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FOEESTRY BRANCH BULLETIN No. 63 



TABLE III PINE 



*Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



In the above table pine includes four species. White pine (Finns Strobus) 

 forms the largest proportion, about 90 per cent; red pine (Pinus resinosa) forms 

 the greater part of the remainder, with a small quantity of western yellow pine 

 (Pinus ponderosa) and western white pine (Pinus monticola). Whenever 

 possible, jack pine has been differentiated and reported separately. No effort 

 was made in the compilation of these statistics to separate red from white pine. 



Pine comes third in the list. It is used by seventeen industries, but leads 

 in only two of them. The average price paid for pine material was $27.96 per 

 thousand feet board measure. Two industries paid over $42. The average 

 price paid by the manufacturers of New Brunswick and Ontario was $23.58 

 and $25.60 respectively. The price paid for pine is the highest paid for coni- 

 ferous material purchased in the province of Quebec. 



Pine was, from the beginning of the timber trade in Canada, its most 

 important lumber. The axes of the farmers and the lumbermen, and forest 

 fires, have greatly depleted the forests of this most important species, and, 

 although the province of Quebec still possesses extensive areas of pine forest, 

 there is no hope that this species will again become Canada's leading wood 

 material. 



Quebec's total white pine log production for 1915 is reported to be 251,- 

 330,000 feet board measure, and red pine 32,545,000 feet board measure. The 

 wood-using industries consumed only 21 per cent of the total white and red pine 

 output. Canada's white pine is so well known that a large quantity of Quebec 

 pine is sold for export, to the detriment of the industries of the province which 

 have to substitute for it a large quantity of hard pine and redwood, imported 



