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quantity cut of red and white pine, while less by over five hundred thousand 

 pieces, was practically the same as the year 1928, there being 207,742,496 feet 

 B.M. against 210,532,068 for the former year, the average log content being 

 five feet higher during the past year. Jackpine taken out in logs for mill opera- 

 tions totalled 72,891,128 feet B.M., nearly one million feet in advance of the 

 previous year. Operations in respect of other logs such as spruce, hemlock, hard* 

 wood, etc., exceeded the year previous by over 550,000 pieces and by 6,700,000 

 feet B.M. An increase in railway ties manufactured in the bush was marked to 

 the extent of nearly 200,000, the quantities reaching 1,916,686. There were 

 over 10,000 more cedar posts taken out. 



Considering the various factors that tend to operate against the constant 

 buoyancy of the great logging and lumbering industry, including amongst others 

 the vagaries of the weather, the many wood substitutes, keen outside competi- 

 tion, the flexibility of the building trade and the fluctuating markets, it is most 

 satisfactory to note that the "lumberjacks' " optimism tides over evil times and 

 always hopes for, if not prophesies, good times. A period when business is good 

 is genuinely reflected in bush undertakings and if the present tone displayed at 

 the beginning of another season is a fair criterion of next winter's work, then the 

 prediction is justified that a successful season looms ahead for the logging 

 manufacturer and his bush employees. For tabulated statement of cut see 

 Appendix No. 8. 



PuLPWooD Operations 



Predictions in last year's report that the general situation obtaining in 

 connection with the newsprint industry would be reflected in a decreased cut of 

 pulpwood, have been borne out by the returns. During 1928 Crown lands 

 accounted for 684,582 cords, while 1929 accounted for only 461,992 cords, or a 

 decrease of 222,590 cords. The decrease in the cut on settlers' and patented 

 lands was even more noticeable, there being cut during the year but 659,868 

 cords therefrom, less than the previous year by 451,356 cords. 



Only 428,451 cords were exported as against 612,000 cords for 1928, or 

 about sixty-four per cent, of the total exportable quantities. 



Seventy-four per cent, of the exportable material came from patented or 

 privately-owned lands over which the Crown has no control. 



Through the Supervisor of Operations and the various staffs under the 

 different Crown timber agents careful inspections are being periodically made and 

 rigid though reasonable enforcement of the cutting regulation is pursued. The 

 sympathetic attitude of the operators towards the government in its efforts to 

 see cutting done judiciously and economically is to be commended. 



There is every reason to hope that when the Pulpwood Conservation Act, 

 to which reference has already been made, is operating fully along the plans laid 

 down and fire preventive measures are tightened up, an improved situation will 

 result and a further impo.rtant step taken towards a rotation of crop and a per- 

 petuation of forest growth. 



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Forest Fire Protection 



With a view to segregating certain areas, within which travel permits are 

 neceseary, regulations were passed by which certain old areas, mostly patented 

 land, hitherto comprised within fire districts, were withdrawn from travel permit 

 operations and other and less occupied sections were included. Conditions were 

 provided to govern the making of fires out of doors for cooking or obtaining 

 warmth. 



