(Prom the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Y.'ar Department,) 



PHILIPPINE FORESTS FOR RELEASE Y/HEi: 



INVITE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE RECEIVED. 



The first big sale of Pnilippine timber, offering 

 opportunities for lumbermen in the United States, has just 

 been announced by the bureau of insular affairs of the war 

 department* 



TThile there are American firms operating in the 

 Philippines, it is pointed out by the officials of the burepoi 

 that the Philippine islands offer to progressive lumbermen 

 chances for profits not excelled by any other field in the 

 world* The forest officers of the Philippines state that 

 the islands contain 200 billion feet of merchantable timber 

 for which there is a large present demand and that practi- 

 cally all of it is owned by the government and is available 

 under very favorable terras. In almost all cases the forests 

 can be easily logged by the most improved machinery and methods. 



The timber itself, it is pointed out, includes 

 structural material of great value, in addition to many fine 

 hardwoods particularly suited to cabinet work. In this latter 

 class some of the most plentiful woods may bo sold in competi- 

 tion with mahogany, such is their beauty of grain and richness 



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