104 CANADIAN FOEESTUY ASSOCIATION. 



THE RESOLUTIONS. 



Mr. Snowball, in presenting the report of the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions, said that some of these would bear on Mr. Oak's figures of the pre- 

 ceding day. Mr. Oak had placed the annual growth of timber in New 

 Brunswick at 315,000,000 feet b.m. That, he thought, was rather over 

 than under the mark. One of the first things the Government should do 

 was to make an inventory of the lands, so that it would be known how much 

 might safely be cut. The St. John Globe, of January 4th, 1910, placed the 

 lumber shipment from New Brunswick for 1909 at 305,000,000 feet b.m. 

 But this list had several omissions, such as the shipment of twenty million 

 feet from Hopewell Cape to Great Britain, of fifty million feet in the shape 

 of pulp and pulp wood from the Miramichi, of forty million feet more pulp 

 wood from the southern part of the Province, making a total of 415,000,- 

 ooo feet. There was then the lumber shipped from St. Crox, the railway 

 sleepers, the shipments from the St. John to the United States and South 

 America, and the shipments to Western Canada, which he would roughly 

 estimate at one hundred millions. The cutting in the Province would, there- 

 fore, be much in excess of Mr. Oak's estimate of annual growth. In forty 

 or fifty years at the present rate, without considering any increased demand, 

 there would be no forests left in New Brunswick. He thought the time 

 had arrived when the Province should consider whether it was wise to allow 

 such a large amount of timber to be cut, and whether, when cut, so much 

 of it should be allowed to go out in an unmanufactured state to support 

 foreign industries. 



The Chairman (Senator Edwards) thought there could be no differ- 

 ence of opinion on the resolution brought in respecting pulp wood( No. 5 ) . 

 Everybody could agree to such a resolution. 



Mr. Oak thought the Convention was hardly justified in recommend- 

 ing legislation, unless they had gathered exact data upon which to base 

 that recommendation. Regarding his statement of the annual growth he 

 did not desire to amend the figure of 315,000,000 feet, but how much of 

 that it would be safe to cut would depend upon methods. For instance, if 

 it were cut for lumber, it would not be safe to cut more than 60 per cent., 

 or 189,000,000 feet; if pulp wood, where much more of the tree was used, 

 it would be safe to cut 80 per cent., or 252,000,000 feet. This amount 

 could be further increased for pulp wood without injury, but not for mill 

 logs, if the thinning out of "thicket growth" was considered, where the thin- 

 ning would give the remaining trees a chance to grow. He had no particu- 

 lar objection to the resolution in question. 



Resolutions of thanks were first presented to His Honor the Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor for his kindness in opening the Convention; to the Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, the Premier, Hon. J. D. Hazen, and the members of the 

 Executive Council for the reception tendered the delegates; to the Govern- 

 ment of New Brunswick for the invitation to hold the Convention in Fred- 

 ericton, and for adjourning the Legislature for two days and giving the 

 use of the Assembly Chamber and its appointments for holding the Con- 

 vention; to Hon. Clifford Sifton, for his address; to Hon. W. C. H. Grim- 



