. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 89 the docks, and from that fact alone it is evident sales privately have been pretty brisk. Prepared flooring boards are some 70,000 pieces heavier now in the dock sheds than they were twelve months ago, about equal to a small shipload, a mere bagatelle in itself, though when we recol- lect that last year's winter stock was one of the heaviest for several seasons past, the obstacle to prices advancing offered by the present stocks can be better
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 89 the docks, and from that fact alone it is evident sales privately have been pretty brisk. Prepared flooring boards are some 70,000 pieces heavier now in the dock sheds than they were twelve months ago, about equal to a small shipload, a mere bagatelle in itself, though when we recol- lect that last year's winter stock was one of the heaviest for several seasons past, the obstacle to prices advancing offered by the present stocks can be better understood. Pitch pine planks are le6S in stock now by some 6,000 pieces than they were February, 1884, but owing to the heavy import of ponded timber from the Southern States the price of the same stuff has been with difficulty sustained. Of the 15,000 loads now in the dock ponds represents about half of the total import of 1884. Canadian sawn goods now in the docks are generally Jess than they were twelve months since, and pitch pine planks again are on the favorable side, and so with respect to wainscot logs, though the stock of these latter is an ample one for the present demind ; in fact, last year's stocks are bad for comparison, exhibiting as they do what was remaining of the heaviest import of wainscot oak that has previously been known. Lathwood is less in stock now, as far as the docks are concerned, than has been observed for some seasons past, but the dull state of the building trade will hardly allow of much hard- ening in the price of this commodity, though we quite expect to see the improvement made towards the close of last season fully sustained for good sound wood. GLASGOW. The Timber Trades Journal of Feb. 7th, •ays :—Public sales of various wood goods have taken place during the week. At the Greenock •ale on the 29th ult., transactions were very limited, and prices are not yet encouraging. The goods offered were American timber and deals and pitch pine
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