. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Office of Turner Lumber Co., Midland, Ont. White, who cut their own timber, an- other belonging to the firm of Chew Bros., who cut their own stock and also cut for the Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company, of Chicago, whose Canadian office is located there. The other two saw mills belong to Manley Chew and Norman L. Playfair respec- tively and cut the stock ot the Turner Lumber Company, a firm operating extensively also at South River but having its head office here.
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Office of Turner Lumber Co., Midland, Ont. White, who cut their own timber, an- other belonging to the firm of Chew Bros., who cut their own stock and also cut for the Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company, of Chicago, whose Canadian office is located there. The other two saw mills belong to Manley Chew and Norman L. Playfair respec- tively and cut the stock ot the Turner Lumber Company, a firm operating extensively also at South River but having its head office here. A cut of the handsome office of this company appears on this page. The total yearly output of the Midland mills is close to 100,000,000 feet. There is also located at Midland the box shook factory and planing mill of the Georgian Bay Shook Mills Company and the planing mill of J. Hill & Son. Considerable business is also done in hardwood lumber and hemlock by D. S. Pratt, and there is the retail yard of John Letherby. Besides the lumber business, Midland is a well known grain port and has as other important industries the large plant of the Canada Iron Furnace Company and the shops of the Georgian Bay Engineering Works and the Midland Engine Works. Connected with the lumber interests is the important business of towing lake rafts, which is done by the Midland Towing & Wrecking Company with their extensive outfit of lake tugs and booms. Not far distant from Midland are the large mills situated at Penetang, Victoria Harbor, Waubaushene, Sturgeon Bay and Fesserton. At Midland and within its immediate vicinity is produced an annual cut of pine lumber of about 250,000,000 teet. The names of the Midland Hoo-Hoo giving the concatentation are Mayor D. L. White, jr., Manley Chew, Frank Moores, Joseph A. Mc- Donald, Norman L. Playfair, David S. Pratt, Fred Potvin,Harry Shanacy, Charles Shaw and Dwight J. Turner. LAMENTABLE DEATH OF MR. W. H. TANNER. Mr. William H. Tanner, the su
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