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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1917 



the best possible arrangement to help 

 out the settler is as follows: 



Lowest Price Assured 



A tract where there is a stand of 

 timber sufficient to meet the re- 

 quirements of the permits generally 

 asked for in the district which is 

 tributary to the portion of the reserve 

 where the timber is located is exam- 

 ined by the forest officers, and is de- 

 signated as a location for the cutting 

 of timber under permits for the next 

 season or two seasons as the case may 

 be. The right to locate a mill at this 

 point and to saw the timber for 

 settlers who may obtain permits in 

 the regular way is put up for tender, 

 the notice being given by advertising 

 in a newspaper and by putting up 

 notices in the post offices in the dis- 

 trict. Tenders are asked on the basis 

 of the lowest figure at which the 

 millmen will log and saw the timber 

 for the settlers. Tenders are received 

 up to a fixed date and on the date 

 fixed the tenders are opened and the 

 person who has agreed to log and saw 

 the timber at the lowest figure is 

 awarded the right to locate the mill. 

 In order that the settlers may have 

 full information on the rates which 

 have been so fixed by tender, a state- 

 ment of them is required to be posted 



up in a conspicuous place at the mill 

 so that it can be read by any settler 

 who is going in with his permit to 

 obtain the timber he requires. 



No Hauling of Logs 



A number of mills have been oper- 

 ating on the reserves under this 

 system, particularly on the Riding 

 and Duck Mountain Forest Reserves 

 in the province of Manitoba, and on 

 the whole the experiment is proving 

 satisfactory all round. The locating 

 of the mills in the reserve close to the 

 timber is a great convenience to the 

 settlers who instead of having to haul 

 their logs out are able to haul them 

 out in the form of the lumber that 

 they require. The settler also gets his 

 logging and sawing done at the lowest 

 figure that can be got, as the right is 

 put up to tender to the lowest bidder. 

 The timber operations have been 

 carried out very satisfactorily on the 

 whole and the tracts lumbered over 

 in this way are being left in good 

 condition for the reproduction of the 

 forest. The brush and debris re- 

 sulting from the operations is re- 

 quired to be burned and thus a very 

 serious fire danger which usually 

 follows lumbering operations is re- 

 moved, while a good seed bed for the 

 starting of the new forest is provided. 



Forward Steps In Forest Thrift 



Manitoba and Saskatchewan put Through New Laws and 

 Promise Good Enforcement. Alberta Next? 



Advanced steps were taken by the 

 provincial governments of Saskat- 

 chewan and Manitoba at the last 

 sessions of the legislatures in meeting 

 the need for provincial cooperation 

 in forest fire prevention. From the 

 first suggestion of a revised Act re- 

 specting prairie and forest fires, the 

 officials and Cabinet Ministers of the 

 two provinces gave hearty reception 

 to the representations submitted by 

 the Canadian Forestry Association 

 and made all efforts to secure an Act 



compatible with the aims of forest 

 conservation. Manitoba's Bill, for 

 which the Provincial Treasurer, Hon. 

 Edward Brown stood sponsor, was 

 the last to be dealt with at the ses- 

 sion and received the committee's 

 sanction practically with their final 

 breath. Objections were raised by 

 one of the northern members to the 

 clause placing the onus of proof upon 

 the settler and his objection was al- 

 lowed. One or two other concessions 

 were made before the Bill got through. 



