. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 233 The mills of Nashville, Term., will run during the night, while the hot weather lasts. Owensboro, Ky., has a curious freak of jjature in the shape of a catalpa branch growing out of the side of a locust tree. A sale of 700,000 feet of black ash lumber waB made at Rochester, , recently, at $16 a thousand. Another sale was reported of 200,- 000, at $15. The Duluth Lake Superior News of July. 13th gays:—There are one hundred cars of lumber o
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 233 The mills of Nashville, Term., will run during the night, while the hot weather lasts. Owensboro, Ky., has a curious freak of jjature in the shape of a catalpa branch growing out of the side of a locust tree. A sale of 700,000 feet of black ash lumber waB made at Rochester, , recently, at $16 a thousand. Another sale was reported of 200,- 000, at $15. The Duluth Lake Superior News of July. 13th gays:—There are one hundred cars of lumber on the docks here awaiting shipment to Winni- peg, owing to the scarcity of cars. An exchange says that forty thousand acres of timber land in the Duluth district, worth $40 an acre, have been stolen from the Government by speculators at $ an acre. The Michigan Iron Works, at Cadillac, Mich., is to construct one of its new style en- gines and 5P logging cars for Nicholas, Church & Co., of Greenville, Mich. The contract amounts to $7,000. A shipment of lumber from Shreveport, La., was made lately to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, 170 miles south of El Paso. The cars were loaded at the mill grounds, and were run directly to their destination—a fact worthy of notice in latter day American-Mexican pro- gress. The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says : Charles Merrill, of Bay City, Mich., has been to the Spanish River district, Ont., for the pur- pose of locating a mill, which Folsom & Arnold, of Bay City, will build for him the coming fall. Mr. Merrill has recently purchased pine land on Spanish River. At Oswego, , E. H. Barnes, who manu- factures box shooks, cuts up 13,000,000 or 14,- 000,000 feet every year in that line of manufac- ture. A. W. Wright,|a manufacturer of sashes, door3 and blinds, uses up from 2,000,000 to 3,- 000,000 feet of lumber in his business, keeping 75 hands busy all the time. The Midland Republican says :—David Ross is superintending a
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