. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ^AINAUA LUMtsbKMAN WEEKLY EDITION in. BRITISH COLUMBIA LETTER. (Correspondence of the Canada Lumberman ) Vancwvkr, Jjly 41b, 1904.âThere is a little improvement in trade with the North- west Territories this month, though noth- ing to have any particular elfect on the depressed conditions. Tne Victoria Lum- ber and Manufacturing Company is one of the companies doing a good business in that market and is shipping upwards of 100,000 feet per day. It is aggravat- in
. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ^AINAUA LUMtsbKMAN WEEKLY EDITION in. BRITISH COLUMBIA LETTER. (Correspondence of the Canada Lumberman ) Vancwvkr, Jjly 41b, 1904.âThere is a little improvement in trade with the North- west Territories this month, though noth- ing to have any particular elfect on the depressed conditions. Tne Victoria Lum- ber and Manufacturing Company is one of the companies doing a good business in that market and is shipping upwards of 100,000 feet per day. It is aggravat- ing to lumber manufacturers to think whnt trade might be done if Canada were pre- served for the Canadians instead c>f allow- ing Americans lo use our markets for their own convenience. One article in which Vancouver manu- facturers should do a brisk business wil h settlers in the Territories is that of knock- down houses. Mr. E. Mahoney, manager ol the Royal City Mills, one of the large local establishments of the B. C. Mills, Timber and Trading Company, patented a model knock-down house a short time ago, and Mr. H. A. Bell, ot this city, has gone to Winnipeg where he will attend the Dominion exhibition and set forth the advantages ol a structure of this kind. The model is ingenious, and when set up can hardly be told from the ordinary house of carpenter build. It is a fine thing for settlers just starting up in a new country where material and builders are scarce. Railway building in the Norlh-wcst, where many hundreds of miles will be laid this year, and also in the southern part of this province, is bringing good business to East Kootenay, as many ties are need- ed. Many camps have been started up this year in addition to those which have been operating. W. H. Griffith, of Cran- brook, is putting in a plant at Fort Steele Junction ; R. O. Jennings and G. Laurie, both of Fort Steele, have each contracts for 50,000 ; the East Kootenay Lumber Company, which last year supplie
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