. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1894 7. MR. H. B. Turner, of Little Current, Ont., when in the city a week ago, told of the effect of the free export of logs, upon that particular section of the Pro- vince. He said: "When that duty was in force we had three large saw mills at the Current running on full time. Now one of these, with a capacity of 100,000 feet, daily, is lying idle and another is only half stocked. Before the change in policy 125 men were employed in our own town on th
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1894 7. MR. H. B. Turner, of Little Current, Ont., when in the city a week ago, told of the effect of the free export of logs, upon that particular section of the Pro- vince. He said: "When that duty was in force we had three large saw mills at the Current running on full time. Now one of these, with a capacity of 100,000 feet, daily, is lying idle and another is only half stocked. Before the change in policy 125 men were employed in our own town on the mills and in loading lumber, and an Ameri- can company were negotiating for the purchase of Goat island as a site for another mill that would have added largely to the number of employees. But this latter deal is off now and companies that would otherwise give work for from one to two hundred men in the town em- ploy only six or seven. The innovation has also reduced the price of labor in the woods. American companies now bring in Poles and Hungarians who work for $12 to $18 a month, and this has brought down the local stand- ard of wages that formerly stood at $26 a month. This is a matter that effects Toronto as well as the Manitoulin Island and the North Shore. The transfer of the work of manufacturing lumber from mills at Little Current, Midland, Parry Sound, Serpent and Spanish River, to those at Bay City and Saginaw, has enormously reduced the sales formerly made by Toronto wholesalers in our country. There is no division of feeling in the lumber towns of the north. They are all for a restoration of the duty on logs and we feel, in view of the facts I have just stated, that Toronto ought to help us in ; * * * * It is no easy matter to down a lumbeiman. Physical- ly they will hold their own with most men, as the case which I am going to recite is evidence. They have a faculty of "getting there," to employ an expression of Sam Jones. When they run for
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