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West by the logs being larger or smaller. lin. There were tiniber he iN ". , " , _ g , ', , . , it was estimated that, taking the production Franklin, audit was not advisable that it _ ' . r' -', of saw-mills throughout Ontario, the average "Wild he left unlicensed. m thou ht that amount per thousand feet realizid for the sea- perhaps during this coming autumn d it was son of 1872 from the total mill-run would found tobea good season these townships not exceed $12 50, on which dues at the rate should be placed under license. Beyond of 75 cents per thousand were charged. or that he did not propose while Commissioner 1 six per cent. on the value. One thousand of Crown buds, at all events tor the next f feet of sewn lumber was equal to 834-12 yearortwo, to recommend any additional cubic feet square timber, which, sold at the selenium" it might be in proximity to Lake l Qurbw season of 1872 " rates from 28 to 36 hrpiuinu, where he found settlers were ' cents per foot, say an average of 32 cents per gomg in, and along the Mattawa. _ l art, was equal to $26 56 for the 83 cubic At the mouth of the Mattawa a little village feet, or say N reent. on the value; showing had sprung up, and he had no doubt that in , a difference i'it','l1"l of square timber of 21 four or tive years it would be an important r r per pant. It was evident, toany one who place. This was a point on which some sur- 3 ' gave the subject due consideration, that it veys must be made, and it might be desirable I was in the interest of the country that the to issue some licensis there He was not I manufacture of sawn lumber should be on- however, committed to this, but was anxious , i _ coursged and that of square white pine tim. to take the House into his ttontidenoe on _ ber discouraged; and that any discrimination these matters llsd he known at the time in the matter of dues should be in favour of as much " he know now of the Lake Huron the former. Honourable gentlemen would territory he would not have hesitated to ask see that in reality square timber was paying the House to place that territory under fifty per cent. less than boards. Even the license, and he was vain enough to believe i incrtare of three-quarters (as cent. on the that the House would have taken his advice. , cubic foot would leave its action less still. lie thought the people now pretty fully For the present year he did not feel iuatifhtd realized the position that putting a territory in adding any more, because it under license in no way embarrassed might be that to add a larger 'hill the Government, that it was the only way of might disturb contracts that ad rettling some portions of our lands, that it already been made. Be intended it to a ply left the Government in full possession of the to all the timber which is just now in Sue- trrritcry to make just such regulations as qT bee, belonging to Ontario, on which the dues they thought wise and prudent. to meet the are still unpaid. "Agencies of the case. The advantage was, ' \.- Mr. BYEERT-aho owners will sell it to. 1:3? you gist settlers. 1df, in ans to chaos: , l marrow. t err own cos ronsrn one see mm w to , I are most inviting to them. To show how _ i ,2lri,d'gm1Sx,,"lf tld tt 33:: 13d utterly useless it was for the Government to t not maid the details ot the trade or h .loy out any territory l? ,rbitrary means, no . would know that. $) better argument coal be given than that l presented by his hon friend the member for i din WOOD thought it would make a Lincoln in his speech on moving the resolu- i difference if timber VII sold It the current tiontt before tho House, He aqun of two or j t',,e,hth't't"""" (theirs. was elected time of '2 Elisa Giant "dds. the l V . "tin". o in ton an some ' Hon. Mr. 800TT said it was not the iii/A."" Hot '25- Sign) ' could have . twhichtimbersal ad He t l' " . , ' m . "V""m s. gone on and mJuded all tho Free had asked . Ttet: ot 0110580. who inset roads. Some years ago he mule a ad. :5 te,',' we posted, WNW" there (-ulstion of the number of settlers on the lots . had re pli .3"! g'tiit"ec'tdt,, Jul pe, along Ithese rgadsirand he tref the: td' , ' ' . twot (-usan . we years terwar s, a er V3110; 3: R'l'd ttta 'i'iiiir, not. come in the country had spent a large sum of money, sal A "dd "P g "it arrived Hy1. the number had actually reduced to four es were in e. " THe there might hundred. Sixteen hundred families, who had , h" t1'gt"'tct' made In E31090. but it bun placed there at very considerable ex. and? J, "'M11 many had tet been en. [.rnse, had abandoned the country because it ' ( mic:woddd lie densibl'y tltd? limit! uvlritranly