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party to-day in power, because it was my own political party which intro- 

 duced this very wrong system, and the present administration is continuing 

 it. I consider the system that exists in the Province of Quebec to be the 

 sanest and best that exists in any of the Provinces, but where they fail in 

 Quebec is in the administration of the regulations. I have explained the 

 piracy of the limits of the lumbermen by pseudo settlers. Now, tor per- 

 petuity and continuance, my opinion is that large operating lumbermen 

 should have large areas, and that they should cut the annual growth on 

 those areas in the shape of the old timber and let the young timber grow for 

 future use. I think it can be done, and may tell you, Mr. Chairman, that 

 so far as our own individual operations are concerned, that is what we in- 

 tend doing. In your own good Province of New Brunswick, the company 

 of which I am president has lately built a mill at Bathurst of concrete. We 

 would not build a concrete mill if we only wanted it for a few years. We 

 expect to use it for many years; we expect our successors to use it; and we 

 expect that you will do right when the time comes and not deprive us of the 

 timber to operate the mill. 



There are those who deal with this question practically, and those who 

 deal with it theoretically. While I am a thorough believer in education in 

 the great branch of Forestry, I am also a great believer in the ideas of the 

 operating, practical man, so far as the handling of our forests is concerned. 

 I believe this, if you want to teach Forestry in the best way, in which it shall 

 render the best service, not only to the country, but to the future of the 

 lumber industry, the right place to teach Forestry is in the woods. If the 

 young men are educated in that respect in schools, what will they do? They 

 go out of the different schools, and if they attempt to teach lumbering at 

 all, they attempt to teach the lumberman, and as a practical lumberman, I 

 say they cannot do it. In so far as the operations are concerned the prac- 

 tical and thorough lumberman knows a very great deal more than they do, 

 and can teach them. But these young men do not want to be taught. They 

 want to teach. To bring out what is best for the country I have recom- 

 mended it at Ottawa, and I recommend it here the Province or Dominion 

 should set apart an area of one hundred or one thousand square miles, what- 

 ever it may be, and have the operations carried on by a thoroughly prac- 

 tical lumberman, with a School of Forestry right on the limits. Carry out 

 the operation in a practical way, with a theoretical education at the same 

 time. The young man educated in this way would not only be a forester, 

 but he would be one of the lumbermen of the future. I believe in getting 

 education on this subject, as I believe in getting education on every other 

 subject, and I believe the best practical education which can be given for 

 the conservation of our forests and future lumber trade is that which I have 

 endeavored to describe. I will say again that my heart and soul is in this 

 subject as a lumberman, one interested in the lumber trade, and interested 

 in the country. I do hope that every means will be taken, not only by the 

 Dominion, but also by the various Provinces, to do all that each of them 

 can to perpetuate that which is the best asset this country has or ever will 

 have. (Applause.) 



MR. WILLIAM PEARCE (Calgary) said that in the discussion of coal at 

 different prices, one speaker had held that coal at $1.85 was as dear as coal 



