REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Accruals and Collections. 



The total accruals for the year's timber and pulpwood operations totalled 

 $3,708,410.23, although the entire revenue of the Department amounted to 

 only $2,693,421.14, or about one and three-quarter million dollars less than the 

 preceding year, this being partly due, it is believed, to the inability of certain 

 lumber firms to liquidate their assets covering the season's cut until it was too 

 late to remit before the end of the fiscal year and also to the closing of the 

 collecting year on time and not extending it into the following month as was 

 the practice within recent years. 



It must also be borne in mind that included in the 1922 revenue was over 

 $420,000 paid in by Shevlin-Clarke Co. in settlement of the legal action the 

 then Government had taken against the Company. 



The sale of Agricultural Lands and Townsites with Crown Leases, including 

 Provincial Parks, etc., amounted to s^209,535.85; Casual Fees $1,858.41; Refund 

 Items s$96,595.44. From the Woods and Forests the Revenue was $2,385,431.44, 

 made up of the following items: Bonus $931,013.87; Timber Dues $1,152,068.90; 

 Ground Rent $97,545.08; Transfer Fees $7,915.15; Fire Protection $196,888.44. 

 (See Appendix No. 4, page 24.) 



It should be pointed out that timber dues outstanding at the end of the 

 year amounted to s$2,561,405.88, in addition to $154,804.85 for ground rent and 

 fire charges, and as the bush operations for the ensuing season are expected to 

 be equally as large as during the last it is confidently predicted that the revenue 

 column will be considerably enlarged next year. While the uncollected revenue 

 from timber operations may be regarded as high it must be remembered that 

 the Crown holds as collateral at the end of the year, in the form of cash deposits 

 alone, some $1,979,121.20, without regard to additional protection in the form 

 of personal and Guarantee Company bonds. 



Disbursements. 



The total expenditure, less Civil Government, of the Department for all 

 services (exclusive of those rendered under the Northern and North-Western 

 Ontario Development Acts, for which see Appendices Nos. 40 and 41), 

 was $3,621,233.95. Some of the more important items were: Crown Lands 

 Agents' Salaries and Disbursements $23,437. 99; Homestead Inspectors $2 7, 032. 24; 

 Crown Timber Agents $42,873.05; Fire Ranging $1,067,202.22; Forest Ranging 

 and Measurement of Timber $487,046.91; Reforestation $214,547.12; Algonquin 

 Provincial Park $46,747.67; Quetico Provincial Park $10,870.55; Rondeau 

 Provincial Park $14,377.72; Surveys $168,277.80; Colonization Roads $827,855.98 

 Commissions re Sundry Investigations $28,518.90; Litigation of Constitutional 

 and Other Questions $18,047.93; Special Warrants $424,387.02; Clearing Town- 

 sites and Removing Fire Hazards $99,896.73. (Additional details are found in 

 Appendix No. 6.) 



The entire expenditure for the year ending 31st October, 1922, as set out 

 in the Public Accounts for that year, was $4,649,622.28 for all services operated 

 and controlled by the Department of Lands and Forests, while the Expenditure 

 for the year just closed on 31st October, 1923, is slightly over seven million 

 dollars, or a total increase in round figures of $2,405,000. 



This increase is made up as follows, round figures being used in each case: 



Outside Service and Surveys $ 715,000 



Colonization Roads 156,000 



Northern Development Branch Statutory Expenditures 1,188,000 



Special Warrants 346,000 



