. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER. Birds' Eye View of Plant of Michigan Puget ;unl Lumber Coniapny, Situated on Rock Bay, Victoria, Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Co. Victoria, Concern Operating the Largest Sawmill in the Capital—Timber Holdings of Immense "Value—A Notable Achievment in Export Shipments Four years ago, or thereabouts, J. H. Moore, a prominent Seattle lumberman, came to the conclusion that the timber resources of Vancou- ver Island offere
. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER. Birds' Eye View of Plant of Michigan Puget ;unl Lumber Coniapny, Situated on Rock Bay, Victoria, Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Co. Victoria, Concern Operating the Largest Sawmill in the Capital—Timber Holdings of Immense "Value—A Notable Achievment in Export Shipments Four years ago, or thereabouts, J. H. Moore, a prominent Seattle lumberman, came to the conclusion that the timber resources of Vancou- ver Island offered unlimited possibilities for wealth, if developed by men possessed of experience and the requisite capital. Quick to act whre his judgment approved, Mr. Moore reached Victoria two weeks later with his partners, Messrs. C. T. Moore, W. T. Coleman and S. M. Cochrane. The party at once set out on their hunt for likely timber lying at the right dis- tance from salt water. They staked some sixteen sections on the Jordan river, and duly advertised it for purchase according to law. Then they returned to the forest and staked more, until they had in all some forty- nine sections of choice timber. Next a block of 1,532 acres of crown- granted timber was purchased from J. A. Sayward, the Victoria mill owner, for $100,000 cash. In March, 1907, a half interest in the above properties was disposed of to Seattle parties for $150,000, and a consid- erable portion of this additional capital was at once invested in a logging plant with which the Jordan River Lumber Company began development on a large scale. Then came an era of hard times, when certain of those who had in- vested in the Jordan river properties and industry required to realize quickly by withdrawal in order to protect other interests. This produced the occasion for Mr. Moore's forward movement, for—realizing by this time that he had one of the finest possible timber propositions—he went directly to the home of timber me
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