. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. zo CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER April, 1907 ^ w: B E R] N [ CAJ N [A] DA ^ Western Offices of The Canada Lumberman, 615 Hastings Street, VANCOUVER, B. C; 720-721 Union Bank Building, WINNIPEG, MAN. THE GREAT WEST LUMBER COMPANY Although for nlany years past lumbering has been most active on the western slope of the Mountains and throughout British Cohimbia, also to some extent in the northern parts of the prairies, yet it is only within Clearwater Rivers, which are
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. zo CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER April, 1907 ^ w: B E R] N [ CAJ N [A] DA ^ Western Offices of The Canada Lumberman, 615 Hastings Street, VANCOUVER, B. C; 720-721 Union Bank Building, WINNIPEG, MAN. THE GREAT WEST LUMBER COMPANY Although for nlany years past lumbering has been most active on the western slope of the Mountains and throughout British Cohimbia, also to some extent in the northern parts of the prairies, yet it is only within Clearwater Rivers, which are open for driv- ing throughout the summer. The company took out about 15,000,000 feet of logs this winter, employing from 75 to 100 men in the Mill and Log Pond, Great West Lumber Company, Red Deer, Alta. recent date that the lumber industry has be- come prominent on the eastern slope and in the foothills. One of the companies to grasp the advant- age of having a mill plant closer to the mar- ket has been the Robinson-Mackenzie Lumber Company, of Cranbrook. These gentlemen have, for some years past, been operating a saw and planing mill plant at Cranbrook. About a year ago they turned their attention to the possibilities of lumbering on the east- ern slopes, and decided to commence the manufacture of lumber at Red Deer, Alta. Here they formed what is known as the Great West Lumber Company, Limited, capitalized at $500,000. The head offices of the company are at Red Deer, the Cranbrook plant of Messrs. Robinson & Mackenzie becoming a branch of the Great West Lumber Company. The timber on their limit on the eastern glope consists chiefly of spruce and pine, of which the company control extensive areas, amounting in all to some 500 square miles, and yielding an estimated cut of over three hundred million feet. The timber compared with that on the prairies and on the eastern slope of the Mountains, is said to be con- siderably larger in size, the logs running from 8 to
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