. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIX. Number 7. } TORONTO, ONT., JULY, 1898 J Terms,$ Per Year, i Single Copies, 10 Cents. RECORD OF A PROGRESSIVE LUMBERMAN. As one of the most enterprising and successful lumbermen in Western Ontario, a portrait ot Mr. J. E. Murphy, of Hepworth Station, is pre- sented to our readers. Mr. Murphy is so well known to the lumber trade that any introduction here would seem almost superfluous. Suffice it to say that his operations are co
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIX. Number 7. } TORONTO, ONT., JULY, 1898 J Terms,$ Per Year, i Single Copies, 10 Cents. RECORD OF A PROGRESSIVE LUMBERMAN. As one of the most enterprising and successful lumbermen in Western Ontario, a portrait ot Mr. J. E. Murphy, of Hepworth Station, is pre- sented to our readers. Mr. Murphy is so well known to the lumber trade that any introduction here would seem almost superfluous. Suffice it to say that his operations are confined to hard- woods and hemlock, and that he is one of the foremost advocates of a direct export trade in lumber and manufactures of wood between Can- ada and foreign countries. The bubject of our sketch left the printer's case in the city of Boston owing to ill health, in 1873, and entered the employ of Jones & Murphy, then a prominent firm of lumbermen in the County of Perth, where at that time considerable quantities of standing pine were owned by the firm in the townships of Elma and Logan. He continued in their employ untill their timber was about ex- hausted and a dissolution of the firm took place. In 1879 he purchased from his employers one of their mills in Logan township, and operated it for two seasons, when it became necessary to move the mill for want of timber. The G. B. and L. E. railway was then being extended northward from Chesley to the Georgian Bay, and in Decem- ber, 1881, Mr. Murphy went north in search of a location, visiting Hepworth, Wiarton and Owen Sound, all three of which places he then looked upon as excellent locations for a mill. His capi- tal being limited, he decided to locate at Hep- worth, where he could build cheaper than at either of the other places. For the first year or two the business was not very remunerative, owing to the antipathy of the building trade to using hemlock, which was the staple variety of timber there, and which w
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