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Title: Canadian forest industries 1886-1888
Identifier: canadianforest188688donm (find matches)
Year: 1888 (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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PUBLISHED > SEMI-MONTHLY, f The only eu/spaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada 1 SCB.SCKI1TION ( 82.00 PER /..MM VOL. 6. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., APRIL 15, 1886. ISO. 8. THE OUTLOOK FOB VESSELS. The Kingston, Ont., Whig of a recent date gays:— There is considerable difference of opinion in regard to the opening of navigation and the marine trade. Some vessel men do not think the outlook is all bright, or that business will increase as the season advances. There are othei s who say that the vessels will be kept moderately busy, that there will be considerable freight to handle, and that some thing like living rates will be paid. Already in Ameri- can ports the indications are favorable, and charters at Chicago are higher than they have been at this date in three years. " I know for a fact," sai l a vessel owner, " that Dunham's fleet have been chartered, some to go to Georgian Bay and some to go to Buffalo. The rate to Buffalo is 5J cents per bushel on wheat, a figure higher than has been paid in very long time. I am also told that higher figures have been obtained by other vessels. A few days ago I read that charters to Oswego at 5£ cents per bushel was refused. That was higher than the rate paid during the whole of last year. Another thing I know, that more vessels have changed hands in Chicago and Detroit during the past three weeks than have changed in as many years previously." The ore trade promises well. More furnaces are going in the States now than heretofore, and of course the best Canadian ore will be in demand. Considerable of the article will be shipped from Kingston. Vessels that have received only 70 cents per ton for carrying ore from Escanaba to Ohio ports have been chartered this year at $1.10 per ton. There will also be a good deal of phosphate handled here. Some of it will be carried across the lake, while considerable will go to Montreal en route to Europe. Of lumber the sales have eclipsed those of many previous years. More lumber will be sent from Ottawa to Oswego by the Rideau Canal than ever before. Then there will be a good business in pot-tB and ties. As far as square timber is concerned, much of that which caine from upper lake ports will be carried by steam barges and consorts. Sailing vessels are not now given much of this freight." "The steam barges can handle it cheaper than we can, said a well-known captain. " Ten years ago a timber dealer would charter 100.000 cubic feet for a schooner, which would keep her busy the whole of the season ; but now they can set that quantity handled atone trip by the barges and their consorts, and get the stuff to market early in the year." A vessel-owner has char- tered bis craft from Tol-do to Kingston for four loads of timber at 850 per M cubic feet. This a remarkable low rate. "I imagine,"said captain Booth, who was seen after the others had spoken, " that the marine business will be quick after navigation opens." The longshoremen of Oswego have fixed the following sechndle of rates for handling car- goes : All vessels and barges of 300,000 feet capacity and over, 25 cents per thousand for the entire season ; all barges and vessels under 300 000 feet capacity, 20 cents per thousand until August the first; after August 1st, 25 cents per thousand ; shingles, four cents per thousand ; lath, five cents per thousand ; tim- ber, board measure, 35 cents per thousand ; hop poles, $3 per thousand ; heading, 15 cents per thousand ; hardwood 30 cents per thousand ; posts, 30 cents per cord ; stave bolts, 35 cents per cord ; blocks, 30 cents per cord; cedar ties, 1J cents apiece; all other ties 2 cents apiece; telegraph poles five cents each. Cap- tains here, who have examined the list, say that the rates are such that they cannot pay, and they advise that in handling timber, etc , the contracts be made f.o.b. in and out, thus letting capital and labor fight the thing out. Mr. Davis' shipyard is a busy one. The steam barge Freemason has been remodelled as to upper works ; two steam yachts are being finished, to be ready for service in May. One of them is for Mr. Miller's use at Peterborough. A large sail boat has been built for Dr. Clarke The yacht Laura has been lengthened and in part remodelled. The str. Rideau Belle has been lengthened 10 feet, giving room for an addition of four state rooms and a ladies' cabin. A compound engine, from a Detroit model, being manufac- tured for her by McEwen & Son. of Kingston, will greatly increase her speed, and make her more popular than ever. She will run to Smith's Falls on the Rideau, connecting with the steamer Olive for Ottawa and Montreal, thus making a through line on a most picturesque route. Captain Noonan. of the Rideau Belle, will make it very pleasant for passengers and tourists. He will be assisted by Captain Fleming, formerly of the steamer Gypsy. At Breck & Booth's wharf considerable re- pairs have been made to the schooner F.J. ( King. She has been altered from a two-masted to a three-masted vessel. New decks have J been added, and such other improvements made j as will make her a first class vessel. The cost has been about $3,000. The schooner Jessie H. Breck has also been overhauled and repaired and will come out with a new suit of canvass. Her old sails were destroyed by the fire in Lewis' chandlery store. Captains of the vessels