. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 30 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN May, 1903 A WISCONSIN TRIP. (By Our Travelling Representative.) Crossing Lake Michigan I landed at Manitowac, a lumber shipping point. Considerable lumber is brought from the interior of Wisconsin by rail, the same cars being run onto the large lake ferry boats and landed at Ludington, from which point the cars are sent through without transhipment to Toledo, Ohio, and other points. Two Rivers is stilt quite a lumber shipping point, and a regul
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 30 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN May, 1903 A WISCONSIN TRIP. (By Our Travelling Representative.) Crossing Lake Michigan I landed at Manitowac, a lumber shipping point. Considerable lumber is brought from the interior of Wisconsin by rail, the same cars being run onto the large lake ferry boats and landed at Ludington, from which point the cars are sent through without transhipment to Toledo, Ohio, and other points. Two Rivers is stilt quite a lumber shipping point, and a regular fleet of lake schooners and barges have done a great deal of business in the carrying trade from this section. Up at Green Bay I saw the effects of a decaying industry. This was formerly a great center of lumber- ing operations, but nothing of magnitude is to be look- ed for nowadays. It is said that the Diamond Match Company got out over forty million feet of timber from the Ontonagon river this last winter. The logs were loaded on cars and hauled to Green Bay, where they are being sawed. This company stationed en- gines along its logging roads and a cable is used to assist the horses up che inclines with the big loads. A new logging railroad is to be built across Mar- inette county. It is to be constructed by the Bird & Wells Lurmer Company, who own considerable tim- ber in that region. The road will be from 15 to 30 miles long, opening up a quantity of standing timber and making it tributary to Wausaukee and Marinette. The line will run from Athelstane to the Forest County line. Logging operations at Girard Junction are to be continued through the summer. This will finish up the pine and cedar in that locality. At one of the mills in Green Bay steam was raised as early as February 27th in order to thaw out the ice in the log pond, to secure a place in which to float the logs. The ice was melted by steam passed through a small pipe which is let down just under the surf
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