. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 33 An order-in-council has been passed approving of the tariff of tolls of the French Eiver Boom Company for the present season. Any surplus of earnings over expenses and a fair dividend, not to exceed ten per cent., is to be returned to the timber owners who have paid the tolls. John B. Pike, a well known lumberman and dredging contractor, died at Windsor, Ont. recently. He took a prominent part in several important drainage schemes an
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 33 An order-in-council has been passed approving of the tariff of tolls of the French Eiver Boom Company for the present season. Any surplus of earnings over expenses and a fair dividend, not to exceed ten per cent., is to be returned to the timber owners who have paid the tolls. John B. Pike, a well known lumberman and dredging contractor, died at Windsor, Ont. recently. He took a prominent part in several important drainage schemes and was instrumental in reclaiming large sections of land in Kent county, also on the Fraser river, in British Columbia. An important event in Ottawa lumber circles is the sale, by J. B. Booth, of all his three-inch deals of 1908 cut to Cox & Burstall, who will export them to the British market. It is understood that a slight reduction in price was made on the higher grades, but in the lower grades there was an advance. The J. B. Snowball Company, of Bathurst, , have recently ordered one T2 inch by 20 foot return tubular boiler from the Bobb Engineering Company of Amherst, The Canadian Bank of Commerce, Montreal, have ordered two 157 inch by 18 foot return tubular boilers from the same company. The Imperial Timber & Trading Company has been formed with head office in Vancouver. The company will deal chiefly in export lumber and standing tim- ber. The officers are E. L. Kingman, president; B. G. Boss, secretary-treasurer; P. C. McGillivray, manager. The address is 312 Hastings street west. Fire caused damage to the amount of $16,000 to the Danville Lumber Com- pany's yards recently. The plant was insured in the following companies: Phoe- nix Insurance Company, $1,500, $1,250; North American, $1,250, $1,500; London & Lancashire, $2,000; Western, $2,500; Liverpool & London & Globe, $2,000. The Schaake Machine Works Company, of New Westminster, , have
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