. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Excelsior Cutting Machinery Manufactured By The Elmira Machinery and Transmission Co. Elmira, Ont. Write for Circular and Prices Mr. Thuerck Operating in the North W. C. Thuerck, of Haileybury, Ont., who has been engaged for some lime in the lumber business on his own behalf, spent a few days in Toronto recently. Mr. Thuerck was formerly associated with Terry & Gordon, Limited, Toronto. He is having taken out and sawn this season about a million and a
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Excelsior Cutting Machinery Manufactured By The Elmira Machinery and Transmission Co. Elmira, Ont. Write for Circular and Prices Mr. Thuerck Operating in the North W. C. Thuerck, of Haileybury, Ont., who has been engaged for some lime in the lumber business on his own behalf, spent a few days in Toronto recently. Mr. Thuerck was formerly associated with Terry & Gordon, Limited, Toronto. He is having taken out and sawn this season about a million and a half feet of timber, some 60% jack pine and 40% spruce. Mr. Thuerck reports that logging conditions in the north have been very good and the weather favorable. The cut of pulpw:>od, however, is small owing to the low prices received and the indifferent demand. Mr. Thuerck intends in the near future to open up an office in Haileybury where he is well and widely known. Big Contract for Cross Ties Awarded The Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railwiy is extending the line from Cochrane to Tin Can Portage, some 75 miles north. Con- tracts have been placed for 115,000 ties, a large proportion of them being of jack pine with a percentage of cedar and other woods. The contract has been awarded to the Harris Tie & Timber Co., of Ottawa, R. S. Potter Lumber Co., of Matheson, and Patrick Mc- Cool, of North Bay, to be delivered during- the coming- season. The greater portion of these ties will be used on the addition to the road, but a number will be employed for replacing those on the line south of Cochrane. Sixty percent of the ties are to be 7 inches thick and forty percent 6 inches. It is understood that the price paid is only about half of what cross ties were commanding" a year ago, the demand from he railways having fallen off considerably. The Growth was a Little Too Swift In the last issue of the "Cauada Lumberman" there appeared a report of an interesting
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