. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. December, 1893 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 9. AWRITER in a lumber contemporary criticises the proposed method of an Ottawa firm of seasoning beech and birch. Having described the method he then says : " After all is done, this wood is neither beech, nor birch, nor walnut in appearance. Neither has it taken on any new quality that makes it superior to either beech or birch, both of which are handsome woods, or that makes it equal to walnut. These bogus, imitation, a
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. December, 1893 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 9. AWRITER in a lumber contemporary criticises the proposed method of an Ottawa firm of seasoning beech and birch. Having described the method he then says : " After all is done, this wood is neither beech, nor birch, nor walnut in appearance. Neither has it taken on any new quality that makes it superior to either beech or birch, both of which are handsome woods, or that makes it equal to walnut. These bogus, imitation, arti- ficial, counterfeit and fillered woods make a lover of fine natural grains, hues and other characteristics very tired, in fact, fatally ;' " We are busy cutting railway ties and shingles," said Mr. W. J. Brooks, of Grimesthorp, in the Algoma dis- trict, "and are finding a demand for all we can cut. I have no thoughts that the cedar shingles of British Columbia will come into serious competition with our pine shingles. I have an idea that the cedar shingles cf the coast are injured by the process of kiln drying that seems necessary to ; » * * * The statement is made in a trade contemporary that a United States lumberman who has devoted some con- sideration to the question of lumbering in Canada be- lieves that the main opposition to the export of logs free of duty from the Georgian bay district to Michigan mills comes from mill owners in that district, for the reason that at present there is very little demand for the product manufactured in that section. Eastern buyers will not visit isolated mills for stock if they can avoid it, prefer- ing to purchase at large manufacturing centres. The Canadians think if the logs did not go to Michigan the mills in eastern Michigan would be forced out of com- mission, the American owners of Canada limits would be forced to erect mills in Canada, and in this way a trade would be built up. * * * * An O
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