APPROACHING DEARTH OF TIMBER 



wood and manufactures exceed the exports 

 by about $10,000,000, the exports rounding 

 out about $85,000,000 and the imports total- 

 ling something like $95,000,000. Back before 

 the war started in Europe we had an export 

 trade that had reached beyond the 100,000,000 

 mark. After the war started it fell oS to 

 about 60 per cent., and it has since recovered 

 to something near 80 per cent, of the original 

 volume, though the bulk of the trade is going 

 to different points than formerly. Meantime, 

 however, we have been adding to our own 

 outside purchases, till now we are buying 

 more than we are selling. So far the big 

 feature in the gain of imports over exports 

 has been in pulp and pulp wood, but there is 

 an increase in the timber and lumber purchases 

 proper. 



" Our imports are made up of mahogany, 

 cedar, and other cabinet woods, mainly in log 

 form, amounting to something like $5,000,000 

 a year. Then we have lumber proper, much 

 of it coming from Canada, which runs up to 

 something like $40,000,000, pulp wood about 



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