. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 12 THE CAHADA LUMBERMAN December, 1895 OTTAWA LETTER. [Regular correspondence Cakada Lumberman.] THE water in the Ottawa is still very low, and vessels are constantly getting aground on banks of saw-dust. More islands (sawdust) appear in the river than are laid down in the geographies. Some difficulty is experienced in getting into the Rideau canal locks. The cut at the Chaudiere mills this season will fall short of that of 1894 by some fifty million feet. It mus
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 12 THE CAHADA LUMBERMAN December, 1895 OTTAWA LETTER. [Regular correspondence Cakada Lumberman.] THE water in the Ottawa is still very low, and vessels are constantly getting aground on banks of saw-dust. More islands (sawdust) appear in the river than are laid down in the geographies. Some difficulty is experienced in getting into the Rideau canal locks. The cut at the Chaudiere mills this season will fall short of that of 1894 by some fifty million feet. It must not be inferred that the lumber business in this city is declining. The shortage is due to other causes which may not occur again. The municipal census shows the population of Ottawa to be 49,674, and places it fourth in size among the cities of Canada. Ottawa owes this largely to the lumber trade. For the five months, May to September, both inclusive, the number of rafts reported at Ottawa through the Rideau canal was as follows, for the months named:—1895, i; 1894,0; I%93> 7- The Rideau does not appear to be much of a route for rafts. The project of a canal to the Georgian Bay by way of the Ottawa River is not a new one, but it has taken on new life and is being boomed for all it is worth. Mr. Macleod Stewart is the most active promoter. If carried out it will have an im- portant influence on the lumber trade. After six years of litigation Antoine Ratte, proprietor of a boat livery in this city, has recovered damages from the Chaudiere mill owners for dumping sawdust into the river. The millmen were made joint defendants and the damages were divided as follows :— J. R. Booth, $1, ; Perley & Pattee, $ ; Bronson & Weston, $ The costs in the case are very large. Mr. Ratte entered a similar suit twelve years ago, which went to the privy council, and now he is in a position to enter another action for damage done since the suit just decided was
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