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Carya Hickory 



Sideroxylon Ironwood 



Acer Maple 



Tilia Americana Basswood 



Betula White Birch 



Fagus Beech 



Populus Poplar 



Cerasus Cherry 



Balsamodendron Balm of Gilead 



Acer pseudo-platanus Plain tree 



Salix Willow 



2nd Division — Evergreens. 



Pinus strobus Pine 



Picea Spruce 



Larix Larch 



Cedrus Cedar 



Picea balsamifera Balsam 



Tsuga , Hemlock 



There are two large belts of timber land in the Province of Quebec, one on the south 

 side of the St. Lawrence, the other and greater on the north side. 



The first extending from Gasp6 to the Bay des Chaleurs, which divides it from New 

 Brunswick, thence along the highlands on the boundary line until it strikes the head 

 waters of the Connecticut river, thence along the line of 45 degrees of North Latitude to 

 the St. Lawrence, by which it is bounded in front. This belt consists of about 30,000 

 square miles. 



The other from below the Saguenay to the Ottawa and thence 200 miles north of 

 the St. Lawrence, and consists of about 120,000 square miles. 



Until a few years back these great belts of timber land were reached only by the 

 streams running through them, and could only be deva.stated by the lumberman a few 

 miles each side of these rivers, leaving large spaces untouched by the woodman's axe. 

 But since twenty years this great belt has been intersected by some dozen railroads, 

 cutting up the land like a checker board, and by this means we must look forward that 

 by another ten years this belt will be entirely denuded of all kinds of timber. 



The Northern belt is now passing into the same phase as the sister belt — the rivers 

 on the north side are not so numerous as on the south side of the St. Lawrence, but they 

 are of more magnitude and extend farther into the interior — and, like the other belt, is 

 now being also cut acro.ss by railways. If we open the Government statistics book we find 

 that the gross returns of the forests for the year 1881 amounts to the neat little sum of 

 $24,802,004, and, as compared with the total exports of the Dominion of Canada, is equal 

 to one-fourth of the total amount, $92,000,826. 



In the returns of the Government for the year 1871, the exports for timber were 

 $22,872,591. 



Now comparing the year 1881 with the year 1871 there is an increase of $2,000,000. 



I have found that in 1871 the cut of timber, as reported to the Government, was: — 



Feet. Feet. 



White pine 24,236,821 I n^ i qi i n.-, 



Red pine 1,954,371 / -t),iyi,iy.. 



Oak 3,302,043 



Tamarac 5,695,963 



Birch 1,939,357 



Elm 1,832,624 



Walnut 117,589 I .„^ .-^ 



Butternut 102,981/ ^^^,^t^ 



Hickory 197,827 



