. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 9 B. Young & Co. have completed the new | chimney to their mill. They have in Half Way I River Lake no less than 5,000,000 feet of logs. Mr. Hugh Mack at, Crown Lands Agent and Collector of Customs at Parry Sound, died sud- denly on the 28th ult., from the bursting of a blood vessel. Price & Co., West Brook, are erecting a store at West Brook crossing. They have stopped sawing at their steam millâtheir logs being for the present &quo
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 9 B. Young & Co. have completed the new | chimney to their mill. They have in Half Way I River Lake no less than 5,000,000 feet of logs. Mr. Hugh Mack at, Crown Lands Agent and Collector of Customs at Parry Sound, died sud- denly on the 28th ult., from the bursting of a blood vessel. Price & Co., West Brook, are erecting a store at West Brook crossing. They have stopped sawing at their steam millâtheir logs being for the present " hung up " for want of 1 water. Several rafts of cordwood were being unload- ed near the foot of Broadway street, Winnipeg, on the 27th ult., where a number of men are working constantly in the water up to their waists fcfr the purpose of fishing it out. An enterprising Vancouver, , man, Mr. B. L. Morrison, has this season shipped to San Francisco 800,000 hoop-poles, and has 600,000 .nearly ready for shipment and more coming. He has shipped as high as 2,000,000 in one winter. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says that he saw 100 black locust posts which had been 22 years planted, and that they were sounder below the ground than above, and would be good posts for at least another 20 years. A fleet of nine flatboats of lumber, shingles, etc., arrived at Winnipeg on the 28th ult., from Moorhead, having been brought down by J. Morris. About two weeks were spent on the way. The freight was brought to Moorhead Minneapolis by rail. Lewis Rivers, Esq., of St. John, has become manager for Thos. L. DeWolf & Co., at their new mill, at Diligent River. This mill will be completed this fall. It will cost some $20,000. The firm have some 5,000 acres of land to log from and they have 3,500,000 logs out. A few years agjp the idea of exporting bob- bins would have been considered extremely im- practicable, but now the diminishing timber supply of the old world has forced
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