of poplar and jackpine in all the provinces which 

 are, to an extent, used in the manufacture cf 

 some papers. 



The Situation In Eastern Canada 



A study of the pulpwood situation in Eastern 

 Canada by the Commission of Conservation 

 gives a total estimate of actually available spruce 

 and balsam in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick 

 and Nova Scotia as, roughly speaking, 306,000,- 

 000 cords, with a possible addition of 38,000,000 

 cords in Ontario with the extension of the Temis- 

 kaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Acces- 

 sible and inaccessible the Commission places the 

 supply of spruce and balsam in the Eastern Prov- 

 inces at 501,000,000 cords. 



The Commission's estimate includes roughly 

 100,000,000 cords in Onatrio, 18 per cent, of 

 which are privately held; 155,000,000 cords in 

 Quebec, 14 per cent. private; 26, 000, 000 cords in 

 New Brunswick, 46 per cent. private;and 2S,000,- 

 000 cords in Nova Scotia, practically all private. 

 The annual consumption and pulpwood exports 

 of spruce and balsam from these four provinces 

 is between five and six million cords. 



British Columbia is estimated to contain 

 92,000,000 acres of absolute forest land of which 

 33,000,000 acres contain merchantable timber, 

 about half of which has been damaged by fire. 

 There are estimated to be 225,000,000 cords of 

 pulpwood in the Pacific Coast province. Ex- 

 ploitation in this province has only begun, but 

 already British Columbia ranks as third producer 

 in the nation's pulp and paper industry, and very 

 extensive developments in the near future are 

 quite assured. 



The totally unexploited pulpwood resources 

 of the Prairie Provinces are estimated to account 

 for 85,00,000 cords. Great areas of young for- 

 est growth exists on lands previously burned, and 

 these should in time considerably supplement 

 the present pulpwood supplies. 



A Land of Automobiles 



On the American continent the ubiquitous 

 automobile has come in a way to be regarded as 

 the standard of wealth, of worldly position and 

 material prosperity. Though often no doubt 

 little justified by actual circumstances, car 

 owners are placed in a category by themselves as 

 a trifle more prosperous than the man who walks. 

 States and provinces illustrate their progress by 

 their growing totals of automobile licenses, and 

 measure their development in per capita owner- 

 ship. However justifiably, the car has come to 

 be a factor in establishing national wealth. 



Pre-eminently the United States is a country 

 of automobiles, featuring prominently both in 

 manufacture and ownership. Huge manufac- 

 turing plants are to be found right across the 

 continent turning out a variety of machines 

 whose names have become familiar the world 



over. Ownership is extensive, and with one car 

 to every fourteen persons the United States leads 

 the world in this respect. 



One Car to Eighteen Persons 



In the general misconception which exists 

 outside the Dominion of Canada and Canadian 

 conditions, relegating her to a place century-old, 

 it is no doubt imagined by many that means of 

 transportation are yet limited to the prairie 

 schooner, the half tamed broncho, and the dog 

 team. It will undoubtedly come in the nature 

 of a surprise, therefore, to a great many people, 

 that the Dominion has approximately one auto- 

 mobile to every eighteen persons, falling not so 

 very far behind the first country of the world in 

 this regard. 



There are in Quebec 40,450 automobiles; in 

 Ontario, 155,861; in Nova Scotia, 11,150; in 

 New Brunswick, 10, 442; in Prince Edward Island, 

 1,358; in Manitoba, 34,814; in Saskatchewan, 

 58,825; in Alberta, 36,515; and in British Col- 

 umbia, 26,500. There is approximately one car 

 to every 37 persons in British Columbia; to 

 every 17 in Alberta; to every 13j/ in Saskatche- 

 wan; to every 18 in Manitoba; to every 20J/j in 

 Ontario; to every 66 in Quebec; to every 45 in 

 New Brunswick; to every 53 in Nova Scotia; 

 and every 66 in Prince Edward Island. 



Most Cars in Farming Districts 



A survey of automobile figures of the differ- 

 ent States of the Union indicates that, as a gen- 

 eral rule, there are more cars owned in States 

 where agriculture is a leading industry than in 

 those where the industrial and the manufacturing 

 predominate. Thus the State of Iowa, with six 

 persons to a car, led the country in 1920, followed 

 by California, Nebraska, and South Dakota, with 

 seven to a car, and Wyoming with nine. 



Similarly in Canada it is in the Western Prov- 

 inces, where there are vast agricultural tracts 

 and countless farms with comparatively few 

 cities and larger centres, that the highest per 

 capita ownership of automobiles is found. Sas- 

 katchewan, which has been a province of the 

 Dominion only since 1905, is surpassed in per 

 capita ownership by about twenty States across 

 the border, Alberta and Manitoba following 

 close behind. 



This will not be surprising to those in con- 

 stant touch with affairs in Western Canada, but 

 new arrivals are impressed with the numbers of 

 automobiles which have flooded the country in 

 recent years. They are to be encountered at no 

 long intervals on country roads, bearing the 

 farmers and their families on missions of business 

 and profit. If the presence of automobiles is an 

 indication of sound prosperity, the rows of cars 

 which line the streets of towns which form centres 

 of farming districts are eloquen t testimony to the 

 West's material progress. 



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