Canada's Timber.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 23, 4 June 1913, Page 51

Canada's Timber.

There arc probably about five hundred million acres of forest land in Canada, one-half of which may be covered with merchantable timber, is the statement of Mr. K. IT. Campbell, Dominion Director of Forestry. An estimate of the stand is only guesswork, as none of the Governments concerned in the administration, except Nova Scotia, has made a complete

survey to ascertain the timber resources. The quantity may be, at present standing suitable for manufacture into lumber, AOO to 700 billion feet, and the quantity suitable for pulp-wood is indefinitely large. The forest products of Canada annually are worth 106,000.000 dollars, and this volume of trade, second only to that in agricultural products, adds a large sum to the annual wealth of the Dominion and feeds the trade demands which produce the federal revenues.