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doors, windows, barrels, salmon and fruit boxes. 

 It also provides good material for paper making. 

 The Western Black or Englemann's Spruce is 

 also an excellent timber tree, the material cut 

 from it being tough and durable. Hemlock is 

 found in the coast region in large quantities ; 

 but, being used for the same purposes as Douglas 

 Fir, it will not come into general use till that 

 timber is exhausted. A White Pine (P. monti- 

 cola) gives a valuable timber, but the quantity 

 is limited. Among the hard woods the principal 

 kinds are Maple, Alder and Arbutus, which 

 furnish beautiful material for furnitjire and 

 cabinet work. Nearly all the latter class of trees 

 are found in river valleys and on good soil, 

 occupied, or hkely to be occupied, for settlement 

 as the population of the province increases. 

 The forest wealth of British Columbia Kes in its 

 conifers, its magnificent Firs, Cedars, Spruces 

 and Pines ; and probably no country in the world 

 has greater supplies of this class of timber. 

 Already large shipments of Oregon or Douglas 

 Fir are regularly made from Burrard Inlet to 

 AustraUa, " and as the Scandanavian suppHes 

 begin to fail, the demands on British Columbia 

 will be very heavy." 



Cape of Good Hope. The forest lands of the 

 Cape under the Crown amount to little more 



