. Canadian forest industries 1889-1890. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. September, iSqo THE RAINY RIVER TIMBER DIFFI- CULTY. ,.T R»tPoil|(eSMl.] For the past few days a number of American loggers have beer, in town, and it appears they are endeavoring to close an angements with our local lumbermen to take out American logs for the various mills here during the coming winter. Last year it will be remembered that our mill men had considerable difficulty in getting permits until late in the season, and which del
. Canadian forest industries 1889-1890. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. September, iSqo THE RAINY RIVER TIMBER DIFFI- CULTY. ,.T R»tPoil|(eSMl.] For the past few days a number of American loggers have beer, in town, and it appears they are endeavoring to close an angements with our local lumbermen to take out American logs for the various mills here during the coming winter. Last year it will be remembered that our mill men had considerable difficulty in getting permits until late in the season, and which delay put them to a great expense in getting out the logs. This was due to their not being able to make the necessary improvements last fall, and which necessitated it being done in the spring, and as a result the mills have been idle half of this season. In fact last winter's cut is only now coming in, and the mills have been shut down a greater por- tion of this summer. This has resulted in a very great loss to the town. The Government has now a sale of timber berths advertised to take place in Toronto on October 1st, and should the lumbermen here have to wait until this date before knowing what limits they will have to work, or whether they can purchase or not, it simply means a repetition next summer of this year's experience, or the other alternative of their making contracts with the American loggers, which means a loss of §100,000 to to our town, which would all be spent in the States instead of here as before, besides leaving some 800 men idle. The supplies required for camps also amounts to about $100,000, a large por- tion of which is purchased in Rat Portage, and this also would be lost to the district. This is a very serious condition of affairs for Rat Portage and this end of the district, and the Government should at once take some steps to put these limits in a shape, so that the lumbermen will not be so seriously inconvenienced as they were last year. Al
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