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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., JANUARY 1, 1882.

NO. 1.

THE QUEBEC TRADE.

The Quebec Times, December 6th, says :—
Whatever dulness may have been felt in Quebec
in other branches, our lumber merchants and
manufacturers have no reason to complain of
the results of the season’s business in their line.
Though the shipments on the whole this year
are less by about 100,000 tons than last year,
owing to low rates of freight, the net profits of
the season to the shippers will compare favor-
ably with those of an average good year, while
the luinbermen have reaped an exceptionally
good harvest. Throughout the season prices
have ruled high. In no article has a reduction
taken place, and in the staple of white pine,
both square and waney, values steadily ad-
vanced. Ashigh as thirty-seven cents has been
paid for first-class square timber, sixty to sixty-
five feet average, and forty cents for first-class
waney, twenty to twenty-one inches average.
The last sale made in this market was a lot of
Peter McLaren’s square white pine, containing
about 300,000 feet, at thirty-two cents for good
quality, fifty-seven and one-half feet average,
and twenty cents for common quality. This

the other side at the opening of navigation in
the spring, even should that demand be only a
moderate one, will sweep away all our wintered
stocks. The oak wintering will be about an
average of the last five years, but under the
average of the last ten years’ stocks, and is all
held in a few strong hands. In this line, there-
ore, we look for steady prices, more especially
as the production this winter will be moderate
and the season has not opened favorably for
lumbering operations. Of pine deals, the stock
wintering is about an average one, while the cost
of getting out logs this winter will be consider-
ably higher than usual. Thus prices will, no
doubt, rule higher next year. In spruce the
prospects are also better, owing to improved
demand. The last sale made was that of
Breakey’s deals, average mill cutting, 150,000
standard wintered, at $38 for Ists; $27, 2nds ;
$23, 3rds, and $19, 4ths—very favorable rates.
All those indications show that next year’s
business will be a prosperous one. Our Cana-
dian merchants and manufacturers have the
control of the markets in their own hands, All
that is required on the part of both is to refrain

lot was sold to the same firm that bought the | from showing any undue anxiety to push sales.

500,000 feet of Grant’s lately.

The profits of | If they do this they will command their own

the season, as we have said, though large, have | terms,

been greater on the side of the lumberman than
on that of the shipper, as a great deal of the
timber was not previously contracted for and

————_——
TEN YEARS AGO,
It is a favorite statement with many at the

changed hands here after the rise had made | present time that ten years ago the decadence
itself felt. Our Quebec shippers, as a rule, are | of the pine supply, in ten, or at most fifteen
not speculative holders, nor in’the slightest de- | years, was freely prophesied by those who were
gree infected with the American mania for | considered authorities on the subject, and the
cornering, Brought up in the old school, they | critics of to-day point with gleeful pride to the
stick fast to the old traditions. Always content | fact that, with facilities for manufacture doubled
with a fair profit, they are exceedingly cautious | if not trebled, and a consumption not then ima-

about making large losses.

That very absence | gined to be possible, the yearly production of

of the speculative element, therefore, while it | lumber is still not decreasing, and the supply
may prevent them from taking all the advantage | seems inexhaustible. That there is force in their
possible to be derived from a ‘‘ boom” in prices, | argument that the prophets of a decade since
is a very efficient safeguard against loss by un-| were short-sighted, none will deny, but their

due depression.

Thus it was that during the hilarity over an ability to point to what has been

terrible five years of agony, when many of our | loses much of its force when they neglect to take
most solvent institutions went to the wall, not | into account the changed conditions of the lum-
one leading Quebec shipper, though the capital | ber trade, and refuse in the light of past ex-
handled by them is larger, perhaps, than that | perience, to give due recognizance to what is

handled in any other line, showed signs of | known of the
And to-day the credit of those | the future.

tottering.
houses stands higher than it ever did. The in-
dications for next year are favorable to a con-

present, and just as positively of

Ten years ago the lumber supply of the
Northwestern forests was measured from a vast-

tinuance of the present favorable rates. Stocks ly changed standpoint from that at which in
of deals and timber on the other side are light, | the present it must be measured.

owing to the small shipments this fall, and these
small shipments were due to low rates,
the shipments equalled those of last season,

goods, Owing to light stocks on the other

Then the forests of the country were estimated

Had | upon the basis of the amount of timber which
this | would yield not less than twenty per cent, in
tarket would have been completely swept of | grades above common,

At that time govern-

side, | ment selections were neglected at government

the demand there is active and holders are not | prices of $1.25 to $2.50 per acre, which would

anxious to sell. Square pine timber will, in all
probability, hold its own next year,
ply will not be above the average, even includ-
ing timber stuck, and the immediate demand on

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not cut at least 5,000 feet to the acte, of trees

as the sup- | which would ayerage three logs to the thousand

feet of lumber, and no timber was worth cutting
which megsured Jess than sixteen to eighteen

inches in diameter at the butt. It was on the
basis of such large and excellent timber that the
estimate of a ten to fifteen years supply was
based. Ten years ago the present logging dis-
trict of Michigan was almost, if not wholly, un-
known, and did not, in but the slightest degree,
enter into the mind or calculation of him who
prophesied. At that time as little was known
of northern Wisconsin as of northern Michigan.
Ten years ago not a railroad penetrated into
what is now the great timber-producing section
of each of the states mentioned. Such a thing
as a logging railroad had never entered into the
calculation of a lumberman, and streams which
are now running out yearly the millions of feet
of log supply which feed the rapacious mills of
the Northwest, were looked upon as unavailable
creeks, the waters of which were by far too
scanty to warrant their use in log running,
Dams were an unthought of adjunct to log
running almost as much as at first was the sug-
gestion to lumber by railroad. Ten years ago
only the best trees were taken by the lumber-
man, and the majority of the pine on a lot was
left to its own destruction by fire and tornado.
Ten years ago such pine as entered into the
calculations of the statistician was considered
dear at $1.50 to $2 stumpage, and he was looked
upon as a crank of the first “‘ water” who con-
sidered such lands a good investment for a future
advance on those figures. Now let us see how
far wrong, from the only standpoint then avail-
able, were the prophets of a decade ago. How
much good pine is now standing in the territory
which was the subject of their calculation? In
all candour the reply must be, Not enough to
supply the mill capacity, which existed at that
time, with a single year of stock. From the
existing facilities for observation, the old |
prophets must be accredited with a remarkably
correct appreciation of the timber supply. It is
true that they failed to appreciate the fact that
the country was growing at a rate which not
even the shrewdest student of political economy
could have imagined, and that, in consequence,
an unknown and unexplored country would be
developed, thickly covered with pine forests.
In this they lacked judgment to as great an ex-
tent as do their present critics regarding the
developments which an age of scientific discus-
sion and inventive genius will bring forth during
the decade before us, ‘‘Hind sight” is far
more reliable in affording data upon which to
point out the mistakes of a past generation than
is foresight with regard to the future, The
mistake of those who made the calculations
which are criticised, was in lack of knowledge
of an unknown region whose resources were not
imagined, and as well in limiting the supply of
pine to that better quality which was at that
time alone of commercial value. But that
mistake can no longer be made, and those who

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argue from the short-sightedness of the past
that the prophets of the present are ag well.in

error, base their assertions upon a false premise,
The eye is no longer stretched into the vista of
an unknown and unexplored region. We no
longer underestimate the value of the smaller
and coarser timber. The explorer has gone in
and taken possession of the farthest foot of land
on which a pine tree can by any possibility be
found. The lumber statistician no longer limits
his calculation to the largest and most thrifty
timber, but sees a value and an appreciz
quantity in the smallest trees which point s
ward.

Without entering now into any argument
as to what the actual quantity of the st :
pine of the Northwest is, or is not, or how lon
it will last with present facilities and knowledge
of dams on small creeks, or cheap railroads
where water is’ not available, the Lumberma:
simply wishes to say a word in vindication, of
the judgment of those who prophesied ten years
ago, and to submit that, from the only stand-
point then available, their predictions have been
fairly realized.— Northwestern Lumberman.

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Australian Forests,

The Australian colonies are discovering the
importance of taking steps to preserve their
forests from further destruction, not only on
the ground that the timber should be protected,
but in order to prevent losses in the water
supply. Evils which attend the destruction of
trees are already felt in many provinces in an
increased dryness of climate, longer droughts,
and more numerous bush fires. During the 38
years ending in 1868 the average annual des-

| truction of the New Zealand forests was 23 per

cent., and in the five succeeding years 20 per
cent. Itis proposed in South Australia that
a block of 200,000 acres be reserved for systema-
tic tree-planting, and that in the first year $70,-
000 be expended on it, and in each of the 11
following years $52,500, a total expense of $650,-
000. After the first five years there would be,
it is estimated, a revenue from periodical
thinnings of $175,000, and in 21 years the colony
would possess 310 square miles of forest.

To Prevent Belts Slipping.

Experiments made in the United States
with a view to discover the best way of trans
mitting power by means of leather belts, have
led to the conclusion that the effectual way to
prevent the slipping of the belts is to cover the
pulleys with leather. From this it would
appear that leather on leather offers a certain
steadiness, and with the further advantage that
the belt does not fly off, and wears ont less
rapidly than when it runs on iron or wood. It
is stated that in a steam-mill with five run of
millstones, each set ground twenty-ser
bushels a day after the pulleys were co
with leather, being from three to four bushe
more each day than before,

THE

CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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HODGSON’S PATENT SAW-GRINDER.
PATENTED IN THE UNITED STATES MARCH 19TH,
1878, AND IN CANADA JUNE 8TH, 1878.

It is estimated that there are in the United
States and Canada about 42,000 saw mills,
running about 140,000 saws, and that to keep
these saws sharp requires the cutting away of
over 200 tons of tempered steel each year. How
to accomplish this Herculean task the most
rapidly, the most cheaply, with the least expen
diture of muscular effort, and with the least
damage to a saw, has long been a vital question
among the mill-owners of this continent.

The file, the burr gummer, the punch gum-
mer, the grindstone, and the emery wheel has
each had its turn. The file has been found too
expensive in itself, and too laborious in use, ex-
cept for merely pointing up the teeth. The
burr gummer has been found subject to the
same objections, with the additional one, that it
is very poorly adapted to any of the work to be
done except throating out the teeth of large
circular saws. The punch gummer has long
been condemned as liable to strain and weaken
any saw, and as entirely unfit to use on a circu-
Jar. The grindstone has had to stand aside on
account of the rapidity of its wear, and the
difficulty of keeping it in proper shape, to say
nothing of the discomfort in using it, leaving

THE EMBRY WHEEL

in undisputed possession of the point, for there
is no fact in the whole range of the economy of
mechanics better established than that a well
made and well mounted emery wheel will cut
away tempered saw plate more rapidly, more
cheaply, more easily, and with less damage to a
saw, than any other tool.

To do good work on any but the smallest
saws, the wheel must move to the saw, and not the
saw to the wheel, and it should have two mo-
tions, one allowing it to move in to the saw the
depth of the tooth, and the other allowing it to
move along the saw the length of the tooth. j

There have been several saw grinders com-
bining these two motions placed on the market,
but they have all been large and complicated
affairs, and so expensive as to put them entirely
out of the reach of any but the owners of the
larger establishments, so that the want of the
great body of the mill-owners of this continent
has been, up to the present time, a really good
practical Saw Grinder at a moderate price.

This waut is fully met by the machine repre-
sented in the engraving at the beginning of this
article. It is bolted, as seen at the right hand,
to a bench, similar to the small workbench,
only part of it being shown in the cut. The
saw, whether a long saw or circular, lies on the
bench in such a position that the flat side of the
wheel shall give the proper hook to the teeth.
The whole of the machine, except the piece
bolted to the bench, swings on a hinge or joint,
seen under the pulley ; this motion allowing the
emery wheel to work into the saw the depth of
the tooth, while the arbor is so long that it has
about three inches of end play in its bearings,
this motion allowing the emery wheel to work
along the length of the tooth,

The arbor may be belted from either above or
below, but that part of the belt running on to
the pulley must run vertically, or “ plumb,”
and as the pulley is fair over the hinge on which
the machine swings, the swing of it has no ten-
dency to throw the belt, even if it is swung
square out from the table, and the most rapid
movement that can be given to the arbor length

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WN escea,

ways will not throw the belt, which steadily
leads on to the crown of the pulley on the arbor,
while it traverses the driving pulley, which
should be about six inches wide, and perfectly
flat on the face. ‘The emery wheel is secured to
the arbor by a tight and a loose collar and nut,
in the usual manner, The arbor extends
through this nut some three inches to the left,
and on this is fitted a small pipe or sleeve,
somewhat like the pipe on a carriage axle, and
on one side of this pipe is cast the handle, seen
in the engraving. By means of this handle the
operator can place the wheel to the saw with
the greatest accuracy and with perfect ease,
Indeed, holding the handle so near the wheel,
without the intervention of any lever or counter-
weight, and without having to move any con-
siderable weight of material, he gets the feel of
what the wheel is doing better than with any
other Grinder, and no one offers him a better
chance to see his work,

The design of this grinder combines, with its
other excellencies, elegance and strength, and
every part of it is made in the most careful
manner. ‘The arbor is of steel, and runs in very
long chilled bearings. The pulley and collars
are turned both inside and out, so that the
arbor is in such perfect trim that it runs without
a tremble.

A large number of mill owners in Canada and
the United States are using this grinder with
great satisfaction, and there is no doubt that its
simplicity, its efficiency, and its cheapness will
soon bring it into universal use. It is manu-
factured in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in
Amherst, Nova Scotia, For further particulars
address the inventor and patentee, T. Hodgson,
Amherst, Nova Scotia,

_——————————
QUEBEC EXPORTS AND STOCKS.

The following is the annual circular of J. Bell
Forsyth & Co., dated Quebec, 15th December,
1881 :—

We have again the pleasure of publishing our
Annual Statements, which at this particular
period must prove of great interest to all engaged
in the Timber Trade of Canada.

The arrivals from sea of sailing vessels have
not equalled our expectations, while a steady
increase is perceptible in the number of deal
shipments by ocean steamers from this port as
well as from Montreal. The comparison with
last year being as follows, viz.:—

Sailing Vessels. Steamships.
643 .. 498,870 tons. 233 .. 383,818 tons.
895 .. 706,346 “* 261 .. 407,737 “

We also note that 459 sailing vessels, 380,186
tons (lumber laden) cleared at this port for sea
against 634 vessels, 555,451 tons, in 1880.

We had the satisfaction last year of congratu-
lating the manufacturers on the marked im-
provement in our trade and on the remunera-
tive prices then realized, and in our annual
circular we remarked :;—‘‘ The trade of this port
is in a sounder and more satisfactory state than
it has been for years.” The experience of the
past season, together with the further advance
in some woods, prove that our statements were
in every way justified, and a correct view of the
state of things then existing. We have again
the pleasure of reiterating our congratulatory
remarks, and are convinced that the trade has
never been in a more healthy or in a better
position than at the present time.

Wnuire Piner.—The market did not at first
open with that briskness and great demand that
was looked for, and a few rafts in market and

to arrive were purchased at moderate figures ;
but as the spring shipments were being complet-
ed it became evident that the stock on hand
was unusually small, and new timber was eager-
ly bought up, in some cases before the rafts had
left the Ottawa district.. A lull occurred in
August, and for a time little business was trans-
acted, but it was of short duration, and subse-
quently prices were paid for choice rafts such as
never before had been given. We may here
mention that in some instances 39 cents to 40
cents for waney board, and 35 cents to 37 cents
for square in the raft was paid, the purchasers
having of course to bear all loss from culls and
defective wood as well as the expense of putting
the timber in shipping order. It may be said
that such high prices'may bring about an over-
production, but our shippers and consumers in
Great Britain must bear in mind that the trade
is in few hands, the manufacturers being in most
cases men of very considerable means, who will
not dispose of their timber unless they obtain
good figures, and who find it more difficult
each year to procure choice wood. The greatest
care and attention was paid last winter in the
selection of timber, in some instances miles of
timber limits were traversed to hunt up good
and choice trees ; and after all a great falling off
in the percentage of first-class was noticeable in
rafts generally, though some few exceptionally
fine ones were placed on the market. The supply
this year has been under the average of past
years, though in excess of 1880, and it is esti-
mated that if the present winter is favorable for
manufacture, an increased production may be
looked for, should all reach market next season ;
this is certainly to be desired, seeing that the
present stock is so light, and scarcely sufficient
for spring requirements.

The local consumption has been fair all season,
and since the great conflagration which occurred
in June last, a further demand for building
timber of every description has arisen, a portion
of which the present stock must supply up to
next June or July.

