"39c0f7f6-4a07-4635-9a27-832baf3e811a"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2015-12-10"@en . "1904-12-30"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bclumber/items/1.0309333/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " British Columbia lumberman\nPUBLISHED EVERY MONTH\nD. TODD LEES, -.-- Business Manager\nOffice, Markinnon Uuildintf, Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C\nTelephone 1196 P. O. Drawer 928\nTerms or Subscription (Payable in Advance)\nOne year, Canada or the United States $1 00\nOne year, Foreign Countries 1 50\nAdvertising Rates on Application\nCorrespondence hearing upon any phase of the lumher industry\nwill he gratefully acknowledged, and discussion upon trade tubjecU\nii invited,\nThe British Columbia Lumberman is devoted to the lumber\nand lumbering interests of the Province of Hritish Columbia, and is\nissued between the aoth and ajth of each month. To lumber manufacturers, lumber dealers, saw mill or wood-working machinery agents\nand manufacturers, no better advertising medium has ever been offered\nin the West.\nS&- \"Persons corresponding with, advertisers in the Vritish\nColumbia Lumberman will confer, a favor by giving the journal\nctedit fot such correspondence.\nVANCOUVER, B. C, DECEMBER, 1904.\nTHE SEASON'S COMPLIMENTS.\nThe opportunity comes but once a year for us to wish\nour many friends and well-wishers all the compliments of\nthis festive season, and we desire at the same time to\nconvey to our patrons and subscribers our most grateful\nthanks for the many favors accorded us during this the\nfirst year of our pilgrimage. Wishing you all a happy\nand prosperous new year. THE EDITOR.\n1904.\nThe year about to close will be a memorable\none among the lumbermen of British Columbia\nfor some time to come. It opened with the\nbrightest of prospects, but it closes with practically all the mills closed down for want of business and what business is offering is at such a\nprice that it does not pay the milimen to till the\norders.\nThe principal cause bringing about this disastrous condition of affairs has been he restdt\nof American competition in British Columbia's\nlegitimate markets. Manitoba and the Territories, where approximately 150.000,000 feet of lumher has been virtually dumped into those markets\nduring the year. Local affairs have to some extent been influenced by internal dissention among\nthe members of the Lumber Association, whereby\nan otherwise profitable market has been supplied\nat a bare margin above the cost of production.\nEarly in the year it was confidently expected\nthat the Federal Government would realize the\nneeds of the lumbermen of Canada towards pre\nserving to them the markets of the Northwest\nby the imposition of a retaliative duty upon the\nimportation of American lumber into that territory, but, despite the many representations the\nopposition of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories was strong enough to outweigh the arguments of the lumber interests and the Budget\nwas passed without ameliorating the unhappy\ncondition of the trade. The result has been that\nmillions of feet of American lumber has been\nthrown into the Canadian market this year at\nprices against which it would have been ruinous\nfor us to compete.\nWithin the last few weeks it has been public-\nally announced that among the local mills about\nto close for want of business are those of the\nRat Portage Lumber Co., the Vancouver Lumber\nCo., the Royal City Mills, the North Pacific Co.,\nof Barnet, the Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Chew's\nand Huntting & Lea's Shingle Mills. Roughly\nthese aggregate a daily cut of 400,000 feet of\nlumber and over half a million shingles. Reports have reached us from other parts of the\nProvince of the closing of mills and that in most\ninstances the close down is for an indefinite\nperiod, generally, pending an improvement in\nbusiness conditions. By this practical \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 essation\nof one of the Province's most important and\nextensive industries, even for a few days\u00E2\u0080\u0094to say\nnothing of weeks or possibly months\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Province will sustain a loss of thousands and thousands of dollars, from the effect of which it will\ntake a very long time to recover.\nThere is little of consolation to be drawn\nfrom the existing condition of affairs, but still\nthere is one ray of hope. The curtailment which\nmust result from the shutting down of '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2o many\nmills may have a tendency to stiffen prices by\nthe absorption of such stocks as are already accumulated in the mill yards throughout the Province should these be drawn upon in the meantime, but such slight increase would do little towards righting a wrong inflicted upon the people\nthrough the neglect, indifference or short-sightedness of the Dominion Government.\n\u00C2\u00AEGXS\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\nINSERTED TOOTH, SHINGLE AND BAND\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 S A WS =\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFile Room Machines and Tools\t\nEmery Wheels, Silver Solder, &c, &e.\nBITS AND SHANKS.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA\nAQENT8 FOR\nR. HOE 8c Co., New York.\nI REPAIRS executed promptly by expert workmen. INSERTED TOOTH SAWS REMILLED AND REFITTED.\nWE ARE HERE ON THE GROUND!\nI SAVE FREIGHT AND DUTY ! TRY US! ! BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nThe Twentieth Century Saw\nOVER 40,000 IN USE.\nI\nV\n\u00C2\u00BB H\nBEWSRE OF IMITATIONS !\nThe Genuine is Made Only By\nR. HOE & CO.,\n504 to 520 Grand St\nNEW YORK, N. Y.\nCatalogues with Prices and further particulars sent on application.\n1L BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nA FIGHT TO A FINISH.\nThe arrangement so successfully carried out\nthis month by the calling of a meeting under\nthe auspices of the Vancouver Board if Trade\nand inviting thereto several Provincial representatives to the Dominion House, who were passing through Vancouver, is to be highly commended. There is little doubt in our minds that the\nresult will be most beneficial to the lumber interests. An opportunity was there given to the\nmembers-elect to fully understand the position of\nthe lumbering interests of this Province with\nregard to the repeated request for the imposition\nof a duty upon lumber imported into Canada\nfrom the United States. It was clearly shown\nthat the request is a just one and the interest\ndisplayed by the Members was an evidence that\nthey fully appreciate the existing conditions and\nthe absolute necessity that these be remedied at\nthe earliest possible moment. A full report of\nthe meeting appears elsewhere in these columns.\nThe present agitation for the imposition of a\nduty is not by any means confined to British\nColumbia, although this Province is the worst\nsufferer for the lack of it. Information is to\nhand that from nearly every part of the Dominion that representations have been made to\nthe Government for the early adjustment of the\ntariff upon lumber importations, and the most\nwelcome news we have received in this connection is contained in the following telegram:\nCalgarj^ Dec. 20.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Western Lumbermen's\nAssociation convened here to-day and decided\nto ask Parliament to impose a duty on rough\nlumber. The Hoard of Trade endorses the movement under the assurance that no advance in\nprice would be made.\nManitoba and the Northwest Territories have\nhitherto been the strongest opponents of the\nlumbermen's appeal to the Government for relief\nfrom unfair competition. That section of the\nDominion is now beginning to feel the effect of\nthe stagnation of our industry in the falling off\nof the British Columbia market for its produce\nand even the press of that district has within\nthe past few months been strongly advocating\nthe endorsation of the petition for the imposition of a duty on imported lumber, realizing no\ndoubt the value of a home market.\nThe delegates now about to go to Ottawa from\nthis Province may feel that their task is an easy\none, for they will be backed in their overtures\nby almost every section of the Dominion, while\nour own members more thoroughly understand\nthe position than they have hitherto done. This\ntime, however, they want and should have more\nthat \"consideration,\" as nothing will satisfy the\npeople of British Columbia than immediate action.\nA CHANGE OF THOUGHT.\nIn one of our earlier issues it will be remembered that we took exception to the remarks of\nan influential journal published in Winnipeg,\nwhen it expressed its views upon the all-important\nsubject of a duty upon lumber. The statements\nmade, were, as a matter of fact, hihgly prejudicial to the lumber interests of this Province\nin particular and to the lumbering interests of\nthe Dominion in general, and was undoubtedly\nsupposed to voice the sentiments of the citizens\nof the Prairie Province. Acting upon the assumption that the views then expressed were those\ncommonly held, it is noteworthy that the blessings of free lumber do not. seem to have been as\nwidespread as one would have been given to believe, because the same journal, the \"Cemmercial,\"\nof Winnipeg, during the last few months, has\ntaken the diametrically opposite views on the\nmatter. In our last issue we made an extract of\na letter, signed by \"Edge Grain,\" which was published and editorially commented upon by the\n\"Commercial,\" and in the current issue we find\nthe following leading editorial upon the same\nsubject:\n\"Manitoba and the Territories want a convenient market for produce. Already large quantities of dairy products from Manitoba are bought\nby British Columbia, and the Pacific Province is\nan important market for Alberta producers. The\ndevelopment of the British Columbia market is,\nthen, a matter of great importance to Manitoba\nand the Territories, and undoubtedly the growth\nof that market is retarded if not seriously threatened by the demoralization of the lumber industry in British Columbia, which is very largely,\nif not entirely, due to the existing tariff.\n\"A few weeks ago we intimated that free lumber was not altogether an unmixed blessing, and\nconsequently investigation has confirmed us in\nthe opinion that the lumber industry should receive more protection. While the cry in Manitoba\nand the Territories has been for cheap lumber,\nit is a fact that this has resulted in seriously retarding the growth of their own particular market across the Rockies. The prosperity of British Columbia depends upon the development of\nthe natural resources of that Province, one of\nthe most important of which is languishing for\nwant of protection. It seems to us that merely\nfor the improved market for produce, Manitoba\nand the Territories would almost find greater\nprotection of the lumber industry worth while.\n\"But the question is of wider importance. The\nsingle aim cf every province should be the up-\nTHE WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., Ld.\nBRANTFORD, CANADA\nOUR BIG CHAMPION EDGER\nIn Five Sizes, from 54\" to 96\"\nCAN BE ARRANGED WITH CLUSTER COLLAR AND VARIABLE FEED\n'fe^f Fa-Cp.\nWE MANUFACTURE\nSAW MILL MACHINERY\nOF EVERY\nDESCRIPTION\nENGINES, BOILERS, PULP MACHINERY, ETC.\nwrite H. B. GILMOUR, Agent, Vancouver Si'SSSSi HRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nm\nbuilding of the Dominion as a whole. The United\nStates has proved the value of a home market.\nBy the development of a home market every province is eventually the gainer. Imports and exports are principally valuable as they build up\nthe domestic market. The farmer this fall realizes the value of a home market when he notes\nthe price of wheat across the border, sees himself\ndebarred from his own particular foreign market because Russia happens to be exporting very\nheavily. It is the home market that counts, and\nwhy, by the way, should we buy so much lumber\nfrom the States, when they buy so little from us.\"\nComing at this time, when the agitation for a\nduty on imported lumber is being made throughout the whole of Canada, if the sentiments expressed by the \"Commercial\" are to be taken as\nthose of the people of the Prairie Provinces, then\nit would seem as if the lumbermen of the country had carried the day, as the obstructionists to\nthe request for a duty were to be found in the\ninfluence wielded by the representatives of these\nprovinces, and but for them the duty would have\nbeen imposed by the Federal Government before\nthe close of the last session. If the \"Commercial\"\ncan be enrolled as an advocate for the lumbermen's rights and it keeps the good work going,\nthere is little question but that a great deal of\nthe prejudice existing among business men of the\nPrairie Capital will eventually be removed and\nif that journal is sincere in its sentiments the\n\"British Columbia Lumberman\" has a powerful\nally in its efforts to improve the conditions presently surrounding the lumber industry of this\nrovince.\nTRANSPORTATION OF CEDAR.\nIn the September issue of the \"British Colum-\nLumberman\" a full account was given of the\nplaint of the British Columbia Lumber &\ningle Manufacturers' Association, tiled with\nIlway Commissioners against the discrimina-\nn of the Canadian Pacific Railway in its freight\ntes upon cedar lumber shipped from Coast\nbints into Manitoba. Again in the October\ne we quoted the text of the order made by\nthe Commissioners, commenting thereon. As\nstated in that issue the C. P. R. immediately upon\nthe issuance of the order by the Board tiled a\nprotest against that body's decision. In view of\nthis protest, the following extract from the current issue of \"Industrial Canada\" will be perused\nwith interest by our many readers:\nPosition of C. P. R.\nInterest in this case has been increased by the\nfollowing letter addressed by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Secretary of the Board of\nRailway Commissioners, under date of November\nnth: \"I have the honor to say that a copy of\nthe order made by the Board of Railway Commissioners, on 3r>t October ultimo, upon the\napplication of the British Columbia Lumber &\nShingle Manufacturers' Association in reference\nto this Company's rates for cedar, has been handed to me.\n\"I have the honor to point out to the Board\nthat as to that portion of this Company's system\nwhich, in so far as relates to its Tariffs of Tolls,\ni.s not subject to the control of the Board, the\nCompany cannot regard the said order as operative, but will treat it as relating only to that\nportion of its system, over which, in such matters, the Board has jurisdiction.\"\nThis letter was signed by the Fourth Vice-\nPresident of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It\nexpresses that gentleman's opinion as to the jurisdiction of the Board and possibly the views\nalso of the law department of the Company,\nPoint To Be Decided.\nThe point to be decided is not \"Has the Board\nthe power t<> make rates upon the mam line \"I\nthe Canadian Pacific Railway?\" I'he point is\n\"Has the Board the power through the Railway\nAd of 1903, under which it 1- performing it-\nduties, of ordering the Canadian Pacific Railway\nt\" cease discriminating against, or in favor \"t\nparticular commodities, individuals or localities?\"\nTen Per Cent. Clause.\nThere i- n<> question but that Parliament in\ngranting the charter t\" the Canadian Pacific Railway disarmed it-elf of the power of making rates\nupon the main line of the railway until it is earning ten per cent, of the cosl ol construction ot\nthat portion of the road. It is one ot those conditions which seem monstrous to-day< but was\nintended tn make less doubtful what was thought\nto be a somewhat doubtful -peculation.\nRate-making Power.\nIt may seem hard to disassociate, except by a\nfine drawn distinction, a rate-making power from\nthe authority tn correct discriminations. In the\nconcession <'t a public franchise to a private corporation, particularly the railway franchise, which\nis une form of a public highway, it i- expected\nthat the franchise will be operated (after assuring a fair return to the railway 1 111 such a manner\nas to assure the best national results. Whether\na fair dividend i- assured or not, the legislature\ncannot contract itself out of that oversight or\ncontrol of a public franchise, which i- required\nto assure to all under the same circumstances\nand condition-; precisely the same consideration\nand treatment. The exemption from control\ngranted to the Canadian Pacific Railway does not\ndivest the people of Canada of the right to demand ami require equal consideration for individuals and ii\" discrimination; the right to :nsist (as\nthe expression goes in the United Sta\".'s) that\ntransportation everywhere shall be sold like postage stamps, that L, at the -ante price without\nvariation for the same service.\nThe Exemption Would Apply.