. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. As illustrating the old saying that there are two sides to every question, Mr. William Mc- Gregor, M. P., of Windsor, states that from Michigan and Maine more men go to Canada to work in the lumber woods than there are per- sons who go from all Canada to the United States. Annually 300,000,000 feet ot logs are rafted to the United States, he says, mainly from the Georgian Bay district to the mills in Michi- gan, and the same gangs who work in the mills in summer
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. As illustrating the old saying that there are two sides to every question, Mr. William Mc- Gregor, M. P., of Windsor, states that from Michigan and Maine more men go to Canada to work in the lumber woods than there are per- sons who go from all Canada to the United States. Annually 300,000,000 feet ot logs are rafted to the United States, he says, mainly from the Georgian Bay district to the mills in Michi- gan, and the same gangs who work in the mills in summer go into the Canadian woods in winter and cut the logs. Large numbers also go from Maine to New Brunswick. * * * Hon. J. B. Snowball, of Chatham, N. B., it will be remembered, took an active interest in the framing of the French treaty, and as an ex- tensive shipper of spruce deals to France, had hoped that the reduced duty would increase the demand for spruce deals in the French markets. As yet no appreciable increase in the volume of trade has occurred, although Mr. Snowball antici- pates an improvement during 1897. The great- est advantage to deal shippers, he says, is in the fact that the treaty opens up a market for a class of deals'which are unsaleable in other mar- kets. For instance, the Irish market calls for a twelve foot [length, the Spanish market for a fourteen foot length, and the French market for a sixteen foot length. In this'way the shipper is enabled to sort out a cargo of deals according to the market for which they are intended. * * * " Eli " does not wish to be understood as hav- ing anything but the kindliest feelings for the saw mill man, and if at any time he has dropped a word which has aroused the anger of any one of them, he humbly apologizes, and begs now to shake hands with them and be friends. In his efforts to present to them some of their short- comings, he has not been prompted by a fault- finding disposition, but rather by a desire to
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