A 5,000,000 DOLLARS' LOSS.
With an estimated, loss oy bush fires of live million, dollars in standing timber through the province during the season, the British -Columbia Government has little reason to be proud of the parental care which it exercises over this valuable public asset. If tho experience of the past summer does not suggest jemedial. action, we .know not what will. The outcome : is self-evident : efficient filer warrancy: system at an annual cost of say, 50,000 dollars, or. the pre^ sent rotten system iwith a prpvinciaX loss of 5,000,000 dollars.— B.C.. Lumberman.
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Southland Times, Issue 19471, 26 November 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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94A 5,000,000 DOLLARS' LOSS. Southland Times, Issue 19471, 26 November 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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