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merchant dealers and grocers, 58 mari- 

 ners, and 1 8 miners. Many of these had 

 received civil- service appointments from 

 the United States. The administrative 

 acts of the Bureau during 1904 were pre- 

 viously described by Colonel Edwards in 

 the National Geographic Magazine 

 of June and July. 



" The question of labor in the Philip- 

 pines has ceased to be a critical one, 

 says the Collector of Customs for the 

 Philippine Islands in his report for 

 1904. Despite the gloomy predictions 

 of many thoroughly sincere investi- 

 gators and writers on the subject, the 

 Filipino laborer has conclusively dem- 

 onstrated that he is a practicable and 

 dependable element in the industrial 

 development of the Islands. In the 

 past two years several immense enter- 

 prises have been successfully carried on 

 solely with the aid of Filipino laborers. 

 All goods arriving at or leaving the port 

 of Manila are handled by natives. Dur- 

 ing the past year the operation of the 

 customs 'Arrastre plant ' has been en- 

 tirely in the hands of native labor, in- 

 cluding the steam tramway and four 

 large steam cranes. 



"The Filipinos make good clerks, 

 copyists, typewriters, sub-inspectors, 

 and, in some instances, excellent fidu- 

 ciary officers. In the handling of cash, 

 in subordinate positions, they have 

 shown a high degree of accuracy and 

 integrity. As marine officers and engi- 

 neers, especially in the latter position, 

 they have exhibited a skill, fidelity, and 

 courage which entitle them to unstinted 

 admiration." 



TRANSPORTATION IN ENGLAND 



AT the present time, when there is 

 so much comment on transporta- 

 tion rates in the United States, the fol- 

 lowing statements from an American 

 consul in England of conditions in that 

 country may surprise some of us:* 



*W. P. Smith, U. S. consul. Tunstall, Eng- 

 land, Consular Reports, January 25, 1905. 



' ' The carriage for a ton of apples 

 from Folkstone, on the south coast of 

 England, to London, is $5.86, while 

 goods of the same class are carried from 

 California to London for $3.81. It costs 

 $9-73 t° send a ton of British meat from 

 Liverpool to London, while it costs only 

 $6.09 to send a ton of foreign meat to 

 the same market. The Irish farmer 

 who wants to get his produce to London 

 has to pay $22.88 carriage per ton on 

 his eggs from Gal way, while the Danish 

 farmer can send eggs into the London 

 market for $5.85, the Russian for $5. 10, 

 and the farmer in Normandy for $4.05. 

 The man down in Kent, who is almost 

 at the London market, has to pay $6. 10 

 per ton to the railway companies for 

 carrying the produce of his orchard to 

 London, while the same class of freight 

 is brought from Holland for half the 

 money." 



TO OBSERVE SOLAR ECLIPSE 



REAR Admiral C. M. Chester, su- 

 perintendent of the Naval Ob- 

 servatory, has submitted a recommenda- 

 tion for provision for a naval expedition 

 in 1905 to observe a total solar eclipse. 

 He proposes to select an observation 

 station among the high hills bordering 

 on the Mediterranean, to work with 

 some ship as a base near Valencia, and 

 another station in the uplands, with 

 headquarters on board a vessel on the 

 northeast coast of Spain. 



Ranges of Arizona* — David Griffiths is 

 the author of a recent bulletin pub- 

 lished by the Department of Agricult- 

 ure, describing the ranges of Arizona 

 and the measures necessary for their 

 protection. The ranges can carry with- 

 out injury one horse or cow to 50 or 

 100 acres. The range-owners have 

 lately begun goat-raising with consid- 

 erable profit. The picture on page 85 

 shows a flock of goats on one of these 

 ranges. Excessive stocking has been 

 destroying the value of the ranges. 



