to what were considered normal conditions in 

 the years before the war, but the prospects are 

 all for a vastly enhanced prestige for this first 

 of New Brunswick industries. 



About two-thirds of the normal New Bruns- 

 wick lumber cut ordinarily went to the United 

 Kingdom, the United States being the next 

 heaviest consumer. The war years brought 

 about an unprecedented demand for New 

 Brunswick lumber from overseas which resulted 

 in all mills working to capacity and many new 

 ones starting up. The termination of hostilities 

 cut off this demand suddenly and definitely 

 and left New Brunswick dealers with large 

 surplus supplies on hand. Up to the present 

 summer there has existed a slackness in demand, 

 with many companies going out of business 

 and others operating at only partial capacity. 



The present spring and summer have seen an 

 extraordinary demand from both the United 

 Kingdom and the United States and accumulated 

 stocks have been largely cleaned out. Mills 

 which have been closed down for years have 

 srarted up again and others have increased 

 their capacities from fifty to one hundred per 

 cent. New Brunswick ports have been experienc- 

 ing the busiest year in their history. The July 

 customs receipts at St John were the highest on 

 record. Receipts at Fredericton for the month 

 of August were only one-third less than for the 

 whole of last year. Campbellton and other 

 ports have had a record year. All this is 

 attributable to the lumber trade. The prov- 

 ince's exports in all lines to the end of June had 

 doubled. In the quarter ending that month 

 they amounted to $751,245, of which the sum 

 of $650,000 was represented by wood and 

 wood manufactures. 



is under construction which will make the 

 ultimate capacity of the plant 100 tons of paper 

 per day and employ an additional fifteen hundred 

 men. 



Factors which have brought about this 

 fresh demand for New Brunswick softwoods 

 from the United States, together with the fact 

 that the hardwoods of Maine and other states 

 are becoming depleted, is causing a good deal of 

 attention from that country to be directed to 

 the hardwood resources of the Maritime Prov- 

 ince. Several Americans interested in hardwood 

 manufactures have been in the province making 

 investigations and have departed very favorably 

 impressed. Little toll has been taken of New 

 Brunswick hardwoods and there is a great 

 wealth of maple, elm, oak, birch, beech and ash. 

 In the probability of a demand for these, lumber- 

 ing firms in New Brunswick are at the present 

 time directing attention for extending the work 

 of their plants to the manufacture of hardwoods. 

 This opens up prospects of a much more expans- 

 ive lumber trade between New Brunswick and 

 the United States. 



The return to normal conditions of the 

 lumbering industry of New Brunswick is highly 

 pleasing because it is the hinge of provincial 

 prosperity, of prime importance no less to the 

 trade of New Brunswick ports than to the 

 actual lumbering operations and the many 

 industries dependent upon them. The situation 

 existing over the past few years has been an 

 abnormal one due to artificial conditions, and 

 with the depletion of the many woods of the 

 United States and the steady demand from 

 overseas, New Brunswick's industry should 

 consistently be maintained in its present active 

 prosperity. 



Prospects for Winter's Cut Good 



The cleaning out of accumulated stocks is 

 being followed by great activity on the various 

 limits, and according to government authorities 

 prospects for the lumber cut this winter are 

 excedingly rosy. Practically all operators in 

 the business have elaborate plans for the winter 

 months. Government lumber sealers predict 

 that the lumber cut for the season will be double 

 that of last year. Further indications of this 

 important provincial trade are not lacking. The 

 rafting season on the Naashwaak this year 

 constituted a record with more than 26,000,000 

 feet of lumber brought down, and the com- 

 pany expects to cut 15,000,000 feet this 

 winter. One of the largest deals in Mari- 

 time lumber was recently concluded by Hol- 

 lingworth and Withey when large New 

 Brunswick and Nova Scotia holdings were 

 secured at a price of $2,000,000. The paper 

 and pulp mill at Bathurst finds such a demand 

 is being made for its product that an addition 



Nitric Acid Manufacture in Canada. 



Canada is to have a new and somewhat 

 unique industry. Two years ago an American 

 company established a small plant, costing 

 approximately $500,000, at Lake Buntzen, on 

 the north arm of Burrard Inlet, near Vancouver 

 for the extraction of nitrogen from the air by 

 electricity. Two years of operation have proved 

 the practicability and commercial profit of the 

 scheme, and now the company plans an elaborate 

 extension of the plant, at an expenditure of be- 

 tween $3,000,000 and 4,000,000, to take care of 

 the production of nitric acid. There is stated 

 to be only one other such plant on the North 

 American continent. 



The extension of the present plant for the 

 manufacture of nitric acid has been forced on the 

 company by the recent increase to 600 per cent 

 in the United States tariff on nitrate products 

 used in making dyestuffs, paints, inks and films 

 which the Buntzen Lake plant has been turning 



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