Show Tlicrels a prospect of a great trade In lumber for our northwest coast with China Probably the greatest use for wood In the Celestial empire Is for coffins cof-fins These collins are made of lumber from four to ten Inches thick Harry B Millor U 9 3 Consul at Nluchwaug I In a recent report estimates that from eight billion to ten billion feet of lumber are yearly used In China for collins The next greatest use of lumber In the empire Is for boats and while there I arc no atatlstlcs on the subject the number of wtercrnft is very great The extensive coast Hue with its bays and Inlets the great l rivers and the wonderful canal fiyjuem all carry multitudes multi-tudes of boats of ovory description propelled pro-pelled by steam sail towline and oars These are the only menus of transportation transpor-tation through Immense areas of heavily populated country Then comes the demand for vast numbers of wooden buckets and tubs for the making of which slabs from Oregon or Washington Washing-ton timber would be cxncvly lit There Is a chance for an enormous trade and the timber men of the great Northwest should wake up to the advantage of It They PJUI talce It for the trouble |