NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



diameter at the small end and the top log used for pulp wood. It is becoming 

 more apparent that more conservative methods are being insisted upon in 

 removing the whole of the tree from the forest, and thus reducing the risk 

 of fires. 



SURVEYS OF TIMBER LINES 



No timber lands can be properly managed without a system of carefully 

 prepared surveys and block timber lines, as well as accurate maps. 



Generally speaking the Crown Lands are blocked off into areas of six 

 square miles, the lines running astronomical north and south and east and 

 west two and one-half miles each way. 



On some rivers blocks are laid off five miles each way and in the Resti- 

 gouche County the blocks are as small as 1000 acres. The practice is to 

 run the base lines five miles apart and large expenditures have, in this way, 

 been made by the Government. The sub-divisions of the licenses are sur- 

 veyed after first getting an order from the Crown Land Office, accompanied 

 .by a plan showing in detail previous lines run, while the order contains a 

 description of the lines to be surveyed. All these surveys have been made 

 by blazing lines through the forests, with the ordinary compass. 



The system is open to considerable objection, but it is found practically 

 to satisfy those whose interests are involved. 



A recommendation has been made to erect iron monuments at the corners 

 of blocks, it being found that corner posts soon decay or are swept away by 

 forest fires. 



VALUES OF TIMBER LANDS 



My experience would warrant the statement that timber lands have 

 doubled in Value within the last ten years. 



For the right to cut on Crown Lands, stumpage, in addition fairly good 

 imber lands would be worth $200 per square mile and first class lands $500 

 and over a square mile, according to location. The price of soil right lands 

 has probably increased in the same proportion, prices ranging from two to 

 five dollars per acre, although some properties have lately been sold much 

 above these figures and running as high as ten dollars per acre for prime 

 black spruce lands, easy of access and comparatively free from fire danger. 



