. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 361 Chapman Brothers are operating in the north- ern part of Bay, near the Ogenaw county line, Mich., employing 140 men, and intending to cut 16,000,000 feet of logs. It is stated some of the mills at Manistee, Mich., are cutting and cross-piling piece stuff, expecting to realize $12 on it it in the spring, $2 better than the present price. Russell, Brown & Chisholm, at Livermore Falls. Me., are making improvements in their wood pulp-mill to
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 361 Chapman Brothers are operating in the north- ern part of Bay, near the Ogenaw county line, Mich., employing 140 men, and intending to cut 16,000,000 feet of logs. It is stated some of the mills at Manistee, Mich., are cutting and cross-piling piece stuff, expecting to realize $12 on it it in the spring, $2 better than the present price. Russell, Brown & Chisholm, at Livermore Falls. Me., are making improvements in their wood pulp-mill to the extent of $20,000. The mill is being moved and new machinery put in. It is stated that 25 years ago a man of Win- chester, N. H., sowed a worn-out pasture to pines. Now there are on the land 25,000 pine trees, ranging from eight to twenty inches in diameter. The cargo of walnut, ex schooner Jesse Drummond, from Chicago was sold on arrival at Quebec at $ per foot. Messrs. Dobell & Co. and Messrs. Ross & Co. were the pur- chasers. The agent of the New York and Lake Cham- plain Transportation Company has shipped from Ottawa during the past season to the Uni ted States on American barges 16,954,571 feet of lumber. The Car Manufacturing Company, at Terre Haute, Ind., whose works cover 25 acres of ground, all under one roof, employs 500 hands> and when running at full capacity, turns out 300 cars per month, and 120 wheels daily. The Kirby-Carpenter Company lately sold the Northwestern Railway Company 350,000 ft of lumber, consisting of 2x6 stuff, and No. 2 fencing, t« be used in building snow sheds in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. The most of it was shipped to Sleepy Eye, Minn. A movement is afloat in Great Britain for the formation of a timber trade's association. A council of gentlemen has been formed for the purpose of constituting such an association. The secretary of the committee is S. H. Big- land, with offices at 57 Grace Church street, London, E.
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