Cdnadidii Forvslri] Joiirnal, Juhj, 1U17 



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News Notes of Forest Services 



G. II. Prince, formciiy of Ihc Brit- 

 ish Columbia Forest Branch, and 

 lately assistant to P. Z. Caverhill in 

 the New Brunswick Forest Survey 

 has been appointed Mr. Caverhill's 

 successor as Director of the New 

 Brunswick Government Forestry Di- 

 vision. Mr. Caverhill is now attach- 

 ed to the head office staff of the 

 British Columbia Forest Service. 



R. E. Benedict, British Columbia 

 Forest Service, has been appointed a 

 Major in the newly organized for- 

 estry battalion of the United States 

 Army or "Tenth Reserve Engineers 

 (Forest)." Mr. John Lafon, another 

 British Columbia Forester, has at- 

 tached himself to the same unit. 

 Prof. W. N. Millar, of the Toronto 

 Forest School, is a Captain of the 

 corps. * * * 



H. S. Irwin, formerly district for- 

 ester at Prince Rupert, and District 

 Forester H. G. Marvin of Fort George 

 have been transferred to the head 

 office at Victoria. The Hazleton and 

 Prince Rupert offices are being han- 

 dled by District Forester Allan from 

 Hazleton. ^ ^ ^ 



Calgary, July 5th. 



B. R. Morton in charge of silvi- 

 eultural work at Head Office, Dom- 

 inion Forestry Branch, spent a day at 

 the District Office last week and then 

 proceeded to the Coast where he is in 

 charge of a collection of seed of 

 ■ numerous British Columbia species 

 for the Imperial Government. 

 * * * 



T. W. Dwight, Assistant to the 

 Director, of Forestry, spent Wed- 

 nesday last at the office here proceed- 

 ing to Kamloops and the British 

 Columbia Inspection District, where 

 he will probably spend a couple of 

 weeks in connection with District 

 Inspector Cameron. He will then 

 return here and make trips to several 

 of the reserves in Alberta. He is 

 looking particularly into timber sale 

 work as well as other projects. Prob- 

 ably part of July will be spent in this 

 district. 



A successful Ranger Meeting was 

 held at Morley under the direction of 

 Forest Supervisor St. Clair. The 

 Rangers spent several days at Morley 

 going over all sorts of administrative 

 work and entering into detailed dis- 

 cussion on various lines of improve- 

 ment and lire protection work. They 

 were also tnven some elementary 

 training on survey work and taken 

 all round seemed to be pleased with 

 the start made. 



J. A. Doucet left here on the first 

 of May for Edmonton, going thence 

 a few days later to Fort McMurray. 

 He has been down there since early 

 in May on inspection and reorganiza- 

 tion of the Fire Ranging operations 

 in the Slave and McMurray Districts. 

 By reason of these efforts an amalga- 

 mation of the two districts has been 

 effected and it is hoped to place the 

 whole works in charge of a competent 

 Chief Ranger. Doucet will probably 

 be there for the best part of the 

 summer. 



The manufacture of gun powder 

 recpiires large quantities of charcoal 

 which can be secured only from hard- 

 woods, and even smokeless powder 

 reciuires the use of wood alcohol in 

 its manufacture. This product is 

 particularly necessary in the making 

 of gun cotton. Wood alcohol is also 

 used as a solvent in medicine and 

 the wood distillation industry will 

 contribute largely to the extra am- 

 ount of hospital supplies needed dur- 

 ing the present war. Acetic acid or 

 wood vinegar, which is another im- 

 portant product, is used in the manu- 

 facture of cordite and liddiate, two 

 high explosives. Necessary increases 

 in the production of steel for war 

 time uses will require a large amount 

 of charcoal for use in blast furnaces. 



Besides these direct uses, the de- 

 velopment of the dye industry takes 

 over a great deal of the wood alcohol 

 obtained from the distillation of hard- 

 wood. 



