

AMERICAN FORESTRY 



his work rendered 



: ig of forest studies to 



value of the stands 



hout extensive 



information thus gained, 



by reliable data relative 



of transportation and 



bettering them, af- 



quate foundation for a 



ty campaign which has been 



itly waged with a considerable 



lumbermen who attempted 



to introduce modern machinery and 



ound that they had much to 



tally in the matter of milling 



Many of the hard woods are 



difficult to work and feeds had to be 



cut down to avoid stripping the teeth 



En >m the saws. Indeed up to the present 



time it has proved impracticable to use 



band saws successfully in milling the 



harder woods. Little by little the 



skidding engine and the logging railway 



took the place of the slow -moving 



carabao and up-to-date methods are 



now iirmh lished. 



Philippine forest lands are not subject 

 to alienation. Wood cutters pay a very 

 moderate stumpage tax. Many lum- 

 bermen work under annual licenses 

 which may or may not be exclusive, but 

 such an arrangement would of course 

 not justify the investment of large 

 capital in the construction of logging 

 roads or the installation of expensive 

 machinery, and persons wishing to 

 operate on a large scale are granted 

 twenty-year license agreements cover- 

 ing tracts as large as they can reason- 

 ably be expected to utilize during the 

 time the licenses run. Such concessions 

 are in each case granted to the highest 

 and best bidder after being duly adver- 

 tised. They cost nothing, the "bid" 

 covering such items as the amount to 

 be invested, the value and character 

 of the plant to be installed, the time 

 within which operations will begin, 

 the scale on which they will be con- 

 ducted, the guaranteed minimum annual 

 cut, and in some instances the percentage 

 of the total cut which will be offered 

 for sale to the public and the maximum 





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Hauling Logs in the Philippines. 



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