Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1920
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1920donm (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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September 1, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 171 the commission which is to be appointed as being able to ascertain the true state of affairs^. What Canada Supplies in Pulpwood. To my mind the following important aspects of the case have been overlooked: The Dominion Government has put no embargo on the export of pulpwood. Certain of the provinces, however, foreseeing the possibility of the exhaustion of their supplies have for some time exercised their right under the British North America Act, prescribing provincial rights to prohibit the export of pulpwood from Crown lands. That there is no regulation preventing the export of pulp- wood from private lands and the U. S. has been receiving for some years an average of a million cords a year from this source or about 25% of their total requirements for pulp and paper, in addition to 80% of Canada's total export of about 100 million in value of pulp and paper. That it would not be to the advantage of the publishers of the United States if there was a modification of the present regulations, because it is cheaper to manufacture on the ground in Canada where the power is adjacent to the source of supply of the raw material. This is confirmed by your own authorities ; the Federal Trade Commission of the United States being on record as having stated that the cost of corr- verting pulpwood into paper is much less in Canada than in the United States. It is only fair to state that on account of the more pro- fitable market abroad. United States manufacturers have been exporting to the extent of 110,295 tons (1919). The argument was nevertheless advanced, that the minimum by which your production and your imports together, fdll below actual re- quirements, was 63,000 tons. It is obvious that the remedy for this situation lies in their own hands. That the restrictions do not decrease the amount of news- print available for use in U. S., but simply afifect the point of manufacture and to use a piece of slang, Canada is going the limit now, providing you with 55% of your total requirements. There should be no more objections to the existing legis- lation of provinces of Canada concerned, any more than there could be on the part of Canada regarding the establish- ment by the United State? of New Forest Reserves where the pulpwood might be cut for the use of the people of the United States. Bathurst is Busy Shipping Lumber One bright spot on the map of New Brunswick just now is Bathurst, where four large vessels are in port and three are loaded. Ten other vessels are due to arrive in Bathurst harbor to load within the next three weeks. In addition to this list at least eight vessels will load at Bathurst before navigation closes. One of the craft at Bathurst is the large four-masted schooner James W. Howard, of Boston. She is loading a cargo of boards for Buenos Aires. The Bathurst Lumber Company has chartered a large number of vessels, including the steamships Berela, for Dublin; Canadian Raider, for Manchester; Canadian Rancher, for Garston Dock; Tento, for Gar- ston Dock; Pen.sacola, for Great Britain. Others chartered are the schooners Max Horton, for Havana; Samuel W. Hatheway, for Havana; Chautauqua, for Havana; Anna Laura, for Havana; Mau- rice R. Thurlow, for Havana; W. H. Woodin, Buenos Aires; Hunt- ley, Havana; barque Ba, for Buenos Aires, and the ship Marpesia, for Buenos Aires. The Danish barquentine Dagny loaded a cargo of lumber this month at Chatham, but was delayed in getting away by the desertion of several of her crew. Many cargoes of pulp wood are being shipped from Baie de Chaleur ports for Portland (Me.) but in most lumber mill ports the lumber is being piled up awaiting an improved demand across the water. So much is piled in many of the Miramichi yards that extra room has had to be made outside. In Switzerland is an old law which compels every married couple to plant six trees immediately after the wedding ceremony, and two on the birth of every child. They are planted on commons and near the roads and, being mostly fruit trees, are both useful and orna- mental . Will Divide Loss on Lumber Contracts Many Canadian lumber companies who supplied lumber to Great Britain during and after the war on contracts made out in pounds, shillings and pence before exchange broke, will be pleased to learn that the British Government has at length agreed not to hold by the strict-letter of the contracts, and it will divide the loss where it is proved. As most of the sales were made, however, while exchange was high, about $4.80 to the pound, and none below $4.50 to the pound, the loss will not be nearly so much as at first anticipated—$200,000 will cover the whole amount. Company Acquires Large Logging Area Faced with the necessity of closing down their local mill if unable to run it more economically, the Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Co., in an attempt to cut expenses, put through one of the biggest timber deals in many years, when they acquired the best stand of timber on the Cowichan Lake Road, from the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Co., Chemainus, B. C. This area consists of 991 acres. i he company has found it impossible to compete for logs in the open market and operate the mill at a profit, and it will make no fur- ther efforts in that direction. It is estimated that a saving of $6 on every thousand feet will be made possible by the acquisition of these logging areas.
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One of the large 6-passenger flying boats operated on a weekly service between Toronto and the Muskoka Lakes, a distance of 130 miles, by the Barker Aeroplanes. Limited. Acknowledged to be the most famous airmen of the war. Lt.-Col. W. A. Bishop and Lt.-Col W. G. Barker and their organization are becoming the recognized aerial experts of the Dominion. The possibilities of aerial surveys of timber limi s and for fire protection work are being seriously considered by many pulp and paper manufacturers and leading lumbermen

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