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of-\vay clearing and inspection of smoke stacks and ashpans on locomotives 

 have been developed with excellent results. 



The Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners, however, has worked 

 largely through existing forestry organizations, as in Ontario, Quebec, New 

 ■Brunswick, British Columbia, and on Dominion lands in the West, conferring 

 upon certain of the forestry officials a special authority, as inspectors for the 

 Board, to check up the fire protection work of the railway companies. 



In Nova Scotia, however, there is no special provincial forestry organiza- 

 tion, and no Provincial Forester. The Railway Board, therefore, has been 

 unable to extend the benefits of its railway fire inspection to the railways of 

 the province to the fullest extent because its own immediate staff is inadequat 

 to provide the necessary degree of close and continuous inspection recjuired 

 for the best results. 



Should Nova Scotia follow up the legislation it has already adopted and 

 appoint a Provincial Forester, thcd officer would immediately be constituted 

 a representative of the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners for purposes 

 of railway fire Protection, with all the authority that goes with such designation. 



The Board of Railway Commissioners, however, is handicapped to a 

 certain extent in securing improved results in railway fire protection by the 

 lack of a local inspector. This lack could be most readily and logically 

 supplied as an incident to the appointment of a Provincial Forester, with 

 resulting benefit to the business interests of the province in general. 



Benefits Suspended Until Province Appoints a Forester. 

 It is but just to recognize that the railways in Nova Scotia have shown 

 an interest in forest protective work and have issued excellent instructions 

 to their employees dealing with fire prevention. No doubt the latter have had 

 effect, but experience has shown that railway employees closely engaged on 

 duties directly connected with their positions cannot be expected to give 

 fire protection as much attention as if they were in personal touch with a 

 special inspector. 



CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL be taken as a perenially permanent 



RESOURCES WITH REFER- resource. 



ENCE TO THEIR POSITION 2. Resources exhaustible and non- 



AS REGARDS STATE restorable. 



CONTROL Q^^i jg ij^g most important re- 

 R A r T-v. source under this heading. All that 

 By A. L. Itirupp ll-^g ^x2iiQ can do to prolong the sup- 

 Fores/ School, Univ. of Toronto plies, is to prevent waste in mining 

 The Resources of a country may and use; and to encourage the use 

 be put under four headings. The of restorable substitutes as wood and 

 first is: water power. Of Oil and natural 

 1. Resources inexhaustible. gas the same may be said. Other 

 Under this heading there are not resources under this heading are the 

 many. Air, salt from the sea, stone, mines of gold, silver, copper, iron 

 sand, gravel, clay, limestone and and many other minerals. They are 

 water in a certain sense. exhaustible in the fullest sense and 



Sand, gravel and clay may be forever gone when once used up. 



considered as being deposited or manu- 3. Resources restorable but hablc 



factured by nature much faster the to deterioration under uncontrolled 



man could use them. The state need private activity, 



have no concern about them for the Resources under this heading may 



future as likewise with stone as man be put into two divisions, 



can but nibble at the supplies of the (1) Resources which can deteri- 



latter in the world. Water is a orate so far as to be totally imprac- 



resource which man can only alter tical or absolutely impossible to 



in its seasonal distribution so^ it can restore. These resources are game. 



