The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . led witha saw or are twitched out with horsesand hauled with sleds to the skidways onthe banks of a brook or river or alongsidethe railroad track. If skidded beside theriver they are left there to await the springfreshet, when they are driven down thestreams to the mills. No heavy equipmentis necessary for any of these operations,and in a financial sense it is a much easierproposition to carry on than would bethe case if the timber were larger. Thesame applies to the sawmills in the sprucecountry. Th
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . led witha saw or are twitched out with horsesand hauled with sleds to the skidways onthe banks of a brook or river or alongsidethe railroad track. If skidded beside theriver they are left there to await the springfreshet, when they are driven down thestreams to the mills. No heavy equipmentis necessary for any of these operations,and in a financial sense it is a much easierproposition to carry on than would bethe case if the timber were larger. Thesame applies to the sawmills in the sprucecountry. The machinery is less heavy,the mill itself is less ponderous in con-struction, and the work of logging andsawing, from the beginning in the woodsuntil the lumber is on the market, calls forless outlay than is the case in the countrywhere the huge timber is found. By far the most important portion ofthe lumber cut in these provinces is cutupon Government lands. The chamade in this connection by the Governmentin each of the three provinces of Manitoba,Saskatchewan, and Alberta is 50 cents pel. 1. A TYPICAL LUMBER YARD ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES. 2. BUILDING THE SKIDWAY OF LOGS IN THE SPRUCE COUNTRY OF SASKATCHEWAN. 3. LOGGERS TAKING THEIR MIDDAY MEAL IN THE CANADIAN WOODS. 4. LOG POND AND MILL, RED DEER, ALBERTA. 375 THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF CANADA thousand board feet on all the logs cutand S5 per year per square mile on allthe land held under licence. To turn from the manufacturing partof the lumber business in the provincesof Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Albertato the market or selling portion, a greatercontrast is found. The lumber trade ofthese provinces is very great. The lumbermanufacturing operations which we havebeen describing fall far short of supplyingthe demand of the prairies. How greatthat demand is may be roughly conjecturedwhen it is remembered that practicallyall buildings in the three provinceshave been erected within the last 35years. The immigration pouring in fro
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