. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 February, 1892. LET me say that I am disappointed that the Eli page does not contain this month the faces of a number of well-known and popular representatives of the trade. I have in the engravers hands photos of several of the men whose acquaintance, I know, you will be delighted to make, but some one is at fault for not getting them pushed through for this issue. You shall see them next month, wind and weather permitting. * * * * "Our lumbermen,"
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 February, 1892. LET me say that I am disappointed that the Eli page does not contain this month the faces of a number of well-known and popular representatives of the trade. I have in the engravers hands photos of several of the men whose acquaintance, I know, you will be delighted to make, but some one is at fault for not getting them pushed through for this issue. You shall see them next month, wind and weather permitting. * * * * "Our lumbermen," said J. R. Lawton, of Toledo, Ohio, "are going into the Canadian woods in large numbers and cutting large quantities of logs this winter. There are hundreds of miles of virgin forest in Canada that has never been touched by the ravishing hand of the woods- man, and figures go to show that on the limits that are left there is more timber than has been ; Mr. Law- ton operates a mill on Blind River, Algoma, and cuts there, marketing the output nearly altogether in the States. * * * * "My business," said W. S. Greensides, of Mount Forest, Ont.,"is largely with the States and is steadily on the increase. I deal altogether in hardwood, cherry and white ash, and ship principally to Philadelphia. The Americans like our hardwoods, and I do not find that the woods of their own country come into competition with stocks from this side of the border. In quality of grade we take the cake. I would of course like to see the duty on lumber removed ; Mr. Green- sides informed me that he was building a new band saw mill, which would be in operation shortly. * * * * Why should not music and timber work well to- gether ? The relationship is not very distant if the spelling is changed to "; Is there not music in the buz of the saw and the whirl of the sawmill mach- inery, not to mention the melodious tones that come from the sharpening of
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