. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. I i J 1 I III- i\ h I I II ~ ( \ N V I • \ buiiiieis, has did mit, and not a single ^tavc innv leaves the port. nirch, too, has deJiiiiil cmisiilerably during the nine years, which i-t attributed to the ^ub^tiiuiioii of cheap African tnahogany fir turniture malting, for which hirch wan extensively used. The only kind of that hoU
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. I i J 1 I III- i\ h I I II ~ ( \ N V I • \ buiiiieis, has did mit, and not a single ^tavc innv leaves the port. nirch, too, has deJiiiiil cmisiilerably during the nine years, which i-t attributed to the ^ub^tiiuiioii of cheap African tnahogany fir turniture malting, for which hirch wan extensively used. The only kind of that hoUU itsoivn in the province of Oaehcc is spruce, .md now it is admitteil tliat it is the best' wood for ; pulp for paper, beller values will, v water, the logs bsing held together for lloating by transverse pieces of light wiK>d to keep them from sinking, and the transverse pieces are secured by withes, and a large surface of these drains looks at first sight like a Held of dry sticks, but when in the water little of them can bj^een, the light traitsverse pieces just keeping the logs, as it were, between wind and water. These oak logs first railed, say to Toledo, a distance of 200 or 300 miles ; they are then taken by schooner across Lakes F">ie and Ontario to (iarden Idaiid, where they are 1 into drams by the for- warding agents, the Kilvin Compary, of Kingston, or at Collins , by the C jllins Bay Rafting C Miipany. both of whivjh places arc close to Kingston, and start on their voyage down the St. Laivreiue, a distance of 500 miles, which inclu les the running of the and other rapids. In a dram of oak there are probably 12,000 cubic feet. It is a remarkable circumstance in connection with the oak trad'; that sevei il (hiebec firms have manufactured this timber in tile State of .\rkansis, and ; the. THE LOUISE D():JK, QliJBEC. The timber in Oaebec at one time found employ- nient for from 5,000 to b,o30 labou
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