. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA 1-UMBHRMAN WEEKLY tUi I ION December J, 190; winter. | II appears that seventy-nine leading shippers in Norrland and Dalarne, representing an export of over one billion feet, have agreed to reduce the quantity of logs taken out by about 21 per cent. This has established a conviction that there will be no excessive supply next season and for this reason importers are more inclined to contract. Very little business has been done as yet in Canadian lumber, bu
. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA 1-UMBHRMAN WEEKLY tUi I ION December J, 190; winter. | II appears that seventy-nine leading shippers in Norrland and Dalarne, representing an export of over one billion feet, have agreed to reduce the quantity of logs taken out by about 21 per cent. This has established a conviction that there will be no excessive supply next season and for this reason importers are more inclined to contract. Very little business has been done as yet in Canadian lumber, but prices are stiffening in al' directions. It is reported that a London buyer recently offered £66 per standard for some first quality dry pine boards, landed on dock. Spruce prices are firmer, Recent sales reported include a quantity of second quality spruce deals, 3x9, at £9 15s per standard London, and some third quality at £9. For landed stocks agents are asking £10 10s for 3x9 seconds, £9 15s for thirds, and ,£8 15s for fourths. $ to $8 for first class elm and $ to $4-75 *°r second-class. An effort is being made to advance the price of flour barrels. STOCKS AND PRICES. Manufacturers in the Minneapolis dis- trict are paying $6 to $7 a thousand for cutting timber and driving- it to the boom company's reach. The Bell Telephone Company are call- ing for tenders for poles, to be delivered next spring, for the building of a line from Sault Ste Marie to Thessalon. Mershon, Schuette, Parker & Company will carry over in Ontario this winter over forty million feet of lumber and logs. They have not bought heavily for next season's stock. A two square mile timber limit at Young's Cove, Grand Lake, JV. B., was sold by the New Brunswick Government last week to the St. John Sulphite Pulp Company at $55 a mile. Capt. Carter, of Maccan, and Albert Pugsley, of Athol, , have purchased a block of timber land in Nova Scotia be- longing to the estate of the late Ja
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