. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . e manufacture ofpeat on a large scale, the cost of production per ton should be considerablyless than the figures here given. The peat is used at the fuel-testing station in a peat producer-gasplant of 60 capacity. The average effective value of the gas is about126 per cubic foot and it has been found that the producer requiresfrom two and one-half to three pounds of peat per brake horse-power the figures given above it can be seen that one brake horse-power year (if generated at the bog) would cost from $18 to $21; and oneelectrica
. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . e manufacture ofpeat on a large scale, the cost of production per ton should be considerablyless than the figures here given. The peat is used at the fuel-testing station in a peat producer-gasplant of 60 capacity. The average effective value of the gas is about126 per cubic foot and it has been found that the producer requiresfrom two and one-half to three pounds of peat per brake horse-power the figures given above it can be seen that one brake horse-power year (if generated at the bog) would cost from $18 to $21; and oneelectrical horse-power year could be produced for from $19 to $22. Peat Resources of Canada The following table, obtained from the bulletin on peat by Dr. , of the Geological Survey, gives a summary of the peat areas inCanada and the average depth of the bogs. East of lake Superior thefigures are at least approximately correct; west of that they are largelyestimated. CANADIAN PEAT DEPOSITS, BY PROVINCES Province Average depth, in feet. Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec (in settled portions) Ontario ( (in settled portions 450). \ (Moose river basin, etc 10,000). Manitoba Alberta, Saskatchewan and N. W. Territories. .British Columbia and Yukon Total in round numbers 8 to 108 to 108 to 108 to 10 Dr. Chalmers states that the above estimate is undoubtedly toolow; nevertheless, it is evident that the bogs in Canada include an enormousarea. Some idea of the immense amount of fuel contained in them may 448 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION be realized from the fact that a bog with an average depth of six feet,after drainage, contains about 774,400 tons of air-dried peat per squaremile, equal in value to 430,244 tons of ordinary coal. In other words, alow estimate of the peat resources of Canada would be equivalent to nearly16,000,000,000 tons of coal. The following is description of some of the peat bogs whichhave been surveyed by the Department of Mines. Mer-Bleu
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