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not be made. The savino- it would cause in youns: si'owth 

 certainly would be sreat. 



Chan<re in our ways of building main roads will certainly 

 also come. It" wc are to cut systematically over land every 

 fifteen or twenty years there is good reason for the laying out 

 of well-})lanued, permanent road systems, A better road 

 could then be Ijuilt than now, more on the ground and less 

 dependent on snow. The timber in succeeding cuts would 

 come out on the same lines. No new cuttino- w'ould be 

 required except to bush out the roads. Such road systems 

 must come when we get to handling land for steady returns. 

 It not only helps the young growth, l)ut in the conditions 

 named will be a measure of simple financial economy. 



It seems certain further that railway lumbering is likely to 

 greatly increase in this State. This will certainly introduce 

 economy in the utilization of timber. Perhaps it will also 

 help to bring about the handling of land from the long-run 

 l)()int of view. For information on this head the quotation 

 from ]\Ir, Crawford is referred to. 



Finally it must be noted that in the future ., 

 development the personnel will be Important. "'"' '=''^"'- 

 Under the new regime the office of the head man in a lumber 

 operation will be important. Aside fi-om his business quali- 

 fications, he will have to be a man of disposition and cai)acity 

 to study and choose among trees. Simple setting of a size 

 limit which common workmen are trusted to carry out is not 

 enough. That does not get the most out of the material, nor 

 does it sufficiently regard the future. Each }nece of ground 

 must be de.ilt with by itself. The trees to be cut must be 

 marked, and their taking out in the proi)er manner secured. 

 Many of the men now eniiaiied in lumberinii" are cai)able of 

 dcnng that when once they get the idea. They plan now to 

 the best possible advantage their road lines and the felling of 

 their timber. The same good judgment will be shown in this 

 other direction when there is any call for its exercise. The 

 most difficult problem which these men will have to settle is 

 that of protection from w'ind throw. European practice here 



