Volume 23 - Section XII - ElectricCanadian.com

GENERAL INDEX540-1 ; forestry reserves and their extent,541 ; province s primacy in, 541 ;unexploitedareas and their estimated productiveness, 543-4 ; water-power potentialities, 544 ;statistics of employment, 545 varieties;of timber on private woodlands, 545-6 ;improvident management, 546 ; danger ofexhaustion, 546-7 ;conservation measures,547-8 ; proposed reforestation of uncultivated lands, 548 ; rapidity of second growth,548 ;fire and its causes, 548-9 fire ; protection, 549-50 ; damage done by insects, 550 ;Provincial Forestry Service, 550-1.New Brunswick : character of forests,597-8 ;first timber-laden ship crossesAtlantic (1700), 13 60 ; dispute over reservation of white pine, 175-6 ; proposal to restrict cut to those holding licence fromlieutenant-governor, 194 ; history and progress of timber trade, 14 598-604 value of;stave exports (1821), 633 ;first steam sawmill built at St John (1822), 13 195 ;riotson the Miramichi, 194-5 ;table of squaretimber statistics (1821-1900), 14 601 ;usedin shipbuilding, 602 ; early history of sawmillingindustry, 602-4 ; first deal sawn(1819) and first shipment to England (1822),603; total value of forest products (1910),614 ;amount and value of lumber, lath, andshingles (1910), 614; different species oflumber and number of board feet cut (1910),615 ;need for conservation, 615-16 ; aperiod of reckless destruction, 617 ;administration, 617-18 ;conditions of lease oncrown lands, 493 ; points of difference fromforest products of Nova Scotia, 629 ; pulpwoodproduction and its value (1909), 631 ;object in prohibiting export of pulpwood,632 ; shingles and lath statistics (1910), 633 ;statistics of stumpage on crown lands andtransatlantic shipments (1906-11), 618 ;stumpage collections (1911), 618; estimatedcut of province (1911), 618 ;Miramichi fireand subsequent second growths, 618-19 ;soil impoverishment through forest fires, 619 ;fire protection, 619 ; proposed forestry commission, 619-20 ; prevention of over-cutting,620 ; conifers, 624-7 ; hardwoods, 613-14,627-9. :Masting masts first cut for Frenchnavy, 13 60, 14 599 ;for British navy, 13139, 14 599 ;mast-cutters threatened byIndians, 13 139 ; methods employed, 14 599-600; size and value of timbers, 600-1 ; termsof a contract cited, 600 and n. ; reservations,616-17 ;friction caused by reservations, 13175-6. Lumbering its cost in 1825, 14:613 ; the camps, 604-5 ; evolution ofmodern camp, 605-6 ; preliminary surveyand cruise, 606-7 ; auctioning of leases,lease renewals, and stumpage charges, 607 ;wood operations, 607-12 ;cost of yarding,hauling, and driving, 608-10 ;steam loghauler,609-10 ;a log-driving company andits methods, 611-12; approaching demandfor steam haulage, 612-13 ; growth of lumberindustry, 13 182-3.Nova Scotia :early development of timberindustry, 13 254-5 ; leasing conditions oncrown lands, 14 475 ; lumber, lath, andshingles production (1910), 614 ;total valueof forest products (1910), 614; board feetcut (1910), 615 forest ; survey, 621-4 ; forestareas and their divisions, 623 ; lumber cutand supply, 623 ;rate of growth of spruce,G23-4 ; acreage of timber lands belongingto crown (1913), 624; differ from those ofNew Brunswick, 629 ;chief commercialspecies, 629-30 ; pulpwood production andvalue (1909), 631 ; shingles and lath production (1910), 633 ; timber resources ofCape Breton, 623, 629.Prince Edward, Island :lumber, lath,and shingles production (1910), 614; totalvalue of forest products, 614 ; species oflumber and board feet cut, 615 ;statisticsof shingles and lath industries, 633.Minor Forest Industries of Maritime Provinces :maple sugar, 630 ;naval stores,630-1 ; pulpwood production and value(1909), 631 ; spoolwood, 632 ; shingles andlath, 632-3 ; cooperage, 633-4 ;tan bark andtannin extracts, 634 ;Canada balsam, 634.Ontario, 18 585-99 ;as a revenueproducer, 585-6 ;lumber cut and value(1910), 586 ;revenues of Prussia comparedwith Ontario, 586 ; forest area and itsdistribution, 586-9 ; depletion of originalforests, 589 ; regulations before Confederation, 589-93 ;reservations during Frenchregime and for British navy, 589 ; licencesystem introduced (1826), 589 ; squaretimber trade, 590-1 ;effect on lumberingof land grant abuses, 690 ;Crown TimberAct of 1849, 591 ;sawn timber trade, 591 ;development of licence system, 591-2 ;fraudulent exploitation, 592 ;a shortsighted forest policy, 592 ;denudation ofbest pine lands, 592-3 ; preservation sinceConfederation, 593-8 ;Ontario Tree PlantingAct (1883), 593; Arbour Day, 594; firerangingsystem introduced (1878), 594;recent legislation, 595 ;national parks,595 ; commission of 1897, 595-6 ; permanent reserves created, 596 ; reforestation ofwaste lands, 597 ; power to exempt woodlands from taxation, 597 ; faculty of forestryestablished, 598 ;advance in rates, groundrents, and dues, 598 ; prohibition of exportof unmanufactured timber, 598 ; conditionsof sales, 598 ;total land area, acreagesalienated, under licence, and unlicensed,598 ; present stand of pine, 598 ; pulpwoodresources, 698-9 ; ravages by fire, 599 ;revenue for 1911, 17 217.Prairie Provinces : forest reserves andforest areas, 20 325-6, 557, 601.British Columbia, 22 487-521 ; extentof timbered water-front, 487 ; precipitation,487 ;rate of tree growth in moist sections,487-8 ;areas east of the Cascades, 488 ;favourably situated for transportation, 488 ;qualities of Douglas fir, 488-90 ;its averageyield per acre, 520 ;red cedar, 490- 1 ;alienation of resources in other countries,491-2 ; timber leases, 492-3 ;timber landsthrown open, 494-5 ; reversal of policy and