The daily union., 1854-07-21

locks that river as loaded vessels may descend the
rapids safety and only compelled to use the locks in
the ascending voyages"
With reference TO the lumber trade large pro-
portion comes from the St Lawrence and its tributaries
below Montreal from the district of Saguenay From
establishment alone at River du Coup eleven American
craft at time this receiving lumber for
Lake Champlan and during the past season. thirtysix
vessels have already received cargoes for Troy from that
place Preparations are making for more extensive trans
The quantity of sawed stuff produced on the Ottawa and
its tributaries is estimated at ninetyour million superb
cia feet Over and above this quantity, the deals cut be-
low Montreal and Quebec, down to Matanee, to be
added and these perhaps one-third morethus Civ
ing about hundred and twenty-five million superficial
feet the produce of mills the Ottawa and along the St
Lawrence below Montreal
am informed that the imporations from the upper ST.
Lawrence into Montreal for the four years ending lsis
ceeded its imports. The follows: two mil
lion barrels -FOUR four hundred and sxty-fve thousand
bushels wheat and ftynne thousand three hundred and
twenty-five barrels porkleaving about five hundred thou
sand barrels -four hundred and sixteen thousand
bushels wheat and fifteen thousand barrels pork for local
annual consumption at Montreal and the lumber districts
During the period that Canadian produce enjoyed pro-
lection in the British markets. the trade of Canada had its
outlet by the Quebec and Montreal being the great
depos The changes in the commercial policy of the Brit
sh empire, III the provincial and United States tariffs
and the United States drawback law, have materially
changed the current of the provincial trade, and have
given great impulse TO the lake Of the colony
The Upper Canadian merchant finds his interests ad
yanced by visiting New York and Boston 10 purchase both
foreign and domestic goods thus dvertng no nconsdera
BILE portion of the Upper Canada trade from Montreal and
Quebec
The inland exports of Canada TO the United States in
lS4S about three million dollars of which
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars the value of
produce shipped to New York for reshpment to Britain
under the back law. s#.. tH...
The inland tonnage of Canada is about $4,000 tons
cursory glance at the of Canada will impress
the most casual observer with profound of the in
uence she must the general of
this continent To her unsurpassed physical capabilities
are added majestic internal improvements rejecting credit
government and people who projected and completed
such admirable auxiliary pathways from the to the
interior to facilitate the transport of the products of the in
dnstry OF her population from that interior to the markets
of the world If the sanguine ancpatons Of the Cana
dian government and people realized by the St Law
renee becoming one of the great channels through which
the vast supplies OF merchandise required for the consump
on OF the population of the interior and far West will be
carried the dervabe from their canals the tolls
upon which it in contemplation to reduce win form
large item TO the credit of the colonial exceuer Vessels
Of three hundred tons burden drawing nine feet of water
and carrying three thousand barrels of -four may take
in their cargoes at Chicago and without breaking bulk
deliver them at Quebec aud return by the route
laden with supplies of every description for the conump
ton of the districts from which they started Nearly
twenty thousand tons OF railroad iron imported into Quebec
from Great Britain at low freight in British vessels
American account have been forwarded by this route in
bond, in s49 to Cleveland Sandusky and other places
at three to four dollars per oness cost of transport than
il could have been forwarded by the Erie canal The
average rate in 1850 between Montreal and Cleveland
thirty cents for Hour down. and three dollars per ton OF
2,240 pounds up.
submit for your consideration copies of the peti-
tons transmitted by the Montreal Board of Trade to the
imperial government dated the in August 1896 and
the other in December l84a containing the views of the
leading merchants and of Canada generally the trade
and navigation of the colony From the elaborate state
ments contained il hese documents you will observe that
eights usually much higher at Quebec and Montreal
than New York, and that this circumstance tends to
divert large proportion of the -four manufactured in Up
per Canada which is forwarded in bond via Oswego
TO New York. for reshpment to England British and colo
nia ships have enjoyed the carriage of the exports
from Canada for many years and as wood the chief
port has been protected in the British markets the pro-
Queer has had to pay high freight outwards which has
been profitable trade for the British navigation interests
The tonnage nwards and outwards, and the imports and
exports by have declined since lS4O while the inland
trade between Canada and the United States has greatly
increased 1t occupies prominent position, and is daily
and hourly becoming ot ncalculabe Importance in the
general industrial resources of both countries.
The map annexed to this report has been prepared by
the chief commissioner of the board of works in Canada
and is an amended and improved copy Of the plan pre-
pared for the railway convention held in Portland in July
last with reference to the European and North American
railway 1t is substantially correct, and particularly
worthy the examination and careful study of those States
bordering the great lakes which especially interest
ed in having proper outlet for their surplus productions
This trade IL now the great prize for which the Atlantic
cities are contehdng At present it has four outlets
TO the oceanthe river St Lawrence the Eric canal the
Champain canal the ogdensburg and Boston and the Buff
ulo and Boston New York railroad To these the Erie
aud New York and Montreal and Portland railroads will
be added The relative positions of these and
their communication with Europe here shown, and
active aud beneficial rivalry may be expected from these
competing But the great West unquestionaby
afford handsome support to them all and that their rel
atve advantages may be properly understood have
nexed statement of the cost of transporting wheat -four
&c, by each route to the
In reference to the by the st Lawrence have to
state that the trade between Quebec and Montreal and the
ports around the Bay of Ccur and Gulf of St Lawrence
is increasing is also that between those cities and the
valley of the lakes and the st Lawrence American YES
sells descending the st Lawrence not allowed to pass
the port Of Montreal except by special permission which
serious inconvenience to the navigation interests OF those
States bordering the lakes which require the free
Of this river without any restrictions whatever
In l849 30 British vessels cleared for various ports
Lakes Champlan Erie, and Michigan of the burden of
3i00 TONS while in 1850 there 46 vessels of 52SG
tons