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the sale of cutting privileges on Crown timber lands. The revenue 

 from this one source now averages well over $1,500,000 annually. 

 The area of Crown land under license to cut timber is approxi- 

 mately 44,500,000 acres, while 78,000,000 acres remain unlicensed. 

 About 6,000,000 acres of timber land in the province are in private 

 ownership. 



The following resolution, introduced by Professor P. S. Lovejoy, 

 of the University of Michigan, was adopted by imanimous vote at 

 the spring meeting of the Technical Association of the Pulp and 

 Paper Industry, held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the secretary 

 was instructed to send copies of it to the various State forestry 

 associations, the Governors of States, and the press generally: 



Since wood is an essential raw material of the pulp and paper 

 industry, and 



Since the supply of timber suitable for pulp manufacture is 

 rapidly decreasing and its cost is rapidly increasing, and 



Since there are great areas of non-agricultural lands in the 

 Lake States, which lands once produced splendid timber, but are 

 now practically barren as the result of lumbering and repeated 

 fires, 



We, therefore, urge that the pulp-producing States take immediate 

 action, 



1. Looking toward the better protection of these non-agricul- 

 tural lands from fire; 



2. Looking toward the restocking of such lands where necessary 

 by planting. 



Three field parties are now at work in New Brunswick, in con- 

 nection with the forest survey and classification of Crown lands. 

 The project is under the supervision of P. Z. Caverhill, Provincial 

 Forester, subject to the general direction of the Minister of Lands 

 and Forests. The size and importance of the undertaking is indi- 

 cated by the fact that the Crown lands in this province comprise 

 10,000 square miles and return a direct revenue to the provincial 

 treasury averaging more than $500,000 annually from timber alone, 

 in addition to large revenues from the sale of hunting and fishing 

 privileges. 



There is considerable pressure upon the provincial government 

 for the opening up of new lands, to provide for immigration and for 

 the surplus native population. An important feature of the Act 

 of 1913 was the provision for a classification of soils, with the object 



