. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. William Margach, Rat Portage. ties. These rivers furnish immense water powers, which at no distant date will be utilized in the manufacture of pulp. About half of the terri- tory is covered by water, and many of the lakes abound in fish. As the population of Manitoba and the Territories increase, Mr. Mar- gach looks for a marked improvement in the lum- ber trade of that section. There is now large quantities of ties taken out for the , prob- ably about
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. William Margach, Rat Portage. ties. These rivers furnish immense water powers, which at no distant date will be utilized in the manufacture of pulp. About half of the terri- tory is covered by water, and many of the lakes abound in fish. As the population of Manitoba and the Territories increase, Mr. Mar- gach looks for a marked improvement in the lum- ber trade of that section. There is now large quantities of ties taken out for the , prob- ably about 500,000 each season, as well as stave bolts for the Lake of the Woods Milling Co. MR. HUGH MUNRO. The territory known as the Thunder Bay agency is under the supervision of Mr. Hugh Munro, whose headquarters are at Port Arthur. It extends from a line running north from the mouth of the Michipicoton river to a point near Fort Henley, on the Albany river, thence west to a line running from the east end of Hunter's Island north to a point between Lac Seul and Lake Joseph, the Albany river being the northern boundary and Lake Superior and the international boundary the southern. The area is probably over 60,000 square miles. The principal timber in the district is spruce, with areas of Norway and white pine, which as far as known would amount to 250,000,000 feet Owing to the. Mr. Hugh Munro, Port Arthur. depression in the lumber business, the amount cut of late years has not exceeded five million feet. The territory north of the C. P. R. track is yet unexplored, either for timber or minerals. Mr. Munro was born in Aberdeenshire, Scot- land, in the year 1833, and came with his parents to New York city in 1836, attending the public schools until apprenticed with a firm of artificers in marble, for whom he became foreman. For a time afterwards he studied medicine, then went into business in New York as a member of the firm of Dillanay, Foster & Co., sculptors and artificers in
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