. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED ) SEMI-MONTHLY. f The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada VOL. 2. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., OCTOBER 16, 1882. NO. 20. MUTUAL ADVANTAGES. Just now, as explained elsewhere, St. Paul is objecting loudly against the running of the sawdust of the mills at Minneapolis into the Mississippi river. „ Well-in formed men, who are not particularly interested in either, claim that on the part of St. Paul it is a spasm of jealousy, and
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED ) SEMI-MONTHLY. f The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada VOL. 2. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., OCTOBER 16, 1882. NO. 20. MUTUAL ADVANTAGES. Just now, as explained elsewhere, St. Paul is objecting loudly against the running of the sawdust of the mills at Minneapolis into the Mississippi river. „ Well-in formed men, who are not particularly interested in either, claim that on the part of St. Paul it is a spasm of jealousy, and that the arguments used are not the sound est, as of course they are liable not to be if jealousy is at the bottom of them. The towns are smart ones in every sense of the word, are but a few miles apart, and if the feeling of rivalry that naturally exists between them should result in the kicking of one against the other whenever there was the slightest possible excuse for doing so, it would only be an exhibit of human nature. Notwithstanding the reason of the objections raised by the St. Paul people, it appears to the Lumberman that it is in the range of possibil- ities for this very sawdust, that they now view in the light of an enemy, to be utilized in a manner that will be valuable to them. An embryo sawdust pressing company, or something of that sort, made a proposition to take the dust and experiment on it with its patent, but the saw mill men saw an objection ahead, claiming that the money the fuel com- pany was willing to pay them would not recom- pense them for making the necessary changes in in their mills. Possibly, too, they had in mind the fact that as the pressing of sawdust into fuel is an experiment anyhow, the bottonrmight fall out before they could sell any sawdust to b peak of. But pass the compressing concern by, and there are still better uses to be made of the saw- dust of the many mills at Minneapolis than turning it into the river. One of the necessit
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