Supply. Export. Stock.
Square.. 6,029,041 son § 4,526,102 Squ’re
1881) Waney.. 3,065,274 101,880 4 1’519'950 Wan'y
Square.. 4,244,285 § 6,197,318 Squ’re
18804 Winey. 2/935,500 11,552,560 ’797’34¢ Wan'y

Rep Pinz.—This year’s production has been
considerably over that of last year, the increase
being entirely in small and inferior wood, a
good deal of which is unfit for shipment and will
only suit local requirements. Large and choice
wood is becoming scarce on most limits, and has
been in good request all season. Of this des-
cription the quantity in stock is very limited.

Supply. Eaport. Stock.
| PR a 1,945,720 922,000 2,145,838
USRO) ciniasle) Jaeiies wise 1,056,167 1,438,200 1,372,572

Oak.—Notwithstanding that the quantity
measured to date is over the manufacture of
1879 and 1880 put together, this wood has main-
tained its price for choice parcels, though in-
ferior and common is diflicult of sale. The
scarcity of good wood and enhanced cost of pro-
duction forces manufacturers to hold their tim-
ber, unless something like our highest quotations
are realized. The estimated production of
good oak is light, and to date the weather has
been most unfavorable for the manufacturers,

Supply. Export. Stock,
USSU etapa sie'siseisiele eosin: 2,994,477 1,883,860 1,916,622
TREO Le seen eno ners 1,790,286 2,316,840 656,026

Exim.—The supply has been slightly over that
of last year, the shipment fair and the stock
wintering below the average. It is difficult to
procure good rock elm, the trees being scattered
and the prices asked for standing timber so
high, that unless full rates can be obtained the
production for this market must be greatly cur-
tailed.

Supply. Export. Stock.
1881- 1,027,670 797,160 499,912
TRO sjcine ereiniele spews 987,283 1,041,800 237,610

Asu.—Of this wood a good deal of small in-
ferior has come to market, and we warn manu-
facturers to get out nothing but good white ash.
Large and good wood is in request at our quota-

tions.

Supply. Export. Stock:
408,798 355,680 210,101
245,480 293,520 186,317

BrireH AND Marir.—The production has been
light, the export about an average one, and the
stock reduced. These woods are more easily
obtained than those already dealt with in these
remarks, and the supply for some years to come
must depend to a certain extent on the rates
offered,

Supply. Export. Stock.
151,774 293,880 65,423
594,314 558,840 176,693

Sraves.—Both pipe and puncheon have been
in great request, and towards the close of the
season unusually scarce. This branch of our
trade has greatly decreased during the past ten
years, and a large proportion of the business
has fallen into the hands of Americans, which
used to be transacted at this port. With the
high prices now ruling we hope for a revival in
this line of our commerce.

WBBL vee csccveetsn reese
880

Supply. Export. Stock.
418 480 226

Pipesicsss.cccvneesone
1881 { Puncheon Sas ae a
1880 PADG Lpin veaap sore 196 392 206
( Puncheon.... «s++ 488 921 271

Pine Deats.—Compared with 1880 the supply
has been about a million standard short, the
exports also show a diminutioh of nearly two
millions standard ; this latter has arisen from
the limited tonnage obtainable since September
The demand for deals up to July was not ac-
tive, but since that date a better feeling has
prevailed. The increasing consumption in the
United States will absorb a large quantity of
sawn lumber and thus diminish the future supply

of deals, - .
Supply. Export. Stock.

1881. ....0000 eee teense 4,252,285 3,876,187 1,708,597

IEG). VISE, ccc ten eee 5,320,000 5,823,263 1,626,158

Spruce Deats.—The short supply of 1881 was
caused by the lowness of the waters prevailing
until late in the season, which prevented logs
from reaching the mills. The export is some
200,000 standard less than it was in 1880, and
the stock wintering is about an average of the
last five years. Deals have commanded fair

prices throughout the season.
The American demand for lumber at high
figures continues.

Supply. - Stock.
1,590,487 3,097,342 810,028
++» 8,500,000 3,200,130 515,110

FREIGHTS opened about 24s. timber and
60s. deals to Liverpool, 25s. timber and 60s.
deals to London, 22s. timber and 60s. deals to
Clyde, closing at 24s. 6d. timber, 67s. 6d. deal
to Liverpool, 71s. deals to London, and 24s.
timber to Clyde.

Creosoting Cross-Ties.

Colonel A. Hanson, superintendent of the
Texas Central railroad, has had creosoting
works constructed at Houston, for treating
cross-ties, with a capacity of 760 pieces a day.
The reservoir tanks are three in number, ad
will contain 4,000 barrels of crude oil. Th:
cost of this oilis eleven cents, in Galveston.
The cost of each tie, when creosoted, is $1,10.
The tanks are constructed of brick and Port-
land cement. The timber is loaded upon low
tramway cars. These are drawn by machinery
and an endless chain into the reservoir cylinders,
which are then sealed, and the process is therein
completed, after which the cars are withdrawn.
In the yards of the company are immense
quantities of bridge timber and ties awaiting
treatment. One of the advantages of this
process is the fact that the common loblolly
pine, which is regarded of so little value, and
which exists in such immense quantities in
eastern Texas, and throughout many parishes
in Louisiana, is the most suitable wood for
creosoting, as it requires an open, porous
timber and rapid treatment.

A Lapy’s Exprrience.—Mrs. T. A. Gist,
No, 1204 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
writes : ‘‘ I had inflammatory rheumatism very
badly. In one foot and ankle it seemed to have
taken hold with the determination to stay some
time ; and the morning I obtained the St.
Jacobs Oil I could not put my foot down to
the floor, even for an instant. I used it that
evening for the first time, and the next morning
for the second time, and that afternoon put my
foot down for several minutes, On Sunday
following I could stand up and walk a few steps.
On Tuesday could walk about my room, and
went down stairs by holding on tothe banisters,
Now I can walk quite well, and there is very
little pain left. Just think! one bottle and a
half and I am almost free from pain. It is a

| wonderful medicine.

A CurRE ror Crovup,—Apply flannel saturat-
ed with Hagyard’s Yellow Oil and administer
the oil internally on a little sugar as directed
on the bottle. Yellow Oil cures rheumatism.
burns, scalds, chilblains, lameness, and all flesh
wounds, All dealers supply it, only 25 cents.

Sure Core ror a CovugH.—Tbe most reliable
remedy for a cough or a cold, asthma, shortness
of breath, sore throat, weak Jungs and all bron-
chial troubles, is Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam.
Price 25 cents,

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 3

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None genuine junless with a STAR on the head of rivets.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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FORESTRY IN CANADA.

The following paper by A. T. Drummond
appears in the proceedings of the Montreal
Horticultural Society :—

Perhaps no trade question has around it at
the present time so much interest as that of the
conservation of our forests with a view to the
continuance of the lumber industry. This in-
dustry has once more revived, and very large
demands are now being made on our timber
supplies. Public attention cannot, however, be
too strongly directed to the fact that these tim-
ber supplies are not unlimited. The drain
which has been going on for thirty years past on

the resources of our forests has been so vast and |,

so continued that the questions are now being
forced on us—for how long a time can these re-
sources be depended upon, and what efforts are
being made to provide for that supply being
continuous ?
present system of farming out the public lands,
the time is near at hand when the supply of
merchantable standing timber will not equal
the demands made upon it, and it is imperative
that at once means should be adopted to preserve
and recuperate these timber lands. Those who
are familiar with the localities—each year ex-
tending farther northward and westward—
where the lumbermen obtain their logs, cannot
be blind to the fact that the area in which the
pine may be expected to be found of merchant-
able size and in fair abundance, is not so exten-
sive but that another few years of working the
timber limits to the extent done in the past,
must result in a marked diminution in our ex-
ports of white pine. It is not with timber as
with other agricultural products. Reproduction
cannot take place in a year or a decade, It
must be recollected that not until the pine is
from seventy-five to one hundred years old is it
of good merchantable size for square timber,
and that thus at least three-quarters of a cen-
tury would be required to make these timber
limits what they were. And what has been the
experience in Maine and Michigan? The pine
forests of both these states were thought to be
inexhaustible, and gave employment to many
thousands of men. Bangor, on the Penobscot,
was one of the busiest spots in New Hngland—
so many mills lined the river banks, and so
many vessels frequented the port for lumber,
Now the scene is largely changed. The pine
lumber manufactured there has fallen from
102,000,000 feet in 1850 to 63,000,000 feet in
1866, and to 14,000,000 feet in 1877, whilst the
total production of pine, spruce and hemlock
boards was not in 1877 one half in amount what
it was in 1866. Again, in Michigan, the Sagi-
naw Valley is being rapidly depleted, and to
supplement the supply to its numerous mills,
whose capacity is 600,000,000 feet, logs have to
be brought from other large rivers long clistances
away. But most important of all is the fact
that the lumber journals of the Western States
admit that in the three States of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota—the main sources of
lumber supply in the West—there does not,
with the present demand, remain of standing
pine timber sufficient for ten years to come.

Even greater destruction has resulted from
forest fires, not only by reason of the immense
areas through which the fires sweep, but be-
cause both large and small trees are alile de-
stroyed. Another incidental but most impor-
tant result arises in the fact that after forest
fires, the first growth always consists of poplar,
birch and other trees, though whether the pine,
which is of slower growth, gradually in the
course of long years, asserts its position and
overshadowing these, in turn replaces them, is a
question which observation has not yet had time
to settle.

Tree planting has not yet impressed itself on
the people of Ontario and Quebee as an idea
necessary to carry out. Hitherto, the ambition
of most farmers appear to have been to clear
the land as soon as possible, and to be content
if enough of wood suitable for fuel and farm use
is left. Whilst lumber was cheap and the sup-
ply appeared almost inexhaustible, it would not
appear necessary to most land owners to provide
for the future. Besides, men are selfish, and
are disinclined to go to labor and expense in re-
gard to what does not promise immediate re-
sults, the advantage of which they will not
themselves reap, And yet if wo reyert to the

It is perfectly clear that under the’

condition of the Ontario Peninsula, as it was
fifty years ago, abounding in splendid walnut,
whitewood, pine and oak trees, nearly all of
which have been cut down long since, and when
we remember the greatly increased value which,
especially walnut, lumber now has, we cannot
help seeing of what immense benefit to the ris-
ing generation it would be had the trees, as cut
down, been at once replaced by young trees of
the same species. Already many of these young
trees would have been of fair marketable size.
The Maine Board of Agriculture in a memorial
presented to the State Legislature, very point-
edly refers to the duties of individuals on this
question. ‘‘ Men need to be taught,” says the
memorial, ‘‘ that we have no moral right to fol-
low blindly an instinct that leads only to present
personal advantage, regardless of widespread
future evils as a consequence ; that we are but
tenants of this earth, not owners in perpetuity ;
and that we have no right to injure the inherit-
ance of those who succeed us, hut rather a duty
to Jeave it better for our having occupied it the
allotted time. Men need to be taught to plant
trees and their ehildren to plant and love them.
Owners of good lands in Maine or elsewhere
will in the future learn that their bleak fields,
if judiciously planted with wood to the extent
of 40 per cent. of area, will produce on the re-
maining 60 per cent. more in all kinds of crops
than the whole now does or can be made to do
under any other possible course of treatment.
Lands well sheltered can and do produce winter
wheat in Maine as well as in New England or
on the new lands in the West.” In accordance
with this memorial, the State Legislature pro-
vided for exemption for twenty years from taxa-
tion of all cleared lands on which forest trees
had been successfully cultivated for three years,
and maintained in a thriving condition there-
after. Nearly all of the Northern and Western
United States have in this way statutes to en-
courage the planting and growing of timber
trees, and the effect of encouragement in this
respect has in the Western States been 10st
valuable.

Prof. Sargent, of Harvard University, tells
us that ‘‘as moderators of the extremes of heat
and cold, the benefits derived from extensive
forests are undoubted, and that our climate is
gradually changing through their destruction, is
apparent to the most casual observer. Our
springs are later; our summers are drier, and
every year becoming more so ; our autumns are
carried forward into winter, while our winter
climate is subject to far greater changes of tem-
perature than formerly. The total average of
snowfall is perhaps as great as ever, but it is
certainly less regular and covers the ground
for a shorter period than formerly, Twenty
years ago peaches were a profitable crop in
Massachusetts ; now we must depend upon New
Jersey and Delaware for our supply ; and our
apples and other orchard fruits now come from
beyond the limits of New England. The failure
of these and other crops in the older States is
generally ascribed to the exhaustion of the soil ;
but with greater reason it can be referred to the
destruction of the forests which sheltered us
from the cold winds of the north and west, and
which, keeping the soil under their shade cool in
summer and warm in winter, acted at once as
material barriers, and reservoirs of moisture.”

The influence of belts of trees on local climate
is, in fact, very marked. ‘They form obstrue-
tions to and ward off, on the one hand, the cold
winds from the north which would lower the
temperature and, on the other hand, the. parch-
ing winds which would unduly raise the tem-
perature and equally injure vegetation ; they
break the effects of storms, and in the winter
time cause the snow to be equally distributed
over the fields, forming thus a uniform protec-
tive covering to the ground; and if generally
distributed over the western prairies they will
promote the more equal distribution of the rain
fall, and will prevent the streams from being
dvied up, as they usually become after mid-
summer, Observing agriculturists have found
that fields protected by belts of trees yield crops
much more prolific than those not so sheltered.

Tn our timber regions the replanting of the
pines can be to some extent left to nature, but
there is every reason, since the timber limits
belong to the Government, and a large annual
revenue ia derived from them, why the Goyern-

ment should, especially in the lands which have
been burnt over by forest fires, institute a regu-
lar system of tree planting. There is all the
greater reason for this because of the fact that
after a forest fire, trees of different species from
those which were previously there, usually
spring up. ‘The expense would be comparative-
ly trifling, and certainly insignificant, when
placed beside the results which posterity would
derive from it. To individuals there may seem
little inducement to plant pineries which may
not be available to the fullest extent for towards
three-quarters of a century, but governments
can have no such feeling, considering that
what would be done by them would be for the

‘future benefit of the country and a source of

revenue in that future as well. What the gov-
ernments can and should also do is to, as far as
possible, by legislation and the insertion of
clauses in their leases of timber limits, prevent
the occurrence of forest fires and preserve the
younger trees from injury at the hands of the
lumbermen. The experience which we are
yearly realizing of gradually diminishing areas
of timber supply and the now nearly exhausted
condition of the United States pineries, make
this matter a subject of pressing national im-
portance which, if our legislators do not now
take up, they will probably find twenty years
hence that it is too late,

The question of tree planting must arise in
our Northwest, and the sooner it is grappled
with the better for the welfare of the future
millions who are expecting to people the vast
prairies west of Winnipeg. In the matter of
fuel alone, its importance may be estimated
from the fact that there are extensive tracts of
western territory where the farmers journey
from ten to twenty miles by waggon or sleigh in
order to obtain fuel, or where they have to rely
solely on the wood train which at intervals sup-
ply them ; and such farmers are often exposed
to positive suffering when extensive snow block-
ades take place. The prairie farmer, indeed,
very soon understands the value of a belt of
trees on his farm, not merely as a source of fuel
and fencing, but even more as a wind-break,
warding off the fierce blizzards in winter, and in
summer sheltering his growing crops, fruit trees
and stock from the strong prairie winds which,

‘developing into storms, cause almost every

season vast injury.

It is not at all improbable that the planting
of forests on the prairies in Manitoba, Dakota
and Iowa, will be the solution of that most em-
barrassing problem—the grasshoppers—by af-
fording obstructions to the high winds which
bring these insects from their habitats in the
farther west, and by furnishing suitable homes
for myriads of birds which would keep the grass-
hoppers in check.

The planting of forests will also probably
solve the question of the successful growth of
fruits in Manitoba and the Northwest. Fruit
trees need protection alike from storms and
from parching winds, and especially in our
western prairie country is this necessary. It
has been laid down as almost an axiom in the
Western States, that the forest trees must pre-
cede the fruit trees in order to afford such pro-
tection.

In Minnesota an earnest effort has been
made to encourage the planting of trees. A
State Forestry Association has been organized,
and annually offers premiums for the largest
number of trees planted on a day in May, de-
nominated Arbor Day. It is estimated that in
the spring of 1877 there were 5,290,000 trees
planted in Minnesota, and of these over half a
million were put in on Arbor Day. During the
entire planting season of that year it is believed
that about ten millions of trees were planted,
and of these, that about seventy per cent. have
lived.

