. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. The schooner J. Norris gets $80 per 1,000 for timber from Amhurstburg to Kingston. TBAFFIC on the Erie Canal is not expected to be fully open until about the 17th iust. Mr. Robt. Camp's new steam saw mill at Dwight commenced cutting logs on the 14th ult. The machinery worked well. The Moira river is falling rapidly, making owners of logs on that stream apprehensive about getting them to the mills this year. Ax individual named Hitchman was f
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. The schooner J. Norris gets $80 per 1,000 for timber from Amhurstburg to Kingston. TBAFFIC on the Erie Canal is not expected to be fully open until about the 17th iust. Mr. Robt. Camp's new steam saw mill at Dwight commenced cutting logs on the 14th ult. The machinery worked well. The Moira river is falling rapidly, making owners of logs on that stream apprehensive about getting them to the mills this year. Ax individual named Hitchman was fined $10 and costs, at Huntsville, for having stolen tim- ber from the farm of the poet Churchill. Although the rate on lumber from Toronto to Oswego is still quoted at $, a charter, however, has been made at $ The steamer Conqueror, of Quebec, has been chartered for towing timber on Lake Ontario. She has been guaranted eleven rafts. Thompson & McAkthur, Fenelon' Falls, are preparing to erect a large steam saw mill on the north side of the village, on the shore of Cameron Lake. We understand that the drives on Gull and Burnt Rivers are making good progress, and will soon be out of danger, but on the smaller streams drivers have their hands full. Theke is a good opening for a planing mill and sash factory at Lakefield, Ont., as there is none within nine miles of that place, and it is surrounded by a good country. The Muskoka Slide Dam and Boom Company have about 220 men employed, to whom they are paying an average of $20 per month. Last year the average was $24. From the St. Ignace Republican we learn that the Mackinac Lumber Co., put in during the past winter 14,000,000 feet of logs, held over from last year 3,000,000 feet and have 1,500,000 feet of lumber on their docks and expect to manufacture 16,000,000 feet this season. From two groves of maples in North Harpers- field, Delaware County, New York, the yield this year has been seven tons of maple sugar. The grov
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