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present arrangements in order to 

 combat future outbreaks. Nova 

 Scotia experienced a very dr\' May and 

 and during the month of June had 

 only one good rain, so thai grass land 

 was rapidly going Ixu'k and pastur- 

 age for cattle was becoming a real 

 problem. 



The Windsor, N. S. Tribune of 

 Friday, May 24th, reports several 

 devastating fires in Hants and other 

 counties, over which the ilames, ac- 

 cording to this newspaper, had been 

 raging for ten days. 



The Amherst Daily News o f 

 May 11th stated that a brush fire 

 at Oxford Junction had caused 

 loss of $50,000 to cut timber alone. 



Another despatch from Windsor, 

 N.S., dated May 20th, asserts that 

 the damage in Hants County from 



forest fire destruction is estimated 

 at over S200,000. 



The Anglican Church and hall at 

 Queensport, near Guysboro, N.S., 

 were destroyed and in the vicinity 

 many houses and barns were burned. 

 Other forest fires were reported from 

 the vicinity of AnnapoHs. On 

 May 18th raging fires were visible 

 within a short distance of Halifax. 

 A special report to the Forestry 

 Journal declares that as a conse- 

 quence of fires started by engines 

 on a logging railway one lumber 

 company lost $6,000 in standing 

 timber. The same fire spread to 

 adjoining lands causing a similar 

 loss and necessitated the cutting at 

 once of a tract of hemlock. 



Calls for military help were sent 

 to Halifax and the prompt response 

 greatly assisted in limiting the zone 

 of damage. 



Trouble in New Brunswick 



In New Brunswick, according to a 

 statement issued by the Department 

 of Lands and Mines, the two chief 

 forest fires to the end of May did 

 damage to the extent of nearly 

 S60,000. The fire on the Sinclair 

 limits in Northumberland County, 

 resulted in about $40,000 damage, 

 which M^as principally to the supplies 

 and warehouses of the Sinclair Lum- 

 ber Company. The fire at Maltais 

 Stream between Kedgewick and An- 

 derson, in Restigouche county, burned 

 pulp wood and railway ties to the 

 extent of about fifteen thousand 

 dollars. 



The section in Restigouche county 

 where the fire broke out early in 

 the week, is the most important 

 Crown Land section in the province, 

 and if the fire had not been put un- 

 der control, it would have been the 

 most serious loss that ever happened 

 to the Crown Lands of the province. 

 It was in the vicinity of Grimmer 

 and Hazen Settlements. 



Chief Forester Prince directed the 

 fire fighting at Sinclair limits, forty 



miles from Doaktown. He left 

 Fredericton Saturday by automobile 

 and after driving all night and most 

 of the next day, struck into the for- 

 est on Sunday night. His assistants 

 started in with one hundred men on 

 Monday to fight the fire, and at about 

 11 o'clock the rain came on. 



The Department at Fredericton 

 also received reports to the effect 

 that serious fires were raging along the 

 International Railway in Resti- 

 gouche County, but that these had 

 been placed under control by the 

 Forest Service. 



On account of the lack of roUing 

 stock, enormous quantities of railway 

 ties, pulpwood and telegraph poles 

 are piled along the International 

 Railway which now is operated by the 

 Canadian Government Railways, 

 awaiting shipment, and a forest fire, 

 should it gain headway at almost 

 any point along the railway, would 

 cause huge financial loss. The 

 fire reported to the Department 

 was in piles of manufactured 

 lumber. It was between Kedg- 



