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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY The only ewspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada t SUBSCRIPTION (S2.00 PER ANNUM VOL. 6. PETERBOROUGH, ONT., MAY 1, 1886. ISO. 9. A shobt line of railway from Broad street' Ottawa, to the Chaudiere lumber yards, is to be constructed at once by the Canada Atlantic â¢Railway Company. It is said that the Ontario Lumber Company have sold their last year's stock, about 6,000,000 feet, cut at G. W, Taylor & Co.'s mill, for $13 a thousand. The schooner Jessie Drummond, loaded with lumber, and bound from Toronto, Ont., to Oswego, New York, was caught in the storm of April 6th, and lost 50,000 feet of her cargo. Geobge M. Beown and S. S. Wilhelm are said to have purchased 320 acres of pine land in town 18-5 west Michigan, estimated to cut 8,000,000 feet of logs. Consideration $35,000. The schooner Lynx, of St. John, N, B., fo New York, lumber laden, was wrecked off Milk island, Mass., April 8th. The crew was saved. The vessel and cargo were partly in- sured. It ig reported that Judd & Goddard, of East Saginaw, Mich., have sold to the Eddys and Averys of Bay City, 2,000 acres of pine land on Tequamenon river, upper Michigan, estimated to cut 30,000,000 feet of logs, for $76,000. The Berlin Mills Lumber Company, at Ber- lin Mills, Me., will save the sawdust at their mills the coming season, for use in the pulp furnaces of the Glenn Manufacturing Company and the Forest Fibre Company. That is one way of working sawdust into paper. for an eastern paper mill. Eastern paper man- ufacturers would do well to turn their attention in this direction, where their are immense for- ests of soft woods suitable for their purposes.â Algoma Pioneer. Thomas McCobmack, of Deep Eiver, lost a valuable team of horses in Deep river, on April 14th. They were drawing in Masson's shanty, and one of the concern teams broke through the ice. Mr. McCormack's team was near then and was going to the assistance of the other team when he broke through. The team was worth $300. An employee in Walker's saw mill, Calgary N. W. T., named John Monahan, was caught by a belt and hurled directly on one of the saws. His left arm was terribly lacerated, and the saw penetrated the left breast almost through the ribs. The arm was amputated above the elbow and he may recover. The Eastern Lumber Company has been incorporated by Jacob Reidler, F. Fer- guson and Francis Beidler, all of \icago, and connected with the South Branch umber Co. The object of the new company is arry on a lumber business at the East with ⢠ard and headquarters at Tonawanda, N. Y. Capital stock, $100,000. takes its water from an area of 200,000 square miles, and its total length is 2,044. For 1,000 miles it flows through a country very little known ; an expedition under the direction of Lieutenant Schwatka set out from San Fran- cisco in 1883, and thus much valuable infor- mation about the geography of the country through which the Yukon flows has been obtained. The severity of the extreme north latitude in many parts of Alaska, as in British Columbia, is greatly modified by the warm ocean currents coming from the China Sea. The Thorncliff correspondent of the Pembroke Observer says :âThere has been a considerable amount of square timber taken out in this dis- trict during the past winter, and it may not be uninteresting to your readers to give them the following statement received from an afficial source: Cubic ft. Fraser & Sereny, Chelmsford 125,000 South River 250,000 Wm. Allen, " 100,000 David Moore, Sturgeon River 500,000 Barnet & Mackie, «â 500,000 R. H. Klock, Veuve River 200,000 Timmins & Gorman, Wahnapitai 175,000 Mc Arthur Bros., " 200,000 HnghCoburn, Sudbury .100,000 visitors to Scotland from nearly all parts of the world, and, doubtless, a large number of our countrymen will take advantage of this oppor- tunity of visiting a country abounding in romantic scenery and full of historic associations. The exhibition grounds, which belong to the municipality, are in the centre of the city and extend over an area of twenty-nine acres. The buildings cover about eight acres and are divid ed into large courts illuminated by electric light. The length of the central corridor alone is 750 feet. In consequence of the great de- mand for space the exhibition authorities had to greatly increase the area for allotment. Four principal divisions have been made in the ar- rangement of the exhibits, namely, the General, the Fine Art, Artizan and Women's Industries, The new dock and flour warehouse, at West Superior, opposite Duluth, will have a total length of 1,800 feet. Timber will be sunk 18 feet under water, dredging for that purpose to begin as soon as the ice goes out. The Manitoba railroad is behind the enterprise. Me. J. Whiteside, in addition to the 700,000 taken out for the Muskoka Mill & Lumber Co., reported a few weeks ago, has also taken out for himself, in Chaffey township, 1.000 000 feet which he has arranged to have manufactured at Gravenhurst. A man