BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTES 



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The Canadian Pacific Railway has also 

 posted warning notices in its cars urging 

 smokers not to throw lighted matches or cigar 

 or cigarette butts out of the windows. 



The Annual Meeting of the British Columbia 

 Loggers' Association was held recently at 

 Vancouver and elected Mr. J. M. Dempsey as 

 President; Mr. I. A. Bearce, Vice-President, 

 and Mr. James R. McGrath, Secretary- 

 Treasurer. 



Mr. Matirice Leahy, late with Geo. F. Hardy, 

 Consulting Engineer, of New York, has been 

 appointed Manager of the Abitibi Power and 

 Paper Company, at Iroquois Falls, Ont. The 

 works are located 350 miles north of Toronto 

 and 200 miles south of Hudson's Bay where a 

 new town is springing up. Mr. Leahy worked 

 on the construction for the Laurentide Com- 

 pany at Grand' Mere and was an enthusiastic 

 golfer, winning all the competitions during the 

 season. 



One of the problems which the lumber 

 companies in Quebec are trying to solve is 

 how to get a supply of good men for scaling, 

 superintending drives and such work. Men 

 of fair education are no sooner broken into the 

 work than they get tired of the woods, or get 

 ambitious and leave. The pay is good, $75 

 per month and expenses, and the conditions of 

 work are excellent, good camps in winter and on 

 the drives and in the towns in summer. The 

 work at first for the grade of assistant, is hard 

 but gives a man good experience and when he 

 is promoted to scaler, it is still hard but more 

 interesting and with more responsibility. On 

 promotion to inspector the work is easier and 

 more varied. The life is somewhat similar 

 to that of a "Ranger" in Europe or the West 

 but here of course a knowledge of both French 

 and English is essential. A Ranger School 

 properly run would be a great thing for the 

 Province. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTES 



Mr. C. MacFayden, formerly District 

 Forester at Tete Jaune, is now heading a 

 private exploration party in the Peace River 

 country. He recently visited Victoria and in 

 talking about the country said that the journey 

 from Fort George over the Giscombe Portage 

 and down the Crooked, Pack, Parsnip and 

 Peace Rivers is one of the finest canoe trips 

 imaginable. He and his partner used an 

 18-foot Chestnut canoe and were delighted 

 with it. 



P. S. Bonney, formerly Forest Assistant at 

 Fort George, is now Acting District Forester 

 at Tete Jaune. 



H. B. Murray, formerly Forest Assistant at 

 Cranbrook and Acting District Forester at 

 Tete Jaune, is now Acting District Forester 

 at Kamloops. 



P. Z. Caverhill, recently District Forester at 

 Kamloops, is now Deputy District Forester at 

 Vancouver. This change is in the nature of a 

 promotion for Mr. Caverhill, the forest manage- 

 ment work in the Vancouver district amounting 

 to about two-thirds of that in the entire 

 Province. 



J. B. Mitchell, who was Deputy District 

 Forester at Vancouver, has enlisted for active 

 service in the Army Service Corps, Vancouver, 

 which is expected to leave for England in the 

 near future. 



F. McVickar, Forest Assistant, went with the 

 First Contingent, and is now probably in 

 France. His address is — ^A Squadron, Royal 

 Canadian Dragoons, Care of War Office, 

 London. 



G. Melrose is now assigned as Forest 

 Assistant to the Vernon District. 



The Forest Branch has so far lost, only 

 temporarily it is hoped, upwards of a dozen 

 members of its permanent force through 

 enlistment for active service. Some of them 

 are already at the front, others are on their 

 w^ay, and the remainder will be leaving with 

 their battalions in the near future. Their 

 names are as follows: J. B. Mitchell, Deputy 

 District Forester; F. McVickar, Forest Assis- 

 tant; Wm. Black, Ranger; M. M. Gibson, 

 Ranger; M. V. Allen, Ranger; F. Edwards, 

 Ranger, J. Turnbull, Ranger,T. Brewer, Ranger, 

 J. Milroy, Check Scaler; J. Ketteringham, 

 Clerk; J. R. Stone, Draughtsman; J. Eddie, 

 Messenger. In addition to the above men a 

 fairly large but unknown number of Forest 

 Guards and patrolmen have enlisted for active 

 service. 



A reconnaissance of the Pine River and 

 Upper Parsnip River last summer resulted in 

 the discovery of thirteen billion F. B. M. of 

 valuable spruce and balsam fir timber. This 

 timber is all directly tributary to the extension 

 of the P. G. E. which is to be built through 

 Pine Pass. It will form a very valuable future 

 timber supply for the prairie market. 



During the past year roughly 48,000,000 feet 

 of saw timber was sold by the Forest Branch 

 at an average stumpage price of $1.15 per 

 thousand over and above royalty of 50 cents. 

 For the most part these sales were small frac- 

 tions which would be logged inside of one or two 

 years and a large proportion of them were in 

 the Coast District, where Douglas Fir, Cedar 

 and Western Hernlock predominate. A total 

 of 67,000 acres was closely cruised for timber 



