. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. %l TIIK WOOD INIM'STIMKS (iK CANADA. supply. This is most advantageously situa'.ed, being only about 50 miles from Ouebcc by wat«r, and hiving a railway through it, the length of which is ^o miles, running from Lyster Station, on the line of the Granu Trunk Railway, to St. Jean des Chaillijns, en the banks of the St. The timber is, t
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. %l TIIK WOOD INIM'STIMKS (iK CANADA. supply. This is most advantageously situa'.ed, being only about 50 miles from Ouebcc by wat«r, and hiving a railway through it, the length of which is ^o miles, running from Lyster Station, on the line of the Granu Trunk Railway, to St. Jean des Chaillijns, en the banks of the St. The timber is, therefore, available bjth by railway and water market of the United Srales, and for the English and European markets by way of Quebe;. The territory furnishe: at present timber for three milU, tvo of which, one at King^burg and the other at Brousseaus, on the line of the railway lunninj through ii, known as t'le on the line of li.^ Quebec Central Rnilway, shipments from which are made mainly to the American mirksta smiU portion being produced for the English mirket, which is shipped by Oaebec. The capacity of these mills may be estunated at 10,000,000 to ,000 ft. In addition to the above, King B.'others hive the control of the output of several other small mills situated at different points. The b'lsiness has recently been converted into a joint- stock company, the shares of which arc a'.l held by the family. \Vc may add that K'ng are also largely. 2; \^ a: .J < Q U CO H « a 4 i- LI Lotbiuiere and Megantic Railway, and one at Hadlow, in the port of t,)ucbec. The combined capacity of these three mills is about 10,000,000 it. At 'ir, on the line of th.; (Irand Trunk Railway, about forty miles from Oueboc, is another mill, with an capacity of 7 to 8 million ft. The supplies for this mill are drawn from King Brothers' own private lands, from limits of the from the lands of proprietors whj get out and furnish the logs
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