. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED ) SEMI-MONTHLY, f VOL. 2. The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada ^PETERBOROUGH, ONT., FEBRl AIIY 15, 188^. t SUBSCRIPTION '($ PER ANN I'M. >to. 4. THE SAW MILL CHANGES OF A CENTURY. Among the most marvellous of the many wonderful things which distinguish the United States from other nations, are the results which have grown out of the possession of immense forests of valuable timber, in stimulating inven- ti
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. PUBLISHED ) SEMI-MONTHLY, f VOL. 2. The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada ^PETERBOROUGH, ONT., FEBRl AIIY 15, 188^. t SUBSCRIPTION '($ PER ANN I'M. >to. 4. THE SAW MILL CHANGES OF A CENTURY. Among the most marvellous of the many wonderful things which distinguish the United States from other nations, are the results which have grown out of the possession of immense forests of valuable timber, in stimulating inven- tive genius to the preparation of an article of building material so cheap as to enable the poorest to have a comfortable home, while at the same time so excellent in character as to be not only suited, but indispensable, to the work- ing classes. Those more readily accessible re- gions of the continent which possessed these forest growths in the greatest abundance were among the first to receive large accessions to their population, drawn together at those centres which presented the easiest access to cheap building material, not less than for their personal safety from a savage foe. It was not until the demand for lumber far exceeded' the ability of the "greatest" mills of a half century ago to supply, leading the manufac- turers to feel the need of a more extended sys- tem of production, that the star of empire made any progress westward, or it became a possibility to settle on the prairies of the West, or to de- velop the mineral resources which have already shown our nation to be the peer of, if it does not excel, all others in the extent of its posses- sions. To possess is to need. And the cheap building material which the cheap mills of the days long gone by enabled a scanty population to utilize, stimulated a more extended immigra- tion, with its increased need*, as well as a higher order of genius to increase the supply. The mills of the olden time were, first,
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