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situated, owing to the war and internal discord, the Forestry 

 Department of the Ministry of State Domains has been authorized 

 to sell large quantities of timber in the Province of Vologda, for 

 shipment from the Petchora. At present, only two sawmills are 

 said to be working there. It is expected that as a result of the 

 financial burdens of the war, it will be necessary for Russia to 

 exploit her forests to a large extent, and this may be expected in 

 the forests of the White Sea district for the export trade. 



The St. John River is the scene of a dispute which has as- 

 sumed international proportions, inasmuch as it is based on an 

 international agreement, that no obstruction should be allowed to 

 the free navigation of the portion of the river which forms the 

 boundary between the United States and Canada. A great 

 many logs, cut on the upper part of the St. John River in Maine, 

 are sawn at the mills in New Brunswick on the lower reaches, 

 particularly at St. John. One of the firms operating on the 

 Maine side where the river is the boundary, has built a dam so as 

 to direct the logs into the pond for sorting, and, although the logs 

 belonging to mills lower down are afterwards sent on, the 

 owners object to the delay and consider the dam an interference 

 with the stream in contravention of the international agreement. 

 An effort has been made to include the diflficulty in the disputed 

 matters to be taken up by the International Waterways Commis- 

 sion. 



