RECONNAISSANCE IX PHILIPPINES AND BORNEO Oi7 



where practically all of the work has been done. The vast interior 

 of the State is still, from a forest standpoint, unexplored. However, 

 as the development of the interior must wait upon that of the more 

 accessible areas, there seems little present need for an attempt to de- 

 termine the total stand. With the data so far gathered it would be 

 impossible to make a complete comparison as to total stand in the 

 Philippines and Borneo, but as most of the work that has been done in 

 the Philippines has been in areas which it was hoped would be later 

 developed, the figures given above may be of use as indicating the re- 

 lation between commercially accessible forest areas in the two countries. 

 It is certain that these two regions, and probable that all Malaysia, 

 contain large accessible areas carrying stands of timber so closely 

 related in character as to permit it to be marketed under a few trade 

 names and dense enough to warrant large capitalization and intensive 

 logging methods. Much more detailed reconnaissance work is required 

 before even a small percentage of this vast potential supply can be 

 realized, but it is apparent that the development of tropical forests 

 is on the eve of a vast extension, and Whit ford's prediction that "* * * 

 some tropical regions will become practically independent of foreign 

 supplies and will be furnishing their next-door neighbors * * * " jg 

 in a fair way of realization. 