The question of tree planting is one which
should be actively taken up at once in our
Northwest. The Government of Manitoba
could not grapple with a more pressing subject
for legislation, unless it be drainage. The greatest
drawbacks against which the Northwest has to
contend, from an agricultural point of view, are
wet lands, scarcity of timber, and liability to
high winds, and, in some localities, to summer
frosts, Dakota and Minnesota have equally
these drawbacks. The Manitoba Legislature
has taken up the question of drainage, and ac-

000 feet.

tive efforts are now being made in some parts of
the country to reclaim the wet lands. To cope
with storms and frosts seems hopeless, and yet
experience has found the great value of belts of
trees around each farm as affording effective
shields against these. What the Government
there should do is to promote Forestry Associa-
tions, and to, in every way, encourage tree
planting by exemptions from taxation or by
direct premiums or bonuses. Any such encour-
agement successfully followed up will be return-
ed one hundred fold in the larger and more cer-
tain crops, the store of wood for lumber and
fuel created by the growing timber, the relief
from the monotony of the prairie landscape
through the belts of trees dotting the scene on
every side, and not least, in a more contented
and prosperous community of farmers.
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ON THE UPPER ST, JOHN.

The St. John, N.B., News says there is plenty
of snow in the woods on the Upper St. John
and its branches, and the lumbermen are now
fairly at work. There have been one or two days
of soft weather since the heavy snow fall of a
fortnight ago, which has rendered the country
roads about and above Grand Falls almost im-
passable, but in the woods the snow was not
removed to any great extent, This is a great
advantage to operators in enabling them to
distribute their supplies early and rapidly. The
choppers are now making the frost-bound
forests ring with their strokes, and the bean-pot
sends forth its fragrance in daily incense offering
to the powers that have smiled on the efforts of
the lumberman.

Robert Connors, operator for Wim. Murray
on the Allegash and St. Francis streams, this
winter, has put in men and horses sufficient to
handle 10,000,000 feet of spruce. Last year his
operations in the same locality reached 18,000, -
Mr. Connors made an effort to strike
out a field for himself on Lake Temiscouata,
but the high water in the streams kept the pros-
pecting party from finding what could be done.
Mr. Connors’ operations are thus largely de-
creased. W. F. Fowler, of Fredericton, annu-
ally cuts from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet for
A. F. Randolph. This years his operations on
the Salmon River and Tobique wlll not exceed
8,000,000 feet. Walker Stevens lumbers on the
main St. John River for E. D, Jewett & Co.,
of St. John, this year, to the extent of about
10,000,000 feet. Messrs. Page & Mallett have
a number of parties scattered along the main
river and on the Allegash, whose combined
operations will likely amount to 5,000,000 feet.
W. H. Canliffe will cut 4,000,000 feet on the
Allegash ; W. B. West, 2,000,000 feet, on the

Quisibis; Jarvis Hayward, 4,500,000 on the -

Fish River ; Hopkins & Grant, 2,000,000 on the
Wallagrass for Hayford & Stetson. It is
thought parties working for Miller & Woodman
in the vicinity of WanBuren will cut about 20, -
000,000 feet all told. The estimated total of the
lumber on the Upper St. John this winter is
thus 65,500,000 feet. This, however, does not
include the operations on the Aroostook and
Tobique, which are properly on the Upper St.
John, and which will swell the aggregate to not
less than 90,000,000. This is about three-fourths
of the amount usually obtained, As soon as
convenient the Wews will furnish an estimate of
the lumber to be cut on these rivers.

Quebec Culler’s Office.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Sfaves. &e.,
measured and culled to date —

1879. 1880. 1881,

Waney White Pine.... 1,599,273 2,235,500 3,065,274
White Pine.........+.. 72,507,729 4,244,285 6,029,041
Red Pine...scceesseees 741,499 1,056,167 1,945,720
Oak. .i ween waliewnse $35,993 1,790,236 2,904,477
BSI .kcwieate coe ee eeae 336,461 987,283 1,027,670
WER acne ae wacknt ten ces 47,161 245,480 408,798
BaSSw00d..e.eeeceeeces 280 363 3,949
Butternut...... Ga 7 645 3,083
TTAMATAC. wo. ccs eaeeees 6,691 30,889 27,150
Birch and Maple....... 121,224 585,46 151,774
Masts and Bowsprits... 50 pieces 4 pieces 5] pieces
Spars... ce eeeceeee eevee 26 pieces 23 pieces

Std. Staves. .cceesseess 171.5.8.7 195.7.1.1 418,9.2.96
W. I. Staves....scecses 169.2.2.26 487.7.0.8 595.7.2.19
Bri. Staves. ....ssse.es 10.8.2. 10

ALEXANDER FRASER,

Deputy Supervisor,
Quebec,*Noy, 25th, 1881.

OTTAWA EXPORTS.

Orrawa, Dec. 3.—The following official re-
turns show the quantity and value of the exports

of lumber during the year, and it will be seen

by them that the value is somewhat in excess of
the previous year, notwithstanding that the
This is owing, of |

quantity shipped is less.
course, to the increased price obtained for the
lumber shipped this season ;

QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31st.

Quantity. Value.

Hop poles......, Sateen aaiclen Oe None. $ 376
Ships’ knees........ -.+5 een wees 621 358
Laths, Palings and Pickets, M...+ 9,750 2,436
Plank Boards and Joists, ft....... 5,066,000 56,615
Shingles; M........+5 (abquarsHes 35 61
Sugar Box Shooks.... ...- SE Nater 22,754 7,751
$67,579

QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30TH.

Hop poles... 2.000 cesseeeseeees None. $ 228
KMGeSs asecees Jeneacee pees aeeee 391 267
Laths, Palings and Pickets, M.... 8,571 9,657
Plank Boards and Joists, ft....... 49,109,000 587,848
Sleepers and R. Ties..... Shab DH 35,736 9,375
Match Blocks, cds...... ...-.... 497 2,333

$614,583
QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30TH.

Plank Boards and Joists, ft....... 69,184,000 $802,270
Match Blocks, cds. o6..6...50.... 209 838
Sugar Box Shooks.......... 30,806 111,116
Sleepers and R. Ties........- w+ 407,085 8,139

Laths, Palings and Pickets, M.... 9,773 8,139
KRCES, 2606 cvecv snes 25 @GoeoeD 237 60
$923,464

$249,445
5,405

OCTOBER. ;
Planks, Boards and Joists, ft..... 19,677,000
All other...

ween eee eene beerenee

$255,150

NOVRMBER.
Planks, Boards and Joists, ft..... 15,207,000 $201,364
WAST CRA CX ioareins orn emeteraees paint oe 7,002

$208,366
Total value of exports of lumber from Ottawa
from January 1st to November 30th, 1881,
inclusive...... ste $2,069,159
Total yalue of exports of lumber from Ottawa
from January 1st to November 30th, 1880,
BIGMISIVE. .ee ale sesaiehh «ios alse vie oi vel; 9SL, 007

_ Imerease for 1881. .....0..eseeeeseeeveeee $87,602

The exact quantity of the cut by mills in this
vicinity during the season cannot well be ascer-
tained. Most of the mill owners are now busy
taking stock in order to give an estimate of their
cut, but most of them are as yet unable to give
even approximate figures. In nearly all cases,
however, the cut will be found to be less than
that of last year, owing to the scarcity of logs,
caused by the lowness of the water in the Otta-
wa. Of the above, Eddy’s mill cut 50,000,000
feet, Booth’s 30,000,000, Sherman, Lord & Co.,
12,000,000, McLaren & Co. 25,000,000, McCly-
mont & Co, 15,000,000.

MIRAMICHI SHIPMENTS.

Two hundred and eighty-four lumber laden
vessels cleared from Miramichi ports, having an
aggregate tonnage of. 176,150 tons; 142 from
Chatham, and exactly the same number from
Newcastle. The shipments from Chatham con-
sisted of 62,892,000 feet deals, etc., 7,371,440
palings and 1,087 tons timber ; the shipments
from Newcastle, 59,772,000 feet deals, etc.,
6,599,000 feet boards and scantling, 539,009
palings and laths, and 975 tons timber. The
shippers from Miramichi were:—Wm. Muir-
head, 19 vessels, 10,757 tons, 10,329,000 feet
deals, and 84,200 palings; Guy, Bevan & Co.,
53 vessels, 26,029 tons, 21,752,000 feet deals,
2,130,600 palings; J. B. Snowball, 53 vessels,
26,381 tons, 23,370,000 feet deals, 106,140 palings,
827 tons timber ; A. Morrison, 17 vessels, 8,207
tons, 7,441,000 feet deals, 50,500 palings, 260
tons timber. The shippers from Newcastle
were :—hk. A. & J. Stewart, 90 vessels, 52,101
tons, 39,714,000 feet deals, 5,732,000 feet boards
and scantlings, 295,000 palings, 459 tons timber ;
Geo. McLeod, 21 vessels, 12,044 tons, 11,166,000
feet deals, 349,000 feet boards, etc., 96,000 pal-
ings; D. & J. Ritchie & Co., 16 vessels, 6,526
tone, 6,482,000 feet deals, ete., 351,000 feet
boards, 96,000 palings, 416 tons lumber ; Geo,
Burchill & Sons, 6 vessels, 5,205 tons, 2,410,000
fect deals, etc., 167,000 feet boards, 248,000 pal-
ings. The Messrs. Stewart, it will be seen, are
by far the largest shippers from the Miramichi
this year, and Newcastle has fairly forged ahead
f Chatham as a shipping port. Newcastle shows
an increaue of about 7,000,000 feet in shipments,
and Chatham a decrease of over 30,000,000 feet,
Moncton, N.B., Times.

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ON THE SAGINAW.

The lumber season of 1881 is now fairly closed
on the Saginaw river, and after a careful review
of the same it may fairly be put down as one of
the most successful for all concerned which has
ever been known in the history of the business
from its inception to the present time. very
one of the vast number of manufactories on the
river since the commencement of operations in
the spring has been uninterruptedly engaged,
and a respeetable number among them have
been employed day and night, necessitating
a double force of employees ; and the result has
been of the most satisfactory character to all
concerned. The mills which have been employ-
ed on stock belonging to their owners haye
probably returned as great dividends on the
capital invested as was ever known in the
history of the mill business, while those which
have been cutting stock for parties other than
their owners, may also be credited with the
most gratifying results. The prices for lumber
realized at the opening of the season by the
manufacturers were exceedingly satisfactory,
and not only have they been steadily maintained
throughout the season, but as the same progres-
sed prices stiffened, and finally advanced per-
ceptibly toward the close.

Notwithstanding the great activity of the
mills on the river, and the enormous sales and
shipments during the season, the demand has
kept steady pace with the supply, thereby sus-
taining the buoyancy continually apparent, and
finally culminating in a still healthier and more
satisfactory condition, when navigation ceased,
the result of which has been a slight advance on
stock purchased within the past ten days for
next spring's delivery.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

A NEW MOTOR.

A locomotive is being built at the Grant
Locomotive Works, Paterson, N.J., which will
burn neither wood nor coal. The fuel will be
water, which is decomposed in ‘* association
with carbon, forming readily combustible gases,
of which hydrogen is the chief.” The method of
decomposing water at a low temperature, in-
vented by Dr. Charles Holland, was first used
as a motor in a common coal-burning locomotive
on Long Island a year ago. It is now used
practically in heaters and in illuminating houses,
The water vapour is dissociated into its ele-
ments, oxygen and hydrogen, in the presence of
the carbon of naptha gas at a temperature of
400 deg. c. As the hydrogen burns with a heat
of nearly 8,000 deg. c., a gain is effected of 18-20
of the whole heat. The engine of course is con-
structed very differently from the common en-
gine. What may be termed the “‘ gas grate,”
consisting of four retorts, three feeder pipes and
352 burners, occupies the place of the grate and
lower part of the fire box in an ordinary locomo-
tive. The gas passes from the retorts to the
feeders, and thence to the burners, and burns
with a colorless and almost invisible light. The
heat of 8,000 deg. c. is greater than any heat
known, except that of electric light. The use
of this fuel does away with smoke, cinders and
sparks. It requires but little ‘‘ firing up,” as
the touch of a lighted match is all that is neces-
sary. The trial of this engine will be made soon
after it is completed and tested. It is said that
a railroad company has offered $1,000,000 for the
right to use this process, provided that this en-
gine will draw a train of four Pullman cars from
New York to Chicago and return on schedule
time,

LIKE A TREE.
Aman is very like a tree,
For instance, crooked limbs has he,
He has a trttnk ; he grows somehow,
And when he leaves he makes a bough.
He can be cut ; will often lean,
Is always sappy when he’s green.
He is aboard when on the sea,
And oft a-shaving, too, is he.
When he is frightened quite a lot,
Like trees, he’s rooted to the spot.
If he is axed too much he’)1 lie,
And often will, like trees, get “ high,”
He has his lumber in the night ;
Is sadly warped, and feels the blight,
He ‘*‘ chips ” for stakes, though he should not,
And has his chops, sometimes a lot.
He gets ‘‘ deadwood” on him, Is wocd.
Is knotty when he should be good.
And when he dies he’s sure to learn,
That he, like trees, has got to burn,

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newly opened out, pleasantly situated on Main Street
within five minutes walk of Northern Railway station
3ar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors and Cigar
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JAN. 2, 1882.

——_—

Cusuine & WricuTs mill, about eight miles
from Moncton, N.B., was burned to the ground
on Thursday night, Dec. 8th. A large quantity
of lumber was also destroyed.

$$$

Mr. P. MoLaren, who was in Kingston late-
ly, said he would haye to stop timber cutting on
his limits, as he could not get it in the mild
weather to the streams, and to lie on the ground
it would become much injured. It is quite
probable that the Caldwells will remove their
Carleton Place and Almonte mills to Clyde, on
the extension of the K. & P. Railway.

Tue London Timber Trades Journal says that
steamers from the Canadian ports, which a year
ago were quite a novelty, are now becoming
quite common, Three with pine deals from
Quebec for account of Messrs. Bryant, Powis &
Bryant have come forward lately, and there
seems every prospect that the Quebec trade will
be generally adopted by vessels of this class as
the seasons progress.

Mussrs. Epwarp JAcK and Robert Connors
dispute the accuracy of some portions of a paper
on the white pine, by Mr. W. H. Ballou, which
was read by him before the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, at Cincin-
nati, August 19, and was reproduced in our
number of November 15th. They have there-
fore sent us a valuable communication, which
will be found in another column, on the white
pine of the St. John district of New Brunswick.
These gentlemen are well qualified to speak on
this suhject. Mr. Connors is the most exten-
sive log hauler on the St. John River, his
stumpage bill last year being $32,000, and for
thirty years he has been working himself on the
head of the river, always getting large quantities
of pine timber, when that was got on the river,
the quantity now cut there being very small, as
the trees have been nearly all cut away. Mr.
Jack is lumber agent for the Province of New
Brunswick, and was the explorer who selected
the timber lands of Mr. Alex. Gibson, of Nash-
waak, Thus they are excellent authorities as
te the pine of that district.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

A ¥irE broke out in the saw mill owned by
J. 9. Snetsinger, of Moulinette, Ont., at about
ten o’clock on Saturday night, Dec. 17th. The
fire secured such headway inside the mill before
any assistance could be had that it was impos-
sible to save the building or any part of the
machinery. ‘The loss of J. S. Snetsinger on
building and machinery will be $2,000, insured
in the Queen Insurance Company for $600 ; Ss.
W. Bisbee, cabinet machinery, lost $1,000, on
which there is no insurance. The fire is sup-
posed to be the work of an incendiary.

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THE WHITE PINE.
BY RDWARD JACK AND ROBERT OONNORS.

The largest trees and the best quality of white
pine on the St. John River, N.B., grew on the
Arostook and its branches.

There are three kinds of white pine, which are
probably the same tree at different periods of its
growth, the difference in its appearance being
caused by its age, as well as by the nature of
the soil on which it grows. These three varie-
ties are called by lumbermen, Pumpkin, or old
pine, Bull Sapling, and Common Smooth-
barked Sapling.

The pumpkin pine usually grows as a scatter-
ing tree, often alone, and sometimes it is found
in bodies and clusters. 1 usually grows in the
greatest quantities around the shores of lakes
and on the banks of large streams, sometimes
following small streams to their sources. It
also occurs in valleys running into hill or moun-
tain ranges. As you ascend ridges the pine
usually becomes scarcer and more scattering.
One sometimes, however, finds a lonely tree
towering up like a giant on the summit of some
lofty hill, where it may have braved the storms
of northern winters from a date prior to the
Norman conquest of Great Britain to our own
times.

