. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 169 (tlup. R. M. Wanzer & Co., of Hamilton, are about to build a large woodwork factory. The Menominee River and Manufacturing Company had, on May 1, rafted and delivered 19,000,000 feet more logs than on the same date last year. The two Napanee paper mills turn out about 9,000 lbs of paper per day. The paper mills are importing pulp—poplar from Thorold, Quebec and Niagara Falls. The New Brunswick chair factory, at St. John, is to commence wo
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 169 (tlup. R. M. Wanzer & Co., of Hamilton, are about to build a large woodwork factory. The Menominee River and Manufacturing Company had, on May 1, rafted and delivered 19,000,000 feet more logs than on the same date last year. The two Napanee paper mills turn out about 9,000 lbs of paper per day. The paper mills are importing pulp—poplar from Thorold, Quebec and Niagara Falls. The New Brunswick chair factory, at St. John, is to commence work early next month. Mr. D. L. Richards has gone to Boston to pur- chase machinery for it. The Kirby-Carpenter Company's two mills, at Menominee, Mich., turned out 329,000 feet of lumber in one day recently. The Company's new mill will average 200,000 feet daily. Merrill Brothers, Williamsport, Pa., are to build a railway, four miles long, up Anderson Creek for the purpose of running in their logs. They propose hereafter to be independent of snow. James Stewart, of Saginaw, has closed a contract with Stockwell & Belknap, whose mill is on the Harrison branch, for 20,000,000 shingles, the entire cut of the mill for the ensu- ing year. It has been decided to see relief for the Osh- kosh and Fond du Lac, Wis., water powers, from difficulty by high water in Winnebago Lake and Fox River, by widening the point of overflow in the lake. The statement of business at the Erie canal collector's office, at Buffalo, , for the month of April, gives the total exports in lumber, etc., as follows :—Lumber, 3,689,813 feet; shingles, 1,322,000 ; staves, 4,139,542. The New York Central and Erie Railroad Companies intend to build a bridge across Tona- wanda creek, at Tonawanda, N. Y., for the purpose of reaching the Export Lumber Com- pany's docks and planing mills. The firm of James Hay & Co., Woodstock, Ont., has just received from the manufacturers, Messrs. Haggart & Co., Bram
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