The daily union., 1854-07-21

Goes sattnets wooens cassmeres kerseys leather
taetures doeskns, machinery, paints oils edge tools agi-
cultural implements, and India rubber manufactures also
large quantities OF tea coffee and other foreign productions
under the drawback law consisting principally of sugars
cigars, dried fruits wines hides and hardware The gem
eral exports from Canada to the United States consist of
lumber wheat -four vegetables, seeds ashes wool eggs
and coarse grains for distilling.
The character Of Canadian exports and imports sea-
borne has not changed materially for the last twenty years
There addition to the agricultural exports chiefly sup
piled by Upper Canada The timber and lumber trade has
heretofore been and at the present time the of the
stable export The immense forests fitted to supply
demand to any extent and the many years Of active traffic
in this article alone does not to any dminuon
in its production.
The quantity of wood goods furnished to the Quebec
market in 846 under the stimulus Of the prices of the pre-
cedng years. exceeded thrtyseven millions of cubic feet
of squared timber and about two and quarter millions
of pieces of standard deals upwards of sixty millions
board measure of sawed lumber besides slaves and at
wood the whole amounting, according to Quebec compu-
tation to at least million OF ship tonnage To this
may be added four millions cubic feet that ddnot reach the
market at Quebec that year. making total Of than
forty million feet in ALL exclusive of sawed lumber and
money value Of about six millions OF dollars for the lnn
Der branch of Canadian commerce The Importance Of
this trade viewed commercially is obvious from the
Der persons employed in the manufacture and transport
and the tonnage required for its transportation.
The arrivals of sea-gong vessels ut Montreal about
hundred annually, little fifty thousand tons
Quebec they about thousand four hundred with
tonnage of nearly half million, which is greater than
into any other Atlantic port except New York.
There is also growing trade in lumber with the United
States inland which exceeded hundred million super
fetal feet in l849 the greater portion of this quantity be-
supplied from the Canadian shores of lakes Ontario and
Erie j also, and quarter million cubic feet of pine
timber and large quantity of sawogs, railroad ties and
ashes According to the declared value at the custom
houses the value of the products of the forest in lS49
ceeded hundred thousand dollars. This branch of
new lake trade with Canada has greatly increased the
present year.
The Hudson river is the chief market for the sawed lum
Der foated through the lakes Three hundred million feet
reached that river alone through the canals in s4 Only
Gy-sx and half million feet of the sawed lumber and
four hundred and eighty nine thousand feet of pine timber
the produce Of other parts than those Of the State of
New York 1t is probable that Canada supplies one
third of the amount required for the Hudson river markets
Michigan is the chief numbering of the western
United States but the domestic demand for lumber in that
hourishing and productive section of the Union ousrps
am informed the supply of its district and will re-
qure not only the pine of northwestern Pennsylvania but
also much Of that produced the Canadian shores of Lake
Erie thus leaving the great market of the Hudson to be
supplied from the State of New York and Canada
With capacious water communication between the
Ottawa and Hudson rivers, and with improved channels
for transportation Canada pine at reduced rates. would
suppanta great portion of the present supply substituting
superior for inferior article and relieving consumers
from the disadvantages Of high prices aud poorer
modify. lE@
The communication with the lumber districts of eastern
Canadu the chief route Of which is the Ottawa by canal
boats and RATS running down the Ottawa to the St Law
renee from the St Lawrence into Lake Champain by the
Chambly canal and the Riceicu from thence
the Hudson, by the canal at Whitehall
III proposed 10 construct canal large scale
Montreal to unite the waters of Lake Charplan and The
St LAWRENCE this if carried out will unquesionaby
prove to be great benefit to the inland commerce gener
ally and the numbering districts of eastern Canada You
however, judge of its merits and better appreciate its
Importance by the following extracts from report of
committee (of which the Hon. r. H. Waworth was chair
man) appointed by meeting held Troy in July laa9
of which meeting Major General Wool was president TO
whom referred the duty of visiting the site of this
great undertaking. and All extract from report made o
the Montreal Board of Trade the subject OF which
board Thomas Ryan, esq, is president
One of from the canal anticipated by
your committee is the transportation of large quantities Of
coal from Pennsylvania and other States situated upon
great western lakes for the manufacture OF iron and the
transportation of such iron for the of the
States tswell known that very considerable region Of
country in northern New York is filed with the richest
and most extensive beds of iron in the United States
perhaps in the world Many of these beds which have
been opened, and being worked situated upon
the very borders of Lake Champlan, within short dis
tance from it. The present capabilities of the iron works
in the vicinity of these mines the shores of the lake
about sixty thousand tons of iron annually pro-
dacon of which quantity of iron will require about
hundred and twenty thousand tons Of coal The future
capaby Of these extensive mines for the production of
and the extent which iron works may be erected in
region where water power is abundant, incacu-
liable and only be limited by the Of the cour
try The present price of coal Erie is from dollar
fifty cents to two dollars per ton and the estimated price
of tonnage and tolls aupposng it to be the in this
in the Welland canal is about seventy cents All
other expenses of transportation to points upon Lake
Chtmplan would not exceed from seventy five TO one
delivered the shores Of Lake Champlan, only from
three dollars fifty cents to three dollars seventyfvc
cents per ton This is much less than the coal be
obtained for from any other quarter, especially when
the wood for the manufacture Of charcoal shall have been
cut Off it must be in very few years And this canal
by opening direct communication with the great western
States and the fertile region of Upper Canada will furnish
and CONSTANT y-ncreasng market for the iron OF
northern New York and will supply cargocs for the
vessels which bring down the COAL
Again connected this canal would be with the OF
tawa well as other rivers which flow into the St Law
renee either above below Montreal the shores of which
rivers lined with immense forests of the most val
liable pine timber it would bring Lake Champain and
through the Champlan canal to the Hudson river the pro-
dact of these forests and will thus cheaper that species
lumber, which, from its scarcity, Is commanding
orbant prices This of ITSELF it is believed would for
many years afford very handsome to the canal
large branch of trade would also be opened with New
foundand Labrador and Nova Scotia for there is but
little doubt that their fish, oil gypsum, COAL &c could be
delivered Lake Champlan, and at Troy at less
expense for transportation than the articles
delivered at these points by the way of Boston and New
York But when there is added to this the trade of north
Pennsylvania, from Lake Erie the trade of Ohio Mich
igan Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa. Minnesota and
The fertile PENN sua of Upper Canada when II is consld
cred that the lands cultivated in this extensive region
Of country bear but small proportion TO the wild lands
and that such will be the gradual increase of production
then that the Eric and Oswego canals when enlarged
will be totally inadequate to such increased commerce. by
this single Improvement steamers and vessels from all the
upper and lakes well from the Gulf of ST.
Lawrence reach Burlington Whitehall, and all the
other ports on Lake Champain without breaking bulk
The -four pork beef coal and all the products of the West
can by of the railroads in of construc
ton be distributed in the Interior and also be landed at
Boston, less expense with less depreciation in value 10y
transport and in a shorter period than by any other
route"