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The total number of certificates that have therefore beenTdisposed of is 

 12,505, leaving 1,493 that are still outstanding. 



During the year 10 veteran locations, covering 1,590 acres, were cancelled 

 for the non-performance of the settlement duties to which they became subject 

 on account of being assigned before patent issued. (See Appendix No. 11, 

 page 38.) 



Collections. 



The total revenue, the largest ever received, from all sources was 

 $4,035,747.94, or over one million dollars more than the preceding year. The 

 sale of agricultural lands and townsites, with Grown leases, including Provincial 

 Parks, provided $217,151.76; Fees $2,020.63; Refund items $53,135.07. From 

 Woods and Forests the revenue was $3,763,440.48, classified as follows: Bonus 

 $1,555,770.69; Timber Dues $1,921,356.95; Ground Rent $99,245.12; Transfer 

 Fees $5,810.00; Fire Protection $181,257.72. (See Appendix No. 4, page 24.) 



Disbursements. 



The total expenditure, less Givil 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. 45, 46 and 47), 

 was $2,029,453.27. Some of the more important items were: Crown Land 

 Agents' Salaries and Disbursements, $20,717.00; Homestead Inspectors, 

 $25,556.58; Grown Timber Agents, $35,860.70; Fire Ranging, $547,474.47; 

 Forest Ranging and Measurement of Timber, $339,428.11; Reforestation, 

 $83,372.63; Algonquin Provincial Park, $40,705.81; Quetico Provincial Park, 

 $13,606.37; Rondeau Provincial Park, $15,295.90; Surveys, $145,169.99; 

 Colonization Roads, $506,180.80; Commissions re Sundry Investigations, 

 $63,781.05; Special Warrants, $58,178.77; Special Survey, Ontario and Manitoba 

 Boundary, $12,500.00; Clearing Fire Hazards and Kapuskasing Lands, $14,786.81. 

 (Additional details are found in Appendix No. 6.) 



Woods and Forests. 



Timber Returns. — Revenue accruels from timber transactions amounted 

 to $3,698,267.73, the largest in the history of the Province, as against 

 $3,120,808.41 for last year, and indicate the extent to which operations were 

 conducted during the fall of 1920 and the winter of 1921. The Department 

 succeeded in collecting some $65,000 more than the ordinary accrued revenue, 

 a follow-up system having been introduced along with the practice of continuing 

 to insist upon payment where such would not tend to cripple an industry and 

 the Crown was amply protected by cash deposits and guarantee bonds. 



An important factor in the increased revenue was the raise in the timber 

 dues made by the present government in April, 1920. Pine dues were raised 

 to $2.50 per M. feet B.M.; Spruce Pulpwood to 80 cents a cord, and other 

 Pulpwoods to 40 cents a cord, while increases in respect of other classes of timber 

 and wood were made all along the line. 



The Timber Revenue collected totalled $3,763,440.48, an increase over 

 1920 of $1,106,809.97. 



During the past season 336,957,487 feet B.M. of sawlog, boom and square 

 pine timber was cut, or an increase of 24 million feet over the previous year's 

 cutting. Saw log timber, other than pine, was cut to the extent of 66,811,220 

 feet B.M., as against 52,729,965 feet B.M. for the season of 1919-20, or an 



