. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. '1 ing. The mill ii now cquippcJ fir work, and has a tapacily for abjut ciglu million fuu'.. The tuL this year will be six or seven million feet, most of it spruce, but ^omo pine, cedar, and birch. There are lath and shingle machines in the mill, and the firm also make onion boxes for export to 13,;rrnuda. The Sum- ner t'onipany are
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. '1 ing. The mill ii now cquippcJ fir work, and has a tapacily for abjut ciglu million fuu'.. The tuL this year will be six or seven million feet, most of it spruce, but ^omo pine, cedar, and birch. There are lath and shingle machines in the mill, and the firm also make onion boxes for export to 13,;rrnuda. The Sum- ner t'onipany are very largely interested in timber lands in NiW Brunswick, lulding the lease of 200 square. TUB riUMNRIl t;0.'S BATHUHST. AT miles of Crown timber lands. The firm are the largest shippers of railway ties in the province, and last year exported over 150,000 to the United States. The lirni, in addition to their Bathurst mill, have a rotary mill in Kent county, cutting deals for this year'.i trade. Last year the firm sold their deals cut for the British market to W. M. Mackiy, from their wharves, but they shipped lumber direct to the United States and the West Indies. They own several vesseli. Since acquiring the Bathurst property the company have taken an important place among the lumbes operators of New Brunswick. They also conduct a whole- sale and retail hardware buiiness in .Mnncton ; and Fred W. Sumner, the nunaging directt)r, represents We^tnioie- land county in the Legislature ol the Province, and has been five times mayor of .Monclon. W. 11. T. .Sumner, th; other menibjr of the lirni, wai one of the pioneer rail- way cotitrajiors of New Brunswick. Tfie %\. Croix 2)istriot MR St. Croix r'ver forms part of the boundary between New Brunswick and the State of Maine, and its tributaries drain lands on both sides of the border. About thirty miles up from where the river empties into the l!ay of I''undv, thetown> of .St. Stephen, , and Calais, iMf., ate on oppos
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