. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 54 CANADA LUMBERMAN Trips us long: as 25 miles have been made with a truck loaded with boxes. There has thus been accomplished in five hours' time what could not be done with horses at all. Mr. Baird finds that it is easier to get men to run trucks than to drive horses, and declares that his repair bills on the trucks have been very light. Erecting Houses in the Stone Town Mr. Baird has made a new departure this year in building houses in the town. Durin
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 54 CANADA LUMBERMAN Trips us long: as 25 miles have been made with a truck loaded with boxes. There has thus been accomplished in five hours' time what could not be done with horses at all. Mr. Baird finds that it is easier to get men to run trucks than to drive horses, and declares that his repair bills on the trucks have been very light. Erecting Houses in the Stone Town Mr. Baird has made a new departure this year in building houses in the town. During certain periods this season he found business in the planing mill slack and in order to keep all his men at work and his organization complete, decided that he would do his part in home-. Motor truck and trailer of D. C. Baird, St. Mary's, delivering 140 bunches of shingle building. He has put up two attractive bungalows and will erect others. The walls are of Kellastone—imperishable stucco—with wide verandahs in front, while inside are seven good-sized rooms. The trim is in B. C. fir and the floors are oak, except in the kitchen, where beech is laid. Mr. Baird says that he obtained books of plans and specifications from different sources, but not one of them was quite suitable for the type of dwelling that he desired to erect in St. Mary's. Accordingly he took a few ideas from various sources and incorpor- ated them into houses of convenience, beauty and compactness, em- bodying several built-in features. Next season he will put up more houses, thus giving practical expression to the oft-repeated slogan: "Now is the time to ; Ottawa Lumbermen Get Good Men for Bush The first two weeks of September brought little or no change, so far as the general situation was concerned, in the Ottawa lumber market. Prices continued as thev had been, stocks were about the same and the onlv movement of interest in which lumbermen were apparently concerned was picking men f
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