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< ( RIL 9, 191 THURSDAY, AP , 1914 8 Aurennegemaneeneeteparammnnnaan m mm en «on en t at e nmmmmmmmmmang 1 LOOTING OF TREASURY } « " | BY MR.BOWMA \CHARGED s N | ME LBRi . [ * «/ Vigorous Denunciation of Purchase of Pembroke Lumber iR i; % % # # ,)!' Company's Limits in Algonquin Park--Liberals d Declare They Are Not Worth the Money. t |t norimet l reed mc 8 |1 1 ; "If this bill as it now stands be-- been negotiated by the department r | comes law it means a most deliberate | Where more care had been taken {, I loot: . 4 s $ secure all the information possible | looting and plundering of the Pro-- ,'umi he had the statement o) the best . ||vincial Treasury for the benefit of the [of authority that the limits ° were t'.avli\'c political friends of the Govern-- '""H'Yh much more than what the Gov.-- . | ment. and we desire to protest in the |@rnment had neen asked to pay, l & P t csw Proceeding with his criticism -- af )..sll'nnge.\'t, possible manner against it. the transaction, Mr. Bowman pointed | This was the vigorous denunciation | out that as a matter of strict law the | made by Mr. C. M. HBowman (North | rights of the licensees had lapsed en ;|.'Hru('ei in the Legislature Jlast night | Ure'y when the land in question was L against the proposal of the (71»\'0>l'l:'~ | (Continued on Page 2 Col. 4 j »" ment to spend $185,000 to purchase : |the limits of the Pembroke Lumber | § ,'('u. in Algonquin Park, It was no|! $# f !A:""'li pz:ssing protest that was nm«l.v-; Abolish_the_bar : uy the Opposition. Since the second | | ,' reading of the bill a few days ago Mr.| Debate on | | Bowman had fortified himselft with | Eilhw details contained in th« ]'Pl\n»l'i on |} TueSday Next t the limits brought down by Hon. w.] dnira im ue ie e ie aii en 'IH. Hearst. He analyzed the figures, faml ascertained the average quantity Fhe debate on XMi Nowe}]| f'of each kind of wood on tne 195,000 '"abolish the ba; resolution in |{acres comprising the limits, and ven-- the Legislature has been A2f: jitaured the statement that no Minber--| j :C '+CB!""2 T NECl PR | man of any standing would consider| | itely fixed for Fuesday nest. | | the transaction as a commercial pro-- j The House will adjourn IU,A" position for a minute. He moved an | [ Raster fro P Aipad. sit I !:nnendnu-m to the first clause in j ATR EL rvoem. Phursday until t | committee that the amount of $185,-- | | "'"'d,"'\' 1t J# N0 expected t[ 000 be stricken out and $25.000 sub-- | lNat the 'l_"""'" will be conrciud-- !'.flil,ulnfl therefor, although he argued, ! ed that afternoon, as a compli-- | |, without pressing the point. that when | | ':l":l'Ya'l\ umn: r_ given by th« {|qthe land involved was annexed to AIl-- _ CLabnimet to . in Conservative gongquin Park the rights of the licen-- _ members will take place Tues. | | sees ceased nnmediately. | : da: evening at the Alban I || Hon. Mr. Hearst replied with some Club which means there wi$] ]' heat. He expressed surprise at the | | be no night sitting | language used by Mr. Bowman. and | | | _ declared that no transaction had e\-erl i snn * § l included within the boundaries o[i _ Algonquin Park and they were de--| . prived of the right to cut hardawood.| f Un the general policy of conservation | _ and reforestation both parties were| <agreed, although they might differ 4s | i to _ method. He asserted the broad | _ _ principle that the Crown had the rizht' { at any time to acquire a 'i(~(-u>e, _ granted to cut timber from any limits| in the Province. ! ; The limits of the Pembroke l.umhel'l Company, Mr. Bowman went on, had| been under license for from sixty to; seventy years. They had been well | cut over, and during the past Mn' | years the amount of timber that had | ,bcen cut did not exceed 5,000,000 feet | board measure. During the last three! | years a still less quantity had been ; | taken off because the cost of getting jthe timber out would not make the work profitable. | When the matter was first brought | to the attention of the House by the. | Minister he had hoped that the deal | would be a good one for the Province. | "But I have been forced after careful examination and analysis of the fig-- | ures to come to the conclusion that never in the history of this Legisla-- | ture has a more improvident proposi-- | tion been placed before the House, | and never in the history of the Legis-- lature have the members been asked | lto vote upon a proposition that con--| tains so little merit as this." (Tiberal applause.) ' | Small Resources Here. ; % In support of his argument Mr.} Bowman went over the entire limits i berth by berth and showed the aver--| age per acre of the various kinds of| timber, White pine was only 52 feet| board measure, red pine three feet, | spruce 11 feet, hemlock 22 feet, | hemlock 22 feet, cedar 14 feet, ash| 1--3 foot, oak 4% foot, elm 1--2;9 foot, poplar 14 cord, spruce pulpwood i4 | cord, balsam 1+3 cord, hardwood 1 4--; cords,. In view of the scattered situa-- tion of all this timber he declined to accept the estimate that the wood was worth $7 per_ thousand feet. Itl would cost a great deal more to bring it to the sawmill than the lumber