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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ending June 30, 1914, was slightly less 

 than that of 1913. Only a profitless 

 market, over-production and general 

 impoverishment of the industry in the 

 United States will prevent heavy im- 

 portations this year. The British 



Western Pine. 



a typical stand in southern british columbia near the northern 



limit of the species. 



Columbian manufacturer cannot com- 

 pete successfully with present prices. 



A notable difference is found as be- 

 tween the attitude of government in 

 Canada and the United States. In 

 Canada, and particularly British Colum- 

 bia, a partnership has been established 

 between lessees and actual owners. 



Parliament aids in developing industry 

 at home and abroad. In the United 

 States, Congress authorizes the expendi- 

 ture of a million or two of dollars that a 

 mythical, impossible trust shall be 

 sought for. Canada is seeking prefer- 

 ential tariff relations with 

 her sister countries of the 

 empire, seeing in them 

 parts of the ten million 

 consumers she needs. 7 An 

 effort will again be made 

 to impose an import duty 

 upon American lumber en- 

 tering the Dominion. The 

 time is opportune for trade 

 extension at home and 

 abroad and with the re- 

 turn of normal conditions 

 in the States the wheels of 

 industry will again turn 

 in the Province prolonging 

 the idleness of labor and 

 capital from which the 

 northwestern States are 

 now suffering. 



British Columbia will 

 not hope in vain for an 

 American market. The 

 Panama Canal and our 

 shipping laws invite par- 

 ticipation in the trade of 

 the Atlantic seaboard . 

 Cheaper vessels, smaller 

 crews and lower wages paid 

 them combine to this end. 

 vShippers and vessel owners 

 aver that it costs from 20 

 to 25 per cent more to 

 transport lumber to the 

 Atlantic seaboard from 

 American ports on the Pa- 

 cific than from British 

 Columbia ports and 

 America dug the canal. 

 With rail rates the same as 

 and water rates say $3.00 

 per M lower, British Columbia manu- 

 facturers have an opportunity to reach 

 the coveted ten million people and 

 they will grasp it. 



Among the lumbermen of the west 

 there is an urgent demand for the 

 restoration of an import duty on lumber, 

 at least sufficient to prevent dumping 



7 See "The Timberman," November, 1914. 



