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In the Woods: Ten Minutes for Refreshments. 



1910 Forest Statistics of Canada. — 11. 



The total number of cross-ties piircha>eil 

 in Canaila in 1910 was 9,213,9G2, an.l the^e 

 cost $3,535,028. Compared with the pur- 

 cha^es of cross-ties in 1909 there is a de- 

 crease of 4,904,279 (35 i>er cent). Cedar 

 furnished forty per cent of all the ties 

 used, jack pine 23.5 per cent, and hemlock 

 13.8 per cent, thefe three species thus sup- 

 plying 77 per cent of all the ties. Doug- 

 las fir furnif-hod 9.(5 per cent of all the tics 

 and tamarack 7.1 per cent, the five pjiecies 

 mentioned thus making up ninety-four 

 per cent of the total numl>er. Other sj>ecios 

 used were oak, spruce, cypress, chestnut 

 and white pine. About seventy per cent of 

 all the ties purcha.»^ed in 1910 were hewn 

 and thirty per cent sawn. Of the oak ties 

 ninety-five per cent were sawn, but oi the 

 other species the groat majority were h«'\\n. 

 The average cost of all ties was thirty eight 

 cents; sawn ties on the average cost thirty 

 six cents, hewn ties thirty nine cents. Those 

 values range from seventy four cents for a 

 sawn oak tie to twenty three cents for a 

 white pine sawn tie. 



Steam railwajrs ured ninety six per cent 

 of all the ties us^eJ. The total number used 



by Ihem was 8,909,422, at a totul f-M of 

 $?,4 12,227, and an average .-OHt apie«H» of 

 thirty eight cents. The electric railwajs 

 used only four per cent of all the ties pur- 

 chased during the year siiecified. The total 

 number used was 302,.'>40, at a total coet . 

 of $123,401, and an average cost per tie of 

 forty one cents; almost fifty per cent of 

 these were cedar, the next wooil in point of 

 numl)er being Douglas fir which fumialied 

 thirty two per cent of the total. 



A small number of cyprews ti«M were im- 

 ported by both steam and electric railway*. 

 The average cost of ties used by the electric 

 roads decrease«l six cents in 1909. With 

 the electric railways 61.4 per <vnt of Ihe 

 ties purchased were hewn. Of the sawn tiea 

 fifty per cent were Douglas fir and thirty 

 four iH>r cent were cedar, in the cas« of 

 hewn ties fifty seven jwr cent were cedar 

 and 20.7 per cent Douglas fir. The vondm 

 which are chietly used sawn are cedar, Doug- 

 las fir an<l oak ; the species chiefly u.«e<i hewn 

 are hemlock, tamarack, cypress, spruce and 

 jack pine. Progress has now been made in 

 the chemical treatment of railway ties in 

 Canada. 



