One Railway and Forest Protection 



FOREST protection should be the concern of not only gov- 

 ernments but of the railroads. Every destructive fire in 

 a forest region means almost as much loss to the rail- 

 road running through that territory as it does to the owner 

 of the land. A railroad makes every effort to conserve its 

 sources of revenue. Many roads have, however, overlooked 

 one of the great sources of revenues, namely, the forests. 



While the railroads in the United States have been exceed- 

 ingly remiss in this connection the Canadian Pacific railway 

 has set an example not only to the railroads of the American 

 continent but to the governments. It has gone very far in 

 its study of the preservation of forests. 



Work of C. P. R. Outlined. 



George Bury, vice president of the Canadian Pacific rail- 

 way, speaking at the recent Canadian forestry convention in 

 Winnipeg, outlined the work of the railroad is doing along 

 these lines: 



"The Canadian Pacific railway, outside of the government 

 of Germany, has probably made the most elaborate study of 

 the preservation of forests of any organization in the world," 

 he said. "The privately owned forests of Germany are nur- 

 tured with all the care that highly educated forest experts 

 can give, and that is what our company is doing by having the 

 forest tracts it owns guarded and patrolled by the most elab- 

 orate system that can be suggested. 



Twofold Purposes in Study. 



"Study of the natural resources of the country has been 

 made by this company with a twofold purpose: to estimate 

 the amount of traffic that may be derived from year to year 

 .irj the territory adjacent to the line and what production can 



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