Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-02-23
2foriculflrral Department
LUMBER,

The Quebec Chronicle gives extracts
from an article written by Mr.. Little o.
Montreal in answer to Mr.. Wait of Mich.
igan, concerning the lumber supply Of
Canada, in which it appears that
the forests of the Dominion have been
much more thoroughly explored and
numbered in than was generally supposed.
Mr.. Wait says on the subject: 81 be-
lieve that the enormous amount of l00,-
100000 of feet would scarce cover the
sum total of the different species of pines,
frs and spruces embraced within the
Dominion" To which the writer takes
exceptions, saying that Canada was
an exporter of lumber and shingles to a
large extent more than half century
before log foated on the Muskegon.
1.-The only pure sections of any moment
in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec
are Georgian Bay in the former, and the
valley of the Ottawa which divides
them. The spruce is confined chiefly to
the valley of the St. Lawrence below
Montreal, and what is called the East.
ern Townships, and there is scarcely
river, stream or creek within the prov
inces but has Deen explored, from their
mouths to their sources, by the lumber
men, and, with few exceptions below
Quebec, have been numbered on for years.
In fact the timber sections of Canada
are as we'll known as these of Michigan,
and question if lumberman could be
found in the country who would give it
as his opinion that we could supply the
present yearly rate of consumption,
l,O0O,000.000, for the period of % years,
instead of 100; and all we have would
not give a three years supply to the
States. Ottawa is the only extensive
pine region we have, and. with a few
exceptions, where the owners preserved
their limits for the saw-mill, and some
government sales, which took place re-
Gently on the head-waters of that region
has been run over, time and again. for
square timber, and they are now rapidly
stripping it of what is left for the saw.
mills; and, as we will, in a very few
years from now, be called on to supply
the eastern and middle States with near.
~ their whole consumption. am con-
WINGED that we will not have as much
pine left as will supply our own local
wants for dozen years after the close
of the next decade" Mr. Wait sums
up the supply of the northern and
southern States of the Union, giving a
grand total of los, 900, 100000 feet, as
follows -
- ''''''''''''..''''....... 1500,000OOO
-, ''''''''''-'--'..-.....- 100000 600
pennsylvania. .......................7 OOnoOOOno
-, -'''''''''-..'........... 500000OGOOO
- '''''''''.'........-..... 1S,OO0OO0OOO
- -'''''''................ l6,O0OOO0OOO
'HslHa'''' '''.................. 7,OOOODOOOO
7i1H\ 'elo" pihe)...-............. l5OOOlOO0O On
oonth Carolina yellow pine ......... 9OOnHoOoo
North Carolna(yellow pine) ....... l6OOoOoo noo
flonda(yeHoW (ptne). Ion Onoooo
georgia yellow pine 5no on 200 |
Iotal'..'-.-.... Observation-Disclosures. l05 A4oonoooo
The writer continues. in Substance |
as follows: This gives the whole sunnlv
OF the United States east of the Pacific |
States and Territories. The amount of
sawed lumber supplied for the annual
consumption of the Northern States. in.
Guiding what is furnished by the South
and Canada, is 6,5OO,OOO,OOO, feet to
winch may be added 5OO,OOO.OOO feet
ior the square, round and fat timber
that made into shingles, and the produce
OF the small miles in the North for local
wants making the total consumption
hoOO'O00,O0O feet, showing just fifteen
years supply for the northern States
alone, not leaving foot for the soutb
either for home use or export If but
I'VE per cent, yearly increase be added.
the North will use up all the timber of
both North and South in less than twelve
years. allowing what is now received
from Canada to fill up the deficiency
which must, in the nature of things.
ARISE from the innumerable miles scat
tered over the country, outside the tim.
Der sections, being thrown idle for want
If saw stock.