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Title: Canadian forest industries 1884
Identifier: canadianforest1884donm (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 41 them six inches, and that, too, without any cultivation whatever. A clump of nearly 50 of them which made an open kind of shade at first, is now in summer time a thick grove, though which the sun can scarcely penetrate. At a rough guess, we should say that in ten years, with cultivation, the trees might be large enough to sell for hoop poles, while it might take fifteen more for them to be ready for railroad ties. A few acres might be set out each year for as long a period as the person ex- perimenting wished to try it. Acorns can be found almost anywhere through southeastern Minnesota, but there are, perhaps, as fine large oaks in the vicinity of Albert Lea as any place, where one could procure plenty of seed.—Min- neapolis Tribune. EVERYTHING AT SECOND-HAND. " This business is fifty years old," said a New York dealer in second-hand material. "We occupy nearly 40 city lots. They are covered with second-hand building material. We can supply brick for interior walls, or granite columns for ornamental high stoops or porticos. It is already for use. and it is of known quality. We have thousands of feet of timber and lumber of various kinds. Every kind of lum- ber used in building a house can be found here, joists studding, rafters, and roof boards. The roof itself can be had too. Tin deteriorates some, but slates do not so much. We can supply a tin roof that is as good as it was the day it was laid. We have several cords of slates. Our lumber is better than new. It is thoroughly seasoned. We supply the lumber for about all the swell mansions. Every piece of timber in Vanderbilt's mansion came from this yard. When men put thousands of dollars into frescoes they want to be certain there will be no shrinking in the timber of then houseB-" " You do not confine your attention to dwell- ings, do you ?" " Your question reminds rne of a man from :
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neighboring village who came hen:. Ht it. j he guessed he had got an order that it would puzzle us to filL He wanted a second-hand pulpit. He wa* astonished when I showed him a complete outfit. We had stained glass win- i dows. crosses, alters, candlesticks, rails, mouxn- ; ing benches, a sprinkling bow) and a baptistry. . I showed him a full assortment of pews for the body of the church. Then I offered him a second-hand steeple with a bell complete, and all set up. He bought a pulpit and paid for it I in silence. He was so astonished be couldn't talk. We have everything neccessary to fit out 1 either a mansion on 5th avenue or a shanty for J a squatter sovereign ; we just sold a pair of Italian marble mantels that probably cost 8500 each when new. They are as good now a> then. You can almost see through them they so clear, and the carving u exquisite. Then we have mantels in various kinds of colored marble, and two in Mexican onyx that are beautiful. Booth's Theater is now making ite way here piecemeal. Here is a desk that was made in the time of Queeu Elizabeth." " How much of a business is it V " Ours is not the only yard. Last year we sold 835,000 worth of fire wood from the waste, and the total sales amounted to a little more than 8250,000. We used to give the kindling wood away. Xow it keeps a good many teams going especially in the winter. We have 317 men on the pay roll. Their pay M high. It takes as great skill to take fine work out of a house as to put it in," New York Sun. A Swedish Match Factory. At Jonkoping, Sweden, is the old- est and largest match factory in the world. It was established 100 years ago, and there are now to be seen specimens of the matches used at the beginning of the present century, consisting of big fagots of wood furnished with a handle and a tip to dip in a bath of sulphur. The wood from which the present kind of matches is made is taken from the adjacent forests, which are divided into fifty sections. Every year one section is cut and then replanted with young trees. The trees are hewed iuto planks in the forest and cut into slivers in the factory. The boxes are made of the outside of the trees. The factories are on the banks of the lakes which are con- nected with one another by wide canals. Millions of matches are turned out each day. Some idea of where they all go to may be obtain- ed from the statement that there are at least 2S0,000,000 of matches burned each day in the United States, or an average of five matches for each person EVATING AND CONVEYING MACHINERY. E. —Trimmer table, for cutting off imperfect ends to requisite length. F. —Carriage for edged boards when ready for trimmer. H.— Rollers for receiving boards from trimmer, ;,—Lateral chains for conveying boards to car K. —Elevated track for board car. L.—Where barrel stave and lath lengths are selected and taken from slab-conveyer. M.— Refuse burner. N,—Counter dust conveyer from circular saw, discharging sawdust into main conveyer. O.—Main sawdust conveyer, running to boilers. P.—Receptable for refuse, bark, &c. p,—Appliances for loadlng^ogs from water on cars Christmas in England has inter- fered more with the dock deliveries than it did last year, for there was a smaller quantity by 278 standards of sawn and planed wood, and more than 600 loads short of hewn timber last week, as compared with Christ mas week of 1SS2. Whether bu;i ness was less brisk, or its followeis a litttle more inclined to jolity, it is hard to say. But if the arrears sre made up next week, or the week after, we shall be inclined to ascribe it to the latter cause, and that their holiday being over men have return ed to their avocations with renewed energy and a determination to make up by close application to business the time they have lost. Subscribe at once for the Canada LdDBKRMAJf,

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