\nThe exemption, it might be stated, would apply where the public might be desirous \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2!' securing, upon the main line of the Canadian Pacific\nRailway( a reduction in rate- with respect to some\nparticular commodity, such, for example, as\ngrain, which they (the public) mighl feel the\ngeneral and favorable -bowing ol the Company\nwould sufficiently warrant. In this case unless\nthe published rate- were abnormally or excessively high in themselves, and as compared with\nother traffic handled upon the main line of the\nCompany, and as compared with similar rates\nfor similar services in similar territories elsewhere lying, they (the public) would not be entitled bv right to reduced rates.\nDiscrimination Against Cedar.\nThe lumber case involves the discrimination\nagainst cedar lumber. The discrepancies range\nfrom ten to nineteen cents per hundred pounds.\nThey are confined, one might -ay. almost entirely to the rate- from Vancouver and Coast\nmills into Manitoba. The freight- from Vancouver, etc., into the Territories do not -how a\nsimilar discrimination. The rates from the Mountain mills do not -how the discrimination into\neither Manitoba or the Territories. In the East\nthe same discrimination again-t cedar< though\npossibly for other purposes, ha- been emphatically\ndisallowed by the Board,\nReason for Discrimination.\nThe real reason for the discrimination from the\nCoast into Manitoba seems to be nothing more\nor less than an agreement among the Canadian\nPacific, Great Northern and Northern Pacific\nRailways to hold up cedar rate-, to what are\nknown as St. Patd and Winnipeg common points;\nthe Winnipeg common points including all South\nem Manitoba. It may be in the interest of these\nUnited States roads, it may appear in their' jn.\nterest, to thus discriminate, The difficulties from\nthe manufacturers' standpoint are not as acut\non tlie other side of the line, because then is\nlittle or no cedar shipped except high gi\nTheir common cedar and cedar cull are onv\ninto shingles,\nWhat Justifies C. P. R.-\nThere i- nothing to justify the discrimination\non the part of the Canadian Pacific. In de:,\nthe right of the Board to order that a discrimination, which they, after investigation, find exist\nto cease to exist, seems to be merely a postpone\nment of the day when the order shall finalh be\nmade operative. The railway i- not carrying\ncommon and cull cellar lumber on the pre il\nrate-, though( no doubt, a large trade could be\ndone on the present fir rati'-. What reason then\ncan the railway management have for persevering\nin what an impartial tribunal ha- held to be a discrimination ami, therefore, an unreasonable k\ntii m ?\nRelations With the Public.\nThe relation between the railways cud the\npublic may be an harmonious one, it may be one\not frequent disagreements, In any case the rail\nways require reason upon their side. The public\npo-M'ss the power and might be incited to exercise it to curtail the privileges of railway ion-,\npanies.\nPower of Board.\nThat the Board believes itself to be clothed\nwith the power to deal with this question it-\ndecision clearly shows.\n'fhe ruling of the late Chairman of the Board,\nthe Honorable A. G. Blair, wa- equally '.mphatic,\nwhen expressed some three or four month- ago\nwhen tin- matter was iir-t brought before the\nattention of the Board. The decision of the\nHonorable Mr. Blair 1- supported by the following quotation from Professor McLean'- report\nof the year [002: \"A question which come- up\nin thi- connection j- the assumed impossibility\not regulating the rate- of the Canadian Pacific.\nWhile the general rates cannot be regulated until\na dividend of io per cent. 1- obtained -in other\nword- never there i- im power conferred tn\ncharge unreasonable rates or to make preference-;\nin tin- respeel this Company would be subject\nto regulation.\"\nOpinion of C. P. R. Counsel.\nXo authority, however, should appeal to the\nCanadian Pacific Railway Company like the authority of it- own solicitor in Vancouver, Mr.\nE. B. Davis, K. C. whose remarks in concluding\nhis argument- in thi- case are quoted as follows:\n\"So far as discrimination i.- concerned, I wish\nto urge thi-. that the Board. I submit would be\nlimited to directing that the discrimination I\"'\nremoved, but would not be in a position to -ay\nyou -hall only charge so much mi this particular\nthing. That 1-, they could make an order that\nthat discrimination should be wiped out, but the\nmethod of removing thi- discrimination I submit\nwould be left to the Company.\"\nDifficult to Understand Position of C. P. R-\nIt i- difficult to understand the attitude oi the\nCompany with regard to this case. It may have\nreasonable arguments to sustain its position, oi\nwhich, so far, neither the public, the Railway\nCommission nor the parties immediately interested have been informed.\nWhat Will the Board Do?\nThe Railway Act docs not provide the Board\nwith the machinery to give effect to its order.\nThe Board has the power under section 2?) \u00E2\u0084\u00A2\nthe Act oi imposing for each offence (discrimination) a tine or penalty upon the railway ot not\nmore than $1,000 nor less than $J0o. It has also\nthe right to consent to the party wronged entering action for the recovery of treble damages. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN 5\nALEXANDER MACLAREN, President H. DePENCIER, Manager f\nBUCKINGHAM, QUE. BARNET B. C.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0TnCi \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nNorth Pacific Lumber Co., Ltd.\nBARN EX, B. C.\nMANUFACTURERS OF KILN-DRIED\neaei>oe |\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX^XXXXXl\nProm our Special Correspondents,\nTHE PRAIRIE CAPITAL.\nA British Columbia Mill Man's Views.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Big Pole\nContracts in Prospect.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Successful Season\nfor Local Lumber Companies.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Work\nin the Woods will be the Largest\non Record.\nWinnipeg. Man., Dec. io.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-The condition of the\nlumber manufacturing interests in British Columbia is a matter for the grave consideration of the\ntrade according to the statements made by prominent lumbermen of that province. That the production of lumber has been overdone can be more\nthan inferred, though the expectations are that\nnext season will see an improvement in the situation.\nA Leitch, of Cranbrook, B. C. who has been\na visitor to the city, states that the business so\nfar as the manufacturer is concerned is not by\nany means encouraging, as there is a decided depression in the trade all through the west. Mr.\nLeitch is a shareholder in the East Kootenay\nLumber Company, which operates mills in the\nCrow's Nest district. He states that business this\nseason decreased hy about one-half over that of\nlast season, due in a great, measure to over-production during the two previous seasons. Many\n;w mills were started on account of the pros-\ncctive big demand in Manitoba and the North-\nfest Territories, but this trade has either been\nipplied from other sources or has not come up\nexpectations. Extensive shipping of Ameri-\nin lumber into Southern Manitoba has, accord-\n|g to Mr. Leitch, cut off a big demand for the\nritish Columbia article, and while the majority\n; the mills are hanging on, quite a few which\nIrmerly ran all winter are closing down now\n)d will remain idle until next spring.\n'Speaking of the prospects, Mr. Leitch said:\nVhile I consider that the amount of stock on\nland in British Columbia has considerably discounted the demand for the next couple of years.\nthere are indications that next season will see an\nimprovement in the demand in the Territories\nand Manitoba. There has not been much serious\ndamage to the limits by fire in our section during the past summer, notwithstanding the reports\nwhich were sent out concerning alleged disastrous conflagrations. The parts destroyed by the\nfire were in the majority of cases old tracts which\nhad been worked over. The damage to the green\nstanding timber is very light so far as we can\njudge without actually going over the ranges.\"\nProspects for Pole Contracts.\nContractors in the West who have made a specialty of taking out poles for railroad^ telegraph and\ntelephone companies are much interested in the\nannouncement made recently that charters are being sought by three companies, which propose to\nenter the field now covered almost exclusively\nin Canada by the Bell Telephone Company, which\nhas a capital of twenty millions. A Dominian\ncharter is being applied for by Lawyer Hal Me-\nGivern, of Ottawa, Ont., for unnamed clients, who\nintend to establish telephone enterprises in Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.\nPotts & Hubbard of Winnipeg, have given notice\nof an application to be made at the next session\nof the Manitoba Legislature for a charter enabling their clients to build and operate a local\nand long distance telephone system in the province. Hough, Campbell & Ferguson have also\ngiven notice that at the next session of the Manitoba Legislature they will apply for a charter\ngiving their clients similar powers. It is said that\nthe people behind these applications are wealthy\ncapitalists in every case, and the indications arc\nthat Canada is on the eve of unprecedented activity in telephone construction.\nRed Deer Lumber Company.\n0. A. Robertson, president of the Red Deer\nLumber Company and the Northwest Colonization Company, is in the city, accompanied by A.\nS. Burrows, vice president of the company. Both\nthese gentlemen reside m St. Paul, but will re\nmam in the city till after the annual meeting of\nthe organizations with which they are connected\nhave held their annual meetings thi- month. The\nRed Deer Company is one of the most successful\nnf the lumber concerns operating in the Territories and for the past two seasmis has taken nut\nlarge cuts. It has a large saw null located at Red\nDeer, Alta., and its limits are sufficient tn last\nsome years.\nSprague Mill Finishes Season.\nThe Sprague Mill Company's mill in this city\nhas closed down for the winter, after having turned out the largest cut in its history, about nine\nmillion feet. The machinery nf the mill is to be\noverhauled during the winter and several improvements are to be added to the plant. The\nSprague Company has made marked progress dur\ning the past two years in the erection of sheds for\nthe storage nf finished lumber and two immense\nbuildings for this purpose have been finished dur\ning the season wdiich has inst closed. The company has sent a large force of men to the woods\nthis winter and will take out more logs than ever\nbefore.\nFavorable Season for Work.\nLumbermen in this district art' exceedingly\npleased with the conditions which have characterized the work in the woods so far and the indications are that the amount nf wnrk done this\nwinter will far exceed that nf any previous season. The opening operations in the way nf cutting roads were favored by bright, frosty weather. The ground was well frozen before the\nsnow came three weeks ago. The snowfall has\nnot been too heavy tn make the wnrk inconvenient but it has been sufficient tn make hauling in\nthe bush easy.\nLumber Thieves Are Punished.\nRecently the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been subjected tn a great deal nf annoyance through theft of lumber from their\nyards, the offence being committed principally by\nEuropeans, who when confronted with the charge\nmaintained that they were not aware that it was\na crime to take lumber from a railway company.\nIt has been decided by the company to adopt\nharsher methods in connection with thi- condition of things for the future and already several\nindividuals have been \"up against it\" in the police court here. One of the latest offenders,\nGeorge Finney, has been sent to jail for three\nmonths, and John Kluckorski and Mike Klein\nhave been heavily fined by the magistrate.\nNew Station Almost Ready.\nThe new station for the Canadian Pacific Railway here will be handed over t\" the company by\nthe contractors. Peter Lvall & Sons on January\n1st. 1905. The structure is now almost completed\nand the work will be continued on the hotel during the winter. It will be completed a year from\nnext January.\nBUILDING ACTIVE.\nContinued Mild Weather in Toronto Good for\nTrade.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Legislative Changes Will be Good\nFor Ontario.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Death of Mr. John Bertram a Loss to the Community.\nToronto, Ontario, Dec. 16. Owing to the\ncontinued fine and comparatively mild\nweather there has been an unusually large\nvolume of building here during the late fall with\na brisk demand for lumber. Prices are generally\nfirm, with an upward tendency in the lower grades\nthe higher grades being somewhat, weaker. Deal\ners however show a disposition to buy cautiously\nand avoid carrying over large stocks.\nIn outside places the demand has been quiet \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThe season has been notable owing to th\"\ncrease in the importations of Southern\nwinch 1- being very largely used, and iln i, ire\nno signs of any decrease in this tendency, I\nare scarce and have steadily increasing m \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . ,\nthe manufacturers having but small quantities\non hand and a further rise in prices is antici; .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 1\nshortly. The quantity of shingles on the market\nis limited. Box lumber is a good deal so\nafter and an advance in prices is looked for on\naccount of the increasing demand.\nDecreased Log Output.\nIt appears certain that this seasons output .if\nlogs will show a considerable shortage as compared with previous years. All the operators mi\nthe Georgian Bay have smaller camps than last\nyear, The American demand shows signs of improvement ami manufacturers anticipate that extensive Orders will shortly be received from that\nquarter. A leading Georgian Ray operatoi recently made a sale of 3,000,000 feet at a considerable advance over the rates current\nin the earlier part of the season. Should\na marked revival ot this trade set in, a considerable advance in prices may be looked for a- the\nshortage in the Georgian Ray output is estimated at from 2$ tn 30 per cent. Reports from the\nRat Portage District, however, indicate that the\ncut will be considerably heavier than la-t season.\nLegislative Changes.\nRecent changes in the Ontario Government\nmay have an important bearing on the lumber\nindustry. A reorganization of the Ross administration has taken place some of the political\nJonahs having been thrown overboard, Lliliu\nJ. Davis, late Commissioner of Crown Lands,\ntwice unseated for corruption, ha- been retired,\nhis place being taken bv llmi. Alex. G. Mackay.\nof North Grey, a young man of comparatively\nlittle experience in pubjlic affairs. Hon. William A. Charlton, late Speaker of the House\nand a leading lumberman, was prominently mentioned in connection with the position, which\nhe was well qualified to fill, but it wa- felt that\nhi- relations with the Government a- an exten-\ntive holder nf timber limit- presented an insurmountable objection to his accepting a position\nin which he would be called upon to decide questions arising between the Government and the\nlimit holders. Instead of taking the Crown\nLamb, therefore he wis appointed Commissioner\nof Public Work-, but there is no doubt that his\nexpert knowledge of the lumber industry will\nenable him to make hi- influence felt in connection with the Government's timber policy, lb'\nis more familiar than any other man in the\nLegislature with the timber growing region- \"t\nXew Ontario,\nIn thi- connection it may be of interest to\nnote, as showing the perfunctory character ol\nthe administration as regards the Provincial timber resources, that on March 12th. toot. Mr.\nCharlton, then a private member of the Legislature, made a speech in which he estimated the\ntotal quantity of white pine timber on lands under license at S.ooo.ooo.ooo feet b. m. and 'he timber on the rest of the Crown domain at\n26,000.000,000 feet in all 34,000,000,000 feel\nenough, as he said, to last 150 years without taking re-growth into account.\nThree years later Hon. P.. -J. Davis, Commissioner of Crown Lands, speaking on February\nr8th, [004, estimated the white pine remaining\nunsold at 10.000,000,000 feet. Mr. Chant\nspeech, made in the interests of the Government,\nwent unchallenged at'the time, was accepts\nDavis and his colleagues as an expert pre-nation of the case and yet three years later, alter,\nas it is claimed, surveys and explorations\nproved the existence of additional pine area.