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(3) Permits should be granted for a definite tract not more than one 

 mile square. 



(4) Prmits should be granted for one year only, but should be renew- 

 able at the discretion of the Superintendent of Forestry and should be can- 

 cellable at any time for violation of the regulations. 



(5) Only such timber should be cut as is marked previously by the 

 Department for removal, and no cutting should begin before the marking 

 is completed. 



(6) In cutting down the trees the stumps left should not be more than 

 18 inches' high. 



(7) The trees should be cut down with a saw. 



(8) All parts exceeding 4 inches in diameter of trees cut down should 

 be removed by the permitee, and this should be done as the cutting progresses. 



(9) Brush should be cut so as to lie flat on the ground excepting along 

 the roads, where it should be piled and burned under the immediate super- 

 vision of the Department. 



(10) Any unmarked trees cut down on account of the lodging of the 

 larger trees in felling should be piled by themselves separately from the 

 other logs, and should be considered the property of the Department to be 

 afterwards disposed of, either to the permitee or others as considered best. 



(11) The dues on timber removed should be the same as those demanded 

 of settlers. 



(12) Lumber should be sold only to bona fide occupants of homesteads, 

 or for the purpose of erecting churches and schools in rural districts. 



(13) Any lumber obtained from a permittee and afterwards sold or 

 offered for sale should be seized by the Department. 



(14) No settler should be permitted to receive from the mill in any one 

 year more than 10,000 feet of lumber. 



(15) The price of lumber at the mill should be fixed periodically by the 

 Department. 



(16) Settlers should be permitted to draw out their lumber with their 

 own teams. 



(17) Permittees should be required to keep a mill book in which should 

 be recorded all sales, to whom made, quantity sold, and price charged. 



The Department has this scheme of treating the forest already under 

 operation. A sawmill operating in the Cypress Hills was last fall put under 

 such restrictions, partly as an experiment, and I am glad to be able to report 

 that the experiment is apparently a success. The owners of this mill had 

 applied for a tract of spruce timber three-fourths of a mile square. The 

 Department stated the restrictions. They were accepted. Assistant 

 Inspector Dickson marked the trees to be cut, and the work of cutting 

 began. The forest ranger of the Cypress Hills Reserve who has the work 

 under his supervision, writing on January 22, 1909, reports as follows : "I 

 have been down to the Grayburn mill for a few days and was all through 

 the bush where they are cutting. They are keeping very close to the marked 

 trees. I told them to get the brush piled along the trails and to get the poles 

 out and they promised to do so. I will go down again soon and burn it." 



THE RESERVES AS PLEASURE RESORTS. 



There are many beautiful lakes on the forest reserves and some of these 

 are being now freely used as summer resorts. It seems to me that this 

 should be encouraged. The campers are not a menace to the forest, in fact 

 they are a protection, as they have personal interest in guarding the forest 



