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several thousand natives under one management and 

 where every consideration was shown them, and the 

 results have been most gratifying. At the rock quar- 

 ries near Mariveles, the workmen have their families 

 with them ; they are provided with horses, good food, 

 and are treated justly and given their wages when 

 due. The Depot Quartermaster of the Army in 

 Manila employs between one and two thousand natives 

 and reports very favorably on the work done. The 

 engineers building the electric tramway in Manila 

 report that the cost of laying each hundred feet of track 

 in Manila averages less in cost than elsewhere; that 

 the work is done well and that the labor is very satis- 

 factory; and that there is not the slightest difficulty 

 encountered in keeping the men to their work. The 

 record made for coaling ships in Manila Bay made by 

 the native Filipino was better than that of the Chinese 

 or others employed in a similar capacity in the Bay. 



The native Filipino will learn modern logging meth- 

 ods very quickly and well; he is keen at handling 

 machinery, but needs some one to look over his work 

 occasionally. The wage paid is of little consideration 

 with the native. He may work for one man at 25 

 cents a day and refuse to work for another at $i a day. 

 His employer may owe him several weeks' wages, but 

 if the native is treated unjustly and his feelings are 

 injured, he may disappear and say nothing about the 

 wages due. If a company contemplates operations 

 on a large scale, the difficulty of securing a sufficient 

 number of laborers will be minimized by starting in 

 well. Give each family a small native house ; bamboo 

 is cheap. They should have their church, assembly 

 hall, cockpit, and music, all of which can be secured at 

 small expense. 



The market for Philippine timber at present is 



