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very different equipment to handle it from what is used in 

 this part of the country. 



Manitoba and Territories — Area under license, 2,200 

 miles, producing pine and spruce logs, 24,000,000 feet 

 b. m. ; 10,000 railroad ties, 320,000 feet b. m. ; 2,000,000 

 shingles ; 5,000,000 laths ; revenue, $70,000. 



Large as the foregoing is, it only forms one-quarter of 

 the sawn lumber received in Great Britain, and one- 

 sixteenth of the timber, the great proportion being the 

 product of the north of Europe and Southern States. 

 While not an alarmist as to our supply of pine timber, I 

 cannot but consider the wanton waste of it a sin, when 

 so much good lumber has been and is being thrown 

 away. A mistake is made by our mill men in not having 

 more sawing capacity than the fast mills now in use 

 possess, sawing, as they do, in 12 hours 40,000 or 50,000 

 feet with one circular saw. Too much haste is required 

 to do this, when more money might be got out of the 

 same logs, by employing two sets of saws, with the 

 necessary trimming machinery, and doing the work with 

 less speed. It does seem as if the lumbermen of the past, 

 as well as many of the present day, entertained the idea 

 that the supply of pine in Canada was inexhaustible and 

 were anxious to get rid of it as quickly as possible. 



With our vast amount of hardwood, which is fast 

 coming into use, with the facilities of getting it to market, 

 as well as the modern machinery for manipulating it, 

 along with the great quantity of wood supply, said to be 

 in British Columbia, all this, with the natural increase, if 

 fire can be kept at bay, we can reasonably conclude that 

 the end of our forest supply is a good way off. When 

 that time comes, I hope a substitute will be found. 



The carrying trade and commerce is largely indebted 

 to the forest. There is more tonnage employed on "the 

 St. Lawrence and canals in conveying lumber and timber 

 to market than on any other commodity. Quebec was 