\nthe responsible official puts the pine timber a\nif, billion feet less than Mr. Charlton's .un\u00C2\u00B0mr\u00C2\u00A3\nestimate. Isn't this a nice state of affairs. '\nProvincial Government is never tired of \u00C2\u00BBoa BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\ning of its Crown Lands policy and our vast timber resources and yet is so slack and unbusinesslike in its methods that it has never had anything like an estimate of the extent of those\nresources other than the sheerest guess-work. If\nMr. Charlton was right\u00E2\u0080\u0094and he has the reputation of knowing as much as any man on this\nquestion\u00E2\u0080\u0094then Mr. Davis displayed a degree of\nignorance and inattention to his duties, surprising even in a member of the Ross Cabinet.\nContemplated Changes Governing Timber Lands.\nIt is altogether probable that sonic changes in\nthe timber policy will shortly be made as a result of the reconstruction of the Cabinet. Their\nnature is foreshadowed in a couple of resolutions\nadopted at the Liberal-Conservative j\nadopted at the Liberal Convention held November 2.3rd and 24th in Toronto to help Mr. Ross\nin formulating a policy. The first of these is\nto the effect that before any more timber or pulp\nwood is sold, enquiry should be made by the\nGovernment to ascertain whether some method\nmight not be adopted by which the mature timber could be disposed of; to be cut under the\ndirection of forest rangers, leaving the remainder\nto be cut when sufficiently matured for market\nand favoring the adoption of the forest reserve\nsystem on all lands unfit for agriculture on which\npine has been cut. The second deals with the\npulpwood question and urges that in future concessions north of the Height of Land, where large\npulpwood areas and numerous water powers exist,\nboth should be submitted to public auction jointly, the purchaser to pay a bonus for right of\noccupation and an annual rental for the water-\npower as well as dues on the pulpwood. The\nmanner in which pulpwood concessions have\nhitherto been granted has given rise to numerous\nscandals, and it is to be hoped that public opinion\nwill be strong and persistent enough to force\na change in the direction indicated, even in the\nface of \"political exigencies\" and the readiness\nof favored corporations to subscribe handsomely\nto the Government corruption fund. In fairness\nhowever, it must be said that the Opposition are\nby no means blameless in the matter as in the\npast they have supported some of the most\nflagrant of these pulpwood deals.\nA Loss to the Community.\nThe lumber industry and the community generally have sustained a great loss by the death\nof John Bertram of this city. President of the\nCollins Inlet Lumber Co. and of the Rertram\nEngine Works of Toronto at the age of 67, Mr.\nRertram was a public-spirited, many-sided man\nand made his influence widely felt as a factor\nof progress in many directions. As a lumberman\nhe was thoroughly in sympathy with the movement for forest preservation, and brought his\npractical experience to bear upon the problem\nas to how the forests could be retained as a\nfuture source of supply without endangering\npresent interests or unduly hampering industry.\nHis own extensive limits on the north shore of\nthe Georgian Ray were regularly operated on forestry principles, only the larger trees being cut.\nHe rendered the Ontario Government signal service as a member of the Ontario Forestry Commission in 1897, the recommendations of which\nas to the setting aside of forest reserves formed\nthe basis of the policy subsequently adopted by\nthe Government-latterly his attention was more\nlargely absorbed by the engine works and the\nextensive shipbuilding industry, of which be was\nthe head. He was chairman of the Dominion\nTransportation Commission, his labors in connection with which were brought to a premature\ndose by the illness which resulted in his death.\nHe leaves a large family. His son Melville is\nVice-President of the Collins Tnlet Lumber Co.\nImperial Discrimination.\nThe attention of the Dominion Government\nhas been called to the obstacles which attend\ntheir efforts to push Canadian trade in\nGreat Britain by reason of the 1.1\ntense conservatism which prevails\nofficial circles as regards trade matters.\nAn extensive Rritish timber merchant in travelling in Rritish Columbia noticed some fine timber being prepared for ship decks for the United\nStates Navy. He conceived the idea that business could be done with the British Admiralty\nin this class of timber, and on his return to\nEngland made enquiries, but found that the specifications in use for Admiralty contracts called\nspecially for Swedish timber and that none other\nwould be accepted. No tender for Canadian\ntimber he was told would be looked at in that\nquarter. Further investigation showed that the\nsame absurd regulation prevailed in connection\nwith some of the great railway companies, Swedish timber alone being called for in their contracts. Strong representations will be made to\nthe Imperial Government as to the unfairness\nand impolicy by thus discriminating against the\nCanadian product.\nTo Get Over the Anti-Dumping Clause.\nThe Disston Saw Works, the headquarters of\nwhich are at Philadelphia, is compelled to establish a branch factory in Toronto in order to escape the Anti-Dumping Clause and retain its\ncustomers among Canadian mill men. Meanwhile the latter though debarred from buying\ncheap as a protection to the iron and steel interests have no anti-dumping clause or other\nlegislative protection for their home market, but\nare compelled to face the keenest competition in\na slaughter house market. No protection for\nthem!\nUP AND DOWN.\nSo Goes the Lumber Market on the Sound\u00E2\u0080\u0094Approach of Winter Puts An End to Building Operations\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lumbermen and\nRailroads\u00E2\u0080\u0094Japs as Shingle\nManufacturers.\nSeattle, Dec. 16.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094The mood of the lumber\nmarket is ever varying. Complaints are heard\nfrom one quarter to-day, while others are satisfied\nwith present conditions. But before you have\ntime tc investigate the cause for these virying\nconditions the tables are turned and the corn-\nplainer has become satisfied while the one who\nwas formerly content has found a take from the former the\nfcedar, tir and other timber on their concessions\nnot suitable to the manufacture of pulp. The syndicate, realizing the future possibilities of the\nlumber industry of this Province, is prepared tn\nput up a cas'h bund tn the Government, of not less\nthan $100,000 tn show their bona tides, and as soon\nas arrangement- are perfected will proceed tn\nerect a mill of large capacity for the purpose of\nentering the export trade oi British Columbia.\nIf this syndicate receives just treatment, which\nwe believe it will, the scheme will be a valuable\none for the Province.\nMOVEMENTS IN FORESTRY.\nAmericans are exhibiting a deeper interest in\nthe preservation of the remaining forestry area of\nthe country than ever before, Speaking of the Forestry Congress tn lie held in Washington the first\nweek in January next, Bradstreet's says: It will\nbe the endeavor of those attending tn establish a\nbroader understanding of the relations of the forest tn the great industries depending upon it; tn\nadvance the conservative use of forest resources\nfor both the presenl and future need- of those\nindustries, and to stimulate and unite all efforts\ntn perpetuate the forest as a permanent resource\nnf the nation. It is expected that men of pmmi\nnencc from almost every State in the Union will\nbe numbered among the delegate- tn the congress.\nRepresentatives will be present from the various\ndepartments nf the National Government whose\nactivities bear any relation t\" forestry work, and\nfrom associations which are in any way inten -t-\ned in the efforts of the congress. The proceedings\nof the meeting will possess a degree of interest\nfor the general public such as could not have been\nfelt in the days which forestry conventions were\ndoing their pioneer work.\nFrom Beaton comes the report that at Burr &\nBush's logging camp, 22 nun are now being employed, and that the timber being cut, 1- ot excellent quality.\nLUMBER TARIFF.\nVancouver Board of Trade Held An Important\nMeeting\u00E2\u0080\u0094Attended by Representatives\nof the Dominion House.\nTaking advantage of the presence of several\nmembers elect tn the Dominion House in Van\nCOUver, the Board nf Trade, thi- city, called a\nspecial meeting oi the members on Monday\nmorning, ,-th inst. There was a large and influential gathering and there can be no doubt\nthat the Provincial representatives present go to\nOttawa fully impressed with the importance of\nthe subject discussed.\nThe notice calling the meeting stated its purport was t<> discuss and explain tn the M. P.'s-\nelect the absolute necessity for placing a duty\nupon lumber imported into Canada from the\nUnited State-.\nThe chair was taken by Mr. 11. McDowell,\npresident oi the Board nf Trade. In calling the\nmeeting to order. Mr. McDowell -tated that it\nhail been brought about with a view to urging\nthe Federal Government to aid the lumbering industry by the imposition of a protective tariff.\nThe Necessity of a Duty Apparent.\nMr. J. G. Scott, manager of the Pacific Coast\nLumber Company, was the first speaker on the\nquestion, lie -aid that the matter had been gone\nover SO often that there was little new tn he\nsaid concerning it. The question had nut changed\nsince representations were last made to Ottawa,\nexcept that adverse conditions had become more\naggravated. He briefly referred tn the fact that\nthe lumber mills in the Southern State-, using\nblack and convict labor, were making Eastern\nCanada the dumping-ground of their product,\nThe imports of lumber into Canada, said Mr.\nScott, are increasing. Where in too,? the total\nimports aggregated 60,000,000 feet, the record for\n1004 shows that the importations will reach 140,-\n000,000 feet, and the prospects are that the increase will steadily advance utile-- protection is\nafforded the Canadian industry.\nA Question of Markets.\nMr. C. M. beecher. Assistant General Manager\nof the B, C. Mills, Timber and Trading Company,\nremarked in beginning that the gravity of the\nsituation was attested by the very large meeting,\nwhich included representatives nf all classes oi\nbusiness, lie -aid that it was impossible for\nthe lumber and shingle manufacturers nf British\nColumbia tn run their plant- profitably when\nshipments were being forced from the United\nStates on the only market that British Columbia\nhad. It was perhaps right that the duty should\nhave been removed on pitch pine at the time it\nwa-. but that necessity ha- now been done away\nwith, for, with the completion oi the ('. p. R.,\nit wa- possible tn get any quantities nf Douglas\nfir for the same work in the East, and the fir\nwas a much beter wood. Mr. Beecher mentioned\nthe fact that it wa- very difficult tn compete with,\nthe manufacturer in the United Mate-, who had\na market nf So,000,000 people, besides Hawaii, the\nPhilippines, Alaska and Canada, while Canadian\nmanufacturer- had tn -hare their only market in\nCanada with the Americans.\nCost of Equipment.\nHe -aid that where a mill would cost between\n$250,000 and $300,000 in Canada, in the United\nState- the amount would be hut $200,000 or\n$225,000. Thi- extra cost is caused by the duty\nmi machinery, and if the plant is boughl in Canada, the pric( is the same, for the duty is added.\nSupplies are also from 15 t'1 25 per cent, more,\nbecause nf the duty given the products nf the\nfarmer in the Territories. The millman's greatest\ndifficulty was tn get rid nf hi- common lumber\nin a market which was so restricted Many mills\nfound themselves in financial difficulties in relying\nupon rough lumber a- an asset, for which there\nwas no market, and rough lumber formed from\n75 to So per cent, of the whole production. Were\nthe Canadian market held for Canadian- there\nwould be little trouble in disposing nf this pari\nol the product, The opposition tn th,. ,1,,^\nlargely from the farmers, and while then\nreason for tree lumber years ago, it i- (tifi\nnow. There are mill- all over the COunti \\nRal Portage to the Coast, the capacity ol\n1- much beyond the possible home consumi\nBy a natural law the competition would\nprices down\nMr. I bmcan Ross, M. P. for Yale Cariboo,\ned at about what price lumber was deliver.\nWinnipeg ami wa- informed by Mr. Beecher\nthe juice was about $18, $11 or $12 of u\nwent t\" pay freight charge-.\nThe Retailer.\n\"Do you -ell only tn the 'combine?'\" Mr 1\na-ked, and Mr. Beecher -aid there wa- no\nbine.\" It wa- legitimate in all avenues of \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ntn deal with the consumer^ through retai -.\nwithout whom it would be a direct impossib ''.\ntn carry on business. The farmer wa- the man\nwho was being obliged by the retailer- and tie\nmanufacturers, When he built a house an.'. . , ,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\na imte for the lumber, the first thing he did when\nhe disposed \"t Ins crop was tn buy a contigu ms\nsection, or half-section nf land, and if the crops\nwere had the millman had to foot the lull.\nOne factor in the possible settlement of the\nmatter 111 the mind nf Senator Teinplemau was\nwhether the British Columbia milimen\nhope that the Government could arrive at a ''\"ii-\nclusion without a consideration \"t what the\ndealer in the N'nrthwe-t charged the consume!\nlie had heard that the dealer- charged from 20\nto 30 per cent profit possibly more, Senator\nTemplemah referred tn the dealer-' charges as\nexorbitant, and he a-ked if they were not put\nin the position \"i making such charges by the\nmilimen.\nIn reply tn thi- Mr. Beecher -tated that the\nmilimen had no \"strings\" on the dealer- I he\nmilimen cannot afford t\" deal direct with the\nconsumer from a financial standpoint. The former\ngives paper for hi- purchases tn run a long tune,\n(inly local firms can accept or carry such -crtir-\nity. The charge that price- were extortionate\nwa- not generally true, 20 per cent, being the\nprevailing profil and thai was perfectly legitimate,\nThe retail dealer- were not agents for the wholesalers and were beyond their power.\nWould Reciprocity Suit?\n\"If the duty were off, would you he 111 favor\nof reciprocity?\" Senator Templeman enquired.\n\"Unquestionably,\" was the reply.\n\"How much better would you he off? Mr.\nRoss a-ked.\nMr Beecher pointed out that the market then\nwould be considerably larger, giving ingress particularly into California. If the two countries\nwere placed on a,, equal basis, not a word would\nhe heard from the Coasl manufacturer-, bill It\nwa- questionable if reciprocity would suit\nnumerous milimen. ' )ne of the feature- n the\nPuget Sound Hade 1- that when a vessel 1- '0!\ning export lumber, there i- another -hip \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '\n-ide taking the other lumber, ami thus the whi\nproduct is disposed of,\nThe Retailer a Necessity.\nReference wa- made bv Mr. ScOtl to the i|iieS-\n,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E ,,,- ,i\u00E2\u0080\u009E. retailer. He asked Senator- retnpte-\nman and Mr. Ross what they would think if tney\nwere in the retail clothing business, and a \ >\u00C2\u00B0 \"\nsaler came from another city and took nrae\nfor suits of clothes? He said that nearly every\nmillman received letters from farmers who\nbed together to gel a carload ol ,anJ ./', ai\u00C2\u00AB\nthese applicants were referred to the retail 1\ncrs in that section, and if, there were no \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'^\nthen business mighl be done direct. He *\nthat the profil was nol mure than 20 pel '|\nand nut of this the retailer had to pay '' \u00C2\u00BB '\ncartage, storage, etc, He was glad thai he j ^\ntimi of reciprocity was broughl up, and ^\nwould be willing to take his chances, 1 ^\nwas reciprocity in all the manufactured\nnecessary to produce lumber, machine! -\nplies, etc. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n11\nThe Rat Portage Lumber Go'y, Limited\nTELEPHONE NO. 354\nVANCOUVER BRANCH\nMANUFACTURERS OF\nP. O. BOX 778\nFIR, CEDAR AND SPRUCE\nBuilding Material of all Kinds Delivered Promptly. Hardwood in Car Lots.\nMILL AND OFFICE8:\nSOUTH GRANVILLE STREET BRIDGE\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nThomas Kirkpatrick\nMANUFACTURER OF\nDaily Capacity, 250,000\nHead Office and Mill, HASTINGS, B. G.\nOrders Solicited and Correspondence\nPromptly Attended to\nTelephone B 1425\nTHE\n\"SHAY\" Locomotive\nManufactured by LIMA LOCOMOTIVE & MACHINE CO.\nSpecially designed for HEAVY GRADES and SHARP\nCURVES, in railroad, logging and mining operations. 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HOFIUS & GO.\nOFFICES\n72-74 Dexter Horton Building,\n512 Chamber of Commerce,\nSEATTLE, WASH.\nPORTLAND, ORE.\nThe Menz Lumber Co.\n26 Merchants Bank Building, WINNIPEG, MAN.\n == MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS =\u00E2\u0080\u0094=\u00E2\u0080\u0094=\nBritish Columbia Red Cedar Shingles S^u5\u00C2\u00A3*ZS\nUnlimited Capacity for filling orders promptly for all kinds of Lumber, including Hardwoods and Maple flooring\nWrite us for Special Quotations whenever in the Market 12\nBRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n:l\nPeculiarities of Tariff.