Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1911-1912 . out4,900,000,000 board feet of lumber worth at the mill $80,700,000. Twenty differentspecies make up this total, only six of which, spruce, white pine, Douglas fir, hemlock,cedar and red pine, reach a cut of over one hundred million per year. These six speciesconstitute 86-5 per cent of the total lumber production of Canada. The relative stand-ing of the different timbers contributing to the lumber supply of this country is shown REPORT OF THE SCPEIUXTEXDEXT OF FORESTRY 21 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 25 in Diagram 11. rSpruee, which has been the l
Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1911-1912 . out4,900,000,000 board feet of lumber worth at the mill $80,700,000. Twenty differentspecies make up this total, only six of which, spruce, white pine, Douglas fir, hemlock,cedar and red pine, reach a cut of over one hundred million per year. These six speciesconstitute 86-5 per cent of the total lumber production of Canada. The relative stand-ing of the different timbers contributing to the lumber supply of this country is shown REPORT OF THE SCPEIUXTEXDEXT OF FORESTRY 21 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 25 in Diagram 11. rSpruee, which has been the leader this last two or three years, in 1909formed per cent of the total, white pine per cent, Douglas fir per cent,hemlock 7-9 per cent, cedar 5 per cent and red pine 4-4 per cent. DIAGRAM No. 2 LUMBER PRQDUGTiO!BY SPECIES. 1909 SPECi ES SPRUCE WHITE PINE DOUGLAS FIR HEMLOCK CEDAR RED PINE BALSAM TAMARACK BIRCH MAPLE BASSWOOD ELM JACK PINE YELLOW PJNE ASH BEECH POPLAR OAK HICKORY WALNUT MILLIONS OF BOARD FEET Z50 500 750 lOOO 1E50 I500. (-Soft woods constituted about 94 per cent of the lumber cut in 1907, compared with6 per cent supplied by hard woods. The only Canadian hardwoods, of which over20,000,000 feet are cut per year, are birch, maple, basswood and elm.^ 22 DEPARTMEXr OF THE IXTERWR vli 2 GEORGE v., A. 1912 (The valuable hardwoods, oak, hickory and walnut, are almost extinct in total cut of these three species in 1909 was less than 10,000,000 feet, and was lessthan one-fifth as great as the quantities of these necessary woods imported in that yearfrom the United States. The relative lumber i^roduction of the different provinces is graphically representedin Diagram III. DIAGRAM No. 3 LUMBER Production By PROVJNCEIS - \30S PROVINCES ONTARIO BRITISH COLUMBIA QUEBEC NEW BRUNSWICK NOVA SCOTIA SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA ALBEIRTA PRINCE EDWARD I. Ml LLIONS OF BOARD FEET 250 500 T50 lOOO i-aso \soo SiBtfWfei r LTwo-fifths of the lumber of Canada is produce
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