Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — Britain Needs Timber. [ARTICLE]

Britain Needs Timber.

The demand for timber in Great Britain is so great, owing to the war, that the export of this material from Newfoundland, which has been practically abandoned of late years, is now being revived. Until about ten years ago there was a substantial annual export of deal and sawn lumber, but about that time the possibilities of the island for and paper-mak-ing were emphasized to such an extent that large enterprises along these lines were established in Newfoundland, with the result that a large quantity of logs that had previously been exported in the form of lumber are now utilized and manufactured into pulp and paper on the spot. Now, however, the war has brought about new conditions, and the increased price for lumber has stimulated a revival of the exporting trade, the various concerns throughout the island, which hitherto have been operating entirely for the local trade, having decided this summer to go into the export business on an extended scale, as the compensation, if the cargoes are got securely across the water, is very large.