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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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argely thatthe amount of lumber handled this year will not exceed 200,000,000 ft. Theprincipal points of distribution for white pine are New York City, Long Island,Boston, New England, Newport, Fall River, Nantucket, Hudson River towns, WestIndies, South America, Africa, Azores, and Australia. The shipments of spruceare confined mostly to Greater New York, Long Island and Hartford. Tonawanda, unlike Albany, is a market in which all the lumber handled comesfrom outside the State —- from the great pineries of the Northwestern States andOntario. Still, some mention of it seems pertinent to this history on account ofthe immense lumber business carried on there. Next to Chicago and New YorkCity it is the greatest lumber market in the United States or Canada. The entirestock received at this port is reshipped by rail or canal to other places, wherein itdiffers from Chicago and Greater New York, the latter places consuming a largeproportion of their lumber receipts within their own limits.
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F. A. VAN SANT, PHOTO. TERMINUS OF WATER SLIDE. LOGS FALLING INTO THE AUSABLE RIVER. FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 251 The business at Tonawanda commenced in 1857. The first cargo of lumberwas shipped then from Canada by Brunson & Co. In 1865 it had become animportant point in the general lumber business of the country, and its tradeincreased steadily until 1890, when it attained its maximum volume. In thelatter year the receipts of lumber from the Great Lakes at this port amounted to718,650,900 ft., to which may be added 13,039,600 lath and 52,232,300 shingles.Their combined values — lumber, lath and shingles — indicate a business that yearof over $16,000,000. The number of persons employed — yardmen, planing millhands, stevedores, and office men — is estimated at over 3,000, their annual wagesexceeding in the aggregate $1,500,000. But the shipments have declined materiallywithin the last ten years, the receipts in 1900 being reported at 396,429,483 ft. Thisdecrease i

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