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Getting Logs to the Mill at the ''Front 



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(British Official Photograph) 



LAYING A LIGHT RAILWAY ON WHICH LOGS WILL BE BROUGHT TO A NEW SAW MILL IN 



NORTHERN FRANCE 



the last few years from 1912 to 1915 

 the production from the forest has 

 been from $172,000,000 to $177,000,- 

 000. 



Accurate figures are however avail- 

 able as to the value of exports from 

 Canada and the total for the years 

 1868 to 1914, that is, from Confedera- 

 tion to the present time, show that 

 the contribution of the forest toward 

 the payment of the public debts owed 

 outside of Canada has been very 

 large. 



Value of Canadian Exports from 

 1868 to 1913. 



Agricultural Products $1,625,890,767 



Animals and their Produce .... 1,566,701,217 



Forest Products 1,322,646,431 



Mineral Products 731,514,593 



Manufactured Products 571,049,221 



Fisheries Products 443,233,427 



It will be seen that the forest is 

 second only to the farm in the supply 

 of goods for export. It is consider- 

 ably larger than the export of the 

 mines or fisheries. A considerable 

 proportion of the manufactured pro- 

 ducts is also to be credited to the 

 forest. 



Public Revenues from Forests 



Further, the forest has been con- 

 sidered and used as a source of direct 

 public revenue in Canada. So as to 

 accomplish this more fully the title 

 to timber lands has been kept in the 

 Crown and the state has not only re- 

 ceived a purchase price for the timber 

 but a rental for the ground and 

 royalty on the timber taken out. 

 The annual revenue of the different 

 governments in Canada which own 



