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Canadian Forcslrij JoiunaL January, 1918 



also developed the fact that there 

 were included many areas not sufTi- 

 ciently timbered to be of commercial 

 value. The one factor largely offsets 

 the other, and it is fair to say, broadly 

 speaking, that in the judgment of the 

 lumber industry the province of 

 British Columbia is commercially 

 timbered to the extent of about 5 

 per cent, of the total area. 



In addition to the 5 per cent, of 

 commercially timbered lands as noted 

 above, there is 10 or 15 per cent, of the 

 area of the province that bears a 

 forest growth that will eventually 

 come to have commercial value as the 

 prices of wood products increase and 

 new ways are found to log more 



cheaply the lighter and less accessible 

 stands of timber. 



The cruising and mapping of the 

 timberlands of British Columbia has 

 not as yet progressed sufficiently to 

 indicate closely the total stand of 

 timber in the province. Tentatively, 

 it may be placed as being in the 

 vicinity of 350 billion ^eet, but of this 

 total not more than 200 billion feet 

 has been adjudged to have a present 

 commercial value by being honored 

 bv purchase by private interests. 

 And of this 200 billion about 60 

 billion feet would interest a logger on 

 the basis of the lumber prices pre- 

 vailing during the past five years. 

 (Clark and Lyford, Forest Engineers, 

 Vancouver.) 



Rising Value of Farm Woodlots ! 



By "Ahmik" in The Toronto Globe 



From a land in which timber was 

 an enemy to be destroyed, to one 

 in which trees are among the most 

 precious of possessions. 



This is what has taken place in 

 Ontario within the space of one life- 

 time. 



The nature and extent of the 

 change that has occurred were viv- 

 idly called to mind on noting the re- 

 sults of the sale of part of a wood 

 lot on a farm belonging to Mr. 

 George Cain, in the Township of 

 Clarke, a few days ago. Ten acres 

 of bush were sold, at an average 

 price of $100 per acre. Part sold 

 up to $200 per acre. Some of the 

 poorest, consisting of second growth 

 measuring in circumference no more 

 than the span of a man's arm, went 

 well over $50. 



High Prices Secured 



It was mixed timber — elm, maple, 

 hemlock, and a few scattering small 

 pine for the most part. None of it 

 was equal, or anywhere near equal, 

 to the original forest; a good deal 

 of it would have been classed as un- 

 derbrush, by the pioneers. And 



still the timber, as it stood, sold at 

 the prices noted. 



"A year ago," said Mr. Cain^ the 

 owner of the place, "I offered the 

 whole 50 acres, land, bush, and a 

 good barn, for $1,800. Now I have 

 sold ten acres of the bush alone for 

 $1,000, and I have four or five acres 

 of standing timber left still. Seven 

 or eight years ago I sold a block of 

 timber, which was 100 per cent, bet- 

 ter than that recently sold, for eight- 

 tenths of the average price per 

 acre." 



That statement- shows how timber 

 has appreciated in value in the 

 course of a few years. The extent 

 to which timber values have changed 

 in a rather longer period of time is 

 still more strikingly shown by this 

 statement. 



"As a lad," said Mr. Cain, "I 

 helped to log up and burn in the 

 fallow timber that was vastly 

 better quality than that disposed 

 of in either of my two sales." 

 And the man who has witnessed 

 this sweeping change in conditions 

 is still in the full vigor of his man- 



