. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED 1 SEMI-MONTHLY, f The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada. ( BUBSCBXPTIOB ( per junrox. VOL. 1. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., DECEMBER 15, 1881. NO. 28. The timber and woodfinanufactures exported from the United States to Australia is officially given in the consular reports as follows :— Timber, dressed ' $722,227 Other 54,831 Door, sash and shutters 88,409 Shooks and staves 2,979 Total ,8868,446 Arkansas lumber is
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED 1 SEMI-MONTHLY, f The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada. ( BUBSCBXPTIOB ( per junrox. VOL. 1. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., DECEMBER 15, 1881. NO. 28. The timber and woodfinanufactures exported from the United States to Australia is officially given in the consular reports as follows :— Timber, dressed ' $722,227 Other 54,831 Door, sash and shutters 88,409 Shooks and staves 2,979 Total ,8868,446 Arkansas lumber is becoming a very promi- nent factor in the commerce of some of the western cities. The yellow pine attains great size there, and forests of it cover about l-10th of the State. Among other valuable woods which grow plentifully and to large proportions are several varieties of oak, the black walnut, cherry, bois-d'arc, holly and maple. Besides these the cedar, beech, poplar, cypress, hickory and ash are common. Seventy different kinds of timber grow in this state. A heavy deal in hemlock bark has been made by Hoyt Bros., who are now engaged in building the largest tannery in the world on Babb's Creek, near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. The lo- cation chosen is right in the heart of an almost unbroken wilderness. The equipments of the establishment will be complete.'including six bark mills, which will grind a hundred cords of bark a day, and a large saw"null. The firm, to carry on this immense establishment, have made contracts for all the hemlock bark on about forty thousand acres of land. The white birch manufacture is attracting considerabfe attention in Maine. The stock is used largely for the making of spools. New mills for sawing birch are to be erected at Salem, and Scott & Hopkins, at Madrid, are using a large amount of birch'/in their mills, besides poplar, their stock beingjworked up into spools and salt boxes. This industry enables the farmers in the vicinity to
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