. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. IVj Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition April 27, 1904 BRITISH COLUMBIA LETTER. {Correspondence of the Canada I^omberman.) Vancouver, April 13th, 1904.—Lumber- men are joyous this week, as the most glorious of summer weather has burst up- on the coast, and operations in the woods will soon be begun. Winter has hung on long, in lact so much so in the interior that it is believed there will be a shortage in the supply ot lumber required for use in the Territories and M
. Canadian forest industries 1902-1904. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. IVj Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition April 27, 1904 BRITISH COLUMBIA LETTER. {Correspondence of the Canada I^omberman.) Vancouver, April 13th, 1904.—Lumber- men are joyous this week, as the most glorious of summer weather has burst up- on the coast, and operations in the woods will soon be begun. Winter has hung on long, in lact so much so in the interior that it is believed there will be a shortage in the supply ot lumber required for use in the Territories and Manitoba. In Fernie and other of the towns on the eastern boundary the frost is still delaying things, and a number of the mills have not yet started. At present there is only about 10,000,000 feet of lumber cut in the whole of the interior, but when spring operations be- gin, things should be active. The Fernie Lumber Company and the Crow's Nest Pass lumber Company each has 6,000,000 feet of logs ready, and there are 29 or 30 miles in the Kootenay9, some of them of large capacity. Conditions are firm this week, prices remaining the same as two weeks ago, with all kinds of building materials in good demand. Although an announcement was made by the C. P. R. that a reduction in the freight rate on lumber to the Territories was to be put into effect, it was somewhat mis- leading. Hitherto the shipments from the coast were subject to a tariff of 40 cents per hundred pounds upon fir lumber, and upon cedar and other lumber 50 cents per 100 pounds. The tariff has now been changed upon cedar and other lumber to 40 cents per 100 pounds upon dimension and the lower grades up to that of ship- lap, being the same rate as that of fir, but upon grades of cedar and other lumber better than the ship-lap grade the former rate of 50 cents per 100 pounds continues in force. The coast manufacturers and those in the Kootenay are coming into competition, for the reduction in prices announced by tri
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