. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. .'6 THE: LUMBERMAN November, 1896 Howe Sound ; the principal inlets of the coast as far as Knight's Inlet ; and on the islands in the Gulf of Georgia— notably Cracow, Valdez and Harwick. North of Knight's Inlet, as already stated, comes the cypress and consider- able spruce that will yet be largely utilized in commerce. One feature of the forests of the coast are their density. As high as 500,000 feet of timber have been taken from a single acre, which seems almo
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. .'6 THE: LUMBERMAN November, 1896 Howe Sound ; the principal inlets of the coast as far as Knight's Inlet ; and on the islands in the Gulf of Georgia— notably Cracow, Valdez and Harwick. North of Knight's Inlet, as already stated, comes the cypress and consider- able spruce that will yet be largely utilized in commerce. One feature of the forests of the coast are their density. As high as 500,000 feet of timber have been taken from a single acre, which seems almost incredible to a lumber- man of the east, where twenty thousand is considered not a bad average. There are over fifty saw mills in the province, big and a century. Its location on Burrard Inlet is well chosen, both for its extensive foreign shipments and on account of having the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks running through its shipping yard. The premises occupy several acres of ground. The mill and machinery have undergone many changes since its inception, and to-day we see one of the most modern and best equipped mills on the coast. Eighteen boilers and six engines furnish the motive power. The capacity of the mill is 200,000 feet per day, giving employment to from 150 to 200 workmen. The wharfage is sufficiently. LUMBER PILED FOR RAIL SHIPMENT—HASTINGS MILL, VANCOUVER, B. C. small, with a daily capacity of about 3,000,000 feet ; over thirty are on the coast, and have a daily capacity of be- tween 1,750,000 and 2,000,000 feet, but this limit has never been reached, the annual cut running between 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 feet. Various estimates have been made of the amount of timber in sight. These range between 40,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000 feet, a guess that is only practicable as showing the possible limits of supply as extremely wide. The acreage of timber under lease is about 1,175 square miles, and the total area of forest and woodland is put down by the D
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