26 FOREST CULTURE AND 
straight timber is still available, some serious realities 
would be brought before us. 
At Ballarat, Creswick, Beechworth, Yackandandah, 
Sandhurst, Heathcote, Maryborough, Avoca, Castle- 
maine, Fryer’s Creek, and Ararat, some of the tim- 
ber for the mines has to be brought already from dis- 
tances as remote as ten to sixteen miles, according to 
returns of the Mining Surveyor, kindly furnished by 
Mr. R. Brough Smyth. At Pleasant Creek the min- 
ers have to go every year a mile further for their 
wood. 
I quote the following important statement from Mr, 
R. B. Smyth’s Mineral Statistics of Victoria for 1870 : 
Table showing approximately the Quantity and Cost of Timber 
consumed annually for Mining Purposes in the several Mining 
Districts, from returns made by the Mining Surveyors and 
Registrars. 
( Firewood, etc........... 320,601 tons. ] £ 8. d. 
Props and cap-pieces....1,650,555 pes, 
aths and slabs......... 1274, pes. “ 
| Lath dslab 4.274.798 + 203,024 4 7 
Sawn timber............5,772,110 feet. J 
{i Birewood;'etey.eere. ce 45,600 tons. ) 
Props and cap-pieces.... 155,778 pcs. 
BEsCHWOHEE: <i 1 Laths and slabs......... 566,050 pes. a 
Sawn timber............ 706,200 feet. J 
if Hirewood, etc... -cecsc<cs 129,750 tons. 
Props and cap-pieces.... 290,300 pes. 
SANDHURST..... 1 Laths and slabs......... 1,174,500 pes 91,551 "8 4 
| Sawn lumber .........-. 614,800 feet. | 
if Firewood, \6te:.....sec, 098,000 tons, 
Props and cap-pieces.... 198,071 pcs. 
MARYBOROUGH. 4 Laths and slabs......... 809,182 pcs. 53,647 4 3 
| Sawn timber............ 786,987 feet. | 
Firewood, etc........... 68,190 tons. 
Props and cap-pieces.... 142,791 pcs. 
CasTLEMAINE... \ Yaths and slabs......... 109,143 pes, f 7581 14 5 
Sawn timber...........0- 456,100 feet. | 
f Firewood, etc.......... 91,360 tons. } 
Props and cap-pieces.... 19,302 pcs. c 
ARARAT......-- Laths and slabs......... 70,021 pes. t 23,934 0 11 
Sawn timber.<.......... 250,000 feet. } 
( Firewood, etc........... 12,744 tons. 
Props and cap-pieces.... 37,656 pes. 
Girrs asp... { Laths and slabs......... 18,802 pes. Pastore weve 
| Sawn timber............ 202,581 feet. J 
Total Cost............£444,886 14 1 
