File:Canadian forest industries January-June 1914 (1914) (14784702922) (George Tennant's plant at Bracebridge, Ontario).jpg

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Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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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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years more he operated the mill with equal success, be-fore making any further change. Then there came a time when theBracebridge Furniture Company went into liquidation and offeredtheir plant for sale. Mr. Tennant felt that he could make a successof this business also, and he bought the plant and moved his saw-mill over close to it. This he did in order to save drawing the lumbera distance of about one mile to the railway. Each year, since moving to the new site, Mr. Tennant has cutfrom one and one-quarter to two million feet and all of this he hasalways sold in block to the R. Laidlaw Lumber Company, Toronto,who have purchased his stock for the last twelve years. Mr. R. A. Oughtred, for several years in the lumber business atMarbleton, P.Q., has opened offices in the Premier Building, Sher-brooke, P.Q., making a specialty of spruce and hemlock timber, hard-wood, pine and pulpwood. Mr. F. W. Johnson, who was formerlywith the Dudswell Lumber Company, is in charge of the office staff.
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CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 39 Timber Production on Dominion Lands Department of Interior Report Gives Interesting Statistics of Output and Salesof Grown Timber in the Western Canadian Provinces The annual report of the Department of the Interior for the fis-cal year ending March 31st, 1913, contains reports of the Crowntimber agencies at Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Prince Albert,New Westminster, Kamloops and in the Yukon. The timber revenueof the Department for the year amounted to $434,196.60 and was madeup as follows:—Bonus, $33,272.93; rental, $73,126.90; royalty, $154,-859.12; permit fees, dues, etc., $154,487.73; seizures and fines, $18,-449.92. The revenue derived from timber and grazing lands received atthe Crown Timber Agencies, together with the ruling price of lumber,the number of mills operated on berths held under license, and thenumber of portable sawmills in operation, may be summarized asfollows:— tl^f No. of mills No. ofTotal Lumber °Perating portable Revenu

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