CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Railway ties 



Cedar 220,000,000 pieces at $ .02 $4,400,000 



Banksian pine 211,253,352 .02 4,225,067 



Beech 4,000,000 " .02 80,000 



435,253,352 $8,705,061 



Poles for electric wii<es 



Cedar 17,500,000 pieces at $ .05 $875,000 



Shingle bolts 



Cedar 1,300,000,000 feet B.M. at $ .65 $845,000 



Square timber 



Cedar 30,000,000 cubic feet at $ .02 $600,000 



The total of stumpage dues amounts to $188,958,188. 



Distributed over a period of one hundred years, this represents for the provincial 

 government an annual income of $1,889,581.88 per annum in stumpage duties. 



For farmers and woodmen the cutting of the logs and the preparation of the tim- 

 ber, delivered on the river banks or at the railway stations, represents the following 

 amount of wages for men and horses : 



Saw-logs 



White pine $182,400,000 



Red pine 37,500,000 



$219,900,000 



Spruce 349,253,752 



Hemlock 800,000 



$569,953,752 



Hardwoods.. $1,340,000 



White birch. 140,000 



Poplar 159,000 1,639,000 



Pulp wood 



Spruce $372,179,570 



Fir 69,783,384 



Poplar.. . 27,500,000 



469,462,954 



Railway ties 43,525,335 



Poles for electric wires 8,750,000 



Shingle blocks 8,450,000 



Square cedar 3,000,000 



$1,084,781,041 



Putting together the government dues and the wages of woodmen, the different 

 kinds of timber represent respectively the following values: 



Kind of Timber. GOT. dues. 



Spruce $116,301,986 



Pine 



Fir 



Cedar 



Poplar 



Banksian pine. 

 Hard woods . . . 

 White birch. . 



45,520,000 



11,165,335 



6,720,000 



4,434,000 



4,225,000 



428,600 



32,750 



Wages. 



$721,433,322 



219,940,000 



69,783,000 



42,200,000 



27,659,000 



21,125,335 



2,190,000 



175,000 



Total. 



$837,735,308 



265,420,000 



80,848,719 



48,920,000 



32,093,000 



25,350,402 



2,618,600 



197,750 



