102 Canadian Forestry Journal. 



Columbia Mountain Lumbermen's Association; E. Stewart, 

 President of the Canadian Forestry- Association and Dominion 

 Superintendent of Forestry'; Overton W. Price, Assistant Forester 

 for the United States; Dr. Judson F. Clark, Forester for the 

 Province of Ontario; Roland D. Craig, Inspector of Dominion 

 Forest Reserves. 



The Secretary will be pleased to furnish any further partic- 

 ulars as far as possible. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. has begun tree planting 

 on quite an extensive scale along its western lines. A contract 

 has been let for a small acreage of breaking near Wolseley on 

 which it is the intention to experiment with tamarack for ties. 

 A piece of ground is also to be planted at Medicine Hat with 

 jack pine and tamarack for the same purpose. Over 100 miles 

 of trees are to be planted between Winnipeg and Calgary, for 

 snow breaks, and at several stations trees are to be planted 

 around the station grotmds, and prizes are to be offered the section 

 foremen who make the best shovving. This work, if carried on 

 successfully, ought to encourage tree planting among the farmers 

 of the west. 



The area set aside for forest reserve purposes has more 

 than doubled in the United States since 1904. In that year it 

 comprised less than 50,000,000 acres, while now more than 

 100,000,000 acres are reserv^ed. In some states the exemption 

 of large areas from taxation means in the future a serious loss of 

 revenue to the counties in which the reserves are situated. In 

 order to remedy what seemed to be an injustice the Forest 

 Service submitted a Bill to Congress to grant 10 per cent, of 

 the total receipts from forest reserves to the counties in which 

 they are situated. These receipts for the year ending June 30th 

 were $767,219.96, and they are expected to increase immensely 

 from year to year. The 10 per cent, contributed to the county 

 funds is safe-guarded in the act by a provision that it must be 

 spent entirely for the maintanence of schools and pubhc roads. 



