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Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 256

The output of sawn timber was returned at the census of 1906 at 336,470,930 super feet. It is noteworthy that the estimated capacity of these mills is in the aggregate more than double the present output.

The Future. The output of the sawmills represents an area of 41,000 acres. To th-s must be added a certain percentage for accidents such as bush fires and other causes of denudation. Now the State Forest Department planted last year 1,435 acres, and the year before nearly 1,700 acres. It is something to know that the department has raised some thirty two million trees since it first began to plant, and that it has in its nurseries a total of fifteen millions of young trees ready for planting out, or nearly so, of two to three years old. But it is not enough to overtake the wants of the future which, if something is not done at once will have to be satisfied