. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. LUMBER PILED FOR RAIL SHIPMENT—HASTINGS MILL, VANCOUVER, B. C. small, with a daily capacity of about 3,000,000 feet ; over thirty are on the coast, and have a daily capacity of be- tween 1,750,000 and 2,000,000 feet, but this limit has never been reached, the annual cut running between 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 feet. Various estimates have been made of the amount of timber in sight. These range between 40,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000 feet, a guess that is onl
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. LUMBER PILED FOR RAIL SHIPMENT—HASTINGS MILL, VANCOUVER, B. C. small, with a daily capacity of about 3,000,000 feet ; over thirty are on the coast, and have a daily capacity of be- tween 1,750,000 and 2,000,000 feet, but this limit has never been reached, the annual cut running between 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 feet. Various estimates have been made of the amount of timber in sight. These range between 40,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000 feet, a guess that is only practicable as showing the possible limits of supply as extremely wide. The acreage of timber under lease is about 1,175 square miles, and the total area of forest and woodland is put down by the Dominion statistician as 285,- 554 sq. miles, but this must not be taken as all of commer- cial value, as much of this is covered with small trees, suit- able only for a local supply of fuel and lumber. For some time the lumber industry of the province has suffered a severe depression, but at the present time the indications are favorable to a speedy revival, and to assist in this a lumber trust has been formed, which in- cludes all the principal export mills of the Pacific coast, 35 in all, and as a consequence lumber has- risen in price $2 per thousand feet. This combination is called the Central Lumber Company, with headquarters at San Francisco, and a branch agency in each of the large centres. The operations are in the nature of a pool through which orders will be distributed and results divided. It represents a capital of $7,000,000, and a daily capacity of 3,520,000 feet. Some 150 sailing ships are under its control. The future of the lumber industry is very great for British Columbia, and when foreign demand fully revives, and the Nicaraguan canal has been completed, it cannot fail to receive an immense impetus. As it stands at present the province will be the last resort o
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