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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, I9l'j> 



Ontario's great name in tlie world's lumber trade is built upon white pine. But the annual 

 production of white pine on Crown I^ands has fallen 60 per cent in the last ten years. 



paper manufacture as 200 million cords (100 should not be drawn. The forest resource is 



billion feet, board measure) ; and white pine as far from "inexhaustible." This year two new 



20 to 25 billion feet. paper mills of enormous capacity have been put 



While such chains of figures may reasonably under way in Ontario's timber zone, and others 



impress the layman with the tremendous rich- are projected. The future will see a remark- 



ness of Ontario's forests, false conclusions able development of paper manufacture within 



