. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. while walnut is the timber most in demand and the most difficult to obtain. There is also an opportunity to dis- pose of ebony and mahogany, if Americans are at present prepared to export these woods from our colonial possessions. Present prices are about $ per 1,308 cubic yards for log's, and $ per 1,308 cubic yards for sawed ; All of the American pine imported at Marseilles is purchased from London middlemen. I have had occasion to investi
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. while walnut is the timber most in demand and the most difficult to obtain. There is also an opportunity to dis- pose of ebony and mahogany, if Americans are at present prepared to export these woods from our colonial possessions. Present prices are about $ per 1,308 cubic yards for log's, and $ per 1,308 cubic yards for sawed ; All of the American pine imported at Marseilles is purchased from London middlemen. I have had occasion to investigate this matter, and discover that the occasional efforts made in this city to buy direct have been extremely unsatisfactory. Two firms in Lon- don are reported to me to be the actual importers of fully 80 per cent, of all the American lumber shipped to England and the Continent. These two houses sent their representatives into the Florida and other pine regions, who supervise every detail preceding the actual departure of the lumber for its final destination. What is true of the lumber trade is also more or less true of many other commercial lines, and I think it would surprise a great many American business men if they could realize the extent to which they are dependent upon British middle-men for their foreign ; TRADE NOTES. The Imperial Lumber Company, of Toronto, have opened a branch for Great Britain at 41 Corporation street, Manchester, under the management of Mr. L. A. Grant. W. B. Mershon & Company, of Saginaw, Mich., report an excellent demand for their band resaws. Last week they received an order from Firstbrook Bros., of Toronto, for four of them to be installed in their new mill at Penetanguishene. The Thos. Forrester Co., of Montreal, are sending out to saw mills and sash and door factories, a useful com- bined calendar and standard price list ot beltings. If any of our readers have failed to receive a copy the)' are requested to write the compan
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