. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January 1, 1931 CANADA LUMBERMAN 53 New Firm Will Specialize in Softwoods The new wholesale lumber firm of Lay & Haight, which has been formed with offices at 34 Victoria St., Toronto, will specialize in all kinds of softwood, particularly white and red pine, jack pine and spruce. The members of the new organization are Gilbert S. Lay of Toronto, and D. H. Haight of Sudbury. h'or thirty-one years Mr. Lay has been associated with the whole- sale lumber
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January 1, 1931 CANADA LUMBERMAN 53 New Firm Will Specialize in Softwoods The new wholesale lumber firm of Lay & Haight, which has been formed with offices at 34 Victoria St., Toronto, will specialize in all kinds of softwood, particularly white and red pine, jack pine and spruce. The members of the new organization are Gilbert S. Lay of Toronto, and D. H. Haight of Sudbury. h'or thirty-one years Mr. Lay has been associated with the whole- sale lumber trade in buying and selling capacities. He was for ten years with Stewart Bros., wholesale lumbermen, of Buffalo, and after they sold out to the R. Laidlaw Lumber Co., Toronto, Mr. Lay con- tinued with the latter firm for twelve years. Then he joined the Eyer Lumber Co., Limited, 34 Victoria St., being closely connected with. Gilbert S. Lay, Toronto D. H. Haight, Sudbury, Ont. the iate John H. Eyer for nine years. Mr. Lay is favorably known to the trade all over the province. His partner, Mr. Haight, is a member of Haight & Dickson, Sud- l)ury, who operate a sawmill at Mileage 93 on the Canadian National Railways, and has been many years in that district. The new mill, which is equipped with a circular saw and a horizontal resaw, as well as a lath department,'cuts about 35,000 feet a day of white pine, jack pine and spruce. Mr. Haight, who has charge of the woods operation, has been in partnership with Mr. John Dickson for several years. They have owned mills at various points in the north and have cut up large stocks of logs. The plant of Haight & Dickson at Mileage 93 will during the coming season saw many of the 1919 logs of the firm which, on account of low water, were held spring. This cut has been bought and will be handled by the wholesale firm of Lay & Haight of Toronto. Mr. Haight resides in Sudbury, where he is an esteemed and weil-liked citizen.
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