The republic., 1852-01-05
From The Cleveland Ohio Herald.
The Lumber TrRde-Pincries.

The Detroit Tribune urges that the regulations Of
the lumber trade with Canada operate hard on the
lumbcrmen of Michigan, and that the duty of
twenty per cent. on Canadian lumber, the
nue. law is administered, is not sufficient. 1t claims
that Canadian lumber is admitted at undervalued
rates; that instead OF twenty per cent il does not
pay three; that logs are admitted at many eastern
ports at a nominal cost OF ) so per ] 600 feet,
which Is only thirty cents on 900. First quality
OF lumber, the Tribune says, is admitted at value
Of ) 3 90 per ,000 that cost s 10 90 on the Lake
shore. The duty paid is generally 8 90 per ,0OO,
when il should be S3 20.
The estimate Of sawed lumber exported from
Canada to the United States for 1851, is 200 900 900
feet. The returns of tho Canadian custom. houaes
show that in 1913 il was %, ,302 69; in 1919, 1886
204 co. in $780, l5s 235 296. The quantity Of logs
Ia not known, but the Tribune estimates the guam
tity in 1851 at 5O,000,0O0, making total Of $50
600 900 Of pine this season, to say nothing Of shin
gles, spars, &c.
The estimated quantity that has been exported
from Michigan in 1851 IL l76, 900 feet. 1t has
gone to all the markets on the Lakes, and many
millions or ieet reach the udevater on the Hudson
The lumber business gives employment 10 thou
sands and requires more shipping tonnage than
any other article of Michigan exports.
The pineries of the northwest very valua-
bic, the best and most extensive being in Mich-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. With ship
canal at the Saut, the unculled pinerics on Lake
Superior would coon be brought into use. A gen
tleman who has explored the country informs us
that the vicinity OF the Carp river iron region
abounds in the finest pineries in the world. The
beet OF mill streams are plenty, and the coil is
well fitted for the support of an agricultural lum-
bering, and mining population. Open FREQ pass
age to shipping at The saut, and the development
Of the varied resources and riches Of the vast
try washed by the watcrs of Lake Superior, would
quite astonish such as now regard that region as
little better than an inhospitable waste. A popu-
lUus and tlourishing State would ere long be or
ganized in the upper peninsula Of Michigan.
The lumber trade OF Cleveland has become very
important item Of business and is now mostly d.
vidcd between Canada and Michigan in obtaining z
supplies Of pine. The pine for the great Paines-
vile bridge the Lake Shore railroad brought
from Saginaw Bay. The pineries Of Canads, on
the opposite side of Lake Erie, quite extensive.
A correspondent Of the Detroit Tribune, writing
from Port Burwell, Canada, snys:
"Chis place is about one hundred and twenty
five miles west, ON Lake Erie The pincries arc
come twenty five miles on the lake and thirty into
the interior. Il il Of an excellent quality. Some
five years since began 10 attract the attention Of
the Yankees Of D. ialo, Black Rock, Tonawanda,
and Lockport la ls4j only some five hundred
thousand feet were exported. This season il has
renohed over twelve millions feet. Many water
ard stcatH-inills are erected by the Americans.
Several have gone up this season Next soason Il
lion feet There are buyers here alec from Clcvc-
land, and the shingles arc bought up mostly for
that market and Sandusky, coming into competi-
ton with the ST. Clair UcGvcrs IL is estimated
that there Is sufficient pine for forty goodsizcd
mills for ten years TO cCmc. This il mostly on the
Ouo-Port Burwel being the mouth. rev plank.
road, Of thirty miles has been built the past year,
TO wagon the lumber to the hsrbor. Every Thing
looks Aourishiug in this section. The trader. OF
Vienna, some three miles from tho harbor, arc
mostly Yankees.
"The pncry il one Of the largcs, on Lake Erie
to compete in the United States markets with that
Of Michigan the piEcry on Grand river having
been greatly culcd."