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The reports of the explorers of the Geological Survey contain some valuable hints 

 and it seems likely that these forests contain wealth. When the foreign demand 

 becomes too strong we can satisfy it by the products coming from this region. 



IMMIGRATION AND MINING. 



We must not overlook the emigration which is taking possession of a part of 

 these lands. I believe that a survey is being prepared for forty-nine townships to be 

 located along the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. There is also a mining 

 industry which seems to be developing rapidly. In 'a few years Chibougamou and 

 Abitibi will be important mining centres and it will be necessary to supply the ex- 

 igencies of this industry, which demands large quantities of wood. 



Moreover, all the forests situated beyond the Height of Land belong to the 

 basin of Hudson's Bay, so that as the projects of the navigation of the Bay are 

 realized, the sale of the products of those forests will take place in that direction. 

 Hence, our wood industries of the St. Lawrence Valley cannot count upon this 

 reserve. This fact should induce us the more to adopt the measures which I have 

 just indicated. 



A BRIGHT FUTURE. 



As I said when I began, we are called to a glorious future. Our forest industry 

 will be one of our greatest resources and it will certainly attain a considerable 

 development. We can easily furnish other nations with enormous quantities 

 of wood and that without prejudicing our own interests. Our destiny seems to be to 

 preserve and to increase the grand inheritance which Providence has bestowed upon 

 us. 



The PRESIDENT. I beg to thank Mr. Piche for his paper, which is evidently 

 based on practical experience, which is the very thing we are all after. People 

 often associate too much theoretical work and too little practical work with our 

 deliberations. Mr. Piche^s paper is particularly useful in that it is evidently based 

 upon practical experience. 



I will now call upon Mr. E. Stewart, who was formerly Dominion Superinten- 

 dent of Forestry, to read his paper on " The Lumberman and the Forest." 



THE LUMBERMAN AND THE FOREST. 

 E. STEWART, FORMERLY DOMINION SUPERINTEDENT OF FORESTRY. 



Of all men the lumberman should be the most interested in the forests of the 

 country. 



The growing timber should be to him what the grain and root crops are to 

 the farmer, and he should be just as solicitous that the land producing his timber 

 may continue to reproduce indefinitely his supply as the farmer is that his fields 

 may from year to year continue to bring forth their accustomed yield. 



The only difference is in the length of time required for the maturity of the 



