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to have a permit before entering in same. More 

 preventive organizations should be made; it is 

 much easier to prevent an ill than to cure it, 

 and this is especially true of forest fires. We 

 should have more patrols, telephone lines con- 

 necting all depots and observatory towers, etc. 



To facilitate the work of the hydroplane ser- 

 vice which is being inaugurated, we should es- 

 tablish in connection with the Geodetic Society 

 more lookout stations. 



Much has been done and said by the differetn 

 protective associations which are doing splen- 

 didly, but we must complete our protection ser- 

 vice so that the fire danger will be totally elim- 

 inated and then we can plant, but not before. 



Protection From Taxes. 



In regard to private lands, an important point 

 is that of the taxes. The valuation of the pro- 

 perties reforested should not be modified just 

 after trees have been set. A law should be 

 enacted as early as possible to protect the cit- 

 izens who have the courage to reforest against 

 the unjust raising of the land valuation and 

 thereby of their taxes. I contend that for at 

 least thirty years the first valuation of the land 

 planted should not be modified; the appraisal 

 could take place to determine then the actual 

 value of the forest crop separately from that 

 of the soil and this valuation should stand for 

 one decade at least. The ideal would be to 

 repeat these appraisals at each interval of ten 

 years after the first period has elapsed. 



Allocate the Mills. 



I think the time has come for the govern- 

 ment to exercise a full control over the wood- 

 working establishments in this province, as we 



find too often sawmills being located in a 

 locality where there is not enough wood supply 

 to justify their appearance. Naturally the mill 

 owner, to obtain his raw material, must get it 

 at the expense of the adjoining limits and this 

 is the beginning of the timber speculation of 

 which we have suffered so much. All the wood- 

 working establishments in the province should 

 be licensed and compelled each year to obtain 

 a permit to operate. The government will then 

 be in a position to determine if they have enough 

 timber lands to justify their operating and to 

 prevent enlargements when there is no supply 

 in sight. 



Punish the Wasteful! 



Up to the present we have found the lumber- 

 men of this province ready to co-operate heart- 

 ily with the government in all the reforms made 

 by the administration. Our province can boast 

 with justice of having made great progress 

 through this co-operation. Now that the lum- 

 ber industry in this province is in a rather stable 

 state, we can look ahead and adopt a definite 

 policy of reforestation and of management of 

 our forests. We should cause those who waste 

 their forest through bad lumbering to replant 

 their holdings at their expense, while those who 

 have done all they could to lumber correctly 

 should be helped to the fullest extent. We should 

 endeavor to make every acre of waste land and 

 of timber land produce the fullest quantity of 

 timber possible. We can make this province 

 the largest timber producer in the world, not 

 only in lumber but also and especially in pulp 

 and paper products and I am sure that with the 

 spirit, the energy and the co-operation of all we 

 will undoubtedly realize our ambition. 



SETTLING LAND DOES NOT SETTLE THESE 



ACCOUNTS 



A settler near Kedgewick, New Brunswick, taking the "personal liberty" point of view, 

 started fires to consume a few piles of brush. He broke the law in that he did not take 

 out permits and follow safety regulations. 



This is the result : 



Loss to the lumbering village of Kedgewick, about $150,000. 



Householders lost between 35 and 40 houses. 



Three lumber mills were destroyed, plus luiiibcr piles, and three by five miles of 

 territory was burned over. 



