Forest Statistics of Canada for 1909. 



Results of Work of Dominion Forestry Branch Synoptized. 



The atatistics of the lumber cut of Can- 

 ada for 1909, lately published by the For- 

 eMtry Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior, show u total cut of 3,814,942,000 

 feet, board moaHure, an increase over the 

 cut for 1908 of ulnioBt fourteen per cent. 

 The value of the 1909 cut whs $62,- 

 819,477. The number of millfl from which 

 fljjures were received was 2,085, as com- 

 pared with 1,409 in 1908. 



The province of Ontario easily leads in 

 the production of lumber, one-third of the 

 total cut cominfj from this province. Bri- 

 tish I'oluinhia ^oes up to second place, 

 and t^uehec drops to thir<l. The other 

 provinces occupy the same rank as in 

 1908, the order in point of production 

 being as follows: — New Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, 

 Prince Edward Island. 



Of the <lifferent species the largest cut was 

 that of spruce, namely 1,124,949,000 ft., 

 nearly one-third of the whole. White pine 

 was next, with l,04f),78.'i,000 feet. Spruce 

 and white pine thus make up nearly three- 

 fifths of the entire cut. Douglas fir is in 

 third place, 469,C.")8,000 feet of that tim- 

 ber having been cut, an increase of over 

 twenty-six per cent, over the 1908 cut. 

 Hemlock takes fourth place with a cut 

 of 302,721,000 feet, and cedar fifth with 

 189,391,000 feet; the latter shows an in- 

 crease of fifty-four i)er cent. Woods 

 whose cut show extraordinary increases 

 over the cut of 1908 are beech, with an 

 increase of 19fi per cent., basswood, the 

 production of which increased 188 per 

 cent., tamarack, with an increase of 92 

 per cent., balsam, which shows an in- 

 crease of MS per cent., and ash, with an 

 increase of 62 per cent. 



The difference between the production 

 of softwoods and that of hardwoods is 

 striking. Over ninety-four per cent, of 

 the total <|uantity of wood cut in Canada 

 was softwood, and less than six per ^ent. 

 of the cut was composed of hardwood 

 lumber. The remainder of the supply of 

 hardwood has, of course, to be imported, 

 chiefly from the I'nited States. Among 

 the hardwoods produced in Canada birch 

 takes the first i>lace, with maple second. 

 Of the sjiruce cut, nearly one-third of 

 the total was obtaine*! from Quebec, but 

 spruce of one species or another was cut 

 in all the nine provinces of the Dominion 

 — a statement that can be made of no 

 other tree. In almost all provinces the 

 cut of spruce showed an increase. 



Ontario is still far ahead of all the 



other provincM in the prodnetion of white 

 pine, almost eighty-five per cent, of tb« 

 entire cut being pro«lueed in that pro- 

 vince. Xova Scotia, New Brunswick and 

 British Columbia all greatly increased 

 their cut of this timber in 19U9 over that 

 of 1908, while Quebec shows a decrease of 

 fifty-seven per cent. 



Douglas fir is cut almost exclusively in 

 British Columbia, and shows a marked in- 

 crease, though the cut is still small aa 

 compared with that in Oregon and Waah- 

 ington. 



Square Timber. 



The total value of the square timber 

 exported is less than a million dollars, 

 namely, $991,491, the total quantity ex- 

 ported being 41,442 tons. Between' 1871 

 and 1880, when the trade in square timber 

 for export was at its height, the quantity 

 exported averaged 491,117 tons, and the 

 average annual value, despite the smaller 

 prices then prevailing, was over five times 

 the value in 1909, namely $5,139,111. 



Laths. 



Of laths there were made 822,124,000, 

 an increase over 1908 of over 150,000,000. 

 Ontario leads in this line of manufacture 

 with thirty-five per cent, of the total. New 

 Brunswick has second place, followed bv 

 Quebec, I'rince Edward Island and Bri- 

 tish Columbia in the order nameil. Spruce 

 and white pine are the leading woods 

 used for this manufacture, cedar and 

 Douglas fir coming next, but far behind. 



Shingles. 



In the manufacture of shingles British 

 Columbia has an ea.sy lead over the other 

 provinces, making forty-three per cent, of 

 the product. Quebec comes next and 

 Prince Kdward Island third, followe<l, in 

 the order given, by New Brunswick, On- 

 tario, and Nova Scotia. The cut in the 

 other three western provinces is very 

 small. 



Seventy-five per cent, of the total num- 

 ber of shingles are made of ce<iar, and 

 fifteen per cent, of spruce. White pine 

 furnishes about seven per cent, of the 

 shingles u.sed, but no other wood produces 

 even one per cent, of the total. 



Pulpwood. 



There were 622,129 cords of pulpwood 

 used in Canada during 1909. Of this the 

 total value at the mill was 13,464,080. In 

 spite of a decline in the price of pulp* 



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