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the utilization is completed, the work will be at once started 

 in accordance with the programme. 



5. Fishery being the most prosperous undertaking of the 

 island, forests along the coast which have connection with the 

 coaxing of the finny tribes shall be preserved as the fish 

 inviting forescs and shall be left outside the utilization 

 programme mentioned in item II. 



6. Coal fields are found everywhere in the island, the 

 amount of the coal being estimated at several hundred million 

 tons, and therefore forests situated on the convenient positions 

 for supplying timber needed for miring purposes accompanying 

 the development of the coal mining in future will be kept as 

 reserve forests and shall be left outside the utilization program- 

 me of item II. 



(Ill) The Exploitation of the State forests in Formosa. 

 The district where the greater part of the State forests in 

 Formosa lies, is inhabited by the barbarians who have not been 

 brought under the civilizing influence and frequently they 

 inflict damages upon the people crossing the boundary lines. 

 Until these barbarians are tamed and made good citizen* of. 

 the Empire, the utilization of these forests and genya is next 

 to impossible, so that there are large numbers of forests still 

 left untouched, only a small portion of which being utilized 

 but from year to year the crude savages are being brought 

 under the Imperial influence and converted into what is called 

 " tamed savages " so that no small portion of the forests is being 

 exploited. There is a number of places where the timber 

 industry has been carried by the people where Hi-no-ki 

 {Chamaecyparis obtusa S. et Z.) and Beni-Hi (Chamaccyparzs 



