. Canadian forest industries July-December 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. S3 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 15, 1915 Wholesale Lumber Prices in 1914 Review of Market Fluctuations as Reported to the Depart- ment of Labor—A Year of Exceptional Condition In a review of wholesale prices in Canada during 1914, issued by the Department of Labour, Mr. R. H. Coats, Editor of the Labour Gazette, writes in part as follows:— At the beginning of the year the trade depression in lumber ap- peared to be passing away. Activity was an
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. S3 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 15, 1915 Wholesale Lumber Prices in 1914 Review of Market Fluctuations as Reported to the Depart- ment of Labor—A Year of Exceptional Condition In a review of wholesale prices in Canada during 1914, issued by the Department of Labour, Mr. R. H. Coats, Editor of the Labour Gazette, writes in part as follows:— At the beginning of the year the trade depression in lumber ap- peared to be passing away. Activity was anticipated in the lumber markets as stocks were scarce and a demand was expected. The situ- ation was still more encouraging in nearly all parts of the country at the end of July, when the war broke out, and prices were becoming firmer in some lines. In British Columbia, where the depression in the lumber trade was greatest, it seemed that improvement was about to set in. The promise of good crops in all parts of Canada was an encouraging feature. The drouth, which greatly curtailed the crop in the Prairie Provinces, had diminished these expectations very little when war broke out. The new conditions caused a great demand for lumber in the Maritime Provinces and some demand in the other Eastern Provinces, but the shortage of ships and difficulties in ship- ping prevented this demand from having its full effect. In British Columbia the improvement in general trade was no longer expected, but the high prices of grain in the Prairie Provinces improved the de- mand in that district somewhat. Owing to the conditions during the year the production was kept down considerably and stocks were not allowed to accumulate. In the Eastern Provinces the production was estimated to be up to the average or even to have exceeded it owing to the admirable demand from Britain in the latter part of the year. At the end of the year, throughout the country, stocks were low, es- Relative Prices of
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