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Canadian Forestry Journal 



In the Woods : Loa ding the Sleigh. 



[Courtesy "Sunshine," Montreal. 



Translated into coal and taking 

 20 tons of coal as the amount neces- 

 sary to produce one horse-power of 

 energy for 24 hours per day for one 

 year (a very low estimate), it would 

 mean that our water-powers are as 

 valuable to Ontario as coal mines 

 capable of producing 60,000,000 

 tons of coal per year. 



Translated into dollars and cents, 

 it means that, taking coal at $3.00 

 per ton, we would have an annual 

 development of power from our 

 waterfalls which, if produced from 

 the ^ Western'^l^L^^ $180,000,000 in 

 are of little or no value . , , 

 ince of Ontario, inasmucS^^' ^ ^^ 

 charges for transportation ^ ^^^ 

 practically put it beyond the re^:. ^^ 

 of our citizens, except as a make^ 

 shift during a fuel famine. Prac- 

 tically every pound of coal used in 

 this province comes from the Penn- 

 sylvania coal mines, and, unfortun- 

 ately, the corporations that own the 



is quite true, and this difference has 

 been placed by Professor Fessenden 

 at an average of $20 per horse-pow- 

 er per year, which would amount to 

 $60,000,000 per annum, if estimated 

 on the 3,000,000 h.p. which our wat- 

 er-powers are capable of producing. 

 These figures are so large as to 

 make it difficult to realize just what 

 they mean, but perhaps their im- 

 portance can be better understood if 

 the actual value that could be real- 

 ized from the proper utilization of 

 our provincial water powers is com- 

 pared with the output of the farms 

 of this province. The official report 

 of the Department of Agriculture 

 for the province of Ontario gives 

 the market value of the crops for 

 the year 1908, consisting of fall 

 wheat, spring wheat, barley, oats, 

 peas, beans, rye, buckwheat, 

 corn for husking, potatoes, car- 

 rots, mangel-wurtzel, turnips, 

 sugar beets, mixed grain, corn, 

 hav and clover, as having a total 

 value of $164,077,282, which is con- 

 siderably less than the actual cash 



