RAILWAY FOREST FIRES 



BOARD OF RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS 

 FOR CANADA 



Order No. 16570. 

 Wednesday, the 22nd day oj May, A.D., 1912. 

 D'Arcy Scott, 



Assistant Chief Commissioner 

 James Mills, 



Commissioner 

 S. J. McLean, 



Commissioner 



A. S. GOODEVE, 



Commissioner 



In the Matter of the Orders of the Board prescribing regulations 

 to be adopted by Railway Companies for the prevention of 

 fires, and the application of the Lands Department of the 

 Government of the Province of British Columbia for an 

 Order regulating the operation of railway locomotives within 

 the Province of British Columbia having regard to the spread- 

 ing of fires upon lands adjacent to the company's right-of- 

 way. File No. 4741-2. 

 Upon the hearing of the application at the Sittings of the 

 Board held in the City of Toronto on April 30th, 1912, the Govern- 

 ment of the Province of British Coltimbia, the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway Company, the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Grand Trunk, 

 and the Canadian Northern Railway Companies, the Conservation 

 Commission, and the Canadian Forestry Association being repre- 

 sented by Counsel at the hearing, the Dominion Forestry Reserves 

 also being represented, and what was alleged, — and upon the 

 reading of what has been filed on behalf of the interests affected, 

 and in ptirsuance of the powers conferred upon the Board by 

 Sections 30 and 269 of the Railway Act and all other powers pos- 

 sessed by it in that behalf — ■ 



It is Ordered as follows : — 



1. Order No. 3245, dated July 4th, 1907 ; Order No. 3465, 

 dated August 14th, 1907 ; Order No. 8903, dated December isth, 

 1909 ; and Order No. 15995, dated February i6th, 1912, be, and 

 they are hereby rescinded. 



2. Until further order, every railway subject to the legisla- 

 tive authority of the Parliament of Canada, tmder construction 

 or being operated by steam, shall, unless exempted by a special 

 order of the Board, cause every locomotive engine used on the 

 said railway, or portion of railway, being constructed or operated 

 by it, to be fitted and kept fitted with netting mesh as hereinafter 

 set forth, namely : 



(a) On every engine equipped with an extension smoke 

 box, the mesh shall be not larger than 25^ x 2>^ per inch of No. 

 10 Birmingham Wire Gauge, and shall be placed in the smoke 

 box so as to extend completely over the aperture through which 



