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mores being given assigned work in men- 

 suration and silviculture. Later they will 

 assist in carrying out a lumbering and 

 wood-cutting operation, and will be given 

 some experience in marking timber for cut- 

 ting. The seniors are pursuing courses in 

 wood structures and lumbering, and are 

 making a topographical survey of the uni- 

 versity grounds. The juniors are also re- 

 quired to take railway construction and do 

 field work in laying out curves and spirals 

 with the engineering students. 



The college is pleased with the record its 

 students are making. In British Columbia 

 three of them are District Foresters, 

 Messrs. Caverhill, Murray and Prince. 



rOEEST PRODUCTS LABORATORY 

 MOVES. 



Dominion Forestry Branch Notes, 



Mr. A. B. Connell, Forest Assistant, has 

 completed his survey of the Pelican Moun- 

 tain district, Saskatchewan, and has taken 

 up his work as Forest Assistant in connec- 

 tion with the office of the District Inspec- 

 tor, Prince Albert, Sask. Mr. H. A. Parker, 

 who was engaged as Mr. Connell 's assist- 

 ant, has been transferred to the Lesser 

 Slave Forest Reserve. 



Mr. A. V. Gilbert, student assistant in 

 charge of Saskatchewan Survey No. 1, has 

 returned to college, as has also his assist- 

 ant, Mr. D. Greig. 



Mr. J. B. Ilipwell, student assistant to 

 the Timber Berth Survey party, which 

 operated in connection with Crowsnest and 

 Clearwater Forest Reserves, has resumed 

 his studies at college. 



Forest Assistant G. S. Smith, who had 

 charge of Saskatchewan Survey Party No. 

 £, has returned east and will finish his re- 

 ports at head office, Ottawa. His assist- 

 ant, Mr. Hughson, has returned to college. 



Mr. K. Vavasour, of the University of 

 New Brunswick, Fredericton, who had 

 charge of Saskatchewan Survey No. 3, has 

 returned to college. His assistant, Mr. G. 

 M. Dallyn, has returned to Toronto Uni- 

 versity Forest School. 



Mr. E. B. Prowd and assistant, Mr. H. A. 

 Porteous, who were surveying in Eastern 

 Manitoba, have returned to their studies at 

 Toronto TJniversity Forest School. 



Messrs. A. M. Thurston, J. F. L. Hughes, 

 R. A. R. Campbell, and C. R. Mills, who 

 were engaged in reconnaissance work in 

 British Columbia, have returned to college. 



Student Assistant T. F. Ranee, who had 

 charge of the Cold Lake Survey part}', has 

 returned to college, along with his assist- 

 ant, Mr. F. J. McGibbon. 



Mr. C. H. Morse, who has been Acting 

 Forest Supervisor of the Clearwater Forest 

 Reserve, returned to Toronto Forest School 

 late in October. 



The Dominion Forestry Branch Forest 

 Products Laboratory at McGill University, 

 Montreal, has moved from the old medical 

 building to the Molson building fronting on 

 University street. Mr. J. S. Bates, the chief 

 of the Laboratory staff, has returned from 

 North Carolina where he investigated the 

 possibilities of the distillation of British 

 Columbia yellow pine. The work of the 

 laboratory in the different lines of investi- 

 gation will go forward more rapidly now 

 that the removal in contemplation for some 

 time has been effected. 



PIT PROPS FOR GREAT BRITAIN. 



The closing of the usual sources of sup- 

 ply by the war has caused an enquiry from 

 Great Britain for pit props and mining 

 timber generally. The British Board of 

 Trade sent out a commission, which visited 

 Ottawa and various points in the Maritime 

 Provinces, with a view to obtaining figures 

 as to cost and shipping facilities The 

 Commission was composed of the follow- 

 ing gentlemen: Messrs. W. Windham, rep- 

 resenting the Board of Trade; David nar- 

 rower and Norman Gumming, representing 

 the Federated Timber Trades; Ridley War- 

 ham and Mr. Warrington, representing the 

 Federated Collieries, and R. Sommers, Sec- 

 retary. In Ottawa they visited the Depart- 

 ment of Trade and Commerce and the Do- 

 minion Forestry Branch. At the latter 

 they were able to secure considerable de- 

 finite information, as, in addition to the 

 general statistics collected, the Branch has 

 had, during the past season, an experienced 

 mining engineer, Mr. J. W. McLeod, as- 

 sisted by Mr. B. R. Morton, one of the tech- 

 nical officers of the Branch, working on 

 this matter in Nova Scotia. The British 

 Commissioners were not authorized to 

 make contracts, but were to spy out the 

 land, and it is likely that if a connection 

 can be established this trade will become 

 permanent. Certain sections of the Mari- 

 time Provinces seem well adapted to the 

 growing of pit props, and it was this, 

 coupled with the desire of Canadian mine 

 owners to know how they were likely to 

 be situated for the future, which led the 

 Forestry Branch to undertake this special 

 investigation, the results of which will 

 doubtless be available shortly. 



The Department of Lands and Forests, 

 Quebec, on October 20, offered for sale by 

 public auction a number of permits to cut 

 timber in certain districts. The average 

 price obtained was $238 per square mile, 

 permits for 1,036 square miles being sold. 



