Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1919 



179 



FOREST TELEPHONES 



Make the life of the forester better 

 worth living. They relieve him from 

 the appalling loneliness. They help 



— -w-yhim to keep in human voice touch v\/ith 



> foresters miles av/ay. 



In emergencies — fire — sickness — hunger 

 — the speed with which they can sum- 

 mon help is marvellous. 



Write for full particulars of how to 

 install the Northern Electric Forest 

 Telephone System. Address the Office 

 nearest you. 



NortZ/erfr Electric Compa/ry 



Montreal 



Halifax 



Ottawa 



Toronto 

 London 

 Winnipeg 



-Korthern ^Electric -For^st-Telefihones- 



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The Business Man's Angle. 



Enough has been said to indicate that the 

 eastern forests are of very great economic im- 

 portance, especially so when we bear in mind 

 that these forests are very largely found on non- 

 agricultural lands and that these lands comprise 

 from two-thirds to three-quarters of the pro- 

 vincial areas. They mean the livelihood of 

 many thousands of men, the raison d'etre of 

 several thousand mills and wood factories to- 

 gether with various subsidiary industries, to 

 say nothing of the direct provincial revenues, 

 which aggregate some four million dollars an- 

 nually. Every business man in eastern Canada 

 is directly interested in the maintenance of 

 such a prosperous state of affairs, and in the 

 question of whether this great resource is han- 

 dled in the most intelligent way. Every citizen 

 is interested with his own pocket as to whether 

 this forest resource is going to continue in fur- 

 nishing revenue or whether its exhaustion will 

 make direct taxation a necessity. To all ap- 

 pearances, unless different handling of the tim- 

 ber is resorted to soon ,such necessity will arise 

 in not a distant time. 



LOOKING FORWARD. 



The economic importance to Canada of her 

 great forest areas is no less apparent. The 

 value of our primary forest products exported 

 from the country during the past year totalled 

 some $200,000,000. The pulp and paper in- 

 dustry exports products valued at some 85,- 

 000,000 annually. The importance of perpet- 

 uating a resource that assists so largely in re- 

 dressing our unfavorable trad? balance can 

 scarcely be over-emphasized. 



The first and most vitally necessary step to- 

 ward handling our forests as crops, rather than 

 mines, is, of course, the prevention of fires. Great 

 progress has been made in this direction during 

 recent years, though much still remains to be 

 accomplished. 



The next step should be the adoption and 

 strict enforcement of improved cutting regula- 

 tions in connection with all logging operations 

 on crown lands. The situation in this respect is 

 least satisfactory in the Province of Ontario 

 and on Dominion licensed timber lands in the 

 west. — The Brockville Recorder. 



