. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 February, 1907 Lumber Exports from St. Lawrence River Ports By ED. HARPER En. Harpkr Wapi; THE business of exporting wood from the St. Lawrence has seen many changes during the past half century. From records that go back to 1850 it appears to have reached its high est point in the e a r ly sixties, when white pine timber shipped from Que- bec by sailing vessel, largely in the hewn log, was the common building wood of the United Kingdom. Its low price and su
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 February, 1907 Lumber Exports from St. Lawrence River Ports By ED. HARPER En. Harpkr Wapi; THE business of exporting wood from the St. Lawrence has seen many changes during the past half century. From records that go back to 1850 it appears to have reached its high est point in the e a r ly sixties, when white pine timber shipped from Que- bec by sailing vessel, largely in the hewn log, was the common building wood of the United Kingdom. Its low price and suitability for conversion by hand labor, together with its intrinsic excellence, en- abled it at that time to defy the compe- tition of all substitutes. In those days nearly every port ill Great Britain and Ireland brought in its Quebec cargo or cargoes, and over one thousand ships loaded in the port of Quebec annually. The export of square white pine in 1864 amounted to 23,737,000 cubic feet. By de- grees, as the old-fashioned saw-pit, with its top and bottom sawyers was replaced by the modern sawmill, and white pine advanced in cost, as the most accessible and readily available timber disappeared before the axe of the lumberman or was destroyed by forest fires, pitch pine from the Southern States took its place for many purposes. The brigs and barques of from two to three hundred tons regis- ter that for long made their two Quebec voyages every year were lost or broken up, and the small ports having become connected by rail with the larger ones, drew their timber supplies from them in- stead of importing direct. Still the larger sailing vessels carried their cargoes from Quebec to the leading ports. Then came the beginning of the change from hewn to sawn wood. The number of deal produc- ing sawmills in the immediate neighbor- hood of Quebec was greatly increased in the early seventies, but before long it was found more advantageous and economical to build the mill in the vicin
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