. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN *5 together with those for the corresponding eleven months of the previous year : July-May, July-May, 1901-02. 1902-03. United States $1,002,307 $1,561,049 Great Britain 728>977 1,015,228 Other countries 57. + '8 220,202 $1,788,702 $2,796,479 The total value shows an increase of over 56 per cent., the principal market being the United States, followed by Great Britain. The principal Canadian wood pulp mill exporting to Great Brit
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN *5 together with those for the corresponding eleven months of the previous year : July-May, July-May, 1901-02. 1902-03. United States $1,002,307 $1,561,049 Great Britain 728>977 1,015,228 Other countries 57. + '8 220,202 $1,788,702 $2,796,479 The total value shows an increase of over 56 per cent., the principal market being the United States, followed by Great Britain. The principal Canadian wood pulp mill exporting to Great Britain is that controlled by the Chicoutimi Pulp Company, and as many im- portant contracts are held, it seems that it is practically left to this concern for the time being to prove that Canadian wood pulp can successfully compete with the Scandinavian product. PULP NOTES. The Canada Paper Company are now rebuilding their chemical pulp mill at Windsor Mil's, Que. W. J. Hill, of. Toronto, has secured from the Nepigon Pulp & Paper Company a contract for the construction of a power dam and pulp mill at Nepigon. The amount of the contract is said to be nearly $400,000. A pnrty of recently arrived at Kamloops, B. C, under the direction of H. L. Gibbs, of Traverse City, Mich., to look into the possibilities for the es- tablishment of large saw and pulp mills. They had two cruisers out all summer on the Western Pulp & Lumber Comany's limits up the North Thompson river and branches and are said to be favorably impressed. W. A. Bauer, of Vancouver, has completed the survey of 75,000 acres of spruce and larch timber lands on Princess Royal Island and is said to be preparing plans for a large pulp mill to be built by J. J. Palmer, of Tor- onto, and British capitalists. The entire plant is es- timated to cost $[,800,000. It is claimed that the com- pany will be able to ship pulp to Puget Sound and Cali- fornia and as far east as Winnipeg. John Gray, superintendent of the wo
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