AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Among the Benguet Pines. 



A SAMPLE OF THE ADMIRABLE ROADS CONSTRUCTED UNDER THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION. 



some years since. An unsuccessful 

 rt was made at that time to have it 

 i dated with the bureau of agri- 

 culture, and it has since had to struggle 

 to justify its existence as a separate entity 

 A the executive official exercising 

 1 over it, I sought to accomplish 

 two things. The first was to demon- 

 it. its continued existence was 

 tified "ii financial grounds, regardless 

 of the importance of preventing wasteful 

 foresl destruction, by the increase in 

 which resulted from 

 in stimulating healthful 

 development of the lumber industry, 

 the bureau of internal 

 >llcct the amounts due the 

 rnment from lumbermen. 

 My efforts in this regard met with a 



considerable degree of success. I was 

 at first refused an increased appropria- 

 tion necessary if officers of the Forest 

 Service were to be sent into the great 

 island of Mindanao, where practically 

 unrestricted cutting operations were 

 being conducted, and was advised that 

 I could in my own discretion take such 

 officers from other places where they 

 were then employed and put them into 

 this territory if I felt that their presence 

 there would result in profit to the govern- 

 ment. I acted upon this suggestion 

 and the increase in forest revenue from 

 Mindanao within a year was such as 

 fully to demonstrate the correctness of 

 my contention. This brought a small 

 permanent increase in the working force 

 of the bureau. 