stated, " We have laid out a tt ' s tlt,rt'ht t,, the tariff. A good deal had $1.235 yin to settle, and there only must crusai a utthe salescf timbe b . _ . . Quebec G'orortumsnt. The 2,g,,,lC,h Mr. lth hERI' said that they left because there was in the neighbourhood of twenty they had settled on poor lands. thousand square miles Nobod took ex- Non. Mr. soon said of course they 3 I wptiontothat, buuthoro ,%'hlUd',L', of were poor lands, and yet the first I opinion as to the mode in which they were Frre Grant roads were laid out by men who , .oid. There the feeling prevailed thatit was were supposed to haunt intimately " V/r. wrong that these timber lands should quainted with the tracts they were survey- fall into thehands Ma few. The Quebec ir g. They drew an arbitrary line where l ti?.verument got a bonus of 88 or 89a square they thought settlers should go in. and the i ". Dale. '_ 1't,bF4 qurnce was, that during the time these I Mr. BOULTER said they were hard up , ' settlue had been on these lands, they had ' ' for money and we were nor. " _, hm supported by the charity of the lumber- ' Hon. Mr. SCOTT said it was true t m ot m dutritrt, Not only did tha i had made . good dval of money out of tr, country lose so many valuable settlers, but it = large quantity of territory sold. Ontario losthundreds .ot. thousands oi dollars worth i had also " cured a large sum. and not only ottimbtrr, which M "Sifter. lege,' that, but would soon gain all the advanta- yr flrrs His thug was t men ghoul go gee desirable from an increased settlement "up" lands will hy.1.beym licensed "Id , in these districts. m had no doubt-in lab what land they liked. .If they took i fact he knew-that a great dosl of money valuable timber land the license-holders 's would beslwnt in the Superior region in you" see to that. 1.rt Uherved ' ther an, lumber trade - . trade ' it was best not to bud settlers l, which any Government would act wisely in . dorm a to ,ruge they should go, but that ' ertconraging, as it stimulated and benotitted thor should he allowed to go irhem their rho industries of the, country to Tb much tttmat. reason guided them. There was no doubt ' or extent than the square timber busi- that the money taid out on thart, roads was l " rose did. The hon. "gunman. in "no of hene'itto the country. He thought that 1 of the paragraphs of his resolution, ifwemade money out of our timber it was [ pointed to the imuropriety of tho Govern. atatr "I that '0 Ihonld in return mad the l, Ins nt pl S' ing in the market timber berths .1000ny the ttottofit ot tho "tttee by build. without first comingdown tothe House. Ashe ing toUda for him, Re, had aisrar been . 1 had said before, ho believed that this w" . strona supporter of tuooioetisation mad sys- matter which came under the Executive hem. (Hear, hear.) He wae'gladtohesr hon. ' l branch of the Administration, and that legis. Women "Y " Hear, heai" and he hoped lative interference would not ha"e been pru- " would "y tRt again when the tttrtidtateg I dent. It was not his intention to recommend came down. 30 m nor. almost exhausted i 'he Governmentto put into the msrket any the subject, and rhaps he ought to l considerable tportion of territory for the next . i" to the you" tor having made ' war. He ought it would he unwise for same . ressions and for occupying so mum _ four. or two years to come that any large time. tt might be that he would be allowed . .ectrone should be put into the market. il _ to make some further.,: explanations, should l however. was of opinion that some tracts , the oour" ot the debate " V to require it, I i ' g,"::,',,",',' the [r,og,i,ri't l:rhich he thought ? on some future day. 'l'0irlt'g! I e co men ion, wo ave neceua . . ' be put ucder "MM He k',',t':1',t1t,nt: . Mr. BEACON' said he failed tones the .' places where the settlers were going Natitus of the Comtuigitotter increasing the 1 ' heyon d the Free Grant territories. The dues upon timber already brought out. The we" filling up the country n JIT, lumbermen got out this timber on the condi- _ . of the MutrkdU regiou,and there were town tion that they would have to pay one cent ships there which were necessary toe CC. and a quarter dues on it. And he could see tion. Be alluded totho townships Orion. no _equity in now turning round and teith, Percy, Cardwell " rtion of which adding three-quarters of a cent to the dues I t ., was sold " the late U'f and afterwards on tT, waclwero :',,',1f,','e.u"ft enough lnot g g t withdrawn .sughd . . to " sol est summer. e won its '"' " l ' McMurrich, and.Fran.k; _, the Commissioner to explain this injustice. *m--iw thought there might be mmethmg