Canadian Forcslri/ Journal, Fcbvuarii, 1918 



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A Swiss View Of Overseas Axemen 



A Swiss forester gives in the 

 Journal Forcstier an interesting ac- 

 count of a Canadian lumber camp in 

 France in one of the famous fir 

 forests of the State in the Jura 

 Mountains, ki Joux. This is a forest 

 of about 6,500 acres of silver fir of 

 magnificent dimensions — very dif- 

 ferent from most French forests in 

 which Canadians have been working 

 — the trees being often over 160 feet 

 in height and sometimes 3 feet in 

 diameter. The forest being care- 

 fully m.anaged under selection sy- 

 stem, or perhaps, we should say. 



under a long term shelter-wood sy- 

 stem, is supposed to permit a sus- 

 tained yield of 222 cubic feet per 

 acre, valued at SoO per acre per year — 

 an unusual figure. 



From the description, we judge that 

 the operation is organized like a first- 

 class American logging and mill 

 camp, with both cable and animal 

 skidding and a four-foot circular, with 

 cut-off and trimmer saws, and loco- 

 mobile to carry the lumber. A stone 

 crusher to furnish material for mak- 

 ing the heavy bottomless roads pas- 

 sable alone is an innovation. 



The Woodlands Section 



The organization of the Woodlands 

 Section was completed at a well- 

 attended meeting at the Windsor 

 Hotel, Montreal, Thursday afternoon, 

 Feb. 7th, Mr. Ellwood Wilson pre- 

 sided and the following officers were 

 elected : 



President, W. Gerard Power, of 

 Quebec, president of the Canadian 

 Lumbermen's Association; vice-pre- 

 sident, Angus McLean, of the Bath- 

 urst Lumber Co., Bathurst, N. S.; 

 Both these officers were elected by 

 acclamation with the following board 

 of directors: Thos. Mack, of the 

 Brown Corporation, La Tucjue; M. C. 

 Small, of the Laurentide Co. ; E. Wil- 

 son, of the Laurentide Co.; John 

 Black of the J. R. Booth Co., and 

 F. M. Anderson, of the Shives Co., 

 Limited, Campbellton, N.B. 



Mr. F. A. Sabatton, of the Lauren- 

 tide Co., Grand Mere, gave a stimu- 

 lating paper on the work of paper 

 mills, especially with regard to the 

 production of newsprint. In this he 

 pointed out the great efficiency in the 

 work of the mills, with better mach- 

 inery and more perfectly trained men, 

 the increase in the training of the 

 employees having greatly improved 

 the output of the machinery. 



Educate d in Mills 

 In connection with this, Mr. Sabat- 

 ton pointed out that most of the mills 

 were located so far from large cen- 

 tres of civilization that the work of 

 training employees was a hard one. 

 With regard to this, he showed that of 

 21 paper machine tenders, who were 

 considered the highest class of skilled 

 labor attached to paper mills, 18 were 

 French-Canadians, who had been edu- 

 cated to the work in their own mills 

 These men, who, otherwise, would 

 have been lumberjacks or farm hands, 

 but for the training they had received 

 with the Laurentide Co., were now 

 making from S 1,400 to $1,600 a year, 

 and working an eight-hour day, with 

 all sorts of privileges arranged by the 

 company. 



A number of other discussions came 

 up, especially with regard to the use 

 of tractors in lumbering operations, 

 which was discussed by Mr. W. Ger- 

 ard Power and others. 



Over 14 million dollars have been 

 spent to get rid of the gypsy moth in 

 Massachusetts and adjoining States. 



