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erected. The first regular shipment of ties is about to be made. 
No accurate estimate either of the amount of timber or the exact 
area covered by forests of the commercial class have yet been 
made, but the area is sufficient and the stand heavy enough to 
justify the continuation of lumbering operations for a considerable 
time. 
The fact that none of the native trees in Hawaii furnish con- 
struction timber has led to 'extensive tree planting, both by the 
Territorial Government and by private interests. This work has 
been going on for the last thirty years and is constantly increasing 
in extent and importance. The trees principally planted are sev- 
eral kinds of Eucalyptus, the Australian Ironwood and Silk Oak 
and the Japanese Cedar. Wood and timber cut from the planted 
forests in Hawaii is now being used for fence posts, railroad ties, 
bridge timbers and wagon work. Practically all the construction 
timber used in Hawaii is imported from Puget Sound and North- 
ern California, mainly Redwood and Northwest (Douglas Fir). 
In the reports of the U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor 
it is stated that for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1907, there 
was imported into Hawaii from the mainland thirty million six 
hundred and three thousand feet, board measure, of timber boards 
and planks, valued at S565425.00. For the same year 17.476,000 
shingles, valued at $39,207.00 and other unmanufactured lumber 
to the value of $116,756 were also imported, making in all a total 
of $721,388.00 for unmanufactured wood products. The value of 
manufactured wood products imported during the same fiscal 
year was $214,648.00. Further comment on the desirability of 
doing even a little towards securing a local source of supply is 
unnecessary. 
It may perhaps be pertinent in closing this statement to note 
that a forest fire law similar to that of California was enacted 
by the Territorial Legislature at the Session of 1905. The Terri- 
torial Superintendent of Forestry is ex officio Chief Fire Warden 
and provision is made for a corps of District Fire Wardens to be 
paid for duty actually performed. 
As a matter of fact plantation managers and other influential 
citizens agreed to take these positions without remuneration. The 
law provides penalties in case of damage resulting from the care- 
less or malicious use of fire. Since its enactment there have been 
lew fires of consequence, due in part to a better public sentiment 
created by the presence of the law on the statute books and to the 
interest aroused in the matter at the time of the enactment of the 
law. 
Following is a table showing the names, location, dates of 
proclamation and areas of the 16 forest reserves so far established 
in the Territory of Hawaii. 
(Signed) Ralph S. Hosmer, 
A. Gartley, 
Committee on Forests. 
