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means making sure that cut timber 

 pays the proper dues. 



The tourist at a logging camp just 

 sees a boom of logs. Our rangers see 

 material that the Crown is selling, 

 something on which any one of twenty 

 different sums of money should be col- 

 lected. He has to see that these logs 

 are clearly marked so as to show 

 which of these twenty different 

 amounts — ranging from one cent to 

 two or three dollars a thousand feet — 

 must be paid on these logs. 



I have touched on four aspects of 

 forestry in British Columbia : 



Forestry as selling British Columbia 

 lumber. 



Forestry as forest protection. 



Forestry as stock taking of timber 

 resources. 



And Forestry as collecting money. 



Too utilitarian, you may say. How 

 about posterity; how about taking 

 long views to safeguard the future ; 

 how about the development of a perma- 

 nent forest policy? Do not mistake 

 my meaning — these things must never 

 be forgotten by any public service en- 

 gaged in forest management. Fores- 

 try, in the broad conception, is merely 

 a great form of agriculture ; the har- 

 vesting of Nature's successive timber 

 crops ; and we in the \\"est. in our busi- 

 ness of harvesting the present enor- 

 mous crop, must not neglect to safe- 

 guard, in every practicable way we 

 can. the next crop that is now growing. 

 Forest School Needed. 



Trained men are needed in the work 

 of forestry. What means of training 

 does British Columbia provide? Do 

 you know that almost every Western 

 State deals with this question. Ore- 

 gon has a forest school, California has 

 a forest school ; so has Washington. 

 Idaho, iMontana and Colerado. Log- 

 ging engineering is being taught as a 

 profession, just like civil engineering. 

 Do you know that British Columbia 

 provides no training whatever, though 

 forest industries are our most impor- 

 tant ones? Our young men must go 

 and study at Seattle or (if they have 

 the money) they must go back East. 

 With all its various professional equip- 

 ment the University of British Colum- 

 bia has no forest school- 



And again, the foreign buyer of Brit- 



ish Columbia lumber, the city engineer 

 back east ; architects the world over 

 ask us, when we try to push the sale of 

 British Columbia lumber — how strong- 

 is it, what ar^ its qualities; what engi- 

 neering tests have been made of it? 

 And we must answer: None! and lose 

 the business. All we can. do is to dis- 

 tribute hand books for engineers pub- 

 lished by our go-ahead American com- 

 petitors — like the West Coast Lumber- 

 men's Association at Seattle. It is not 

 good business when a firm has to send 

 its competitors' price lists to its cus- 

 tomers because it hasn't any of its own 

 in print. But that is the fix Ave are in 

 in selling British Columbia lumber. I 

 think you will agree that we need a 

 timber testing laboratory at the Pro- 

 vincial Universitv. 



China's Possibilities. 



Capt. Robert Dollar, of San Francis- 

 co, in a recent address before the Van- 

 couver, B.C., Rotary Club, stated: 



"The Russian trade is an unknown 

 quantity just at the present time. The 

 Russians will likely have but the one 

 port of Vladivostok to offer as the only 

 certain port, and that might be shut 

 at any time the Russians so wished. 

 It is to China that you must look for 

 your future trade, and I desire to em- 

 phasize this fact right now that China 

 will be your mainstay in the future in 

 foreign trade relations just as soon as 

 the Chinaman learns his own purchas- 

 ing power. "China has only been 

 scratched for trade," he said, "and 

 when you stop to consider that one- 

 fourth of the population of the world 

 is living there, an immense population 

 which is awakening to civilization as 

 we see it, then you may be able to 

 grasp the immensity of the situation. 

 The day is coming when the Yang Tse 

 Kiang valley will be the greatest steel- 

 producing section of the entire world." 



