West Australian Timber.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 55

West Australian Timber.

A recent' report fiom the Premier of Western Australia to the Agent-General gives striking evidence of the immense forest wealth of that colony. The total wooded area of the colony is estimated at 98,000,000 acres, and the extent of merchantable timber has been reckoned to be, approximately, as follows ]arrah mainly (with blackbutt and red gum interspersed), 8,000,000 acres ; karri, 1,200,000 acres , tuart, 200,000 acres ; wandoo (white gum) and allied timbers, 7,000,000 acres ; gum yate, sandalwood, and jamwood, 4,000,000 acres ; total 20,400,000 acres. This represents a forest area of merchantable timber four times greater than the whole area of Wales. The total value of t'mber exported from Western Australia for ten years ended 1904 was £4., 800,000.