\nMr. Frank Paterson, of the Canadian Pacific\nLumber Co., of Port Moody, decried the policy\nof building up Manitoba at the expense of British\nColumbia. He asked why, if it was desired to\nabnormally protect the prairie farmer, the duties\non other commodities used by him should not be\ntaken off, when, if there was no duty, he could\npurchase more cheaply on the other side of the\nline than he could in Canada. Many things used\ndaily by the Northwest farmer are protected by\nthe tariff.\nOn the other hand, Mr. Paterson continued,\nthe lumber manufacturers here import 75 per\ncent, of their supplies from the Territories, and\npay high prices because of the protection afforded\nthe farmer in this respect. He contended that\nthere should be some \"give and take\" in these\nmatters. Wheat flour was protected to cents per\nbarrel; wheat. 12 cents per bushel; oatmeal. 20\nper cent.; oats, 10 per cent.; beef, two cents per\npound; horses, 20 per cent.; butter, four cents\nper pound; cheese, three cents. Every day the\nfarmer was paid tribute, for these articles were\ncommon necessities. He did not object to the\nfurtherance of the interests of the Northwest for\nthis meant eventually the development of British\nColumbia, but he did not think all the benefit\njjghould be given the Territories.\nTouching on the matter of exorbitant prices of\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0etailers, Mr. Patterson said that in some cases\n]hat might be so. In places far removed, where\nfade was small, and charges high, it was ne-\nfssary that profits should be large, or business\n>uld not be carried on. The farmer would\nther pay these prices than go without lumber\npll, as he would were there no retailer there.\nsaid that a duty would mean the increased\nIllation of $100,000 or $150,000 per month in\nProvince, resultant from larger business.\nA Liberal Protectionist,\nlr. L. A. Lewis, of the Brunette Mills, New\nninster, asked Mr. Ross if he would support\n|e plea for duty if the lumber manufacturers\nHthdrew from the Western Retail Lumber Deals' Association.\n\"I will support the imposition of a duty whether you withdraw or not,\" said Mr. Ross, amid\napplause, adding that he was only asking questions to get information to offset arguments advanced in the East.\nLumber Nets $6.00 Per Thousand.\nMr. L. A. Lewis said that in Winnipeg recently\na sale of 700,000 feet of lumber had been made\nby an American firm wdiich netted them only\n$6.00 per thousand. British Columbia men could\nnot meet such a cut as that. He said that he\nwas of the opinion that the consumer did not\nget the benefit of the tariff, as the price was regulated by the price of the British Columbia lumber. He gave the different figures to show that\nwere the importation of lumber stopped, it would\nmean the employment of one thousand or more\nmen, and the circulation of about $1,000,000 in\nthis Province. He figured on 50,000,000 feet per\nyear, stating that the statistics showed over\n100,000,000 feet of imported lumber, and on this\nbasis from 650 to 700 more men would be employed, and $525,000 at least put out in wages.\nHe ventured the assertion that each mill carried\nthe Northwest farmer to the extent of $20,000\nor $40,000. He though that the milimen would\nbe willing to consider the question of dropping\nthe connection with the Western Retail Lumber\nDealers' Association if it would make their\nchances better of securing favorable condition.\n1\nNot a Hopeful Outlook.\nMr. W. C. Wells. M. P. P., who was one of\nthe delegates to Ottawa last year in connection\nwith this matter, said if he thought for one\nmoment that the imposition of a duty on lumber\nwould mean additional burden for the farmer,\nthen he would say no more, but he did not think\nit would be. He told how the manufacturers had\nbeen forced into the Western Retail Lumber\nHealers' Association, but now there was 110 Association that the milimen wen- bound to recognise. It thi' imports continued, the British Columbia mills would have to shut down, and the\nresult would be a shortage in supply in a short\ntune, and very high prices. If the manufacturers\nhad the Canadian market i<>v themselves, a uni\nform trade could he depended upon, which would\nresult in benefit to the consumer. He thought\nit was unreasonable that the Government should\nconsider exclusively the interests of one part of\nthe country at the expense of the other.\nAffects Other Lines of Business.\nMr. Colin P. Jackson, of C. P. Jackson & Co.,\nbriefly referred to the ramifications of the lumber industry and how the lumber industry was\nthe only mainstay of the Province, fishing being poor and mining in the future.\nMr. R. II. Alexander, spoke not so much as a\nlumberman as chairman of the British Columbia\nbranch of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. He pointed out how all manufacturers\nwere bound together, and no \"lie industry could\nbe disassociated from the others. He explained\nwho would suffer if the mills shut down, fur out\not every $100 received for lumber, $15 went to the\nmillman and $85 wa-- distributed as wages.\n\"Are you in favor of reciprocity?\" was Senator\nTempleman's quest for information.\n\"I am not,\" Mr. Alexander said, \"A- far as my\nown company is concerned, it would suit us most\ndecidedly. Mills on tide-water would be benefited, but the mills in the interior would not be.\"\n\"Could you prove that you have to pay more\ntor supplies, ami such like because of the protection given the Northwest farmer?\" Senator Tem-\npleman asked.\n\"Yes,\" was Mr. Alexanders' reply.\n\"Then I advise you to do it.\" was the Senator's\nsuggestion.\nMr. Alexander told how contractors for Canadian Government works used very large quantities of Southern pitch pme, when the Government might insist that British Columbia timber\nbe used. The railway companies, too, which received large subsidies from the people, brought\nin the big timbers, which could be easily supplied\nfrom this Province. He closed by commenting\nupon the very serious state <. C. M. T. & T. Co., also made a few-\nshort remarks, stating that this was one of the\nsubjects which would be brought up at a meeting of the executive of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association in Toronto thi- month, which\nwas to meet to consider what tariff amendments\nwere required.\nFrom the Financier's Side.\nMr. Campbell Sweeny, manager of the Bank of\nMontreal, supported tin- lumbermen in their petition, as In- was convinced it was only common\njustice that this industry should be protected. If\nthe members of Parliament were made to feel\nas the most ul people in respect to this matter\nthey would be a unit in insisting that Hritish Columbia should have justice from the Government\nat Ottawa.\nMr. William Murray, manager of the Canadian\nBank of Commerce, was of the same opinion as\nMr. Sweeny. Mr. Murray said he had just re\nturned from a trip to the South, and while in\nWashington learned that the manufacturers of\nlumber on Puget Sound were prepared to -hip\nrough lumber at the cost of the log to get needed\ncash.\nArguments Told.\nAt the conclusion of the speeches and arguments advanced by the lumbermen, Senator Tern\npieman stated that he and the members of the\nHouse of Commons present had acquired a great\ndeal of information about this vexed matter. Me\nsaid that he stood for the best interests of the largest representation of British Columbia, and\nwould certainly aid in laying the problem bei\nthe federal Cabinet. He Strongly advised 1\ninterested 011 a necessity of sending a deput\nt\" Ottawa to press the matter, and he advat\nduring the course of the general discussion, id*\nconcerning what manner of argument and pi\nshould be submitted by the delegates sent tn .\ntaw a.\nWe are informed that Senator Templenian\narranged for a meeting between delegates fr,\nBritish Columbia and the Government about |\n25th ol next month, and that a strong delegati -\nwill go to Ottawa to be at the meeting.\nAmong thost' present at the meeting were noticed; Hon. Senator Templenian, Messrs. Rail\nSmith, W. Sloan and Duncan Ross, recently elet\nted members of Parliament; James McNair, k.\nP. McLennan, A. K. Evans, Fred. Wade, E. !'.\nDavis, F, Buscombe, T. P. Paterson, J. (',. w |s\nVV. Godfrey, A Jukes, C. Sweeny, C. A. Cro<\nhie, II. Lockwood, P.wing Buchan, I). R. Laird,\nW. Murray, A. Erskine, J. G. Scott. John Hendr.\nP. Burnett, W. P. Salsbury, W. II. Malkin, K\nH. Alexander. II. T. Lockyer, 11. de Pencier, I'..\nII. Heap-. W. C. Wells, M. P. P., of Pall: :.\nR. II. II. Alexander. J. W. Hackett, Stuart I!\nderson, M. P. P., of Ashcroft; P.. J. McFeely, C.\nM. Beecher, W. G. McKenzie, Culm P. Jackson,\nJ. T. Moody, \\ . McRae, W. Skene, and R .1\ndine and L. A. Lewis, of Now Westminster,\nmany others.\nAt tin- Regular monthly meeting of the Vancouver Board of Trade, held on the 6th inst.,\namong other matters of interest on the lumbei\nman's behalf discussed and dealt with was tin\npassing of the following resolution, moved by Mr.\nColin F. Jack-on and seconded by Mr. K. P. Mc\n1 .eiinan :\n\"Whereas the existing tariff conditions, when\nby American lumber and shingles are on the free\nlist in Canada, while in the United State- Canadian lumber is taxed $2 per thousand and shingles So cents pt-r thousand, are very detr1111ent.il\nto the lumber industry in British Columbia, the\nmarket for second grade lumber, which forms\nthe largest proportion of the output being prac\ntically supplied by the United States manufa\nHirers; and whereas very large amounts of cap;\ntal are invested m the industry and very large\nnumber- of men are employed; be it resolved that\nthe Vancouver Board of Trade cannot too str.'iiK'*-\nly impress upon the Dominion Government the\nnecessity of import duties being enacted equal t\"\nthose imposed by the United States; and further\nthat the question is urgent and in the opinion of\nthis Board should receive the attention of the Government at the earliest possible moment ;and ho\nit further resolved that a copy of this resolution\nbe forwarded to the Boards of Trade m the Province asking for their endorsation, Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Cabinet Ministers, and the members of Parliament of British Columbia.\"\nIn seconding this motion Mr. McLennan remarked that \"if the ignoring attitude of the Government was continued, we had better secede'\nMr. J. G. Scott, in speaking to the motion, remarked that the Government was paying $50,000\nto assist tin- supplying of 0,000.000 feet oi lumber\nannually to Mexico, business already held by Americans, while by a single stroke of the pen '\"'\none motion the market of the Territories could\nbe given to British Columbia lumbermen, which\nmeant a shipment of over 9,000,000 feet per month\nTO OVERCOME THE DUTY.\n'fhe Disston Saw Works, of Philadelphia, has\ncompleted arrangements for the erection of a saw\nfactory in East Toronto< at a cost of $150,000. It\nis claimed that this action is the result of the aim\ndumping clause of the Canadian tariff. Competition is keen owing to the British preference,\nwhich places the American manufacturers .it a\ndisadvantage. As American capitalists -ire large\nly interested in lumbering in Ontario .and\ncompelled t\" manufacture into lumber before '\nporting, the saw trade is of sufficient importam\nto warrant the move as being about the only V '\nin which the Disstons can hold their trade. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n13\nm\nLXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXj\nH M\nttXIIi::XXXXIXXXIIXXIXXXIXXIXXIXIXXXIXIXIIIIXXI5XIXXXIXIHXXXXIXXXXXi1\nG. P. Wells, of the Palliser mills left early this\nmonth for the east on a business trip.\nMr. T. G. Jones, accountant for the Crow's Nest\nPass Lumber Company, at Wradner, was married on the 24th tilto., at Cranbrook to Miss L.\nM. I larper, of Moyie.\nPacific Coast Pipe Co., Ld.\nThe Crow's Nest Lumber Co., at Wardner,\nclosed down for the season the first of this month.\nThe Sydney Lumber Company's mill at Sydney, near Victoria, has again had trouble with the\nTimber Inspector's department, and the sheriff\nhas been in possession.\n1551 6RANYILLE STREET\nVANCOUVER, - B. C.\nP. O Box 863\nTelephone 1494\nCushing Bros., of Calgary, are installing one of\nCowan & Co.'s 36-inch sanders in their planing\nmill.\nErnest Belanger, a logger employed by the\nPorto Rico Lumber Company, of Ymir and Nelson, was instantly killed last week by a branch\nof a tree striking him.\nManufacturers of\nThe Moyie Lumber Company's mill at Moyie,\nhas been shut down for the season, but the planers are now running.\nMr. F. J. Anderson, representing Winnipeg\ncapital, has been looking up some timber limits in\nSouth East Kootenay.\nOrders for over a million feet of lumber have\nbeen placed by the Montreal & Boston Mining\nSyndicate for use in their mines and smelter in\nSouthern British Columbia.\nManager Leitch, of the East Kootenay Lumber\nCompany, Cranbrook, has been visiting Winnipeg\nin the interests of his company.\nW. F. Newton, of Grand Forks, has leased some\ntimber limits on the North Fork of the Kettle\nRiver, and expects to cut about 6,000,000 feet for\nthe market by next spring.\nThe big mill of the Crow's Nest Pass Lumber\nCompany, at Wardner, has been closed down, but\nthe planing mill will be kept running.\nLemon & Gonnason of Victoria, have placed\nan order with Cowan & Co., of Gait, for a 45-\ninch band resaw. carrying a 5-inch blade. This\nwill be of the Mershon type.\nA. E, Gardner, owner of the Danville sawmill,\nacross the line from Grand Porks. B. C, died suddenly from heart disease on the 7th inst.\nS. F. McKay, of Poplar Creek, who owns a sawmill at that promising burg, but who has had a little difference with the sheriff, has straightened\nthis up and got back to business.\nThe frame of Bragdon & Johnston's new mill\nat Salmon Arm has been erected, and it is expected the mill will be in operation early next year.\nThe Assessment Court for Revelstoke Riding\nhas received notice of objections to the assessment of an extensive timber area in the Riding\nowned bv an American syndicate.\nMachine Banded\nWire Wound\nWooden Stave\nWater Pipe\nFor City and Town Water Systems, Tire\nProtection, Power Plants, Hydraulic Min-\nng, Irrigation, Etc.\nONE-HALF THE COST OF\nIRON PIPE AND BETTER.\nWRITE FOR CATALOGUE\nA carload of machinery arrived last week at\nSalmon Arm for the Salmon Arm Lumber Company's new mill at that point.\nThe Columbia River Lumber Company's mill\nat Golden has closed down for the season. The\nmill has had a splendid run on account of the open\nseason.\nThe Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company intends to clear from obstructions the\nTsolum and Courtenay Rivers, V. L, so as to\nmake same suitable for log driving.\nA. Huntly's portable sawmill will be located in\nthe neighborhood of Enderby and be ready for\nbusiness at the beginning of next season.\nMARINE AND STATIONARY\nEngines and Boilers\nShips, Yachts\n... and Tugs\nWe manufact ure^\nMarine Boilers of all\nkinds as well as Horizontal Boilers as shown\nin cut.\nOur Marine and\nStationary Engines are\ndecidedly highest grade\nand our Ships, Yachts\nand Tugs have everywhere given the utmost\nsatisfaction.\nWe know we can\ngive you first-class\nwork and solicit a\nchance to quote you.\nTHE BERTRAM ENGINE WORKS CO., Ltd. 1\u00C2\u00B0*\u00C2\u00B0\"\u00E2\u0084\u00A2:\n/\n1/' I\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I\n14\nRRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nJ. A. CUNNINGHAM\nM. R. 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Laps will not come apart\n\" Heart,\" Extra Heavy\n\"Crescent,\" Regular Weight\n\"Neptune,\" Waterproof\n\"Special Planer,\" also Waterproof\nAny one of the above, if adapted to work required, is\nTHE MOST ECONOMICAL BELT ON EARTH\nLEATHER\nBOWERS RUBBER CO.,SANJ2SS22.,8CO\n\"OWL\" BELT, adapted for Planers, Dynamos, Blowers and Shingle Machines\n\"LIVE OAK\" BELT, main drive and heavy work\n\"RELIANCE\" BELT, general Saw Mill Machinery\nALL OF THE ABOVE FULLY WARRANTED.\n.\nKPFflAI TIF^ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"HUXLEY VALVES\" the best and cheapest on the market, Blacksmith Coal, Babbit Metals,\n01 Ll/l/iLIILo . sterling Emery Wheels, Stack Paint, Mill and fire Hose, Asbestos Coverings '\nBEFORE ORDERING SECURE OUR PRICES.\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nARROWHEAD\nLUMBER\nCOMPANY, Ltd\nARROWHEAD, B. C.\nMANUFACTURERS OF FINEST GRADES OF\nFlooring, Ceiling,\nSiding,\nFinish,\nShip Lap and all kinds of ]j\nCedar, Pine, Fir, Spruce and Hemlock Products\nGANG SAWED LUMBER A SPECIALTY BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n15\nIn consequence of a great demand for lumber\nfor building operations, the local saw mill at Ferguson, B. C, is doing double shift, and has all it\ncan do to keep even with the demand.