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 
mniles 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 870 million railroad ties; but under present conditions» 
owing to topography and ch er 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 5 
million on farms, It is claimed that this forest area may still produce some 110 
billion feet of coniferous and 1.5 billlon feet of hardwoods, or 2500 feet to the 
acre, 