Pumpkin pine is much subject to hollow rots,
the hole commencing at the butt, where it is
frequently of large size, but it usually does not
extend far up the trunk of the tree. Woods-
men call this junk rot. It is a dry rot, as the
decayed wood can be taken out in lumps or
sections of various weight when the tree is cut
down. Hollow-heart, which is different from
junk rot, runs much farther up the trunk of the
pine, extending sometimes even to the branches.
When atree has either of the two above defects,
the sound wood remaining is invariably free
from shakes and of the best quality. The
pumpkin pine is not so subject to “ concase,” a
defect hereafter to be described, as the bull sap-
ling or common smooth-barked white pine,
and it is in general only found where pumpkin
pine grows thick, The large wood ant is the
gteatest enemy of the white pine. It attacks
the tree either in its base or in the branches,
where a case knot, which is caused by the decay
of some small branch, occurs. Wherever there
is a crack or crevice in the tree the ant will
work his way in. There are generally rift
shakes running through the heart of the very
best pumpkin pines. This is the ants’ grand
opportunity, and they avail themselves of it.
The ant seldom attacks any other tree than the
pumpkin pine and fir, the former being on the
St. John River a very soft wood, indeed softer,
freer from sap, and better than the Michigan
pine,

At certain seasons of the year the wood ants,
or probably only the males, are winged ; these
wings they lose, and old timber makers say
they have seen the ants carrying their wings in
their mouths. These ants remain all winter in
hollow or rotten places in the pumpkin pine, in
a torpid condition. When the trees are being
felled in winter, it is often the case that bunches
of these frozen ants fall out of the holes, and it
is no unusual thing for the genuine old pine
timber maker (a race of men fast passing away
in New Brunswick) to gather these frozen ants
in his hand and eat them. They say that their
taste is much like that of the cranberry. The
usual age of the full grown and mature pump-
kin pine is likely not less than 800 years,
probably much greater. Its wood is very seldom
shaky, unless when growing in very wet and

swampy places.
BULL SAPLING,

This tree also loves the shores of lakes and
streams, and its wood is harder and heayier than
that of the pumpkin pine, It has a thick sap ;

this sap is thicker on trees which grow scatter-
ing among hardwoods on ridges, where the
growth is more rapid than in low spruce lands,
where the growth is slow. This tree is almost
always more or less shaky at the butt. It is
seldom hollow-butted. The best and least
shaky trees grow upon the sides of ridges, where
they stand exposed to the winds. The tops are
usually large and sound, extending a greater
distance from the trunk of the tree than do
those of the pumpkin pine, although the
branches of the latter tree are usually much
larger in diameter than those of the bull sapling.
The colour of the tops of these trees, when
viewed at a short distance, is of a much darker
green than those of the pumpkin pine. There
are many shades of green in the colour of the
leaves of the bull sapling, the best and thriftiest
growth being of the darkest green. When a
woodsman notices a yellow shade in the colour
of the tops he suspects inferior trees, especially
on low ground, and these are always shaky.
The defects in the bull sapling arise principally
from rots and shakes. It is seldom attacked by
worms unless after it is dead.

CONCASES.

There are three kinds of ‘‘concases,” the
ordinary open one, the pitch and the blind.
The open concase is a long and somewhat narrow
depression in the side of the tree, the centre be-
ing hollow. On the outside of the tree, near the
bark around the concase, the wood is sound, two
or three inches from this sound wood the rot be-
gins and spreads in every direction, both up and
down the tree, frequently for a distance of from
five to six feet from the concase. This does not
extend around the tree ; usually only about one-
third of the way. It is the worst kind of con-
case.

The pitch concase forms a lump on the out
side of the bark, and may be detected by the
drops of pitch oozing from the spot. There are
generally more than one, and frequently five or
six of these on the one tree, generally on one
side. The rot doesnot extend from these nearly
so far as from the other two kinds, usually end-
ing at a distance of from one to three feet from
the point of their first occurrence in a pitchey
wood, streaks from which may extend into the
tree.

Blind conease can be detected in the growing
tree by the eyes of the experienced woodsman
only. The evidence of this defect is the occur-
rence of a small flat curl in the bark. There is
usually no swell in the tree at this place. On
cutting into the wood here to a depth of about
two inches nothing remarkable is to be seen;
cutting in, however, a few inches deeper, the
wood appears yellow or dark, and impregnated
with pitch. _ Cutting further in you come to a
lump of black pitch, filling a cavity in the wood,
which runs to the heart, the rot extending up-
wards and downwards from it, usually farther
than in either of the other two kinds. Many
are usually found in the same tree, rendering it
completely useless. Sometimes a tree having
blind coneases in it is sound at the top and butt.
When such is the case the timber maker fre-
quently deceives the buyer by noticing on which
sid the concase occurs, and where there is but
one of these, hews his timber in such a manner
that the concase occurs exactly at one of the
angles of the timber. This has often been done
on the St. John River, and the timber has
passed inspection there and gone to Great
Britain.

Another defect in the white pine is case knot.
This consists of a hole two or three inches in
diameter running into the heart of the tree,
where it ceases. There is no rot accompanying
it. It is caused by the rotting out of # limb,
leaving its case, which is a hard rim, behind it,
Black knots, which are not much regarded on
the Upper St. John, are caused by imperfect
srowth of the tree.

The white pine is one of the thriftiest and
healthiest trees which we have ; even when half
chopped through it will continue to grow vigor
ously, and trees which are supported by a mere
shell will grow well when the heart is rotten
from end to end.

The first indications of death in the pumpkin
pine and bull sapling appear at the top. When
this is bare and barkless for a few feet it is a
tolerably sure indication that the tree is worth
less,

THE COMMON SAPLING PINE,

This is abundant everywhere, and generally
constitutes a large part of the second growth in
pine lands which have been burned, usually
occurring with white birches and poplars. It is
a tree of rapid growth, and in half a century
after it starts from the sod, when growing in the
soil most suitable to it, will make a good saw
log from 12 to 18 inches in diameter. It grows
best in light, gravelly soil. The wood of this
tree is seldom shakey, though frequently coarse
and knotty,

SHAKE,

The origin of this defect is uncertain. It is
not caused by the action of the wind, since pine
trees are always found more free from shakes
when they grow high up on the hill sides among
hardwood trees, where they are exposed to the
severest storms, while those growing on fiat
land under hills, even in the most sheltered
places, are always the most shaky. Wet soil
and frost are probably the cause of shaky wood.
On chopping into a pine growing in low swampy
land in summer, water will frequently fol-
low the axe. This water must exist between
the rings of annual growth, and in the winter it
forms ice. The expansion caused by freezing
destroys the cohesion of the annual rings, and
when the board which is sawn from the tree
becomes dry the small cracks in the wood show
themselves very distinctly, rendering it useless
for many purposes.

QUEBEC STOCKS.

Our shipments show a decrease this year com-
pared with 1880 of 97,017 tons of lumber, or
nearly four million cubic feet ; and in deals they
show a decrease of 1,947,076 Quebec standard
pine, and 102,788 Quebec standard spruce. The
falling off in timber is chiefly in white pine,

square and waney, which show a decrease of -

61,267 tons. Red pine comes next with a
shrinkage in quantity of 12,780 tons, and oak
follows with a reduction of 10,837 tons. This
heavy falling off in our exports would, at first
glance, indicate a very unhealthy state of trade;
but as we have already explained in a previous
article, the prices obtained this year have been
on the whole very satisfactory, and the season’s
business will furnish a profitable showing both
to shippers and manufacturers, more especially
the latter. In fact, during previous years, the
English markets were overstocked and our lum-
bermen continued keeping up their usual supply
in the expectation every year that the tide would
turn. Finally the crisis reached its height, and
production became greatly lessened. This, with
the clearing off of stocks on the other side, has
restored the market to a healthy tone, and the
light exports this year are an indication that
this healthy state of things will be continued at
any rate next season. Compared with stocks
wintering last year, white pine, square, shows a
decrease of about 1,500,000 feet, but waney
shows an increase of about 700,000 feet. Red
pine shows an increase of about 800,000 feet,
oak 1,300,000 feet, and elm 260,000 feet ; and the
quantity of deals wintering is very little differ-
ent from last year. The supply getting out will
not exceed that of last season. The probable
supply of pine from Ottawa section will be,—
white, 700,000, and red, 1,000,000 feet, about
equal to last year’s manufacture. The trade,
therefore, shows a healthy outlook in these im-
portant particulars, light stocks on the other
side, moderate stocks in ports, and a moderate
quantity being got out. Our lumbermen have
learned by experience the value of their limits,
and understand that their safest course lies in
husbanding their resources, and not cut down
timber indiscriminately and recklessly, as was
formerly the custom.—TZ'imes.

The Strength of Wooden Columns.

Some important tests of the strength of wood-
en columns, such as are in common use in the
construction of cotton and woollen mills, have
lately been made at the instance of Mr. Atkin-
son, President of the Boston Manufacturers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The tests
were made with the testing machine at the
Waterton Arsenal. The formulas in use for
computing the strength of wooden columms are
based on tests applied to columns of about two
inches on a side and four or five feet long. The
new tests were made with columns of pine and

oak of the size and length used in actual con-
struction. All but two were round, hollow col-
umns, of from eight to eleven inches diameter,
the two being about nine inches square. The
greatest amount of pressure exerted in any
case was about 265,000 pounds. The tests have
disclosed frequent instances of defective boring
in the columns. The object in boring is to open
an air passage through the heart of the stick for
the prevention of dry-rot after it is in position in
the building. It is essential, of course, that
the bore should extend from end to end, but
this has not always been effected.
were first bored from one end and then from
the other, and the borings have sometimes failed
to meet in the middle of the stick. The tests
also show that to taper the sticks is a mistake,
inasmuch as it weakens the column more than
has heretofore been estimated. Reasons for
exercising more caution in other respects in the
construction and adjustment of wooden columns
in building have also been disclosed.—Scientific
American

Precautions Against Waste.

An Ottawa correspondent says that a new
eode of timber regulations for the North-
western ‘Territory has been promulgated,
which it is thought will prove more satisfac-
tory than those previously in force. Mr. Thos.
Anderson, the timber inspector for the North-
west, will be vested with discretionary power to
deal with questions arising under the Crown
timber regulations without reference to Ottawa.
Permits will still be required by persons cutting
timber, but it is understood they will be chiefly
formal and for the purpose of preventing waste,
and to keep the wood in the control of the Gov-
ernment until the lands are surveyed and enter-
ed upon. The cost of a permit fora settler’s
‘building material is fifty cents, and rails cut for
use on the place, and not for purposes of sale or
speculation, free, and firewood for one’s own use
free, Cordwood cut for sale will be subject to
a charge of fifteen cents a cord. Cutting timber
to hold for speculation purposes without first
obtaining the necessary permits, and destroying
timber before the land is entered for, under the
pretence of clearing the land for cultivation, is
absolutely forbidden. The inspector has been
instructed to take every precaution against
waste.

Produce of Crown Forests.

From the reports of H. M. Commissioner of
Woods and Forests, just published, we find the
receipts from the sales of produce of Crown
estates for the year ending March 31st, 1881,
were as follows -—Windsor Park and Woods
(timber, bark, poles, cordwood, &c.), £1,938 1s.
1d. ; New Forest, £8,360 11s. 6d.; Dean Forest,
£6,377 10s. 2d.; Highmeadow Woods, £4,123
6s. lld.; Alice Holt Woods, £650 17s. 4d. ;
Woolmer Estate, £148 14s. 6d.; Bere Woods,
£939 17s. 9d.; Parkhurst Woods, £343 12s, ;
Stagsden Woods, Bedford, £349 2s, 3d.; Dela-
mere Woods, Chester, £701 6s. 6d. ; Chopwell
Woods, Durham, £49 8s. 9d.; Manor of English
Bicknor, Gloucester, £6 2s. 2d.; Eltham Woods,
£185 6s. 1d.; Eltham Estate, Kent, £84 6s. ;
Torver Woods, Lancaster, £4 19s. 4d.; Hazle-
boreugh Woods, £340 6s. 3d. ; Salcey Woods,
Northampton, £888 19s. 1d. ; Egham Estate,
£52 10s.; Esher Estate, £1; Esher Woods,
Surrey, £582 11s.; Poynings Woods, Sussex, £28
3s.; Bishops Cannings, Wilts, £684.

Douglas Fir.

This king of forest trees, which is the pride of
Oregon and Wasington Territory, makes the
best ship timber in the world. A principal
quality of the wood is a flexibility and tenacity
of fibre rarely met with in trees so aged. It
can be bent and twisted several times in con-
trary directions without breaking. Masts and
spars made of Douglas fir are rare and exception-
al for dimensions and superior qualities, such as
strength, lightness, absence of knots, and other
graye vices, Mr. Wilson Saunders was once
ordered by the Lloyds to test the strength of all
the woods obtainable for ship-building, and he
reported that none of the woods approached the
strength of the Douglas fir and pitch pine, it
having required a weight of 280 pounds to break
4 small bar of these woods no more than an
inch and a quarter square. Between the Doug-
las fir and pitch pine, whose strength was equal,

The sticks,

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

there was this difference, that while the latter
snapped short off, the Douglas yielded unwill-
ingly, with a rough and long rend. Often 200-,
000 feet of Douglas fir is cut from one acre of
land, and there is said to be enough of this tim-
ber in Washington Territory alone to supply the
navies of the world.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

The Duluth Cat.

The Lake Superior News says last winter
there were cut in the district, of which Duluth
is the centre, between 75,000,000 and 80,000,000
feet of logs. The latter figure, even, was much
below the estimates made early last winter,
because the season was extremely unfavourable.
The deep snows, especially in the latter part of
the winter, interfered very materially with
work in the woods, and made logging expensive.
Careful enquiry among our lumbermen enables
the News to give reliable figures as to the
probable cut of logs this winter. If we have
an ordinary winter these figures will be found
next season to have been nearly accurate, but
should there be very little snow, then these cal-
culations will be somewhat disturbed. We esti-
mate the total cut at 183,000,000 feet, or more
than double the cut of last winter. There is
nothing extraordinary in this, considering the
number of new mills either completed the past
season or now under way. By next July the
sawing capacity in this district will be double
that of last spring, the most prominent new
mills being those of the Duluth Lumber Co.,
G. W. Peck & Co., Sexsmith Bros., and the
Oneota Lumber Co.

Lumber Receipts At Buffalo.
Receipts of lumber, etc., at Buffalo by lake
during the month of November, and for the
season of navigation, were :—

Nov. Season,
Ihe NE Misooos cdnhoe OoocoDbUd 28,896,700 240,802,160
Lath, pieces. ....c.ccsesesccere 118,000 2,863,000
PSEC CSE east craisintsi a, obiie ai riecsiay gprie 7,745,000 25,249,000
SHAWG@E4 odccon spgonpbguaueuDEDO 190,000 3,886,275
133{0) SeiGongp nooonodeCodaooTpdee 7,964,000

The lumber receipts for the stason of 1880
were 214,169,354, and for 1879, 202,443,612 feet.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

The following Comparative Statement of Wood Goods shipped from Quebec and the Lower St. Lawrence from the opening to the close of
navigation, during the years 1880 and 1881, is compiled from the Custom House Returns by the Quebec Zimes :—

QUEBEC EXPORTS, 1880-1881.

untiring efforts of one man, I am told, but twen-
ty years back. So the records of Ontario attest
to the greatly increased revenue from the
forests on the appointment of the present able

East Const Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands, with

London. Liverpool, The Clyde. England & Scotland. Ireland. Other Porta.

