With the Forest Engineers^ 



{Contributed by the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



In Northern British Columhia. 



H. S. Irwin, District Forester at Prince 

 Eupert, writes: — 



'For the last seven months I have been 

 stationed in Prince Rupert, and have been 

 attempting to cover a district over three 

 hundred miles in length wnth several thou- 

 sand miles of shore line, by means of a 

 ''dinky'' motor-boat. There are innumer- 

 able small logging outfits scattered along 

 the coast, and this, with the fire patrol, 

 keeps us pretty busy.' 



H. C. Kinghorn writes as follows from 

 Hazelton: — 



'At present I am holding down the posi- 

 tion of Forest Assistant in the Hazelton 

 Forest District, — which takes in all the 

 central part of northern British Columbia. 

 I arrived here the latter part of May, 1913, 

 having been transferred from Fort George, 

 where I spent the previous nine months on 

 reconnaissance and general timber-admin- 

 istration work. Our chief work here so far 

 has been forest fire-protection, — and 

 thanks to the weather conditions and the 

 good generalship of the District Forester, 

 Mr. R. E. Allen, lately District Fire Ward- 

 en of Revelstoke, the season has been very 

 successful from that standpoint, as fires 

 have been very few and occasioned little 

 expense. We are now working on per- 

 manent improvements for a better system 

 of fire-protection, and plan for the con- 

 struction of several short trails, a tele- 

 phone line and several cabins for our 

 guards' permanent head-quarters, and for 

 a place in which to keep our fire-fighting 

 equipment. This district is not over-stock- 

 ed at present with merchantable timber, 

 on account of forest, fires having swept 

 over a large area of it, but many places, 

 especially the watersheds are still 

 covered with a good growth of young trees. 

 If our forestry principles are carried out 

 this will be protected for the future wel- 

 fare of the country. This is an immense 

 country, most of which is still undevelop- 

 ed, and its real value is still unknown.' 



In the Rockies. 

 W. N. Millar, District Inspector of Do- 

 minion Forest Reserves for Alberta, sends 

 a brief note suggestive of the strenuous 

 life of the West. He writes, under date 

 of August 28th, as follows: — 'I am at the 

 same old thing — three weeks in the moun- 

 tains on bacon and beans, and one week 

 of double time in the office, trying to 



avert the wrath to come. I leave for my 

 final long field trip of this season in a few 

 days, and will be out for six or seven 

 weeks on the Bow, Clearwater and Bra- 

 zeau, if three high passes I must cross 

 don't snow up before I get to them. The 

 season has been fairly successful so far. 

 Practically no fires as yet, but verv dry 

 weather for the past two weeks, which I 

 am now beginning to get anxious about; 

 it is bound to break in the next two weeks 

 with the annual September big snow, but 

 there may be trouble in the meantime.' 



Southern British Columbia. 



From Cranbrook, B. C, G. H. Prince 

 writes: — 



'In June, 1912 I was assigned to special 

 examination work in the interior of the 

 province, working at Creston, Waldo, 

 Cranbrook and Aspen Grove. In Decem- 

 ber, 1912, I was appointed Forest Assist- 

 ant in the Cranbrook District, working 

 with J. D. Gilmour, District Forester. 

 During last winter I examined over one 

 hundred logging operations, travelling a 

 great deal on snowshoes, and enjoved the 

 work very much. The greater part' of this 

 season has been spent in land and timber 

 examinations, trail, telephone and lookout 

 construction, besides a small amount of 

 office work. 



I have found the work very interesting 

 and very full of good experience which 

 should prove of great value to me in the 

 future. ' 



R. H. Campbell, Director of Forestry, 

 recently returned to Ottawa after a trip 

 of inspection in the Western provinces, 

 occupying nearly three months. 



A. H. D. Ross, of the Faculty of For- 

 estry, University of Toronto, paid a short 

 visit to Ottawa recently on his return 

 from his summer's work as Consulting 

 Forester of the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way's Department of Natural Resources, 

 most of his time being spent in Calgary. 

 On his return he spent a short time at the 

 United States Forest Service Forest Pro- 

 ducts Laboratory at Madison, Wis., where 

 research work of much interest is being 

 carried on. 



R. B. Miller, professor of forestry at the 

 University of New Brunswick, paid* a short 

 visit to Ottawa recently after his season's 

 work with a numbier of his students in 

 the woods in the Maritime Provinces. 



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