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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1917 



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Shipbuilding in British Columbia. — Placing the frames. 



for another ship. 



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Courtesy "Canada LumberiHan. 

 Nearby are the keel blocks ready 



Write! What is it, threat or secret, 



bargain, pledge, or sale, or boast? 

 Sign! Ah, mortal, I have bound you! 



Mark you well the forest's ghost! 

 Here I stand and threat and mock 



you, shade of promise, debt, or 



fraud. 

 Work and pay or pray for mercy! 



You are servant, I am Lord. 



I am ha'nt of the heart of the Tree, 



the ghost of the hemlock and spruce, 



Phantom of fibre and wraith of the 



wood by the axe of the chopper set 



loose. 

 Bearing the news of the world, or 



message of cheer or of hope. 

 Binding to bondage of debt or of 



shame, or dragging a neck to the 



rope; 

 I, the soul of the Tree, 

 Hover from sea to sea — 

 Theirs the fault or theirs the praise 



who have helped to set me free. 

 Fame and name and shame; 

 To me they are all the same; 

 They who have dragged me out of 



the wood, 

 Be I for evil, be I for good,-^ 

 To them be the credit or blame. 



Grim as the weight of the avalanche, 

 Yet weak as brook-breathed vapor, 

 I must obey — but then I sway: 

 Behold me — ^I am Paper. 



MUNITIONS BOARD OPENS 

 CAMPS 



E. L. Kinman, acting for the Im- 

 perial Munitions Board, has pur- 

 chased a holding of the Merrill-Ring 

 Logging Company at Jackson Bay, 

 B.C. The Board had found great 

 difficulty in securing suitable timber 

 sticks for its shipbuilding programme. 

 The lot purchased carries perhaps the 

 most available stand of exceptionally 

 large fir in British Columbia. It will 

 be logged in full length, the location 

 and ground conditions readily per- 

 mitting this. 



To get the contents in board feet 

 of a sixleen foot log, measure the top 

 diameter inside 'the bark in inches, 

 subtract four, square the remainder 

 and add twenty per cent, for the 

 final result. 



