CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 107 



(c) 500 fence posts, 7 feet long, and not to exceed 5 inches at the small 

 end. 



(d) 2,000 fence rails. 



In Manitoba, Saskatchewan, or Alberta, a settler who loses his dwell- 

 ing or other building by fire not due to his own carelessness, is entitled to 

 a free permit for timber to replace it. The quantity, however, must not 

 exceed the amounts stated above. 



Any bona fide settler who has not a sufficient supply on his own farm 

 may be granted each year a permit for the following quantities of timber 

 at the prices here stated : 



10,000 feet board measure of building logs for lumber, no tree to be 

 cut which is of less diameter than ten inches at breast height, or at four 

 and one-half feet from the ground : 



Poplar at $1.50 per thousand feet. 



Other Species at $3.50 per thousand feet. 



500 fence posts, seven feet long, not to exceed five inches in diameter at the 

 top : 



Poplar and Willow at 2c. each. , 



Other Species at 5c. each. 



500 fence rails or roof poles, not to exceed six inches in diameter at the butt : 



Poplar only at 2c. each. 



1,000 lineal feet of round building material, no log to exceed twelve inches 

 in diameter at the butt : 



Any Species at Ic. per lineal foot. 



15 cords of fuel : 



Poplar only ,.. at fl.OO per cord. 



Timber cut without permit in the reserves is seized by the forest rangers, 

 and double dues are charged upon it. If the dues are not paid the timber 

 is disposed of at public auction. If no bid is received equal to the amount 

 due the Government the wood may be disposed of by private sale. During 

 1908 the rangers seized 190,626 feet, board measure, 900 fence posts and 16 

 loads of cordwood, and collected as dues $1,101,61 with some seizures still 

 unsettled. 



Up to the present time permits have been granted only to actual settlers 

 living within fifty miles of the nearest boundary of any reserve. This 

 limitation is under consideration. There is very little wood in southern 

 Manitoba and scarcely any in Saskatchewan, and it is a question if the people 

 all over these provinces should not be allowed the use of the mature wood 

 of the forest reserves. It may not be quite justice to allow only the people 

 living in the immediate vicinity of the reserves to have all the blessings. 



It is a question also, if it is wise to allow only settlers to cut the timber. 

 The average settler in taking out timber has little care for the future of 

 the forest. His only object is to get out timber he needs as easily as possible. 

 If one tree has all the timber he requires, but if two will furnish it more 

 easily, he will cut the two trees. Moreover, the settlers cut high stumps, 

 leave large tops, and make no disposal of the brush. Millmen, knowing the 

 loss in cutting high stumps and leaving large tops, and having regard for 

 the future growth, treat the forest with much greater care. It therefore 

 seems to me that mills should be permitted to enter the reserves, but they 

 should enter under certain restrictions : 



(1) Only portable mills should be permitted. 



(2) Mills should locate where the Forestry Branch directs. 



