130 NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



A DELEGATE Here in New Brunswick we are at the mercy of the 

 Government. It is not to our interest to protect the land and make it more 

 valuable for the Government, who are apt to take it from us any year by 

 -raising the mileage and stumpage, if this Act comes in force that they are 

 .talking about. We have no guarantee at all. 



HON. MR, TWEEDIE But you can, throw it up any time you like. 



DELEGATE Yes ; but all the work we put on it will be of no value if 

 they put up the price so high we cannot carry it. 



MR. PRICE My experience in Fredericton has taught me that the 

 Government of this Province has tempered justice with mercy in dealing: 

 with the lumbermen. In our Province we get justice alone ; we get no 

 mercy. 



On the subject of pulp- wood, and tfie export duty thereon, I wish to gay 

 that I am strongly against any export dwty from Canada. Perhaps my re- 

 marks will not carry the same interest here as they would op in Quebec, be- 

 cause up there so many of our farmers are dependent on the exportation of 

 pulp-wood in order to pay their way. In fact, I may say that ten years- 

 ago a great many of the- farmers and habitants of the Province of Quebec 

 wrere always indebted to the- store-keeper ; but since pulp-wood has become 

 ;s.ich an article of commerce Shey have paid off what they owed the store- 

 ;lw|>er, and the store-keeper foas also got into a good position, and there are 

 fewer failures in that Province in consequence. Every tree that tbe farmer 

 has 'On his land is valuable, if not as a saw log, then as pulp- wood. When 

 yon speak of ten thousand miles under license, it seems small compared with 

 <our 167 ,000 miles ; but when you consider what that area means, and that 

 jit reproduces itself so rapidly, I a'fti perfectly satisfied there is- m>o immediate 

 Clanger <od' -a famine in wood. Now what would an export duty cm pulp- wood 

 $u&a& f fft would mean that every man who had lands or limits would have 

 theni depreciated in value, because he cannot sell his pulp-wood except to 

 the paper mills, and they could not buy it because the duty would be so 

 heavy it would be prohibitory. Supposing we export one million cords of 

 pulp-wood per annum to the United States, it is a drop in the bucket com- 

 pared with the amount of wood we ean> afford to have cast yearly from our 

 167 000 miles in the Province of Quebec ; and, therefore, I say it is not in 

 the interest of the licensee or the farmer that we should have this export 

 duty put on. They say that if we adopted this policy,, that in, the course of 



