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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



SECRETARY LAWLER'S 

 LECTURES. 



On the last day of November the 

 Secretary left on a trip between Toronto 

 and Ottawa to speak at a number of 

 places on the way. These were Peter- 

 borough, Belleville, Trenton, Kingston, 

 Brockville, Ottawa and Carleton Place. 

 The organizations under whose auspices 

 he appeared were Boards of Trade, 

 CanadianClubs and Boards of Education. 



In Peterborough he first delivered a 

 lecture before the Board of Trade. 

 Then upon invitation this was repeated 

 before the Peterborough County Council 

 then in session. The councillors took 

 hold of the subject and it was stated 

 that there were 128,000 acres in the 

 northern part of the county fit only to 

 grow trees. This area has been nearly 

 all cut off and the few settlers remaining 

 are now moving out since their market, 

 the lumbermen and the chance of work- 

 ing during the winter in the shanties 

 have been removed. Evidently it will 

 not be long before Peterborough county 

 will be wrestling with its deforested 

 lands problem. 



At Belleville the lecture was held in 

 the city hall under the auspices of the 

 Canadian Club. On the second evening 

 of his stay he was invited to address the 

 students of Albert College. In Kingston 

 it was the Board of Trade which ar- 

 ranged for the meeting. Several of the 

 professors of Queen's University at- 

 tended and upon invitation theSecretary 

 addressed the members of the Engineer- 

 ing Society of the University on the 

 following afternoon. 



In Brockville the lecture was delivered 

 in Victoria Hall, the Board of Trade 



being the sponsors, while at Ottawa, 

 Trenton and Carleton Place the Boards 

 of Education arranged for the meetings. 

 In Ottawa the meeting was held in the 

 fine new Assembly Hall of the Collegiate 

 Institute and Mr. Peter Whelen, the 

 President of the Board of Trade, was in 

 the chair. In every case the lectures 

 were illustrated by stereopticon views 

 and no small interest was aroused in all 

 these places. This form of work is to be 

 continued during the winter and spring. 



TIMBER ALONG THE ERASER 

 RIVER. 

 Mr. G. S. Mallock of the Geological 

 Survey, during the past summer trav- 

 elled down the Eraser River from Tete 

 Jaune Cache to Fort George. After 

 Tete Jaune Cache is left twenty miles 

 in the rear the banks of the river are 

 very heavily timbered till one gets to 

 a point some sixty miles from Fort 

 George. At the latter place a sawmill 

 is being built. Spruce predominates, 

 with some fir. Practically no fires have 

 occurred of late. The province keeps a 

 fire ranger along the river. For a stretch 

 of fully two hundred miles, viz., from 

 Gisborne Portage to within seventy 

 miles of the Cache there has been prac- 

 tically no fire. Some fine cedar was met 

 with, usually some little distance from 

 the river, on the first slopes of the 

 movmtains; it runs up to 12 feet in 

 diameter. Other species met with were 

 white birch, fir and cottonwood, some 

 specimens of the last-named species 

 running up to eight to ten feet in dia- 

 meter. Near Fort George, for a stretch 

 of some seventy miles, there have been 

 fires and jack pine and aspen poplar 

 predominate. 



FQKESTRY ENGINEEK 



FRENCH SWISS, ^26 years of age, having the diploma of 

 the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, late pupil of the 

 School of Forestry in Munich, 2 years practice, knowing 



French, (xei'man and English, seeks good and permanent situa- 

 tion either as manager of a wooded estate or as working manager or tech- 

 nical expert, in a timber business or other similar post. Copies of testi- 

 monials and diplomas if desired. Please address 



N 15270 L. HAASENSTEIN & VOGLER, 

 LA^USANNE, SWITZERLAND. 



