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the mountains are steeper and higher, and there is a smaller 
proportion of very heavy timber. In the northern portion of 
British Columbia the timber consists chiefly of spruce and large 
pine, and does not extend far from the rivers and lakes. 
“The merchantable area of the Province has been estimated 
at from 50 to 60 million acres. 
“The Government has pursued the policy of refusing to part 
with the title of timber land. Only about one million acres 
of timber land have been granted in fee simple to private parties. 
About nine million acres.of timber land have been leased to 
private individuals. The remainder of the forest land, consist- 
ing chiefly of timber at present considered inaccessible, and all 
burned-over land covered with reproduction is still in the hands 
of the Crown. 
“The present revenue of the Province from timber leases and 
from the royalty of 50 cents per thousand charged on all timber 
cut amounts to $2,600,000 per year. This revenue will be largely 
increased as the development proceeds. The indications are now 
that there will be a rapid advance in the next few years. 
“The new Forest Branch has been formed under the guidance 
of Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Price, to administer the timber lands 
and to develop the country by a wise forestry policy for the 
Province. The Forest Branch is very young. There are at 
present about twenty foresters, but the indications are that the 
staff will need to be very largely increased during the next two 
or three years. In order that the rangers and foresters may be 
secured it is the intention of the Government to establish a 
forestry school in connection with the new provincial university.” 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In 1910 he was 
appointed Canadian representative to the Convention of the 
International Association of Forest Experiment Stations at 
Brussels. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Forest 
Engineers, of which he is a member of the executive committee, 
the Ottawa Field Naturalists Society, the Ontario Entomological 
Society and the Canadian Alpine Club, and is a Mason. 
He has published: Forest conditions, Crowsnest Valley, Alta.; Forest 
products, Canada, 1908; Forest fires, Canada, 1908 and 1910; Lumber, 
lath shingles, Canada, 1909 and 1910; Poles purchased, Canada, 1909, 
1910 and 1911; Pulpwood, Canada, 1909, 1910 and 1911; Cross ties pur- 


