<br><p><b>Title</b>: Canadian forest industries 1886-1888<br><b>Identifier</b>: canadianforest188688donm (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fcanadianforest188688donm%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1888">1888</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1880">1880s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>: <br><b>Subjects</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectLumbering">Lumbering</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectForests_and_forestry">Forests and forestry</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectForest_products">Forest products</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectWood_pulp_industry">Wood-pulp industry</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectWood_using_industries">Wood-using industries</a><br><b>Publisher</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherDon_Mills_Ont_Southam_Business_Publications">Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorFisher_University_of_Toronto">Fisher - University of Toronto</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorUniversity_of_Toronto">University of Toronto</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/canadianforest188688donm/#page/n424/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/canadianforest188688donm">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookidcanadianforest188688donm">All Images From Book</a><br>
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<b>Text Appearing After Image: </b><br><i>PUBLISHED SI ) M C d 0 V j By A G. At )BCr.MBti&amp;. 5 r//e 0/7/t/ Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Woodworking Industries of the Dominion. S SUBSCRIPTION ( $1.00 PEH ANNUM YOL. 7. PETEKBOKOC1GH, OINT., AUGUST, 1887. NO. 8. Zbc Canaba lumberman DEVOTED TO THE LUMBER AND WOOO WORKING INTERESTS OF THE DOMINION, PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY A G. MORTIMEK, PETEKBOKOUGH, ONT. Terms of Subscription : Cue copy, one year, in advance SI 00 One copy, six months, in advance 0 50 Advertising1 rates furnished on application. All communications, orders and remittances should be addressed and made payable to A. G. Mortimer, Peterborough, Ont. Communications intended for insertion in the Canada Lumberman, must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Communications to insure insertion (if accepted) in the following number, should be in the hands of the publishers a week before the date of the next issue. Advertisements intended for insertion in any particular issue should reach the office of publication at least six clear days before the day of publication, to insure insertion. The Canada Lumberman is filed at the Offices of Mkssrs S vmuel Deacon &amp; Co., 154 Leadenhall Street, London, England, who also receive adver- tisements and subscriptions for this paper. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., AUGUST, li EDITORIAL COMMENT. If we are to accept the statement of the Northwestern Lumberman the price; of lumber must have increased to a fabulous price in Canada lately, as that journal furnishes the startling intelligence thfct a loss of $10,000 was incurred by the destruction by fire Vjf 60,000 feet of lumber in Ottawa. Surely $166 per thousand should leave the manufacturer at least a living margin of profit. f* * Shipments to Europe from Montreal, Quebec, St. John and Chatham, N.B., andyother ports, are, according to latest reports, increasing dail)v The English trade journals are chronicling almost daily arrivals from this side of the water, and although trade in tha^ country is generally considered at low ebb, the consumption^ to all appearances is nevertheless large. Our news column^ this month contain considerable information regarding the arrivals and sale of Canadian woods in Europe. * a * â ' i' A new lumber cutter, a description of which is given on another page, has recently been tested in Toronto, and pro- mises great results. This Cutter substitutes a knife for a saw and does its work at one stroke. It cuts anything from a slab to a veneer and that without the slightest waste. Steps are already being taken for the organization of a strong company to go into the manufacture of this machine for the Canadian trade, and it is therefore quite probable that our readers will soon become familiar with the new process. . t . .. The dispute between the Dominion and Ontario Govern- ments in re the title to the timber land and minerals in north-western Ontario has l&gt;een going on for some time, and although the Supreme Court has sustained Mr. Mowat in his views, the probability is that it will yet go before the Privy Council for final decision. Sir John Macdonald contends that the title resides in the Dominion Government as acquirers of the Indian title, while Mr. Mowat on the other hand holds that the Indian tile was extinguished, not acquired. Time will tell who is rignt. * "We should nit loose sight of the fact," said G. W. Warren, the pine 1'and dealer, "that the greater part of the pine to be manufactured at Rat Portage and Winnipeg, for use in the British possessions, must come from this side of the line. The bulk of tfie stumpage is owned by Minnesota men, and so the conditiqn of the market up there, and what is being done, is of a g;eat deal of importance and interest. I look for a very important development up that way. More men are interested injhe Northern slope development than is generally supposed." 