. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 7 THE LUMBER EXPORT DUTY. Mr. Perley, of the extensive lumbering firm of Perley & Pattee, on being asked by a Journal reporter to-day his opinion in regard to the new export duty on logs, stated that although it did not effect the lumbermen about Ottawa, it was a good and just thing for Can- ada at large, as it enabled the Western Ontario lumbermen to preserve their lumber resources, and not have them swallowed up by American capitalists
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 7 THE LUMBER EXPORT DUTY. Mr. Perley, of the extensive lumbering firm of Perley & Pattee, on being asked by a Journal reporter to-day his opinion in regard to the new export duty on logs, stated that although it did not effect the lumbermen about Ottawa, it was a good and just thing for Can- ada at large, as it enabled the Western Ontario lumbermen to preserve their lumber resources, and not have them swallowed up by American capitalists. The latter come over, and in the district surrounding Georgian Bay and Lake Superior, get out an immense quantity of logs and send them over to their mills on the Am- erican side free of duty. In this manner the fine lumber resources of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior are being drained of their best timber by these American capitalists. Mr. Perley also thought that the measure would have its desired effect in causing the Americans to remove the duty on manufactured lumber. Mr. Bronson, of Bronson and Weston was called on, but was not to be found. The man- ager of the firm said that the measure was a decided boon to the Western Ontario lumber merchants. He also thought that the measure would compel the Americans to remove the duty on manufactured lumber, as the present duty on Canadian logs would affect to a great extent the American lumber merchants on the shore of Lake Superior. Mr. E. B. Eddy on being called upon stated that the measure was a good one.—Ottawa Journal. DOWN A FLUME. A Chicago newspaper man tells in the Herald of that city an experience he once had riding in ft Nevada lumber flume. " Lumber flumes in the Sierra Nevades," he said, " are all the way from five to forty miles long. They are built on a regular engineer grade. The bed of the flume is made of two-inch plank in the form of a V, the sides of the V being from eighteen to twenty six inch
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