Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1919 



-189 



Once a great pinery in Middle Ontario. To-day, the effects of forest fires have turned 

 the area into a useless waste. 



ment up to as high as $24 per thousand feet, 

 for particularly desirable and accessible white 

 pine. Fixed stumpage dues for spruce saw 

 logs may be $2 per M. ; for spruce pulpwood, 

 20 cents to 40 cents per cord, and for balsam 

 pulpwood, 20 cents per cord ,all of which 

 may be materially increased on account of the 

 bonus tendered by the successful purchaser. The 

 dues are collected by the Crown Timber Agent 

 in each of the divisions. He in turn works 

 through timber scalers. 



To renovate the existing system, managing 

 a valuable part of the public estate by introduc- 

 ing proved business methods in the collection 

 of stumpage dues, suggests no interference with 

 the essentials of commercial lumbering. It 

 undertakes only a more business-like handling 

 of the situation, coupled with the development 

 and adequate enforcement of intelligent and 

 practical regulations calculated to leave cut- 

 over areas in a condition to produce a new crop 

 of timber. 



(To he continued.) 



WIRELESS PHONES IN MANITOBA. 



Winnipeg, Man. Churchill, Norway Mouse, 

 Grand Rapids, and all isolated settlements will 

 be brought into touch with civilization through 

 the winter, if the recommendations of Com- 



missioner R. C. Wallace for the wireless tele- 

 phone system for Northern Manitoba are ad- 

 opted by the Manitoba Government. 



Hon. Edward Brown, Attorney-General, said 

 it would mean that the whole of the "added 

 territory" will be connected up. The system 

 will cover a territory of more than 173,000 

 square miles and will prove of immense value. 



MR KUHRING PROMOTED. 



Mr. Gustave F. Kuhring, B.Sc.F., from the 

 University of New Brunswick, has resigned his 

 position with the New Brunswick Forestry Ser- 

 vice to accept a position with the Riordon Pulp 

 and Paper Company, at Montreal, under their 

 Forester, Mr. AbYberg. Mr. Kuhring com- 

 menced his forestry work with the Laurentide 

 Company in 1913. He has over four years' 

 service overseas to his credit, being wounded 

 three times and honorably mentioned in des- 

 patches, and was engaged with the N.B. Forest 

 Service on forest survey work since returning. 

 Mr. Kuhring expects to leave Montreal early 

 in January for an extensive dog-train trip into 

 the North. 



Mr. Kuhring is one of the several New Bruns- 

 wick Foresters who have recently accepted re- 

 sponsible assignments with private lumber and 

 pulp companies. 



