of strong muscles. "We need coal to keep us warm, 

 wood for buildings, posts and implements; we need 

 towns and cities to provide a near-by market, and we 

 need all the manufacturing industries we can lay hands 

 on. 



There's none of these things can come to, or continue 

 in, Alberta, unless we all join in saving the forests. 

 The coal mines are no good to us without wooden pit 

 props, and if pit props get scarce up goes the price of 

 coal. There's not much use having water powers un- 

 less they have something to bite on. They must have 

 raw materials, like wood, to turn into products. 



What good is cheap land if fence posts and lumber 

 are too dear to purchase? "What hope is there for in- 

 dustries in Northern Alberta unless they are forest in- 

 dustries? 



A neighbor told me the other day that there was no 

 room for the forest in Northern Alberta, that every acre 

 would soon be under crops. 



"Crops?" I retorted, "what crops? When I tell you 

 that not twenty acres in a hundred in Northern Alberta 

 can grow wheat or support stock, I'm not basing my 

 talk on an ignorant opinion. Look at this!" And I 

 unfolded a dominion government report proving that 

 only about one acre in five in our part of the country 

 was any good for field crops. "What becomes of the 

 four-fifths?" said I. 



He didn't know. 



Who Wants a No Man's Land in Canada West? 



"Will it be a desert waste of blackened stumps and 

 useless soil, or will it produce timber? Will it fetch 



