. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 201 A Large number of vessels on Lake Michi- gan lost their dock loads of lumber in the gale of June 3. The lumber dealers of Fargo find it difficult to supply the demand, so great is the amount of building going on. Slabs and edgings are being shipped from Wausau, Wis., to the Appleton pulp mills. A pulp mill at Wausau would save the distance to the slabs and edgings. In Germany sawdust is combined with glue, or other intensely adhesive material
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 201 A Large number of vessels on Lake Michi- gan lost their dock loads of lumber in the gale of June 3. The lumber dealers of Fargo find it difficult to supply the demand, so great is the amount of building going on. Slabs and edgings are being shipped from Wausau, Wis., to the Appleton pulp mills. A pulp mill at Wausau would save the distance to the slabs and edgings. In Germany sawdust is combined with glue, or other intensely adhesive material, to form a plastic mass, from which are wrought door- knobs, piano-keys, and a variety of objects. The schooner Roekaway lately made the round trip between Chicago and Muskegon in 35 hours, loading and returning with 216,000 feet of lumber. Her master thinks that he is entitled to the biscuit. A New Congregational church at Quadrant, Highbury, England, has its interior timber work entirely of pitch pine, the outside left with saw-cut face, without varnish, and covered with Stockholm tar. Steamers have been chartered for the con veyance of the 14,000,000 feet of spruce deals which have been sold for the English market. This is a new step in the trans-Atlantic lumber trade. Formerly sailing vessels were employ- ed. Last fall a raft of logs belonging to A. M. Otis was lost by the tug Leviathian in Sturgeon Bay river, Wis., and about half of them have been picked up by Spear's crew and placed in his boom. The tug owner received $950 for his services. A Tract of pine land in Presque Isle county Mich., which was offered for sale two years ago for $19,000, is now in the market at $70,000 cash. Of this land 1,600 acres are in the town- ship of Metz, and 2,800 in Belknap. The land is offered at the rate of between $15 and $16 an acre. The Decatur Lumber Company, Decatur, Ind., has a sash, blind and door factory attached to its establishment, 40 x 80 feet in area, and two stories high,
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