. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 3 Canadian. The Parry Sound mill commenced sawing on the 6th of April. Building operations in Montreal during the summer promise to be exceedingly active. The rate from Brockville to Oswego is 90 cents per 1,000. The average rate for lumber from Toronto to Oswego seems to be $ per 1,000. The harbor of Duluth is not expected to open before the middle of May. 8,000,000 feet of lumber awaits the opening of navigation to be shipped from Parr
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 3 Canadian. The Parry Sound mill commenced sawing on the 6th of April. Building operations in Montreal during the summer promise to be exceedingly active. The rate from Brockville to Oswego is 90 cents per 1,000. The average rate for lumber from Toronto to Oswego seems to be $ per 1,000. The harbor of Duluth is not expected to open before the middle of May. 8,000,000 feet of lumber awaits the opening of navigation to be shipped from Parry Sound. Godekich rates are quoted fifty per. cent, higher than last year, and a charter has been made. The schooner Denmark has been loaded with timber at Toronto—an unusual proceeding as it is generally rafted. A gentleman who arrived at Ottawa from the Black river on the 22nd of April, reports a foot of snow there. The saw mill owned by Alex. Carson, at Gorrie, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 23rd April. Loss, $4,000; no insurance. A fibe in Hall & Brown's lumber-yard, Ber- lin, Ont., on the 18th April, destroyed $300 worth of lumber before it was subdued. The steam barge Tecurnseh, has been charter- ed to take ties from Cockburn Island to Chicago at 10 cents each and cedar posts at 6^ cents each. The shipment of lumber from the Chaudiere docks commenced on Monday last. The quan- tity to be shipped promises to be larger that that of any previous season since 1872. The scow Onward, of Buffalo, has been chartered to carry five loads of about 160,000 feet each, from Port Hope to Wilson and Oak Orchard, , at the rate of $ per 1,000. Three lumber barges are being built at Lud- ington, each 168 feet long, 36 feet beam on deck and 8| feet deep in centre. They are to be tow- ed by a steam barge and will carry 600,000 feet of lumber. Fourteen lots of hop-poles, sufficient to make many car loads, have been deposited along the railway track east of the Trenton
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