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acre. This large forest revenue represents $6.63 per head of 

 population of the province, as compared with 79 cents in On- 

 tario and yy cents in Quebec, the two next leading lumbering 

 provinces. 



The expenditure of the Forest Branch was $250,000 for ad- 

 ministration, and $285,000 for forest protection fund, of the lat- 

 ter only one-half being contributed by the Government. 



The returns in connection with the collection of the above 

 revenue show a cut of about 1,457 niillion feet, board measure; 

 with the inclusion of material (free of dues) used in railway con- 

 struction the total would approximate 2 billion feet. In all, 794 

 logging operations in progress were inspected. About one-half 

 of these are in the Coast district, using steam, and running most 

 of the year; the remainder, in the Interior, are mostly fall and 

 winter operations, using horses. The Coast operations produce 

 about three-quarters of the total. The number of mills is about 



425- 



The home consumption is less than one-fifth of the total pro- 

 duction. The markets for manufactured logs are the Canadian 

 prairies, United States, eastern Canada and overseas. Of these 

 the Canadian prairies are the most important, taking about 60 

 per cent of the cut, and using all grades. Export to United 

 States consists in a small quantity of cedar shingles for the mid- 

 dle West and cedar finish for the New England States. The 

 same products are shipped in small quantities to eastern Canada, 

 as also a little high grade dimension material of Douglas fir. 

 The cargo trade is small, some 3 or 4 mills shipping about 50 

 million feet, mostly to Australia, Great Britain, South America, 

 China and Japan. 



The export of unmanufactured logs is forbidden, except from 

 some early Crown-granted areas. These exported last year some 

 58 million feet, mostly for shingle manufacture in Washington. 

 The total value of unmanufactured logs, poles, piles, posts, ties 

 and props exported from the province in 1913 was $1,321,640. 

 The smaller unmanufactured products are shipped largely from 

 the Cranbrook and Nelson districts, and mainly to the interior 

 provinces to the east. 



The pulp and paper industry has made a beginning in the 

 province, the export totalling about 3 million dollars last year. 

 The Powell river mill with a capacity of 225 tons of paper daily 



