reasonably certain that any attempt to operate on the Baysno river 
would come to an early grief, it need not be credited to any one 
of tho conditions sbovo referred to or implied, for there are abun 
dant roosons for such a predicted failure in the material itself. 
To those who have a thorough knowledge of the woods growing along 
the Baysno river, know tho chsracteroif.the forest, and arc famil¬ 
iar with the market conditions end the requirements of the wood 
users in tho United States, it does not seem sdviseable to launch 
o logging and milling operation at this time, for it is not be¬ 
lieved that a sufficient quantity of lumber or logs can bo marketed 
to make tho venture a feasible one. 
hr, Jrnest S. -..hakes, Panama, stated in an article en¬ 
titled "Modern Gold-Mining in the Jarion" (Trans, of the Imer. Ins 
titute of Mining Engineers, Vol.,29, Bob.1899—Sept, 1899,inclusive 
P!> £49—280) that "kvery yard of the country may be said to be gov 
ered with forests/. However, not 50percent of the trees sro fit for 
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making lumber, arid probably 25 percent are not oven good enough for 
firewood, 
Further on in this article which relates to tho some 
general conditions as are found on the Baysno the author states' 
that "Some of the hardwoods make beautiful lumber, and appear to 
be varieties of fustic, bullet-wood, nispore, end wild guava, with 
occasionally a species of mahogany, cf which the battery-poets in 
tho mill ere constructed. Hardly any of the woods will float in 
water. Cedar is now getting scarce, and is used for the finer 
classes of work only. 
The old Spanish mine-timbers, which were found in such 
peri eefipreservation, ware chiefly of mapurri, which is now so 
scarce, and is never found of any size. The segments of the Span- 
