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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1917 



able timber on the Tongass Forest 

 is estimated at 70 billion feet and as 

 only the best of the spruce, cedar, 

 cypress and possibly a little of the 

 very best hemlock, is now considered 

 as saw timber, it is evident that for 

 pulp purposes which can include all of 

 the hemlocjiiJ as well as the spruce in 

 sizes and grades not at present called 

 merchantable, the estimate is very 

 conservative. The area of the stand 

 is estimated at 8,000,000 acres with 

 an average stand of 9,000 feet per 

 acre. Assuming new growth at the 

 very low rate of 25 by 30 feet b.m. per 

 average acre per year, the reproduc- 

 tion alone would perpetually support 

 newspring paper mills of 1,000 tons 

 combined output per day or five mills 

 the size of the big Powell River con- 

 cern in British Columbia." Taking 

 up the question of the accessibility of 

 the timber, the report continues: 



"At present hand logging is much 

 in vogue, but logging with machinery 

 is gradually coming in and would be 

 used on all the proposed pulp chances. 

 The Tongass Forest has about 12,000 

 miles of timbered shoreline and the 

 bulk of the timber can be easily 

 brought to the water and rafted or 

 boomed for towing to its destination 

 through the well-protected waters. 

 Present logging costs from stump to 

 boom, even under the more efficient 

 operations, will generally fall between 

 $4 and $5 per 1,000 being tolerably 

 uniform for all accessible areas within 

 a mile of the shore. Towing is very 

 inexpensive, being about one per cent 

 per 1,000 feet b.m. per mile, except 

 for the shorter hauls. For these rea- 

 sons it is not essential that a pulp 

 mill should be located on the area 

 from which it gets its timber. 





U. S. SEEKING OUR WOOD 



Mr. K. C. Clark, of Oldtown, 

 Me., in a recent interview with 

 the St. John, N. B., "Telegraph," 

 stated that United States lumber 

 firms in the east are reaching 

 out more and more into Canada 

 for material, and that within 

 another five or ten years almost 

 all the large lumber mills in 

 Maine will have been converted 

 into pulpwood and pulp mills. 



j TIMBER FOR SHIPBUILDING 



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Every local freight train on the 

 N. T. R. is carrying east in carload 

 lots spars and other special timbers 

 needed in the construction of wooden 

 ships, an industry which is experienc- 

 ing a great revival at various points 

 in the Maritime Provinces, says the 

 Times of Moncton, N. B. Some of 

 the shipments consist of heavy tim- 

 bers to be used for masts and spars 

 of wooden vessels. There is also con- 

 siderable shipment of planking and, 

 wooden ribs for the vessels. The most 

 curious part of the shipments, how- 

 ever, are the wooden "knees" which 

 are really the crooked roots of trees, 

 sawed into sizes suitable to ship- 

 building purposes. These "knees" 

 can be made from ordinary timber, 

 but builders prefer the natural bend 

 of the roots, which are very fibrous 

 and tough. Quite an important part 

 of present day lumbering operations 

 is the digging up and cutting out of 

 crooked roots suitable for this pur- 

 pose. The small knees are used for 

 bracing stem and stern posts and 

 similar parts exposed to heavy strains. 



4. — 



SUSPEND FOREST SCHOOL 

 PLANS FOR PRESENT 



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The task of building up revenues to 

 meet expenditures has rendered ne- 

 cessary the postponement of the plan 

 for commencing a Forest School in 

 connection with University of British 

 Columbia as well as the proposed 

 scheme for a Forest Products Labora- 

 tories to assist the British Columbia 

 timber industry in many of its special 

 problems. New tax adjustments are 

 expected to overtake the deficit in 

 current expenditures during the next 

 twelve months and it is understood 

 that no time will be lost in giving 

 effect to the plan for the Forest school 

 and Laboratories at Vancouver. 



