1915-16 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. xiii 



The area under license varies from year to year for the following reasons: 



1. License does not issue because of the failure of the licensee to pay timber 

 dues owing on timber cut under authority of a license. 



2. Nonpayment of ground rent. , 



3. Areas that have been cut over are dropped from the license. 



Cullers" Examinations. 



Two Cullers' Examinations were held during the year, one at North Bay and 

 one at Kenora. Six candidates succeeded in passing the examination and were duly 

 granted certificates authorizing them to act as Cullers. 



(For complete list of licensed cullers see Appendix 12, page 38.) 



Ontario Pulp Wood Industry. 



The wood used in the manufacture of pulp has shown substantial increases in 

 the Province. The 1913 production was worth $4,107,689, increasing in 1914 to a 

 value of $4,148,405, and keeping ahead of the four million mark in 1915 with a 

 production worth, approximately, $4,500,000. The production of wood used in the 

 manufacture of pulp in three years in the Province of Ontario produced a value of, 

 approximately, $12,500,000. While five of our Provinces contributed to the out- 

 put of pulpwood in 1915 over 50 per cent, of the total Canadian production was 

 in this Province. 



The newspaper industry is occupying the centre of the stage and is con- 

 sequently responsible for the great activity in the pulp mills of the Province. 

 While no complete statistics have been gathered to trace with real certainty the 

 cause of high prices the unprecedented demand for paper continues to raise prices 

 to the small consumers which seems to indicate the existence of an actual shortage. 

 The mills are unable to promise dates of delivery and are not taking orders for 

 months ahead. 



Ontario Pulp Wood Production. 



The following chart shows the value of the wood used in the manufacture of 

 pulp and paper in the Province of Ontario, also the pulp produced, in accompany- 

 ing table : 



1912, To ns 173,903. Value $1,235,343 



1913, Tons 321,2 44, " 2,297.389 



1914, Tons 477,751, 3,172,235 



1915, Estimate 500,000, 4,200,000 



Fire Ranging. 



During the month of May and first three weeks of June, 1916, rain fell almost 

 daily. So much water fell during this period that the ground was thoroughly 

 saturated and no danger from fire was possible, but the last week of June the 



