Philippine Lumber

. A.profusely_iljustrated booklet on philippine Lumber has. !9en_i,ss.ued by the Findlay,_ Millar Timber Company, and the Kolambugan Lumber- & Development Combanv. internationally known operators in all kinds of lumlei coming from the islands.

This large institution operates with main offices at Manila, P. I., with their United States headquarters at Los Angeles, under the direction of Mr. W. G. Scrim.

The booklet is very comprehensive in its thorough de- scription of the materials to be obtained in the phiiippine Islands, showing dozens of illustrations of their own'op,efations, and giving I -vely interesting synopsis of the Klncs oI matertals. and thelr uses.

. The following information is reprinted from the book, rtems taken at random :

Philippine Lumber

Acco_rding to the Bureau of Forestry, Manila, there are more than 3,000 different species of wbods to be found in the-Philippines, of which about 2OO species are considered to be available in commercial quantities. These species grow intermingled in the forests, and while one type may predominate in one part of the country, another {ype will be more plentiful in another part. The forests at"Kolambugan are almost entirely composed of Tanguile, Lauans, Apitong and T.umbayao,- but here also the -proportion of 'the above qpecies varies very considerably irr thi different sectors. These forests at Kolambugan lend themselves to m.o{er-n logging and sawmill methods, and as the species of timber obtained are limited to the above. the sawn- lumber, after grading, is stacked for seasoning and then shipped direct in deep-sea going ships from the wharf at the-ftill to the.. foreign markets-United States, Great Britain, Arr,stralia, China, Japan, etc.

Some of the forests in the Philippines are of a difierent llpe and contain such. a great variety of speciep, that it is impracticable, as a busineJs propositiop, to ipply up-to-aati methods to the logging or s-aw^mill operations.' plrticuiai species only are logged, if and when there is a demand for same, the logs being drawn by Carabao (water bufialo) trom the woods to the sea shore where they are loaded on ships and sent to Manila. In some plac6s the loss are sawn on, or near, the sea shore by small circular mil'is and the sawn lumber shipped to Minila where the differeni species are segregated, -and stacked for sale to the domestic trade.

The following are the species of philippine lumber which can be obtained in commercial quantitiesl and the informa_ tion regarding each is taken lareelv from the Bulletins of the Bureau of Forestry, Philippine islands, and other Government Departments.

Dipterocarpaceae (Lauan Family)

This is by far the most important familv in the philippines, about three-fourths of the standing timber belonsi;e to it. The trees are almost rvithout ixception tall -ant straight, and range f.rom 12 inches to ovei 8O inches in 9iameter, and often run 90 feet high before the branches begin.

Tanguile and Red Lauan are obtainable in very large quantities, the-Solqmbugan forest alone having a siand 6f ry. M. The lumber has a r-ibbori grain