. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipi6 765 Resources of the Upper Ottawa By R. O. Sweezey This is neither the "boost" of a "spu- rious optimist" nor the wail of a morbid pessimist (both of which classes we are more or less afflicted with), but is a plain, unvarnished statement of a few facts taken from the writer's field note book. Great as are the better known re- sources, in timber and water powers, of the Lower Ottawa region, com- prised within the area drained below Lake Temiskaming, they do not
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipi6 765 Resources of the Upper Ottawa By R. O. Sweezey This is neither the "boost" of a "spu- rious optimist" nor the wail of a morbid pessimist (both of which classes we are more or less afflicted with), but is a plain, unvarnished statement of a few facts taken from the writer's field note book. Great as are the better known re- sources, in timber and water powers, of the Lower Ottawa region, com- prised within the area drained below Lake Temiskaming, they do not excell the 10,000 square miles of undeveloped country in the Upper Ottawa region, extending from Lake Temiskaming to the Grand Lake Victorian Basin. Whilst the Lower Ottawa has for generations been pouring out its wealth of pine timber to the world's markets the Upper Ottawa has remain- ed untouched because spruce and not white pine has always been the pre- dominant forest there. To-day there remains very little white pine in the Lower Ottawa, or indeed anywhere in Canada. Spruce there remains in abundance, but in localities where pine has been so plentiful, as in the Lower Ottawa, the spruce is naturally not growing in such pure luxurious stands as in the regions where pine has never predominated. Rich Virgin Spruce. Thus we find to-day the Upper Ot- tawa Valley, which was never much of a pine country, a rich virgin spruce for- est abounding in water powers, great and small, and ready to offer up its re- sources at a time when the pulp and paper industry is preparing to take a world lead in Canada. To anyone who has not cruised in- land from the rivers of the Upper Ot- tawa the wealth of spruce is unbeliev- able. Casual observers of the morbid pessimist class have been known here as elsewhere to cry calamitously, like the car window observer, because the whole timber wealth of the region did not roll out to the river banks for in-. (Courtesy Grand Trunk Railway System.) ON THE
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