. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 345 Whip. The Merrill and Muskegon booms have closed operations. Logger's wages in Duluth, Minn., district this winter will range from $15 to $20 a month. The mill of White & Wilcox, at Cheney, Mich., will run all winter and ship to eastern markets. The stock of sawed lumber in the Duluth, Minn., yards is stated to be about sixty-three million feet. C. Merrill & Co.'s mill at Saginaw, has shut down after averaging about 150,000 feet daily
. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 345 Whip. The Merrill and Muskegon booms have closed operations. Logger's wages in Duluth, Minn., district this winter will range from $15 to $20 a month. The mill of White & Wilcox, at Cheney, Mich., will run all winter and ship to eastern markets. The stock of sawed lumber in the Duluth, Minn., yards is stated to be about sixty-three million feet. C. Merrill & Co.'s mill at Saginaw, has shut down after averaging about 150,000 feet daily for 147 days. The Tittabawassee Boom Company, Mich., have set their stakes &t 580,000,000 feet of logs for the season's operations. It is expected that the new tannery at Petos key, Mich., will use about 12,000 tons of hem- lock bark per year. The schooner Ernest, from Apple river, lum- ber, sprang a leak and filled with water at a wharf at St. John, N. B., October 20th. Mattews Brothers, manufacturers of sash, doors, and blinds, at Belfast, Me., have cut up 1,000,000 feet of lumber during the past year. The Rainy Lake Lumber Company is towing 3,000,000 feet of logs from Falcon island to its mill at Rat Portage, Ont., to be sawed in the spring. It is estimated that nearly 100,000,000 feet of lumber will be wintered over at Au Sable and Oscoda. This is larger amount than ever held over there before. Recently F. W. Gilcrest's wharf, at Alpena, Mich., gave way, and 120,000 feet of lumber was thrown into the water. The lumber be longed to R. D. Taylor, and was recovered. On October 23rd a large circular saw in the Rainy Lake Lumber Company's mill at Rat Portage, Ont., burst., and a piece struck E. Erret in the eye, severely injuring him. F. Thompson, of Rat Portage, Ont., has two camps containing 50 men at work in new territory around Crow Lake. The timber is being gotten out for the firm of F. T. Bulmer &Co. A copious rain about October 23red, extin- guished the forest fi
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