. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A STEAMER is being built at Oconto, Wis., for picking up logs along the shores of Green Bay. A large number of Americans arc visiting the Thunder Bay regions north of Lake Superior prospecting for timber and minerals. The Two Rivers, Wis., Lumber Company have a log scow with steam machinery for taking logs out of the water and loading them on the scow. The Chignecto, N. B., Post says :âIt is said that Mr. Alex. Gibson will pile some 15,000,000 feet of lumber at the St
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A STEAMER is being built at Oconto, Wis., for picking up logs along the shores of Green Bay. A large number of Americans arc visiting the Thunder Bay regions north of Lake Superior prospecting for timber and minerals. The Two Rivers, Wis., Lumber Company have a log scow with steam machinery for taking logs out of the water and loading them on the scow. The Chignecto, N. B., Post says :âIt is said that Mr. Alex. Gibson will pile some 15,000,000 feet of lumber at the Straight Shore, St. John, this season, to be held for higher prices. The Timber Trades Journal says a parcel of over 1,000 standards, per steamer, said to be the largest cargo of spruce yet shipped to Liver- pool, has been sold by a firm of brokers to an im- port house there. In the return of exports from the port of Trebizond, given in the report of Consul Biliotti for 1881, we find there were 8,898 cwts. of box- wood, valued at £2,660, sent to Great Britain ; and 272 cwts. walnutwood valued at £541. The uses of pine are many, and it is told that the needles of the Silesian forests are capable of conversion into what is termed forest wool, which, besides being efficacious in cases of rheu- matism, can be curled, felted and woven. The Northwestern Lumberman says the saw mill at Butternut, Wis., has been enlarged, 60 feet being built on the north end, making it 120 feet long, and a shingle and lath mill has been added. The capacity for next season is placed at 10,000,000 feet. The Brighton Ensign says that Mr. Chester Loomis of Newcombe Mills has completed a shipment of 47,000 feet of basswood, ash, and elm lumber to the Upper Canada Furniture Company, Bowmanville. He got $13 per M. delivered at the factory. The Stirling News-Argus, of July 28th, says : Immense numbers of logs have passed down the Trent within the past few weeks. The mouth of the river is now fairly choked
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