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tender and contract. This is, as is the case with respect to all that material, 

 after an appeal has been made by poster and public print from one end of the 

 railway to the other, and owners have been invited to furnish this material 

 at prices at which they were disposed to offer it ; and, in the face of that 

 petition, that all lumber material has increased certainly in very few instances 

 less than 25 per cent., and in some instances 50 per cent., and even in 

 others, with respect to pine and certain other classes of lumber, there has 

 been nearly a hundred per cent, increase. 



Now put those valuations gathered together, if you will, in your mind's 

 eye, by the visits you have made to the outlying sections of the province and 

 in the different counties ; realise the amount of waste there has been ; real- 

 ise the amount of w r aste going on day after daj~, and then apply your mathe- 

 matical ability and multiply that waste by the value of this lumber today ; 

 and it is not merely its value, it is because of its scarcity and because of the 

 necessity. 



I do not think there are many men in the Province of New Brunswick 

 who can stand up and say that there is to be found within our boundaries 

 any very great quantity of what even twenty or twenty-five years ago would 

 have been called first-class pine. If there is any very great quantity it cer- 

 tainly is not seeking a market. If there is any great quantity of that par- 

 ticular class of lumber there is not much evidence of it anyway. Need that 

 have been if people had seen ? 



I feel that there is a time now 7 for people to see, and I fancy, Mr. 

 Premier, that in your gathering here that you who have had the opportunity 

 of listening to and partaking of this feast of good things, that even of the 

 crumbs that have fallen from the table of today's feast there would be 

 gathered much that would be of value, and there would be, if it could be re- 

 tained in the memory and could be disseminated, the knowledge which has 

 fallen from the lips of the eminent gentlemen who have addressed this Con- 

 vention today. If the truths which have been imparted could be dissemin- 

 ated throughout the province, among the young men, the growing hope of 

 this country, it might make many of them see where they have not seen, and 

 if they only could, w r e are not past redemption as a province. 



A great many people are looking away beyond to tjie West, and a great 

 many young men, as I know, are looking to the distant pastures ; but are 

 we prepared to say there are no opportunities in New Brunswick today in 



