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men, a fair living may be made by 

 the occupant ; gradually this market 

 vanishes and the soil becomes work- 

 ed out; the surface wears away, the 

 rocks are exposed, and the people 

 are left destitute and miserable. 

 The Farming Population. 

 There is still another reason for 

 the prosecution of the survey and 

 that lies in the fact that a portion 

 of the population of this region oc- 

 cupies farms unfit for sustaining 

 civilized conditions. Not only have 

 many farms been abandoned by the 

 removal of their occupants to more 

 hopeful conditions, but a consider- 

 able number that ought to be aban- 

 doned remain occupied by those who 



lack the means and energy to move, 

 thus forming a poverty-stricken 

 community. A far-reaching policy 

 for the management of this region 

 must include a plan for the removal 

 of this degenerating population. 



The problem presented by this 

 region requires the formulation of a 

 broad and far-reaching scheme of 

 development and recuperation. The 

 water-flow should be safe-guarded, 

 and industries should be developed 

 to utilize such small resources as are 

 left, and to contribute freight to the 

 canal, thus assuring a better future 

 for this area than can be anticipated 

 under the present policy of indif- 

 ference and neglect." 



British Columbia Forest Club 



At a Club meeting and dinner held ber Company, Limited, Port Moody; 

 recently in the Blue Room of Hotel R- D. Craig, Commission of Con- 



Vancouver, Mr. O. P. M. Goss, con- 



servation, Vancouver. 



1^- • i ^u ^\T 4. r- 4- ^" effort is to be made to increase 



sultmg engmeer of the West Coast ^^e usefulness of the Club by arrang- 



Lumber and Shmgle Association, ing for more frequent addresses by 



Seattle, delivered a most interesting men who are prominent in the vari- 



address on the uses of creosoted fir ous departments of the lumber in- 



lumber. About thirty members of dustry. In line with this intention 



the Club were present, Mr. R. D. a hurried meeting was called for 



Craig, vice-president, occupying the Monday evening. April 17th. at the 



chair. The after discussion proved Terminal City Club, \'ancouver, to 



profitable, Mr. Aird Flavelle bring- hear Mr. J. A. Xewlin, of the United 



ing out some new points by judi- States Forest Service, who in the 



cious questioning. afternoon addressed the members of 



The annual meeting of the Club the British Columbia Lumber & 



was held in Vancouver on April 6th, Shingle Manufacturers, Limited, on 



when the following officers were the proposed scientific grading rules 



elected for 1916-7: President, W. J. for Douglas fir, now being widely 



VanDusen, Forest Branch, Victoria; discussed by the manufacturers of 



vice-president, R. L. Morse, Howe Washington and Oregon. Later in 



Sound Timber Company, Limited, the season the Club will be addres- 



Vancouver; programme secretary, sed by the chief of the testing de- 



Dr. Judson F. Clark, Vancouver; partment of the United States Forest 



secretary-treasurer, John Gilmour, Laboratory at Madison, Wis., on the 



Forest Branch, Victoria; executive, subject of the strength of Western 



M. D. Rector, International Timber timbers, and by W. D. Starbird, of 



Company, Limited, Vancouver; A. Portland, Ore., on "Log and Lumber 



D. Flavelle, Thurston-Flavelle Lum- Flumes." 



