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behind them something over $200,000,000. 

 Along the Baltic and North Sea 1 1 3 resorts held 

 forth in 1913 and entertained over 800,000 

 visitors, who spent nearly $100,000,000. Ber- 

 lin picked up $50,000,000 of foreign tourist 

 cash, and Vienna considerably more in a twelve- 

 month. American sources claim that 120,000 

 passages have been booked for France as soon 

 as shipping is available, and so engaging are 

 the possibilities of American traffic that the 

 French Government has brought into being a 

 new Cabinet portfolio, to be known as the 

 National Office of Touring. Automobile ser- 

 vices are being arranged, with new hotels, etc., 

 to handle the swarms of spenders. With a pos- 

 sibility of $500,000,000 a' year from American 

 pockets, how long will it take France to re- 

 establish her financial power? 



The Canadian Pacific Railway estimate that 

 if Canada could secure just 10 per cent of 

 Europe's tourist travel she would collect $500,- 

 000,000 a year — the value of the wheat crop of 

 1916. The creation of a National Bureau for 

 Tourist Travel has been put before the Dom- 

 inion Government by the Commissioner of 

 Dominion Parks, Mr. J. B. Harkin, an official 

 of constructive outlook. 



Can travel habits and travel routes be altered 

 at will? The United States Government suc- 

 ceeded in the summer of 1915 in diverting to 

 the National Parks over $100,000,000 of the 

 money that formerly went to European inn- 

 keepers and milliners. The total number of vis- 

 itors to the American parks that year was 

 278,000. Canada's splendid group of National 

 Parks in Alberta and British Columbia enter- 

 tained 121,000 persons in the same year. They 

 started for Canada from forty-five different 

 nations and hit upon that particular part of 

 Canada because the pictures painted by friends 

 or by ad. writers or by the movies had settled 

 their sense of direction. People who figure out 

 that sort of thing reckon that they spent 

 twenty or thirty million dollars with us while 

 having a ripping time. But nobody comes un- 

 less someone mixes and paints and gives them, 

 far and wide, a sketch of what's new, what's 

 big and gripping. Along with that primeval 

 tang the modern traveller expects at the very 

 least a room and bath and valet service He 

 is willing to meet Nature and battle with her in 

 all her moods — but he must do it comfortably. 



Motherhood of the Forest. 



The forest, of course, is the thing men go to 

 meet when they quit the town for the un- 



fenced playgrounds of the semi-wilderness. The 

 forest is the mother of the pure stream and the 

 crystal lake. It provides cover for the birds 

 and food and shelter for animals. Granite 

 ledges and boggy flats make hard fare for the 

 recreation-seeker, unless every lifeless acre is in- 

 stantly dissolved from sight by ten acres of; 

 life-renewing woodland. Canada will always be; 

 a country of enormous forests. Don't bother' 

 with these statistics much, but we have fivcj^ 

 hundred million acres in this good land coveret 

 with trees. Only a trifle of it is of any use' 

 for farming, so we will always — barring forest 

 fires — have a snug little camping ground on 

 780,000 square miles — big enough to camp 

 every living soul who feels the chumminess of 

 living trees. 



NEWS PAPER IS 92 PER CENT WOOD. 



By way of explanation of the relative use of 

 these factors it may be said, of Power that the 

 energy required to produce one pound of news- 

 print is equivalent to one h.p. per hour and that 

 about four-fifths of this is obtained from 

 hydraulic power and one-fifth from coal: Of 

 wood that is 92 per cent of the finished product, 

 the remainder (with the exception of a fraction 

 of 1 per cent of vegetable and mineral matter) 

 is clean water." — W. H. V. Atkinson, in the 

 Spanish River News. 



MORE PAY FOR NOVA SCOTIA RANGERS 



A Bill was introduced in the Nova Scolia 

 Legislature recently to increase the daily wage 

 paid to forest rangers and sub-rangers. The 

 Bill was opposed by Messrs. Armstrong, Corey, 

 Hall and Parsons, but succeeded in passing the 

 House. The increase in wages will doubtless 

 be regarded by all Nova Scotia members of the 

 Forestry Association as a move in the right 

 direction. 



A RAILWAY IN PLANTING WORK 



The Delaware and Hudson railway sets out 

 annually 250,000 trees, mainly Scotch pine, 

 spruce and red pine The company has 1 7^ 

 acres of nursery. Planting costs have increased 

 $2.50 per 1,000 trees during 1918, over the cost 

 of the preceding year. It now costs about $12 

 per acre for planting 6x6 feet or 1,1 10 trees 

 per acre. On this basis the company believe 

 planting to be a good investment. 



