. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. (Chip*. CuMMiNd S saw mill at Birtle, N. W. T , has been damaged by fire. The Bay City Lumberman's Gazette has commenced its fifteenth year. It has adopted a wider column than formerly used. It gives every week considerable lumbering information. Thk Monetary Times says:-There was shipped last year from California to Australia 6,950,000 feet of redwood pine. Does not this help to point out the possibilities of Canadian trade on the Pacific O
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. (Chip*. CuMMiNd S saw mill at Birtle, N. W. T , has been damaged by fire. The Bay City Lumberman's Gazette has commenced its fifteenth year. It has adopted a wider column than formerly used. It gives every week considerable lumbering information. Thk Monetary Times says:-There was shipped last year from California to Australia 6,950,000 feet of redwood pine. Does not this help to point out the possibilities of Canadian trade on the Pacific Ocean when the line of steamers is running from the termination of the C. P. B. 1 Duluth prices and common boards advanced $1. An effort will be made to establish uni- formity of grades through the Northwest.— Mississippi Valley Lumberman. Says the Lumberman's Gazette of Bay City:_ " The Canada Lumberman informs the Gazette that the export duty on rough timber is $2 on pine and $1 on spruce, not $3 and $2 as this paper has stated. Glad to be put right " The first proposal was to place the duty at $3 and $2, and now the Govern- ment has authority from Parliament to raise the duty to those figures if it is found desirable. At present, however, the duty is $2 on pine and $1 on spruce. Rain is much needed on the upper stretches of the St John river. There are, says the Globe, about twelve millions of logs hung up in the neighborhood of Eleven Islands. These belong principally to Mr. Walter Stevens. There is a solid body on the bed of the river and there is no trouble in crossing dry shod. Fibe has been raging in the forest along the Zeland Valley railroad, N. H , owned by E. J. Henry. Three camps with two million feet of spruce and about two miles of track have been burned, also 2,000 cords of wood. Two mills were forced to shut down ; damage $30,000. Zealand, N. H., July 8 -Fire is raging in the forest along the Zeland Valley railway, owned by E J. Henry. Three camps, w
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