. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 297 A THOUSAND cords of poplar are being gotten out at St. Ignace for a Niagara Falls paper company. Thh last timber raft of the season left Ottawa for Quebec on Sept. 18th. It contained 185 cribs, and is owned by Mr. O. Latour. A FEW days since a crew of fifty men was sent by J. A. Pearson & Son, from Saginaw, Mich., into the upper peninsula, the intention being to put in about 35,000,000 feet this winter. The Duluth Lake Superior News says:
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 297 A THOUSAND cords of poplar are being gotten out at St. Ignace for a Niagara Falls paper company. Thh last timber raft of the season left Ottawa for Quebec on Sept. 18th. It contained 185 cribs, and is owned by Mr. O. Latour. A FEW days since a crew of fifty men was sent by J. A. Pearson & Son, from Saginaw, Mich., into the upper peninsula, the intention being to put in about 35,000,000 feet this winter. The Duluth Lake Superior News says:—It is said that there will be 1,000 men at work in the North Shore pine woods this winter. Already the lumbermen are begining their preparations for the fall and winter logging. The Muskoka Herald says that Messrs. Las- sell & Jones have taken a large contract from the British American Lumber Company, which will occupy about three years before it is com- pleted. It is estimated that there will be 20,- 000,000 feet in the limit. The Muskoka Herald says -.—The lumber firms are vigorously prosecuting the work of pre- paring for the season's cut, which promises to be even larger than that of last winter. A number of camps have already been started, and more are being equipped every day. During the past year the Tennants, of Tor- onto, shipped 3,000,000, feet of lumber to Manitoba., and expect to forward 2,000,000 feet more. Nearly a million feet went by way of Chicago, but the larger portion was shipped by the Lake Superior and Duluth route. The Monetary Times says that at Lancaster, X. B., a woodenware factory has been put into operation by Mr. D. L. Richards, who is assist- ed we understand, by Mr. J. V. Thurgar of St. John. The woods used in the factory are mahogany, black walnut, white wood, cherry, ash and birch. The Northwestern Lumber Company, of Eau Claire, Wis., is piling lumber at the rate of 100,- 000 feet per day, one river crew being retained to run a part of
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