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A penalty of two years' imprisonment, without option of 

 a fine, should be imposed on all campers, hunters, settlers and 

 others who, during the summer months, neglect to effectually 

 guard their camp clearing and other fires during the time they 

 are burning, and to put them completely out when they are 

 done with them. 



President Falconer. 



President Falconer, of the University of Toronto, was then 

 introduced and briefly welcomed those present in the name of 

 the University of Toronto. The University had a Faculty of 

 Forestry which had trebled during the year and which lent 

 strength to the University. The people must be trained to look 

 upon their country not merely as a possession for a generation, 

 but as something which future generations had to share and on 

 the better informed portion of the community rested a large 

 measure of responsibility for impressing this on the public 

 mind. 



Ontario's Forest Resources. 



Mr. Aubrey White, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests 

 for Ontario, then described at length "The Forest Resources of 

 Ontario." Mr. White outlined the position of affairs in regard 

 to the provincial timberlands at Confederation, and traced the 

 subsequent history of the public lands through the sales of 1871, 

 1872 and on through 1887, 1894 and up to 1904. Since Con- 

 federation 12,000 square miles had been sold, and a total of 

 fifty and a quarter million dollars realized from these ; of this 

 nine and a quarter millions were from lands and mines, the rest 

 from bonus, ground rent and stumpage dues. The average 

 annual cut for the last ten years had been 673,000,000 feet, and 

 for the last two years 710,000,000 feet. There were still stand- 

 ing, on licensed lands, seven billion feet of white and red pine, 

 besides hemlock, spruce and jack pine. Speaking with respect 

 to the unlicensed lands, Mr. White took these up by districts; 

 district No. 1 comprising that part of the province east of Port 

 Arthur and south of the Height of Land; district No. 2 com- 

 prising the country east of Port Arthur and north of the Height 

 of Land, and district No. 3 took in all the country west of Port 

 Arthur to the boundary. This whole territory gave a total of 

 thirteen and a half billion feet. The total amount of Ontario's 

 standing timber was thus twenty and a half billion feet, and the 

 estimate of the pulpwood was two hundred and fifty million 

 cords. The present timber resources were estimated to be 

 worth $370,000,000. For the protection of the forests from fire 

 there had been spent last year $140,000. Next year a great 



