. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ID THE CJ^TJLIDJL XvUMBKRI^JLlSr August, 1900 rock and muskeg, containing very little timber, and the remaining one-third as timbered land. In this vast extent of country the white and black spruce, now becoming so valuable for pulp, are everywhere likely to be met with, as they extend from beyond its southern limit up to the verge ot the timber line, and are the varieties found skirting the tundra of the arctic regions. The other varieties in this northern fores
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ID THE CJ^TJLIDJL XvUMBKRI^JLlSr August, 1900 rock and muskeg, containing very little timber, and the remaining one-third as timbered land. In this vast extent of country the white and black spruce, now becoming so valuable for pulp, are everywhere likely to be met with, as they extend from beyond its southern limit up to the verge ot the timber line, and are the varieties found skirting the tundra of the arctic regions. The other varieties in this northern forest are the larch or tamarac, the Banksian pine, balsam fir, aspen, balsam poplar, canoe birch, willow and alder. The next to the notice is the belt along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and west for getting the product out. Being along the valley of the Fraser River the whole distance, and extending only twenty miles on each side ot it, the facilities for floating the logs to tide-water are apparent. Of the district between the "dry belt" and the summit of the Rocky Mountains Professor John Macoun says :— " Descending from the Rocky Mountains sum- mit by the Kicking Horse Pass, we meet the west- ern cedar as a mere shrub, but in the Columbia Valley it comes a gigantic tree, often having a diameter of ten feet in the valley of the Beaver creek. Ascending the slope on the west side of. Lumbering in Canada—A Log Dump. of the prairies. The varieties are similar to that in the northern belt, with a few added species, such as the mountain fir (pinus albicaulis ) and the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga Douglasii). THE RAILWAY BELT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Next we have the railway belt in British Columbia, above referred to. This tract of country was granted by the province of British Columbia to the Dominion as a contribution to the latter for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The timber in this belt is divided into two parts by the " dry belt ,"
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