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should be no difficulty in selecting, say, 100,000 square miles of 

 merchantable timber and pulpwood forests (including areas to 

 be planted in the Prairie provinces), suitably distributed over the 

 Dominion, and placing them under intensive management and 

 working. These areas could, by managing them under well- 

 prepared working plans, be converted into forests yielding 

 permanently several times the quantity which the existing forests 

 now give. In considering these suggestions it should be remem- 

 bered that Canada hopes to build up a population far larger than 

 that at present existing. Such an increase will be accompanied 

 by a corresponding increase in the demand for forest produce. 

 Nor should it be forgotten that the supply of coniferous wood to 

 other parts of the earth depends to a great extent on the quantity 

 which Canada can spare. Canada should work for an increase 

 in the export of coniferous timber, in the same degree as such 

 supplies in other countries decrease. After all, an area of 100,000 

 square miles represents only 4 per cent, of the area of Canada 

 situated south of the 60th degree of latitude. 



E. FORESTRY IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



1. General Notes. 



The Dominion of Newfoundland is situated between the 46th and 

 52nd degree of northern latitude and the 53rd and 59th of western 

 longitude. It has an area of 42,734 square miles and a population 

 of 238,670 [in 1911], giving an average of under 6 inhabitants per 

 square mile. The population consists of a white Enghsh-speaking 

 element ; the people are powerfully built, robust and hardy. 



Newfoundland is a hilly country, but the highest elevation is 

 only 2,000 feet above sea level. It has a great many inlets along 

 the coast, so that no portion of the country is more than 60 miles 

 from the sea. There are numerous rivers, and great potential 

 water power is available in many places. 



The climate of Newfoundland is moderately temperate as 

 compared with the neighbouring continent of Canada. 



The three principal industries of the country are fisheries, 

 mines, and forestry. As regards the latter, the information at 

 present available is contained in the following documents : — 



(1) The reports of a Royal Commission sent to Newfoundland 



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