428 COMPARISON OF MODES OF TRANSPORT. 



from them is most difficult, but this does not relieve foresters 

 from the duty of making every endeavour to utilise all present 

 engineering resources, so as to reduce, as far as possible, the 

 present high rates of timber-transport. Apparently the present 

 tendency is to curtail floating in favour of land-transport, 

 either by cart-roads or tramways. 



Success in carrying out this programme will be justified at 

 any rate by the consequent improvement in the quality of 

 timber ; its adoption is further enforced owing to the con- 

 stantly increasing utilisation of water-power by other indus- 

 tries, in most cases incompatible with the use of the same 

 streams for floating. Changes in the mode of transport are 

 occurring constantly, as sawmills are established more and 

 more in the interior of forests. Nevertheless the time is far 

 distant when floating and rafting will disappear completely 

 from the list of means of forest-transport, and in many districts 

 they can never be dispensed with. 



Fi<ar, 284A. De Coulon's m.moruil ;ii NYulVliatrau. 

 After MatluT. (/'/'. j>. 334.) 



