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which are taking place, and the pubHcity which will no doubt be 

 given them by the press, will help along the cause. And if we 

 can at last get the Government of the Province to awaken to 

 the importance of our forest resources (except when collecting 

 fees and taxes) we may all feel as though we had made two 

 blades of grass, where only one grew before." 



Mr. Jones then dealt at considerable length with the Fire 

 question and submitted a draft resolution on the subject. 



Mr. Aubrey White, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests 

 for Ontario, stated that: 



"In the appointment of fire rangers in Ontario they had 

 been careful to eliminate the chances of political profit. They 

 wanted the men who understood the conditions best, and for this 

 reason he proposed to leave the appointment of the fire wardens 

 to the lumbermen, the Government to pay half and the lumber- 

 men to pay their half. After starting in this manner with 10 

 fire wardens the number had grown to between 700 and 800 

 scattered throughout the province, and this year they would 

 spend $90,000 in fire protection and the lumbermen would spend 

 between $70,000 and $80,000. There was some danger of fires 

 starting in Ontario, and when the railway was built to Parry 

 Sound they made an arrangement with Mr. Booth to appoint 

 fire wardens, and it worked so well that they did not have a 

 single fire. 



"They had now put upon their statute books a law that 

 when a railway company was constructing a line of railway 

 through a timbered country, they could appoint as many guard- 

 ians as they pleased, the Government paying half and the railway 

 company paying half, and the cost of extinction of fires was met 

 in the same way. 



"There was of course, a trouble between settlers and lumber- 

 men as to the location of land, so that when a man applied for 

 land they sent an inspector and on his report they gave or with- 

 held the grant. He agreed with President Roosevelt that for 

 the settler who wanted to make a home on the land he had the 

 greatest respect, but for those who wished to denude it of its 

 timber and then leave it they would make it as hard as possible, 

 and this was a policy he would recommend to the people of 

 British Columbia." 



Mr. W. H. Rowley, Manager of the E. B. Eddy Coy., of 

 Hull, P.Q., spoke strongly in favor of educating the children in 

 schools to properly value a tree. The question of the preser- 

 vation of the forest wealth for the people of Canada, was, he 

 considered, a matter that this convention should take up, and 

 in connection therewith moved the following resolution: — 



