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States many plants are run entirely by storage water, and many Americans 

 have told me it is only a matter of time when we will have to follow their 

 example in this respect. 



I see you have also provided for a report on the location and character 

 of lands fit for agricultural purposes. That has been a subject of very great 

 debate in the Province of Quebec. In fact, it has been a cause of constant 

 friction between the settler and the Government, and the lumberman is 

 wedged in between the two, and he suffers. I think the Province of Quebec 

 sees the necessity of separating the lands unfit for cultivation, and giving 

 the lumberman the benefit of cutting on them. 



You also mention here the size of the timber to be cut. In the Province 

 of Quebec some few years ago, they recognised the necessity, in consequence 

 of the pulp-wood industry having assumed such large proportions, of allow- 

 ing the lumbermen to cut black spruce down to seven inches at the stump. 



You have also, I see, taken measures to have proper plans and maps 

 prepared of the Crown Lands of the Province. I might say that when ia 

 Victoria, B. C., last year, I went into the Crown Land Department there to 

 get some information with reference to their province. They asked my name 

 and put it down on a sheet and gave me every map and every book that 

 they publish about British Columbia about its mining resources, its timber 

 resources, its agricultural lands, its water powers, and everything. And they 

 will do that for anyone who sends his name. I think it would be a very good 

 scheme for this Province to advertise itself in that way. It seems generous 

 to give a man a great bundle of plans and books, but it is a good and cheap 

 way of advertising, and we in Quebec are pretty liberal in that respect. I 

 do not know your custom ; but I must say I admire the manner in which 

 British Columbia meets inquiries on these subjects. 



I cannot tell you very much as to forest fires, but after I have finished 

 speaking I would like very much to have somebody inform me what has been 

 the result of the re - afforesting of the land swept by the fire of 1825 

 whether the spruce has come up again, or whether it has been practically 

 left without a new crop of spruce. 



I think the lumbermen in the Province of Quebec have in the past been 

 too much inclined to lean on the Government, but now the Province has got 

 a sufficient revenue not to be dependent on the Government, and it means to 

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