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"A section able to produce such a variety of tropical articles 
as may be produced in the Hawaiian Islands, and having free 
access to a market demanding - such enormous quantities of 
those various articles as does the market of the United States, 
ought to become not merely prosperous, as it already is, but 
one of the most prosperous and perhaps the most prosperous 
of all the tropical communities of the world." 
The full realization of this prospect is of course absolutely 
dependent upon adequate transportation facilities. 
Steamship communication between the different islands and 
with the ports of the mainland has witnessed a great improve- 
ment during the year just passed with an absolute certainty 
of early additional betterment. 
The building of macadamized roads, belt lines and feeders, 
is being pushed on all the islands of the group. 
In fact, every local interest seems to be united in a deter- 
mined effort to place Hawaii's transportation facilities on a 
par with her almost unlimited agricultural possibilities. 
WOOD PRODUCTION IN GERMANY. 
Among all the nations of the world Germany receives the 
credit of being the most thoroughly scientific. She does with 
her limited natural resources what younger nations will soon 
be compelled to do in self-protection ; she conserves them. 
When our wood supplies are within sight of their end, and 
sawmills that have been moved from the white pine belt of the 
north to the yellow pine belt of the south, have been moved 
to the Pacific Coast for their last stand, then Germany's scien- 
tific forestry policy will receive better recognition. 
We do not think of moving a grist mill about from one 
wheat field to another, as the fields in turn become exhausted. 
After one crop is harvested another is coming on. So it must 
be with the sawmill and the crop of trees. If it takes 50 
years to raise a tree of a given species, then one-fiftieth of the 
forest may be cut each year, provided it reseeds or is replanted 
— and the sawmill stays at the same place and the workmen 
live in their permanent homes near by; the "lumber shanty" 
will be a thing of the past; raising trees a business like rais- 
ing wheat. 
