. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE HOO-HQO ANNUAL. The Hoo-Hoo excursion to Portland, Oregon, and returning via British Columbia and the C. P. R., left Toronto August 31st, in charge of Mr. Donald Ferguson, Vicegerent Snark for Eastern Canada. The party went by way of Denver, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City and expect to reach Portland on the 7th inst. BURNING OF THE ABERDEEN V1ILLS. The Aberdeen mills of Donald Fraser & Sons at Fredericton, N. B., were totally destroyed by fire on Aug
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE HOO-HQO ANNUAL. The Hoo-Hoo excursion to Portland, Oregon, and returning via British Columbia and the C. P. R., left Toronto August 31st, in charge of Mr. Donald Ferguson, Vicegerent Snark for Eastern Canada. The party went by way of Denver, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City and expect to reach Portland on the 7th inst. BURNING OF THE ABERDEEN V1ILLS. The Aberdeen mills of Donald Fraser & Sons at Fredericton, N. B., were totally destroyed by fire on August 1 ith, together with about five million feet of lumber. The following account of the fire has been furnished. Themill,which wassituated on the riverbank, was one of the best equipped mills to be found anywhere, and with machinery costing in the vicinity of $30,000. In tront of this building and situated on the road side is the large Aberdeen boading house. Below the mill was a large storehouse that at the time of the fire was filled with box shooks valued at about $15,000. Below these buildings and extending down the road several hundreds of yards and reaching back to the river, were many acres, tier on tier, of piled sawed lumber, chiefly spruce and pine, amounting altogether to about ten millions of feet. About a quarter to six in the evening the men in the lower floor near the centre of the mill saw a flame shoot up from below, and be- fore some of them had time to catch up any- thing, the fire broke forth in tremendous fury. As it was, a number had difficulty in escaping, so rapidly did the flames spread. The fire alarm was rung in as quickly as possible, but in five minutes the whole structure was one mass of flames. The shed on the river bank soon became ignited, and from the bank the conflagration rapidly spread to the lumber. Vast crews of men worked hard and earn- estly to remove the lumber which had not yet been touched, and with teams managed to take away some th
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