. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 506 Canadian Fort-slry journal, December, 1919 W:.. Northern Ontario's Forest Wealth. A log jam along the T. &. ; i. liaihvay. THE LINE-UP OF LAND IN SASKATCHEWAN The following has been worked out for the Canadian Forestry Journal as a reasonable div- ision of the land area of the province of Sas- katchewan, which totals one million acres: One-third prairie, south of the main line, One-third wooded, between main line of and Churchill river. One-third barren, north of Churchill river. This, of course
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 506 Canadian Fort-slry journal, December, 1919 W:.. Northern Ontario's Forest Wealth. A log jam along the T. &. ; i. liaihvay. THE LINE-UP OF LAND IN SASKATCHEWAN The following has been worked out for the Canadian Forestry Journal as a reasonable div- ision of the land area of the province of Sas- katchewan, which totals one million acres: One-third prairie, south of the main line, One-third wooded, between main line of and Churchill river. One-third barren, north of Churchill river. This, of course, does not mdicate absolute lines for there are considerable agricultural areas inside the wooded zone as well as a cer- tain amount of natural forest land in what has been designated as prairie. However, the tab- ulation will stand as substantially correct, there- by indicating that only thirty or forty per cent at most of the entire province of Saskatchewan is adapted to agriculture. Of the fifty million acres inside the central section south of the Churchill river, it would probably be a most conservative estimate that 25 to 35 million acres are absolute forest land, quite unfit for farms. The present area of the forest reserves in Saskatchewan is six million acres which falls short of including even one- quarter of the provincial area that must be handled for timber production or be regarded as permanent barrens. As illustrating the enormous reduction in the standing timber of Northern Satkatchewan it may be pointed out that only 750,000 acres out of 25 to 35 million acres of natural forest land are to-day bearing commercial timber. The economic effect of this reduction in raw mater- ials has already been seen in the closing of the largest sawmills of Saskatchewan and the pros- pect of still further reduction of sawmill activ- ities. It is estimated that when logging and sawing in Northern Saskatchewan was at its height about $2,000,000 a year was circulated in pay envelope
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