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issue, or perhaps Cr(Twn timber dues are owing, in which case the license does 

 not issue. Then the next year the ground rent or dues having been paid up the 

 licenses are again issued and the area under license < is considerably increased 

 although no sale has taken place. 



There was surrendered during the year 1,111 square miles and new licenses 

 were issued for territory aggregating nearly 500 square miles. 



Volume of Output. 



The production of pine timber, sawlogs and square timber, etc., in feet board 

 measure during the year was 382,582,9^7 ft. B.M., being 22,304,839 ft. B.M. in 

 excess of the output of last year. The output of timber other than pine this year 

 was 77,451,857 ft. B.M. as against 64,097,436 ft. B.M. last year. The quantity 

 of pulpwood taken off Crown Lands was 104,544 cords as against 131,434 cords 

 last year. There were taken out 5,439,845 pieces of railway ties as against 

 6,355,828 pieces last year. 



Financial Stringency. 



In the report last year the existence of 'financial stringency was referred to 

 and the opinion was expressed that there would not be much increase in the out- 

 put of logs. Financial matters did not improve, but on the contrary became worse 

 in the sense that the war came upon us in August just when lumbermen were 

 making arrangements for the payment of accounts for the previous season and 

 also for advances on account of their lumber operations during the coming season. 

 For some time after the breaking out of the war financial matters were in a state 

 of chaos and lumbermen found it impossible to finance both their operations and 

 the payment of their accounts for timber dues and they frankly said so. The 

 Department has never failed to take into consideration the state of financial 

 matters and to assist in preventing a crisis in the lumber trade by extending 

 leniency to those indebted to it for timber dues, because the security of the limits 

 is good. In pursuance of that policy the Department did not press for payment 

 in full of accounts for dues, etc., consequehtly the collection from woods and 

 forests has been about $304,237.88 below the estimated revenue. It is not expected 

 that the output for the present winter will greatly exceed that of last winter, 

 although the financial position is somewhat improved. 



Fire-ranging. 



We had on duty last year directly under the supervision of the Department 

 606 men, distributed as follows: On forest reserves 214; Quetico and Algonquin 

 Parks 19 ; railways 229 ; Crown lands 106 ; chief rangers 26 ; deputy chief rangers 

 4; supervising rangers on licensed territory 8. On lands under license there were 

 320 rangers on duty. These rangers are selected by the licensees, subject to the 

 approval of the Department which has power to refuse to appoint or remove after 

 appointment if the person recommended is not of good character or neglects his 

 duties. . The recommendations are left with the licensees because they have their 

 lumbermen, foremen and others who are familiar with the topography of their 

 limits and know where settlers are and generally the danger points which require 

 close watching. The licensees have to pay their own rangers and any expense 

 caused by the fighting of forest fires on their limits. The Department puts on 

 supervising rangers — 8 in number — on the licensed territory for the purpose of 



