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quantities still uncut in Ontario and Quebec and in the 

 northern United States, but no appreciable amount grows 

 south of a line between Chicago and New York, about 42 

 north latitude ; 77 per cent, of the United States white 

 pine comes from the Lake States, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 

 and Michigan, of which the first two supply 68 per cent. 

 White pine and red or Norway pine are, in the States and 

 Canada, sold together under the name of " Northern pine." 

 White pine stands second in the United States cut of 

 timber, and in 1905 amounted to 405,000,000 cubic feet, of 

 which nearly one-fourth may have been red pine. It is 

 the most valuable of Canadian trees. The timber is 

 becoming scarce and high-priced in Britain, as there is, 

 compared with former days, a comparatively small amount 

 now sent over. 



This is one of the many cases of the confusion caused by 

 timber going under different names in different places ; the 

 American or rather United States term "yellow pine" 

 applies to all the pine in the eastern States, except white 

 pine and red or Norway pine, and these include longleaf, 

 shortleaf , and other southern pines ; thus it will be seen 

 that the timber which in the English market is called 

 yellow pine is the very timber which the Americans 

 exempt from that title. 



The wood is of white or pale straw colour, recognised by 

 dark hair lines running in the direction of the grain ; it 

 turns a darker colour with age, is generally free from 

 knots, is of uniform colour, clean, straight in grain and 

 easily worked, is fairly strong but inferior in that respect 

 to Baltic redwood, and, even when it was plentiful and 

 cheap, not used for outdoor or substantial work in Great 

 Britain, although it is much used for these purposes in the 

 drier climate of the States and Canada, where, until of late 

 years, it was the chief building timber. It is excellent for 



