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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photo by D. C. A. Galarneau. 



DUG OUT MADE BY WHITE MEN. 



TIMBER CRUISERS USING A RED CEDAR "DUG OUT" MADE BY WHITE MEN. IT IS HEAVY AND CLUMSY COMPARED WITH 

 THE DUG OUTS MADE BY THE INDIANS, \\KO ARE ADEPTS IN \\OOD CARVING, EVEN WITH THEIR CRUDE TOOLS. 



at one end of the room 40 pairs of 

 trousers and as many coats, shirts and 

 other articles of wearing apparel, and 

 miscellaneous clothing without end. 

 The collection also included dozens of 

 crates of oranges, canned fruits and 

 vegetables, several phonographs and a 

 fine $85 steel range which they used 

 for a sideboard. Yet with all this luxury 

 they cooked their food over an open 

 fire inside the house and slept in quilts 

 and blankets wherever they could find 

 an odd place to lay them down at one 

 end of the room. 



The forests flanking the 16,000 miles 

 of coast line are the most valuable re- 

 source of the region. The fish, game, 

 minerals and scenery are resources of 

 great interest and value ; but the timber, 

 under present developments, is a greater 

 asset than all the others combined. The 

 salmon canneries represent a well-estab- 

 lished industry ; mining is carried on in 

 the region, but is not a ranking industry 

 on the coast ; while the game and scen- 

 ery are not sought for themselves alone. 

 Some day a steamship company may 

 make capital of this scenic coast line, 

 and Bute Inlet and Wakeman Sound be- 



come as well known as Lake Louise or 

 Banff, while with the increase in pop- 

 ulation in the Northwest, the inside 

 channels of British Columbia may be- 

 come a mecca for motor boat cruising, 

 with summer houses on the coast and 

 islands. Whatever the ultimate develop- 

 ments, the next decade at least will be 

 a period of timber exploitation on an 

 enormous scale and under funda- 

 mentally favorable conditions. 



The west coast of British Columbia 

 is an enormous natural forest region 

 where the favorable conditions for 

 growth have produced dense forests of 

 valuable species at once protected from 

 the winds of the Pacific, and immedi- 

 ately accessible to tide water. The 

 heavy rainfall of from 60 to 120 inches 

 annually is a decided factor in produc- 

 ing the large individual trees in heavy 

 stands, and at the same time has pre- 

 vented wide destruction by fire. An- 

 other factor which has favored timber 

 growth and prevented fire is the prox- 

 imity of the warm Japan current, 

 which causes heavy fog during parts of 

 the year. This "Queen Charlotte fog 

 belt" extends over a large section of 



