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Canadian Forestry Journal 



[Courtesy "Sunshine," Montreal. 



In the Woods: Starting for the Dump. 



our water powers, the same as they 

 have already secured upon those of 

 the Niagara River. If this is once 

 permitted, it will mean that, so far 

 as price is concerned, the monopo- 

 lists will charge all that the traffic 

 will bear, and the people will for all 

 time have to pay just as much for 

 hydro-electric power as they would 

 have to pay were the power gener- 

 ated by steam, and as a result of the 

 possession of these natural monopo- 

 lies the millions of dollars of saving 

 that will be effected by utilizing our 

 water powers would go into the 

 pockets of private individuals in- 

 stead of being distributed amongst 

 the people generally. The only re- 

 lief that they could ever hope to ob- 

 tain from such a state of affairs 

 would be to buy back, at enormous 

 prices, franchises which they had 

 parted with practically for nothing. 



Don't Export Hydro-Electric Power. 



Just here it might be pertinent to 

 point out that, so far as the true in- 

 terests of the people of Ontario are 



concerned, not a single horse-power 

 of hydro-electric power should ever 

 have been allowed to be exported 

 from this province to any foreign 

 country. Unfortunately in years 

 gone by, charters were granted to 

 corporations which not only gave 

 them a practical monopoly of power 

 development on the Niagara River 

 and at Fort Frances, but allowed 

 them to sell a large proportion of it 

 for export; so that even with its 

 broader outlook and larger recogni- 

 tion of its responsibilities to the peo- 

 ple, the present government on tak- 

 ing office found itself confronted by 

 hydro-electric monopolies and tram- 

 melled by agreements for export, 

 which abuses they have only been 

 partially able to remedy by the 

 adoption of a national and public- 

 spirited power policy which has 

 been emphatically endorsed by the 

 I'conle of this province irrespective 

 o!' party. 



The Present Power Situation. 

 "We are to-day confronted with 



