. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Jl \E, igoi THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 7 IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION AFFECTING LUMBERMEN. The Rathbun Company, Applicants ; The Loug- (ord Lumber Company, Respondents--This case w as heard in the County Court of the County ol Victoria, and was an application under the Rivers and Streams' Act to fix the tolls on South Creek in the district of Haliburton. The judgment is as follows : In the matter of the Act for Protecting the Pub lie Interest in Rivers, Streams, and Creeks
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Jl \E, igoi THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 7 IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION AFFECTING LUMBERMEN. The Rathbun Company, Applicants ; The Loug- (ord Lumber Company, Respondents--This case w as heard in the County Court of the County ol Victoria, and was an application under the Rivers and Streams' Act to fix the tolls on South Creek in the district of Haliburton. The judgment is as follows : In the matter of the Act for Protecting the Pub lie Interest in Rivers, Streams, and Creeks, and in the matter of an application to fix the tolls on South Creek, in the Provisional County of Hali- burton. The Rathbun Company are the Applicants and the Longford Lumber Company are the Respond- ents. The first named Company is the holder of a timber license for the northwesterly portion of the township of McClintock, in the said provis- ional county, and the last named company of the southeasterly part of said township. A small rivulet or creek named South Creek takes its rise in what is described in the evidence as the big marsh in said township, and running through the lands of both the above named com- panies for a distance of about seven miles, empties into Ox-Tongue Lake, also in said township. About the first day of October, 1S98, the Rath- bun Company, in order to bring the pine timber said company was used in said improvements and not included in above mentioned sums. The Longford Lumber Company during the sea- son of 1900 and 1901 have cut and landed 4 and a quarter million ft. B. M. on the banks of South Creek and arc now using the improvements of the Rathbun Company on said creek for running or driving their said logs and timber, and they al- lege that in order to make the said improvements useful for their purposes they were obliged to ex- pend 51,150 in extending said improvements, add- ing thereto and in repairing same. It was furth- er admitted that the a
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