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abundance of free timber which they 

 market at a very good profit. 

 Naturally, the reports of profits have 

 gone far and wide, inducing others 

 to follow the same trail and make a 

 living out of another helpless limit- 

 holder. If these fake settlers were 

 encountered only occasionally and 

 were sandwiched in with good farm 

 land and good farmers, a protest of 

 this order would lose much of its 

 force. But the trespassers referred 

 to can be found in rows, mile after 



mile, with the inevitable sawmill 

 occupying the banks of some water 

 power. Once the timber is stripped 

 and the land left useless the settler 

 and his comrade of the sawmill 

 move along to greener fields, make 

 fresh application for a 'homestead.' 

 and usually succeed in establishing 

 themselves. 



This is a glaring evil to which the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal calls the 

 attention of the Quebec authorities 

 in full confidence that they will take 

 adequate action. 



PROGRESS ON T. AND N. O. RY. 



While information regarding fire 

 protection along the Temiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario Railway sel- 

 dom is encountered in print, it re- 

 mains a gratifying fact that the 

 Commission in control of the road's 

 operations is fully alive to the re- 

 sponsibilities in this direction and 

 has accomplished already more than 

 has been generally credited. In a 

 recent interview, Mr. J. L. Engle- 

 hart, Chairman of the Commission, 

 outlined to the Secretary of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association the fire 

 protection plan which had been fol- 

 lowed for several years past. Mr. 

 Englehart affirmed the determina- 

 tion of all members of the Board to 

 provide for the road the very best 

 fire protection equipment possible, 

 realizing that upon the forest growth 

 of Northern Ontario a considerable 

 portion of the revenue of the road 

 will necessarily depend. 



As evidence of the Board's practi- 

 cal interest, six tank cars holding 

 five-thousand gallons each were 

 placed in commission last season. 

 These cars were fully equipped for 

 all emergencies with specially train- 

 ed crews to operate them. It so 

 happened that the cars were not 

 called into use last season or thus 

 far in 191. S, although they have been 

 held ready for immediate service at 



different parts of the line. The 

 right-of-way, Mr. Englehart said, 

 had been kept clear of dangerous 

 growth by regular cutting and burn- 

 ing, and on many parts of the line, 

 clearings had been made to a depth 

 greatly exceeding that of the priv- 

 ate-owned railways. Whether these 

 supplementary clearings had served 

 a useful purpose, Mr. Englehart did 

 not say. 



In addition to the fire rangers 

 placed on the railway by the Pro- 

 vincial Government, the cost of 

 which is collected wholly from the 

 Commission, additional rangers have 

 been stationed in sections offering 

 special risk. This year will involve 

 a cost of twenty thousand dollars on 

 the railway's part for fire rangers 

 alone. It is noteworthy that veloci- 

 pedes and speeders are seldom if 

 ever used, the rangers being in- 

 structed to perform their duties on 

 foot. This requires considerably 

 more men than where mechanical 

 accessories are employed. Doubt- 

 less as this truth becomes more evi- 

 dent to those responsible for the 

 system, the foot patrolmen will be 

 improved upon by the use of the 

 track machines. 



The prevention of settlers' fires 

 along the right-of-way has been one 

 of the most perplexing problems 



