The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-06-10

Since the close OF the Baltic To n valuable
timber trade great impetus has been civ
TO that on the American side ofthc Atlantic;
great quantities have been shipped from the
Potomac during Che past winter, for France,
and the Maine Iumbormcn never were so
busy rs they have been during the past sea.
ron. But the greater scene of lumber az.
tivity on our continent, for the pr two
years, we understand, has been in Canada.
About two years ago the Canadian Govern
mcnt threw open to competition an immense
tract Of timber land, lying on the bank ofthc
st Maurice midway between Montrr al and
Quebec. The Government of Canada was
liberal in the terms which it offered 4 tract
of tCrr,tory consisting Of two thousand square
miles, covered with rcd and white pine, was
divided into portions of fifty square miles,
and the right 10 cut for a given lumber of
years was sold at auction in Quebec in the
month Of July Of each ofthc last two years.
And a number of our Eastern lumber mcr-
chants ayailing themselves Of the advantage
then held out, bought tracts, and began
operation on Il grand scale. McSsrs. Nor
cross, Phillips, n Co., Of Lowell, we under
stand, have now one of the largest lnmhcr
establishments in Canada. They have cS.
tcnSiyc saw mills Nt the junction Of the St
Maurice with the st Lawrence, and il is said
had Thousand men employed by them in
cutting logs the last winter. There were
employed last winter in the timber territory
named, six hundred pair of horses, and FIVE
thousand mcu.-and never before did such
activity exist in the North American timber
trade. The old saying 1T is Nh III wind that
blows nobody good may he aptly applied to
wars in Europe: although they do immense
evil TO the people in those countries which
are the scenes of strife, they benefit us in
America, 10y increasing our commerce, and
calling forth greater industrial effort.
Nrw HAMPSHIRE Wing State Con.
vention has been called to meet at Concord,
June 90, for the nomination Of Governor and
Railroad Commissioner, for the ensuing po-
litical year. The Dmocracy hold their con-
vcntion at Concord, June ID.
a correspondent, of the Gcncsscc Farmer,
says that grdlcd trees may be preserved 10y
the following means:
Take out block of wood extending into
bark above aud below the grdlc and take
! from the body or limb Of another tree CORES.
| ponding in the size and shape with the bark
on, and adjust in the place, and bind it there,
on the principle of cngrating." This plan,
it is said has been completely successful.
BELLgvtiL ANp MuRrlNsBoRo RAILROAD
| We understand that, at n meeting Of the cit
liens ofSpalta, about a week since, there
was subscribed to the capital stock of tn,
Bcllcyillc and Murphy shcro Railroad Com
pany, the sum of $4,000. The best spirit
was manifested, and n number Of speeches
were made avoriug the enterprise Anothc,
meeting was to bc held on last Saturday
when it was thought a large subscripio /
would be madc.-Aiton Telegraph.
one llrNpREp MILLIONS ron CrnA. The \
Y, Express has a dispatch from Washington
stating that it ia confidently expected tina
Mr. Warren Winslow, bearer of dispatche
from Madrid will bc sent back immcdla ely
carrying Instructions to Mr.. Soue to oilc
one hundred millions Of dollars for Cuba.
The Peru Chrcnicie has been enlarged Il
six column daily, ispublshed simultaneoul.
in Lasallc and Peru, and has changed it
name to tho very appropriate one Of til
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