. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Works of the Metabetchouan Pulp Company. Metabetchouan river above St. Andre, which is situated nine miles from St. John. Two other powers, each 7,000 horse power and sit- uated respectively seven and eight miles above St. Andre, are also the property of the com- pany. Twelve miles from St. Andre the company has 175 square miles of timber limits extending along each side of the river, all in virgin forest and heavily wooded with gray and black spruce. In addition the
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Works of the Metabetchouan Pulp Company. Metabetchouan river above St. Andre, which is situated nine miles from St. John. Two other powers, each 7,000 horse power and sit- uated respectively seven and eight miles above St. Andre, are also the property of the com- pany. Twelve miles from St. Andre the company has 175 square miles of timber limits extending along each side of the river, all in virgin forest and heavily wooded with gray and black spruce. In addition the company will get the benefit of at least one hundred square miles of timber limits around St. Andre, where the settlers ate beginning to clear the land. The president of the Metabetchouan Pulp Company is Mr. A. Racine, and the secretary Mr. J. E. Caron, both of Quebec. The Methot's Mill Lumber Company has been form- ed at St. Agapit, Que., for the manufacture and sale of pulp wood. PAPER FROM PINE REFUSE. The Wood Distillates and Fibre Company, capitalized at $500,000 and incorporated under the laws of Arizona, has been organized at Chicago to do business in Louisiana and the Southwest. It has for its object the utilization of the refuse of hundreds of saw mills through- out the State, which means a new source of revenue to the lumbermen. For years millions of dollars worth of pine refuse has been used for fuel by fhe saw mills, because there was no other disposition to be made of it, and for several years efforts have been made to discover some process by which this refuse could be turned into money, along with the stumps in the field. Several processes have been brought to the fore during the last few years, but they were too expensive and the results in many cases were unsatisfactory. It is now stated upon good authority that the cost of these plants has been materially re- duced, and it is possible to utilize every pound of the saw mill refuse. Charles M. Dobson, a consulti
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