1 One hundred in th4 shade is a temperature seldom experi- enced in this part of t;e world, but for the past month it has been no uncommon occurrence to see the thermometer sizzling around that number. By donning our airy linen coat and trousers, with a nicely ^starched unmentionable, we can stand ninety-nine, but when (he thing gets up to a hundred and over a line has to be drawrj somewhere. We drew the line and went over to see soAe of our American cousins, but the scheme didn t seem to \5r0rk. The further we went the hotter it got, and after bunking on the floor for several nights with our head in close proxirftity to a refrigerator, we made up our mind that Canada was i;pt such a mean place after all and ac- cordingly packed our v;lise and took the first train for home. To get the lumbermen tfa talk business these days is just about out of the question. Even a newspaper man can't draw them out. Their main ambition now-a-days seems to be directed to some sylvan resort wherfc sweet breezes can lull them into a feeling of security against the heat of the office, and where by the aid of the lemonâarid something elseâthey can keep in a somewhat natural physical and mental condition. S * x * News has recently corÂ£e from Washington that the Treasury Department has decided that sawed elm boards 6)4 feet in length, 1 l/z inches in thickness, the edges of which follow the natural shape of the tree,; used in the manufacture of hoops, are dutiable at the rate of $2 per thousand feet, board measure, under the tariff provisions for sawed elm lumber. And this decision, aimed; at our Canadian mills, comes just after the resolution of oui own Parliament, at the instigation of the friends of foreign? industries, not to impose an export duty on elm logs. The/; .manufacturers in the United States want our elm, but they aijs so greedy as to grudge Canadians the profit even of this pr;mary stave manufacture, wishing to obtain at small cost our raw material that they may reap all the advantage of turning out the manufactured article. Well may the Toronto World remark that our Parliament has com- mitted " a grave blunder""in allowing hardwood logs to be exported free of duty, arid add that we are offering encourage- ment to carry off out of the country valuahle raw material, which we onght to holil at home with a firm grip, in order that the wealth it is converted into may remain with the country to which it belongs. This decision of the Washing- ton Treasury Board supplies another strong reason why the export duty should be exacted and our Parliament should reconsider the matter as soon as it again meets. An important meeting of the representative lumlxrrmen of Ontario was held in Toronto the end of June, at which several important matters of peculiar interest to the trade in general came up for discussion. The meeting was of such a character that for the present no public statement can be made of the work done. Suffice it to say that live questions affecting legis- lation were freely talked over and steps taken to protect the trade in every case where an undue advantage was being taken by the government, calculated to prove injurious to the lum- ber industry. The question of the immediate organization of a Provincial Lumberman's Association was again debated, resulting in positive steps being taken to further the scheme. The Lumberman is pleased to accept this as an indication of unity among the trade, and the overthrow of the barriers which in the past have tended to destroy the unanimity of action which should characterize so important a body of manu facturers. In union is strength, and at no time in the history of the lumber trade of Canada is organization more required than at the present time. The vital interests of the trade are threatened by the late action of both the Ontario and Quebec governments, and the strongest influence must be brought to bear if the lumbermen are to be protected from serious loss. We hope at an early date to be in a position to give our readers tangible proof of the work now under way, and to announce as a matter of fact the successful organization of a Lumberman's Exchange for Ontario, to be followed no doubt, by similar action on the part of the trade in the other provinces of the Dominion. * # A GOOD deal has been said for and against the timber on the Canadian side that grows in the Georgian Bay region, but those who have put their money in there appear to l&gt;e fairly well satisfied that they will have a chance to turn it over again, notwithstanding the restrictions which the Dominion Government has seen fit to put upon the exportation of logs. A gentleman who has lately been in the Spanish river district, says that the quality of the timber there is very satisfactory. It is not cork pine, nor the soft, black knot timber, but it is a sort of medium size, red-knot variety that makes a good average. It does not run remarkably high to uppers, but it is said that it does yield a satisfactory low percentage of culls, which perhaps makes it worth quite as much. It is not ap- parently a class of stock that is either very choice or else good for nothing, but a sort that may nearly all be marketed at a fair price. The Detroit gentlemen who favors The Timber- man with some facts about that country this week, figures out a very good profit on it at present rates of cost and market value. He makes its net cost in pile at the mill $9 for stock that will average, say, $17 in the market. It can be freighted for about $3, and with $2 duty will cost $14 in market, leav- ing $3 as the net profit. There is, of course, not the bonanza in it there would be if there were no $2 to pay the Govern- ment, but there is still a chance on this showing for those who have invested there to make a profit on what they have put in. They are likely also to profit later by the removal of the duty, which is pretty sure to come off within a few years on both sides. The fact of the matter is, the natural market for the pine standing in western Ontario is through the distributing points on the lakes, and the inevitable tendency of trade will carry it where there is a demand for it, and in time break down any barriers that stand in the way of its free movement. â Ch ica^o Tim berman.</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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