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ing from the limit holders, besides the bonuses paid and timber dues, an annual rental 

 O f 5; -re milt-, which amounts on this account alone to the sum of $1,763,983. 



: injr the same year (1902) the province of Ontario with only 18,191 square 

 miles of territory under license, being less than one-third that of Quebec, expended 

 for fire-ranging services nearly five times as much, or $34,200, and saved thereby 

 millions of dollars' worth of timber from being destroyed by fire this being a situation 

 wherein an ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure, and where it would 

 cost less to save one thousand dollars' worth of matured timber than to grow ten 

 dollars' worth of young trees. 



But common sense would indicate that in our eastern provinces of Canada so 

 especially adapted for the successful growth of timber, and where it will in a few years 

 command higher prices than in many parts of Europe, owing to the enormous demands 

 that must be made upon us, not only by the northern states of the American Union, 

 but by our own great central treeless territories, it would be prudent to expend in the 

 salvation and growth of timber not only to the extent of thousands of dollars, as is done 

 in Quebec, or tens of thousands as in Ontario, or hundreds of thousands as in some of 

 the minor European countries, but even millions of dollars as in France and Germany, 

 where they not only get returns of from two to five dollars for every one expended, 

 but have their stocks of timber increased and made more valuable each succeeding 

 year ; whereas we possessing without outlay on our part some of the most valuable forest 

 lands on the earth's surface, have been treating them in the same improvident manner 

 as the prodigal spendthrift who keeps selling off portions of his patrimony every few 

 years to meet his extravagances till all is gone. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



The following resolutions were submitted by the Committee on Resolutions and 

 adopted : 



1. Resolved, that this association has learned with great pleasure through a tele- 

 gram from Senator Edwards that the Right Honourable the Premier of Canada hag 

 expressed his desire that a Forestry Convention should be held during the coming sum- 

 mer or autumn in Ottawa, and that the Dominion Government will render suitable aid 

 to such a convention. 



The Association desires to express its great gratification at the interest in its work 



sated by this action on the part of the Premier of the Dominion and to express its 



concurrence in the suggestion for holding such a Forestry Convention, and the 



Committee of this Association is hereby authorized to confer with the Right 



ible the Premier and to take such steps as may be necessary to carry out the 



id convention; and that a copy of this resolution be sent to Hon. Mr. Edwards 



for presentation to the Premier. 



2. Resolved, that in view of the proposed construction of a new transcontinental 



e projection of other lines passing largely through coniferous forests, 

 the governments of the Dominion, and the provinces and also of the 

 inies, be called to the serious danger of loss of valuable timber consequent 

 istruction and operation of such lines, if all possible precautions to prevent 

 fires are not taken, and to urge that the question be given full and" care- 

 ion, that to toe end sought the party or parties contracting to build the 

 .ons of the said roads be required to enter into an agreement for an efficient 

 d control to prevent fires, that at such seasons as may be necessary an 

 *tabhshed along the afforested line of railway, and that the officers 

 vernments and the railways be required to use all possible diligence to 

 he starting or spread of fires through defective equipment or through the care- 

 the operations or negligence of the employees under their control. 



