1910 Forest Statistics of Canada-1. 



Lumber, Square Timber, L«th, Shingles, Pulpwood. 



Tho publication of the utatistiea of 

 wood cunsuinption in Canada for the year 

 1910 liHH boiMi Hoiiiowliiit delayed owing 

 to tbeproHS of work ut the Printing Bureau 

 resulting from recent ovcntH in the polit- 

 ical world, but tho bulli'tins containing 

 these are now all in proNS, and will ap- 

 pear Hhortly. In addition to the statis- 

 tics of foreign products so far published, 

 a bull)>tin has boon compiled on the use 

 of wood by iiidustrii's whifh use, as their 

 raw matorial, wood already manufactured 

 to some dcgri'o; this will appear as Bullet- 

 in No. 2i, and treats of wood used in the 

 manufacture of agricultural implements 

 and vehicles, furniture and cars, and 

 veneer. The names and numbers of the 

 bulletins are as follows: 



Bulletin No. 21 — Poles Purchased. 



Bulletin No. 22 — Cross-ties Purchased. 



Bulletin No. 23— Timber Used in Min- 

 ing Operations. 



Bulletin No. 24— (Wood Industries of 

 Canada), .\gricultural Implements and 

 Vehicles, Furniture and Cars, and 

 Veneer, 



Bulletin No. 25 — Lumber, Square Tim- 

 ber, liath and Shingles. 



Bulletin No. 26— Pulpwood. 



Bulletin No. 27 — Cooperage. 



Liunb«r. 



The number of sawmills from which re 

 ports have been received has increased 

 by 32.6 per cent (2763 firms operating 

 nearly 3,000 mills sending reports) and 

 the lumber out-put by 28.5 per cent, or 

 1,086,707,000 board feet. The average 

 cut per mill reported in 1908 waa 1,774,000 

 board feet. 



The consumption of lumber per capita 

 in Canada was 653 board feet, which is 

 170 feet more than the per capita lumber 

 production of tho United Statee for 1909. 

 Ontario still holds tho first position among 

 the provinces in lumber production; it 

 still produces over one third of the quant- 

 ity of lumber cut in Canada. The 1910 

 cut shows an incroa.se of 7.5 per cent over 

 that of 1901>. 



British Columbia is again second in lum- 

 ber production, and its 1910 cut was only 

 45,000,000 feet less than that of Ontario. 

 Quebec again comes third and the other 

 provinces, in order of importance, are 

 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatche- 

 wan, Alberta, Manitoba and Prince Ed- 

 ward Island. There is a very large in- 

 crease in tho number of small mills which 

 have reported from Quebec this year, and 

 to this, no doubt, is due the fact that this 



province has the Hmalletit annual cut p«r 

 mill of any of the provinces, i.e., 71,400 

 feet. In British Columbia, at the otb«r 

 extreme, the average annoal cut per mill 

 is 7,297,000 feet— over 100 time* that of 

 Quebec. 



The average price of lumber in Cana- 

 da in 1910 was sixty cents per tboosand 

 less than in 1909, being higher only in 

 Nova Se(»tia and Prince Kdward Island. 

 The average value in Ontario is nearly $3 

 per thousand greater than in any other 

 province, owing largely, no doubt, to the 

 large cut of white pint>, which constitute* 

 over .lO per cent of the province's cut. 

 Spruce decreased in price $1 per thousand 

 and Douglas fir |I.14 per thousand. Al- 

 most all other woods have increased in 

 I riee. Birch shows the largest decrease, 

 namely, $1.49 per thoxisand. 



Spruce is the most important lumber 

 wotid in Canada, over one quarter of the 

 total cut being of this species. The cut of 

 white |>ine in 1910 was four per cent lees 

 ti.'.n tio't of 1909, the decrease amounting 

 :,000 feet. Several weetera 

 now remarkable increases. The 

 increase in the cut of hemlock amounts to 

 r> 1,000,000 feet and the increase in the 

 case of Douglas fir to 47,000,000 feet. The 

 cut of vfHhiT has increased by 217,430,000 

 feet, or 114.8 per cent. Almost six times 

 tlie quantity of yellow pine was cut in 

 British Columbia in 1910 as in 1909; this 

 increase makes it the sixth wood in quan- 

 tity of cut for the year. The increase of 

 100,000,000 feet (140 per cent) in the 

 larch cut in British Columbia brings that 

 spfcies to eighth place. 



Softwoods comprise 94.3 per cent of 

 Canada's lumber cut, the cut of bard- 

 woods being only 5.7 per cent of the to- 

 tal. The total value of hardwood bimber 

 produced in Canada in 1910 was $4,958,450 

 ($952,930 more than in 1909), and the 

 value of the hardwoods imported into 

 Canada, was more than fifty per cent 

 ;;reater than this. 



The lumber production of the Dominion 

 is also taken up by species used, twenty- 

 six in number. The first six of these are 

 spruce, white pine, Douglas flr, hemlock, 

 cedar and yellow pine. New species re- 

 ported this year are cherry, chestnut, tul- 

 ip, sycamore and alder. Among the 

 twenty-six species Ontario leads in the 

 <nit of seventeen, British Columbia in five, 

 and Quebec in four. 



Square Timber. 



Huring 1910, 3,480 tons less of square 



