. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1905 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 31 greatly increase in value, he added to his tim- ber holdings as rapidly as possible, which proved to be a very wise policy. To-day he owns about 4,250 square miles of limits— sufficient timber land to make a strip a mile wide reaching across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mr. Booth's saw milling business steadily expanded, until in 1892 he had thirteen band saws and four gates in operation, with a capacity of more t
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1905 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 31 greatly increase in value, he added to his tim- ber holdings as rapidly as possible, which proved to be a very wise policy. To-day he owns about 4,250 square miles of limits— sufficient timber land to make a strip a mile wide reaching across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mr. Booth's saw milling business steadily expanded, until in 1892 he had thirteen band saws and four gates in operation, with a capacity of more than one million feet in ten hours. In May, 1894, his extensive mill was destroyed by fire. Shortly afterwards he pur- chased the old Perley & Pattee mill adjoining the burned property and fitted it up with im- proved machinery. The plant as it stands to-day will cut from six to eight hundred thou- sand feet of lumber in twenty hours. Although in his seventy-eighth year, Mr. Booth still enjoys good health and is able to give personal attention to his important in- terests. ISAAC COCKBURN. Few lumbermen of the present day have a wider knowledge of the early methods of lumbering than Mr. Isaac Cockburn, of Win- nipeg. In his boyhood days his father was extensively and prominently engaged in the. ing operations to the states of Michigan and Wisconsin in the manufacture of waney pine, hewn and sawn oak, oak staves, rock elm timber and pine deals for export to Quebec and the European markets. To facilitate the transportation of the timber he, in conjunction with two others, established the Collins Bay Ratting and Forwarding Company, which has met with much success under the able manage- ment of Mr. Leslie, of Kingston. He at the same time became joint owner of three vessels which were employed in carrying forward his timber products from Lakes Huron and Super- ior to the foot of the lakes, to be then taken down the St. Lawrence river to Quebec for further shipment by vessel. Ab
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