. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JlNE, 1904 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 27 A STORY ANENT SLOW CAR SERVICE. The question of delay in transit had been one the lively subjects of the evening, and when the story telling time came around Calaway got off this one: He had two cars ol lumber shipped at the same time, one via a road that we will call No. 1 and the otherby another that tosave the blushes of the general freight agent we will call No. 2. The car shipped via No. 1 came in within a rea- sonable time, and
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JlNE, 1904 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 27 A STORY ANENT SLOW CAR SERVICE. The question of delay in transit had been one the lively subjects of the evening, and when the story telling time came around Calaway got off this one: He had two cars ol lumber shipped at the same time, one via a road that we will call No. 1 and the otherby another that tosave the blushes of the general freight agent we will call No. 2. The car shipped via No. 1 came in within a rea- sonable time, and about two months later the other came in. In comparing the freight bills he noticed that while there was not 100 ft. of difference in the amount of lumber on the two cars, the one coming in on road No. 1 had a weight charge considerably in excess of that which came in on No. 2. He took the two in- voices and went to file a protest with road No. 1 against the weight,and to back up his argument with the local agent, showed the invoice and weight report from road No. 2. He couldn't faze that agent,however,for the agent said: "That's easy to account for. The No. 2 road is so slow that your lumber dried out that much in ; Then some wag suggested that there was a chance for the railroads and the dry kiln men to get together and equip regular dry kiln cars so that instead of drying lumber at the mills it could bedried in Louis Lumberman. PASSING OF A LUMBER CONCERN. The old saw mill at Milledgeville, N. B., near the junction of the St. John and Rennebecasis Rivers, is being lorn down, and this event marks the passing of a great lumber manufacturing concern, namely, L. M. Jewett & Company, formerly E. D. Jewett & Com- pany. The mill is more than half a century old,having been remodelled several times, and the oldest mill in these parts. It has been idle for two years and for several seasons previously had run only occasionally. The end came when
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