. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 50 CANADA LUMBERMAN He Specializes in Posts, Ties and Poles J. Murdock, of Durham, Ont., is a widely-known lumberman in that part of Grey County, who has devoted all his life to the busi- ness, specializing in poles, posts and railway ties. He recalls many stirring reminiscences of his career, and a chat with him is most interesting. Mr. Murdock was born in the village of Dornoch, some ten miles north of Durham, in the township of Glenelg, a little over f
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 50 CANADA LUMBERMAN He Specializes in Posts, Ties and Poles J. Murdock, of Durham, Ont., is a widely-known lumberman in that part of Grey County, who has devoted all his life to the busi- ness, specializing in poles, posts and railway ties. He recalls many stirring reminiscences of his career, and a chat with him is most interesting. Mr. Murdock was born in the village of Dornoch, some ten miles north of Durham, in the township of Glenelg, a little over forty years ago, and worked on a farm there. He did considerable logging in the winter time, and took out railway ties, cut posts, etc., in the bush. He broadened his experience by getting a job in saw-. Mr. and Mrs J. Murdock and family, Durham, Ont. mills at different localities, and some thirteen years ago secured a position as inspector for the of ties, posts, poles, etc. He was with the railway five years and then launched out into business on his own behalf in Durham where he carries a general line of lum- ber and shingles, poles, posts, coal, etc. During the past year he shipped out over fifty carloads of material from different points, and states that he has unloaded another fifty. Mr. Murdock looks for- ward to the coming year with considerable optimism. Mr. Brown Asks Some Perplexing Questions Fred Brown, of Fort Frances, Ont., in a recent timely letter to the press on the protection, or rather lack of it, in connection with the forest resources of Canada, asks some pertinent questions which should set all Canadians not only thinking but acting. Mr. Brown says:— Is it true, or is it not true, that Canada denudes about 35,000 acres a month for pulpwood exports alone? Is it true that the denudation of forest land for pulpwood ex- ports in eight months up to November 30, to be precise, has reached an aggregate of 332,000 acres? It is true, or is it not true, that
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