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is made. If this Association should put itself fairly and firmly behind For- 

 estry protection, behind such questions as the export of pulp wood and that 

 sort of thing, we could do a tremendous work. We could really do what 

 has been done in the United States by the American Forestry Association. 

 \Vc could see that the people were having a fair show and that forest in- 

 terests of all sorts could have the proper sort of protection. (Applause.) 



MR. W. B. SNOWBALL (Chatham, N.B.) : We, in New Brunswick, 

 have some idea of the amount of lumber that has been cut, but we have no 

 accurate idea of the amount of damage that has been done by fire by the 

 railways running through our lands. The Government has done a great 

 deal towards protection, but I feel a great deal more might be done by 

 making it necessary, by Government enactment, that every mile of timber 

 limits in the Province of New Brunswick, whether owned by the Crown or 

 privately, should be patrolled during the dry season of the year. Say one 

 hundred square miles should have one man patrolling, under the supervision 

 of some general supervisors to have charge of that department. The men 

 should be going backwards and forwards continuously. The time tp check 

 a forest fire is when it first starts, not when you can see smoke in the vil- 

 lages some distance away. This is my view of the subject. I think any 

 lumberman who is largely interested would be willing to contribute on the 

 same basis as they do in Quebec towards maintaining such a system. On 

 the lands we control on the Tabusintac and Tracadie Rivers we have been 

 taking great care to prevent fire in these sections, still we have not been 

 able to keep out fire. Everyone entering public or privately owned timber 

 j should be compelled to get a permit to do so, so that the proper 

 tnonties will know who is in the woods and what they are there for If 

 should originate in any district, the guilty parties could be located. The 

 c wardens should have the power to demand to see the permits at any 

 le, and citizens generally that go into the woods would realize that they 

 i after their fires. At our Conservation Commission meeting 

 hdd r r^, r LL" h m ^V his matter of ?re Protection was d 



ernm T T W ^ PaSed d Pnted to the 

 Government To-day I have discussed the matter with several 

 genHemen, and one thing they agree on is that the *InTercolonTil RaHw-iv 



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