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POEEST CULTUEE AND 



straight timber is still available, some serious realities 

 would be brought before us. 



At Ballarat, Creswick, Beechworth, Yackandandah, 

 Sandhurst, Heathcote, Maryborough, Avoca, Castle- 

 maine, Fryer's Creek, and Ararat, some of the tim- 

 ber for the mines has to be brought already from dis- 

 tances as remote as ten to sixteen miles, according to 

 returns of the Mining Surveyor, kindly furnished by 

 Mr. R. Brough Smyth. At Pleasant Creek the min- 

 ers have to go every year a mile further for their 

 wood. 



I quote the following important statement from Mr. 

 R. B. Smyth's Mineral Statistics of Victoria for 1 870 : 



Table showing approximately the Quantity and Cost of Timber 

 consumed annually for Mining Purposes in the several Mining 

 Districts, from returns made by the Mining Surveyors and 

 Registrars, 



BilLABAT. 



1 



f Firewood, etc 320,601 tons. 



j FropB and cap-pieces 1,650,555 pes. 



Beechwohth. 



Mabtboboitgh. 



Castlematse... 



Gipps Land 



..,.( 



Latlis and sl&bs 1,274,798 pes. 



Sawn timber 5,772,110 feet. 



f Firewood, etc 45.600 tons. ■ 



J FropB and cap-pieces 155,778 pes. 



1 Laths and slabs 666.050 pes, 



I, Sawn timber 706,200 feet. 



(Firewood, etc 129,760 tons. 

 Props and cap-pieces 290,300 pes. 

 Laths and slabs 1,174,500 pes 



( ,Sawn lumber 614,800 feet. 



Firewood, etc 9B,37Ston8. 



Props and cap-pieces .... 198,071 pes. 



Laths and slabs 809,182 pes. 



Sawn timber 786,987 feet. 



Firewood, etc 68,190 tons. 



Props and cap-pieces. . . . 142,791 pes. 



Laths and slabs 109 ,143 pes. 



Sawn timber 456,100 feet. 



Firewood, etc 91,360 tons. 



Props and cap-pieces 19,302 pes. 



Lathswnd slabs 70,021 pes. 



Sawn timber 250,000 feet. 



Firewood, etc 12,744 tone. " 



Props and cap-pieces 37,656 pes. 



Laths and slabs 18,802 pes. 



i. Sawn timber 202,5&1 feet. 



£ E. d. 

 203,024 4 7 



17 1 



91,551 8 4 



• 63,647 4 3 



29,581 14 6 



23,984 11 



ICost £444,886 14 1 



