. Canadian forest industries 1899-1901. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. II. Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition. February I, 1899 was 304,000,000 feet. This is the smallest output on the river since 1866, when it amounted to 309,000,000 feet. There were rafted to Michigan from the Georgian Bay district 238,843,624 feet, nearly all of which went to the Saginaw river. C. Desmairais, of Hull, has secured from the Bell Telephone Company a con- tract to furnish 2,000 cedar poles. The Bradley-Myles Lumber Company, of Hamilton, Ont., have recei
. Canadian forest industries 1899-1901. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. II. Canada Lumberman Weekly Edition. February I, 1899 was 304,000,000 feet. This is the smallest output on the river since 1866, when it amounted to 309,000,000 feet. There were rafted to Michigan from the Georgian Bay district 238,843,624 feet, nearly all of which went to the Saginaw river. C. Desmairais, of Hull, has secured from the Bell Telephone Company a con- tract to furnish 2,000 cedar poles. The Bradley-Myles Lumber Company, of Hamilton, Ont., have received an order to supply the British Admiralty with 100 car-loads of oak dimension timber, for use m the ironclads. The stock will be de- livered at Liverpool early in the spring. The Rat Portage Lumber Company have purchased the stock of lumber of the estate of Graham Home & Company, of Fort William. This company have ar- ranged with Graham, Home & Co. to carry on the business in Fort William, •which will be conducted under the same management as it has been for the past twenty-one years. Henry Hibson, of the firm of Hibson, Briggs & Cooper, lumber merchants, Saginaw, Mich., is making a tour of the Ottawa valley for the purpose of buying a quantity of lumber. He states that Cana- dian white ash and basswood are in great demand by the lumber dealers of Michi- gan, chiefly for making furniture and inside finishing. Seven timber berths were sold at the Crown Lands' office, Fredencton, N. B., last week, as follows : 3^ square mile block on White's brook, Restigouche county, to Wm. Currie, at $151 per mile ; 7.]/2 mile berth on Nash's creek, Resti- gouche, to Nathanial McNair, at $18 per mile ; m'le brook on Nictor lake, to T. B. Winslow, at $ per mile ; two 9 mile and one 4^ mile berth on White's creek, Restigouche, to Wm. Richards, at upset price ; 2 mile berth on Ten Mile creek, St. John county, to J. E. Moore, at upset price. Alliston Cushing, of St. John, ,
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