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regarded his efforts at baking as another superb jest, and 

 " something to make the boys laugh down the Bay." But 

 he could handle a canoe, and for twenty-one days in cold 

 water was pulling, hauling, and carefully raising his little boat 

 over the rocks and through the stream, with endless endurance 

 and patience. This was just the sort of man I wanted. 



It is only recently that Newfoundland has awakened to 

 the fact that it possesses considerable mineral and forest 

 wealth. Until ten years ago it imported all the lumber it 

 required. Now it not only supplies its own local needs, but 

 exports 50,000,000 feet annually. Within the past three 

 years Lord Northcliffe and his brothers have acquired 2000 

 square miles of the best timber land in the island in the 

 neighbourhood of the Exploits, Red Indian, and Victoria 

 Lakes. Much opposition, chiefly due to political agitation, 

 was at first brought against the grant, the wildest stories 

 being circulated amongst the fishermen, such as the threat- 

 ened destruction of ancient hunting privileges. Now since 

 the innovation is proving a success and stimulating labour 

 and business, the coming of the Harmsworths is regarded 

 as a blessing. If we except a small area of country in the 

 neighbourhood of Bay d'Espoir, there is only one other good 

 timber district in the island, and that is the Gander country, 

 till recently controlled by the Newfoundland Timber Estates, 

 and now to be worked by an English syndicate, represented 

 by Mr. Reed. 



Newfoundland timber and spruce wood for pulp were 

 booming, so little Glenwood presented a scene of unusual 

 activity. About two hundred and fifty men were employed 

 at the mill ; nearly all Newfoundlanders, with a sprinkling of 

 Canadians, who from their older experience at the logging 

 camps of Ottawa were in a sense regarded as superior. I 



