. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. iS THE CANADA LUMBERMAN September, 1903 I VIEWS and INTERVIEWS | The forests of India are all Goverment prop- erty, and for the past 38 years the greatest care has been exercised to preserve what is considered a most valuable asset. Reforesting is carried on most extensively, and a very large staff is employed to look after these forests. Recently Mr. R. C. Milward of the Indian Imperial Forest Service was getting pointers on forestry, and had long interviews in Toron
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. iS THE CANADA LUMBERMAN September, 1903 I VIEWS and INTERVIEWS | The forests of India are all Goverment prop- erty, and for the past 38 years the greatest care has been exercised to preserve what is considered a most valuable asset. Reforesting is carried on most extensively, and a very large staff is employed to look after these forests. Recently Mr. R. C. Milward of the Indian Imperial Forest Service was getting pointers on forestry, and had long interviews in Toronto with Mr. South worth and others. Mr. Milward has been granted one year's leave of absence for inquiries into the protection of forestry, and has already visited Japan, the United States and part of Canada. He will visit Germany, Rus- sia, Norway and Sweden before returning to report. Mr. Milward has his headquarters at Derhrahdun, where the Indian School of For- estry is located. He has charge of a district about 260 miles square, and has 60 nativss under him, but in the dry season, when danger from fires is greatest, he has 100 additional men. They are paid from $2 to $4 per month. They can live on a few cents weekly. The Government fixes the minimum price for all classes of timber, and then calls for tenders for, or sells by auction such trees as are marked for sale. * * * An experienced agriculturist writing to a Winnipeg paper urges that the Dominion government extend its forestry operations in Manitoba to take in a strip of light sandy soil, about ten miles wide and thirty long, along the Assiniboine river east of Brandon. He then continues to write of the changes he has noticed in Manitoba timber limits as follows : The last thirty years have changed our tim- bered limits very much in Manitoba. To the east of the Red river, by cutting wood, ties and timber and then allowing fires to burn up small trees that would in thirty-five years be another torest we have driven th
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