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■ timber were exported than in 1909; the 

 average j:)rice, however, increased by $2.03 

 1 er ton. The total value of the timber 

 was $6,236 less than in 1909. White pine 

 comprises 57 per cent of the total export 

 of square timber, birch and elm having, 

 respectively, second and third place. The 

 foregoing three species make up 95 per 

 cent of the exports. Over 97 per cent of 

 the square timber exported goes to the 

 United States. 



Shingles. 



1 he total number of shingles made in 

 Canada during 1910 was 1,976,640,000, 

 their total value being $3,557,211. This 

 is really larger than the quantity manu- 

 factured last year, though, owing to an 

 error, the fotal for last year was some- 

 what larger than it should have been. 



British Columbia cuts, approximately, 

 half of the total amount. Quebec takes 

 second place, producing over one quarter 

 of the total. These two jirovinces, as 

 also Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, in- 

 creased their cut this year, while New 

 Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta, and iSTani- 

 toba cut considerably less than in 1909. 



The average ])riee of shingles was $1.80 

 per thousand, six cents less than in 1909 

 and twenty-seven cents less than in 1908. 

 Cedar is by far the most important shingle 

 wood, 93.5 per cent of Canada's shingles 

 being made of this wood. Spruce, white 

 pine, hemlock, balsam fir, Douglas fir, jack 

 pine, tamarack and red pine are also used. 

 The last-named two species are reported 

 this year for the first time as shingle 

 woods. 



Cedar shingles cost on the average 

 $1.79. Balsam fr shingles are the chea})- 

 est at $1.48, and tamarack most expen- 

 sive at $2.49. 



Lath. 



.'51,953,000 lath were manufactured in 

 Canada in 1910, the value being $1,943.- 

 544. The increase in the number of lath 

 manufactured was $29,829,000 (3 per 

 cent), but the value decreased $35,490. Of 

 the total number, Ontario cut two fifths, 

 increasing its cut over that of 1909 by al- 

 most 57,000.000— nearly 20 per cent. New 

 Brunswick cut one quarter of the total, 

 the increase in that province being 62,- 

 597,000. Quebec and British Columbia al- 

 so considerably increased their produc- 

 tion. 



. The> average price for the whole Domin- 

 ion in 1910 was $2.28. The average price 

 in British Columbia was .$1.66 and in 

 Prince Edward Island $2.67. 



Spruce and white pine lath comprise al- 

 most 70 per cent of the total. About one 

 million and a half more cedar lath were 

 cut this year, but Douglas fir, hemlock, 

 balsam fir, and jack pine showed the 



greatest increases, ranging from 14,000,- 

 000 to 29,000,000 pieces each. The prices 

 range from $1.25 for yellow pine to $3.18 

 for poplar. 



The 4,901,649,000 feet of lumber were 

 worth $77,503,187; the 37,962 tons of 

 square timber exported were valued at 

 $985,255; 1,976,640,000 shingles were worth 

 $3,557,211 and the 851,953,000 lath $1,943,- 

 544. The total value of the products 

 treated in Bulletin No. 25 was thus $83,- 

 989,197. 



Pulpwood. 



Fifty-one pulp mills sent in reports in 

 1910 and these used 598,487 cords of 

 wood. In addition to this, 943,141 cords 

 of p.ulpwood were exported in an un- 

 manufactured state For the first time, 

 imports of pulpwood were reported; 

 these were valued at $49,322. 



Over 95 per cent of the Canadian mills 

 cut the pulpwood used by them from their 

 own limits. The total value of the pulp- 

 wood used was $3,585,154, the average 

 value being thus $6 per cord. From this 

 pul])wood 474,604 tons of ])ulp were pro- 

 duced. 



The total quantity of pulpwood used 

 was 23,642 cords (3.8 per cent) less in 

 1910 than in 1909, but owing to a higher 

 average price the value of the pulpwood 

 was $121,074 greater than in 1909. There 

 was in 1910 also a striking increase in the 

 amount of pulp produced per cord of 

 wood, the average amount being about 

 145 j)ounds greater ]>er cord of wood than 

 in 1909. 



Quebec easily leads the other provinces 

 in the consumption of pulpwood. It has 

 practically half the mills in Canada (25 

 out of 51), and these consumed 57 per 

 cent of the total amount of pulpwood 

 used in Canada. Ontario, with 15 mills, 

 consumed over one third of the total 

 amount. Nova Scotia ranks third for 

 1910 in the consumption of pulpwood with 

 29,606 tons to its credit, and New Bruns- 

 wick used 15,134 cords of wood, little 

 more than one-sixth as much as in 1909. 



In the i)rovince of Quebec the average 

 price of jmlpwood per cord fell to the ex- 

 tent of 35 cents per cord, but in 

 all the other provinces, except Brit- 

 isl) Columbia, the price increased, that in- 

 crease amounting in the case of Ontario 

 to $1.30 ])er cord; the 1910 price for. pulp- 

 wood in Ontario was $7.02 ])er cord. The 

 cheapest jmlpwood in the Dominion . was 

 ])urchased in Nova Scotia at $3.00 per 

 cord. 



Spruce is still far in the lead as a pul)>- 

 ing wood; it furnishes over three quart- 

 ers of the total Dulpwpod consumption, or 

 78.6 per cent. Balsam fir is steadily in- 

 creasing in importance as a pulpwood. In 

 1910 twenty per cpnt , of the total con- 



