. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Wolverine Cedar and Lumber Company—Logging Scene has been attracted by the excel- lent stock of lumber and shipping facilities of the company which operates the Picnic Island plant. The company is known as the Wolverine Cedar & Lumber Company, with its home office at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; log- ging headquarters at W'cbbwood, Ontario; and mills at Picnic Is- land, Little Current -one of the numerous Michigan lumber con- cerns which have gone to t
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Wolverine Cedar and Lumber Company—Logging Scene has been attracted by the excel- lent stock of lumber and shipping facilities of the company which operates the Picnic Island plant. The company is known as the Wolverine Cedar & Lumber Company, with its home office at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; log- ging headquarters at W'cbbwood, Ontario; and mills at Picnic Is- land, Little Current -one of the numerous Michigan lumber con- cerns which have gone to the Georgian Bay country for pine as their Michigan holdings near- ed depletion. I bis company made its initial investment in Ontario pine in 1(X)5, when it bought the town- ship of Dunlop on the Spanish River, and has since then in- creased its holdings by the pur- chase of an adjoining township, within the last few months. It operates five camps, employing between 400 and 500 men, and produces annually between twenty and twenty-five million feet of white pine, norway and spruce lumber, principally white pine. It has adopted several methods for cheapening its log- ging and has in successful opera- tion in its camps a number of labor saving devices, among them a steam pump for filling and thawing out its sprinkler tanks, a gasoline log loader, and also a steam log hauler, an ac- count of which appeared in our September 1st issue- The logs are driven down the Spanish River to its mouth, sorted and rafted there .and towed to the company's Little Current mills in rafts of about 50,000 pieces each. The company's saw mill plant at Little Current is one of the. Wolverine Cedar and Lumber Co., Little Current, Ont. View of Mill. Wolverine Cedar and Lumber Co., Little Current, Ont.—View of 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 perfectl
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