named George Southerland was recently engaged at Noxon Bros', establishment, Ingersoll, in operating a circular saw, when the piece of wood which he was sawing was thrown from the saw and struck him upon the face with guch fearful violence as to cleave it open from forehead to chin. Mb. Isaac Scott is taking out a second cargo, 200 cords, of poplar, at Point Aux Pin One of the schooners engaged in the lumber trade of the lakes is the Harriet Ross, an old craft that was in " Perry's victory " naval en- gagement on Lake Erie. She is now in dry dock, Chicago, undergoing repairs. It is claim- ed that shot have been dug out of some of the old timbers of the vessel, and this is adduced as evidence that she was really in the famous fight of 1813. Feom recent observations, Captain Pillsbury finds that the strength of current of the Gulf Stream is invariably on the Florida, instead of the Bahama, side of the stream. He has found the temperature of the stream to range from 42 to 81 degrees. The greatest velocity of the stream at the surface is about four and a half knots, but the fluctuations are frequent and great. ____________>_«. The Belleville Ontario of a recent date says : Mr. James Buck has been rafting timber here for the Quebec market. A large gang of men are employed getting the timber in shape for the rafts. Two train loads have already arriv- ed. The timber is loaded along the line at Hastings, Sterling, Hoard's and Birdsall. The load this time came from Hoard's station. One tram load a day will be brought in for a couple of weeks. ________________ The Yukon, the great river of Alaska, stands seventh among the rivers of the world. It 2150,000 These are about the figures they will amount to in Quebec. Besides this amount of square timber there was taken on about 260,000 saw All the saw logs excepting Klock's will be" carried over Mr. J. R. Booth's railroad. Besides this about 50,000 saw logs go to Bay City, Mich , belonging to the Emery Lumber- iug Co. ______________ EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Visitors to Scotland this year will find an additional attraction in the International Ex hibition, which will shortly be opened in Edin- burgh, the ancient and historic capital of the country. While the exhibition is open to the products and industries of all nations, and of these there will be a large display, the most prominent feature will naturally be illustrations of the industrial, scientific and artistic pursuits which occupy the time and energies of the Scottish people. Every industry throughout the length and breadth of the country will be adequately represented, and there will be many exhibits illustrative of the social life and habits of Scotsmen in their own homes. The exhibi- tion has the patronage as well as the active sup- port of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and selections from the treasures in the royal palaces will be included in the exhibition. Special arrangements are being made with various tourist agencies, for the cheap conveyance of IMPORTANT DECISION. The Court of Appeal delivered judgment on April 20th in the case of the Queen v. The St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company, dis- missing the defendants' appeal from the judg ment of Chancellor Boyd. The action is one brought by the Queen on the information of the Attorney-General of the Province of Ont- ario against the St. Catharines Milling and Lumbpr Company to have it declared that the Province of Ontario is entitled to 2,000,000 feet of pine timber cut by the defendants on pro- perty situate in the district of Algoma south of Wabiroon lake and between Lake Eagle and Lake Superior, and for an injunction to restrain the defendants from trespassing on that proper- ty. The company claim title to the timber, setting up leave and license from the Dominion Government. They deny title in the Province, and contend that the land in question was for- merly the property of the Indians, and was by them ceded to the Dominion in consideration of large payments of money to the tribes, and that the Indian title passed to the Dominion by purchase as well as by inherent right. Chancellor Boyd heard the case in the first instance, and found in favor of the Province, and the defendants appealed to the Court of Appeal. The four judges are now unanimous in dismissing the appeal maintaining the right of the Province to the property in question. Messrs. McCarthy, Q. C, A. R Creelman and W. Creelman appeared for the Company, and the Attorney-General of Ontario and Mr. Wal- ter Cassels, Q. C, for the Province. The Canadian patent office record for March announces the issuance of the f ollowing patent of interest to lumbermen : No. 23,301. to Geo A. Haggart, Millbrook, Mich., for a drag saw No 23,302, to T. W. Smirle, Norwood and James Chapman. Rockland, Ont., for a saw swage; No. 28,465, to T. S. Disston, Philadel- phia, Pa., for a shingle planing machine ; No 23,473, to S. P. Dresser, Pleasant Mount, Me., for a wood sawing machine.

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