. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE ST. The St. Maurice is MAURICE RIVER. a noble river, in every respect a worthy tributary to the grand St. Lawrence. In this practical age, however, its beautiful scenery and the allurements it possesses for sportsmen are overshadowed by the fact that it is pre-eminently a great lumber high- way. It drains an area of 16,000 square miles, which is almost wholly a forest region. The number of logs cut last year on the St. Maurice and its tributaries was 1,500,00
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE ST. The St. Maurice is MAURICE RIVER. a noble river, in every respect a worthy tributary to the grand St. Lawrence. In this practical age, however, its beautiful scenery and the allurements it possesses for sportsmen are overshadowed by the fact that it is pre-eminently a great lumber high- way. It drains an area of 16,000 square miles, which is almost wholly a forest region. The number of logs cut last year on the St. Maurice and its tributaries was 1,500,000. The Government owns slides, retaining booms and piers along the river to the value of $400,000,. CHARLEMAGNE & LAC OUAREAU LUMBER CO.'S MILL each company paying their proportion of slide and boom dues. The first large plant on its course is that of the Lauren- tide Pulp Co., at Grand Mere, where the pulp output is 65 tons per day. Their yearly cut of logs is some 280,000, principally spruce. Apart from that amount the total cut along the river is driven to the mouth of the river, where it is disposed of by the trio of large saw mills at Three Rivers. The Warren Curtis mill, of which Mr. F. F. Farmer is agent, is a modern mill, designed and built by Mr. S. W. Butterfield, who is the mechanical superintendent. A view of same appears on the opposite page. The mill has two band saws and a gang saw, and has a capa- city of 100,000 ft. per day of ten hours. The cut is about 200,000 logs per season, two-thirds being pine and the balance spruce. The lumber is principally sawn into deals for the English market, the sidings going to the Mr. Alex. McLaurin, Manager Charlemagne & Lac Ouareau Lumber Co. two feet lengths and shipped in the rough by barges to Glens Falls and Fort Edward, where they are manufac- tured into paper. They cut about 700,000 logs per season, largely spruce. Situated on an island at the mouth of the river is the saw mill owned by Mr. Alex. Baptist, the &qu
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