420 Canada. 



the total export, in 1904 they represented only about 

 half that figure. 



The- same conclusion, namely that the lumber 

 business has not increased rapidly in the last 25 years, 

 may be derived from the report of the Decennial 

 Census. While, for 1890, the total cut amounted to 

 over 5 billion feet and its value to nearly $80 million, 

 in 1900, the cut or at least the Census report fell below 

 4 billion and its value to $53 million. In 1909, the 

 total lumber cut was reported as 3.8 billion feet B. M. 

 and its value $62.8 million. 



A measure of the depletion of the great staple White 

 Pine is found in the statement that from 1865 to 1893 

 the average size of pieces decreased by one-quarter to 

 one-third, and that, in 1863, over 23 million cubic feet 

 were exported from Quebec as against 1.5 million feet 

 in 1904, while the price had more than quadrupled in 

 that period. Spruce has here taken the place of pine, 

 and Ontario is now the main producer of pine. Yet 

 in 1909, the White Pine cut in amount almost equaled 

 that of spruce, and in value exceeded it by 40 per cent. 

 Spruce, and especially pulpwood, forms an ever in- 

 creasing item in cut and export, export of pulpwood 

 having increased sevenfold in the last decade, to 

 nearly $2 million, and of woodpulp to over $4 

 million. 



A notable economic improvement has taken place 

 during the last ten or fifteen years in that the propor- 

 tion of raw materials exported, especially logs and 

 square timber, has decreased in favor of manufactures. 



While originally the home country took the bulk 

 of exports of forest products, the cut of Ontario has 



