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History of the Lumber Industry of America History of The Lumber Industry of America By JAMES ELLIOTT DEFEBAUGH (Editor of the American Lumberman) Volume I SECOND EDITION 0/,i\l ^v CHICAGO r THE AMERICAN LUMBERMAN 1906 Copyright 1906 by THE AMERICAN LUMBERMAN. PREFACE. Industry and commerce have received in the past but incidental recognition from the historian. He has sought to trace the history of peoples in the political movements in which they have been involved. The successful prosecution of war has appeared to him more notable than the continued preservation of peace. The achievements of diplo- mats and warriors have appeared more vital than the successes of men of business. The growing respect engendered abroad by a nation's army and navy has seemed a more attractive theme for discourse than the increase of its trade in the markets of the world. Despite this neglect, commerce always has been a controlling factor in making the world's history. It always has been more important that men should live than that they should live under any particular government or at any particular place. The search for livelihood has guided the migrations of races and been the inciting cause of discov- ery, settlement and conquest. Encouragement, protection and control of trade have been the most frequent subjects of legislation. It has been within recent years only that the world at large has accorded the manufacturer and the merchant a position coordinate with that of the warrior and the statesman. Out of this new appreciation have come histories of particular industrial movements and of numerous branches of industry ; but, notwithstanding the influence of the forests on New World development and the importance of the present lumber industry of the United States, Canada and the Latin countries to the south, no comprehensive history of the lumber industry of America ever has been compiled. The were in search of early explorers gold, but they found trees ; and the earliest exports from the New World to the Old World were products of the forest. Such products have continued for more than four hundred years to be of conspicuous importance. In even the Twentieth Century the value of forest manufactures exported from British America is exceeded only by the value of the combined products of agriculture, grazing and allied pursuits. Some of the Central Amer- ican countries derive the larger share of their incomes from their forest .products. iii iv PREFACE. While a history of the lumber business is justified fully by its im- portance, records are meager and its compilation is, therefore, difficult. In the preparation of this work the sources drawn upon have been so multitudinous as to render impracticable individual acknowledgment or complete reference to authority. Government reports and records of the United States and other American countries have been read dili- gently and every important fact concerning the industry has been ex- tracted; thousands of individuals have been interviewed; the files of the American Lumberman and its predecessors, the Northwestern Lum- berman and The Timberman, which have been the most fertile sources of information, have been carefully examined, and the files of other lumber journals American, Canadian and English have yielded their share of information. Grateful acknowledgment is extended by the editor to the many individuals in private and public life who have interested themselves in this work and who have assisted in supplying many of the facts that go to make up this history. The compilation of the matter incorporated in this work has involved the expenditure of a vast amount of labor a if it shall and large sum of money ; but, prove to be of interest and value to lumbermen and students of lumbering and shall supply a miss- ing link in the industrial and commercial history of the world, its aim will have been fully attained and the ambition of its editor and its publishers will have been realized. J. E. DEFEBAUGH. