Canadian Forestry Journal, June, i()i6. 



569 



the banks of the Albany, lower Mat- 

 tagami, Moose. Hurricanaw and 

 Nottaway that Northern Ontario 

 and Northern Quebec is all timber 

 country. If they were to get out of 

 a canoe and travel inland for days 

 as I have done, not only below the 

 last portages going down to James 

 Bay, but away up on the rivers 

 sometimes even south of the Na- 

 tional Transcontinental, they would 

 find merchantable timber does not 

 exist back from the river banks. 

 This is true of an immense area 

 around Lake Mistassini, north and 

 west of Lake St. John, where heavy 

 fires have occurred, on across the 

 Hurricanaw and Moose — on past 

 Martin's Falls (the only fall in 300 

 miles of navigation on the Albany), 

 and I understand from Indians on 

 through Patrica to Port Nelson, for 

 all this lowest bench of land is prac- 

 tically muskeg. 



A Question of Accuracy. 



It is all very well for reporters to 

 turn up Departmental records of 

 Northern exploration of 1910. show- 

 ing 288,000.000 cords of spruce in the 

 then explored section of Northern 

 Ontario, but is it there out on the 

 ground? It certainly is on the bet- 

 ter sections of the Northern Clay 

 Belt, such as Temiskaming. Abitibi 

 and parts of Mattagami. Kapuskas- 

 ing and Missinabi. but I personally 

 know large sections grossly over- 

 estimated at forty-five cords to the 

 acre that cannot possibly cut more 

 than four to five cords to the acre 

 on the average. Spruce mixed with 

 pine is sometimes c^uite deceiving-, 

 and certain pulp areas further south 

 estimated at ten cords to the acre 

 average are to-day actually cutting 

 out less than two cords to the acre. 



Returning to the immediate ques- 

 tion and summarizing: ^\'oods la- 

 bor will be seriously acute by Nov. 

 1st — wholesalers refuse to even 



guess where provision prices will 

 reach— and ecjuipment is proceeding 

 skyward steadily. 



Paper to Soar. 



Before the termination of the war 

 vou will see "News" selling closer 

 to $40.00 N. Y. delivery than the 

 S25.00 now quoted, for even at pres- 

 ent many of the mills ha\-e no re- 

 serve supply of wood, and every- 

 where the stock of ''News" is get- 

 ting ve^-y low. notwithstanding the 

 fact that we are not yet in the low 

 water period affecting the grinders 

 and output. Our cheaper jack pine 

 and poplar woods should be more 

 utilized in Krafts and wrapping 

 paper and then the logging of all 

 timber together would cheapen 

 spruce wood costs. 



With South America, Asia and 

 the entire Continent of Europe in 

 urgent need of pulp and the public 

 ( with extra coin in their pockets 

 from a false prosperity due to na- 

 tional loans) buying more war ex- 

 tras than they really require why 

 should they not pay the cost of in- 

 creased material — pulpwood? 



Berthierville Nurseries 



Under the direction of Mr. G. C. 

 Piche. Chief Forester of Quebec, 

 400,000 trees have been shinned this 

 vear from the Ouebec government 

 nurseries at Berthierville. Of this 

 number 250.000 were sold to the 

 Laurentide Company Limited at 

 errand" ^lere. 20.000 to the Riordan 

 Pulp and Paper Co.. 50.000 to the 

 Perthius Seignorv (for the sixth 

 vear in succession )and the rest 'to 

 colleges and private individuals. 



"There is no commercial timber for a hundred miles south of 

 the waters of James Bay on the territory known as the James Bay 

 Basin." 



