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Notes. 



the agricultural land and that which is only 

 fit for growing timber. 



Mr. J. B. Mitchell has been in the Onii- 

 neca Country in the far North of the pro- 

 vince making a reconnaissance ami :i, repoit 

 on the extent and character of the timlier 

 and the damage by fires. He is to send in 

 recommendations regarding the methods of 

 protection in the future. He will return to 

 headquarters about Dec. 1st. 



Mr. A. G. Mumford was in the country 

 north of the new C.N. P. line near Kamloops. 

 He will send in recommendations regarding 

 the disposition of the land, based on its 

 fitness for agriculture or timber. He has 

 now joined the other members of the sur- 

 veys branch in a similar examination in 

 the Columbia and Western Land Grant. 



Mr. T. H. Plumer has been making a 

 reconnaissance around the Mabel Lake. He 

 reports excellent timber conditions. He will 

 stay the whole winter in the district making 

 a reconnaissance on snowshoes. He has al- 

 ready cached supplies for the long work. 

 His work takes him also to Rock Creek in the 

 C. and W. Grant. 



Mr. G. H. Prince has been cruising tim- 

 ber in the Upper Country and has made 

 recommendations on four timber sales and 

 on areas for which applications to purchase 

 had been made. He also is now engaged in 

 the survey of the C. and W. Land Grant. 



Mr. W. A. Schell has been cruising tim- 

 ber in connection with timber sales and ap- 

 plications to purchase on the Coast; he is 

 now making an examination near Tete Jaune 

 Cache. 



Mr. H. Clauglitoii Walliu, who for 

 some years has been in charge of tim- 

 ber surveys in the B. C. Railway 

 Belt, with headquarters at Vancou- 

 ver, has been appointed to the charge 

 of timber surveys in the Dominion 

 Forest Service, and has removed to 

 Ottawa. The forest survey division 

 mil have charge of survey methods, 

 preparations of instructions for sur- 

 vey parties, and compilation and map- 

 ping of the results of the survey. 



Messrs. J. D. Gilmour, W. J. Van 

 Dusen, L. R. Andrews and C. Mac- 

 Payden have resigned from the Do- 

 minion Forest Service to accept posi- 

 tions with the British Columbia For- 

 est Branch, 



Roy L. Campbell, late editor-in- 

 chief of ' 'Varsity ', is engaged in the 

 publicity work of the British Colum- 

 bia Forest Branch. 



G, A. Gutches, i\I.S.F., formerly 

 with the Dominion Forestry Branch, 



paid a short visit to Ottawa just be- 

 fore the Christmas vacation. He was 

 on annual leave (which in the U. S. 

 service is of thirty days' duration). 

 Mr. Gutches is with the Indian De- 

 partment Forest Service, and his 

 work covers the six Southwestern 

 States. 



Forestation on National Forests. 



(Continued from Page 162.) 



In Arkansas, where shortleaf pine, 

 the oaks, hickories and other broad - 

 leaved species grow luxuriantly, the 

 reforestation is confined to the intro- 

 duction of more valuable species, such 

 as black walnut, red cedar and lo- 

 cust. 



In Arizona, New Mexico and Cali- 

 fornia, yellow pine has been used al- 

 most exclusively, and very poor suc- 

 cess has resulted except where the 

 soil was moist at elevations above 

 8,000 feet. It is probable that it will 

 be necessary to use transplants hi 

 these states. 



The policy underlying this pro- 

 gressive campaign for reforestation 

 may be interesting to members of the 

 Canadian Forest Service, and it is 

 very fortunate that the American 

 Forest Service is so keenly alive to its 

 obligations to reforest unproductive 

 areas even at considerable expense. 

 From the purely financial standpoint, 

 there is no question but that it will 

 not pay. At the end of a rotation 

 of 150 years the compound interest 

 charges at four per cent are going to 

 amount to more than the value of the 

 final product. The financial failure of 

 this reforestation program is certainly 

 realized in the case of yellow pine, 

 because it will probably cost at least 

 $15.00 an acre to start, and at the 

 end of 150 years will not yield more 

 than 15,000 to 25,000 board feet per 

 acre. Yellow pine today is worth 

 only $3.00 per thousand board feet 

 on the stump. Therefore, the increase 

 in stumpage price must be enormous 

 in order to make the operation pro- 

 fitable. 



