Canadian Forcslrij Journal, Julij, J 917 



1209 



I ADVERTISING AGAINST \ 

 i THE FIRE FIEND j 



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Various schemes to bring before 

 the public the necessity of eliminating 

 forest fires have been put under way 

 since the beginning of 1917. The 

 response to all of them has been re- 

 markably generous. Business firms 

 have consented in scores of instances 

 to insert special fire prevention ad- 

 vertisements submitted by the Asso- 

 ciation even when the use of the 

 advertising was costly. Some firms 

 taking this action owned no timber 

 limits or wood-using mills. hl\tracts 

 from a few letters in addition to those 

 already published, are reproduced 

 herewith : — 



• From Clarke Bros., Bear River, 

 N.S.: We have read with interest 

 the suggested advertising copy. We 

 shall be pleased to have the copy in 

 question used until October 1st." 



From Green Lumber Co., St. Thom- 

 as, Ont. : "We will gladly insert the 

 advertising matter as you request." 



From Columbia River Logging Co., 

 Golden, B.C.: "We will have special 

 advertisement run in our paper for 

 several weeks during the dry season." 



From MacLeod Pulp Co., Liver- 

 pool, N.S.: "We have arranged to 

 have 'copy' sent us published in our 

 local paper during the next four 

 months." 



COMPOSITE STEEL CARS 



William Queenan, assistant super- 

 intendent of the Burlington railway 

 shops, in an address before the West- 

 ern Railway Club, Chicago, stated 

 that the composite, or steel frame and 

 wooden superstructed gondola car is 

 superior in nearly every respect to 

 the steel car. In summing up the 

 advantages he specified the follow- 

 ing items: 



That the initial cost of the com- 

 posite gondola with the present price 

 of steel should be less than the all 

 steel gondola. 



That the composite type of car 

 costs less to maintain than the steel 

 gondola. 



That sides of the composite car 



do not bulge as do those of the steel 

 car. 



That records show that while the 

 composite cars cost more to repaint 

 than the steel car, they do not re- 

 quire painting so frequently. 



That a large portion of the repairs 

 to composite cars can be taken care 

 of at other than steel car shops. 



That certain properties in coal 

 cause corrosion to steel and that 

 wood is not affected by these. 



He gave records of 1,000 cars of 

 each type built in 1903. During the 

 last fiscal year, 167 of the wooden 

 cars were in the shops, and 332 of the 

 steel, and the average cost per car 

 of the steel car repairs was 3G per 

 cent, higher than of the wooden or 

 composite cars. The average num- 

 ber of the cars repaired showed that 

 fewer repairs were needed by the 

 composite cars and that the number 

 in service, therefore, was larger. 



300,000 ACRES FOR RESERVE 



The State of Minnesota has set 

 aside for state forests an area of over 

 300,000 acres of state lands. This 

 tract is composed of scattered sec- 

 tions and "forties" of land, a part of 

 a much greater area of similar char- 

 acter lying in northeastern Minne- 

 sota. The National Government had 

 previously set aside over a million 

 acres in this region as a National For- 

 est. 



Northeastern Minnesota, in the 

 northern half of Lake and Cook Coun- 

 ties, is a granitic area of outcropping 

 rock ledges, shallow soils and innum- 

 erable lakes and water courses. It 

 is the southern extension of a similar 

 great area in Canada. 



C. A. MacFayden, formerly of the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch, is now 

 British Columbia District Forester 

 at Fort George. 



From the Right Reverend, the 

 Bishop of Kooienay: "I shall very 

 gladly become a member of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association. 



"Your object is one of vital im- 

 portance to Canada, certainly to 

 British Columbia." 



