. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. Mississippi River lumbermen, while in Eau Claire, Wis., recently, for the purpose of con- tracting for logs, offered from $ to $ a thousand for them. At a recent date the stock of American lum- ber at Melbourne was quite low, especially of ceiling, shelving, and clear pine, the latter being lower than for many years past. The use of sawdust in mortar is recommended as superior to hair for the prevention of cracking and subseqent peel
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. Mississippi River lumbermen, while in Eau Claire, Wis., recently, for the purpose of con- tracting for logs, offered from $ to $ a thousand for them. At a recent date the stock of American lum- ber at Melbourne was quite low, especially of ceiling, shelving, and clear pine, the latter being lower than for many years past. The use of sawdust in mortar is recommended as superior to hair for the prevention of cracking and subseqent peeling off a rough casting under the action of storms and frost. The assorting crews at the Dells dam, Eau Claire, are at work again and turning out a con- stant stream of logs, which go into the Beef slough works. The amount rafted at the works to date will reach 355,000,000 feet. The Chicago & Western Indiana railway is expending $500,000 in building lumber docks at South Chicago, and the demand, it is said, far exceeds the proposed supply, which represents 19,000 feet of dock frontage. The grounds of the C. N. Nelson Lumber Co.'s mill at Cloquet are so conveniently arrang- ed with elevated platforms, &c., that the entire product of the mills, over 200,000 feet per day is handled with two horses, on lumber buggies Mb. Forseman, of Williamsport, Pa., has lately closed a trade with a syndicate of Still water lumbermen, for a tract of land containing from sixty to seventy million feet stumpage, on Moose River, at five dollars per thousand, boom scale. A German paper says that if Americans are to supply Europe with tanned leather they must be more sparing of the hemlock in their forests. The rapid consumption of American timber is attracting much attention among European economists. The Lake Superior News says the lumbermen are busy fitting out their camps for the winter campaign on the logs. One firm alone is expect ing to put in 25,000,000 feet of logs, another firm 16,000
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