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What I want to urge upon you is the employment in your organization 

 as early as possible of a few men of this type. If you can't train them pro- 

 perly yourselves, we shall be happy to lend you the services of our forest 

 schools. But, when they have got their training, put them out among your 

 force of sealers and surveyors, give them opportunity to work and to learn, 

 and then watch carefully the results. Such men, if only they were well 

 chosen in the first place, have every qualification for efficiency and success. 

 They have the physical stamina and the intellectual keenness required. 

 They have ideals derived from a knowledge of the achievements of other 

 countries and other times. They have the ambition and inducement to work 

 which come from having invested money in education and being definitely 

 committed to a career. Such men as these have done much of what has been 

 accomplished in the United States, and they are now bearing great burdens 

 of responsibility in our forest reserve organization. A few such men put into 

 your New Brunswick crown land system now will, I believe, after a few 

 years, be motive power and balance wheel of the whole thing. 



Lastly, gentlemen, I ask you if while you are preparing your permanent 

 plans and consolidating your organization it will not be a good thing to take 

 a hasty survey of your forest resources. Your permanent system of explor- 

 ation and survey is an important thing. It wants to be carefully planned 

 and its execution will cost money and take time. It ought to go on from 

 year to year under the guidance of a permanent organization. But a hasty 

 survey, that should give you a rough estimate of your resources and discuss 

 broadly the factors which enter into their control and management, might be- 

 very instructive both to officials and to people, and serve as a basis and 

 starting point for more elaborate work. In this direction we can give you 

 from the other side a few serviceable examples. Best is the survey of the 

 State of New Hampshire, made by a force of men from the U. S. Forest 

 Service, whose results in the shape of map and report may be seen here. 

 That survey covered an area, in the gross, of 9.000 square miles and cost in 

 the neighborhood of $6,000. It gives the area and location of wooded lands 

 in the State, the area of burnt lands, of lands cut over and of those still 

 virgin forest. It gives careful descriptions of the nature of timber resources 

 and rough estimates of their amounts. It summarizes the mill business of 

 the State and discusses it from the point of view of permanence and economy. 

 A thorough study of forest fires in the State and means of combatting them 

 is also made. 



Such a survey as that though hastily made gives the people and legis- 



