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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1922
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1922donm (find matches)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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40 CANADA LUMBERMAN square ed°ed A number of mills in Norway started to cut certain stocks with a wane, as it was realized that lumber for certain con- struction purposes could take a reasonable amount of wane without interfering with its usefulness. The Swedish mills adopted this sys- tem of cutting waney stock, and the amount of wane has been some- what increased during the last decade; but in each case this matter has been taken up first with the importers. The amount of wane specified in the grading rules quoted later may seem somewhat large to shippers in the southern part of Norrland, where several mills are cutting perfectly square-edged lumber; but these mills obtain some- what better prices for their product than the mills in the Hernosand district, to which these rules chiefly apply. The lack of uniform grading rules for all mills is a disadvantage theoreticallv, but it is claimed by both the importers and the Swedish shippers that as long as there is so small a difference in the grading rules of the different mills in each district, this matter is of small im- portance. The importer always knows the character of the shipment of each exporter. Uniform grading rules in other countries are often so elastic that they give the exporters considerable opportunity to vary the character of their shipments, whereas in Sweden the ex- porters adhere closely to the rules. Swedish exporters are especially careful to have their lumber shipped up to grade when the prices of lumber decline. Experience has taught them that importers, having bought at top prices, are very particular in regard to the quality of these shipments, because it is felt by many importers that a claim may make up for the loss. The Swedish standards of grading were not changed during the war, in spite of the fact that conditions in the importing countries often prevented the importers from inspecting the cargoes with their usual care. There were, of course, some unscrupulous exporters or export merchants shipping almost any quality, but these firms are rated as war profiteers, and have no standing among the reliable ex- porters in Sweden. pieces of it laid away for souvenirs, and I like to take them from their wrappings once in a while to look at them, for they mean more to me than a more costly antique. They bring out memory pictures of the piles of it stacked in the yard and how nice they did smell in the early morning on the prairie! It may seem funny to feel senti- mental about such a thing as lumber, but there is a world of senti- ment in what it means to everything that touches on human life. The more you study lumber the more you will love it."—C. H. Ketridge "Mississippi Valley Lumberman." m Handling Many Kinds is Not Profitable "I don't believe it a profitable policy to handle so many of the different kinds of woods for general construction. For ordinary uses, one wood is practically as good as another, and cuts down the in- vestment. It sounds well in an advertisement that you have in stock all kinds of lumber, but it doesn't pay in these days when the cost of lumber is nearly double what it was not so many years ago. The ma- jority of dealers now will see the time when lumber prices will be so high that they will be forced to curb their desire for having all the different woods in their yards, and the use of these woods will be more regional than now. "The big reserve of the commercial woods is now on the Pacific Coast, and by and by those woods will be as common in use as the Northern woods formerly were. It won't be so very long before the consumption of yellow pine will be mostly confined to territory fur- ther south than at present. Dealers have many privileges now that the old timers did't have , but they will never be privileged to handle a full stock of the old fashioned white pine. That, like the pioneers that handled it, was good in any place you put it. I have got a few Newsy Happenings of the Industry D. D. Breakey of John Breakey, Limited, Quebec, was in Mon- treal recently on business. W. E. Golding of G. McKean & Company, St. John, N. B., was a recent visitor to Montreal. W. T. Mason of Mason, Gordon & Company, Limited, Montreal, is at Caledonia Springs. Mr. Mason has not been in the best of health for the past few weeks. One million shingles, valued at about $7,500. were totally de- stroyed by fire and a great deal of damage done to the dry kiln in a blaze which broke out recently in the Brooks-Bidlake lumber mill, Vancouver, B. C. Standard Lumber & Supplies, Limited, with headquarters in Windsor, Ont, and a capital stock of $40,000., has been granted a provincial charter to carry on the business of lumbering, logging, etc., and to deal in wood products of all kinds. Among the in- corporators are James Kerhy and Edwin J. Kerby, of Detroit, Mich. Hon. H. Mercie.r, Minister of Lands and Forests for Quebec, has completed arrangements with the Running Streams Commission by which reports of the rainfall will be forwarded daily during the summer months to the Forestry Branch. Satisfactory results are ex- pected from this new service and, according to Chief Forester G. C. Piche, the department will be in a better position to warn forest rangers regarding the fire menace by this constant information. Recent advices from Port Arthur say that J. H. Milway, crown timber agent for that district, has received word from the Minister of Lands and Forests to the effect that he is authorized immediately to issue permits for the cutting of wood for fuel on crown lands. This action on the part of the Department of Forests will give an oppor- tunity to those contractors, who are anxious to get a supply of dry fuel on hand before the winter, to put their men into the woods and start cutting. The Kingston Road Lumber Co., 828 Kingston Road, Toronto, have acquired a site at Scarboro Junction about two miles East of their present one, and will open up another lumber yard on the new location. A stock of lumber will be placed there at once and in the spring it is the intention of the company to go ahead with the erection of a planing mill. F. J. Cummings, head of the company, states that the two plants will be operated, the present one on the Kingston Road and the new one at Scarboro Junction.
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