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are doing this in many cases beyond the point that immediate profits would 

 allow because they have been able to provide a timber supply from Canada. 

 Just one week ago to-day a deputation of United States paper and pulp 

 men owning five million acres of woodland all that is owned by paper men 

 there waited on Mr. Pinchot and had a long conference with him on the 

 subject of the proper methods to apply to the working of those woodlands; 

 and owners of three million acres out of the five million arranged to have the 

 United States Government Bureau lay out systems of forestry for the opera- 

 tion of those limits. 



In Canada there has been almost a revolution in the last few years 

 among the pulp and paper firms operating timber limits, in the direction 

 of conservation. We are all taking a much greater quantity of timber per 

 tree; taking the tops down to four inches diameter under the bark, and 

 taking dry trees, dosy butts, and bark-rotted logs. We are limiting our 

 cuts to annual growth where possible. We have evolved fire patrol systems 

 that have prevented serious fires in our timber. 



So far as I know there was not a serious fire last year in any limit owned 

 by a pulp or paper firm, when there were so many fires elsewhere. 



The Laurentide Paper Co., the Union Bag & Paper Co., and the Riordon 

 Paper Mills, are all employing trained foresters and spending considerable 

 money in thoroughly investigating their timber resources and everything 

 to do with their development, and in studying timber growth and methods 

 of manufacturing logs. They are inaugurating the policy of marking the 

 trees that shall be cut, and are adopting rules for jobbers and foremen that 

 are eliminating the waste of anything they can possibly use. This means 

 making use of a great deal more of the product of the forest than any other 

 industry does. 



That means a great deal. It means using more of the products of the 

 forest than any other industry does or can use. 



I do not think that any of us have yet carried our forestry work to the 

 point of drawing up a complete policy of timber land management. We 

 have not yet completed our data. 



When we have decided upon thorough going systems of timber man- 

 agement that would provide for forest conservation within the limits that 

 profits will allow, we will not be able to put these into operation because 

 under present conditions we cannot be sure that we will reap where we have 

 sown. This is principally because our governments are permitting whole- 

 sale timber thieving under the guise of settlement, and limit holders are 

 always exposed to the risk of having their best timber taken up by some 

 operator who gets possession of lots by nominally conforming with the con- 

 ditions of the law for settlement. I do not know of any limit holder who has 

 any objection to legitimate settlement in the forest provided it is on land 

 that is really fit for agriculture. Such settlement is a great help because 



