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for educational purposes and roads and bridges, it is very important that the 

 Government should have all the stumpage they can get out of their Crown 

 Lands. 



The statement has also been made by Mr. Gregory that the present 

 scale for surveying lumber in this Province is not a satisfactory and suitable 

 one ; that it is all right down to 11 or 12 in., but below that it is not at all 

 satisfactory. He is right in one way and wrong in another. The scale in the 

 Province of New Brunswick does not go below 11 inches, and whatever scale 

 Mr. Gregory has below that I suppose is some St. John scale which they have 

 adopted by custom and which the Government has nothing to do with what- 

 ever ; but probably it would be a good idea to have the matter arranged and 

 the Government scale adjusted down as low as six inches at least. 



I haven't much to say with regard to the methods of lumbering ; but I 

 think it would be a good thing if we could have the lumber operations so 

 conducted and looked after by the Government that the operators would 

 take out from the woods not only the butt logs, but also the top log. It 

 would be a great protection against fire and save what at the present time is 

 being wasted to a very large extent. I am informed that about the only 

 operators in the Province who are doing this and taking good care of the 

 woods are the Bay Shore Lumber Co. That is one thing I think important 

 and along the line of which I think there might be much improvement made. 

 There seems to be a desire and inclination among the lumbermen and 

 people generally to let well enough alone. They seem to think that we have 

 conditions in this province about as good as we can have them, that we have 

 this black spruce, which is very valuable, and that if w r e allow nature to do 

 the re-seeding and re -planting, that is all that is necessary. L do not think 

 that is the view to take. There are large tracts which have been burned 

 over by fire and denuded of lumber, and it seems to me that the Government 

 and foresters generally might take into consideration whether or not there 

 might not be some system adopted by which this burnt land could be 

 re-seeded, and be a benefit to the country. Mr. Lewis Miller, a lumber 

 operator in Nova Scotia, has different methods of lumbering from any man 

 in the Maritime Provinces. He has a mill which takes care of all the products 

 of the wood, and makes it into somethino- useful. He divides his area into 



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tracts, and cuts down all the lumber in a certain tract and utilizes it all. 

 Then at the present time he is bringing in seed and re-afforesting, and he is 

 planting the Norway spruce, which he claims will grow much faster and give 

 better results than our black spruce. There -is room for thought about 