\nConsiderable logging is being done in the Mara\ndistrict of Okanagan. The Rothesay Lumber\nCompany have a camp on I). F. Innes' place and\nare also taking logs from several more ranchers.\nThe portable sawmill owned by Mr. Greehow,\nwhich has been working near Vernon during the\npast season, has been moved to Darkis, about\n12 miles from Summerland, on Okanagan Lake.\nThe Kamloops Lumber Company has sent out\na number of men to their logging camps, in the\nMable Lake valley, and a successful season's work\nis anticipated.\nChar]es Fstmere, C. F., contemplates a trip to\nPort Simpson and the adjacent country on behalf\nof a South East Kootenay syndicate to locate\ntimber limits tributary to the Grand Trunk Pacific.\nGeary & Doyle have taken the contract for cutting saw logs for the Crow's Nest Lumber Company at Wardner, and have a crew of 30 men at\nwork on the east side of the Kootenay river near\nSheep creek.\nMessrs. J. II. Whittleton & McKinnon, of Calgary, are making arrangements to instal a planing\nmill at that point and have placed an order for\na full set of woodworking machinery with Cowan\n& Co., of Gait.\nAccording to report from Golden, the head office of the Columbia River Lumber Co., the company's mill at Beaver will be closed down for\na year unless the conditions materially improve\nfrom what they now are.\nContractor George Hunter, of Cranbrook, has\nsigned a contract with the Cranbrook Sash &\nDoor Company for the building of 500 cattle\nguards for the C. P. R. He is to furnish 40 each\nweek. This contract will take 400,000 feet of lumber, and will keep Mr. Hunter busy for some time\nto ccjme.\nJames Leigh & Sons, of Victoria, B. C, have\npurchased a planer and matcher from Cowan &\nCo., of Gait. This is to be one of the company's\nNo. () styles, planing 24 inches wide, 6 inches thick\nand matches 15 inches wide. It weighs 15.500\npounds and will be one of the finest machines in\nuse in British Columbia.\nA proposal has been submitted to the Vernon\nCity Council to take over the electric lighting\nplant, which for a considerable time has been run\nat a loss of some $3,000 annually to the city. It\nis proposed to utilize Shuswap Palls, .>.=, miles\nfrom Vernon, which it is estimated is capable of\ndeveloping -'.500 horse power.\nBlue & Deschamp's mill on China Creek, near\nRossland, has been shut down for the season. It\nis claimed that American lumber in the Northwest has caused such competition that the company is unable to enter the market. If conditions\nimprove the mill may resume business in April\nnext. Twenty-live men have been thrown out\nof employment.\nThe property of the Fernie Manufacturing\nCompany, \"f Fernie, wdiich has been in '.he hands\nof an assignee for some months, was offered for\nsale on the 10th inst, but failed to bring enough\nto satisfv the demand of the creditors. Mr. I).\nV. Mott was the highest bidder, offering $15,000.\nIt is said that the limits and building and plant is\nworth in the neighborhood of $50,000.00.\nMr. llanbury, of the llanbury Manufacturing\nCompany, who is erecting a lumber factory at\nElk, on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, has placed\nan order with Cowan & Co. for a heavy carload\nof wood-working machinery, including a 15-incn\n4-side moulding machine, a power feed rip saw\nand other smaller machines. Mr. Hanbury's intentions were referred to in our October issue.\nThe Thompson River Lumber Co. of Kamloops, last week sold to Mr. R. J. McNah, of that\ncity, their mill, situated at the east end of Kamloops. The property was acquired on behalf of\na new company now being formed and who are\napplying for incorporation. Several improvements will be made to the plant, and the mill\nwill continue in operation this winter as long as\nthe weather and log supply will permit. Mr. A.\nBauman will be the manager for the company.\nLogging activity is commencing in'the various\ncamps in South East Kootenay, and the Crow's\nNest Pass Lumber Company has let a number of\ncontracts. B. Lundin has a big contract, and has\na force of men at Skookum Chuck. Contractor\nBrady has a crew at Wolf Creek and good progress is being made. J. W. Blake and A. J. Miller have also established independent camps at\nSkookum Chuck and it is estimated that about\n5,000,000 feet of logs will be sent down the Kootenay next summer.\nManager McCormick, of the Kamloops Lumber\nCompany, whose headquarters are in Fnderby,\nhas been visiting Kamloops looking over the construction of the new mill at Kamloops. The Enderby mill has been closed down for the season,\n*>*RJfff|3\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ~\" x?\n..,_J\nWateroua Double Cutting Band Mill being installed in the\nKamloops Lumber Cos Mill at Kamloops, B. C,\nbut it is said that none of the men will be laid off,\nthe married men being employed in the local yard\nand positions offered to the married men in the\nbuilding of the new mill at Kamloops. According\nto local reports the company has about 8,000000\nfeet of lumber piled in the yards, and is making\nregular shipments to the Northwest each week.\nThe Kamloops Lumber Company must have\nbeen quite a boon to the settlers in and around\nEnderby since it took over the mill at that point.\nIt is claimed that the company bought over 7.-\n000.000 of logs from settlers between Mable Lake\nand Lumby, paying therefor $3.50 per 1,000 feet.\nThe following season will see the territory greatly extended, as the company proposes to extend\nits logging operations as far as Sugar Lake, and\nto facilitate the driving of logs will clear the obstructions in the Shuswap River between Sugar\nLake and Shuswap Falls. From the settlers' point\nof view the returns from logs has covered the\ncost of clearing the land.\nMr. O. P. Boynton, of Washburn, Wis., has\nbeen appointed manager of the new P.Ik Lumber\n& Manufacturing Company, at Fernie, and has\ntaken charge of the work of construction. The\nerection of the company's large new mill is proceeding rapidly. The foundation of solid piling\nis completed and the frame work of the firstjUory,\n18 feet in height, is rapidly going up.\npicks\" fifty-nine feet in length and fourteen inches square are going into the structure. The\nframe will be covered as rapidly as possible, so that\nthe inside work may be done during the inclement weather. The building will be completed\nby the end of April. The company will erect\nsome fifty cottages in West Fernie for the use of\nits employees.\nA fatal and rather peculiar accident happened\nearly this month at the logging camp of Blue &\nDeschamps, near Rossland, by which a logger\nnamed Thomas Mathieu lost his life. Mathieu\nand a companion were engaged in felling a large\ntree. It had been cut through and was tottering\nto a fall when Mathieu and his companion sought\nsafety by getting out of the line where they\nthought the tree would land. Mathieu was a few\nfeet to one side of the place toward which the\ntree was falling, but stood directly under a sapling\nof six inches in diameter, which was inclined considerably from the perpendicular. The big tree\nin falling struck the sapling near the base, and\nthe sapling in falling struck Mathieu on the top\nof the head, felling him to the ground and fracturing his skull.\nThe new mill being erected at Fernie by the\nFlk Lumber and Manufacturing Company will\nhave a daily capacity of 150,000 feet per day. The\ncompany has purchased 25 carloads of mill machinery from the works of the Allis Chalmers Co.\nat Ashland, Wis. The mill will be equipped with\nheavy circular saws on one side and a double\ncutting Allis band mill on the other, in addition\nto dthe latest improved labor saving devices that\ngo to make the up-to-date mill. The boiler power\nwill be 500 horse power, consisting of two independent batteries of boilers, three in one battery and four in the other. To run the sawmill\na 500 horse power Corliss engine will be used\nwith a 75 horse power for the planing department.\nThe company aim to have complete equipment,\nincluding machine and blacksmith shops and el c-\ntric light plant. For lire protection they have a\n1.000 gallon pump, with a sprinkling system that\nwill be attached to pipes running through the\nyards.\nRESOLUTION ADOPTED.\nThe following resolution has received the unanimous endorsation of the Boards of Trade of British Columbia:\nWhereas, American rough lumber is at present\nbeing imported in large quantities into Manitoba\nand the Northwest Territories free of duty, to\nthe great detriment of the lumber industry of\nCanada; and\nWhereas, the lumber is being sold to the consumer at the price of Canadian rough lumber, the\ndifference in price being absorbed by the middlemen, and\nWhereas, the lumber manufacturers agree not\nto make any increase in prices, therefore\nBe it resolved, that this Board of Trade urge\nupon the Dominion Government that an equalization in the duty on rough lumber be established\nimmediately between the tariffs of Canada and\nthe United States.\nPROTECTION OF OUR FORESTS.\n'Tooth-\nAt a recent meeting of the Board of Directors\nof the Canadian Forestry Association, a resolution\nwas passed expressing the opinion that in view\nof the annual destruction of timber in British Columbia and the difficulty of guarding the forests\nfrom fire, it is desirable that the Bush Fire Act\nof that Province should be amended so as to prohibit the starting of fires for the clearing of land\nbetween the first day of May and the first day of\nNovember in each year, unless a special permit\nfor that purpose be granted by the forest ranger\nor other officers appointed for the district in\nwhich such permission is asked. The British Columbia Government were furnished with copies of\nthe resolution, and it is to be hoped that the matter will not. be \"pigeonholed.\"\n1 16\nHRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ll\n111\nis\ntfXXXX];iXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXIXXXXX7.XIX-.CXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXl\nUancouVer CC Uicu\lhj |\nxxxxxixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxxxxxzxixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxil\nL\nTin.- Huntting-Lea Lumber Company closed\ndown on the _'4tli inst.\nThe North Pacific Lumber Co. at Barnet, lias\nbeen closed down for the season.\nMr. G. C. Hinton, of the Hinton Electrical\nCompany, left last week for the East on business.\nII. L. Jenkins, a prominent lumberman of Minneapolis, spent a few days in Vancouver this\nmonth.\nOur Victoria correspondent advises us that\nthere is absolutely \"nothing doing\" of any interest\nto our readers.\nThe Cowichan Lumber Company, of Duncans,\nV. I., have a large force of men logging on the\nCowichan River.\nVictoria has had a building boom and will have\nrecord for the past year which will far exceed\nny year since Mjoo.\nMr. Cooke, of the firm of Cooke & Tait, left\nst week on a visit to his home in Orillia, where\nwill spend the holidays.\nhe Royal City Mills, at New Westminster, will\n;tal a 15-inch, 4-side moulder, for which an\ner has been placed with Cowan & Co., of Gait.\nr. W. F. Huntting. of the Huntting-Lea Lum-\nCompany, was married last month at Duluth.\nn., to Miss Marion Day, of that place. Con-\nillations.\nr. A. S. McKenny, representing the Gutta\nrcha & Rubber Co.. of Toronto, returned this\n'eek from an extensive trip through the Koo-\nfenay country.\nMr. W. C. Wells, M. L. A., of Palliser, was a\nprominent figure at the several meetings held 011\nthe Coaestinati< m.\nCardiff, U. K.\nSydney, N. S.\nCallao\t\nKobe, Japan .\nSydney \t\nW\n14\u00E2\u0080\u0094German ship Adolph | 1651\n23\u00E2\u0080\u0094British bark Linlithgowshire ... 1357\n4\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Miowera ; 1888\n14\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Ping Suey \ 4150\n31 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 British steamer Moana | 2414\nApr. 8\u00E2\u0080\u0094 British ship Agamemnon |\niS\u00E2\u0080\u0094British bg. Sussex : 1212\n28\u00E2\u0080\u0094British ship Belford I 1771\n20\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamship Aorangi |\n30\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamship Ningchow\n30\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamship Ningchow\nMay 3\u00E2\u0080\u0094Am. schooner Lottie Bennett ...\n7\u00E2\u0080\u0094Am. schooner Americana j\n27\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Miowera \t\n31\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Hyson \\n31\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Hyson !\n31\u00E2\u0080\u0094British steamer Hyson \t\nJune 24\u00E2\u0080\u0094British ship Manuka \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n24\u00E2\u0080\u0094British ship Calchas \t\n27\u00E2\u0080\u0094British ship Tartar \t\n30\u00E2\u0080\u0094British ship County of Kinross..'\nJuly 20\u00E2\u0080\u0094British barque Donna Francesca\n20 British str. Aorangi ]\n22\u00E2\u0080\u0094British str. Stentor :\n22\u00E2\u0080\u0094British str. Stentor ;\n22\u00E2\u0080\u0094British str. Stentor '\nBritish bark Hawthornbank ....'\nBritish steamer (lanfa ''\nBritish steamer Miowera \t\nBritish steamer Manuka '\nBritish ship I nverness \t\nBritish Barque 11 an dd \t\nBritish Ship I lalew 1 \t\nBritish Steamer Aorangi |\nBrilish Steamer Act.\n- 1\n8,\nOct.\n(8.\n(let.\n14.\nOct.\n1 l\nNov.\n1.\nNov.\nin.\nNov.\n10.\nNov.\n10.\nNov.\nto.\nDate\nJan.\n26-\nFeb.\n13-\nII-\nMar.\n7-\n22-\nMay\n>4\nMay\n30\nAug.\n13\n28\nSep.\n-M\nOct.\n20.\n( let.\n22.\nNov\n2evi'ii]\"Tt. Lngland\nLondon. England .\n.Suva. Fiji\t\nSydney, N. S. VV.\n1555\n2163\nd Calais\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ranee\ncm\nu88 I<\n1200\n2100\nTHE B.\nIN 1904.\nFeet.\n1.584.227\n1,430,308\n1,806,123\n28,070\n120,857\n196.941\n1,369,442\n1,125.789\n44,029\n119,638\n35.638\n128.588\n1,009,440\n1,621,165\n40.841\n4-'.075\n153.700\no44.30d\n1.023,654\n25,100\n168,017\n26,624\n70,080\n30,716\n29,361\n21.386\n1,308,662\n1.700.358\n37,')3?\n58,907\n28,740\n124,812\n1,134,100\n308,475\n23,065\n20,045\n242,174\n1,096.348\nr ,737.472\n36.062\n40,540\n16,325\n240.557\n48.161\n10.333\nC. MILLS\nValue.\nI $22,500 on\nj 19.950 00\nI 21,790 00\n1,010 00\n3,818 a\n4,704 00\n14.560 00\n11.031 00\n870 00\n1,400 On\n642 00\n1.575 nrl\n12.283 on\n16,087 00\n090 00\n841 On\n1,817 00\n6,710 00\n15,465 00\n274 on\n10,000 00\n33-^ on\n1,380 00\n474 on\n367 00\n626 00\n25,600 00\n10.815 00\n695 00\n1,178 on\n350 00\n3,426 on\n11,000 00\nS.?37 00\n403 00\n305 on\n2,785 00\n9,1 1.5 on\n17,400 00\n470 00\nI 10 Oil\n2,220 00\n325 00\n2,600 00\n870 00\n130 00\nFOREIGN LUMBER SHIPMENTS FROM CHEMAINUS.\nName and Rig. Tons. Destination. Feet.\nGerman bark Hydra I 742 [Antofagasta | 573,7l8\nChilian bark Admiral Tegcthoffj 892 |Antofagasta I 700,001\n-British ship Khybcr ! 1027 \ Freemantle I 1,665.310\nBritish steamer Longships I 2843 |Shanghai | 1,143.785\nAmerican bktn. James Johnson. . I 0,0.2 Shanghai | 1,233.870\nBritish barque Procyon ' 1995 I Iquique I 1.810.040\nAmerican bktn. T. P. Emigh ... j 023 Melbourne I 1.204.485\nGerman ship Schnrbek ' 2266 |Antofagasta\nChilian bark Antofagasta ' 1016\nBritish ship Olivebank ! -647\nChil. Bk. Admiral ! Rg*\nSc. \V. II. Talbol ' 743\n,,,r- Bk> Lindfield ] 2lr\u00E2\u0080\u009E, Melbourne.. ...... ...I 1,876,3^ | 18.8070\"\nGermany\n'Cape Town\n\ntofagasta\niSydncy\n\u00C2\u00BB4.48l\n802.228\n2.081.564\n2,517.154\n710.104\n1.000,823\nValue.\n|$ 6,682 00\nI 8,250 on\nI 10.275 00\nI 13.6S7 00\nj 15,020 00\nI 20,582 on\nI T 2.705 n0\nI 8.575 00\nI 41.045 00\nI 24.781 00\nI 7.084 no\n9.951 00 BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n17\n\"AMPHIBIA\" Waterproof Leather Belting.\n\"CROWN BRAND\" Tanned Lace Leather..\nASK FOR PRICES AND SAMPLES.\nP\nFRANK\nDARLING\nSelling Agent\nMOLSONS\nBANK CHAMBER8,\nVANCOUVER,\nB. C.\nMessrs. Small & Bucklin, wdio are applying for\nincorporation of their lumber companyt have also\nmade application for permission to remove obstructions and clear the Upper Pitt River for log-\ndriving purposes.\t\nIn our last issue mention was made of a lire\nat the property of the Hazelmere Lumber Co.\nat Hazelmere. ()ur attention is called to the fact\nthat it was the dry kiln of the Northern Shingle\nMill which was destroyed.\nMr. Lea. of the Huntting-Lea Lumber Company, of Vancouver has disposed of his interest\nin the firm to his partner, Mr. Huntting, who will\ncarry on business at their mills at False Creek\nand Cedar Cove. Mr. Lea will remove to Turn-\nwater, Wash, where he operates a shingle mill.\nings there. The products of this energetic Royal\nCity firm have certainly won a name for themselves elsewhere.\nThe Dominion dredge. King Edward, which has\nbeen dredging the Fraser River channel opposite\nthe Brunette mills, has finished its work and will\nlikely be employed in improving the channel up\nto the Ross-McLaren mills.\nMr. J. llanbury. President and Manager of the\nllanbury Manufacturing Company, of Brandon,\nis visiting Vancouver on business connected with\nthe wood-working plant he is going to erect at\nElks, on the Crow's Nest Pass. He has purchased\na suitable site from the C. P. R. at that point.