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supplies in pairs, and have a main, or 

 headquarter, tent, but the partners are 

 only together at their main tent every 

 other night. 



Selection of Men. 



The men on the staff, as well as the 

 men on the other two staffs under Mr. 

 Bliss' supervision, are selected by him 

 from amongst the guides,, trappers, 

 prospectors and lumberjacks. They 

 have the vim necessary for their work, 

 and being experienced bushmen, are 

 quick in an emergency, and resource- 

 ful. Knowing the country, should ex- 

 tra help be required, they know exact- 

 ly where to turn. The majority of 

 these men have been on the same staff 

 for the past six or eight seasons, and 

 are veterans in fire fighting. , 



Kazvkash Mining Division. 



In the area are 16 rangers, under an 

 Assistant Chief Ranger, and all are 

 good bush and canoe men. They pa- 

 trol carefully along the canoe routes 

 used by the prospectors, while others 

 patrol on land over the area that is be- 

 ing prospected. Part of the prospect- 

 ing, especially around Tashota, was 

 conducted right up to the right-of-way, 

 so that in that part were placed extra 

 patrols on the railway. The rangers 

 in this section did excellent work, as 

 the total acreage burned in this part 

 was only about 800 acres of scrubby 

 spruce. 



More Reading Matter in the Journal 



By an alteration in this issue of the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal, the col- 

 umns have been widened and length- 

 ened, thereby increasing the amount of 

 reading matter. 



The enormous advances in the prices 

 of paper, coupled with a rising scale 

 of wages, have added an unantici- 

 pated extra burden to the pub- 

 lishing of the Journal. The paper stock 

 alone has almost doubled in price, and 

 nearly everything entering into the 

 composition of a piece of printed mat- 

 ter is taking the usual upward journey. 



The Journal's advertising revenue 

 covers but a small part of the annual 

 cost, the balance being met from the 

 general revenues of the Association. 



Mr. Roland D. Craig, who with Dr. 

 H. N. Whitford, have spent several 

 years compiling a report on the forest 

 resources of British Columbia for the 

 Commission of Conservation, have left 

 the province, Mr. Craig returning to 

 Ottawa to complete his report, and 

 Dr. Whitford taking a professorial 

 chair in the Forest School at Yale. 



Any Member of the C. F. A. 



Can have the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal sent free for three months to 

 any person regarded as a prospective 

 new member. 



Please send in names and addresses 

 without delay. 



Pulp Imported From Canada. 



Of the billion pounds of pulp im- 

 ported by the United States for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, over 

 two-thirds came from Canada. The 

 pulp importations for 1915-1916 have 

 been 189 million pounds less than for 

 the previous 12 months, yet the 

 amount shipped to us from Canada 

 during the past year was 130 million 

 pounds in excess of her 1914-1915 ship- 

 ments. 



During the year just closed nearly 

 70 per cent, of our 1,135,000,000 pounds 

 of pulp came from this country, while 

 most of the remaining 30 per cent, 

 came from Norway and Sweden. — U.S. 



Report. 



Fire-proofing Shingles. 



A statement is made that a cheap 

 process of fire-proofing shingles has 

 been discovered by an Iowa druggist. 

 Tests made at the University of Iowa 

 show that a block of wood one-half 

 inch thcik was, saturated with the fire- 

 proofing and then placed in running 

 water for twenty-four hours. After 

 that it was thoroughly dried again and 

 held for one hour over a Bunsen burn- 

 er, which had a temperature of be- 

 tween 700 and 1,000 degrees Fahren- 

 heit, that being a much greater heat, 

 it is said, than is developed in a confla- 

 •gration. The wood was not burned, 

 and only charred very slightly at the 

 point of the flame. 



