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2. What is the weight per cubic meter, or what is the form of the wood 

 used? How long does it lie before it is put in work? 



3. What products are principally intended to be manufactured: 

 Charcoal. Anhydrous tar. 



Charcoal bricks. Tar oils and creosote. 



Brown acetate of lime. Crude wood spirit of turpentine. 



Gray acetate of lime. White deodoriferous pine oil. 



Crude wood spirit. Pine tar oil. 



Refined wood spirit. Crystallized acetate of sodium. 



Pure methyl-columbia spirit. Acetate of sodium, free of water. 



Acetic acid in all kinds of quality. Formaldehyde. 



Acetic acid for vinegar. Paraformaldehyde. 



Acetone. 



4. Is there a market for charcoal, and at what price? 



5. Is there a market for tar, and at what price? 



6. What kind of fuel may be had and at what price? 



7. Is cooling water to be had (state whether fresh or salt water), and 

 what is the mean temperature? 



8. Is running water in the neighborhood? 



9. Describe the local conditions (distance to nearest railroad station 

 or steamship landing place, harbor, etc., as well as character and condition 

 of roads, etc.). 



10. Is there any junction for railway or ship? 



11. What is the freight for the products as far as the next place of 

 consumption? 



12. What is the freight for apparatus and machinery from manufacturer 

 to place of factory? 



13. Are there any buildings to be utilized? 



14. Are there any repair shops and how large are they? 



15. Are there gratuitous plots of land existing? 



16. What are the prices for building materials, such as brick, wood, 

 mortar, etc.? 



17. What is the price for finished buildings above the ground: in brick, 

 in framework, in sheet-iron roofs? 



18. What is the price for high-furnace-masonry, of brick stone, or 

 chamotte? 



19. What is the price for iron-fittings for furnaces per hundred pounds? 



It may be readily seen that many of these questions might 

 be answered favorably to the installation of a plant in the 

 Philippines, while at the present time others make it seem 

 impossible as a commercial success. 



From a study of the statistics of the Islands it seems probable 

 that a market for the products of a wood-distillation industry 

 could be found in the Philippines and near-by ports. Wood 

 alcohol is used commercially as a denaturant and as a solvent for 

 fats, oils, and resins. It is also used in the manufacture of 

 aniline colors, smokeless powder, and formaldehyde and in 



