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Address by Mr. Elihu Stewart 



Superintendent, Forestry Branch, Department of the Interior, Canada 



I HAVE listened with a great deal of pleasure indeed 

 to the various addresses that have been made, 

 and above all, I think all who have come from across 

 the lines and all who have come from this side of 

 the lines, cannot help but be wonderfully impressed 

 with the magnificent address that President Roosevelt 

 gave us yesterday. 



I have heard a good deal about your system of work, 

 and I am in position to know what your Bureau of 

 Forestry is doing, because I get all its bulletins. But 

 above all, with such a President as you have, with such 

 a head of the nation as you have, and with such an 

 administrator as you have in Mr. Pinchot, I feel that 

 there is a guaranty above all others that your forestry 

 matters will be looked after in the future, and that 

 you will progress in the lines that Mr. Pinchot has so 

 admirably pointed out as the direction he intends to 

 give the interests of forestry matters in the United 

 States of America. I am not going to say a word 

 about our system across the line. My friend, Mr. 

 White, has, I think, done that sufficiently, and more 

 in that line would not be interesting to you, except 

 this: 



It has only been about five years since I undertook, 

 in a very feeble way, to organize the forestry service 

 for the Federal Government in Canada. Shortly after 

 starting the work, I wrote to my friend Pinchot and 

 told him I was anxious to learn of the workings of the 

 Bureau here, and asked him if he would be kind 

 enough to let me know when he thought would be best 

 or most convenient for me to come here and endeavor 

 to get information as to the workings of his Bureau 



