. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 327 by fire. The act passed for that purpose is rigidly enforced. L^rge quantities of timber were required for the construction of the Pacific railway. A statement had, it appears, gone forth that the forests of British Columbia were within six years of total exhaustion. To this assertion the authorities of the province returned an energetic denial. But there, as elsewhere in Canada, there is evident need of protect ve measures. A writer in Chamb
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 327 by fire. The act passed for that purpose is rigidly enforced. L^rge quantities of timber were required for the construction of the Pacific railway. A statement had, it appears, gone forth that the forests of British Columbia were within six years of total exhaustion. To this assertion the authorities of the province returned an energetic denial. But there, as elsewhere in Canada, there is evident need of protect ve measures. A writer in Chambers' Journal, from whose article, under the heading, " Are the Canadian Forests being Exhausted ?" we have alredy quoted, is earnest in urging the adoption of such provision without delay and hopes that the enquiries already instituted may be taken as an earnest of the Government's intention to take the necessary action. For our own part we have called attention to the subject again and again, but the meeting of the Forestry Convention in New England reminds us that the matter requires to be agitated not once or twice merely, but constantly.âMontreal Gazette. / CBEOSOTING TIMBER. Large quantities of timber are now creosoted at the West, in a special manner for railroad purposes, the effect being to increase the tenacity of the wood for holding spikes, etc , as well as its density and its ability to resist mechanical wear. This is done by means of an apparatus consisting of a boiler-plated cylinder, of a size adapted to the timber ; this cylinder is of a strength sufficient to resist 300 pounds pressure per square inch, and has a track ex- tending for its whole length along the bottom, the cylinder's ends being closed by strong iron doors, air and water tight. When timber has been run into the cylinder and the doors closed, steam at about 100 pounds pressure is injected into the cylinder, the supply continuing as required by the nature and dryness of the wood ; the st
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