. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. View at Harry Lindop's Logging Camp, Sand Lake, Ont. the driveway extending from the street through the center of the building to the lumber sheds and lofts. The planer is on one side of this driveway, and the matcher on the other, which saves a lot of handling. Among the most progressive citizens of St. Thomas are Marlatt & Smith, the yard men, who handle all kinds of lumber and building material ; and Balsden & Blewett, who not only operate a planing mi
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. View at Harry Lindop's Logging Camp, Sand Lake, Ont. the driveway extending from the street through the center of the building to the lumber sheds and lofts. The planer is on one side of this driveway, and the matcher on the other, which saves a lot of handling. Among the most progressive citizens of St. Thomas are Marlatt & Smith, the yard men, who handle all kinds of lumber and building material ; and Balsden & Blewett, who not only operate a planing mill, but are contractors and builders of local repute. This latter firm make sash, doors, blinds, cisterns and flooring, getting their material from Sarnia and Tonawanda. They handle considerable hemlock and B. C. shingles. Sanders & Powers, of St. Thomas, are also importers of yellow pine and wholesale dealers in all kinds of lumber, doing a splendid trade. Hemlock is used altogether for bill stuff and gives satisfaction. On my way to Detroit I met Mr. James Little, of the Rat Portage Lumber Company, and formerly of Barrie, Ont., who was on his way back to Rat Portage with his wife and daughter. Mr. Little has not only been an experienced lumber camp superintendent, but a foreman of river drives, and has a store of knowledge. Twenty-eight years of lum- bering has left him still a young man. I had met down in Nova Scotia a lumberman who had told me that hemlock existed wherever white pine grows. When I got over in Minnesota and Iowa last year I was con- vinced that while hemlock was plentiful on the east bank of the Mississippi, to the west of the river it was practically non-existent. While in Northern Wiscon- sin I saw great forests of hemlock, but west of the St. Croix river, in Minnesota, there was not a tree. Mr. Little verified this by saying he had seen no hemlock in upper New Ontario or in Northern Minnesota. I asked Mr. Little what his experience was with the "
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