. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. REPORTS OF COMMERCIAL AGENTS. The last quarterly report of the Department of Trade and Commerce of Canada contains communications from commercial agents in which subjects of interest to the lumber trade are discussed. Under date of June ioth, Mr. J. S. Larke, of Sydney, Australia, writes : " Reclamations have been made on another cargo of timber from British Columbia. They are made on two grounds. One is for inferiority of timber. The amount under this head
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. REPORTS OF COMMERCIAL AGENTS. The last quarterly report of the Department of Trade and Commerce of Canada contains communications from commercial agents in which subjects of interest to the lumber trade are discussed. Under date of June ioth, Mr. J. S. Larke, of Sydney, Australia, writes : " Reclamations have been made on another cargo of timber from British Columbia. They are made on two grounds. One is for inferiority of timber. The amount under this head is small. The cargo as a whole was very good. If it had come to one buyer only it would no doubt have been accepted, but it belonged to several persons, and all the alleged inferior stuff fell to one shipper, and he demands compensa- tion. The other demand is for delay in delivery through improper stowage. Instead of being placed in the ship so that each owner could get at his portion in turn, the several lots were so mixed that the owners had to keep their punts and laborers about the ship during the delivery, making the cost several times more than it otherwise would have been. Not having seen the cargo I am not personally aware how much the losses in this way may have been, but they are errors that may occur and should be pre- vented. The failure of a large San Francisco firm engaged in the timber trade of this colony is reported. It is charged, justly or unjustly, with cutting prices to the low ebb which now prevails in the effort to monopolize the trade. They may have been a factor in doing this, but only a factor. It seems to me wise to support the view advised in a previous report, that the British Columbia mill men should emancipate themselves from the San Francisco middle men. There are too many agents in the business, and as a conse- quence the San Francisco broker, through his agent here, and the Sydney indent merchant, representing the lumber from a common mill, are
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