\nThis month has been marked by the closing\ndown of several of the mills, both large and\nsmall, in Vancouver and vicinity. In some cases\nit is for annual repairs, but in most instances the\nclosing down is on account of the stagnation of\nthe lumber markets of the Northwest, due to\nthe severe competition of American milimen in\nCanadian territory.\nMr. John Hendry, President and General Manager of the B. C. M. T. cSj T. Co.. left last week\nfor Toronto to be present at an important meeting of the Executive of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, when tariff amendments will\nbe considered. .\nMr. F. A. Mundy_ President of the new Mundy\nLumber Company, to operate at Three Valley\nLake, near Revelstoke, was in Vancouver this\nmonth, looking towards the purchase of a steamer\nfor operation on the lake in connection with the\ncompany's enterprise.\nThe members of the local lumber association\nat a meeting held this month have come to an\nagreement regarding lumber prices for the local\nmarket. These show a substantial reduction over\nprevious lists, and rate cutting has ceased. The\nnew schedule came into force on the 20th inst.\nThe J. A. Moore Investment Company, of Seattle, has negotiated the capital for the Quatsino\npulp limits, which are to be actively operated. The\nMoore Company sent a man over to investigate\nthe proposition, and as a result of this agents of\nthe company went to the Eastern States\nand raised the necessary very large capital to\nplace the industry on a sound financial basis.\nThe Vancouver Engineering Works of this city\nhave been appointed selling agents for British\nColumbia for the celebrated Dodge Pulley, manufactured by the Dodge Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, and reference is called to the Company's\nadvertisement on page 3 of the cover of this\nissue.\nThe Provincial Government has undoubtedly\ntaken note of the value of the \"ready-made\"\nhouses being manufactured by the Royal City\nMills branch of the B. C. M. T. & T. Co., and has\nplaced an order for a \"ready-made\" school for\nshipment to Port Essington.\nThe British Columbia branch of the Canadian\nManufacturers' Association, at a meeting held\nthis month unanimously conceded that relief\nshould be given the lumbermen by the Dominion\nGovernment, and a resolution praying that duty\nbe imposed by the Government on lumber entering from the United States was passed.\nMr. J. H. Beard, of Seattle, and Mr. Gregg, of\nCincinnati, Ohio, representatives of the Gratton\nKnight Manufacturing Co., were in Vancouver\nlast week. 'Mr. Gregg is direct from the factory\nin Cincinnatti has come to the Coast with a\nview of looking into the special machinery requirements for the mills that are manufactured\nby the Gratton Knight Manufacturing Co.\nMr. George L. Youle, vice-president of the S. A.\nWoods Machine Company, of Boston. Mass.. was\na visitor to the city this month. Mr. Youle has\nrecently taken the management of the Pacific\nCoast branch of the company, and makes\nheadquarters at Seattle, Wash.\nlis\nMr. McDonald, in the employ of the Vanstone\nHeating & Plumbing Company, of New Westminster, has just returned from Walla Walla,\nWash., where he has been for some time past, installing two Vanstone heaters in the public build-\nMr. Frederick Weyerhattser, the millionaire\nlumberman of Milwaukee, Wis., his son C. A.\nWeyerhauser, and Mr. John A. Humbird, president of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing\nCo., visited that company's mill at Chemainus\nearly this month. Mr. Weyerhauser and Mr.\nHumbird are old-time friends, and this visit by\nthe former is in fulfilment of a promise made\nyears ago.\t\nNotice has been given by the solicitors of the\nBrunette Sawmill Company, Ltd., of their inten-\nORILLIA, ONTARIO\nTHESE SAW CARRIAGES ARC MADE OF CAST\nSTEEL, AND OPEN 36 TO 54 IN. FROM SAW.\nWE BUILD\nDouble Edger, Steam Feeds, Log Jacks, Live Rolls,\nTrimmers, Slab Slashers, Steam Niggers.\nCOMPLETE LINE OF\nSAW AND SHINGLE MILL MACHINES\nNO. 2 SAW CARRIAQl\nWRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES 18\nBRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\ni \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ntion to apply to the Legislative Assembly of the\nProvince of British Columbia at its next session\nfor an act to extend the existence of the Brunette\nSawmill Company, Limited Liability, for a period\nof fifty years, from ami after the 7th day of February, 1906, and up to and including the 7th day\nof February, 1056.\nW. L. Breeze, of the Bullion Mining Company,\nof Alsek, has just completed the purchase from\nMr. Gilmour, Vancouver agent of the Waterous\nCompany, of Brantford, of machinery for a sawmill, which is to be erected on their property at\nAlsek, with a capacity of 20,000 per day. The mill\nwall be taken North as soon as it arrives from\nBrantford, and will be hauled from White Horse,\nY. T., to Bullion Creek over the snow.\nbuildings on the strip of land just south of the\nboundary line of Smith Westminster. Besides the\ntannery they will aslo operate a shingle mill. For\nthe tannery the company has secured several\nlarge hemlock limits and it is expected that the\nbuilding will he ready for the machinery by tho\nfirst of the year. The local representative of the\ncompany is Mr. !\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'.. J. Fader, who has had a practical knowledge of the business by previous work\nof the kind in Ontario.\nTHE..\nLUMBERMEN'S\nSUPPLY CU.\n!\nLIMITtD\n122 Wellington Street, West\nTORONTO, ONT,\nFrom an advertisement appearing in the Colonist, it appears that before long Victoria will have\nanother sawmill. Messrs. Moore & Whittington\nhaving made application to the Dominion Government for waterfront privileges at the end of Pleasant Street. Should the application be granted,\nthey intend erecting a mill having a capacity of\n20.000 feet per day. It is the intention of the company to make a specialty 'if yellow cedar, ot vhich\n[they have a large quantity on their limits, and 'he\nquality is said to be of the highest grade.\nMr. D. Lome McGibbon. genera! manager of\nIthe Canadian Rubber Company, who was in the\nity this month mi a visit t<> his firm's branch\nre. reports trade as being very good in the East\nd especially so in Manitoba and the Northwest.\nwing to the immense increase in the firm's pat-\npage in the West it has been found necessary\nestablish another branch at Calgary, where Mr.\nGibbon had just arrived from after complet-\nthe necessary arrangements. Mr. C. J. Pack-\nn has been appointed as manager to the Cal-\n|y branch. \t\nArrangements are now being made by the New\nWestminster Tanning Company to erect their\nMr. A. B. Cowan. President of Cowan & Co.,\nmanufacturers of wood-working machinery, of\nGait, who has been several weeks in British Columbia, advises US that in spite of the present unsatisfactory condition of the lumber business he\nhas no reason to complain, and that he has placed\nseveral large orders with mills on the Coast. He\nexpresses astonishment at the rapidly increasing\nimportance and growth of the lumber business\nsince his last trip through British Columbia, three\nyears ago. Mr. Cowan intends to spend a good\ndeal of his time in the Province in future.\nArrangements were definitely completed this\nmonth between Mr. L, W. David, owner of the\nold Ross-McLaren mills at New Westminster, and\nMr. Dodge, a Sau Francisco ship owner and capitalist for the early re-opening of the mills. It is\nexpected that by April next the mill will be in operation and that a large number of men will be\nemployed. New Westminster looks upon the reopening of this mill, which has been dormant for\nso many years, as a \"red letter\" day for the city.\nIt is understood that the greater portion of the\noutput of the mill will lie marketed in San Francisco.\nWe sell any article that is required bv\nRailway Contractors or Lumbermen, no matter what it is.\nWe ship mixed car lots\nMitts, Moccasins, Shoe Packs, Larrigans\nPants, Underwear, Chain, Rope, Axes,\nSaws, Axe Handles, Pork, Ham,\nBacon, Lard, Butter, Tea.\nWe are the only House in Canada that\nfurnishes you complete under one roof\nLOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES\nfirst work to be taken up will be the erection and\ninstallation oi the sulphiding works. The company is well satisfied with the work so far accomplished and ha- every confidence in 'he successful\nissue of the undertaking. Contracts for the supply\not the necessary machinery will be made within\nthe next few months.\nMr. J. A. MacKinnon, Managing Director of the\nOriental Rower & Pulp Co., returned hist week\nfrom a three months' trip to the ()ld Country.\nFrom Mr. MacKinnon we learn that active work\nwill be commenced on the works of the Power\nCompany at Swanson Bay early next year, the\nMr. M. J Hendry, a prominent nurseryman and\nseedsman oi Vancouver, has just received an order\nfrom mie of his European correspondents for over\na thousand dollars' worth of native tree seeds, if\nhe can secure them. He also has enquiries from\nGermany, Russia ami England for these seeds for\nnursery planting. The seeds desired at the present time are those of \"Thuya Gigantea,\" or the\nnative Giant Cedar, and \"PseudotSUga Douglasii,\"\nor Douglas tir. Mr. Henry is prepared to pay at\nVANCOUVER LUMBER COMPANY\n3\nMANIFACTIRERS OE ALL KINDS OL\nLIMITED\nRough and Dressed Lumber\nill, South End Cambic St. Bridge =m=m VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\\nFIR\nWE MAKE A SPECIALTY OE LOCAL\nAND NORTHWEST TRADE\t\nSPRUCE\nCEDAR\nGood Material \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Reasonable\nPrices Prompt Service\nHEMLOCK\nEQUAL FACILITIES FOR SHIPPING BY WATER OR RAIL\nIi BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n19\nW. J. SHEPPARD, Waubaushenc, Ont., President\nJ. G. SCOTT, Vancouver, B. O, General Manager\nPacific Coast Lumber Company,\nLtd.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -X A\"'- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \" .. . ! 7\" ! .. .;.-,.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. t^/3fc\n,'4-':X \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'.\u00C2\u00BB>,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2,...\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB V> ' .'..IR -\nyyvwT*T\n1\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.-. wfj mi I\n(L:k.,^.\n^^t^\nr,J(, j^^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0;\u00C2\u00AE*ft\n:f \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .,.-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00C2\u00B1i\u00C2\u00A33\nSi Mk^,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*ra\u00C2\u00ABte!\nM \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nPLANING MILL\nJR \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nr\u00C2\u00AB7\nSa,wMill\nTljHp , , IT\nmjy \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'- .\n^ xoni\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ul\n'*\u00C2\u00ABWrtgi^'\n\"\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0084\u00A2iWppy a sui\nprising extent, considering his training. He\nwill give an unfortunate brother the clothe;\noff his back or Ills last dollar if need be, and\nin camp will listen with respect tn :.ll you\nhave tu say n it is straight man-to-man, bui\nabominates cant. You can leave anything at\na losing camp and it is perfectly safi\nwdiich is much more than can be said of the\ncity. The} are hospitable. You are always\nwelcome to their table, to whatever is theirs\nIn tin- respect wc cannot speak too highly,\nespecially of the Slianion camp, where Foreman Springer and Boom-man Johnston and\neveryone i'i the men did their utmost to\nmake our stay interesting and comfortable,\nMonday, June 6th. The west wind, which\nblew very hard all morning, dropped about\nmid-afternoon and we pushed oui to* Lund,\nAbout half an hour after starting \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ,\: wind\nand swell g'U up again, ami, combine 1 v ith a\nstrung current, gave US a hard tussle, bill\nwc made our port 111 tune tn \"taki :n ' the\ntown before dark. Lund 1- a picturesque lit\ntie village situated on two very smaii rocky\nbay-. It has a Store, lintel, and Saloon, all\nowned l>\ Tulien Brothers and is i-riiso\nquently headquarters for everything in thi\nline of drygoods, hardware, provisions, and\nwhiskey for all the country round L'.'Otif. h\ni- also an educational centre, having a public\nschool, attended bv 27 children, but n i churjli\nraises it- spire skywards, though services\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2nee in a while are held in he littL s>chcol-\nroom. Tin- little town i- of more importance\nthan it- -ize would indicate, ' - many 1 >gging\nmen make the hotel their lieulquartJ-s, and\nthe -tore and saloon form a ort of magnetic\ncentre, which attracts settle's and loggers\nfor a radius of many miles, a fa t v. inch\nmight justify the Church 'n thi- l< ,ct -i in\nmaking some effort to establish it- inlluenc\nat least as far north as thi-.\nJune 7th. Being fine, and no prospect Ol\nholding service before Sun1..-, w continued\nour journey north, after in \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '.:n ; the steamer\nCassiar, which called at S 1. m\nWe made Quathiaska Cove q:i t early, and\nenjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. Pidcock and\nher foiu- -..ins. Quathiaska i- a busy little\nplace, made busy by the energy of the four\nyoung men above mentioned, who. after their\nfather's death, notwithstanding the tempta\ntions that come to all young men to go farther\nafield, rallied round their widowed mother,\nand, by their pluck ami business capacity,\nhave Inult up a flourishing business, in the\nway of a well stocked store, a busy mill, and\na salmon cannery.\nThursday, June 9th. Left Quathiaska and\nproceeded 10 0 til to the logging eaillp-. paSS-\ning through the famous Seymour Narrows\nen route While we waited in a little cove\nnear the mouth of the narrows for slack\nwater we obtained a birds-eye view from the\ntop of Maud Island of the roaring cataract\nwhich ru-lies through during flood tide, but\nwhen we went through the water was a-\nunruffled a- a mill pond.\nDuring the next few day- we visited several camps on Johnston Strait, chic! 01\nwhich is the Hastings Mill camp at Rock\nRay. In this camp there are Upwards of 200\nmen working, with two railway locomotives,\nseveral donkey engines, and a steamboat Oil\nthe lake. There are also a large store, an hotel\nand the inevitable saloon. Wc went 'ip 'n*0\nthe limber several miles on the cab of the\nlocomotive, talked with the engineers, foremen and others mi the subject of the 1\"'\nposed mission, and found them very\nro-\nivor BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n21\nable to the scheme, and sanguine <>f its success if worked along social lines.\nSunday, I2tli. Held services in the hotel,\nand addressed a goodly number of the men.\nI must here say that in this, as in all the\ncamps, I could not desire better treatment\nthan I received, though 1 appreciate espec-\nally the kindness of Mr. Mel.can, the manager of the hotel at Rock Hay, who not only\ngave us every facility for holding the service\nin the hotel but made us welcome guests\nin the dining-room during our stay of two\ndays.\nHaving visited most of the camps in this\nregion, we pushed on for Alert Hay, where\nwe arrived on Thursday, 16th. There was no\nwork 'or u- to do, of course, as a mission is\nalready established, but it was an extremely\ninteresting visit nevertheless. The Rev. Mr.\nHall, the missionary in charge, was away,\nbut Mr. Corker, the genial principal of the\nindustrial school and general manager of the\nsecular end of the mission, took us in charge,\nput us up at the school, and did all in his\npower to make our stay as interesting as\npossible, The mission at Alert Bay is splendidly equipped for work among the Indians.\nThere is a beautiful and well-appointed little church, where Sunday services are held\nalternately in English and Indian. Tlu?rc arc\nconnected with the mission a store, where\nyou can buy almost anything, a sawmill,\nwhich is just being renovated and put into\nshape by the installation of new machinery,\nand which gives work to Indians far enough\nadvanced in civilization to want work, and an\nexcellently appointed industrial school, where\nIndian boys are given an elementary education in English, and taught a useful trade, a\nvery valuable asset to one who has 10 face\nperhaps a discriminating world and wrest a\nliving from it.\nMr. de Heck, the Indian Agent, or Gi-Cumi,\nas he is called, with his wife and son showed\nme great kindness at their home and on board\nthe yacht \"Gi-Cumi,\" in which Mr. de Heck\nmakes his regular tours among the Indian\nsettlements to administer both the law and\nthe largesse of a benevolent government. On\nthe whole our visit to Alert Hay was most\npleasant and interesting, and it was with regret that we weighed anchor on the 13th and\nset our course south for the logging camps.