New Brunswick's Legislation* 



Prohibiting the Export cf Unmanufactured Pulpwood from Canada. 



On April 13th last the bill prohib- 

 iting the export of pulpwood cut on 

 crown lands was passed by the New 

 Brunswiek lejfislature. It provides 

 that 'all sales of timber licenses' 

 giving the right to cut 'spruce or 

 other soft wood trees or timber, other 

 than pine and poplar' and 'all 

 licenses or permits to cut such tim- 

 ber' shall l)e 'subject to the condi- 

 tions set forth in Schedule A' of the 

 Act, which may be cited as 'The 

 Manufacturing Condition.' 



Schedule A, referred to. provides 

 that 'every timber license or permit 

 conferring authority to cut spruce 

 or other soft wood trees or timber, 

 not being pine or poplar, suitable 

 for manufacturing pulp or paper, on 

 the ungranted lands of the Crown 

 shall contain and be subject to the 

 condition that all such timber cut 

 under the authority or permission 

 of such license or permit shall be 



manufactured in Canada, that is to 

 say, into merchantable pulp and 

 paper, or into sawn lumber, wooden- 

 ware, utensils or other articles of 

 commerce or merchandise as dis- 

 tinguished from the said spruce or 

 other timber in its raw or unmanu- 

 factured state.' 



If this condition is not observed, 

 the license is to be suspended. The 

 Surveyor General is given power to 

 seize any timber which the owner ii 

 suspected to have the design of re- 

 moving from the country, and retain 

 it until the owner satisfies him that 

 it is not the intention so to remove 

 it. 



The Act fixes the fee for the trans- 

 fer of licenses at four dollars per 

 square mile. 



The provisions of the Act prohib- 

 iting the exportation of pulpwood 

 are not to come into force until the 

 1st of October next. 



Hudson Bay Railway. 



Report 88 to Timber along Proposed Route not very Optimistic. 



'There is probably enough timber 

 available to build the rough con- 

 struction work of the Hudson Bay 

 Railway.' 



During the summer of lOlO the 

 Forestry Branch of the Department 

 of the Interior had a party explor- 

 ing along a portion of the proposed 

 route of the Hudson Bay Railway, 

 and in the words just quoted the 

 head of the party (Mr. J. R. Dick- 

 son. B.S.F., Asst. Inspector of Forest 

 Reserves') in his report, just publish- 



ed, gives his impression of the tim- 

 ber of that part of the country. 

 The Country Traversed. 

 The |>arty started at The Pas and 

 covered some eight thousand square 

 miles. Their explorations included 

 the country around Mitishto lake, 

 the Mitishto river, the Ora.ss river 

 system, with its numerous lake ex- 

 pansions (including Wekusko lake), 

 Pakwa (or Pakwahigan> lake. Set- 

 ting and Split lakes and the Xelson 

 river xyvjtt'in. inebnlins; T'ross and 



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