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The timbered area contains pulpwood supplies totalling in all a little over 

 12,750,000 cords, including trees four inches D.B.H. and up. Of this quantity, 

 a little over three million cords or 24.3 per cent, are in the coastal plain, and 

 9.6 million cords or 75.7 per cent, stand in the northern clay belt. 



The total quantity of pulpwood consists of 9.6 million cords of black spruce. 

 1.6 million cords of white spruce, 1.4 million cords of balsam and less than 100,000 

 cords of jack pine. 



It may here be repeated that the mixed type averages 10.7 cords in the 

 coastal plain, and 9.1 cords in the northern clay belt, per acre of the timbered 

 area; while the black spruce type averages 7.0 cords and 8.4 cords in the same two 

 regions respectively. The general average for the whole timbered area is 8.6 

 cords per acre. 



A considerable proportion of the total standing pulpwood does not lend 

 itself to profitable exploitation, owing in some cases to the scattered distribution 

 of the stands concerned and in others on account of the location of the timber. 

 Such timber has been inserted in the tables under the heading of "remote areas." 

 In all, 2.8 million cords are so listed, or 22.2 per cent of the total pulpwood; 

 of the quantity, however, almost two million cords are in the coastal plain. 



If the timber in "remote areas" be neglected, there still remains 9.9 million 

 cords, of which 11.8 per cent, is in the coastal plain and 88.2 per cent, in the 

 northern clay belt (here largely in the western portion). This gives a final 

 average of 8.5 cords per acre of the area of accessible pulpwood. 



Of the total timber in the territory, 3.7 million cords or 29.2 per cent, is 

 tributary to the Mattagami River, three million cords or 23.5 per cent, on the 

 Abitibi;2.3 million cords or 18.1 per cent, on the Little Abitibi, and under 500,000 

 cords each to the French and the Moose (3.7 and 3.3 per cent, respectively); 

 leaving 2.8 million cords or 22.2 per cent, remote. 



The details of the estimated pulpwood cordage embracing all trees four inches 

 D.B.H. and over, are given in the tables below. A cord is taken as 85 solid 

 cubic feet of wood. 



TABLE II.— PULPWOOD RESOURCES BY REGIONS. 



