Excerpt from The Mineral Resources of the Philippine Islands: With a Statement of the Production of Commercial Mineral Products During the Year 1907 Mine inspection should be mentioned at this time as a question for future serious consideration. Up to the present there has been no need of this, but the time is almost ripe for some legislation. A reason for delay in putting the measures into immediate execution is that they would involve the taking of the professional men of the division of mines from more urgent work. The subject is mentioned here simply to guide public thought in this direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.