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For some time past Canadian lumbermen, it is alleged, nave made a business of systematically carrying off luniber f rom United States territory. ïhis has been dono with full knowledge on the part of the interior department, but 110 step has boen taken to check it. Tho St. Mary's lake district south of the forty-ninth parallel in Minnesota is the one which suflfered most frora those dopredatio'.)3. Millions of teet of the choicest lumber has been cut and floated down tho Belly river to Lethbridge, where it has been sawed up and then sent into different parta of Manitoba and northwest torritories. Over 400 laborers were engaged all last winter in this work, and it is reported t ïi men aro being engaged for similar work this winter.