354 Canada. 



While by the change of standards and by local needs 

 forest areas may become commercially valuable which 

 were not so considered before, and thereby the above 

 figures may be eventually increased, from the stand- 

 point of valuable lumber supply for the world trade, 

 the above named area may be assumed to set the limit. 



A computation based on slender information has 

 placed the country with open woodlands in the central 

 region as exceeding 280,000 square miles. The Super- 

 intendent of Forestry estimates that 150,000 square 

 miles of this area might contain nearly 200 billion feet 

 merchantable timber. 



The southeastern territory south of the Height of 

 Land was originally all densely wooded. From it a 

 farm area of round 25 million acres has been cut out, 

 less than 7 percent of the land area included. Espe- 

 cially the south-western half of Ontario, between the 

 Great Lakes, which contains the most fertile land, is 

 densely settled, as also the shores of the St. Lawrence. 

 A large part of the remaining forest area is cut over 

 and culled, especially for pine; the amount of White 

 Pine remaining according to estimates made in 1895 

 would now be less than 20 billion feet. 



The Statistician of the Dominion in his report made 

 in that year comes to the conclusion that "the first 



the Height of Land, of 163 million acres, which by another mathematical calcula- 

 tion is made to be able to furnish over 65 billion feet of lumber, besides over 600 

 million cords of pulp and 370 million railroad ties ; but under present conditionsi 

 owing to topography and character of the timber it cannot be utilized and its 

 commercial value is altogether problematical. This calculation would leave as 

 really or potentially available forest land 46 million acres in addition to over 6 

 million on farms. It is claimed that this forest area .may still produce some 110> 

 billion feet of coniferous and 1,6 billion feet of hardwoods, or S500 feet to the 

 acre. 



