. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 5 An English firm is said to have offered Mr, David Moore 8300,000 for his timber limits situ ated on the The men are at work grading the road for th' i»ew siding by which the Grand J unction and Midland cars will have access to Hazlett's mill, The supreme court of Maine has decided that sawdust and shavings are included in the act prohibiting refuse from being thrown from the mills into the Penobscot river. A Buffalo despatch dated
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 5 An English firm is said to have offered Mr, David Moore 8300,000 for his timber limits situ ated on the The men are at work grading the road for th' i»ew siding by which the Grand J unction and Midland cars will have access to Hazlett's mill, The supreme court of Maine has decided that sawdust and shavings are included in the act prohibiting refuse from being thrown from the mills into the Penobscot river. A Buffalo despatch dated August 15th, says that lumber freights are more active, several boats having been loaded for New York at the rate ruling for some time past, namely, $ per ton. The flywheel to the engine in Henderson "Brothers' mills, Montreal, Quebec, is the largest <ever put up in Canada, it being fourteen feet four inches in diameter, and thirty-two inches iace. The double belt made for it is full hide widthâtwenty-inches wide and eighty feet long. A letter from a Chicago lumberman speaks of the great lack of dock room on which to handle the great amount of lumber which has been pouring into Chicago during the last few weeks. It says that in consequence of this there was a falling off of 50 cents during a day or two of last week to save demurrage, but adds that prices rallied quickly. A BOSTON paper says that a short trip amon the lumbermen fully substantiates the statement made a few days since that the Eastern furniture manufacturers aro seriously troubled at the scarcity of black walnut timber, and that the whole supply in the United States has now become entirely inadequate to the demand. An Ottawa correspondent writing on August 18th, says that a raft belonging to Mr. J. R. Booth is now running the Chaudiere slides. Rafts belonging to Campbell Bros, and McLach- lin Bros, are above the Chaudiere. The raft of the latter is said to be the finest taken out this year, and is s
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