The original Filipino hand-sawyers were ultimately replaced by small portable mills, and these in turn by large modern mills to which logs are brought by skidding engines or overhead cables, yet it is true to-day, as it has always been true, that no sawmill has ever been able to furnish dry lumber, for the simple reason that the green output is purchased as fast as it can be sawed.
For a time the lumbermen took advantage of the necessities of the public, but when timber on the government concessions first granted them had been exhausted and they applied for new cutting areas, my turn came.

I fixed maximum prices on lumber which they might not exceed without forfeiting their concessions.

I also fixed a minimum annual cut which they were compelled to make, and imposed a regulation providing that at least half of the total cut should be offered for sale to the public.
There is no justification for the claim that Baguio is a rich man's city.

The town site is very large and can be indefinitely extended.

Good lots may be had at extremely moderate prices, and the cost of houses is strictly a matter of individual means and taste.