. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN , 1904 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc 00 I VIEWS and INTERVIEWS f O O No. 3 pine lath has now become a standard commodity, bringing from $ to $ per thousand at the mill. A few years ago it was possible to buy No. 1 lath at these figures. No No. 3 lath was made, the material from which it is now manufactured being regarded as of no value and destroyed by the burner. This is but one^ instance of many ecomonies that are now practised
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN , 1904 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc 00 I VIEWS and INTERVIEWS f O O No. 3 pine lath has now become a standard commodity, bringing from $ to $ per thousand at the mill. A few years ago it was possible to buy No. 1 lath at these figures. No No. 3 lath was made, the material from which it is now manufactured being regarded as of no value and destroyed by the burner. This is but one^ instance of many ecomonies that are now practised by the mill man, some of which have been forced upon him by the in- creased cost of timber. * * In connection with the campaign against the liquor traffic, we frequently hear of " prohibi- tion that does not ; An instance has come under my notice wherein this is true of the legislation passed by the Ontario Government to prohibit the exportation of logs from Canada to the Uuited States. Mr. Joseph Walsh, of Parry Sound, is exclusively engaged in the business of selling logs for ex- port, and,so far as I know,he has no competi- tor in this line of business. He purchases the logs from settlers on lands which are exempt from the recent government regula- tions. Two years ago he got together about 7,000,000 feet of pine, but last year could obtain only about 1,000,000feet, the remainder, about 5,000,000 feet, being hemlock and spruce. The timber is floated to the Georgian Bay and put in booms. There the purchasers take charge of it and tow it to the mills on the other side. * * * The saw mill man is often severely criticized for his business methods, and I am inclined to think that, in some instances at least, the criti- cism is justified. A gentleman engaged in the export lumber business with a very reliable firm told me that he finds the greatest difficulty in doing business on account of the neglect or unwillingness of mill men to answer letters addressed to t
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