Slides and Booms.

The Revenue from these works shows an increase of $12,021, the figures for 1876-77 being $111,085 and those for the preceding year $99,064 There are outstanding balances, mostly disputed claims, of $221,240. Of the Revenue received, $98,259 was from the works on the Ottawa River and its tributaries 445,430 pieces of square and flatted timber, and 1,132,073 saw logs passed through these. Of the pieces 381,000 were white pine and 50,400 red pine.