. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 17 leave their columns open to help this agitation to work out satisfactory ; It is a pity that the Royal Lumber Company should have decided to drop the matter and lose the money to which they are entitled. This habit of giving in to the railroads encourages them to continue in their unfair practices. We hope that the Royal Lumber Company will change their mind and decide to press the matter until it is settled satisfactori
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 17 leave their columns open to help this agitation to work out satisfactory ; It is a pity that the Royal Lumber Company should have decided to drop the matter and lose the money to which they are entitled. This habit of giving in to the railroads encourages them to continue in their unfair practices. We hope that the Royal Lumber Company will change their mind and decide to press the matter until it is settled satisfactorily. Any other readers of the "Canada Lumberman" who have had similar experiences will confer a favour upon us, and will do the lumber inter- ests of Canada a service, by letting us know the details of some of their cases. There is no doubt that these cases are extremely numerous and that they merit drastic action on the part of the Railway Commission. Another example of the unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike methods pursued by the railways is afforded by the following letter, which was written by R. Laidlaw & Company to the Grand Trunk Railway Com pany on October 4th, 1907: "On September 29th, 1906, the Colonial Lumber & Timber Com pany, of St. Louis, invoiced us with car No. 11499, loaded with Southern pine. We were very much in need of this lumber and notified the rail- way to advise us at once when the car arrived. "After waiting a considerable time for the arrival of this car we noti- fied the shippers to send a tracer after it, and learned from them that the car had been transhipped on to car No. 9598. When we advised the that this car had been transhipped they told us that that car had arrived in Toronto on Nevember 27th, 1906, and as they could not find an owner for it when it was in bond, they had unloaded the car in their yard, and if the car was for us they would send us a bill. We learned from the railway that they had unloaded this
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