Tons 1880-1881. 1880-1881. 1880-1881. 1880-1881. 1880-1881. 1880-1881, | 4 2Umerous staff of bush rangers. As already
Oak..... noodasssoomoccan AgeaBaCagons Balan Aomens so0009 2,049 2,316 22,681 16,011 10,768 9,874 10,634 10,192 1,568 1,619 9,481 7,572] hinted, the present Crown Land Agents might
Elm..... Apddnad sean ven omnes nNandennooonENDoGadaNG 2,935 1,893 4,142 2,916 7,435 5,721 6,738 5,292 ™ 1,002 674 3,773 3,488] do duty as head inspectors, entitling them to
Ash..... Shasvdnbocoen su00Kd anodea0o. coaanoacdvodencauS 2,567 2,518 1,055 1,753 1,397 1,975 1,615 1,530 307 313 497 808| higher pay. ‘The staff of fire inspectors could
BIF CH ey ciate meinentslecustbiona palaces i aysiateltlesPe sjerelenes Oe 5,422 2,058 1,118 $82 1,587 1,071 3,907 1,914 617 496 1,370 926 | fill the place of the present wood-rangers, many
LV BLITITIL ereveteiotalerntetelstevelsiove auistelelal=ieieieie Acinica noon niin ansoddooG 1,556 886 Val 61 233 428 289 42 8 180 131 171 of the latter being admirably fitted to act as
RTI CONY.cptv blac ceca sets etecoetelsisticbier Meee gaamaeasoieniie 197 208 1,097 845 225 187 249 427 117 113 11 239 | head ins peckors “and (Grown Land Aecaiy eat
White Pine,......... Raion dp cduncs tease sneetoneseins 4,533 5,369 62,890 40,110 73,275 56,225 58,752 55,545 11,566 10,484 77,798 59,814] _. i i
Red Pine......... he Cote eee nae 1,139 1,016. 2,768 1,687 12,006 6,047 2,693 1,846 10,808 6,263 6,796 5,641 bined. Trifling fees might be charged at local

_—— OT > —- ———- ——_ _ —— _ —] Officers for every lot located, and when settlement

Total shipments....... Agnobdo honpepawoauoneE 21,298 16;859 © 95,773 63,6 615 106,956 81,628 84,617 76,288 25,603 20,097 99,857 78,604 duty is fulfilled it should be the duty of the

Pine Deals QuebecStandard......sssscssseseesee eevee 526,405 1,276,188 1,484,988 912,183 891,427 469,347 834,110 517,114 114,708 63,182 971,630 638,223| head inspector to furnish a patent from the
Spruce Deals......esesseee Reeicsondae Ame odatropocbicee 1,482,327 1,475,384 184,620 178,932 116,386 104,678 64,876 109,269 778,393 733,919 574,628 495,160] Grown without any further trouble to the
Pine Wtayesh Millon cliedesisiseanaceiecaele ageeeecs Oat 3b 41} 56 53 45} 74h 53 23 8h 1124 177 874 1404! farmer. A fee of at least $5 would readily be
BVO Weds MS slesieaten ecsnenye BD BanRodacdas Bacioe 98 143 195 150 428 143} 5 2 63} 47 =: 126} 117 | paid by the applicant, and in many cases would
ipa, Clore handcoooasaaqdcsa0a0cenepoeno 000000000 15 38 6 26 86 30 15 78 58 456 4041 te lees than they now have to pay through

The total shipments of each kind of timber in
each year were as follows :—

Excess
Shipments. 1880. 1881. 1880.
Oak, tons.........- onan 57,921 47,084 10,837
Lob a Gosnes oe ln Neleisieisielercisia's 26,045 19,929 6,116
JX onoeb cocdaa.adoOo OoDUDADN 7,338 8,892
Birch Ons \onnooggn00NS 13,971 6,847 7,124
WeilNGithaacodo000 ospdnnodae 2,288 1,718 570
TS MO ROY Aon doce onaeopananance 1,896 2,019
IWDITE VEINS eieislcielsieisiinisio'e nels 288,814 227,547 61,267
PREAURING teletnisisisielsisieserele «ae. 935,880 23,050 12,780
Total sade aire ters 434,103 387,086 94,694
Deficiency 1880 Ash......... nonougoodd0 1,554
ss SEMMELICKOLY ie leteteistsinivivietefiiei te 123
—— 1,677
Net excess of shipments in ’80 over’81.. 97,017
Excess
Shipments. 1880. 1881. 1880.
Pine deals, Quebec std... 5,823,263 8,867,187 1,947,076
Spruce deals... ...ve0se0s 3,200,180 3,097,342 102,788
Pine Staves, Mille........ 392 480}
We OS ost BOR econ 00 921 6024 3184
Deh Noel bpanaatoonnnooos 628 584 44

Statement of timber, staves, &c., wintering at
the port of Quebec during the winter of 1881-
1882 :—

White Pine, Square, feet .......+0+5 coves» 4,626,102
ss Wianyzraeresetlatiaiere etal eletelvinicete 1,519,950
Red Pine..... aekowns a ivemoeteeTae Ssveelaisie ate 2,145,838
ON Spoa0a, codoooddoon bo nodean0ad000 boONAnOC 1,916,622
IHL. sooopnnaddaCodaadon a onansoaredon08 +» 499,912
AS Titra nistatataatalnieleroteneveeteversciserctetriiete Goosa0nd 210,101
IBinchinratstetentes Veee peceeneences vevseesecere 61,092
IB ABA W.OOGirttelsievsiactlelefet neteieie eremntsteetneterercte 1,380
WAMALAC WSOUBNE stetalieieieiel aisalsiete civievialeteielelels 8,986
ss WEGslo aonppotoobaoonagecAdD Js 60 21,678
IIE Walhiteia aooapoone. codgdosconon BoooOA 20,018
White Wood and Balm of Gilead,..... .... 42,625
IBULCEVNIUL steteta/aist.teeiaiceceseiscicare tec eieeealeerete 2,240
WENO 3p op a0 odaaopdDOBOAeaOena eon. cob 0 on 14,331
LENA AT agavaonaadeaosaEeDanaeDean Unelelstsbara 98,336
Ghrenryjertetsievererreiers iaycsensiare/sttrorslee atelevsielelanticte ciate 2,415
SO Ianoonononsogo800n Riehieisierte Walaie(sieinie sits 11,411
[SMO goandos Sood0KDaD SaD0gNddaONdO AND 6,324
Stand. Staves, Mb], M.....sesccsssssees vee 214
oe (Ob Wonanannonodandnabaoopacd 12
WY OS Vive 216 Ail) ls osnooooabooane bondene on 141
ce OLN basco oucanohos A dono) HoUsuo 37
EERO SAV SoPLoTULD LiveYolateieleietalemttn ieieietelctete re siete . 97
a Ci boasogdace Brae 0 sao doudseaD 5
BATTE iicieessisinieleleleleis/aieisjerieieleie ciate ciniete siete ne 10
PineM Caleb] wAbANGnrleiiersiieineenieieeise 1,483,667
ce Oi legovanonaban sieredielsiciecieietetcis 224,930
SDELICOS MOLD iayereislelaisiaisiaraysteieleisienteleisivieve Bodooon 743,437
Gah => (Chil boban saeOn torah eeTOR ic RE CARE 66,591
Plank, Pine & Spruce, 1, 1}, 14, & 2 in,, ft.. 10,176,314
Sede MELATCUW OOUataraveloleyercteselettcin emer micteremicictc 71,483
JAS ONEG Mabe hooogo Habbougsds odeenudaen none
Pads pikes MPIECES tices) nercieleisielcisic nisienclcinie ne none
Red Pine Lathwood, cords.......+ sesseses 14
Hemlock Jee ol Ge dattodddosondosmosnodose 160
White Pine Masts, Pieces.............c000- 45
Red and White Pine Spars...... ee eee eeeee . 106
SDIUCOUSDBEB sapiulcicismmcethseen aieceritecis 676

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an excellent and cheap receipe, which will last
much longer than any ordinary whitewash :—
Three hundred parts washed and sieved white
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are added. This mass is applied with an ordi-
paint brush while warm. Tf it is too thick it is
diluted with linseed oil. This paint dries very
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PROTECTION FROM FIRE.
To the Editor of the Canada Lwamberman,
LuMBERMAN’s Camp, Dec. 10th.

Mr. Eprror,—It has been justly said that
‘He who causes two blades of grass to grow
where one grew before, is a benefactor of man-
kind.” In like manner it must be admitted
that the Canadian who can check the destruc-
tion of millions of pine trees annually would be
proportionately esteemed by his countrymen ;
and yet none of our public men seem to aspire
to this distinction by devoting their time and
talents to devising means to stay the ravages by
fire in our forests, which are the greatest source
of wealth belonging to us.

Every now and then a feeble cry is raised in
condemnation of this species of vandalism, and
warning voices are raised both by the press
editorially and through its correspondence
columns, pointing out whither we are drifting,
and shewing the irretrievable loss we will soon
have to deplore, but little or nothing is being
done by those whose office it is to stay or check
this scourge. True, the Ontario Legislature did
a few years back pass a law for ‘‘the preserva-
tion of the forests from fire,” but it has been a
dead letter from the time it was entered on the
statute book until the present day, for have not
dreadful bush fires raged through the country,
destroying immense tracts of wooded land,
about as regularly as a dry season comes round,
since those regulations became law, and can a
single case be shewn where an offender against
those regulations has been, or was even sought to
have been, punished ? and this for the simplest
of all reasons, no one was empowered to see the
law enforced, or rather to detect the offender !

We see our pineries disappearing before our
eyes, mainly through fire, and know that their
value, if preserved, would be greatly increased
in another generation, yet we fold our hands,
deplore the loss, but do nothing.

Money is spent lavishly in the endeavour to
introduce new agricultural products, the culti-
vation of flax, the introduction of vineyards ona
large scale, the replanting of forests, ete., etc.,
but to hold that which we have, and which is of
ten thousand times more yalue to Canada, we
do nothing! We yalue two birds in the bush
more than one in the hand.

It is strange that a reform, so much needed,
has so few, if any, advocates in Parliament.
Why do not some of our talented and patriotic
men take this matter up and compel the Goy-
ernment to protect the forests. Several repres-
entatives in the Dominion and Provincial Par-
liaments belong to lumbering districts, are per-
fectly aware of the loss to the country, and
might readily point ont a remedy, that is a sys-
tem to be adopted to check the waste occasioned
by the ever-recurring bush fires. Some of them
have sufficient talent and influence to make
their voices heard and heeded. Whoever first
takes this question in hand and follows it up
persistently until the end, will be deserving of
the country’s gratitude,

Lumbermen themselves, whose influence has
helped many a member to his seat, should
unitedly urge their representatives to agitate
this question.

The writer is too humble to hope for much
success through his pen, and in writing to you,
My. Editor, is prompted by a desire to induce
others who know of and deplore the loss the
Dominion is sustaining, to use their more able

furnishing affidavits, getting letters written,
often to no purpose, and finally having the
patent refused, forsooth, because some limit-
holder objects to the patent being issued.

As the fire inspector’s duties would be almost
nil, say from October to the end of April, in
averting fires, and as it would be desirable to
have him permanently in office, it might be
a condition of renewing licenses that all saw logs
and other descriptions of stuff, apart from square
timber perhaps, be measured and culled by the
inspector, exacting a certain rate from limit
holders. In many cases the poor jobber would
be protected by having his work guaged by a
sworn and disinterested man, and the revenue
would certainly not show a deficit thereby, but
the fee charged would go far towards paying
the inspector’s salary, and in some cases exceed-
ing it.

By some such system as here sketched, the
bush fires now causing such enormous loss to the
country might be lessened. It is to be desired
that others more able than the writer will see
the needed urgency of some remedy and draw
the attention of those in power to the matter.
Your obed’t serv’t,

JERSEY.

pens in urging the country to take this matter
earnestly in hand.

If not trespassing too far I would point out a
scheme which, from the observations of a life-
time passed in the woods, appears to me to be
feasible.

Let a special department for the preservation
of the forests be formed, under the present re-
spective Commissioners of Crown Lands, if the
case be taken up by the Provinces, and if not,
by the Dominion Government. This depart-
ment to have a chief at a sufficient salary, etc.,
to induce a competent man to accept the office.
Under, and appointed by him, let there be a
certain number of Head Inspectors, each having
an extensive district to superintend, in about
the same ratio as local Crown Land Agents are
now established, indeed, the two offices might
be combined. Under the head inspectors, fire
inspectors might be appointed at the rate of one
for each township, in the present “‘ fire district.”
These men, as well as their superiors, should be
sufficiently paid to induce men of good morality,
some education, and thoroughly acquainted
with bush life, to aspire to the place, and in the
free grant districts might be allotted say 1,000
acres of land within their beat as a homestead.

The principal duty of the fire inspector would,
of course, be to prevent fires from destroying
the forests, and upon their success or failure in
this should depend their retention of office ; but
besides, they should be perfectly familiar with

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS,
The following figures are furnished by the
Board of Trade, for the year 1881 :—
MONTH ENDED 31ST OCT,

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every lot in their beat (when located in suryey- Timber (Hewn) ves a .
ed townships) and should report on each lot to] Russia.......... toe ee 18,759 40,495
the head inspector, whether fit for cultivation, Sed omit = Norway. . Ph ‘jee
how wooded, etc., and if located by a settler | British North America 39,592 168,073
whether such settlement would endanger pineries | Other Countries..... «...... 37,829 86,583
adjoining. No pine lots should beopen for settle- Toke): .. asa see 190,662 485,705
ment. Nor should squatters be allowed to settle| Timber (Sawn or Split,

down and make clearings without permission Sen an er 167,371 438,102
granted by the head inspector of the distyjct, on | Sweden and Norway. . 245,730 608,589
his subordinate’s report. The present or future Chee ee err) 4
settler should not be allowed to burn his fallow

without a written certificate from the fire Total oy san ns se = net amd
inspector, and one condition of obtaining a free | Staves (all sizes) ..........-. 13,298 61,574
grant should be the obligation of being guided Raney a aes 73 be 1,004,984
by the fire inspector in matters of firing his TEN MONTHS ENDED 31ST OCT.

fallow. As by far the most destructive fires QUANTITY. VALUE.
are ie Bet —— either in bewsie= Timber (Hewn). Loads. 2.
camp fires to be left burning, or in setting ou IAs sees es ,

smudges to drive away the flies, inspectors, sheet bi Sweden page missle
whose beat would not require supervision in | British North America ,614

summer, because not settled upon, should be a es ee
detailed to accompany the drives and keep a Total. ...eseeeeeee seen 1,578,111» 4,038,569
sharp lookout that the law is enforced. ah rch peg a

Their duty it would also be to report to the | Russia......cse cece eeue 1,879,294
head inspector any infringement of the law, Sateaglonet adage gt ie ae
collect evidence, and furnish their superior | Other Countries............ 945,553
officer with facts upon which the latter would Rotel Ak «kc ee 7,419,964
prosecute delinquents without fear or favour. ——
A very few such prosecutions, with the enforce- ae = poner ean
ment of the penalties attached to the offence, Total of Hewn and Sawn 11,458,433

would soon and effectually check this source of
fires. Although the provinces derive a large
revenue from their forests, and might well
afford to be at some heavy expense in preserving
them, by forming a special department for the
purpose, yet I contend that it may be made, if
not wholly, at least to a large extent, self-
supporting, The Dominion Fisheries Depart-
ment shews us an example of a large staff of
employees at work, and yet bringing a revenue
to the country while preserving a source of
wealth to the country, the Inland Branch of
this department having been formed through the

Big Timber.

On the limits of Messrs. R. & G. Strickland, in
tho Township of Oakley, in Victoria County, in
the shanty of which Capt. Leon Dion is fore-
man, a liner named Lach. McLean recently
made in one day two pieces of timber, one forty
seven feet in length by thirty five inches girth,
and the other forty-five feet, by thirty-five
inches. Mclean is an old liner who has made
timber both in Michigan and Canada, and he
says he has never before made as big or as nice
timber as he is now making in Oakley.

Chips.

Av Phillips, Franklin county, Me., $15 a
thousand is being paid for white ash logs de-
livered at the mill. The timber is used for fork
handles,

Irv is estimated that there are fully half a
million saw logs lodged in bays and creeks along
the shores of the Ottawa River, and about 2,-
000,000 stuck in the Chats Rapids.

A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from the
Upper Ottawa district says there is ten inches
of snow on the Coulonge, about 180 miles north
of thiscity. Lumbering operations are progress-
ing favorably there.

Tr is stated that there is a project started in
Minneapolis, Minn., to utilize the sawdust from
the mills there, by mixing it with peat, grinding
the compound, and then moulding the product
into blocks of convenient size for fuel.

THERE has been a cypress tree felled in High
Hill Creek, Darlington county, S. C., by N. B.
Jordon, which measured 25 feet in circumference
at the butt. Two good axemen were four hours
and 50 minutes cutting it down.

HucH SuTHERLAND & Bro., of Winnipeg,
have sold out their retail business and intend
going into the wholesale and manufacture of
lumber only. They havelet a contract to a firm
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the erection of
a new steam saw mill to cut twenty million feet
per annum.

Iv is stated that the sales of spruce gum in
Maine aggregates each year over $40,000 ; col-
lected partly by men who make it a business,
but largely by lumbermen. This is a “‘ timber
product ” that we fancy has not figured exten-
sively in the reports, but it has been mighty
active in the moutha of the girls.

