NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 123 



I think Mr. Loggie stated that timber land is worth $10 an acre. Now 

 I have done some mental calculation along that line, and have asked some 

 questions of lumbermen. I know of iny own personal experience in the 

 County of Albert, that timber lands sold at a great deal higher rate than 

 that. Those of you who are from that County, w r ill know that, in one case, 

 somewhere about seventy acres 'of land sold for $7,000, and within the past 

 year the A. L. Wright Lumber Co. purchased in that County something over 

 175 acres of land for the sum of $25,000. That seems a pretty high figure, 

 and it is the highest I know of. It figures about $150 per acre, and 

 it was understood at the time that there was about four million feet of 

 lumber on that property, of which about one million feet was pine, which 

 only goes to show that the stumpage in that district was worth about $6.00 

 a thousand, and I have heard of other sales in the County of Albert as high 

 as $7.00 a thousand. 



I am not here bound by any particular rules or regulations. In my 

 position as Speaker of the House of Assembly I am not supposed to be 

 supporting any Government or party, but am a sort of a free lance, and I 

 would like to stir up some discussion on these matters. We have heard a 

 great many valuable papers, but we want more animated discussion on the 

 part of the practical lumbermen and others, and if I could say something to 

 stir them up, I would gladly do so, even at the risk of offending some of 



them. 







The statement has been made' that at the present time the Government 

 is receiving stumpage on about 120,000,000 feet of lumber. One of the 

 prominent lumbermen on the North Shore has said that the annual growth 

 in black spruce in this Province is 30,000 feet per square mile, which would 

 mean an annual growth of 300 , 000 , 000 feet in this Province. I think we 

 might say the annual growth is 100 feet per acre, which would make it much 

 larger than the estimate I have given ; but if it is only 300,000,00 

 goes to show we are not collecting stumpage on one - half the growth of the 

 Crown Lands of the Province. I do not know whether what is collect* 

 covers all the stumpage actually cut on the Crown Lands of the Provmce 

 The lumbermen say it does. I have been asking lumbermen from d 

 sections of the Province, and those who do not come from the County c 

 Northumberland state that that County is the chief offender in this regai 

 -that the stumpage is not all collected there. If there is anybody 

 from that County who can contradict this statement and prove it is not . 

 hope they will do so, because I think, in view of the needs of this Provmce 



