. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. Rodolphe Tourville. President Tourville Lumber Mills Company. Rodolphe Tourville, president ; Nap. Gill, vice- president ; Edouard Ouellette, manager ; and Arthur Tourville, secretary-treasurer. The com- pany own large timber limits in the province, cutting much of the finest timber that is mar- keted. They have built three of the largest and most completely equipped saw mills, located respectively at Louiseville, Pierreville and Nicolet. These mills have num
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. Rodolphe Tourville. President Tourville Lumber Mills Company. Rodolphe Tourville, president ; Nap. Gill, vice- president ; Edouard Ouellette, manager ; and Arthur Tourville, secretary-treasurer. The com- pany own large timber limits in the province, cutting much of the finest timber that is mar- keted. They have built three of the largest and most completely equipped saw mills, located respectively at Louiseville, Pierreville and Nicolet. These mills have numerous gangs of saws, and all the best arrangements for the economical handling of logs and lumber, and have an enor-. success achieved. Portraits of Messrs. Rodolphe Tourville, president, and Arthur Tourville, secretary, and a view of the Louiseville mill, appear herewith. ST. MAURICE LUMBER COMPANY. Located at Three Rivers, Que., at the mouth of the St. Maurice river, which drains an area of 16,000 square miles of timber lands, are the large saw mills of Alex. Baptist, Warren Curtis, and the St. Maurice Lumber Company. The officers of the latter company are : Wm. Mc- H. R. McLELLAN. The lumber property acquired by Mr. H. R. McLellan is situated at St. Margaret's Bay, one hundred and sixty miles from Rimouski, on the St. Lawrence river. The mill is located at the mouth of the river, facing on a basin ot water which will hold eight million feet of logs. The basin, about one mile square, has twenty feet of water, and fifteen on the bar at low water. The river extends two hundred and fifty miles due north, and the surrounding country is densely crowded with spruce timber of Mr. Arthlk Tourville, Secretary-Treasurer Tourville Lumber Mills Company. mous annual capacity. About 175 men are employed in the Louiseville mill, 200 in that at Pierreville, and 60 in the Nicolet mill. The cut consists of good grades of white pine, spruce and hemlock lumber, which is exported to the United St
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