A TREE that was eight hundred feet in length,
ninety-six in circumference at the base, and
sound to the very heart, was felled in California
recently. Five men were twenty-two days in
doing the work. After it had been completely
severed by auger holes, it still stood unmoved,
and required blocks, pulleys, and tackling to
bring its proud head to earth.

THe Chicago Tribune says that from the
streams in the Saginaw lumber district there
was rafted during the season of 1881 a total of
856,592,000,000 feet of logs; handled by rail-
roads, 164,500,000. There is held back in the
several streams 430,000,000 feet, making a total
product rafted in sight of 1,451,557,617 feet, an
increase over the product of last year of 361,104, -
689 feet.

Tue Bradford Expositor says we are informed
that Messrs. Yates & Stratford, of this city,
made on the 7th of December, from Point Ed-
ward to Montreal, the largest consignment of
sawn white oak lumber ever made in Canada,
by one firm, at one time, viz.:—Two train loads,
consisting of forty-four cars, and that this firm
will have shipped of this material to different
parts of the Dominion and the United States
during the present year 1,500 car loads.

Tue dams erected at the falls at Bracebridge
by the Muskoka Slide, Dam and Boom Company
materially deteriorated the value of the water
power owned jointly hy Messrs. R. E. Perry
and T. Myers, who claimed from the Company
$2,500 as compensation, It was thought the
amount of compensation would have te be de-
cided on by arbitration, but the question has
been amicably settled without resort to this
method, by the Company agreeing to pay $1,750
to the claimants.

A. DESPATCH from Eau Claire says:—As near
as can be estimated, the lumber cut of the

LUMBERMAN.

THE CANADA

INLAYING WOOD BY PRESSURE,

An exchange says that a new method of in-
laying wood has been contrived by a furniture
house in England. The process is as follows :—
A veneer of the same wood as that of which the
design to be inlaid consists—say sycamore—is
glued entirely over the surface of any hardwood,
such as American walnut, and allowed to dry
thoroughly. The design is then cut out of a
zine plate about one-twentieth of an inch in
thickness, and placed upon the veneer. The
whole is now subjected to the action of steam,
and made to travel between two’ powerful cast
iron rollers, of eight inches in diameter by two
feet long, two above and two below, which may
be brought within any distance of each other by
screws. The enormous pressure to which the
zinc plate is subjected forces it completely into
the veneer, and the veneer into the solid wood
beneath it, while the zine curls up out of the
matrix it has just formed, and comes away
easily. All that now remains to be done is to
plane down the veneer left untouched by the
zine until a thin shaving is taken off the portion
forced into the walnut, when the surface, being
perfectly smooth, the operation will be complet-
ed. It might be supposed that the result of
this forcible compression of the two woods would
leave a ragged edge, but this is not the case, the
joint being so singularly perfect as to be unap-
preciable to the touch ; indeed, the inlaid wood
fits more accurately than by the process of
fitting, matching and filling up with glue, as is
practised in the ordinary mode of inlaying.

SHANTY LITERATURE.

Mr. J. J. Gartshore, of Toronto, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Young Men’s Christian Associ-
ation of Ontario and Quebec, writes to us en-
closing a copy of the following resolution passed
at the Convention in October at Cobourg :—

‘““RESOLVED,—That, recognizing the great
need for the distribution of good literature,
especially among the working classes in the
lumbering and other establishments where large
numbers of men are employed, this Convention
recommend that the Associations use every
effort to induce employers of these men to sub-
seribe for publications of a good character for
their use.”

Mr. Gartshore adds that the Executive Com-
mittee would gladly assist in any way those who
wish to do do something in the matter.

Cause AND Errrect.—The main cause of
nervousness is indigestion, aud that is caused by
weakness of the stomach. No one can have
sound nerves and good health without using
Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
the blood, and keep the liver and kidneys ac-
tive, to carry off all the poisonous and waste
matter of the system.— Advance.

Respect.—The Grey Hairs of oldagedemand
and should receive respect—but the Grey Hairs
of young people require attention—in the way
a pains Cingalese Hair Renewer. 50 cents per

ottle,

‘* PRIENDSHIP,” Cicero says, “‘is the only
thing in the world concerning the use of which
all mankind are agreed,” but all writers agree
that a good pen is a desideratum, and Ester-
brook’s will be found to be Al.

Macx’s Macneric Mepiorne is an unfailing
food for the Brain and Neryes, and by its re-
juvenating effects on these organs never fails to
cure nervous exhaustion and all weaknesses of
the generative organs. See advertisement in
another column.

Honrsty.—It is commonly said that you can-
not make an honest man believe that white is
black and vice versa, but those who have grey
hair by using the ‘‘ CincaLEse Harr RENEWER,”
will find that this apparent difficulty is easily
overcome, 50cents per bottle.

WHat 10 Stupy.—Pope, the poetical philo-
sopher, said ‘“UVhe proper study of mankind is

Chippewa Valley the past season will amount |™@n, and yet, how little is the real science of

to 300,000,000 feet, the greater portion of which
was sent to Mississippi markets via raft.
cut of the Eau Claire mills will reach nearly
150,000,000 feet. There are now at least 200,-
00),000 feet of logs in the Chippewa river, in-
Guding the amount in Beef Slough, that are
available. Half Moon Lake is full, and, with

man studied. If people understood and heed-
ed the laws of health. and if when out of sorts

The |\would resort to a common sense like Burdock

Blood Bitters, many of the “‘ills that flesh is
heir to ” might be effectually remedied. It in-
vigOrates and regulates all the secretions to a
healthy action.

THE SappEST or Sap Sr¢HTs—the grey hairs
of age being brought with sorrow to the grave

the amount in the different booms, there are|i8 now, we are glad to think, becoming rarer

20,000,000 feet. With a favorable winter, the
cut in the Chippewa Valley will not fall short
of 650,000,000 feet. The roads are in splendid
condition for snow, and there seems to be no
limit to the number of men going to the

pineries,

every year as the use of Cingalese Hair Re-
storer becomes more general. By its use the
scanty locks of age once more resume their
former color, and the hair becomes thick and
luxuriant as ever ; with its aid we can now defy
the change of years, resting assured that no
Grey Hair at any rate will come to sadden us,
50 cents per bottle,

PORTLAND FOUNDRY.
JOSEPH MCAFEE,

(Late ANous MCAFEE.)

Warehouse, Main St., St. John, N-B,

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Commission
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WHOLEBALE DEALE
Olear, Pickings, Common apd Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER.

J. K. POST & CO.

LUMBER MERCHANTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWEGO, N. ¥-,

——

J. & F. N. TENNANT

Dealers in all kinde of

Lumber, Lath & Shingies,
Office, Union Loan Building,
Toronto Street, Toronto.

S.S. MUTTON & Co,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

4£27P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALI
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. li

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT...

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83 King St. East, Toronto.

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LARGE DISCOUNTS.

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Goods sent by mail or
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Atarket Aeports,

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Dec, 23rd.—In looking back on the lumber
trade of Montreal for the past year we find that
a very fair amount of business has been done,
but with so much competition and high rates of
wages, it is doubtful if much money has been
made, It is difficult to speculate on the pros-
pects of the lumber trade for the incoming year,
but from all appearances prices are likely to
rule high in the early part of the year, as stocks

re low, and there is little prospect of their be-

g replenished for same time to come. The
nills are working full time, and although the
demand is only moderate, brisker times are
looked for at the opening of the New Year.
We advance our outside quotations for pine cull
deals and pine mill culls, and with these excep-
tions our quotations are unchanged. The
weather in this region is much against work in
the shanties, snow being much wanted to enable
them to get their timber out of the bush, We

quote :—

Pine, 1st quality, br ay seecrase, veseres Gor 00@40 00
Pine, 2nd Miecceccsennns . 18 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, ®@ M.. . 12 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, # M...... 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls} GH) MU a adonaobdcon0dna000 5 00@ 8 00
Spruce, @M........ nod 8 00@10 00
Hemlock, # M.. Hs Adib SHDIOOROL OG .... 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls: out, @M.......... 16 00@18 00
Bass, “ ®M..... ..... 14 00@16 00
Oak, @ M......5.. woudap oop vanaadoadouod 35 00@45 00
Tahoe KEP aanacan oacoesoon sees 17 00@20 00
Hard Maple, ®@M..... wae ... 18 00@25 00
Lath, @M..........5 nchadanabasgeoun00 1 25@ 1 35
Shingles, Ist, @M..... .....s Mslevaielelsisi-)-0 LOO @ 50000
Shingles, 2nd, 4 M..essse.scssssnceecers 2 00@ 0 00

Corpwoop.—The market is still dull and the
soft weather we are having proves detrimental
to business. Prices are steady and unchanged,
and there is very little prospect of any advance,
rather otherwise, as stocks are pretty heavy, and
the Q. M. & O. Railway is bringing in a large
quantity of wood, but the quality is inferior to
that received in summer by boats. We con-
tinue to quote prices at the railway depot, ex
cartage :—

Long Maple.....

Pee eee eee eerste esas aeeee sere

Short ‘‘

Long Birch

Short ‘

Long Beech

SOF agtooo CRORISOO f eee eens ondgednona scan B00
Long Tamarack. ...sssseccsenssses sesseveesess 4 50
Short WG) “tagadSuonosado gdadocogaonddn evens. “4 40

—<—__—__—_@—____
TORONTO.

From Our Own Correspondent,

Dec. 24th.—The mild weather during the
present month has enabled builders to prosecute
their work with as much vigor as at any time
during the present season, and lumber dealers
have therefore had a good time generally, and
few complaints are heard from any of the
dealers, except on the score of deficiency of bill
stuff, which is being felt more each day that
passes over, and will be more severely felt long
ere spring reaches us, and my firm conviction is
that bill stuff must advance at least one dollar
per M. above present figures. For many years
past bill lumber has ruled so low as to leave but
little margin to the manufacturer, and the re-
sult has been that mill men has turned their at-
tention more to the cutting of bill lumber, leay-
ing the manufacture of dimension stuff to those
whose pine is specially adapted to that purpose,
and the consequence is that we now have a
famine in that class of lumber, and builders
must pay more for such material in the future
if they expect to induce mill men to turn their
attention to the cutting of bill lumber. The
demand for lath is unabated and retailers readily
obtain $1.75 to $1.80 per M., carload lots com-
mand ready sale at $1.50 to $1.60, according to
width and quality, but should severe frost set
in, prices may recede somewhat. Considerable
lumber of the better grades has been shipped by
rail to Buffalo and other points during the last
two weeks, a good class of uppers realizing $32
to $33 per M. on car here, but as the holiday
season is now at hand we may look for a quiet
time for two weeks to come, and should the
weather continue mild we may then look for
considerable activity in lumber matters, and
should the remainder of the winter prove
favorable for logging purposes, a large trade
will be done next summer both over our docks
and on the local market,

All wood working machinery in the different

factories here are being worked to their fullest
capacity, large quantities of doors and sashes
being manufactured for different points in
Manitoba, and there seems no diminution in
the number of houses in course of erection, and
yet ready sale is found for them as fast as finish-
ed, so that viewing the prospects for the lumber
trade next season, there is little room for doubt
as to a highly successful year.

Prices at the different yards remain much the
same as when I last wrote to you, but the
figures asked by wholesale men would seem to
warrant a considerable advance on all grades of
lumber.

QUOTATIONS.
Mill cull boards and scantling...........++++++- $ 9 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 11 00
BLOCKS storie eliis)elaalais ofete/s)a\2i0)« clslats slvr 13 00
Scantling and joist, fap to 78 Bilietelalelete otelaiststela Anoon J(u)
Bb ateldls-aloleials)siniele seers 10°00
Od a (3 Ayia aiarsvstalsksiale¥e 13 50
G3 pe Ee Q2ttcssrssecsece . 14 00
9 Qs ty DESC alate isla iaa pina aie): DE
Sf fie a 26 ft. 2... seeeeeerrecee 15 50
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ft... .essseveer Wisse 16 00
a ek fs BOVE vip oretoiels ais kuislelataia st 18 00
eo es wy BZ Lb siciescieccvsvesiccee 19 00
Os ot ce By itgonnn oe Aanconoqd 20 00
dd se Kh SRG IRE Tataieialassi<lelaisininimicta iets 23 00
cs Es MG SS ittincia. clstele ey viet 25 00
wi ee Os A0 tO A4 16.0 5. 0.0. asee 30 00
Cutting up planks todry.....sseseeereeeeteeecs 18 00
OBIS: PSs Mijatesctelsieteletelsolelaistetslelatelane 16 00
Sound dressing Stocks. .....sssseesecesseseecees 15 00
Picks Am. inspection...... «= s sesee teevevie ++ 26 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection...... sccvvscescer B&4 00
B. M.
tt inch flooring, dressed..... tnteeseseve o a0 28 00
YOUSH isis sna aislele va apes stale catia 14 00
i ef EO) WGMEBEEC vieiniciaielelei0/e1« aleielals)eleinlstsiere 24 00
py as Undressed. csc... cscsccrsvevees 14 00
a Bang We sf dressed ... eases oe ye aisle piniaie) ate 20 00
“e OH MIMGNSSSC A sis aisyeicis/cletsielelsiala s[slsisi0re 15 00
Beaded Sheeting, dressed.......-++ee+ees cove. 20 00
lapboarding, dressed .........++ ieteiatereletelatsle 12 50
XXX sawn shingles, @M.......... eseeeee svese 2 80
XX sawn shingles........+ alatatevele ofefatey dtarste\ere 1s Wenerme OD
Sawn Dath........+0008 misisiols\aistolylMeyaieleeraipielieteln ia 1 75
—_—__.

LONDON, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent, —

Dro. 22.—It was my intention to furnish you
in this letter with a data of the consumption of
lumber in this city for the past year, but I find
it will be better to wait a week or two, when
the merchants will be through with their stock-
taking, and I shall then be.enabled to give a
more accurate statement. So that you may look
out for it in my next.

The weather in this section is almost as open
as spring, and the products of last year’s lum-
bering in all our particular bases of supply are
getting pretty well run out, consequently a
strong feeling prevails here that unless we have
at least a short season of a good old-fashioned
winter, lumber in the spring will be very scarce
and.as a result much higher.

One man up on the London, Huron & Bruce
Road, who got out over 300,000 feet last winter,
has cleared out every stick, and another who
got out 2,000,000 feet has very little left, and is
holding. This, however, is the general ery, all
stocks are getting very low, andthough I cannot
record higher figures just now, the tendency is
very much in that direction.

To-night the tenders for the new block of
wholesale stores are to be handed in, and I
shall know in a day or two in what direction
the lumber contract has been let.

At this date I cannot quote higher figures, so
that my last will be reliable quotations for this

letter. These prices, however, are understood
to be bottom cash figures.
QUOTATIONS,
Mill cull boards and scantling.............00se0s $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 11 00
10 and 12in. stocks,...... 11 50
Common boards, promiscuous widths.,......... 13 00
Scantling and joist, up TOMGG. iio eninn aie «ee. 14 00

18 ft....
“oe o “e
“ “oe Las 22 phe eae

“oe ae o 24 The ‘
Common stocks ...... eueneone
Common 2 in. plank..
Cutting up plank and boards
Sound dressing stocks.... ....
Clear and picks..........
Three uppers, Am. inspection,
inch dressed and matched flooring

tt “ce “ “e Aas 20 00
XXX sawn shingles, # M 290
Lath per 1000 feet...... Xo 4 00
eS
OTTAWA,

From our own Correspondent.

Dc. 22nd.—The weather of late has been ex-
ceedingly open in the Ottawa Valley, with no
snow on the ground in this section at the
present time, and lumbermen fear that the lack
of the ‘‘ beautiful ” will have a tendency to cur-
tail in a measure the quantity of logs and
square timber to be got out this winter; but
Vennor has promised ‘‘ snow ” before the season

is over, and it must come sooner or later, before
next summer anyway, and this will make lum-
bermen happier.

The lumber business is rather flat here just
now, as stocks here are low. ‘There is not near
so much lumber being held over by the mill.
owners of this locality as there was a year ago.
Bronsons & Weston have only about half as
much on hand as at this time last year, Eddy
and Gilmour & Co. also have reduced stocks,
Pevley & Pattee and J. R. Booth have nearly
the same amount as a year ago, as their season’s
cut was not reduced to a very great extent.
There are some shipments being made by rail
to the American markets, but the trade is not
very active, as lumbermen are now between the
two seasons, and business is quiet. The stocks
on hand have about all been disposed of, and
are shipped as desired. Lumbermen decline as
yet to estimate their cut of next season, as it is
too early, and they therefore decline to enter

‘into any contracts with dealers.

