. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 an axe has been making more money than if he had been at work in the most productive gold mine. His bonanza is secured, and he will be able to realize its full value in the near future, when, from the falling off of supplies from the W> st, our lumberers will be called on to furnish the consumption of both white pine and spruce of New York and the Eastern States, requiring them to double their present manufacturing ca- pacity, and enabling them to fix both terms
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 an axe has been making more money than if he had been at work in the most productive gold mine. His bonanza is secured, and he will be able to realize its full value in the near future, when, from the falling off of supplies from the W> st, our lumberers will be called on to furnish the consumption of both white pine and spruce of New York and the Eastern States, requiring them to double their present manufacturing ca- pacity, and enabling them to fix both terms and price. Our average exportation of forest products for the five fiscal years from 1871 to 1875, inclusive, amounted to $25,240,781 a year, and was largely in excess of our exportation of cereals for the same time. From 1875 to 1880 the exportation of wood goods largely fell off, which was one1 of the chief causes of the depression which over spread the aountry during that time. But when this source of revenue totally ceases, and we are necessitated to import wood for our own home consumption, and when, besides, our foreign markets are at the same time flooded with wheat and cattle from the Northwestern Pro- vinces, reducing the price of our farm products to the lowest point, a condition in Which the statesmen of both our political parties, by rush ing the country into ruinous debt in the interests of the Northwest, have been laboring to place us—your readers will, I think, find but little trouble in figuring out for themselves the state of things that must then exist in both Ontario and (Quebec, from such adverse circumstances. THE PINE AND THE WALNUT- A mile or so from the gray little town Of Newcastle, perched like a gull by the sea, On the Kittery side (where the banks shelve down To the lovely river's golden brown), There towered, long since, an old pine tree. And across the stream, in a right bee-line, Like a sentry guarding the mined fort, Was a large-limbed walnut,
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