Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1920 — TWO-THIRDS OF CANADA’S FORESTS ARE DESTROYED [ARTICLE]

TWO-THIRDS OF CANADA’S FORESTS ARE DESTROYED

Two-thirds of Canada’s forests have ■been destroyed by fire in the Tast seventy-five years, according to figures of the foresty department. The amount of timber burned would have supplied the world for 450 years at the present rate of consumption and represents a loss of one thousand million dollars. Canada still has 1,900,000 square miles of forests. The forests of British Columbia constitute one of the two greatest tracts of commercial timber left in life world. The other is in Russia. With anarchy in-Russia, British Columbia has become the world’s chief source of timber supply. Some of the largest sawmills in the world are located along the Grand Trunk Paeifie Railway.