62 Forestry Quarterly 



At a private auction in Ottawa on February 



Prices 13, several timber limits were bid out and 



of sold, subject of course to the stumpage 



Woodlayids rates and ground rent payable to the 



government. A bid of $187,000 for 97 



square miles was refused, a limit of 225 square miles was sold for 



$200,000, making the bonus above the stumpage dues ($2 per M) 



and the ground rent of $3, nearly $900 per square mile or perhaps 



another $3 per M feet. The tract is located on L,ake Temiskam- 



ing, about 300 miles north of Toronto. 



At the Canadian Capital. American Lumberman, Feb. 24, 1906. 



During the 35 years from 1868 to 1903, 



Prussian the productive area of the Prussian State 



Forest forests increased 9.5%; the total cut in- 



Administration crea.sed 86%, and from 40.3 to 69.4 cubic 



feet per acre ; the work wood from 29 to 



63% of the timberwood (3 inch) or from 7.5 to 37.4 cubic feet 



p. acre, the latter being 54% of the total cut. The gross returns 



rose from $1.66 to $3.89 and for wood alone from $1.56 to $3.80 



per acre or 143%; prices for wood per unit, rising 45 per cent. 



or not quite 1.5% per annum. The net yield rose 167 per cent. 



and from 83.8 cents to $2.05 for every productive acre. 



Can there be a better demonstration of the efhcienc}^ and profit- 

 ableness of a forest administration ? The 7,000,000 acres involved 

 are administered in 762 districts. In the four years 1901 to 

 1904, 96 "larger" forest fires, 24 per year, occurred destroying 

 6,000 acres entirely and 60 acres partially, and in the 32 years 

 preceding 28 fires per year are recorded with about the same 

 average loss. ' 



Amtliclie Mitteilungen aus iter Abtetticng filr Forsten. 1905. pp. 67. 



The Archives of the Department of Interior 

 Forest in Vienna contain carefully collated the 



History. important documents which record the 



progress of forestry in Austria, the oldest 

 forest order dating from the year 1379. So far this interesting 

 material has not been used, Austria still waiting for a compre- 

 hensive history of forestry like those, of which Germany can 



