Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



889 



A Warning re B. C. Timber. 

 (From a Letter in the Vancouver 

 "Province.") 



Sir, — With reference to the agricut- 

 lural problem in the Coast or large tim- 

 ber sections of British Columbia, why 

 not face the facts as they appear and 

 admit that the land, except in the vicin- 

 ity of towns and cities, is not worth 

 the cost of clearing and that we cannot 

 expect to get returned soldiers or im- 

 migrants to undertake it. No one 

 could compete with the Prairies in rais- 

 ing grain on such costly land and no 

 Government would have any excuse 

 for spending the funds of the Province 

 in such a costly venture. 



The future of this Province rests 

 largely on its great timber and mineral 

 wealth and its fisheries, but even these 

 great resources can be so exploited as 

 to .do little for the permanent good of 

 the country. Minerals can be shipped 

 into the States in its crudest form, and 

 with the least possible leakage in this 

 Province and leave us nothing but a 

 hole in the ground, and our timber 

 can be cut and shipped in the rough 

 and leave us nothing but devastated 

 forests and stump land while supplying 

 the base for wealth in other lands, 

 where it is turned into the finished pro- 

 duct. 



R. O. SWEEZEY 



Consulting Engineer, 

 Forestry 



Timber cruising 164 St. James St., 

 Forest Industries Montreal. 



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