NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 201 



From the statement of the Premier I take it that there are six million 

 acres of Crown Lands now under lease, and according to the terms of the 

 Crown Land returns of last year I think there are about 136 million feet cut, 

 which would mean we are actually cutting on our Crown Lands about a log 

 to every 24 acres, or 23 superficial feet to the acre. The fact of such a very 

 small cut shows, I contend, that we are not keeping up with the times, that 

 the lumber industry is not keeping pace with other industries. Our lands 

 should yield at least one log to an acre, so a log in conformity with the 

 smallest log allowed under the Crown Land regulations would be 18 feet 10 

 inches, which is equal to 72 superficial feet, and if that is cut to the acre it 

 will leave a cut in this Province on our Crown timber lands of 432 million, 

 which would net to this Province in stumpage $540,000, a gain of $369,000, 

 in addition to the revenue. If the sawmill will not keep up the pace I would 

 strongly suggest that we now allow the pulp people to come in. 



THE PREMIER Take the Mirainichi Lumber Company ; they have 

 166,000 acres of land they are cutting lumber on and well covered and we 

 could not prevent that. That would have to be done by the Federal 

 Government. It is not an export duty we should put on but an increased 

 stumpage should be had on the manufactured logs going out of the country, 

 on the Crown Lands. 



MR. ANDERSON With the permission of the Members, I will suggest 

 that as that was the intention to have it read, "On the Crown Lands" and 

 as we well know the Local Government has no power to put an exportation 

 duty on the Federal Lands, therefore I move that it be changed to apply to 

 Crown Lands v 



MR. F. W. SUMNER The Government do hold lands today that I 

 maintain that after listening to the different members of the Convention and 

 experts in this line that really require that done. 



I am interested in some districts, but many that I am not interested in, 

 fcad it would not cost me a thought if they would stop the cutting of it over ; 

 but certain districts were burned over in 1825 on the Miiramichi. There is a 

 great quantity of small spruce running from three to four, five, six and seven 

 inches growing about as thick as it can stand and the roots appear to be 

 interlaced, and it grows to probably three or four inches at the top, very 

 Jimby and then seems to get mossy, say 25 or 30 feet high and by and by a 

 wind storm blows it over. 



