News and Notes 773 



during the season of 19 1 7 . A forest nursery is also to be developed, 

 the capacity of which will be one million small trees each year 

 for planting on the holdings of the company. A. C. Volkmar is 

 the forester in charge of this work, with headquarters at St. Jovite, 

 Quebec. In addition to the nursery and planting work, informa- 

 tion is being collected systematically with regard to the amount 

 of growth which is taking place on the Company's property. It 

 is obvious that this information is very important in connection 

 with the preparation of plans for the permanent handling of a 

 large area of forest land, on the basis of perpetual operation. The 

 investment involved in the erection of a pulp and paper mill is 

 so great that a company of this kind must look far into the futiu-e, 

 in figuring on its sources of timber supplies. 



The Laurentide Company and the Pejepscot Paper Company 

 have already made a considerable showing in the direction of 

 forest planting on their lands in Quebec, with a view to the future 

 production of timber for the manufacture of pulp and paper. 

 The Laurentide Company is the pioneer in this direction in 

 Canada, its forestry work having for years been handled by 

 Ellwood Wilson. The forestry and planting work for the Pejepscot 

 Company are being handled under the direction of J. E. Rothery. 



The St. Maurice Forest Protective Association, representing 

 some 12,000 square miles of forest property in the St. Maurice 

 watershed, Quebec, reports only four fires set by human agency, 

 the balance having been set by lightning, This result is ascribed 

 to a vigorous campaign of education among settlers, river drivers, 

 and other careless users of fires, together with a permit system 

 for settlers and ranger work. 



The use of tank cars in fighting fires along railways is becom- 

 ing more general in Canada. The Grand Trunk, Timiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario, Canadian Government roads, and the 

 Canadian Pacific use them. Two tank cars were installed lately 

 by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Muskoka district, after 

 satisfactory experience in Maine. These comprise a single imit. 

 On one of them is a pump, on the other the hose rack and water 

 tanks, holding 7,000 gallons of water on each. The pump has a 

 capacity of 400 gallons per minute. A total of 4,000 feet of 2.5- 

 inch hose permits fires to be reached a considerable distance from 

 the track. 



