. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 12 July, 1892 THE LUMBER TRADE ABROAD. A Saginaw dealer purchased 5,000,000 feet of lumber at Lake Superior points for the eastern markets. James Graves, at one time a rich sawmill owner, hanged himself in his barn at his home in Gravesville, Wis. Fire originating in Woods, Jenks & Co.'s planing mill in the lumber district of Cleveland, Ohio, caused about $200,000 damage. George Harney, of Woodruff, a promin- ent lumberman who recently met financial reverses,
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 12 July, 1892 THE LUMBER TRADE ABROAD. A Saginaw dealer purchased 5,000,000 feet of lumber at Lake Superior points for the eastern markets. James Graves, at one time a rich sawmill owner, hanged himself in his barn at his home in Gravesville, Wis. Fire originating in Woods, Jenks & Co.'s planing mill in the lumber district of Cleveland, Ohio, caused about $200,000 damage. George Harney, of Woodruff, a promin- ent lumberman who recently met financial reverses, drowned himself in the Wisconsin river. Lumber traffic through the "Soo" canal is increasing. In May, 1891, 46,829,000 feet of lumber passed through, and in May, 1892, 68,925,000. A cargo of mahogany is said to be floating loose on the Atlantic. It was abandoned March 31st last, since which time it has floated thousands of miles. Hickory as lumber is exceedingly scarce in the United States market. Though now rarely called for, it is more rarely found. White ash of good fibre is generally used as a substitute. Water shipments from the Saginaw Valley, Mich., have fallen off nearly 11,000,000 feet since the beginning of the season as compared with last year. The railroads are rapidly driv- ing the vessel men out of business. At Genoa, Ark., a small station on the Cot- ton Belt Railroad, burglars entered the office of the Bodcaw Lumber Co., opened the safe and carried away $40,000 worth of the company's stock, $12,000 worth of notes, and about $100 in cash. The famous big trees of North Carolina will be represented in the Forestry Building at Chicago by a colonnade of nine trunks, each twenty-fi\e feet long, which are the gift of Mr. George Vanderbilt from his estate at Biltmore, near Asheville. On the 16th ult. fire did $25,000 damage to the mill of W. P. Mershon and Co., north of Saginaw, Mich. It caught in the boiler room and destroyed the cutting mill, dry kiln and 7
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