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- 50 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED.
is that from the Douglas fir. Owing to the immense local demand which building operations have of late made upon the lumber mills of this
island, some of them have been obliged to work double shifts, in addition to which very heavy consignments from the mainland have found
a market in Victoria and elsewhere. It is difficult to estimate the quantity of lumber which the Island of Vancouver is capable of
producing, each surveying party as it returns from the interior, supplying its proofs of material additions to existing calculations.
At any rate, no matter how heavy may be the requirement, there is ample to supply all the demands for years to come. In the Province of
British Columbia there were last year 225,529 acres of Government lands under timber lease, of which 7,069 were in the Cowichan district,
the coast and Sayward districts supplying 25,672 acres, upon which Vancouver Island lumbermen drew for their logs. Moreover, their camps
were found upon the mainland, and on the intervening islands as far north as Knight's Inlet. The mills, those of Messrs. W. P. Sayward & Co.,
Rock Bay ; Hughitt & McIntyre, Cowichan ; The Chemainus (Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Co.) ; Andrew Haslam, Nanaimo, and Mr. Urquhart,
Comox, have an estimated capacity of 360,000 feet per day ; that of Muir Bros. , of Sooke, not being in operation.
Among the logging camps which are running, may be mentioned those of Fraser & Co., on the Cowichan River ; King & Casey, Hugh Grant and
W. P. Sayward & Co., Valdez Island, and on Vancouver Island between Cape Lazo and Cape Mudge ; and of Andrew Haslam, of Nanaimo, in the
Sayward district, and also on Vancouver Island.
The Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Co., of Chemainus, whose new mill, when completed, will have a daily capacity of more than 150,000
feet, have a number of camps on the mainland, at Port Harvey, on Craycroft Island, as well as in the vicinity of Humphrey Channel. The
McPhersons have extensive camps, from which they get out logs for the market, and all over the island and in the Straits are hand logging
camps, the products of which are, to their owners, almost as good as gold. During the last couple of years several new mills have been
established, while older ones have had their capacity very materially increased, and the indications are that other lumbering and milling
enterprises will ere long be inaugurated. The subjoined table compiled from the Forestry Inspector's Report, will doubtless be of some
interest :
NAME OF MILL. WHERE SITUATED. LEASES HELD. ACRES. QUANTITY OF TIMBER CUT.
W. P. Sayward ... Victoria ... 1,580 ... 10,857,997 ft.
Hughitt & McIntyre ... Cowichan ... 7,069 ... 400,502 ft.
A. Haslam ... Nanaimo ... 8,722 ... 7,268,153 ft.
Victoria Lumb'g Co. ... Chemainus 16,493 ...
In the case of the Cowichan Mill, the output reported amounts practically to nothing, as the establishment is being rebuilt and enlarged
to more than double its previous capacity. The Chemainus mill, when completed, will, as
LOGGING CAMP ON VANCOUVER ISLAND.
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