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in limited areas, stands, which are capable of furnishing lumber 

 trees, the rest is possibly pulpwood, which as the drainage is 

 northward, away from market, will for a long time remain un- 

 available. 



While, with a scanty population, less than six million at pres- 

 ent, a country whose climate and soil is largely fit only for timber 

 growing, the round 300 million acres of actual or potential timber 

 land in the eastern provinces could be made to supply a consider- 

 able amount for export beyond home consumption, the same in- 

 attention to caring systematically for the reproduction and pro- 

 tection of the timber crop, which is characteristic with us, pre- 

 vails in Canada for the present. 



Moreover, Canada can at any time close the door to further ex- 

 ports. Indeed there is now a movement in that direction. It has 

 been ordered that all logs cut on Crown lands shall be sawed 

 within the Dominion, and a strong effort will presently be made 

 to stop the export of pulp logs from the Dominion. At present, 

 this is mainly intended to prevent the raw materials from being 

 exported, instead of the manufactured product ; but if, at any 

 time, the reduction of supplies makes it desirable, such restric- 

 tions can easily be further extended. 



We must, therefore, rely mainly on our own stores, and on our 

 own efforts at home to secure the supplies for the future. 



We shall now have to find some answer to the other set of 

 questions, which concern themselves with the chances for the 

 supply of these demands from home sources. 



First, as to the amount of virgin timber still untouched and 

 ready for use, we have really no knowledge, and only conjectures 

 are possible. Yet a not quite unreasonable guess as to the pro- 

 babilities is possible, if we have some knowledge of the forest 

 area in different sections of the country, and the usual average 

 stand per acre, and gather other indications leading to a proba- 

 bility calculation. 



The writer, a few years ago, ventured such a calculation, 

 having canvassed the situation from many points of view, and 

 came to a statement* of 2300 billion feet B. M. still available, of 



♦Senate Document, No. 40, 55th Cong., ist Session, 1S97. 

 H. R. Doc. No. 181, 55th Cong., 3d Session, 1898. 

 See also " Economics of Forestry," 1902. 



