. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 36 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 1, 1910 New Chief Forester of Abitibi Co. Mr. H. G. Schanche has recent- ly been appointed Chief Forester of the Abitibi Power & Paf)er Co., Ltd., of Iroquois Falls, Ont. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College at which institution he pursued the course in forestry. Prior to the entrance of the Unit- ed States in the war he was con- nected for over three years with the Forestry Division of the Laur
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 36 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 1, 1910 New Chief Forester of Abitibi Co. Mr. H. G. Schanche has recent- ly been appointed Chief Forester of the Abitibi Power & Paf)er Co., Ltd., of Iroquois Falls, Ont. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College at which institution he pursued the course in forestry. Prior to the entrance of the Unit- ed States in the war he was con- nected for over three years with the Forestry Division of the Laur- entide Co., Ltd., of Grand Mere, P. Q. He was also for a time en- gaged in logging and lumbering in Central Pennsylvania. Enlist- ing in the U. S. Engineers, he later transferred to the Air Service and was subsequently promoted to a lieutenancy in that branch. Since taking up his new duties, Mr. Schanche has selected a site for a Forestry Nursery and the clearing and preparation of the same is now in progress. The output of the nursery will be made to satisfy the demands of the reforestration program of the Fores- try Department. Mr. Schanche will leave shortly on an extended trip over the limits of the company in order to gain a first hand know- ledge of the same, following which a working plan will be drawn up for the surveying and mapping of the holdings, work on which will be begun this fall. A regeneration survey on virgin and cut-over areas is at present being carried on within the company limits. The work is under the direction of Dr. C. D. Howe of the Commission of Conservation and is similar to the investigations of a like nature recently conducted by him on the Laurentide and Riordon H. G. Schanche, Iroquois Falls, Ont. Invents New Method of Lumber Shipping John Arbuthnot, who was mayor of Winnipeg from 1903 to 1905 and has since been living in Vancouver, has invented a new method of transporting lumber across the ocean. His clever device is des- cribed in
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