Tho Lumbering Prospects

Beoent advices f rom the Lako región indícate a good cut of spruce, with other logs in the same proportion. In the vicinity of Moosehead Lake, operatiou8 are now going on lively. On the whole there is no reason to doubt tliat 120,000,000 feet will be out. Of the criving, nothing can be toliï how, but the prospect is that there will Le I snow enough to hold the water up lo a pretty good pitch during the spring. A few logs were lying npon l'leasant Biver last year, but about all the old i logs are in the boom, and they count ud 60.000,000 feeüthis amount, wilh thé above'estimated cut (should it all reach the milis), vi 11 give 180,000,000 I of a total stock, allowinsc 150,000,000 feet for shipments, the same as in 1881; a stock of 80,000,000 feet will remain j for another spring's sawing. Very few hemlock logs are reporteü in the booms, and the cut, it is said, will not be large. So, although the year's oper[ ations cannot be called large, tliey will be sufficient íor the demands of business and i'uinisli the usual groat