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY AND EARLY SETTLEMENT. PAGES 1-10. FORESTS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN EXISTENCE (1) WOODED SHORES OF AMERICA INVITED SETTLEMENT (2) THE FIRST SETTLER THE FIRST LUMBERMAN (2) DISCOVERY AND EARLY EXPLORATIONS (3) PAPAL DIVISION OF UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES (4) THE FIRST COLONIES (5) BELIZE TIMBER RIGHTS AN EARLY SUB- JECT OF DISPUTE (6) COLONIZATION OF SOUTH AMERICA (6) DATES ON WHICH IMPORTANT AMERICAN CITIES WERE FOUNDED (7) FOREST CONDITIONS FOUND BY THE DISCOVERERS OF AMER- ICA (7) FORESTED AREAS OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (8) FORESTAL CONDITION OF SOUTH AMERICA (9) SUMMARY OF TOTAL AREA AND FORESTED AREA OF THE AMERICAS (9). CHAPTER II. NORTH AMERICAN FOREST GEOGRAPHY. PAGES 11-45. TREE DISTRIBUTION (11) INFLUENCE GOVERNING TREE DISTRIBU- TION (13) CONDITIONS GOVERNING TREE GROWTH (14) GEO- LOGICAL INFLUENCES (15) INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGES (16) PRESENT INFLUENCES (19) FORESTED AND NONFORESTED AREAS (22) COMMERCIAL TREE SPECIES OF AMERICA (25). CHAPTER HI. LABRADOR AND NEWFOUNDLAND. PAGES 46-55. HISTORY AND PHYSICAL FEATURES OF LABRADOR (46) HISTORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (48) PHYSICAL FEATURES OF NEWFOUNDLAND (49) TREE SPECIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND (50) LUMBER INDUS- TRY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (53) CROWN LAND TIMBER REGULA- TIONS (53). vi TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. CANADA ITS COMMERCIAL FORESTS. PAGES 56-64. TIMBERED REGIONS AND TREE SPECIES (56) HARDWOOD RESOURCES (57) WHITE PINE (57) SPRUCE (58) LEADING LUMBER DISTRICTS (59) WATER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (59) FOREST AREA BY PROVINCES (61) TIMBER STUMPAGE OF CANADA (64). CHAPTER V. CANADA FORESTRY AND FOREST RESERVES. PAGES 65-77. CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION (66) FOREST FIRE LEGISLATION (67) OFFICERS OF CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION (69) SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY (69) FEDERAL FOREST RESERVES (71) ONTARIO FOREST RESERVES (75) LAURENTIDES NATIONAL PARK (76) LIST OF FOREST RESERVES (77.) CHAPTER VI. CANADA PRODUCTION AND TRADE. PAGES 78-90. FOREST PRODUCTS OF CANADA IN 1881 AND 1891 (78) CENSUS OF 1901 (79) AREA OF FORESTS AND WOODLANDS (83) EXPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCTS (84) EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES (88) WOOD PULP PRODUCTION (88) EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (88) IMPORTS OF HARDWOODS (89). CHAPTER VII. CANADA COOPERAGE STOCK INDUSTRY. PAGES 91-96. EXPORTS OF STAVES AND STAVE BOLTS (91) EARLY STAVE INDUS- TRY (92) PRESENT COOPERAGE STOCK MANUFACTURE (93) THE HOOP INDUSTRY (95). CHAPTER VIII. QUEBEC TIMBER HISTORY, ADMINISTRATION. PAGES 97-113. QUEBEC AND ONTARIO ONE COLONY (97) FRENCH SEIGNIORIAL SYS- TEM (98) FRENCH TIMBER CUTTING SYSTEM (99) EARLY TABLE OF CONTENTS. vii ENGLISH REGULATIONS (100) EFFECT OF BRITISH IMPORT DUES (101) TRADE EARLY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (102) EARLY CANADIAN LEGISLATION (104) FIRST CULLERS' ACT (105) ORIGIN OF CROWN TIMBER DUES (105) LICENSES TO CUT TIMBER (106) THE