. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. beech. There HE Restigouche district differs from those of the St. John and Miramichi in that while the latter have reached their highest limit of production the Restigouche cut of timber is still increasing. For there is a great deal of virgin forest on the Restigouche waters, capable of producing a much larger annual cut than the figures of p
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. beech. There HE Restigouche district differs from those of the St. John and Miramichi in that while the latter have reached their highest limit of production the Restigouche cut of timber is still increasing. For there is a great deal of virgin forest on the Restigouche waters, capable of producing a much larger annual cut than the figures of past years. Spruce and cedar predominate,but there is also some pine and a good deal of birch, maple, and is practically no hemlock in this region. John. Thera are logging camps on the Restigouche and Tobiqui;, not more than five miles apart, but the logs reach the sea at points several hundred miles apart. The Upsalquitrh reaches down close to the Nepisiguit. Bearing in mind what has been said of the reach of the various streams, and their tributaries in other districts, it will be seen that New Brunswick is intersected in a most remarkable maimer. The Muskoka Lumber Co., which owns over four hundred square miles of timber limits on the Restigouche and Kedgewick, and stretching down towards the Upper KILGOUK brilVKS' KX CAJIPnSLLTO^N. Nowhere else in the province is cedar so plentiful, and at present over one-half of the limber floated down the river is cedar. In addition there are numerous small mills scattered through the county cutting cedar shingles, and it would be a conservative estimate to place tlie cut of shingles in Restigouche Couiitv last year, at nearly 200,000,000. All of these are exported, some by rail and some by water, to the I'nited States market. Of the logs from which shingles were cut last vcar, not more than half were brought down the river, the others being cut near the line of railway. As the heavier spruce timber on Resti- gouche waters
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