•Jrptciubi-r 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Snapshots of a Philippine Lumber Operation 



Cutting Mahogany Tree From Bamboo Scaffold 



To the minds of persons bred in temperate or cold climes things 

 tropical always suggest romance and mystery, the thrill of contact 

 with savage and elemental forces, with passions less restrained and 

 more fierce than those of the colder latitudes. Even an industrial 



General View of Insular Lumber Co. Mill and Native Town, Fabrica, Negros, 

 Philippine Islands 



undertaking in the tropics seems to those not of the tropics less 

 jn-osaic than similar uMdertal<ings in tlieir native regions. To cite 

 a specific case, this suggestion of tropical romance hangs thickly 

 about five photographs showing various details of the operations ot 

 tlu' Insular Lumber Company in the Philippine Islands. 



These photographs were brought back from the Philippines by 

 A. E. Edgcomb of Philadelphia, Pa., general sales manager of the 

 Insular Lumber Company, who recently completed an eight months" 



Large Tree Mentioned in Article, 11 Feet in Diameter, 24 Feet Up From Ground 



tour of the Orient, during which he visited his company's opera- 

 tions on Negros Island, three hundred miles south of Manila. The 

 company's mill site is called Fabrica and there is operated the 

 most modern sawmill in the Islands. This mill contains four band 

 saws and is capable of producing three million feet of lumber per 

 month. Adjacent to the saw mill the company has three large open 

 sheds under wliich is dried Iuml)er for export. 



Loading Barges at Dock, Fabrica 



The company uses ten skidders to bring the logs to the railroad 

 and load them on the cars. They have five locomotives which draw 

 the log trains to the mill. The timber which the company is 

 cutting is very large and one log often fills a car. When ihr. Edg- 

 comb arrived at Fabrica after the trip down from Manila on the 



Native Prow Being Poled Down Stream With Cargo of Lumber 