FIRST CROWN TIMBER ACT (108). CHAPTER IX. QUEBEC PRESENT CONDITIONS. PAGES 114-123. AREA OF FOREST AND WOODLAND (114) NORTHERN QUEBEC (115) TIMBER LICENSES AND DUES (115) EXPORT TRADE OF THE CITY OF QUEBEC (116) EXPORT TRADE OF MONTREAL (117) SHIPPING INTERESTS (118) EXPORTS AND STOCKS ON HAND (119) CHARACTER OF QUEBEC PRODUCT (122) STATISTICS OF WHITE PINE TIMBER (123). CHAPTER X. QUEBEC CULLING. PAGES 124-132. ORIGIN OF QUEBEC INSPECTION (124) TEXT OF CULLERS' ACT (125). CHAPTER XI. QUEBEC PERSONNEL. PAGES 133-153. CHAPTER XII. ONTARIO EARLY HISTORY. PAGES 154-171. UPPER CANADA FROM 1791 TO 1867 (154) PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT (155) THF PIONEER OF THE OTTAWA VALLEY (155) SETTLE- MENT OF THE CITY OF OTTAWA (157) DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO (158) THE FIRST PAPER MILL (158) CROWN TIMBER REGULATIONS (159) TIMBER DUES SYSTEM (160) CAUSES OF THE REBELLION OF 1837 (162) THE MAC- KENZIE REBELLION OF 1837 (164) UNION OF 1841 AND NEW TIMBER REGULATIONS (166) FIRST CANADIAN TIMBER LICENSE LEGISLATION (168) PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY OF 1854 (169) REGULATIONS OF 1855 (171). viii TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIII. ONTARIO AND THE UNITED STATES. PAGES 172-178. RECIPROCITY TREATY (172) TRADE DURING RECIPROCITY PERIOD (173) FIRST INFLUX OF AMERICAN LUMBERMEN (173) PRO- VINCIAL CONFEDERATION AND EFFECT ON CROWN LANDS MAN- AGEMENT (174) DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT (175) EXPORT DUTIES ON LOGS, ETC. (176) FREE TRADE PERIOD (177) THE DINGLEY BILL AND PROHIBITION OF LOG EXPORT (177) AMERICAN INTERESTS IN GEORGIAN BAY DIS- TRICT (178). CHAPTER XIV. ONTARIO REVENUES AND RESOURCES. PAGES 179-189. TIMBER DUES AND GROUND RENT (179) CUT OF SAWLOGS FROM 1867 TO 1877 (180) DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO (180) REVENUE FROM TIMBER LICENSES (181) AREAS UNDER LICENSE FROM 1869 TO 1903 (183) TIMBER CUT FROM CROWN LANDS FROM 1868 TO 1903 (184) RECORD OF TIMBER SALES (184) STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION (185) PRODUCTION OF THE OTTAWA VALLEY (186) PRODUCTION OF GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT (187) PRODUCTION OF PINE (188) REVENUE FROM CROWN TIMBER LANDS FROM 1869 TO 1903 (189). CHAPTER XV. ONTARIO FOREST RESERVES. PAGES 190-199. ALGONQUIN NATIONAL PARK (190) FOREST RESERVES ACT (191) TEMAGAMI FOREST RESERVE (191) PROVINCIAL FOREST POLICY (192) THE EASTERN RESERVE (194) THE SIBLEY RESERVE (194) THE MISSISSAGA RESERVE (195) TIMBER REPRODUC- TION (195). CHAPTER XVI. ONTARIO TORONTO INSPECTION. PAGES 200-204. CHAPTER XVII. ONTARIO PERSONNEL. PAGES 205-218. TABLE OF CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER XVIII. NEW BRUNSWICK TIMBER HISTORY. PAGES 219-225. SETTLEMENT AND NATURAL FEATURES (219) TIMBERED AREA (219) TREE SPECIES (220) MIRAMICHI FIRE (222) EARLY LUM- BERING METHODS (223). CHAPTER XIX. NEW BRUNSWICK FOREST LEGISLATION. PAGES 226-231. THE FIRST SURVEYOR GENERAL (226) EARLY TIMBER POLICY (227) PRODUCTION AND TRADE PRIOR TO 1850 (227) TIMBER REV- ENUES (228) TIMBER LAND LAWS SYSTEM (229) STUMPAGE DUES (231) TIMBER PRODUCTION 1879 TO 1903 (231). CHAPTER XX. NEW BRUNSWICK RECENT OPERATIONS. PAGES 232-243. PRESENT LUMBERING METHODS (232) THE ST. JOHN DISTRICT (232) THE MIRAMICHI DISTRICT (234) THE RESTIGOUCHE DISTRICT (235) CHANGES IN CONDITIONS (236) PRICES OF LOGS AND LUMBER (238) LUMBER STATISTICS (240). CHAPTER XXI. NOVA SCOTIA LUMBER HISTORY. PAGES 244-250. SETTLEMENT AND EARLY LUMBERING (244) TIMBERED AREA AND REPRODUCTION (246) TIMBER LAND TITLES (247) PERSONNEL (249).
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