. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 363 The Minnesota & Ontario Lumber Company- is building a planing mill at Rat Portage, Ont. The incorporation is noted at East Saginaw, Mich., of the Standard Lumber Company, with a capital stock ot §40,000. Commerce through the Sault Ste. Marie canal between Lake Superior and Huron for the past year exceeded that of the Suez Canal by by 30,000 tons. The rafting operations of the Tittabawassee boom company this year lasted 89 days, during whi
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 363 The Minnesota & Ontario Lumber Company- is building a planing mill at Rat Portage, Ont. The incorporation is noted at East Saginaw, Mich., of the Standard Lumber Company, with a capital stock ot §40,000. Commerce through the Sault Ste. Marie canal between Lake Superior and Huron for the past year exceeded that of the Suez Canal by by 30,000 tons. The rafting operations of the Tittabawassee boom company this year lasted 89 days, during which 2 855 821 pieces were rafted, scaling up- wards of 325,000,000 feet. E. A. Bradshaw, lumber merchant and saw mill proprietor, was recently killed atStouffville, Ont., by being struck by a train. He died in two hours after the accident and before his family arrived. It is reported that one of the heaviest man- ufacturers on the river heretofore has not let any contracts for logging and will not have any logs put in this winter. And another firm whose operations are usually large have said they would put in only a few million feet. A large number of diminutive rolling pins are being manufactured at Bellaire, Mich., factory. They are used by ladies, who paint them fantastically aud thus make parlour orna- ments of them. There almost countless ways of using wood, and the number still increases Thursday in Brigham & Mussell's camp, near Sterling, Mich., John McFadden, of Sea- forth, Ont., was instantly killed. He was working on a log road and was struck on the head by a rebounding limb while felling a tree. His skull was fractured and his neck broken. Deceased was unmarried and 35 years of age. The Saginaw Courier is informed that S. H. Webster, of East Saginaw, sold a tract of pine to L. D. Sanborn, 120 acres, at 110,000. Sail- ing, Hanson, & Co., of Grayling, sold 700 acres to Sanborn & Hill for 821,000 ; 600 acres for $19 000, and 1,150 acres to the same parties f
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