. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. McIxtosh & Co., Toronto, Ont., wholesale dealers, are succeeded by Wilmot & Mcintosh. Bcbdic & Son's shingle mill, at Waddington, , was burned December 29. No insur- ance. 1 Samuel Moonet had his left leg broken Jan- uary 6, while rolling logs at Pratt's camp, near Clare, Mich. Charles Storm, employed in the woods near Chicolay, upper peninsula, Mich., was killed by a fallen tree. Wilcox & Weal's planing mill, at Caro, Mich.,
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. McIxtosh & Co., Toronto, Ont., wholesale dealers, are succeeded by Wilmot & Mcintosh. Bcbdic & Son's shingle mill, at Waddington, , was burned December 29. No insur- ance. 1 Samuel Moonet had his left leg broken Jan- uary 6, while rolling logs at Pratt's camp, near Clare, Mich. Charles Storm, employed in the woods near Chicolay, upper peninsula, Mich., was killed by a fallen tree. Wilcox & Weal's planing mill, at Caro, Mich., was burned December 30. Loss, $10,- 000; insurance, 84,000. Considerable bird's eye maple is being hauled to Harbor Springs, Mich., for shipment to the East. The shipment of shaved cedar shingles from Little Sturgeon, Wis., last season was not far from 1,500,000, mostly made by farmers. C. E. Milchell, of Ludington, Mich., has a contract fcr furnishing 1,600,000 feet of hem- lock timber for work on Chicago harbor im- provements. Albert J. Hastet, employed at Stevens & Ladue's camp on the Cedar, Mich., was killed, December 30, by a log on a skidway rolling over him. Alpena, Mich., has been in distress because of the report that a gang of incendiaries had been organized to burn some of the saw mills in that city. Last winter 41,000,000 ft. of logs were hauled to the Pinconning, Mich., boom on Saginaw bay. This year there will be not more than 25,000,000 feet. Clarkson Seelet recently sold his mills at Freelton, Ont., to Wm. Laking for $4,100, and will engage in the lumbering business in the Ottawa district. A sale of 10,000,000 feet of Norway logs, at $5 a thousand, to Muskegon parties, is reported; the logs to be banked on Houghton lake, Ros common country. The latest estimate of this season's log crop on Muskegon, Mich., waters, that has appeared in print, places it at 355,000,000 feet, a figure considerably below previous estimates. The boiler of Earnst's saw mill exploded
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