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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



MAGAZINE PRAISED 



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The Emu. 

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 am reading your magazine with keen in- 

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Lewis Edwin Theiss, 

 Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



ELLWOOD WILSON, SECRETARY, 



CANADIAN SOCIETY OF 



FOREST ENGINEERS 



The Report of the Forest Branch of 

 British Columbia for 1916 is just out and 

 is very interesting and shows what such 

 work, properly conducted, can do for a 

 country. Trade extension in wood prod- 

 ucts has been carefully studied and eflforts 

 made to increase the markets for and the 

 consumption of timber. Heretofore 

 southern pine has held the eastern Can- 

 adian market, but Douglas fir has been 

 brought to the attention of architects, 

 city building departments and other wood 

 users and much very creditable adver- 

 tising has been done. Exhibitions have 

 also been held in many eastern cities. 

 Mills are also put into touch with en- 

 quirers and possible customers. The 

 Prairie Provinces have also been care- 

 fully canvassed and the same methods 

 used to induce their people to use British 

 Columbia timber as in the East. For- 

 eign trade has also been carefully studied, 

 but the difficulty of obtaining ships has 

 greatly hampered the export trade. The 

 British War Office has done considerable 

 buying of boxes in British Columbia. 

 The estimated value of the total lumber 

 production for 1916 is $35,528,000 and 

 the total timber scaled amounted to 

 1,280,000,000 feet. B. M. logging opera- 

 tions increased and were carefully in- 

 spected; 1648 inspections were reported. 

 Land classification work was carried on, 

 144 examinations being made. Manu- 

 facturing and export statistics were also 

 collected and these showed that the pulp 

 and paper industry has obtained a foot- 

 hold, 65,229 tons of paper and 14,389 

 tons of sulfite wood-pulp being manufac- 

 tured. Reconnaissance work had to be 



