Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1916. 



485 



Published in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. 



A. C. Volkmar, Forester of 



P. Z. Caverhill, Forester for the 

 Province of New Brunswick, is pre- 

 paring his plans for a forest survey 

 of that Province, and has mapped 

 out a most excellent scheme. He 

 has been kind enough to -ask the 

 advice of many of the members and 

 a very interesting symposium has 

 been held and useful information 

 collected and discussed. Mr. Cav- 

 erhill will make a trip to Grand 

 Mere in April. 



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R. R. Bradley, of the New Bruns- 

 wick Railway Company, is prepar- 

 ing his final maps of the territory 

 owned by that Company and expects 

 in the spring to undertake planting 

 operations on a large scale. 



Henry Sorgius. ^Manager of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation, made a trip to Michigan to 

 attend the meeting of the Northern 

 Forest Protective Association. Mr. 

 Sorgius is very busy with his plans 

 for the season's work, and is equip- 

 ping a gasoline speeder and a Ford 

 automobile with the new pump de- 

 signed by Mr. Johnson, of the Rail- 

 way Commission. Circulars are al- 

 so being sent out to the settlers ex- 

 plaining to them the changes in the 

 fire laws and asking their co-opera- 

 tion. 



Ellwood Wilson went to Syracuse 

 on April first to lecture to the stu- 

 dents of the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry. 



Riordon Paper Co., St. Jovite, Que., 

 has been elected an associate mem- 

 ber. 



George Chahoon jr., President of 

 the Laurentide Co., Ltd., is spend- 

 ing the month of April, with F. A. 

 Sabbaton, Vice-President of the 

 Laurentide Power Co., at Hot 

 Springs, Va. Mr. Chahoon is an en- 

 thusiastic golfer and Mr. Sabbaton 

 is a tennis player of no mean order. 



B. 



M. AVinegar, of the C.P.R., re- 

 ports that he will begin the planting 

 of trees for snow sheds along the 

 eastern lines of that road. 



Arnold Hanssen, of the Lauren- 

 tide Co.. Ltd., has been busy all 

 winter clearing off the flood basin 

 of the River St. Maurice about to be 

 flooded by the Company's new dam, 

 hauling the wood and trying to dis- 

 pose of it to the best advantage. 



G. A. Gutches. Director of the 

 New York State Ranger School, re- 

 ports a very successful season. 



Prof. R. B. Miller, of the Univer- 

 sity of New Brunswick, has been 

 getting out some very creditable 

 reconnaisance maps made by his 

 students. 



Mr. H. R. MacMillan is now in 

 Calcutta. India, investigating con- 

 ditions and markets and will pro- 

 ceed from there to China and Japan. 



