. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 118 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. POLLUTION OF RIVERS. A bill has been introduced into the Ontario Legislature which is of interest to lumbermen, especially to those of the Ottawa River. We give the following report of the debate on the. second reading of the bill as given in the Toronto Olole :â Hon. O. Mowat, in moving the second reading of ths bill respecting saw mills on the Ottawa River, said, in an Act of the Dominion Government, provision was made for preventing sawmil
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 118 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. POLLUTION OF RIVERS. A bill has been introduced into the Ontario Legislature which is of interest to lumbermen, especially to those of the Ottawa River. We give the following report of the debate on the. second reading of the bill as given in the Toronto Olole :â Hon. O. Mowat, in moving the second reading of ths bill respecting saw mills on the Ottawa River, said, in an Act of the Dominion Government, provision was made for preventing sawmill owners on damable streams and rivers from creating a nuisance by throwing out saw- dust and other rubbish on such streams. This Act was not intended to conflict with that of the Dominion, but to secure an object that the Dominion Government could not deal with. The Dominion Act extended to the whole Province, and this Bill only dealt with the River Ottawa. This Bill did not propose that riparian proprietors should lose their rights to full compensation. The Government did not propose to go any further than to say that millowners should not be at liberty to throw their refuse into the river, but inasmuch as they got the benefit of the stream in that way there was no reason why reparian proprietors should suffer. So they proposed that Wherever it is proved to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, that it is in the public interest that the owners or occu- piers of any saw mill situate on or near the River Ottawa or any of its tributaries, should not be prevented from throwing sawdust and mill refuse into the same, the Lieutenant- Governor in Council may by Order in Council, published once in the Ontario Gazette, declare the owners or occupiers of the saw mill to be entitled to the benefit of this Act. In such case riparian proprietors or other persons shall, notwithstanding, be entitled to the same damages against the owners or occu- piers of the saw mill, for
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