The prospect of another season’s good trade
in lumber is looked forward to by all parties in-
terested, and preparations are being made for it.
Lumbermen have nearly all sent a greater num-
ber of men into the shanties than they did a
year ago, but if the snow fall is light, there may
be low water again next summer, and consequent
trouble and loss experienced. Barge-owners
are anticipating a good season, and the barge-
builders at the Hull shipyard are busy at work
building some additional barges.

The electric light promises to be the saw mill
light of the future. McLachlin Bros., of Arn-
prior, intend to have their splendid new mill
lighted up by electricity, and have given an
order to the Maxam Co, for the necessary lights
and machinery. Mr. Peter McLaren, of Carle-
ton Place, has also ordered five lights for his
mill and grounds at Carleton Place.

Timber limits have increased in value of late.
Two or three years ago there was no sale for
them, and some of these who had them on their
hands felt the weight of them to carry through
to the end of the hard times. To-day there was
sold at the Grand Union House, in this city, by
auction, a 100 miles square limit on the Black
River, owned by Mr. James Findlay, for $60,-
000. Mr. Miller, of Pembroke, was the pur-
chaser, There were a good many lumbermen
present at the sale, considerable interest being
manifested.

During the past season 415,435 logs came
down the Gatineau River, together with 16,089
pieces of square and flatted timber, and 794
spars, being quite an increase over the quanti-
ties for the previous year, and greater than in
any preceding season.

The export of timber from Quebec was not so
great during the past season as in the previous
one, while over four and a half million feet of
square timber is held over, with a million and a
a half feet of white waney, and two million feet
of red pine. The timber product of the Ottawa
Valley this year was nearly double that of 1880,
and more still will be taken out the coming
season. There is quite a quantity—some half a
dozen rafts—laid up on the Upper Ottawa.

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ST. JOHN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Dec. 21.—It is no easy task to make up a
lumber report with the very scanty materials
at command at this season of the year. True,
our harbor is open and we have the same facili-
ties for shipping as in July, but with the sources
of supply closed, and the stock on hand reduced
to a minimum, there is little left to be done.

DEALS.

As noticed in our last report, all the available
stock having been bought up, there are no trans-
actions in deals to report at this writing. The
prospects for the future appear to be that the
price of deals the coming year will rule higher
than for some time past—the latest transactions,
of course, excepted. It seems to be agreed on
all hands that the log supply will be much be-
low the average ; this, together with the fact
that old stocks are pretty well cleared out, and
the improving prospects of the English market,
would seem to indicate that the expectations of
higher prices next year are well founded.

FREIGHTS,

We have nothing to add to our remarks under

this head in our last,

SHIPMENTS.
The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber
are as follows :—
NOX PULDC ncemsesevesessesseexs 3,630,000 Sup. feet.
“ United States.........0.-+0++ 1,398,000 “d
‘© West Indies.....+se+0++--+++. 233,000 id
The number of sugar box shooks shipped for
Cuba from Sept. 1st to date is 34,856.
SHIPPING.
The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :-—
Atlantic, 412, Liverpool, Fleetwood or Barrow.
Emily Lowther, 762, Liverpool.
Rialto, 1,530, Liverpool.
Arabella, 1,100, London.
Henry, 1,095, Liverpool.
Etta Stewart, 787, ——
Cambusdoon, 1,200, Bona (Afr.) orders.
Carrick Castle, 878, Adelaide, orders.
Magdala, 215, Bristol Channel.
Linden, 913, Liverpool or Bristol Channel.
Souvenir, 828, Liverpool. ;
Gettysburg, 1,015, Adelaide, for orders.
Templar, 778, discharging.
Antwerp, 573, Penarth Roads.
Torryburn, 448, discharging.
Oscar Ist. 650, ——
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ALBANY.
Dec, 22.—Quotations at the yards are as fol-
lows :—

Pine, clear, @ M..... ..... o owe ete #53 00@63 00
Pine, fourths. ........20sec0¢ sesscccesene 48 OO@5S 00
Pine, Selects... .\cccrcscoeveon eeeees.. 43 0O@53 00
Pine, good Dox. <. s:06 cee rn cenaneene «++. 18 00@30 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each... s+. e+++0- 00 38@00 42
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, see ssee- 00 20@00 22
Pine boards, 10-in........ aaeeaae eeeees. 00 26@00 28
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.....-.++...--+-- 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., ep em pee 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft.........«ses0-++ 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, ISft...... seseeeseess 28 00G@38 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.......+-++se000 00@42 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... .....++-- 16 00@19 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.....i.e+ee+.--+- 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........-- 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, each........ onbebscaaeee 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each. » ssecess.- 00 CO@OO 20
Spruce, plank, 2in., each.'.s Seeds «.... 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each.........++.+.+-- 00 11@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each..........0+.+--++ 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.........+++---- 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 2hx4, each ......602++.- 00 OO@OO 14
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 11
Ash, good, Cs. Se wots keane cee -+. 35 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, 8 M..........-2008 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, @ M........ bes cnb ssh keuee 60 00@70 00
Cherry, common, @ M... «0+ ..-+-seenee 25 00@35 00
Oak, good, Cb ee ouuvatdencnupe 38 00@43 00
Hat — aed Bis uvcacvepsceane 20 00@25 00
History eM ey oun scicewou aes 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @ M..-......... useesecce 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M........ eneeseees 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, BM. voce s0ccvesscnveses severe. 35 0O@40 00
Shingles, "shaved, i yl rene wun tke ea 0 00@ 6 25
zx ‘* 2nd quality....... evecnasccess) GENE OD

«extra, ose pine. oxenkaeeene - 0 00@ 4 40

Bs clear, 0 ee 0 00@ 8 40

“¢ Cedar, mixoll.. 5c sussnuuueenee 0 00@ 3 30

BE cbdar, REX. s. £5 alee ee sesee-. 0 00D 4 00

Lo hemlock. sc.v< ssacscessonsuaes 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @ M...ccsocecceesssveous 0 00@ 1 62
Lath, spruce, “* eeeeeeseeeeensserenes 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, EVI te 0 0O@ 2 00

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CHICAGO,

Dec. 21.—The arrivals by lake since our last
report have consisted of but a few straggling
vessels. The aggregate receipts by both lake
and rail reached during the past five days but a
little over 5,000,000 feet of lumber, and 2,690,000
shingles, bringing the total receipts of the season
to 1,846,819,000 feet of lumber, and 783,401,000
shingles. This is an excess of 33,234,000 feet
for lumber and 149,344,000 shingles above
the receipts of 1880, and while ten days of the
current year still remain, and will no doubt in-
crease the excess to some extent, yet they are
practically near enough to determine the net
results of the season’s work in receiving lumber
at this port. This extraordinary increase, how-
ever, is wholly offset by the equally astonishing
figures of sale and shipment, which having
reached 1,871,133,000 fect of lumber and 868,-
852,000 shingles, reveal an increase in the former
of 357,781,000 feet and in the latter of 131,-
388,000. The following are the

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Joistand scantling, green,ordinary lengths$12 00@12 25
Joist and svaniiiie, eee 20 feet and over 14 00@16 25
Mill run, choice green..... 19 OO@23 00
Mill run, medium, green wes. 16 OO@IY 25
Mill’run, common,

Shin: Jes, standard Semon aktenc envseegnah 2 75@ 2 80
Shingles, BRERA Aids vee cee Casnncenee 2 8@ 2 90
MAB Di veins on vetonsieens seis diese Ceqete cece 2 125@ 2 25
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BOSTON.
CANADA PINE,
Selects, Dressed... 6.6. eee cence eee e ee eees $

Shelvi ving, Dressed, Ists..

Qnds.. ws
eevat" Tatae
Dressed Bo:

a

od

OSWEGO, N.Y.

Dec, 24th,—The demand for lumber is much
larger than was ever before known at this season
of the year. Assortments are already very
much broken, the stocks of upper grades are
fast disappearing, and dealers have difficulty in
filling orders in anything better than common
lots of millrun. The following are the quota-

ions :—
Three UPPeLS.....seseee reer eseeeseeeces $42 00@45 00
RickIDE SE Ae eee aoe eae pe .. 32 00@35 00
Fine, COMMON .........e eee e terse eres 20 00@25 00
(0/0) 1100000): Snes -. 14 00@18 00
CTHL LSet syoeroiovataterniare clalavws lain'alererertPoversvererelevends OO@LD: 00
Mill rum Jots...........ceeeeer ec eneeceee 17 00@22 00
Sidings, selected, linch.........+ ..- 34 00@38 00
1093110 RSA REDOUDUCOOrOn 34 00@38 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet 17 00@21 00
BEIECEEGs «ioe ne) sos einieis 23 00@25 00
shippers........--+.05- 15 00@16 00

.. 23 00@32 00

Culls, selected. ......e.eeeeee
URereicle vials olcjelcie «icioja vie ae se ain v.s\ele/bialereyiain 13 00@15 00
1x6 selected for clapboards.......s+s.+-- 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... rotates 3 85@ 3 90
XX, se GF 7 podonadonatook 2 80@ 3 00
XXX, 18 inch, cedar J 3 00@ 3 30
’ se (CS Sonudooseouoed 2 25@ 2 50
Maat NU prelate ieraistnictetarall sins! siefcie)sinie\c.ciajeisleie s\einjeia 0 1 40@ 1 60

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TONAWANDA.

CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION. ‘
Three uppers.....+..- $40 00@45 00

Common.,......++ 17 50@20 00
RIS tain en oe as ... 11 50@12 50
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BUFFALO.

We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers. ....sscseerscecscevececes Seine mere $40 00@45 00
Common. sci... = 8 nn Scio a etio Seite 17 50@20 00
GUTS Fae cetice ltienicsivwac sencetcuvcesece 11 50@12 50
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LIVERPOOL.

Duncan, Ewing & Co.’s circular, dated Liver-
pool, 3rd December, 1881, quotes the arrivals
since Ist February to date in the last three
years from Quebec thus :—In 1881, 103 vessels,
76,968 tons; in 1880, 130 vessels, 119,587 tons ;
in 1879, 77 vessels, 64,966 tons. Their compara-
tive table of supplies since 1st February to date,
in the last three years, shows the import of
Quebec pine timber to be:—In 1881, 30,159
logs ; in 1880, 45,544 logs ; in 1879, 22,674 ; Que-
bec deals, in 1881, 1,227,247 pieces; in 1880,
1,755,583 pieces ; in 1879, 991,956 pieces. They
say there has been a more satisfactory business
done during the past month than has been ex-
perienced since the season commenced, and the
stocks held over (with the exception of pitch
pine) are in the aggregate much more moderate
than they were at this period last year, whilst
the consumption of square timber for the month
is almost double that of November, 1880.

CANADIAN FREIGHTS.

The London Timber Trades Journal has an-
other long article in favor of ‘“‘ Canada, its
people, and its produce.” It concludes as fol-
lows :—As a corn-producing country the Do-
minion of Canada may be considered yet in its
infaney, but in respect of its timber production
it is already prepared to supply the outside
world to any extent that may be required, and
its export is yearly increasing. The importation
into this country from British North Americ
was in 1878 1,224,051 loads, in 1879 (a bad year)
the quantity fell to 1,101,020 loads, but in 1880
it rose to 1,507,662 loads. Russia and Scandi-
navia, the other two sources of our chief sup-
plies, during the same time sent us as follows :—
Russia, 1878, 1,237,026 loads; 1879, 898,509
loads ; and 1880, 1,397,287 loads ; Sweden and
Norway in 1878, 1,921,573 loads ; 1879, 1,843,283
loads ; and in 1880, when a dearth of timber
was to take place in those regions, 2,267,082
loads. The quantity sent to this country by
the three shipping counties just enumerated and
summarized for the three years was :—

From Russia.......-...++006 2,532,780 loads.
BB, ASMNCTICH cc ccrcvccsccsscce 3,832,733 **
BCANGINAVIA..ccscesscccsecee 6,021,938 ‘*

By which figures it will be seen that our North
American colonies, though more remote, send
us 50 per cent. more timber than Russia, in-
Ouding Finland, and nearly two-thirds of the
quantity we get from Norway and Sweden,
many of whose chief shipping ports are within
four or five days’ sail of our shores. Were there
any mode of equalizing the expense of trans-
mission, the colonial trade in timber with us
would be much greater, but the high rate of

freight in proportion to value embarrasses their’

trade with Great Britain, On corn 5s, on 40s,

THE CANADA

is about the freight from Canada to this country,
but on timber about 20s. on 40s, ; for instance,
65s. per standard in paid on spruce deals, many
of which do not realize £6 10s. at market, clear
of landing and other charges.

From these figures it will be seen that on low

class wood goods the freight from the Gulf of
St. Lawrence is 50 or 60 per cent. of the selling
value on arrival in this country, while from
Norway it is not over 25 per cent.
1st pine deals, which fetch £20 and upwards
to sometimes £25, the freight is not so prohibi-
tory, as these pay no more for carriage than the
roughest scantlings.
be 18 to 20 per cent. on the selling value.
on best goods from Norway, such as prepared
flooring, the average freight will only be 15 or
16 per cent.
under which the timber trade of Canada labors
in its European export, we can easily under-
stand how great would be its expansion in the
United Kingdom under a more equalized sys-
tem,

On Quebec

Even then the freight will
But

When we see the disadvantages

MUSKOKA AND PARRY SOUND.

From Our Own Correspondent.
BRACEBRIDGE, Dec. 24th.—The following is a

statement of this season’s cut of saw logs and
board timber, as near as it can be got at now,
for the districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound :

Muskoka Mill and Lumber Co...... ....++
British Canadian L. and T. Co..

20 millions
5 PRY oe

RRS Bowers screaeissiveee > Lb ne
Brentwood Lumber Co... 5 oe:
Georgian Bay Lumber Co......-+.sseeeee 42 ee
ene RUE ASULE vieleietatiiere:nisinlaleloselets(eleialsie/sinis ».e)slein 8} es

TEU aogeoora: platoonocoodotossnOonotUCOt 10 os
(GE Metay) ONataevate sbekerels avelnjet et ta\elieletelehs/»jr/lelofetaiarnyo 4 e
Downainion Banks on siaieice2i.cle). 6 placcraleeininie 9) 4g i‘
Vinny dibiieawoouou snd emooodoogpeadgorcodue 4 Sp
OPIS Enero Us se HO ADDOORS BAO EES ONC o 4 “cf
Thompson & Baker........ sesseeeeeeees 3 “
Woodstock Lumber Co,..... ..5. eeereeee 6 se
We OOCMDULDN: cle aja ws feaiels wis wlainio) nmin #1a/ ein) « 6 eS
Parry Sound Lumber Co...... -.+++5 eee 15 4
OUPATIO BAW Ke cece ccesisinese ele) aisles en's 10 oy

Plier le seeker icrcicst- = + vee ole sivialoinin oi nisl jer 5 hs
De WEEDON ites ates s/aie sreleis\wieleiiate «'siais 'o)s)e a\r'vP> 9 ee
(Gia ces nedueore BoupotDony podue wong 3 ss

SumdryiOtherg. 2. iccreese cs ee ee ee ene ne 5 gs

Bio herlerefatelecchereleteietetoleterwlolelalsielevsierela\elsieisiccs 195 millions.

R. Dollar, for American markets, two million

feet of long, round timber, also board timber as
follows, in cubic feet :—

S. S. Cook, including what was stuck last year. 485,000
McAsER Gr BYOS wie copes duc slnialo ens ee eucecsis 100,000
Siisvulieitl edie aindo cto Seen Ob UI 8 6 cea 100,000
RPM LOOM SUI cates tle) le s/alel is/s\eleivin)s\e »1+\s\als/ele\sio\e\r\ sia 150,000

John Durkin.......0.0.00+ Sete ictoleg erate eoniat 50,000
Burton Bros. oc00c evens ces sv erecinetsereaen 200,000
And on the north shore—
McArthur Bros.... 100,000
Robert Dollar 300,000
0. F. Wright 100,000
M. McDugall........:escecesveerevssseeeeecs 150,000
TUS GR tecond Ch cen C IR ReE coe ee eden once 1,735,000

At present we have no snow, consequently no

hauling, and the prospects are poor for any
goon, so the above figures may not be realized,
but the cutting and skidding is nearly all done.
Men are very plentiful now, and wages have
dropped about four dollars per month.

Tuer Exvecrric LIGHT, superceding as it does
all other modes of illumination, and rivalled on-
ly by the glorious sunshine, will not be hailed
with greater joy by mankind, than Burdock
Blood Bitters, which is as far superior to all
other blood purifiers and tonics as the electric
light is superior to the old-fashioned tallow dip.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures scrofula, and all
foul humors and impurities of the blood,

LEATHE!
BELT

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MON TR HAT

LUMBERMAN.

