressly resened, and' in general it may be 

 stated that no exclusive license will be ap- 

 proved except upon a reasonable showing that 

 the licensee will be able within the period 

 fixed in his license actually to exploit the 

 resources of the forest tract covered by it. 

 The man who meana business must show the 

 government that he really intends to develop 

 the tract for which he secures an exclusive 

 license and will protect the interests of the 

 public in the concession. 



The Bureau of Forestry is now in a position 

 tc assist lumbermen desiring to locate here. 

 Some have recently made applications for 

 exclusive licenses for large tracts and have 

 found the maps and information furnished 

 them by the bureau of great value. Trained 

 foresters with two or more years of experience 

 iu the Philippine forests will be placed at 

 the service of lumbermen to assist them in 

 will be sent on application to interested 

 finding siiitable forest tracts. 



The available publications of Ihr bureau 

 parlies. 



Builders of Lumber History, 



XLMHEK 



Bicliard E. McLean. 



(.S(T Purtrail Supplcnioir i 

 It is a well-tried aphorism that a man can 

 have anything he wants in this world, provided 

 he wants it badly. Those people who are in 

 veighing against the present order of things 

 and arraigning class against class by their 

 constant reference to the successful man as 

 one favored by the gods, and the unsuccessful 

 man as a failure through no fault of his own, 

 are discontented simply because they look for 

 the things which bring discontent and warped 

 iudginent into their lives. 



America is a country of self-made men. 

 Only a very small proportion of the rich men 

 of today have become so except by their own 

 efforts, and it is a fact that has been demon- 

 strated thousands of times that it a man 

 wants wealth, fame, honor, or any other thing 

 that the world holds of great worth, he can 

 Snd it in America, provided he wants it bad 

 enough to bend every energy, every waking 

 thought and every talent that he possesses to 

 that end. 



The successful man in any walk of life is 

 the man who "likes the game," who studies 

 it from every point of view, and who plays it 

 for all that it is worth. Such a man is Rich- 

 ard Earlc McLean, a slight appreciation of 

 whom the Hardwood Record is privileged to 

 place before its readers in this issue. 



Mr. McLean was l.orii in the I'rovince of 

 New Brunswick, and perhaps some of his sue 

 cess may bo attributed to his sturdy Scotch 

 parentage, his father being one of New Bnins- 

 wiok's pioneer lumbermen, who brought to the 

 new country all the canny Scotch acumen and 

 dogged persistency of the race. 



Mr. McLean attended school until the death 

 of his father, which occurred when the boy 

 was in his early 'teens. Then, with the am- 

 bitions of youth .seething within him, the 

 Province of New Brunswick began to look 

 small, and he was' seized with an unconquer- 

 able desire to see the outside world. He first 

 went to Aristook county, Maine, and naturally, 

 as his boyhood days had been filled with his 

 father's talk of lumber and lumbering, he 

 first applied himself to Hale & Murchie. where 

 he took his initial degree in the great business 

 school of life. 



It seemed to him, however, that Horace 

 Oreeley's advice held the kernel of success 

 for the young man of business without capi- 

 tal, and as soon as pos.siblc he decided that he 

 would go West. It took him some little time 

 to save enough money to make the journey, 

 but in the eighties, after studying the various 

 railroad maps, he counted his funds and de- 

 cided that Michigan was about as far as his 

 exchequer would warrant him going the first 

 year, nnd soon after he arrived in Ksciiniiba. 



without friends or acquaintances, full of grit 

 and belief in himself — but with no employ- 

 ment in sight and only a very little money. 



Naturally his first move was to look for a 

 sawmill, because by this means Mr. McLean 

 had already decided to conquer in the business 

 world, and sawmills looked like home to him. 

 He found one at Flat Rock, near Escanaba, 

 Michigan, owned and operated by the Luding- 

 ton Company, since reorganized as the I. Ste- 

 phenson Company, and went to work as a 

 common mill-hand. There was no work 

 around the yards and the mill that he did 

 not find and do at different times. You see, 

 he "liked the game." and was playing it just 

 as scientifically as he knew how. When the 

 sawmill shut down in the winter he went out 

 with a crew cleaning out the river, locating 

 and building camps. Later on he scaled for 

 the company's camps, and also scaled their 

 purchased product. 



At this time he realized, if he would suc- 

 ceed, he must have more schooling, and he 

 attended night school wherever the opportu- 

 nity accorded, and he always studied nights 

 if he got through his work before midnight. 

 Mr. McLean was not worrying himself about 

 the eight-hour schedule and union wages, but 

 he was buying a future which he knew would 

 bring him great returns. When he had mas- 

 tered every detail of lumber production, not 

 only the woods work, logging and railway 

 building, but also the handling of camp af- 

 fairs, he went to work in the office, where, of 

 course, his knowledge of cost of ])roduction 

 and other practical details stood him in good 

 stead, and soon he was given charge of the 

 office and the merchandise department. This 

 ho handled with such great skill that soon he 

 became the superintendent of the company's 

 business, a position which he still holds, anil 

 perhaps no man in the country is better 

 equipped for this office, as there is no work 

 in the way of lumbering and manufacturing 

 of lumber, from the tree-felling to its niauu 

 facture into lumber or hardwood flooring, that 

 he has not worked at. The I. Stephenson 

 Company are manufacturers of white pine, 

 cedar and hardwood forest products and have 

 one of the largest maple tlooring factories in 

 the country, and all of the company's business 

 is under the management of its secretary and 

 general nmnager. Richard Earle McLean. 



Mr. McLean married, in 1900, Miss Eva 

 Roberts of Escanaba, and the.v have one son 

 seven years old. Perhaps in all the Michigan 

 lumber country there is no man better loved 

 than is Mr. McLean. He is very companion- 

 able and his smile fairly radiates a face which 

 shows tremendous mental capacity and softens 

 the contour of a very forceful chin, giving to 

 the somewhat stern mouth an upward cur\-e 

 which speaks of a saving grace — a great sense 

 of humor. He also has the power of being 

 able to forget business, and he will play at 

 sociability with enthusiastic good fellowship 

 and jovial heartiness — only the next moment 

 to be the hard-headed business man. whose 

 judgment is as conser\-ative as it is imme- 

 diate. 



An honorable business reputation, a circle 

 of true friends, a devoted wife and promising 

 child: these are the things Richard Earle Mc 

 Lean wanted bad enough to wre.st from life, 

 and who shall say that there is anything .^f 

 greater worth ? 



