. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 83 Whip. Mr. D. P. McLabin, lumber merchant, Brandon, Man., has sold out his business to Messss. Hughes & Patrick. Over 13,000,000 feet of lumber changed hands on the Saginaw river during the week ending Feb. 11th. A contract to deliver 26,000 ties at High Bluff station, for the Manitoba & Northwestern Railway, has been awarded to Mr. David Wark. On Feb. 16th Mrs. H. B. Rathbun, sr., of Deseronto, wife of the senior partner of the firm of
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 83 Whip. Mr. D. P. McLabin, lumber merchant, Brandon, Man., has sold out his business to Messss. Hughes & Patrick. Over 13,000,000 feet of lumber changed hands on the Saginaw river during the week ending Feb. 11th. A contract to deliver 26,000 ties at High Bluff station, for the Manitoba & Northwestern Railway, has been awarded to Mr. David Wark. On Feb. 16th Mrs. H. B. Rathbun, sr., of Deseronto, wife of the senior partner of the firm of Rathbun & Sons, dropped dead from an attack of appoplexy. " Logs are logs " these days, says the Lum berman's Gazette, and their conversion into umber embraces piles of thecirculatingmedium. In the past six months over §160,000 has been paid out at Evats for small lots of logs, no one bill amounting to over $1,500. There are great difference in the average growth of some of the more common trees. In 12 years white maple increases 1 foot in diameter and 30 feet in height; ash, leaf maple or box elder, 1 foot and 20 feet; white willow, 1£ foot and 35 feet; blue and white ash, 10 inches in diameter and 25 feet in height; Lombardy poplar, 10 inches and 40 feet; black walnut and butternut, 10 inches and 20 feet. Mr. Smyth, of Kent, Ont., has before the Dominion House a bill to provide for the in- spection and measurement of saw logs. By its terms the Governor in-Council has power to appoint inspectors and measurers, whose duty it will be when called upon to examine, classify, and measure all saw logs delivered at the mill. The object is to afford protection to the farmer and insure for him a proper classification and measurement of all logs sold and delivered by him Mr. G. A. Grier, of Montreal, is shipping from Eddy's south shore mill, near Ottawa, two million feet of lumber, which he is sending by all rail route to Oswego, X. Y. This is a new departure, as heretof
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