http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0309326
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issued: 2015-12-10
issued: 1904-05-30
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note: SB HH55 British Columbia lumberman PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH D. TODD LEES, - - - - Hit.tintss Manager Office, Room 2, Pender Block, Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. Telephone 11% P. O. Drawer 928 Tf.rms of Subscription (Payable in Advance) One year, Canada or the United States $1 00 One year, Foreign Countries 1 50 Advertising Rates on Application Correspondence bearing upon any phase of the lumber industry will he gratefully acknowledged, and discussion upon trade subjects is invited. To our Advertisers.- The British Columbia Lumberman has a guaranteed circulation of 2,(MI0 copies. It will he found in every mill, lumber manufactory, logging camp, etc., in the Province and Puget Sound, besides all dealers in lumber in the Northwest and Canada generally. To lumber manufacturers, lumber dealers and machinery makers no better medium has ever been offered in the West. gtt" 1'ersons corresponding with, advertisers in the lirilish Columbia Lumberman will confet a favoi by giving the journal ctedit lot such cotiespondence. VANCOUVER, B. C, MAY, 1904. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. The lumber situation throughout the Province apparently seems to be in a satisfactory condition, inasmuch as all the mills throughout the country arc working to full capacity. Reports generally arc said to he "fair," but there is a "but" behind it all. Early last year the question was asked by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "could the lumbermen of the Province handle the business which was sure to come from Manitoba and the Territories in consequence of the rapid increase of settlers who were expected to arrive there?'' The lumbermen expressed themselves fully able to handle all business which might come. In consequence of the possible demand, last spring was one of the most active in the history of the lumber industry. Later, however, a car famine occurred, and lumber accumulated in the mill yards, because the C. 1'. R. could not handle it, and to make matters worse the mills of Washington and O…

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