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£5,000,000 worth was iu 1873 converted into implements of 

 husbandry. The value of imports of timber from Canada in 1873 

 was £2,000,000, and the exports of timber from the States in 1876 

 £2,200,000. 



Turning now to Canada and continuing to investigate the timber 

 supply still left in the Dominion, I am informed by the Hon. Wm. 

 jMacCraney, M.P.P., a gentleman to whom I am much indebted for 

 many of the figures given in this paper, that there is very little timber 

 left between Lake Huron and Nova Scotia, and it will not last m ore 

 than a few years. The quantity in New Brunswick is considerable, but 

 in comparison to the quantity used for local purposes and exported 

 cannot hold out long. There is still a considerable tract covered 

 wdtli pine north of the Georgian Bay and Lake Superior, but a large 

 portion of it is very inferior in quality. In the territory west of 

 Toronto and Collingwood there is no timber to spare from home con- 

 sumption, and even that will not last for the present use and waste 

 more than twenty years. There is no timber in Eupert's Land and the 

 North-West Territory except in the basin of Lake Winnipeg. On 

 tlie Ottawa river and other small streams north of the Canadian 

 Pacific Eailway, there are still large breadths of white and red pine left 

 enough to keep up a supply for at least thirty years. Further tothe 

 north of Georgian Bay, among a chain of small lakes connected with 

 th2 drainage of the Ottawa river, there are still large tracts of sur- 

 veyed timber untouched ; the revenue from timber dues in this district 

 in 1874 was in round figures £85,000. In the Ottawa, Belleville, and 

 Western district there are about 11,388 square miles surveyed and 

 under timber license. 



The timber supply of Manitoba is extensive enough, but consists 

 principally of oak, elm, poplar, and other trees of inferior quality. 

 Still they are useful as firewood, and as the timber belts extend many 

 miles round by Lake Winnipeg and the Lake of the Woods, a supply 

 of fuel can be depended on for many years to come. 



Eastwards down the valley of the St. Lawrence, the Eastern Town- 

 ships, Nova Scotia and New- Brunswick, there were from Montreal 

 at one time large tracts of spruce timber. "These forests," says the 

 Ht. JohnHs Telegraph, " were until quite recently regarded by the people 

 as unworthy of protection, but now, when they find that one-half of 

 the best timbered lands have been destroyed, and that a nineteenth of 

 the remainder are worked out, they viev,' the subject with great 

 anxiety." The inhabitants feel and see that their hitherto indiscrimi- 

 nate cutting and slashing has done its work most effectually, and 

 that their su])ply ofjirewood will soon become limited. 



In the Dominion there are 5,254 saw-mills employed lumbering, 

 giving work to 36,668 hands, there are 1,354 shingle miUs, 73 char- 

 coal burning, and 74 wood-turning establishments. 



