. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. II. Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition. June 28, 1899 are sold far ahead. Stocks of everything in the cedar line are exceedingly scarce, shipments being made about as rapidly as the stuff can be gotten out. Geo. Rowlings, of Musquodoboit, has the contract for furnishing lumber to the Furness Withy Co. for the construction of their new wharf at Halifax. Three vessels are now engaged transporting the lumber to that city. H. J. Crowe, of Bridgetown, , has chartered
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. II. Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition. June 28, 1899 are sold far ahead. Stocks of everything in the cedar line are exceedingly scarce, shipments being made about as rapidly as the stuff can be gotten out. Geo. Rowlings, of Musquodoboit, has the contract for furnishing lumber to the Furness Withy Co. for the construction of their new wharf at Halifax. Three vessels are now engaged transporting the lumber to that city. H. J. Crowe, of Bridgetown, , has chartered a ship to load deals at Annapo- lis, , for the United Kingdom. This will be the first shipment of the kind from that place. The bark Argentina is now loading lumber at Bridgewater, , for South America. Following is a comparative statement of timber, etc., measured and culled at Quebec to June 27th, as furnished by the Supervisor of Cullers : 1897. 1898. 1899. Waney white pine, cu. 814,874 670,881 869,767 White pine, cu. 81,391 435,315 263,971 Red pine, cu feet 56,630 77,456 87,429 Oak, cu. feet 593,172 479,220 288,C83 Elm, cu. feet 262,723 260,262 313,925 Ash, cu. feet 68,786 22,234 42,790 Basswood, cu. feet Butternut, cu. feet 293 795 60 Birch and Maple, cu. 149,917 :o6,48o 229,867 A raft containing over 3,000,000 feet of logs, consigned to the Saginaw Lumber & Salt Co., arrived at Saginaw on the 17th inst. This company has four more rafts to take over from the Georgian Bay, the logs being cut from Indian reservation lands. It is estimated by the American Lumberman that nearly 100,000,000 feet of logs which were gotten out in the Georgian Bay district for the Michigan market are being held in storage booms, in the expectation that some arrangements will be affected whereby they can be taken to Michigan. The Board of Trade returns show that the imports of wood goods into Great Britain for the month of May of this year were considerab
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