Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-05

sugar, if exported to the United States
and consumed here, would be so insig-
nificant a proportion of the total
amount of these two products used by
the people of the United States that
they could not by any possibility dis
turb the home market. The only eff
feet of the abolition of the existing du-
ties in the United States on tobacco
and sugar, either now or for years to
come, is said to be simply to enable
the producer to obtain a living price.
Public Lands.
In order to encourage the establish
ment of plantations OF considerable
size by Filipinos and Americans of in
telligence and means and to success
fully cultivate hemp, cocoanuts, ma
guey, coffee, cacao, sugar and tobac-
co. it is recommended that the amount
which may be purchased by an indi-
vidual be increased to not more than
1000 acres, and that the amount which
a corporation may hold be increased
to $4,000 acres, and it is said that
10000 acres would be the minimum
amount upon which corporation
could we'll afford to establish an up
to-date plantation equipped with mod
ern mills, machinery and implements.
The request is urgently made for
assistance by the executive depart
ments of the United States and By
congressional action in the work OF
coast and geodetic survey, a topo-
graphical survey, establishment of
more and additional light houses,
quarantine service, etc.
While the character of the services
which would be rendered by survey
ing and charting all of the Islands
and waters pertains directly to the in
sular government, yet it is OF enor-
nous benefit to the commerce of the
world at large, which finds its way to
the Philippine islands. The coast line
is II 200 miles long, and with the re-
sources at hand the work can not pos
sibly be completed in less than fifteen
years.
Until a general Typographical sur
vey Of the islands has been made there
can be no accurate general mapping
of the lands of the archipelago, either
private or public, and the present I'M
satisfactory conditions arising from
issuing patents for tracts OF land
which are not connected with any
point the position of which has been
automatically determined will grow
constantly worse, but it is stated that
it is obviously beyond the means Ct
the insular government, either now or
for years to come, to undertake and
carry out this work.
While light houses are being estab-
lished as rapidly as possible, the very
many which are needed can not posi-
bly, be built for many years to come
in view of the limited resources avail
able.
1t is recommended that the act of
congress, approved April Is, 1904, en-
titled can act to regulate shipping in
trade between ports Of the United
States and ports and places in the
Philippine Archipelago, between ports
and places in the Philippine Archipel-
ago, and for other purposes" be re-
pealed; at least, that the operations OF
sections 1 and of same be suspended
until July 1, 1909.
Legislation is asked for authorizing
the Philippine commission to make re
auctions in duties imposed upon goods
imported into the Philippine islands as
fixed under present or future SEIZED
ules whenever to do so shall be in its
opinion in the public interest.