Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV. Forests

Collection:: Economics Books

FORESTS—-STATISTICS 61 damage every year; and, as in all northern forests, the growth in the volume of the trees is very slow, with consequent small increment. The Forest Service is making an inventory of these forests so that they may be gradually utilized as needs require. The timber mn these forests consists chiefly of spruce, balsam fir, poplar, and banksian pine. The quantity per acre varies between three and fifteen cords, mostly of pulpwood. This reserve can furnish millions of cords of pulpwood, and, as there are considerable water-powers on most of the streams, the future may see a number of pulp and paper mills established in the region. FOREST AND WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES Lumbering.—Large and important industries are based upon the raw materials obtained from the forests of Quebec. In 1927 according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, there were 542,073 thousand feet Soard measure of lumber cut in the province. valued at $14,564,387. Hauling logs in Quebec Other products and by-products of the sawmill, such as lath, shingles, cooperage stock, etc., brought the total value of products of the lumber industry in 1926 to $22,802,029. The net value of products of the pulp and paper industry for 1927 was $152,792,644 an excess of $11,724,540 over the value of products of the pulp and paper industry in 1926. The total value of the primary forest products of the province including logs for lumber, pulpwood, ties, poles, piles, firewood, mine timbers, etc.,

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