. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1895 5. THE NEWS. T. B. Caldwell is about to cert a saw mill at Lanark, —Mr. Ont. —Mr. IWOULD not object to hold a few thousand acres of pine timber lands, if the statement I saw the other day as to the way it increases in value is correct. A lumber company purchased, in 1880, a tract in Upper Michigan for $19,000, which is now said to be worth $150,000. That is better than holding real estate m Toronto. * * * * I have heard wonderful stones of the dura
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November, 1895 5. THE NEWS. T. B. Caldwell is about to cert a saw mill at Lanark, —Mr. Ont. —Mr. IWOULD not object to hold a few thousand acres of pine timber lands, if the statement I saw the other day as to the way it increases in value is correct. A lumber company purchased, in 1880, a tract in Upper Michigan for $19,000, which is now said to be worth $150,000. That is better than holding real estate m Toronto. * * * * I have heard wonderful stones of the durability of timber under water, but this breaks the record. I read in a Vienna paper that a pile supporting a bridge built across the Danube by the Emperor Trajan, seventeen centuries ago, was taken up and found to be perfectly sound. Nor is it a bad take-off on the yellow pine dealers, who claim great durability for their wood, when a contemporary remarks that they will probably claim that the pile was of that variety of wood. * * * * Some of the furniture dealers complain that the craze for bicycles has injured their trade, though just how they connect the two I do not quite see. The furniture men will simply have to take to selling bicycles, and some of them are doing so, and making them too. The craze, however, if it can be called such, does good in some directions. The introduction of the wood rim has caused an increased demand for the better class of elm, and also hickory, which is good for the hardwood men. * * * * The West Coast lumbermen of the United States, who have formed a combine against British Columbia, which promises to assume still greater proportions, justify their action by the assertion that they cannot compete in their own market against British Columbia lumber. They say that the B. C. lumberman has not to buy his timber, but merely leases it from the government and pays for the logs as he takes them out; that his stumpage is only 25 cents as against $1,
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