TIMBER ON THE SEA.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3820, 24 June 1919, Page 2

TIMBER ON THE SEA.

The timber trade is still in a fav■nirablo position, as will be seen from the following: AA'ator-borne export ot 'umber from British Columbia in 1018 was 53,-10."*,05!) fed, as compared with 43,922,50.3 feet in 1017: -l'.Lo7<*,----5*23 feet in 1!M0; and 55,(17-1,773 feet in 1015. Of the aggregate amount in 1.018 the Canadian Robert Dollar Company, whose mill is on Burrai'd fnlel. sent away 20 million feel, Ihe principal destination being tlie Orient. Shipments for the Hastings mill were 13.229,30-1, but this does not include shipments o- n craft controlled by the Imperial Munitions Board. In 1015 the big shipment was to Hie Uniled Kingdom and Continent — .'15,112.209 feet out, of a tolal of of**.----")7-l,773. In 1010 this dropped to I!) million feet, the big increase being to Uriea. In 1917 the big shipment was to Australia, amounting lo 1.0.309,3 D/ feet, while in the same year the shipments to Britain were 1.'1..|47,940 feet. hr 1918 there was a still , further •h-iiigo in the direction of the hulk of lumber shipments. 18.050.999 feet going io China, while U. 022.817 foot went to the United Kingdom.