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' Of course if there were mills on the spot or if easy access could be had to this 

 region, a great deal of good timber which is now left to rot could be utilized; but 

 when we consider the awful distance, some seven hundred miles, that this timber has 

 to be driven to the market, second quality stuff cannot pay.' 



The Grand Trunk Pacific, probably, and the Quebec & Lake Huron Railway, for 

 a certainty, will open this territory within three or four years, and more in the new 

 Abitibi territory, thus imparting a high value and making practically available those 

 six or seven thousand square miles of rich wood lands, and adding so much to our 

 forest wealth and resources. 



The same factors will in the same manner contribute to the rapid evolution in 

 the value of our forest wealth in many other sections of the province. 



QUANTITIES CUT FOR DOMESTIC USE AND EXPORT. 



On this point, the census of 1901 supplies the following statistics: 

 Pine 



Ft. B. M. 



Saw-logs 445,036,000 



Square timber 15,595,484 



460,631,484 



Spruce 



Saw-logs 599,447,000 



Square timber 41,792,520 



641,239,520 



Hemlock 



Saw-logs 38,121,000 



Cedar 



Shingle blocks and squares 68,777,000 



Piles and poles 2,738,440 



Ties (2,703,807) .'. 8,111,421 



79,626,862 



Hardwoods 



Elm 3,465,860 



Ash 2,104,444 



Yellow and white birch 6,877,808 



Maple 963,276 



Oak 718,156 



Hickory 151,000 



14,082,344 



Pulpwood 



Spruce, cords 474,178 284,506,800 



Fir 52,687 31,609,200 



526,865 1,549,817,210 



The several quantities are converted into feet B.M., for the purpose of facilitat- 

 ing comparisons. 

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