. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 July, 1897 MONEY IN MAPLE. A writer in the Canadian Bookseller says : " In Canada we have the best hard maple in the world. The farmer in many districts spends part of his winter cutting it and selling it for firewood. He is quite happy if he realizes $1 to $3, or per- haps $4, a cord. This is a sad Waste of one of our greatest natural treasures. Much of it can be more profitably used in other ways. In the manufacture of wallpaper, an industry constantly
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. '4 July, 1897 MONEY IN MAPLE. A writer in the Canadian Bookseller says : " In Canada we have the best hard maple in the world. The farmer in many districts spends part of his winter cutting it and selling it for firewood. He is quite happy if he realizes $1 to $3, or per- haps $4, a cord. This is a sad Waste of one of our greatest natural treasures. Much of it can be more profitably used in other ways. In the manufacture of wallpaper, an industry constantly growing here and abroad, hundreds of thousands of rollers are used for printing the various patterns. These rollers are made of the very best hard maple, the very kind that Canada pro- duces better than any other country in the world. In the rough they are 19^ to 23^ inches long. The end is 5 or 6 inches square, according to the size of roller required. Only the most perfect wood can be used. It is cut into these sizes. The ends are painted to prevent the wood drying faster with the grain than across it. It is then allowed to stand for three or four years. By this time it is thoroughly seasoned. This is all the labor put upon it. Good maple in this form, after being properly seasoned, brings 50 cents to 75 cents per rough block. A considerable quan- tity of maple blocks are similarly treated each year for use in mangles. These must be of first- class wood, but are not necessarily as perfect as the wall paper ;. Amotion Sale OF Timber Berths Department of Crown Lands, (Woods and Forests Branch.) Toronto, June 2nd, 1897. NOTICE is hereby given that under authority of Orders in Council Timber Berths as hereunder men- tioned in the NIPISSING, ALGOMA and RAINY RIVER DISTRICTS, viz., the Townships of Rath- bun, Kelly, Davis, the north half of Scadding, and that part of Hanmer south of the Vermillion River, all in the District of Nipissing ; the Township of Coffin addi- t
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