. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1899 THES LUMBERMAN 13 closed by sash, so that observation can be made of what is going on in the mill. At the left of the main building are the offices and warerooms, which are built two stories high to correspond with the other structures. To run a mill of this size to its full capacity would require a bookkeeper, a man to estimate, one to make out orders and make measurements, a main foreman and his assistant, an engineer, a teamster, and 35 mechanic
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1899 THES LUMBERMAN 13 closed by sash, so that observation can be made of what is going on in the mill. At the left of the main building are the offices and warerooms, which are built two stories high to correspond with the other structures. To run a mill of this size to its full capacity would require a bookkeeper, a man to estimate, one to make out orders and make measurements, a main foreman and his assistant, an engineer, a teamster, and 35 mechanics, both bench and ma- chine hands. I trust that what I have given may be of some benefit to the readers of the paper, and I would be glad to hear from any of them on this topic through the columns of the paper. THE NEWS. VANCOUVER ISLAND TIMBERS. When WilliamJ. Sutton, of Victoria, , was in the Lumberman office the other day he told some very good stories of the timber growth of Vancouver Island, with which he is very familiar and in which, as president of the Sugton Lumber Company, he is interested. Mr. Sutton is a geo- logist by profession, has recently been occupying a professorship at the University of Michigan, and scientific habits have enabled him to make un- usually careful observations of the facts as to the growth and characteristics of timber in relation to the soil. The red cedar he considers practically inde- structible. He has found fallen trees six feet in diameter with 6-foot cedars growing on top of them, embracing with their roots the fallen trunks, which must have lain in that position for centuries and are now perfectly sound except that the sap has rotted away. But as the sap on the red cedar is seldom over two inches thick, the size of the tree was hardly lessened. The firs also have very thin sap, perhaps the larger and most rapid grow- er not exceeding 2^ inches. The cedars under favorable conditions some- times grow to an immense size. He relates th
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