44 Canadian Forestry Journal. 



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Some of the imports of lumber and timber into Canada from 

 the United States during the past fiscal year are as follows, and 

 are significant of the extent to which the Dominion is becoming 

 dependent on outside sources, at least for hardwood supplies, the 

 most of the woods mentioned being such species as are native to 

 Canada, and of which there was at one time what was considered 

 an abundant and inexhaustible supply. Cherry, chestnut, gum- 

 wood, hickory and whitewood are classed together with an im- 

 port of 10,828,637 ft.; of mahogany, the quantity was 1,039,052 

 ft. ; oak, 45,922,940 ft. ; pitch pine, 15,055,596 ft. ; walnut, 1,210,- 

 322 ft. ; white ash, 2,416,063 ft. 



The value of the export of forest products was $33,091,032, 

 logs being $450,000, lumber $28,000,000, almost equally divided 

 between Great Britain and the United States, and square timber 

 $2 , 1 00,000 going to Great Britain mainly. Pulpwood to the value 

 of $1,788,049 was exported to the United States. Of manufac- 

 tures of wood the value was $3,633,223, the principal item being 

 wood pulp, $2,409,074, of which $548,720 went to Great Britain 

 and $1,807,442 to the United States. 



The American Lumberman, referring to an estimate made in 

 1897, that not over 20,000,000,000 feet"" of white pine would be 

 cut in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, calls attention to the 

 actual cut since that date, which, at a production of 6,233,454,000 

 feet in 1897, has by steady reduction from year to year reached 

 a figure of 4,791,852,000 feet, but makes a total of 39,353,218,000 

 feet. The Lumberman makes an estimate of the production for 

 the next four years, as follows:— 1904, 4,400,000,000 ; 1905, 4,000,- 

 000,000; 1906, 3,600,000,000; 1907, 3,300,000,000; and goes on 

 to say that it is, perhaps, safe to estimate that there is still stand- 

 ing in the principal white pine states of the north stumpage in 

 excess of 20,000,000,000 feet. Some of the mills in the north 

 now have timber to last them ten or fifteen years, and it is doubt- 

 ful if ten years from now there will be less than 1,000,000,000 to 

 1,500,000,000 feet of white pine cut and marketed, and in such 

 event the statement that there yet remains only about 20,000,- 

 000,000 feet of white pine would have to be amended. 



In 1892 the production of white pine in these states last 

 reached a figure of eight billion feet, and its diminution to half 

 that quantity means that the supply is nearing an end. In face 

 of such a diminution in ten years, the ten billion feet of pine 

 which are in sight in Ontario do not look at all Hke an unlimited 

 supply. 



