. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. systems, boats and other Midland Ont.—Plant of the Canada Iron Corporation portant industrial facts relative to Midland which will interest read ers of the Canada Lumberman. Midland, Ont. Incorporated a town in 1890. Population 6,500. Assessed property value $2,500,000. Owns its own water, electric light and power Has shipbuilding yards from which steel tugs craft are turned out. Has coal docks handling from 90,000 to 100,000 tons of coal per year. , . '
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. systems, boats and other Midland Ont.—Plant of the Canada Iron Corporation portant industrial facts relative to Midland which will interest read ers of the Canada Lumberman. Midland, Ont. Incorporated a town in 1890. Population 6,500. Assessed property value $2,500,000. Owns its own water, electric light and power Has shipbuilding yards from which steel tugs craft are turned out. Has coal docks handling from 90,000 to 100,000 tons of coal per year. , . ' Has the largest wireless station in Canada. Will have a dry dock this year costing over $250,000, to be built in units, the first unit having a lifting capacity of 1,200 tons. Is the head office of the Simcoe Railway and Power Company, also has offices of the R. & O. Navigation Company and Fort William Coal Dock Company. Has a shipbuilding and wrecking company and plant. Is the headquarters of the Dredging Company with four dredges and steam submarine drill plant. The elevator capacity immediately in and surrounding Midland is something over 9,000,000 bushels of grain and the warehouse cap- acity is almost equal to that of the largest city. During the winter months this storage keeps the railway and other employees busy shipping and handling the grain and freight trade east and west. Georgian Bay Shook Mills, Ltd. In 1899, .the Georgian Bay Shook Mills were established, under the management of the late Mr. P. Potvin, for the purpose of manu- facturing box shooks. In order to make economical use of the lum- ber and not to use up the better end for the lower grade products, the plant gradually branched out into the manufacture of planing mill Log Towing Tug owned by Manley Chew products. Thus the foundation of a successful business was well and carefully laid, from the beginning, so that, at the time of Mr. Potvin's death in 1907, the plant had already come to include one o
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