. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A-1857—Device for Wagon Frame. it by hand. Especially has this been true of forest products. Scattered as are our forests, all over the earth's surface, older, also, than man himself, and so closely allied with his temporal wants ever since he needed a roof over his head, lumber has been more or less used in all ages, but its general use as a merchant- able product has been restricted largely because man's methods were too crude, and the work too slow and laborious. U
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A-1857—Device for Wagon Frame. it by hand. Especially has this been true of forest products. Scattered as are our forests, all over the earth's surface, older, also, than man himself, and so closely allied with his temporal wants ever since he needed a roof over his head, lumber has been more or less used in all ages, but its general use as a merchant- able product has been restricted largely because man's methods were too crude, and the work too slow and laborious. Unlike other forms of building material, which could be handled in small pieces, the greatest ob- stacle operating against the general use of lumber. B-1868—See Manner of Placing the Log. was its large bulk, and tho difficulty of reducing it to serviceable form. Consequently not until the in- vention of the steam saw mill did man set his face toward the forest with commercial intent, and not until recent years, when changed condititons of liv- ing created a demand for lumber in a thousand and one different forms, and the horse sled gave way to the logging train, has the lumber industry really "come into its ; By NORTON MATTOCKS. While the prime object in most forms of produc- tion has been the lowering of costs, in few fields of operation has this possibility been greater (and tho development slower), than in the handling of logs "from tho stump to the saw mill.'' Where bulk weight is the principal characteristic, tho matter of time and expense in handling are every- thing to the producer, therefore the most logs and tho fewest men are of paramount importance in the lumber camp. While on the handling of logs depends so largely the cost of the finished product, it is a most peculiar fact that only in tho last handful of years has this phase of lumber operation undergone radical improve- ment, and even on the fingers of the hand may be counted the years that
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