. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 38 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER !..-I I, I' Progressive Lumber Co. Expanding Live Prairie Province Organization Will Greatly Increase Output and Install New Eqnipment The Finger Lumber Co., Limited, of The Pas, Manitoba, intend putting in four logging camps during the coming winter and will employ about six hundred men. The company state that wages are running from $55 to $75 per month and help is hard to get even at this figure while camp suppli
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 38 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER !..-I I, I' Progressive Lumber Co. Expanding Live Prairie Province Organization Will Greatly Increase Output and Install New Eqnipment The Finger Lumber Co., Limited, of The Pas, Manitoba, intend putting in four logging camps during the coming winter and will employ about six hundred men. The company state that wages are running from $55 to $75 per month and help is hard to get even at this figure while camp supplies are costing from 100 to 150 per cent, more than they did before the war. The company will incr5ase their mill capacity and are installing a new band resaw arid trinnner and also a new band mill. The Finger Lumber Company, of which H. Finger is president, H. S. Smith vice-president, and W. H. Miner, secretary-treasurer, (luring the last few years it has developed a market in ilic Luittd States. The Pas is the western terminus of the Hudson Rail- wav in General view of the Finger Company's plant commenced operations in the Spring of 1912, and own extensive timber limits along the Saskatchewan and the Carrot rivers. Their logging thus far has ben conducted on the limits along the Carrot river, where a number of camps last winter were operat- ed. The logs are driven down the Carrot river into a storage boom located where the river empties into the Saskatchewan. They are then towed from this storage boom to the saw mill by the company's own tugs. The company are the pioneers in the lumber industry in North- ern Manitoba, that vast strentch of land hitherto considered as the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
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