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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1918 



Quebec Raises Dues and Ground Rent 



An increase in timljcr dues and 

 i^round rent has ])ecn ordered l)y the 

 Quebec Department of Lands and 

 Poorest s and svill have an appreciable 

 effect upon the wood-using indus- 

 tries, as well as adding sul)stantially 

 to provincial revenues. 



The Minister in a memorandum 

 dated June I'ith, recommends the 

 following modification of the Order- 

 in-Council, April 26th, 1910:— 1. That 

 the annual ground rent per square 

 mile or fraction of a square mile pay- 

 able on the issue of licenses to cut 

 timber be of six dollars and fiftv cents 

 for the years 1919-20 to 1923-24, both 

 inclusive, and of eight dollars for the 

 years 1924-25 to 1928-29, both in- 

 clusive, nevertheless, the rent of 

 ground rent may, at any time, be in- 

 creased for license-holders who do not 

 operate on their limits, the Crown 

 reserving the right to fix the quan- 

 tity of timber to be cut to constitute 

 sufTicient lumbering operations; 2. 

 That all wood cut in virtue of a li- 

 cense during the lumbering seasons 

 1918-19 to 1922-23, both Inclusive, 

 and 1923-24 to 1927-28, both inclusive, 

 be su])ject to the following charge: 



I. Square, waney or flat timber, per 

 cubic foot: 



(a) White pine, oak, 



hickory and walnut 0.08 0.10 



(b) Red pine, elm, ash, 

 cedar, ba3ssvood, birch, 



maple, tamarac 0.06 0.08 



(c) Spruce, balasm, 

 grey pine or banksian pine 

 hemlock, white birch, as- 

 pen, poplar 0.04 0.06 



II. Saw logs and boom and timber 

 dimension in the raw state, per 

 thousand feet, board measure: 



(a) White pine, oak, 



hickory, walnut 2.60 3.00 



(b) Red pine, elm, ash, 

 basswood, birch, maple, 

 tamarac 2.00 2.00 



(c) Spruce, balsam, 

 grey pine or banksian pine 

 hemlock, white birch, as- 

 pen, poplar 1.60 1.80 



(d) Cedar 1.40 1.40 



111. Poles more than 18 feet in 

 length, not exceeding 10 inches in 

 diameter at the small end, each: 



(a) 30 feet and less in 



length 0.25 0.40 



(b) 30 feet and less in 



length 0.50 0.75 



(c) 41 to 50 feet in 



length 1.00 1.50 



(d) 51 feet and over in 



length 2.00 3.00 



I v^ Railway ties or sleep- 

 ers not exceeding 9 feet 

 in length, each ..- 0.10 0.10 



V. All other wood goods, 



ad valorem 15% 15% 



PERPETUATION OF PULPWOOD 



W. F. V. Atkinson, chief forester 

 of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper 

 Mills, Sault Ste. Marie, states that 

 what C. D. Howe, Ph.D., in an article 

 in the Pulp and Paper Magazine 

 entitled "Forest Regeneration on 

 Certain Cut-Over Lands in Quebec," 

 says with regard to certain districts 

 on the St. Maurice River in Quebec is 

 subject of course to local conditions, 

 generally applicable to parts of the 

 Province of Ontario." It is absolutely 

 essential to the perpetuation of Ont- 

 ario's pulpwood areas that detailed 

 studies be made and regulations 

 worked out after these studies, if the 

 pulp wood of the province is to be 

 perpetuated for any length of time. 

 The regulations will have to include, 

 among other plans, that of the Crown 

 securing the services of a large num- 

 ber of forest assistants of all grades, 

 amongst the duties of whom will be 

 that of marking only such trees as 

 can be properly harvested. This en- 

 tails a change in methods of such a. 

 radical character that it does not 

 appear likely to be adopted for some 

 time to come, or, at least until after 

 the war." 



