Scarcity of Lumber in Canada.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 April 1887, Page 6

Scarcity of Lumber in Canada.

The Chicago "Times" Ottawa (Ont.) special of March 10th says : The outlook for the lumber trade for the coming season is far from encouraging, and unless within the next few weeks there is great improvement in the condition of the woods, which are now covered with snow from twelve to fifteen feet deep in places, the lumbering business will sustain a very Bevere loss of the stock of lumber on hand. Nearly every plank in the Ottawa district has been purchased, and there U nothing left tD supply the present demand. Within the past twelve months the price of lumber here has advanced 15 per cent. The uncertainty of this season's cut has had the effect of still turther running up the price. Members of some of the oldest lumbering firms say that this has been the most severe winter on lumbering operations ever experienced, and it is feared that the cut will fall a long way short of the quantity of logs required to fill the demand for sawn lumber. The terrible fall of snow during the present winter has by no means been confined to this district, as advices received from Three Rivers, Quebec, state that recent arrivals from the lumbering districts there report an unprecedented quantity of snow in the woods, fifteen feet in some places. There is certain to be great dearth of logs in the spring, and the lumber trade will certainly sustain grest loss.