. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. General view of the Finger Company's plant commenced operations in the Spring of 1912, and own extensive timber limits along the Saskatchewan and the Carrot rivers. Their logging thus far has ben conducted on the limits along the Carrot river, where a number of camps last winter were operat- ed. The logs are driven down the Carrot river into a storage boom located where the river empties into the Saskatchewan. They are then towed from this storage boom t
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. General view of the Finger Company's plant commenced operations in the Spring of 1912, and own extensive timber limits along the Saskatchewan and the Carrot rivers. Their logging thus far has ben conducted on the limits along the Carrot river, where a number of camps last winter were operat- ed. The logs are driven down the Carrot river into a storage boom located where the river empties into the Saskatchewan. They are then towed from this storage boom to the saw mill by the company's own tugs. The company are the pioneers in the lumber industry in North- ern Manitoba, that vast strentch of land hitherto considered as the. Tugs of Finger Lumber Company at work on the river frozen hinterland. With the advent of the Hudson Bay Railway the so-called frozen waste is now considered the richest part of Mani- toba. The capacity of the plant now is 25,000,000 feet annually and the output is mostly spruce, there being only a sprinkling of cotton- wood and tamarac. Carrot River spruce is considered high quality ; has fine texture and compares favorably with white pine. The lum- ber is hauled from the sorting works to the yard by rail, and the planing mill is equipped with modern fast-feed jnachines and re- saws. The company operate their own electric light plant, and the mo- tive power for both the sawmill and the planing mill is steam. Most of the company's product is marketed in the Prairie Provinces, but Retailers Resent High Cost Allegations At a recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in Sarnia, Ont., one of the speakers was James Dunn, a contractor from the neighboring city of Port Huron, Mich., and, in the course of his remarks, he is reported to have said that the high prices of lumber in Sarnia had kept building back. This statement has not been well received by the retail lumbermen of Sarnia, who naturally are indig- nant at
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