192 AMERICAN LUMBER IN ^FOREIGN MARKETS. 



lumber prices include costs, freight and insurance; free on board in 

 Canadian ports, freight to Dundee, $10.94 per standard; American 

 prices include costs, freight, and insurance. 



CLIMATE. 



The climate of the east coast of Scotland is equable, and, generally 

 speaking, drier than that of the west coast, the average annual rain- 

 fall in this district for the past ten years being 26.05 inches. No extreme 

 variations in temperature mark the climate. In the year 1893 the high- 

 est reading of the thermometer in the shade was 86, registered on 

 June 18, while the lowest was 19, on January 6. The average tem- 

 perature in summer is about 60 and in winter 39. 



GENERAL BUILDING. 



There are three shipbuilding yards in Dundee, from which there were 

 five launches during 1893, viz, three ships, a bark, and a barge, the 

 gross tonnage being 6,340. This was, however, a very bad year for the 

 trade, the gross tonnage for the year 1892 being 21,990. The prospects 

 at present, however, are brighter, and during the first two months of 

 this year orders for five vessels, representing a gross tonnage of 6,661 

 tons, have been secured, so that it may be counted on that a much 

 larger amount of timber will be used in this industry than during the 

 past year. 



JOHN M. SAVAGE, 



Consul. 



DUNDEE, April 20, 1894. 



FALMOUTH. 



NATIVE WOODS. 



The supply of native woods, elm and ash, chiefly, is about equal to 

 the demand. It appears, however, that landowners are neglecting to 

 plant as fast as the timber is cut, especially on the duchy properties, 

 where plantations and woods have been cleared and none planted on land 

 that is useless for other purposes and where good ash and elm can be 

 grown. Others are planting larch fir, which makes rapid growth here. 

 Besides the elm, ash, and fir, oak, beech, chestnut, and poplar grow here. 



KINDS OF LUMBER USED. 



The principal kinds of foreign lumber used are red and white fir from 

 Norway and Sweden ; yellow, red, and pitch pine, oak, spruce, mahog- 

 any, hickory, ash, walnut, birch, and elm from America, and mahogany 

 irom Africa. Other woods not so generally used are teak, maple, cedar, 

 lignum- vitse, rosewood, American whitewood, Oregon pine, kaurie 

 pine, and greenheart. 



