Show May Use To terry Curry Lumber I II Across Ocean I t I I VANCOUVER B B. C C. July 9 9 9 Feasibility of or rafting British Columbia Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia lumber to Europe In or great ocean point going rafts I Is being con considered here arc are used In towing lumber from irom Sweden to En England ll a lon long voyage voyage across the Baltic land and North orth se seas s. s The syndicate of ot London has hat sent Rent I William Olson of ot Stockholm to British Columbia to Investigate ate the tho possibility of ot using I In British Columbia Columbia's lumber trade with Europe Mr Olson j I expressed the opinion that the they great timber from the British Columbia forests will make possible possible pos pos- I Isible sible the operation of ot much larger than those now shipped out of or the Baltic S Swedish rafa rata carry carly four tour or five fitio million feet of ot lumber Mr 11 Olson believes be be- Hoves containing fifteen and twenty million feet teet can he be I shipped to Europe from British Columbia I Sinco Since the end o of the war var wilha witha wilh with wilha a tremendous demand in Europe for lumber for tor reconstruction purposes the saw mills in the tho vast ast virgin forests Alon along the I Grand Trunk Pacific railway have been working at top capacity and I overtime There is a shortage of ot ships for tor the lumber carr carrying trade and not only would decrease freightage charges but solve the tho problem or of ocean transportation for tor British Columbia's Columbia's Columbia's Colum Colum- bias bia's rapidly expanding export lumber trade I I I |