. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Vigars & Co.—Mill and Lumber Piles at Port Arthur, Ont. competition, except in the case of settlers who require the timber for their own use. The dues payable under permits are $ per thousand feet for square timber and saw logs of pine, cedar, spruce and tamarac, $3 for saw logs of oak, elm, ash or maple, and $2 for poplar saw. Vigars & Co.—Saw Mill at Port Arthur, Ont. iprague, of Winnipeg ; Hanbury Manufactur- ng Co., of Brandon ; Peter McArthur, of
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Vigars & Co.—Mill and Lumber Piles at Port Arthur, Ont. competition, except in the case of settlers who require the timber for their own use. The dues payable under permits are $ per thousand feet for square timber and saw logs of pine, cedar, spruce and tamarac, $3 for saw logs of oak, elm, ash or maple, and $2 for poplar saw. Vigars & Co.—Saw Mill at Port Arthur, Ont. iprague, of Winnipeg ; Hanbury Manufactur- ng Co., of Brandon ; Peter McArthur, of Fair- ord River; H. T. Mitchell, of Selkirk ; Mackenzie It Mann, of Shoal River, and Peter McLaren, the atter controlling limits on Old Man river. The >rincipal limits are on tributaries adjacent to the Vssiniboine and Red rivers. Licenses to cut timber are acquired at public logs ; railway ties 8 feet long, 3 cents each ; telegraph poles 22 feet long, 5 cents each ; shingles 20 cents per thousand. A large percentage of the lumber used in Manitoba and the Territories is obtained from the Lake of the Woods district, being supplied by the Rat Portage Lumber Co. and the Kee- watin Lumber Co., both of which own extensive Territories is steadily increasing, and as settlers are now rapidly coming in from all parts of the world, it is only a question of a short time until the demand for lumber in these provinces will exceed that of any other province in the Do- minion. The superior quality of wheat and other cereals grown upon the land, and the greater yield per acre, are now universally ac- knowledged. A yield of some 30,000,000 bushels of wheat and as much more of other grains from an area of 1,500,000 acres in itself speaks volumes for the future of Western Canada. There are within the provinces prob- ably between 250 and 300 retail dealers in lumber, about 200 of whom are members of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association. Below will be found illustrations and descrip-
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