\nThe voyage south at this time of the year\nis made easy by the prevailing northwesterly\nwinds. Leaving Alert Hay 011 Friday, i/th,\nat 2:40 p. m., we made a good run of 20 miles\nto Port Harvey. Found one man in this port\nin charge of a well-stocked store. It would\nnot do to estimate the amount of his trade\nby the size of the population as he was the\nonly man in the port. Nevertheless he did\na good trade with the white men and Indians\nscattered about on the islands and inlets in\nthe vicinity.\nSpent Sunday. loth, at Fort Neville, a magnificent harbor but tint quite as busy as Vancouver. About six miles up the harbor found\ntwo camps, McKcnzie's and MeWhinncy's.\nAt the latter held service in the large bunk\nhouse and addressed the men, who 'istened\ncagi'rly and spoke very favorably of the proposed mission.\nTuesday, the 2ISt. We started once more\non our journey, passed several small logging\ncamps and a ranch where they raise marten\ncats for the market, but did not stop anywhere except at Green Point Rapids, where\nwe broke our tiller in a whirlpool, and had\nto land to repair it. Arrived at Shoal Bay\nat 6 p. m. As the weather was cold and inclined to be stormv we stayed here a day and\na half. Shoal Hay has rather a \"Deserted\nVillage\" appearance now, but at one time\nwhen the Dorothy Morton mine was running\nit was the centre of great activity. It is not\ndead even now. for there is a large store\npatronized by settlers and loggers for miles\naround. . ,\nThursdav 23rd. We were at Frederick\nArm where there are three camps, but, hav\ning only time to visit one, we selected Robertson & llackett's. I spent an evening in\nthe bunk-house talking to the men individually, and ending with an address to the\nwhole camp gathered in the bunk-house.\nThey listened attentively to all I had to say,\nand when I told them of the intention to\nsend a Mission Moat to do social work among\nthem, one and all expressed great confidence\nin the result.\nLeaving Frederick Arm we pushed onward\ntowards Camp Island, passing through the\nFuclataw Rapids en route. The current,\nthough not going full speed, was swift enough\nto make the passage a very exciting one.\nThe water was quite a good deal broken, and\nwhirlpools were all too plentiful, but with the\nengine going full speed we were able to keep\nin the middle of the road and avoid floating\nlogs and whirlpools. Without the engine a\nrough time would have been ours.\nCamp Island was our next stopping place,\nwhere we spent Saturday and Sunday.\nOn Monday we were oft\" again, touching\nat Slianion, Van Anda and Huccaneer Hay,\nand arriving at Vancouver on Wednesday,\n29th, at 4 p. m. The result of this visitation\nhas impressed me more than ever with the\nimmense importance of such work and of the\nnecessity of its early inauguration. There\nare 3,000 people on this coast, chiefly loggers,\nand practically no organized effort is made\nto bring them under the influence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or to alleviate the social\nconditions in which they live consequent\nmainly on their isolation. The proposition\nwhich is now before the Dioceses of Columbia and New Westminster is to provide a\nboat large enough to be the headquarters of\na missionary, to be a Church in which services may be held, and to be a moving centre\nfor social work such as the distribution of\nliterature, books and magazines, by means\nof a circulating library. Emergency hospital\nwork might be done by establishing a hxed\ncentre at Shoal May or Rock Hay, where the\naid of a doctor or nurse could be readily obtained in those terrible accidents which are\nconstantly occurring in the logging camps.\nThe object of this mission seems to be a most\nworthy one and it is a work in which nil those\nwho are connected with the lumber industry\nshould be interested, and will doubtless liberally\nsupport Those who complain that the church\nis not doing its best for the social betterment\nof mankind will now have an opportunity of\nbacking a movement unique in the social and religious history of this Province.\nThe object of this mission is not only to carry\nthe Gospel to 3.000 men working in logging\ncamps, mines and ranches, but to place within\ntheir reach such intellectual and physical advantages as may be possible under the circumstances.\nReading-rooms will be established in. the camps\nwhere possible; literature, such as magazines and\npapers, will be distributed regularly, and an effort will be made to establish a circulating library The library will be put up in boxes, built\non the plan of sectional bookcases, and exchanged from camp to camp by means of the\nmission shin.\nTn addition to this work, an emergency hospital will be established at some centre such as\nShoal Bay or Rock Hay, where an injured man\ninstead of waiting for the mail boat, which may\nbe hours or days, will receive skdled surgical\nattention and be made comfortable until the mail\nboat arrives to take him to Vancouver. In this\nway doubtless many a good limb and many a\nlife may be saved. . , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , \u00E2\u0080\u009Ef\nThe Rev John Antle, who is taking charge ot\nthe mission, has had a large experience in that\nkind of work, having spent 14 years on the Coast\nof Newfoundland and three in a logging and\nmining district in the State of Washington He\nis the right man in the right place, and will undoubtedly make a success of the task he has\nundertaken. . . <\nTt is the intention to build a boat, wmcli according to the specifications, will be 60 teet long\nand 14 feet beam. On the mam deck will be a\nHENRY DARLING\nAgent for Western British Columbia\nand Vancouver Island\n18 Powell St.\nVancouver, B. C.\nThe Gurney Standard Metal Co.,\nAGENT8\nCALGARY, ALBERTA\nroom for entertainment and for services, 22x14\nfeet. The boat will be provided with a 15-horse\npower oil or gasoline engine and auxiliary sail,\nand it is estimated that she will cost approximately $4,000. The Missionary Society of Canada\nhas already contributed the sum of $2,000 towards the mission, and the balance, it is expected,\nwill be raised locally. We are advised that up\nto date Victoria and district has raised $1,000\ntowards the proposition and that Vancouver and\nthe adjacent district will be looked to for the\nremainder\u00E2\u0080\u0094an easy task.\nNEW LUMBER COMPANY.\nMr. Mundy. president of the Mundy Lumber\nCompany, which will operate at Three Valley\nLake, arrived in Hritish Columbia this month to\narrange for starting the buildings. The lumber\nbusiness at Three Valley Lake will be carried\non by two companies\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Eagle River Lumber\nCompany, incorporated tinder the laws of the\nState of Virginia with a capital of $500,000, and\nwhich controls the 100 square miles of timber limits acquired from the Dominion Government, and\nthe Mundy Lumber Company, which will be the\nmanufacturing company, This company is incorporated under the laws of the State of Virginia with a capital of $50,000. with provision to\nincrease as required. Mr. Mundy is president\nof this company. The investors are eastern bankers.\nArrangements are being made with the C. P. R.\nto put in a siding and station at the site of the\nmill at Three Valley Lake. The millwright has\nalso arrived to proceed with the construction of\nthe mill, and went to Arrowdiead to look\nover the plant supplied bv the Waterous Engine\nWorks to the Arrowhead Lumber Company. The\nmill will have a capacity of Ro.ooo feet a day, and\nit is intended to build a planing mill, and also a\nshingle mill with a capacity of too.ooo shingles a\nday. Tt is intended to have the mill in operation\nbv May 1st The company will immediately proceed with the erection of a store, bunk-houses,\nboarding-house, etc. The mill plant will include\na single band saw and a resaw. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nAMONG THE MANlfACTlRERS\n11\nlit\n5.1\nlil\no\nhi\nGLASS BY WHOLESALE.\nIt was our pleasure a few days ago to ki shown\nover the branch establishment in Vancouver oi\nPilkington Mros.. Ltd., glass manufacturers of St.\nHelens, England, and Maubeuge, France. The\npremises owned by the local branch are situated\nat the corner of Powell Street and Columbia Avenue, and were formerly the property of Oppen-\nheimer Mros. & Co, In this immense building is\nstored over 60,000 feet of plate glass and glass of\nevery kind. There is a fully equipped plant For\nbevelling and grinding glass, for silvering, chipping and embossing, and a large staff is constantly employed to enable the company to meet\nthe steadily increasing demands of the British\nColumbia trade. Owing to this demand the company has found it advisable to increase the stock\nof plate glass to 100,000 feet, and in order to accommodate this and other lines the adjoining property has been purchased and a building equal\nin size to the present one will be built early next\nyear.\nalso fitted up a strictly modem shop for the manufacture and repair of saws of all kinds. '1 Ins\nwill doubtless be of great benefit to 'lie many\ncustomers of the Atkins Company, both on the\nSound and in British Columbia. The new branch\nwill be under the management of Mr. F. B, Leach,\nwho is well and favorably known all over the\nPacific Coast. Mr. Leach extends a warm welcome\nto Hritish Columbia lumbermen and others when\never they should visit Seattle.\nis a growing industry and one that bids fair tn\nattain first rank amongst our Provincial manu-\nfactories. 'I'he \"Vanstone\" boiler is the < nly hot\nwater boiler for heating purposes made in British\nColumbia.\nIMPROVED SHINGLE MACHINE.\nTO B. C. POWER USERS.\nWATERPROOF BELTING.\nAmong the catalogues recently received is a\nleat little booklet, issued by the Beardmore Belt-\nlg Company, of Toronto, calling attention to\nleir special brand of Waterproof Cement Leather\nfelting.\nPower users throughout Hritish Columbia will\nbe interested in learning that the Vancouver Engineering Works. Ltd.. of Vancouver, have completed arrangements with the Dodge Manufacturing Company, of Toronto, for their general\nagency for Vancouver and the Mainland, ; ml also\nthe Yukon Territory. A nmst complete stock of\nthe celebrated Dodge Wood Split Pulleys is now-\ncarried in Vancouver ready for immediate shipment. Hy special arrangement all Dodge pulleys for the Coast trade are thoroughly nailed.\nwhich, coupled with the already existing preference which has prevailed among the largest and\nmost important power users for the Dodge pulley, will no doubt make the Dodge still more popular. The Dodge pulley enjoys the distinction\nof having an output and sale of pulleys exceeding that of all other wood pulleys combined.\nA FLOURISHING INDUSTRY.\nA\nuiin\nmac\nthat\nthe\nare\nper\nmar\nfeat\nwill\nwill\nt the Schaake Machine Works, New West-\nster, there is being manufactured, two shingle\nlimes specially designed by Mr. Schaake, of\nfirm. These machines are being built for\nCotton Shingle Company of Vancouver, and\nca|)able of cutting from two to three shingles\nblock more than any other machine on the\nket at present. There are also several other\nures in connection with the machine which\nbe dealt with in our next issue, when we\nshow a cut and give full details.\nLUMBERING IN B. C.\nTHE E. C. ATKINS NEW BRANCH.\n\"he E. C. Atkins Company, of Indianapolis,\nire recently opened a branch of the 'house in\nfattle, at No. 313 Second Avenue S., where they\nill carry a large and complete stock \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i saws,\niw tools, wood and steel split pulleys, filing-\n)in machinery and the numerous other lines\niised by Pacific Coast lumbermen. They have\nThe Vanstone Heating & Plumbing Company,\nLimited, of Vancouver and New Westminster, are\nbusy people just now. The patent w Her tube\nhot water boiler the \"Vanstone,\" which they\nmanufacture,, is in great demand both locally\nand throughout the Province. At this season\ntheir orders for it ami steam and hoi water heating apparatus are especially numerous ind urgent. As a consequence the company's works at\nNew Westminster are running full blast, This\nAccording to a man's nature is formed his opin\nion of the worth of any country, or section of\ncountry. The man of small mould, small bom,\nsmall eyes and small mind, sees British Columbia,\nit- forests and mountains, its lakes and streams,\nits roads, its towns and its people, and then trims\nup hi- lips with a sneer. \"It's jusl a sea of rock,\"\ngrunts he, and passes on. But the small man is\nnot the only person who visits Canada's West\nthe half-way house to the Orient. Captain- of\nindustry, with broad experience and -till broader\nmind-; engineering experts, fresh from the hall-\nof science or tanned by the sunlight of a healthy\noutdoor struggle with the pilaris spread by nature's teasing hand in tin- pathway of modern\nprogress, and bushy-browed, keen-eyed globe-\ntrotters make their way to the Canadian Pacific\nCoast, each one in turn seeing something thai he\nthinks can be equalled nowhere else in the world.\nThe captain of industry see- opportunities offered on every hand for the construction of rail-\nWASHINGTON\nngines\nEmbody the latest improvements suggested by practical loggers. They are\nstrongest and most durable, requiring least attention and fewest repairs.\nBUILT IN ALL SIZES, SINGLE, DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DRUMS\nPatent steam friction, Turner's patents, and our new lock lever friction devices. Over 750 Engines now in use in Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia, Alaska, Nicaragua and the\nPhilippines. Write us your requirements and we will send complete specifications and prices.\nWashington Iron Works Go.\nSEATTLE, WASH. BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n23\nMACHINERY\nEngines and Boilers\nSAW MILL MACHINERY\nPLANING MILL MACHINERY\nSASH AND DOOR MACHINERY\nWe can offer you a better selection than any\nother dealer in America.\nJ. L NEILSON & GO. Winnipeg\nH. CAMERON, Manager\nDONALD GRANT, President\nMOVIE, B. C.\nMANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF\nflooring, Ceiling, Siding, Ship Lap\nCommon Boards, Dimensions and Lath\nSPECIALTY:\nMOUNTAIN TAMARAC\nNOTE-SPECIAL ATTENTION TO\nMANUFACTURE\nways, the inauguration of steamboat lines, the\nopening of new avenues of trade with Japan, China, Australia, Mexico and South America. His\neyes fall on the mineral belts, and he is pleased.\nThey are attracted to the swarming halibut and\nthe oolachan schools, and he straightway knows\nwhere a mint of money can be made. The engineer understands that in a land of tangled rock\nand hill and stream the tracks of the captain of\nindustry are sure to be strewn with problems for\nthe solving of which he will be given alluring remuneration. So he rolls up his sleeves and prepares for work. The globe-trotter glances up at\nthe snow-covered peaks that flash and tremble in\nthe sunlight until the impressionable eye gives\nthem billowing motion and they become the \"sea\nof mountains\" for which the West is famous.\nWhen he writes home he tells his friends he has\nfound the tourist's paradise. Each sees in British\nColumbia something the other has not noticed.\nAll of which goes to prove that the Pacific sea-\ncoast Province is so richly dowered by nature that\nfor each who comes to visit it can provide a\ntempting field of enterprise from which it is difficult to turn away. Even the pessimist will find\npleasure in the rocks, the tough stumps and the\ndismal rain.\nBut be he what he may, a financier or a tramp,\na parson or a card-sharper, a scholar or an ignoramus, there is one thing in British Columbia\nwhich must impress everyone who travels through\nthe Province. This is its wealth of timber. The\nfame of the Douglas fir has been spread broadcast,\nand to the big mills of the Chemainus and Vancouver come sailing craft from Cape Town, Brisbane, Callao, Yokohama, Liverpool, Honolulu,\nMexico, and the Indies, seeking loads of lumber\nfor their home markets. In spite of the salmon,\nthe gold, the mountains and the fruit of the Province, the one thing for which British Columbia\nis known above all others throughout the world is\nits timber. As a matter of fact, not one acre in\na thousand in the seacoast Province is covered\nwith merchantable trees, but where the forest\nmonsters do grow they attain such a size and\ngather so thickly together that but a comparatively small \"limit\" will yield a bounteous harvest of \"board feet.\" Mr. Paterson, of the Tort\nMoody mills, which were so disastrously visited\nby fire this summer, is responsible for the estimated proportion of timbered and untimbered\nland throughout British Columbia quoted above.\nNaturally, as one of the most convenient shipping centres for both rail and vessel, Vancouver\nis vitally interested in the success of the lumber\ntrade. Her mills are large, their cut extensive\nand the number of men employed well up in the\nthousands. Even before Vancouver commenced\nto be a town, the B. C. Mills Timber and Trading\nCompany and the Port Moody Lumber Company\nwere busy reducing timber to commercial lumber,\nand were bidding vigorously for foreign trade.