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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1918 



Splendid Work by Forest Corps 



The following letter, speaking in 

 the highest terms of the work which 

 has been done by the Canadian For- 

 estry Corps, has been received by Sir 

 luiward Kemp, overseas Minister of 

 Militia, from Lord Derby ,and for- 

 warded by him to Sir Robert Bor- 

 den: 



■'Dear Sir Edward: 



"I am writing this letter to let you 

 know, on behalf of His Majesty's 

 Ciovernment, how warmly they ap- 

 l)reciate the splendid work done by 

 the Canadian Forestry Corps in con- 

 nection with the urgent demand 

 which was received early in Febru- 

 ary last for some 40,000 tons of tim- 

 l)er to be sent to the front. This 

 was an unexpected demand, and it 

 was requested that delivery should 

 be completed not later than the 31st 

 March. Shipment was commenced 

 from the 10th February and the 

 whole order was completed on the 

 20th March, eleven days ahead of 

 llie specified time. 



Worked 90 Hours Per Week. 



"I am informed that this satisfac- 

 tory result is mainly to be attributed 

 to the energy put into the work of 

 production by the Canadian Forestry 

 Corps, who supplied no less than 

 :> 1,000 tons of the total. When the 

 corps understood that it was an or- 

 der of urgency, and that- the material 

 was required for the front, many 

 of the companies voluntarily worked 

 long hours without any extra pay, 

 some of them doing as much as 90 

 hours per week. They were at work 

 during the whole of the Easter holi- 

 days, so that had any further demand 

 been made at that time it would have 

 been possible to deal with it. 



"Tt is, as you are no doubt aware, 

 largely due to the operations of the 

 units of this corps in Franre that 

 we have, with the exception of 

 sudden and unforeseen demands such 

 as the present one, practically stop- 

 ped the shipment of British-grown 



timber to France, thus saving cross- 

 Channel tonnage; while we are also 

 able to save the shipment of foreign 

 timber by haying the production of 

 the corps in England to meet the 

 various national demands. 



"Feel Real Gratitude." 



"I hope that the Canadian Foi- 

 estry Corps will realize the real grat- 

 itude which we feel for their admir- 

 able work and for the spirit which 

 they have shown throughout, in spar- 

 ing no exertions whenever an oppor- 

 tunity has been afforded them of as- 

 sisting the fighting men at the front. 

 "Yours sincerely, 

 "(sgd.) DERBY. 



GERMANY'S PRICE LIST 



The Berliner Boersen - Zeitimg 

 states that the prices of all sorts ot 

 lumber have risen to astounding 

 heights. Latterly the requirements 

 of the army on the eastern front have 

 considerably diminished but orders 

 from tiie railway car factories have 

 greatly increased. The most serious 

 factor is the scarcity rather than the 

 high price level. Indeed it is a serious 

 problem how the flying machine fac- 

 tories may be kept supplied with suf- 

 ficient w^ood. Material for these fac- 

 tories is so scarce that none of the 

 wood which is usually discarded in 

 the sawing is now thrown away. 

 Concerns which do not belong to the 

 flying machine syndicate have to pay 

 at least $156 per M at the station in 

 East Prussia; concerns which belong 

 to the syndicate pay S125 per M, i.e., 

 the price fixed by the war office. 



Ash is also very scarce and the 

 price is as high as $226 per M of 

 round wood; although this figure is 

 the fixed official price for sawed ash 

 it does not even represent the average 

 level of prices paid for "free" ash. 



Alder costs $113 per M, when it 

 is obtainable at all. Basswood is 

 verv much in demand. 



