The cut of shingles was as follows: have not suffered from war conditions. Al though labor conditions have been disturbed and the cost of raw materials has increased, the American demand for pulp has increased and the difficulty of obtaining it from Scandinavian sources has increased the over-seas demand.
The total number of telegraph and tele phone poles sold in 1915 is reported as 17_9,248; at an average price of $2.52 each. Exactly 67.4 per cent of them were of eastern cedar, 11.1 per cent of western cedar, 9.3 per cent of tam arack, 5.6 per cent of spruce, and 2.3 per cent of jack pine — the remaining 4.3 per cent being of fir, hemlock, chestnut and oak.
The total number of cross-ties sold in 1915 is given at 7,592,530, and their average price at 44 cents each. Jack pine made up 32.4 per cent of the total, eastern cedar 25.8 per cent, hem lock 11.1 per cent, tamarack 8.3 per cent, east ern spruce 6.7 per cent, Douglas fir 5.3 per cent and oak 4.3 per cent — the remaining 6.1 per cent being made up of yellow birch, chest nut, maple, elm and western cedar. It is worthy of note that the total number of ties sold in 1914 was 19,403,646, or more than two and a half times that for 1915.
The following figures show the values of the exports of forest products for the year ending 31 March 1916: The total production of 3089,470,000 shingles was valued at $5,734,852, which gives an aver age value of $1.86 per M. Cedar made up 90.5 per cent of the total cut; with spruce, white pine and jack pine next in order.
Pulpwood, Poles and Since 1908 the consumption of wood for the manufacture of pulp has increased almost threefold, and is certain to increase still more. The annexed
table shows the consumption and average price per cord for the year 1915: The manufactured articles consisted mainly of pulpwood, saw logs, ties, posts, poles, piling, firewood, tanbark, square and waney timber, planks, boards and scantling, and the manu factured articles of wood pulp, furniture, bar rels, etc.; the value of both amounting to $62,790,840.
Total Value of Forest The following table is based partly upon actual sta tistics and partly upon the estimates of the Dominion forestry branch, and shows the esti mated value of different classes of forest prod ucts for the calendar years 1913 to 1915, inclusive: These figures show that 49.6 per cent of the pulpwood was used in Quebec, 34.3 per cent in Ontario, 8.2 percent in New Brunswick, 6.4 per cent in British Columbia and 1.5 per cent in Nova Scotia; while the total consumption of 1,405,856 cords is an increase of 14.8 per cent over that for 1914. Spruce made up 71 per cent of the total, balsam fir 21 per cent, hem lock 4 per cent, jack pine 3 per cent and poplar 1 per cent. Of mechanical pulp the amount produced was 743,770 tons, of sulphite 235,474 tons, of sulphate 92,404 tons and of soda pulp 3,150 tons. This makes a total of 1,074,805 tons, which is an increase of 15 per cent over the production of 1914. The manufacture of pulpwood is one of the few industries, not engaged in the production of munitions, which This table gives a fairly accurate idea of the magnitude and stability of the forest in dustries of Canada.