Railway Act Amendments. 



Compulsory Fire Ranging Provided for and Damage to Forests 



Recognized. 



During; the prosent Rpssion of Par- 

 liament a couple of nmendinents of 

 importaiu'e to the forestry interests 

 of the Dominion have been made to 

 the Kailway Act. 



Uy an aniendment to seetion 30, 

 para^'raph 'f, ' suhseetion 1, the 

 Board of Railway Commissioners are 

 given power to require any railway 

 company 'to establish ami nuiintain 

 an <'flReient and eompetent statT of 

 fire-raiiffers, erpiipped with sueh ap- 

 j)lianees for tipjhtinj;. or preventing 

 fires from spreading, as the Board 

 may deem proper, and to provide 

 such rangers with proper and suit- 

 able equipment to enal)le them to 

 move from plaee to place along the 

 line of railway with all due speed.' 

 The Board nuiy also re(|uire the com- 

 pany *to nuiintain an efficient patrol 

 of the line of railway and other 

 lands in the vicinity thereof to 

 which fires may spread, and gener- 

 ally define the duties of the com- 

 pany, and the said fire-rangers, in 

 respect thereof.' 'The Board may 

 require the company,' the clause con- 

 tinues. Ho nmke returns of the 

 names of fire-rangers in its employ 

 in the performance of the above- 

 named duties and of the places or 

 areas in which they are from time 

 to time engaged. For the purpose 

 of fighting and extingui.shing fires, 

 the said tire-rangers may follow the 

 fires which spread from the railway 

 to. over and upon the lands to which 

 they may spread.' 



Another amendment of much im- 

 portance is the rendering of the rail- 

 way company liable for damage to 

 'any property.' instead of merely 

 for 'crops, lands, fences, plantations 

 or buildings and their contents.' by 

 which amendment timber lands are 



dearly brought among thoM> thingfi 

 for damage to which the company 

 is liable. 



1911 TREE DISTRIBUTION FROM 

 INDIAN HEAD. 



About the usual number of trees 

 has been distributed from the nur- 

 sery at liulian Head, Sa.sk. The dis- 

 tribution of coniferous stock has 

 been continued. 



Mr. A. Mitchell, Asst. Chief of the 

 Tree IManting Division, has resigned, 

 and his plaee has been tilled tem- 

 porarily by Mr. S. S. Sadler, who has 

 just completed his fourth year's 

 work in tlie Faculty of Forestry of 

 the Cniversity of Toronto. Mr. Mit- 

 chell will take up commercial nur- 

 sery work in Lethbridge. Alta. 



'There will this year be eight in- 

 spectors of tree planting; these are 

 Messrs. A. P. Stevenson, of Duns- 

 ton. Man.. John Caldwell, of Vir- 

 den. Man.. Angus .Mackintosh, of 

 Headlands. Sask., an<l Walter B. 

 Guiton, Jas. Kay. J. X. B. MacDon- 

 ald, Wm. Macdonald and Ja.s. Cowie, 

 of Indian Head. Sa.sk. 



After the present year it has been 

 decided to have the applicant for 

 trees pay the express charges there- 

 on when received. A charge of 

 $1.00 per hiHidred for conifer seed- 

 lings will be made, and not more 

 than .">00 of these will be given to 

 any one applicant. 



IN THE TBAB 2011. 



Wogi^s — The Richleighs are very larish 

 entertainers. 



BogfT* — Yes. At the close of their ban- 

 quet last evening each guest was present- 

 er! with a solid wooden toothpick. 



— Puek. 



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