APPROACHING DEARTH OF TIMBER 



" There is that in the situation which should 

 furnish food for serious thought on the part 

 of those prominent in lumber-production in 

 the United States." 



Again, the late Mr. Lewis Miller, who had 

 vast forests both in Sweden and Nova Scotia, 

 told me that in twenty-five years neither the 

 United States nor Canada will have much 

 timber left, while Sweden and Finland are 

 already played out. " I am also of opinion/' 

 he says, " that during the next twenty-five 

 years timber will be double its present price, 

 and that it will not only pay to plant land 

 valued at 3s. per acre, but that worth 20s. 

 per acre." 



Canada, with its 798,000,000 acres of wood- 

 lands, sends its entire surplus to the United 

 States. It may be said by some that the 

 timber of our foreign possessions will partly 

 fill up the gap, but such is not the case. 

 Indian timber, principally teak, is not in 

 request to any appreciable extent, while the 

 great African forests are hardwoods, and as 

 a rule unsuited to our wants. The forests of 



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