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which creates wealthy men within a 

 comparatively short ^eriod. A record 

 and study of the lumber industry re- 

 veals that there have been many reverses 

 in that branch, and perhaps more than 

 in any other allied vocation. More fool- 

 hardy ones venture into the lumber 

 arena than any other industrial calling- 

 and come out of it with a vastly differ- 

 ent conception of its potentialities and 

 realizations than when they set sail. 

 True, a few fortunes have been made, 

 but scores have been lost, and if the 

 lumber manufacturer reaps a larger 

 profit than those in other endeavors, it 

 must be remembered that he takes a 

 bigger chance. It is sad, indeed, to 

 shatter a popular delusion, but the num- 

 ber of rich lumbermen is relatively not 

 nearly as large as that of those engaged 

 in numerous other lines where the re- 

 turns are more liberal without any of 

 the speculative spirit, the play of fortune 

 and the freaks of the weather. In 

 sporting propositions the man who takes 

 the longest chance is given the greatest 

 odds, and more money can be lost in a 

 sawmill venture than in perliaps anv 



other. A drop of a few dollars in 

 quotations may in a night wipe out the 

 earnings of a lifetime. To those who 

 accept the greatest hazard, the largest 

 spoils go, and the risks that the lumber- 

 man has to face are little known or 

 thought of by the general public. The 

 lumber operator encounters too much or 

 too little snow in winter and the ab- 

 sence of rain in the spring; the scarcity 

 of labor, its restless attitude and fre- 

 quent exactions, embargoes, increased 

 freight rates and transportation tie-ups. 

 car shortages, varying demand, and 

 supply abroad and at home, fire, flood 

 and hurricane, heavy loans and a score 

 of other contingencies, all of which may 

 change conditions in a twinkling. 



The writer holds no brief for the de- 

 fence of the big lumber operator, but has 

 sought to present frankly some of the 

 conditions with which he is confronted 

 at this juncture, and to answer efiFect- 

 ively the charge freciuently laid at his 

 door of being responsible for building in- 

 activity, shortage of homes and the h^l' 

 in industrial expansion. — "Financial 

 Post." 



Aircraft for Forestry Purposes 



Aerial Reconnaissance and Photography for the Woods Department of the Spanish 

 River Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd., in Xorthern Ontario. 



During the summer season of 1920 

 the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills 

 operated a flying boat for the purpose of 

 ascertaining the value of aerial recon- 

 naissance and photography in woods 

 operations. 



The boat, an Aeromarine 44L, was 

 launched on June 2nd and a trial flight 

 was made on the same day. Delay in 

 obtaining the I^astman K-l .'\ero Camera 

 lield back the photographic work until 

 July. V'we hours and fifteen mimito^ 

 only were spent in photographic flights. 

 During this time forty-one square miles 

 of terrain was photographed. Approxi- 

 mately eight hundred s(iuarc miles \va^ 

 extensively reconnoitered during the 

 simimer. Delay in obtaiTiing a develop 



ing tank has prevented the development 

 of the exposed fihrns, and therefore the 

 construction of a key, absi^ilutely essen- 

 tial to the intcM-prctatiini of aerial photo- 

 graphs. 



During the season 43 flights were 

 made. During these flights, covering in 

 all thirty-seven hours and twenty-five 

 minutes, the machine was flown two 

 thousand uiiK-^. .*>ixty-one passengers 

 were carrieil. riierc were no "crashes"' 

 and no one was iniurecl during the sum- 

 nior''^ \V(M'k. 



Tlu' experiment in aerial rec<>miais- 

 ■^ance and i)hoti>graphy. though of short 

 (luiaiioii. lias ]iroven of such value that 

 the work will he continued by the Span- 

 ish Kiver Pulp and Paper Mills during 

 the Hying season oi V^2\. 



