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been engaged in railway construction, and consequently in 

 forest destruction, but he had joined the Association about a 

 year ago, and though trees to-day looked more beautiful to him 

 than formerly, he felt the need of better local organization. They 

 could have meetings here and there, and get literature and have 

 discussions on the methods of forestry. Every man, woman and 

 child in British Columbia should be taught the necessity of pre- 

 serving the forests. 



Mr. Overton Price, in answer to a query, explained the 

 methods of giving publicity to forestry information in the 

 United States. They had formerly issued large bulletins, but 

 these were not read, and now instead they issued short circu- 

 lars which were distributed among 20,000 lumbermen in the 

 United States. In addition to this they had a press bureau 

 which employed a number of newspaper men, who went and 

 obtained information and then put it into palatable shape and 

 they got as much as possible into newspapers and magazines. 



Mr. H. B. Gilmour spoke of the- necessity of lumbermen 

 s"tarting on their limits at the right place, Whenever a fire 

 started on the bottom of a mountain it always climbed to the 

 top, and if lumbermen would always locate their camps in the 

 highest places there would be much less danger from fire than 

 now. 



Mr. W. H. Higgins said he had been much interested in the 

 proceedings and he hoped that the Government would rise to 

 the occasion and help them to preserve what was given them. 

 Regarding the burning of tops and cutting, he found that the 

 growth of young timber for about three years made a hotter fire 

 than what had been cleared away. In regard to making the 

 camps in the highest place as suggested by Mr. Gilmour, it 

 sounded very well in theory, but in practice he would not like 

 to try it. He had himself been a sufferer from fire and knew 

 what it was, and in this respect he related his own experience. 

 He trusted that the deliberations of the convention would result 

 in profit to them all. 



The following resolutions were submitted by the Committee 

 on Resolutions and passed: — 



WHEREAS the destruction of large areas of the Forest 

 wealth of Canada by fire is still of yearly recurrence be it 



RESOLVED, That it is incumbent on the Governments of 

 the Provinces of the Dominion to legislate at the earliest oppor- 

 tunity still more stringently against the use of fire in timbered 

 portions of the various Provinces during the summer months 

 and further and of equal importance, to provide means for effi- 

 ciently carrying out the provisions of the Statutes that may be 

 passed. 



