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that Canada will get a fair quid pro quo for her supply of pulp wood. The progress 

 made by Canada the last six or seven years in the pulp and paper trades has 

 been in a greater ratio than that made by the United States. In connection with 

 this export duty, I may mention that the last report of the American Forest Service 

 states that the average estimate of 164 mills for the length of time that the supply of 

 pulpwod would last was twenty-one years, and that Mr. Gifford Pinchot last year 

 estimated that the timber supply of the United States would last at the present rate 

 of cutting from twenty to twenty-five years. 



If we had careful estimates made in Canada by our Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 and information given by the Provinces, as is given in the official publication, 

 "Forest Products of the United States," we would get a fairly accurate estimate 

 of our production and supply. 



The Directors of the Association have decided that it is not expedient that 

 any resolution shall be accepted on this subject at this meeting lest it should have 

 a political complexion and also because it is a subject on which strong differences 

 of opinion exist. It is very probable that the Report of the Royal Commission 

 will be acceptable to the country as a solution of the question. 



It is very encouraging to see the principles advocated by the various Forestry 

 Associations of the North American continent being generally put into practice ; 

 and I note that in his last message to Congress, President Roosevelt, who is a strong 

 friend of Forestry, recommended the establishment of Appalachian and White 

 Mountain Reserves. The importance of Forest Reserves is now generally recog- 

 nized by all the Provinces of the Dominion, and they are annually increasing such 

 areas. 



The Government of the Province of New Brunswick held a very t successful 

 Forestry meeting at Fredericton, in February of last year, a full report of which they 

 have issued, and it is generally admitted that it had the beneficial effect of spreading 

 much information and creating many friends of the principles we advocate. 



The good effects of the meeting of this Association in British Columbia at 

 Vancouver in September, 1906, have been apparent in the increased precautions 

 taken against fire which that Province was much in need of and the live interest 

 now taken in the subject of forestry generally in British Columbia. 



I feel that it is not out of place, on my part, to suggest that the Federal and 

 Provincial Governments should procure and publish accurate reports on the water 

 powers and also the water storage facilities of this country. 



The question of water storage will at no distant date be one of vital importance 

 to Canada, as it has already become in the United States, and was brought prom- 

 inently before this Association by Mr. Cecil B. Smith in his address at the Ottawa 



