. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 392 Canadian Forestry Magazine, August-September, 1920. '*#!*»*?. Forest fires take a severe toll of property in newly settled districts where loss is hardest to bear. A scene at Five Fingers, New Brunswick, on May 27th, 1920. have been no holocausts such as the Northern Ontario horror of 1916, but loss of life has been recorded in North- ern Manitoba, and shocking loss of pro- perty in many sections of the country, notably the burning of St. Ouentin, New- Brunswick. Again and again .the Canadian Fores- try Association ha
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 392 Canadian Forestry Magazine, August-September, 1920. '*#!*»*?. Forest fires take a severe toll of property in newly settled districts where loss is hardest to bear. A scene at Five Fingers, New Brunswick, on May 27th, 1920. have been no holocausts such as the Northern Ontario horror of 1916, but loss of life has been recorded in North- ern Manitoba, and shocking loss of pro- perty in many sections of the country, notably the burning of St. Ouentin, New- Brunswick. Again and again .the Canadian Fores- try Association has stressed the fact that when a forest burns the people pay. They pay because the private owner of a timber berth makes the smallest of all the profits that come out of a well-ope- rated forest. He also bears the smallest of all the losses involved in the destruc- tion of a forest by fire. This is so, be- cause for every four dollars that come out of a log in the woods, three dollars go to wages and suppHes and one goes to government taxes and interest on investment. It is reasonable to assert, likewise, that when a forest burns the loss in employment and railway traffic and supplies greatly exceeds the license holder's loss. One may the more readily agree with this by remembering how a cord and a half of logs worth perhaps $30 at a railroad siding becomes worth $120 when manufactured into a ton of newsprint paper. Growing in the for- est, the wood equivalent of the ton of paper w^ould be worth at most a few dollars. The community value of an accessible timber limit, therefore, must be counted by our governments and private citizens in terms of potential em- ployment, potential export trade, new towns and population, railway freight, and public taxes. As a nation we have bromided ourselves with the foolish thought that when a grocery store burns (^own an insurance company writhes in great pain and that the common folk get off scot free. Similarly, there is a widely-held notion
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