. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 53 PEOTECT THE FORESTS. Those who have read the late census reports of the rapid destruction of the timber in the great lumbering districts, and note on the maps the location of forests distant from navigable streams, will see at a glance that in the near future lumber must largely increase in value from necessary increase of cost in procuring it. Men raised in woody countries seem to cultivate an enmity to trees, and the destruction from the axe
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 53 PEOTECT THE FORESTS. Those who have read the late census reports of the rapid destruction of the timber in the great lumbering districts, and note on the maps the location of forests distant from navigable streams, will see at a glance that in the near future lumber must largely increase in value from necessary increase of cost in procuring it. Men raised in woody countries seem to cultivate an enmity to trees, and the destruction from the axe, from carelessness and from fires can scarce- ly be overestimated. It has been the history of the West and Northwest. There are millions of acres which have been denuded of then- forests to make way for farms, where to-day single trees that were then sacrificed would sell for more money than any acre of the ground. It may be said that this was a necessity, which is doubtless true to a certain extent ; but that necessity does not continue. The man who owns a forest should guard it and reasonably expect a rich reward in the future for his care. It would seem as if the United States should imitate the German empire in protecting its timber, and, as well, replanting large districts not otherwise used. Germany has acted far more wisely in this matter than other European countries. Italy, Spain, Austria and Russia have allowed the destruction of millions of acres of as fnTe forests as ever grew, and are now paying the penalty of gathering their timber from mountains and places difficult to reach, or importing from more favored countries. The Gulf States and Oregon and its adjacent Terri- tories are yet rich in fine timber. That there should be some sure means of protecting it from n^dless ravage and destruction no thinking man can doubt.— Inter-Ocean. THE WAY IT IS DONE. The extent to which the modern appliances of railways and rollways are employed for get- ting logs to waters an
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