are : King, Capt. Griffin ; J. H. Breck, Capt. E. A Booth, jr. The schooner Breck will clear as soon as the ice disappears, for Oswepo, where she will load coal for Hamilton, bring- ing back a cargo of timber. Extensive repairs have been made to the schooner W. R. Taylor. She lias new dpcks, deck frames and other needed requirementR. j About three thousand dollars have been ex- 1 pended upon her, The schooners White Oak and Herbert Dudley have also undergone need- ed repairs. The expenditure in fitting up the steam barge Tecumseh and her consorts, the M. C Cameron and Cavalier, will reach over $6 000 The work has been under the supervision of Capt. Theo. Allen The officers of the crafts are:—Tecumseh, Capt. Manson ; M. C. Cam- eron, Capt. J. Miller ; Cavalier, Capt. Ander- son. The captains of the other vessels in port are : Schooner Annandale, Capt. Patterson ; schoon- er Folger, Capt. Dandy; schooner Grantham. Capt Simmons ; schooner Oliver Mowat, Capt J. Saunders ; schooner Herbert Dudley, Capt. J. Parsons ; schooner White Oak, Capt. Joseph Dix; schooner W. R. Taylor, Capt. James Dix. Capt. R Coutts, of Bowmanville, haR been engas^d to command the schooner Acadia Capt. Wellbanks, who was in command last year, has opened a lumber and coal yard at South Bay. A Montrealer will ship over 1,500 ton3 of iron to the west. The iron will be brought to Kingston on barges and transhipped for its destination into vessels. A REMARKABLE LUMBER RAFT. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:—The only raft of lumber that ever ran from the mouth of the Wisconsin river through to New Orleans w as started iu June, 1867. There was 1,100,000 feet in the raft. It required over two months to complete the trip, and cost the owners over $1 500 aside from the cost of pilots which was nearly $500. There was a change of pilots three times— one running from Wisconsin to St. Louis, one from St. Louis to Vicksburg, and one from there to New Orleans There was a crew of thirty men upon the raft, and they slept and took their meals on the fleet. Thousands of neopta viewed the raft after it had passed Vicksburg, for the people that far south had never teen a raft of such mammoth proportions, and long before it reach- ed the Crescent City it was known as *' the floating city." At New Orleans several tugs with city officials aboard and many prominent citizens came out to meet the fleet. A peculiar fact about this raft was that, after it was taken out on the bank at New Orleans, there was a Budden sharp advance in lumber figures at St Louis, and the owners concluding that they could make more money out of it here than at New Orleans, had it brought back on barges and cars at a greater loss than it was sent dow n for. PECULIAR LUMBER SHIPMENT. A Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, lumber- man is engaging in a novel enterprise. He proposes to take about 3,000.000 superficial feet of piles, logs, spars hardwood timber and boards to New York in the form of an immense raft. The dimensions are : Length, 410 feet; width, 55 feet; depth, 35 feet; and it will draw 21 feet of water. It is being built upon a well constructed cradle which will be launch ed with the raft and removed from it in the water, leaving the raft with the chains and binders to support itself. It is torpedo shaped at the bow and stern, and a cross section amid- ships will be in the form of an elipse. It will, when completed, weigh 8,0r0 tons The weight is so distributed over the four sets of launch- ways as to exert a pressure of eighty pounds to the square inch, which is about two-thirds the pressure allowable on ordinary launchwayg. When completed the cost will be about £20,- 000. It is proposed to tow the raft to New York by an ocean tramp " or by two tugs M soon as lauched, which is expected to be mid- summer. There have been occasional lots of spruce piles fastened together and towed to Boston or New York but they have been very small compared with the proposed raft and inquiry among Boston dealers fails to reveal that any shipment approaching anywhere near the size of the one psoposed was ever before known.—Ex. The Michigan vessel men are endeavoring to form a combination for the purpose of delay- ing the shipping of lumber until what they re- gard as a remunerative price for freight shall be offered. *' WORTHLESS " LUMBER. Furniture makers are to-day using lumber which was called worthless ten years ago. Whitewood or poplar is used in immense quan- tities. The growing scarcity of our natural supply of lumber leads manufacturers to ex- periment with so-called " worthless " varieties. Cypress is working into favor for architectural finish, and we would not be surprised if eomt enterprising manufacturer should com out with a most desirable piece of furniture, possessing a delicate, finely marked grain, and yet consisting of nothing but un- pretentious cypress. Hard pine makes a nice looking job when finished in good shape, but has the serious objection of being full of pitch_ Cypress has much the same appearance as hard pine, but the pitch is happdy absent The wood commonly known as "gum " has been successfully utilized. It being worked into a great many forms, despite its well known warping qualities, which are represented as being so great that the lumber " will not stay in the same county two successive nights." We are informed that picture frames have been successfully made of giiinwood, and rumour adds that the very qualities that have hitherto condemned it have been utilized in the manu- facture of 6elf-rocking cradles. — Rutldmg. 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