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consumption only 50 to 100 miles distant, and 

 it was stated in a very able paper in the Timber 

 Trades Journal that it was possible to purchase 

 in Sweden from lumber companies, the freehold 

 of forests, from which all the then saleable tim- 

 ber had been extracted, but which were well 

 stocked by natural regeneration with young 

 trees, which in 30 to 50 years' time would be 

 ready for the market; at a much lower price 

 than the bare land without any timber on it 

 could be bought in England. And I believe that 

 this will be found equally true of vast areas in 

 the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, 

 which have ben more or less logged over, but 

 from which at the prices ruling before the war 

 it would not pay to take out any but the best 

 logs, and I quite agree with the suggestion that 

 this point. Another important area of which 

 the Canadian Government must be consulted on 

 the future production is very indefinitely known 

 are the districts on the French, Spanish and 

 Portuguese coasts, which have hitherto supplied 

 almost the whole of the pit props for the great 

 Welsh collieries. 



SOLDIERS TAKE GOOD POSITIONS. 



Lieut. H. C. Kinghorn, of Fredericton, N.B., 

 has accepted a permanent position with the New 

 Brunswick Crown Land Department. Mr. King- 

 horn is a graduate of the University of New 

 Brunswick in Forestry in 191 1, and has had ex- 

 tensive experience with the Dominion forest ser- 

 vice and British Columbia forest service. Mr. 

 Kinghorn resigned from the forest service of 

 British Columbia in May, 1916, to enlist in the 

 58th Battery Canadian Engineers. 



Lieut. H. S. Laughlin, B.Ss.F., of Milltown, 

 N.B., has also accepted a position with the 

 Forestry Department. Mr. Laughlin graduated 

 in 1914 from the University of New Brunswick, 

 and joined the British Columbia forest service, 

 enlisting in November, 1915. Lieut. Laughlin 

 was in charge of forestry work in District 5, 

 Caradian Forestry Corps, France, and has been 

 highly recommended by his superior officer over- 

 seas. 



Capt. A. J. Mclntyre, of Campbellton, an 

 ex-locomotive engineer and machinist, who re- 

 cently returned from overseas, has accepted the 

 position of inspector of Fire Protective Appli- 

 ances on Locomotives for the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the New Brunswick Government. Mr. 

 Mclntyre, by co-operative arrangement with the 



Railway Commission, is also District Fire In- 

 spector for the commission. His duties involve 

 the periodic inspection of the nettings in the 

 smoke-boxes of locomotives and also ashpans. 

 Over 200 locomotives operate in New Bruns- 

 wick, owned by the C.N.R., C.P.R., Caraquet, 

 Temiscouata, Kent Northern, and Fredericton 

 and Grand Lake Railways. His work also 

 covers the supervision of more than twenty 

 railway fire patrolmen. Mr. Mclntyre's work 

 is especially concerned with forest fire pro- 

 tection. 



Pte. H. C. Lynn, also a returned soldier, has 

 accepted a position as assistant railway fire 

 patrolman. 



"To bring the matter closer home it is plainly 

 up to the people of Cape Breton to take active 

 part in conserving our fine stretches of wood- 

 land and forest. At present they are disappear- 

 ing rapidly." — Sydney, N.S., Record. 



RETURNED OFFICERS CHOSEN. 



Major D. D. Young and Major James Brechin 

 have been appointed by the Provincial Govern- 

 ment to positions as British Columbia Market 

 Commissioners, associated with the Trade Ex- 

 tension Department of the Forest Branch. It 

 will be the duty of these two officials to culti- 

 vate the prairie and Eastern Canadian market, 

 and generally to conduct an aggressive cam- 

 paign for British Columbia forest products. In 

 conjunction with a generally extended campaign 

 for business in Canada, it is the intention of the 

 Minister and of the Trade Extension Department 

 in particular to study the world's lumber market, 

 the Government realizing that if this province is 

 to expand her trade in the products of her for- 

 ests it will be necessary for the department to 

 keep itself intimately posted upon world con- 

 ditions particularly during the reconstruction 

 era, when the demand for lumber is abnormal. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA'S LUMBER SALES. 



The 1918 value of the lumber output was 

 $54,162,523, which was almost doublt that of 

 1915, and 12 per cent greater than that of 1917. 

 The total production for the year was shown as 

 1,545,422,000 feet. Since 1915 the lumber cut 

 has increased over fifty per cent. 



