NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



During the fiscal year 1899-1900 the forest exports of New Brunswick 

 were valued at $6,706,339, only 20 tons of Pine Timber were exported dur- 

 ing that year while the export of Birch Timber amounted to 7,105 tons. 

 The export of Spruce deals was 159,785 standards valued at $4,717,564. 

 The export of Boards was 70,822,000 feet valued at $718,971. This total 

 export of $6,706,339 worth of forest products probably included a million 

 and a quarter dollars worth of wood goods not produced in New Brunswick, 

 the Customs department having made a change in the classification of their 

 goods exported and counting as the produce of Canada lumber sawed in St. 

 John from loo-s cut in the State of Maine and floated down the St. John 

 River. Since then there is no way of distinguishing the exports of the 

 different Provinces because the tables of trade and navigation published by 

 the Dominion Government only give the value of the exports of each Prov- 

 ince without classifying the kind of goods exported. The following figures 

 furnished by Snowball and Company give the exports for the past year : 



TOTAL SHIPMENT FROM THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK 



SEASON, 1906 



Sup. Ft. Deals, Ends, Scant- 

 ling, Boards 



Miramichi, 110,539,984 



St. John, 191,579,485 



Campbellton, 39,889,527 



Dalhousie, 19,000,000 



Bathurst, 20,642,969 



Richibucto including Buctouche, 3,876.418 



Outports of Sackville, 8,618,794 



Shediac, 1,259,100 



Hopewell Cape, 23,173,149 



Harvey, 2,501,023 



Total, 421,080,449 Sup. Feet 



These figures which I have quoted show how the lumber business of 

 ihis Province has changed during the past 80 years. The White Pine, which 

 was so abundant in New Brunswick formerly, has now practically disap- 

 peared, while the Spruce, which was so little regarded in the early days of 

 the Province, has now become our leading export, and promises to continue 

 HO for many years to come. Indeed with proper care there seems to be no 

 good reason why our Spruce forests should not continue to be a source of 



