. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1897 THE NEWS. —Gilmour & Company's new mill at Canoe Lake, Ont., has closed down for the season. —Jacob Lawrence & Son, lumber merchants, of Sarnia, Ont., have opened a lumber yard at Bothwell. —John McCormack, of Ottawa, is fitting- up a small saw mill in Low township for the Asbestos Mining- Co. —Thomas McCamus has returned to his home at Bob- caygeon, Ont., from Lake Temiscamingue, where he has erected a saw and shingle mill. —It is stated th
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January, 1897 THE NEWS. —Gilmour & Company's new mill at Canoe Lake, Ont., has closed down for the season. —Jacob Lawrence & Son, lumber merchants, of Sarnia, Ont., have opened a lumber yard at Bothwell. —John McCormack, of Ottawa, is fitting- up a small saw mill in Low township for the Asbestos Mining- Co. —Thomas McCamus has returned to his home at Bob- caygeon, Ont., from Lake Temiscamingue, where he has erected a saw and shingle mill. —It is stated that the Emery Lumber Company are pulling down their saw mill in Michigan and intend remov- ing to Byng Inlet, where in future all their logs will be manufactured. —George Merritt, of Chatham, and J. H. Hamill, of Toronto, have purchased an extensive timber limit in Georgia, in the United States, and will conduct lumber operations there on a large scale. —Charles Stewart has purchased W. L. Herriman & Son's mill at Honora, Ont., and is fitting it up for work this winter. Mr. Stewart is a practical mill man, and will certainly meet with success. —The Rathbun Company are said to own two hundred million feet of hemlock, as well as a large quantity of cedar, in the townships of Grimsthorpe and Anglesea, North Hastings. At the present rate of cutting the timber will last sixteen years. —A gift was recently made by Mr. E. Le Roi Nellis, of St. John, N. B., to Major Wm. McKinley, president-elect of the United States, of a large rocking chair weighing 175 pounds. It was made of Canadian white ash, and is said to have been much admired. —William Robinson, lumber valuator, of Bobcaygeon, Ont., has lately returned from the Spanish river, where he spent six weeks estimating the quantity of standing timber on the different berths recently sold by the Ontario government. —The Crown Lands Department of Ontario have sent a corps of rangers to examine into the value and
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