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considered as part of the operations for which the present report shows the 

 figures. That there may not be any misunderstanding, it may be remarked 

 that the quantities shown in the last report comprised approximately 3,410,000 

 feet Board Measure of log timber for lumber, 6,000 ties and 15,000 cords of 

 pulpwood. For the twelve months period ending March 1st, 1936, which 

 includes the lumber cut in the winter of 1934-35 and the summer of 1935, 

 exclusive of the small quantities mentioned, there was cut 170,000,000 feet 

 of log timber, or 85% greater than the records disclosed in the report for the 

 fiscal year ending October 31st, 1934. Ties increased from 436,000 to 753,000, 

 while pulpwood accounted for 604,587 cords, or 100,000 cords in excess of the 

 year previous. 



These active operations played an important part in re-establishing thous- 

 ands of men in gainful employment, reducing the relief lists and restoring a 

 declining morale amongst the returning workers and their dependents. 



The figures cited above of workmen engaged give an idea of the renewed 

 activities in the Ontario Forests and justify a more buoyant hope for the future 

 success of that robust type of worker upon whom the lumbering interests must 

 so largely depend. 



In recognition of the substantial response of the operators to the en- 

 couragement granted by the stumpage reductions, the Government has tempor- 

 arily continued the concessions, and the expectations are that the activities 

 during the coming season of 1936-37 will proceed unabated. There is a 

 noticeable tendency towards a growing demand for building material, and 

 as the storage or carrying yards of numerous dealers were largely depleted 

 and unbalanced for some years they are now being gradually replenished. 

 The prospects for a continuing, if not enlarged foreign market are brighter 

 and with a general upward movement of the trade pendulum, both domestic 

 and foreign, the lumber business has just grounds for counting on a fair recovery. 



With legislative authority for the re-allocation of pulpwood concessions 

 it is hoped to retrieve extensive areas of spruce, balsam and other types of 

 pulpwood and provide for bringing them into productive operation. 



To provide additional opportunities of cutting pulpwood and of prompting 

 bonafide operators to locate export markets and to assist home manufacturers, 

 the Crown dues on spruce were reduced by forty cents a cord and the right 

 to export the wood was granted under certain well defined conditions. The 

 inquiries already made and the interest manifested in the possibility of acquiring 

 cutting rights on areas likely to be resumed by the Crown are evidences that 

 no difficulty will be experienced in bringing into productive life rich areas that 

 have lain dormant so long and that should now be harvested. Under amicable 

 arrangements effected with different concessionaires cutting is proceeding on 

 areas which hitherto have been entirely idle, and with the stabilizing process 

 in connection with the newsprint industry reaching an accomplished fact the 

 operations for pulpwood on a large scale and the development of incidental 

 industries will have a beneficial effect in a variety of ways upon the Province 

 as a whole. 



Copies of Orders-in-Council dated March 23rd, 1935, and July 24th, 1935, 

 dealing with the suspension of the manufacturing conditions as provided by 

 Crown Timber Act follow. 



