. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. None genuine [unless with a STAR on the head of rivets. Send for Price Lists and Discounts. 1l21 81 Colborne Street, Toronto James Eddy, of Flint, Mich., has established a wheel-barrow factory, which promises to con- sume 500,000 feet of hardwood a year. By next summer square timber can be shipped from the forks of the Clyde River to Kingston by rail. A track, six and a half miles long, will be built. J. T. Allen, a dealer in Boston, recently had one of the finest ash
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. None genuine [unless with a STAR on the head of rivets. Send for Price Lists and Discounts. 1l21 81 Colborne Street, Toronto James Eddy, of Flint, Mich., has established a wheel-barrow factory, which promises to con- sume 500,000 feet of hardwood a year. By next summer square timber can be shipped from the forks of the Clyde River to Kingston by rail. A track, six and a half miles long, will be built. J. T. Allen, a dealer in Boston, recently had one of the finest ash burls ever seen in that market. It cut over 7,000 feet of veneers, the largest sheets being five feet long by two and a half feet wide. W. L. Crimmell scaled one of the largest pine trees ever cut in Saginaw county, recently, in his camp on Klacking creek. The tree cut 16 feet logs. The butt log measured 800 feet, and the top or smallest log 600 feet, making a total of 8,000 feet of lumber in the tree. The Seattle, W. T, Chronicle is stirring up San Francisco capitalists with a view to the erection of a wood pulp factory on Puget Sound. Cottonwood is being shipped from Skagit to San Francisco for the purpose of testing it for That plebeian of the forests—hemlock—is gradually coming to the front for recognition. In Xew Brunswick luumbermen are becoming fully awake to its Talue. An operator at St. Stephens recently stated that last season he re- ceived So for stumpage on 2,000,000 feet, board measure, of hemlock logs. It is the purpose of the Sturgeon Bay Lumber Company to purchase another tug during the winter,, if a suitable one can be obtained. In case a large one is bought,,ji will be employed in towing lumber scows t!o Chicago, and the Lawrence will be kept for local work. Other- wise the Lawrence will run to Chicago, and a smaller tug will do her business at this port. The company is looking around Detroit for a new tug, but has not yet found just what it wants. Thomas
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