. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1S93 THE CJLKJLIDA LUMBERMAN 7. MGARLAND, the manufacturer, at Bay City, of saw- â mill specialties, is reported in a recent interview to have said: "Saginaw Bay is not a thing of the past by any means. We are good for years and years yet. Millions of feet of pine is being rafted from Canada and the Lake Superior region and is being sawed at Saginaw and Bay City. You would be surprised to know how cheaply the logs can be rafted down. The cost will n
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1S93 THE CJLKJLIDA LUMBERMAN 7. MGARLAND, the manufacturer, at Bay City, of saw- â mill specialties, is reported in a recent interview to have said: "Saginaw Bay is not a thing of the past by any means. We are good for years and years yet. Millions of feet of pine is being rafted from Canada and the Lake Superior region and is being sawed at Saginaw and Bay City. You would be surprised to know how cheaply the logs can be rafted down. The cost will not exceed fifty cents a thousand, except occasionally when the rafts are broken in a gale. This very seldom hap- pens, as the logs are locked in the rafts for keeps. Logs can be rafted cheaper from the north than they can be put in on sleighs or by ; * * * * It is seldom that wood, which was grown more than four thousand years before the Christian era, is used in the construction of a present-day residence, and yet this happened recently in Edinburgh, where a mantel-piece was fashioned from wood said to be six thousand years old, says an English journal. An oak tree was found in a sand pit at Musselburgh, 13 feet below the surface. Professor Geikie, of the geology chair of the University of Edinburgh, after personally examining the strata in which this oak was found, said the tree, which was five feet nine inches in diameter, must be at least six thous- and years old, and describes it as a relic of neolithic man. It was in a fine state of preservation, due to the sand, and was easily workable. * * * * Mr. J. R. Booth, who has known Ottawa for sixty years, and has a thorough acquaintance with its lumber conditions, has said: "The square lumber trade is fast diminishing. There used to be seven large mills paying out nearly three millions, but the trade has now got down until there are only two concerns. Many will live to see the lumber business as it is now, compl
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