\nBut with the advent of the C. P. R. and the building of Vancouver a new market was opened in\nManitoba and the Northwest. This market has\nsteadily grown, and with its growth has come a\nrapid multiplication of the concerns competing\nfor its custom. At the present time the Coast\nmills, of which those in Vancouver, New Westminster and Chemainus, form the most important\npart, number twenty-one and have a yearly lumber capacity of 350,000,000 feet. In addition,\nthere are twenty-eight shingle mills, with a capacity of 600,000,000 shingles. Both of these outputs could be doubled in an emergency by running\nnight as well as day shifts.\nAlthough the Territories and Manitoba take\nthe larger portion of the British Columbia lumber and shingle cut, trade has been pushed on into\nOntario. The manager of the Brunette sawmills\nin New Westminster said a short time ago that\nhe found it profitable to ship as far east as Montreal and there to compete with the mills of the\nOttawa Valley. One explanation of this remarkable fact, he says, is that the British Columbia\nshingles have won such favor with Ontario builders that even at a much higher price they prefer\nthem to all others, hence the demand.\nTn the early days of the industry the rougher\ngrades of lumber were shut out from the market\nby the high transportation rates. All profits had\nto be made out of the better grades. During the\npast four years, however, through the extension\nof the Northwest and Eastern markets, and the\nincreased demand for the local and foreign markets, conditions have been materially improved.\nLower freight rates have been obtained and better prices have prevailed. The rush to the Canadian wheat fields has proved a veritable gold\nmine for the lumbermen of the Pacific Coast. Today the outlook is bright, for the lumber barometer (to-wit, the Northwest) continues to indicate \"fair weather.\"\nAmongst the \"sights\" shown every tourist when\nhe visits Vauconver is one or other of the Hastings, Royal City or Pacific Coast mills. The latter is the most recently erected and the most\nthoroughly equipped. It is an interesting sight\nto watch a big fir log, measurng anything from\nfour to six feet in diameter, as it is hauled up out\nof the water by chains, clamped on a trvelling\nsupport, and then run against the rough, rapidly\nwhirling teeth of an immense band saw. First\nslabs, then boards are torn off as the huge car\nswings back and forth until each of the four sides\nhas been trimmed down and a \"stick\" about three\nfeet square is left. Then the \"B. C. toothpick\"\nis ready for shipment or to be sawn into heavy\nplanks, according to the expressed wishes of the\npurchaser. To the mill it makes little difference.\nKalevan Kansa Colonisation Co.,\nSOINTULA, MALCOLM ISLAND, B. C.\nFINE ROUGH AND DRESSED\nRed Cedar, Fir, Spruce and Hemlock\nEDGE GRAIN LUMBER\nBRANCH OFFICE AT\n604 Cordova Street West VANCOUVER, B. C.\np. o. BOX 753\nWANTED AND FOR SALE\nAdvertisments will be inserted in this department\nat the rate of 10 cents per line for each insertion, payable in advance.\nWANTED \u00E2\u0080\u0094First-Class Cedar Logs. Apply at\nMill No. 2, Hastings Shingle Manufacturing Company,\nVancouver, B. C.\nWANTED.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A logging engine. W. T. Farrell, __L-\nRoom 10, 433 Granville St., Vancouver.\nWANTED.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shingle bolts. Contracts made\nfor quantities. The Canada Shingle Company, Ltd., Hastings, B. C. P. O. Box 312,\nVancouver, B .C.\n4-\nLOGS WANTED.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Wanted to buy cedar, lir\nand spruce logs taken off Crown granted lands\nApply to J. S. Emerson, Vancouver.\nWANTED.\nWe handle on commission all sorts of British\nColumbia Lumber and Shingles, manufactured and\nrough. Please quote prices f.o.b. Toronto.\nTHE FUEL & LUMBER CO.,\n/\nV\n77 Adelaide St. Cast\nTORONTO, ONTARIO\nC. H.VOGEL\nENGINEER\n(A. M. Can. Soc. C. E.) OTTAWA, CANADA\nSurveys, Plans, Specifications and Supervision\nWATER POWER\nPaper, Pulp and Sulphite Fibre Mills\nN. A. McKINNON\nTimber Cruiser and Valuator.\nTwenty years' experience in the woods.\nReterences.\n1/\n/\n280 HOWE STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n/\nP. O. Box 602 Storage\nGEO. H. COTTRELL\nF0RWARDIN6 AGENT.\nWarehouse, 139 Water St.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n/\nSpecial attention given to dietrlbution\nof Carload Freight\n1/\nTimber and General Agent\nW T. FARRELL\nCONTRACTOR\nLoans\n433 Granville Street\nRoom 10. Fairfield Block\n/\nVANCOUVER, B. C. 24\nBRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nll\nLi\ni! \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nIi\nRED CEDAR LUMBER CO.\nLIMITED\nMANUFACTURERS OF\nFine Cedar Lumber \\n======\u00E2\u0080\u0094==\nand Shingles ....\nTELEPHONE B334 P. O. BOX ill\nOrders Solicited and Correspondence Promptly Attended to\nPOWELL STREET ...VANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHIS SPACE RESERVED\n= FOR\ntne flngell-Pumfrey Gyrating go'y.\nDesigners engravers -\nIllustrators v\nMAKERS OF CUTS FOR BOOKLETS, CATALOGUES AND SOUVENIR EDITIONS\n510 HASTINGS ST., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nOnly a few moments, and the largest of the felled forest monsters passes under the operating\nblades and emerges in piles of neatly cut dimension timber, boards or planks.\nHundreds of now prosperous citizens of B. C.\nowe their start in the west to early employment\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0given by the lumbermen. When a now arrival\nis down in his luck, he straightway goes to one\n)f the lumber yards, and there, if lie is not afraid\n\u00C2\u00BBf hard toil and sore hand1-, he can secure work\n|t a wage which will at least provide him with\n|eans on which to subsist. Thus he can keep\npnself alive and well fed while looking around\n|r an opening, and if he is economical he can\nfen lay by a few odd dollars as a nest egg.\nHToday Vancouver's lumber mills are working\n[adily and yielding a golden tribute. As pop-\nnation increases and the local demand provides\navenue through which much of the now wasted lower grades can be disposed of, the lot of the\nFmillmcn will be brightened and the lumber traffic of Canada's gateway to the Onrient will grow\nwith leaps and bounds. British Columbia has\nthe timber; her sons are ready to cut it. All that\nis needed to set in motion a fresh avalanche of\ntrade is \"the world as a market.\"\nEre closing it might be well to correct a certain popular mistake. When Canadians of tin-\nEast speak of the famous Douglas fir.they think\ntoo frequently of huge trunks measuring fifty,\nsixty or even a hundred feet in circumference.\nThis is wrong. There are. of course, unusually\nlarge trees whose trunks are even as much as\nthirty feet in diameter five feet from the ground;\nbut these are not ordinary specimens. The average size of the stump of the Douglas tir, cedar,\nspruce and hemlock will not exceed four feet.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCott L. North in \"Acta Victoriana.\"\nINCORPORATIONS.\nThe following companies have received certificates of incorporation in British Columbia\nsince our last report:\nCascade Mills, Limited, incorporated Nov. 7th.\n1904. with a capital of $10,000; shares of $1.00\neach.\nTo acquire by purchase or otherwise timber\nlands held under lease or license from the Crown\nnr others, and to purchase or lease real estate\nor other property. To carry on the business of\nmanufacturing shingles and lumber and all log\nand timber products, and to erect, own. lease\nand operate mills and factories for such purposes.\nThe Small & Bucklin Cumber Co., Limited,\nincorporated on the 28th Nov.. with a capital of\n$100,000. divided into 1,000 shares of $100 each.\nTo enter into and carry out an agreement\nwhich has already been prepared and is expressed\nto be made between the company of the one part\nand George Small. Edgar H. Bucklin, E. J. Fader,\nand Nathan S. Beardslee of the other part; a\ncopy of which agreement has. for the purpose\nof identification, been subscribed bv J. D. Kennedy. Solicitor r.f the Supreme Court; to pur-\nchase, lease, or otherwise acquire and hold any\nlands, timber berths, leases, limits and timber\nlands of every description, mill proper-ty< mill\nsites, water power, or other rights and privileges,\nmill buildings, machinery, and other real . nd personal property, and to dispose of the same from\ntime, to time by way of sale, lease, mortgage, or\notherwise; and for the purpose of buying, acquiring, selling and taking out saw-logs, shingle\nbolts, piles, and all other kinds of tinnier; and\nof manufacturing the same into lumber oi all\nkinds, and for buying and selling such manufactured lumber and generally for carrying on the\nbusiness of lumber merchants and manufacturers,\nin all its branches, including the making ol sashes,\ndour-, laths, shingles, boxes and other kinds ol\nmanufactured articles.\nTIMBER LICENSES ISSUED.\nDuring the month of November there were\n02 timber licenses issued; X were new licenses and\nX4 renewals. These are thus apportioned to the\nseveral districts:\nSouth East Kootenay District 7\nNorth East Kootenay District I\nNew Westminster District 10\nWest Kootenay District 5\nEast Kootenay District 17\nKootenay District 32\nCoast District 1 1\nLillooet District 9\nTotal 92\nB. C. TIMBER IN ENGLAND.\nAn extraordinary condition of affair- is communicated to the Montreal Star by an English\ncorrespondent, who shows an unfair and unnatural\ndiscrimination against Canadian timber- by the\nImperial Government. We can hardly conceive\nthat Canadians should be thus treated, but the\nwriter'-, experience leaves us no option;\n\"I heard this week a good illustration of tin-\nway in which British Government departments\nhamper the development of the imperial trade. A\nlarge British timber manufacturer was recently\nin British Columbia, and while there made it his\nbusiness to impure as tu tin- prospects of enlarged\ntrade between British Columbia and tin- country\nin timber products. While going through some\nof the British Columbia mills he noticed some excellent timber being prepared for --hip decks\n\"That is fine wood,\" he said, \"no knots in it.\" \"It\nwould be no good if it had knots,\" was the reply;\n\"it is intended for the decks of warships.\" Further inquiries elicited the fact that the contract\nwas for the United States navy. Naturally the\nBritish manufacturer wanted to know whv tin-\nsame material could not be supplied to the British\nAdmiralty, and to that question the British Columbia manufacturer could give no answer,\n\"When, however, the British manufacturer r< -\nturned to England, he made inquiries, and found\nthat the Admiralty deliberately excluded ('ana\ndian timber from their contract-; that is to say\nthey specifically call for Swedish wood. Thereupon tin- British manufacturer applied to the Ad\nmiralty t\" know u he could not till the contract\nwith British Columbia timber of equal quality and\nequal price. The reply in effect was: 'You see the\nspecification, and you must abide by it, Ii \u00E2\u0096\u00A0. -,\n-end m your tender for Canadian wood it would\nnot be received, and moreover we sin mid take\ncare not to give you the opportunity of tendering another time. You must observe the regulations.' Of course the matter cannot rest here,\nand it i- pretty safe to say that when the I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nLord of the Admiralty. Lord Selborne, ha- hi- attention called to tin- flagrant piece of departmental humbug he will see that Canada gets at least\nequal treatment.\nCanadian Wood Barred.\n\"Take am \".her illustration. The great English\nrailway companies, of course, use a great deal of\nwood for their trucks and other purposes. I was\nshown tin- week a tender from one ol the great\nrailway companies, and noted that the specifications were for Swedish timber exclusively. I\nmade inquiries to discover whether Canadian umber would in-! be equally useful. 'Most certainly.'\nwa- the reply of one large manufacturer, lie t\"\"\nhad gone to the railway company and pointed out\nthat tin- was an opportunity of giving Canada\nsome little return for her preference, but he was\neffectually snubbed for In- pain-. It i- not so\neasy to deal with a railway company a- it is with\na Government department, for railway companies\nin these day- of keen competition are not so accessible to public opinion. Bui I believe that this\nmatter also will receive official attention.\nWill Import Norwegians.\n\"In regard to the British Columbia incident.\nmentioned in the previous paragraph. I hear \"t\nan interesting development in British Columbia\nindustries. A number of English capitalists \"f\nstanding have formed a company for the manufacture of paper from British Columbia pub', and\ntheir proposal 1- t<> establish lar^'c pulp and paper\nmill- on the British Columbia seaboard, to e\n-\nploy the Finnish labor on the spot, and al-\" import Norwegians for any additional labor tltej\nrequire. Their market- will be China. Japan. India. South America and so on, and they have already received orders from leading Hritish paper-\nmakers, win. find it to their advantage to supply\ntheir South American ami Far Eastern customers\nwith paper made in British Columbia rather than\nimporting the raw material into Great Britain a\nmaking it here with all the heavy freights to ana\nfrom which this course involves. This Hidden 5\nmost interesting a- an illustration of the wjO\nwhich inter Imperial trade is certain to be deve-\noped m the near future. There are limitless P\nportunities, of course, in Canada for the im\nment of Hritish capital, provided only that\nlocal Canadian management is what it shnuli BRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\n\"DODGE\"\nSTANDARD WOOD SPLIT\nPULLEYS\nTHE ORIGINAL AND BEST WOOD PULLEY\nWe carry the largest stock of Wood Pulleys West of Toronto\t\nEvery Pulley is sold under an absolute guarantee as to quality.\nDODGE STANDARD PULLEY\nALL COAST PULLEYS ARE\nTHOROUGHLY NAILED. . .\nSEND FOR LISTS AND\nDISCOUNTS\t\nVANCOUVER ENGINEERING WORKS, Ltd\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nOur Steel Roller Bearing Dry Kiln Trucks Have No Equal \\nWe have recently added\nto our works special\nMachines and Tools for\nmaking those Trucks,\nwhich insures perfect\nalignment of wheels and\naulas. Axles and Rollers\nare made of refined steel.\nMade in all sizes of\nchannels and lengths..\nWRITE FOR PRICES\nTHE SGHAAKE MACHINE WORKS,\nNEW WESTMINSTER,\nBritish Columbia I\nBRITISH COLUMBIA LUMBERMAN\nI\n3 H. P. Single Cylinder \"UNION\"\nMarine Engine.\n! !\nAcme of Manufacture in Marine Engines.\nCall and see us and we will demonstrate their superior merits from\nour stock, or write us for Catalogue and prices.\t\nTHE FAIRBANKS COMPANY\nlice and Sture, 153 Hastings St. VANCOUVER, B. C. Machinery Warehouse, Powell St.\n'#*\n'&\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6^\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6^\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6^^\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6^^\nSHINGLE SAW GRINDER\nl\nI\nFOR keeping down the thickness of shingle saws and\nthereby saving timber, we are now putting on the\nmarket the above grinding machine. Several of these\nmachines have been running in different mills for some\nmonths.\nIt will at once be seen i iiat we have made a radical\nchange from anything at present on the market for this\npurpose. The saws are ground much more quickly with\nthe grindstone than with the emery wheel. It is also\nfound that the grindstone does not roll the saws out of\nshape as the emery wheels do.\nThe cut herewith printed shows the machine so clearly\nthat very little, if any, explanation is necessary. As will\nbe seen, the shaft on which the saw is fastened is driven\ndirect with the belt, the grindstone being driven with a\nbevel gear andd pinion. The grindstone shaft is not at\nright angles to the saw shaft, but at an angle corresponding to the taper on the saw, and the stone is made to move\nback and forth by a cam. The angle can be made greater\nor less by turning the eccentric sleeve in which one end of\nthe shaft runs. The position of the feeding cam can be\nadjusted in or out by slacking up the bolts holding it\nand pushing it in the direction wanted. The machine\nis simplicity itself and, as will be seen, is very strongly\nbuilt.\nMANUFACTURED BY\nLETSON & BURPEE,\nLIMITED\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6<"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Vancouver"@en . "BC_Lumberman_1904-12-30"@en . "10.14288/1.0309333"@en . "English"@en . "49.261111"@en . "-123.113889"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver, B.C. : D. Todd Lees"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . 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