EDITORIAL. 
BAMBOO FOR PAPER PULP IN BATAAN PROVINCE, LUZON. 
Richmond: has estimated the cost of bamboo pulp production 
in Bataan Province, Luzon, and says: 
“T can state positively that there are a number of areas of bamboo of 
uniform stand within 5 kilometers of the seacoast, any one of which would 
supply a pulp mill of 20 tons daily capacity indefinitely.” 
However, at that time no definite information as to the area 
covered with bamboo was available. These data have now been 
supplied through a survey made in October, 1911, by Mr. Rafael 
Medina, temporary assistant forester of the Bureau of Forestry, 
under the direction of Major George P. Ahern, director of the 
Bureau of Forestry, and the most important parts of the report 
are given in the following extract. 
As a result of this work, two contiguous areas of cana 6070 
were located; the first (block A) is embraced between kilometers 
51 and 61 of the Patrol Trail, the Tama River, Botadero Creek 
(a tributary of the Tama River), the sitio? Salapungan, the 
Orani River, and the setio Album; embracing an area of ap- 
proximately 1,200 hectares of which it can be said with cer- 
tainty that 800 hectares contain dense bojo. The second area 
(block B) is comprised between kilometers 62 and 66 of the 
Patrol Trail, the Bacon River to the sitio Baldugan, and the 
sitio Alupag, taking in an area of approximately 650 hectares, 
of which rather more than 40 per cent is covered with bojo. 
In addition, smaller areas of cafia bojo are found along the 
Rivers Bamban, Binasao, Pinulot, and Bacon, which form the 
basin of the River Colo, and also in the basin of the River Malabo 
or Balsic. 
This block is less heavily covered with bojo, containing a 
greater portion of timber trees. Its development can best be 
accomplished by means of a donkey engine and cable, avoiding 
*This Journal, Sec. A (1910), 5, 242. The value of bamboo pulp is 
discussed in an editorial in Trop. Life (1911), 7, 176. 
* Bojo, a bamboo of the genus Schizostachyum. 
* Sitio, a place. 
111016——5 : 121 
