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Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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leum industry leads all others of a mineral nature in the valueof yearly output, and affords an admirable example ot what enterprise andskill can do in the profitable utilization of raw material. Statistics of production for the year 1900 are as follows : Quantity. Value. Petroleum, Imperial gallons 23,381,783 Illuminating oil 11,783,755 $1,076,242 Lubricating oil 1,980,428 232,805 Benzine & Nephtha 1,463,599 174,346 Gas, fuel, oils and tar 3,669,102 200,934 Paraffin wax and candles, lbs 4,599,683 184,718 The number of working wells in 1900 was about 10,000. The centresof the industry are the towns of Petrolia and Sarnia. The cement business has also undergone satisfactory development dur-ing the past few years. The product for 1900 amounted to 432,154 barrelsvalued at $698,015. The existence of natural gas in Ontario was first discovereda ur in 1889, since which date a great many wells have been sunk, principally in the counties of Welland and Essex. The greater part of the6 (81)
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The Forest Wealth of Ontario HE forest trees of Ontario are more varied in species than those ot any other Province in the Dominion. What is now the settled portion was once entirely covered with a dense growth of hardwood trees, consisting- chiefly of oak, hickory, basswood, maple, elm, ash and beech. Coniferous trees were comparatively few. In the south the original forest has now largely disappeared, having gradually receded as the land was brought under cultivation, until at the present Wealth, time, only about twenty per cent, of this portion of Ontario is forest land. With the forest has also receded the lumber industry, which for years has been and still is one of Ontarios primary sources of wealth. Northern Ontario, the present seat of the lumbering operations is stilla tree covered wilderness. Here the growth belongs largely to the coni-ferous varieties such as the pine, spruce, balsam, cedar, larch and hemlock,with the birches and poplars. In the southern limits of the distr

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