PLANT TREES.

Shannon News, 8 January 1926, Page 3

PLANT TREES.

A LUMPERJMAN'S ADVICE. "I left New Zealand am 1907 and went to Vancouver Island wijth the idea of going into the lumber trade, and I now -own a miilll which is pro>duolng 75,000 feet per day," Mr Flank Beban told a reporter of The Press. Mr Belban is a brother of Mr James Beten, head of the co-operative tunnelling party at Lake Coleridge, and has returned to New Zealand for .atoqut six months,' bringing with him his wife and children.' He arrived in Christchurch on Wednesday. ■

Prior to leaving New Zealand, Mr B.eban was in mining work on the West Coast. Hje explained that forestry conditions' in British Columbia were entirely different from New Zealand conditions. NO PLANTING BEING DONE. No planting was going on as there were thousand's of square miles of timber yet uncut and in virgin condition. "But," he said, "you people here 'should plant trees as quickly as you oah. The Government Forest Service is an excellent thing and should be encouraged as much as possible." He continued that as soon as the land was cleared of trees it wias farmed and the soil was found to toe excellent. ."'' ■ ' "We build our lumber camps on the sea coast, the side of a river, or a lake, &o.that the sheet of water can be used for 1 storage purposes. We float the timber and leave it there until required. It is then picked up by a giant' grab and cut into lengths. Our own oars convey it to the near'est railroad and then it is shipped, ex. the E. and N. Railway, to New Zealand, Egypt, Japan, and all the American States. ! The timber consists chiefly of Douglas fir, red cedar and hemlock, which is used for budiding bridges, houses and railroad construction. In sbme oases, then a house'is required near-by, the timber is cut into the'required length and sizes and the component parts, of the whole house'are packed onto a large railway wagon and transported to the nearest point. Mr Beban said that his own''mill was a comparatively small one, hut there were a great many mills in British Columbia which produced u million feet of timber in 24'hours.