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Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1920 



PROPOSED OPERATIONS FOR 1920. 



It would not be fair to make an estimate for 

 next season based directly on the work we have 

 carried out during the past season. The co 

 operation we have been able to secure has been 

 slight. Mr. Ellwood Wilson, chief forester of the 

 Laurentide company, gave us at all times his 

 earnest support and ready assistance, and maps, 

 canoes, tractors, chain blocks, steel rails, and 

 numerous other equipment was gladly loaned 

 us by the Laurentide company; and I fear that 

 without this individual assistance, the success 

 of our season's work would have been still more 

 handicapped. 



During the next season, with two pilots, our 

 patrol time will probably aggregate more than 

 four hundred hours, or a patrol over forty-five 

 thousand square miles of territory a week. This 

 weekly total will, of course, vary according to 

 ' the requirements of the work. A camera will 

 be carried during all photographic weather, and 

 as much territory will be mapped by this means 

 as IS possible. 



WHICH TYPE OF MACHINE? 



For the work we have been called upon to 

 perform during the season, the Curtiss HS 2 L 

 Flying Boat is undoubtedly the best obtainable 

 at the present time. The varied country over 

 which we have to operate would not warrant the 

 use of too light a machine. It is true they might 

 fly at high altitudes, but we are called upon to 

 make landings on lakes and rivers at any time, 

 and I recall one occasion when we landed on a 

 long narrow lake which had cliffs on both sides 

 rising sheer to twelve hundred feet above the 

 water, a heavy cross wind was blowing, and the 

 agitated state of the air for the first fifteen hun- 

 dred feet of the climb can be well imagined. 



A machine weighing three and a quarter tons, 

 equipped to carry three passengers, could hard- 

 ly be called efficient, and the HS 2 L is not as 

 efficient as a machine of its power should be. 

 4 The ideal machine for work on inland waters 

 is, in my opinion, one of the fuselage-float type, 

 a twin tractor, each motor being one hundred 

 and sixty horse power, with a fuel capacity for 

 not less than four hours' flight. This would 

 allow of carrying pilot, passenger, and consider- 

 able extra load. The fuel consumption with 

 his type of machine would be slightly more 

 than half that of the Liberty 33 H.P. as fitted 

 -with Zenith carburettors. 



Cradles are not necessary for launching or 

 beaching fuselage type machines, a flat truck 

 being all that is required. In the event of one 

 or both floats of a seaplane being punctured by 

 contact with logs or rocks, these can readily be 

 removed and new ones substituted in a few 

 hours; whereas damage to the hull of a flying 

 boat puts the machine out of action for a con- 

 siderable period. Seaplanes are not, however, 

 as seaworthy as flying boats, and should not be 

 considered where very rough water is to be 

 encountered. 



At Riviere du Loup on June 7th, with a heavy 

 sea running, cross tide and wind, we spent a 

 very disagreeable few minutes in the open river 

 trying to "take off." Once the machine buried 

 its nose in the waves within a few feet of the 

 pilot's cockpit, and gallons of water streamed 

 into the front cockpit. This was worse than a 

 straight sea running twice its height, and it 

 was only by getting under the lee of the break- 

 water, that we avoided becoming swamped. A 

 seaplane in a similar position would probably 

 have sustained damage. 



N. S. FORESTS UNDERVALUED. 



Halifax. Hon. 0. T. Daniels has made a dis- 

 covery in regard to the value of the forest re- 

 sources of Nova Scotia. Hitherto, the statistic- 

 ians have been putting this value down at 

 $5,00,000 annually. Hon. Mr. Daniels says 

 the value is $19,500,000. According to him, 

 those who have been computing the value have 

 been consistently omitting very important 

 items. It appears that no one thought it worth 

 while to seriously consider the value of cord- 

 wood as an article of consumption, in this pro- 

 vince, but Mr. Daniels puts this item down at 

 $5,000,000, equal almost to the entire value 

 previously estimated by those who wrote on the 

 subject of timber. Mr. Daniels estimates the 

 value of Christmas trees, for instance, at 

 $50,000 a year. Pitprops, telegraph poles, and 

 a score of other smaller articles previously for- 

 gotten, he brings in to swell his aggregate to 

 within a fraction of $20,000,000 a year. 



It may be that other natural resources of the 

 province have been similarly underestimated. 

 Hon. Mr. Daniels is the attorney-general of the 

 province and a lawyer. His figures showing 

 the unexpected importance of our forest in- 

 dustry, will not be unpleasing to the people of 

 this province, and may be somewhat of an eye- 

 opener to citiezns of other parts of the Dom- 

 inion. -Financial Post. 



