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largely defeats its own hopes on ac- 

 count of the overwhelming supply 

 of raw materials on the one hand 

 and market limitations for the pro- 

 duct on the other. 



Until lumber prices substantially 

 and permanently advance, the main 

 hope of bettering forest finances, 

 and thereby widening the field 

 where forestry may be practised, 

 rests in lowering the costs of mar- 

 keting the forest crop. 



The cost of marketing the forest- 

 er's crop may be roughly divided 

 into • logging costs, milling costs, 

 lumber transportation, and selling 

 costs. 



The sawing and finishing of lum- 

 ber, together with lumber transpor- 

 tation, have already been highly 

 standardized. No doubt many fur- 

 ther economies will be effected in 

 these departments from time to time. 

 A start, which has every promise of 

 large results, has already been made 

 in the, heretofore, much neglected 

 field of lumber salesmanship. But 

 perhaps the largest field for econo- 

 mies is that of logging, and the hope 

 for greater efficiency in this quarter 

 is in the development of the art of 

 logging engineering. . 



The Science of Logging. 



As agriculture calls to its aid so 

 much of the sciences of chemistry, 

 physics and biology, so the logging 

 engineer, in the development of his 

 profession, takes toll from the whole 

 field of mechanical science, and calls 

 for much of the best that has been 

 produced by that modern alchemist, 

 the metallurgist. No occupation 

 calls for greater resource and adapt- 

 ability. Every logging unit differs 

 from every other in the complexity 

 of variations in topography and 

 stand; of the thousand ways in 

 which logging may be done 'there 

 are not many profitable ways, and 

 there is. of course, only one best 

 way. The man who knows and can 

 effectively carry out one or more of 

 these better ways is a potential log- 

 ging engineer. 



The successful logging engineer of 

 the past has compelled success by a 

 more than average ability and adap- 

 tability. How may the average log- 

 ging foreman improve his methods 

 and thus take the first steps to 

 qualify as a logging engineer? Must 

 it not be through bringing to him 

 the results of the best thought of the 

 thousands of men who are devotins: 

 their lives to this work? 



The graduate of the forest school, 

 with a special training in the de- 

 partment of logging engineering, 

 may hope to be of considerable ser- 

 vice to a logging company from the 

 start, but, to be of the greatest ser- 

 vice in the end, he must be willing 

 to start his practical apprenticeship 

 at the bottom and work up. — Dr. J. 

 F. Clark, of Vancouver, B.C. 



'The Forests of the District of Patricia" 



In the February issue of the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal will 

 appear an article under the 

 above heading bv Mr. ]. B. 

 Tyrrell, M.A./f.R.S.C, F.G.S., 

 the well-known mining engineer 

 and explorer, who was dele- 

 gated by the Ontario Govern- 

 ment to report upon the resour- 

 ces of the new District of 

 Patricia and the harbor possi- 

 bilities at the outlet of the 

 Nelson River. No one in Can- 

 ada is better fitted to handle an 

 informative discussion of the 

 forests of Patricia and the arti- 

 cle is done with ^Ir. Tyrrell's 

 usual skill. A number of excel- 

 lent photographs will illustrate 

 the text. 



]\Ir. L. R. Andrews, formerly 

 District Forester at Vernon, is now 

 in England, a lieutenant in the Can- 

 adian Expeditionary Force. Mr. G. 

 P. Melrose is now Acting District 

 Forester for \'ernon District. 



