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I would suggest that you appoint 

 a committee to look into all these 

 questions and take concerted action 

 to end a condition which prevails at 

 the present time in the woods — the 

 logging end of your business. (Ap- 

 plause). 



Western Organizations Ask Better 

 Fire Laws 



The eagerness of wide-awake West- 

 ern associations to co-operate in all 

 reasonable movements to protect the 

 forest wealth of Western Canada was 

 shown by the action of the Western 

 Retail Lumbermen's Association, the 

 Canadian Credit Men's Trust Asso- 

 ciation, and the Association of Mani- 

 toba Land Surveyors at their recent 

 annual meetings at Winnipeg. 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 brought before these bodies the situa- 

 tion in which the timber assets of the 

 prairie provinces were placed owing 

 to lack of protection against settlers 

 fires. The legislative suggestions 

 offered by the Forestry Association 

 to the three provincial governments 

 were discussed and heartily, endorsed. 

 Resolutions were passed by each of 

 the organizations calling upon the 

 Manitoba and other governments to 

 take proper means to preserve the 

 forests of the provinces from fire, 

 ravage. 



"Twenty-Seven" — One Man's 

 Record 



In the 1916 campaigns for new 

 members for the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, the member rendering 

 the most effective service was Mr. 

 W. J. MacBeth, Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Agent, Toronto, whose gen- 

 erous interest in our work prompted 

 him to secure no less than 27 new 

 adherents. 



In order to raise our total to 6000 

 in 1917, it will be necessary for every 

 member to make a vigorous personal 

 effort. Do not postpone it until 

 December. Start a new member on 

 the conservation path this month. 



Send us three or four names of 

 those who might be interested in the 

 Association, its work, and its publica- 

 tions. You will not be bothered 



further. But we do want the names. 

 And you, knowing your locality well, 

 are in a position to send them in. 



Canadian Forestry Assoc. 



Future of Northern Manitoba 



Vast resources of varied character 

 and wide range make northern Mani- 

 toba a rich field for development 

 according to the report of J. A. Camp- 

 bell, Commissioner for Northern 

 Manitoba, lately tabled at the legisla- 

 ture. Rivers and lakes abound with 

 fish — sturgeon, whitefish, pike and 

 trout. The water powers are enor- 

 mous and widely distributed so as 

 to be available at practicable distance 

 from points where required for in- 

 dustrial development. Gold and 

 copper ore are already being produced 

 north of Le Pas, and further immense 

 deposits of these minerals and zinc 

 sulphide ore are known to exist. The 

 fur trade of the town of Le Pas last 

 year is estimated at a quarter million 

 dollars. It is expected that the early 

 future will see a movement of settlers 

 to a district of unrivalled possibilities, 

 the climate of which, Mr. Campbell 

 states, is no more severe than in 

 settled parts of the Western provinces. 



In practically every item of Mr. 

 Campbell's prophecy do we find an 

 argument for forest conservation. 

 The fisheries, water powers, mining 

 settlement, fur trade, are linked arm 

 in arm with forest maintenance 

 Should the provincial authorities, 

 neglect to co-operate in keeping fire 

 out of the present tree-covered areas, 

 the picture drawn by the Govern- 

 ment Commissioner will not be real- 

 ized. 



FROM A LUMBER FIRM 



Owen Sound, Ont. 

 Canadian Forestry Association: — 



Enclosed find cheque for five dol- 

 lars as a Contributing Membership 

 fee for this season. We appreciate 

 the work that your Association is 

 doing and trust that you will be able 

 to continue it along the lines that you 

 have in mind." 