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1117

ADAM McKAY

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Fingines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, NS.

John McGregor & Sons,

UNION FOUNDKY

STATIONARY,
MARINE, and
LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS,
And SHEET IRON WORK.

Union Street, - - - Carleton,
Warerooms, Water Street,

ST. JOHN, N. B.
Allan Brothers

(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

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Steam Engines

AND

WILL MACHINERY.

Ships Windlasses, iron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS or all _kinds.

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves
COOKING AND HEATING

SEO Vi Bis,

Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins,

Portable Boilers for ‘threshing Machines, Shingle
Mills, etc., furnished on short notice. All Boilers
tested by cold water pressure to 150 lbs. to the square
inch before leaving the shop,

SECOND-HAND MACHINERY

BOUGHT, SOLD, OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR
NEW WORK.

pas Repairs Promptly Attended to.

Agricultural Implements.
188 Atwater Street, Detroit, Mich. —

BRANCH SHOP, BRASS CASTINGS.

Cor. Glengarry Ave. & Stuart St. Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware for SHIP and
111 WINDSOR, ONTARIO4! 3,18 HOUSE use.

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LUMBERMAN.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.
Cash advanced on Goods put in for sale. #%No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &c., &e,

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ROBIN &

Mill Supplies, é&c.

~
Wrought Iron shanty Cook Stoves

The Best Article ever offered to the Trade.

I have much pleasure in drawing attention tomy WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,>
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
Iron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 x 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with twolovens, each 16
xX 24x 26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do,

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PETERBOROUGH, May 8], 1880.

_ Ayam HALL, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing Operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stoye 1 have ever
used. You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.

Yours truly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

The Stove for Lumbermen,
PETERBOROUGH, June Ist, 1880.

.,, Apam HAut, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find
it is very satisfactory for lymber operations, especially so on drives, We can recommend it highly.
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.

PETRRBOROUVGH, June 8rd, 1880.

A. Tian, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
Stant use ever since last fail, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO, HILLIARD, M.P.

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties suppied at the Lowest Prices.

1L7

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STHAM BOTLHRS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

1115

ESTABLISHED 1874, ESTABLISHED 1874.

‘AGME ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
lildinnhant GRUEEN ST. EAST
AAA A Math isha

Norman's Electro Curative Appliances

RELIEVE AND CURE
Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
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Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.
Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price.

A. NORMAN, Esa.,
Dear Sir,—PJease send me a waist belt. Enclosed find price.
has almost cured her of neuralgia, Yours truly,
Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy
the attentiog ofall sufferers. Circulars free. No charge for consultation.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto.

N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best in America, and Electric Batteries always on hand at
reasonable prices, 1112

ABRAMS & KERR

MANUFACTURERS OF .

Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER

Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting.

1119

WATERVILLE, N. B.
Head band I got for my wife
C. L. TILLEY.

Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road,
ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

OAK HALL

Nos. 115, £17, 119, 121, King St. East, Toronto.

We are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada.

We carry a STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to choose from.

We wateh the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the
very best goods in Scoteh, English and Canadian Tweeds.

We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business
on very SMALL PROFITS.

NOTE THE PRICES.

We give a Good Tweed Suit for..--......-$6 00
We give a Good Tweed Pants for....-.-.- 150
We give a Good Overalls for ..-.+..++.-... O 35

LUMBERMEN!

When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with &
Good Suit, Remember the address:-OAK HALL, the Great One Price Clothing
House; Toronto, opposite St, Jame’s Cathedral, ns

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 13

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CAN ADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-"Treasurer. Superintendent

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
S © > 3-3) Ge = Oo Be &

NDOUM WHEELS

\ And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are .
Wire Strengthened | : :

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

— They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. | MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST, CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

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Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners, Lumber Merchants,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

“ane Brothers Box Mill,

Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, N. 8.

SPRUCE, PINE? HEMLOCK SHINGLES

N. H. DRAKE.

HH. DRAKE. 117

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Awe ELECTROTYPER.

46 King Street, ST. JOHN, NB.

te NEWEST DESIGNS AND BEST WORK. A

wee MACHINE CUTS A SPECIALTY.

PARKHER & HVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity

keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.
It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.
In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

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J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

Saws.of all kinds manufactured from
the BEST CAST STEEL that can be
procured in any Market.

EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
and on Short Notice.

Send Address for Price List, Terms, &c.
1117 J. F. LAWTON.

STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS

Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association

HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.
SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President. GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.
HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres. A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer. 1-13
See

WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)

MANUFACTURER OF

lidge Tools, Axles, Springs,

&C., OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

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Robertson Place, Smythe Street - ST. JOHN, N.B.

LUMBERMENS STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber

Siamiic sand! Olnces at City prices.

All Printing done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices,

Book-Binding of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to. any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & CO,

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,”

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

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HAMILTON, ONTA

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RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
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COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &c., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery
Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all
kinds. £®&Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

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GEORGE BRUS

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,

MAKER OF

Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &c., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR 1120

‘Water's’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s’”’ Centrifugal Pumps

lutions per minute on 10 to 15
th two sets of Bitts,

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With Interchangeable Trenton Teeth.
BROWN’S PATENT SPALT MACHINE

les out of inch board. Cuts Shingles out of slabs and all manner of refuse. Will soon pay

Write McLachlan Bros., Arnp:
Bitt, and 2-66 inch Hoe Saws—running 800 revo!
inch feed—s00 reyolntions per minute ; cut 500,000 feet wi

S inch feed. Also, E, E. Parson’s, Arnprior, running 60 on Brooke Bitt on6 |
costing less than $10,00.

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MONTREAL.
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Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING
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16 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, cesting $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was so uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes jn stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-elgths of all in use are beveled,

Tne principal sizes are:

12x )
10x} 12x
8x4 E
8x2 \ ? in. hole, ee \ # in. hole, = | Fa Pee
8x3 10x8 f 12x
12x

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x? are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and§this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale, 3

A QUESTION! OF Ov Aware

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality 1s the best. We prefer for almost every use an
“(Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities 2o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanite Wheel of similar quality. Our regular
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels Is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are ‘Class 2.
It cuts fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the “ Pocono.” -

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as “ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer eutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It 4s both Jiner in grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gum ming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Illustrated Cireulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 1L8

The Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania

CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED.
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CIRCULAR SAW MILL MACHINERY !
STEAM FEED! ee 86s

Sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Circulars
I would also call special attention to my

for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used In a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gum-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

Horizontal Engines and Boilers

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam
Feed, having put inseveral which are giving the best of sat-
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880,
WM. HAMILTON, Fsq,, Peterborough.

DEAR SIR—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it is admitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put it into my
mill, 1 have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
Jonging to it. I can eut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute.
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. Iam thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
eutting long or short logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put itin.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst,

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: = , = Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
: ii I fit == with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
! IM i) | i - Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or lange
| | | = Factories of any Kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel
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ToRonToO, August 11th, 1880 hi ! | | | justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish
WM. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont . ; ; : | | ! | HI WGA Whe . on this Engine will be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
: ; : — i WHAT I Hitt }

DEAR StR—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen- = ——— = ANA WAR tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.

i = A I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power

didly. Yours, &c,, —
per hour. hut

WILLIAWE ELADIIL TON,

PHTHBRBOROQUGH, ONT.

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VOL. 2.

HEMLOCK,

Of this wood, Mr. E. Jack, of Fredericton, | stead of being retained under one head.

says:—We are beginning in New Brunswick
to pay a little more attention to the subject of
hemlock than ever before, although the lumber-
men of St. Stephens have been fully alive to
its value for some time past. One of them in-
formed me that last season he had received
$5,000 stumpage for the bark on two million
feet, board measure, of hemlock logs.

One of the principal builders in Fredericton,
Mr. Mitchell, says of this wood :—‘‘ For com-
mon kitchen furniture, I believe that the best
of hemlock might be used very advantageously,
indeed, I think it is the best soft wood which
we have for such purposes, pine, of course, ex-
cepted. It does not warp nor shrink so uch
as spruce, and is easier worked. I have never
made any coarse furniture from it as yet, but
I am sure that it might be used to a considerable
extent for such purposes. For building material
£ might be used much more than it is. In 1851
I built a brick house in Fredericton, and put in
hemlock for all the flooring joists, and I think
that there are no better floors in Fredericton to-
day. Hemlock is superior to spruce for rough
boarding or for board fencing, as the boards can
be got wider than spruce, and do not require so
many nails, and are not so liable to warp as are
those made of spruce. It dries very fast and
does not shrink quite as much as either spruce
or pine. Hemlock might also be used used for
the inside furnishing of houses, and is a very
pretty wood when well oiled and varnished.”

A GOOD EXAMPLE. 3

From advance sheets of the Report of the
Department of Agriculture of the United States
just received, we notice our go-a-head neigh-
bours are taking the bull by the horns with re-
gard to forestry. Finding the vast and increas-
ing importance of this branch of the service has
so outgrown its limits, and requires so much care
and attention, the Commissioner of Agriculture
formed it into a distinct division, to be devoted
entirely to the investigation of such subjects as
will lead to the fullest development of the re-
sources of the country in this respect.

This new office will have in view the best
means of checking the wasting away of the large

timber areas, the maintenance of the forest.

lands, by protection, replanting, and by the
dissemination of such information as will assist
a6 far as possible all the various interests involy-
ed in this industry.

Tn furtherance of this design, an agent of the
Department has been sent on a mission to
Enrope to investigate the organizing and work-
ing of experimental forest stations, schools of
forestry, private tree-planting, and the aid
afiorded by the government to the business of

It is perhaps unfortunate that at the time of
Confederation the timber interests of Canada

were handed over to individual provinces, in-
A
more united action and supervision could then
haye been had over this vast source of Canadian
wealth. It is well known that Britain and the
United States are large buyers of timber from
this country ; and the North West is also des-
tined to require an almost unlimited supply.
Already houses-have been shipped from the

Ottawa mills by rail to Winnipeg, ready for |

putting together when they reach their destina-
tion. With these considerations in view, it is
impossible to foresee the result should our pine
forests give out before they can be renewed.
The large advance over former years given for
timber berths at the sales this autumn already
indicate that timber is getting scarce. Surely
the approaching Ontario session will not pass
over without something being done in the shape
of protecting our pine lands froin pillage and
from bush fires, and in taking into consideration
some method, or devising some means for re-
planting our lands already stripped of their
forest wealth.

Mr. Burke’s able prize paper on forestry,
which we printed at the time, has already treat-
ed on these subjects, and we only wish to call
attention in this issue as to what the Americans
are doing, so that Canada may not be left be-
hind hand in the preservation of her woods and
forests.

TREE CULTURE.

The return of Prof. F. B. Hough from Europe
is announced, and to the majority of readers the
announcement conveyed their first knowledge
that the Agricultural bureau has a division of
forestry, of which he is the head. For seven
months he has been studying the schools of
forestry in various continental countries of
Europe, and, having brought back a large col-
lection of material. he proposes to make recom-
mendations to congress for planting, preserving,
and maintaining forests on the prairie and
desert lands of the west. Some progress has
already been made in tree culture in this coun-
try. A few states, by exemption from taxes and
otherwise, have sought to arouse an interest in
the subject, but for the most part local and
voluntary organizations have done all the work.
In 1876, B. G. Northrop, secretary of the Con-
necticut board of education, distributed a circu-
lar among the schools of that state suggesting,
as a good centennial movement—not to end soon
but to be continued—an annual tree-planting on
the highways. He said then, in a pamphlet re-
viewing the various educational topics, that
George B. Emerson, author of the work on
“The Trees and Shrubs of Massachussets,”
had, during that year, imported and planted
more than 30,000 European larches of two years’
growth from the seed, That tree, long one of
the chief timber trees of Europe, was pro-
nounced by the, Boston and Albany railroad,

after 15 years’ trial of it in ties, as dura: e as
red cedar, and the Illinois Central road offered

to carry the European larch gratuitously to any |

point on its lines, provided the trees were to )e

planted near the ines. Many millions of this

tree and of the Scotch pine (said to be the best |

tree for poor soils) are growing in the west, and
(said this pamphlet) ‘‘in the new aboretum he-

longing to Harvard college, situated in Brook- |

line, and including over 130 acres, are now
growing over 200,000 small trees started from
the seed, including 93 varieties of evergreens,
450 of deciduous trees and shrubs, and 34 of
oaks.” Connecticut, in 1877, passed a law ex-
empting from all taxation whatever, for a term
of ten years after an average of six feet in height
had been attained, any plantation of any eight
trees named, provided that the lands so used
had not heretofore been woodland ; that it was
not actually worth more than $15 per acre at
the time of planting, and that the trees num-
bered at least 1,200 to the acre. In Massachus-
setts a draft of a bill is ready for the legislature,
which provides that whenever any town devotes,
by proper legal form, any part of its area to tree
culture, and whenever the appropriation for
buying this tract, plus donations, equals the as-
sessed value of the real estate included, the
tract shall become 2 public domain, the title to
vest in the commonwealth, but the tract to be
perpetually held for the benefit of the town,
subject to some restrictions unnecessary to quote;

‘| the act shall not apply to any tract of less than

500 acres, unless adjoining some other tract
which will make that area of continuous public
domain. <A state board of forestry is also pro-
vided for.

The foregoing only shows the drift of feeling,
and is by no means a>complete sketch of the
organized movement which has resorted to
statutes and to work through fair and similar
associations. The best work, because the
speediest and most contagious, is probably that
of the village improvement society. Thus, an
item we have previously quoted from the
Springtield Republican, a year or two old, reads
that ‘‘the Williamstown Improvement Society
finished last week its tree-planting, and there is
now a continuous row of 450 elms for three
miles from the village to the North Adams line.
It asks North Adams people to continue the
row to their village.” It is natural for North
Adams to do so, and for other villages to imitate
the example set. Here is probably the most
effective plan, needing only that some public
spirited person in every village should stir
about and make the start. But, as we have
already remarked, the tree lines should not
stop where the village ends; they should be
continued until all the highways become leafy
lanes. The work is no very arduous one, re-
quiring only co-operation and concerted action,
“Tree planting day ” may be made one of the
most delightful in the year, That the mud will

not dry so quickly on a shaded road is true, but
it is an error to assume the necessity of having
the mud there. The trees will naturally beget
a desire for good roads, which do not include
mud and sand, and the farmer who has intelli-
gence to value a tree except to fell it will not be

long in discovering the economic value of good

roads, even when they cost something.

Do trees pay? In part an answer may be
had to this if we suppose wood capable of being
mined, fruit and nuts growing on vines, and
the earth to become treeless. Where trees are
wanting is desert ; where they will grow other
vegetation will, and their cultivation is able to
remove sterility in many places, Civilization
makes a mistake in viewing the forest as an
enemy merely because it had the soil first. and
counts too much on the axe and fasces as a sym-
bol of progress ; trees are closely linked with
high civilization, comfort, prosperity and edu
cation, and the rule should everywhere be that
trees should be wherever the soil is not needed
otherwise—this would allow all the room want-
ed by cultivation, while retaining forest and
vhade. The close connection between rain-fall,
drought and trees is becoming seen, their in-
trinsic value is second only to that of minerals,
and no investment yields so well, for their first
cost is unappreciable. Nor is it necessary to
base their culture solely on regard for posterity,
which has never done anything for us, because
a decade or so will make them useful to their
planters. Hard and slow work as it is to start
public movements which do not appeal especial-
ly to private interests—for example, in the
matter of the Niagara Falls international park
and the Adirondack reservation in this state—
there is gratifying progress in tree culture. An
evidence of it is the enlightened selfishness
which has led some railroad companies to erect
tasteful station buildings and to beautify them
cheaply by little flower beds as well as to cis-
cover the practical utility as well as pleasanter
appearance of a grassy road-bed. Trees are a
cood part of the original plan of the world, and
it is sensible to dis¢over that their destruction
and repression are no improvement upon it.—
NV. Y. Times.

QUEBEC TIMBER VESSELS.

The following is a comparative statement of
sailing vessels cleared at the Port of Quebec,
for sea, (lumber laden,) in 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877,
1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, from the opening to
close of navigation, compiled by Mr. F. John-
ston, Quebec Exchange :-—

1874...... 854 Vessels. .....+ 638,672 tons.
1875. weve 642 ‘Si Races 478,441 “
1876 786 ie mee S555 624,110 ‘“
1877 woes 796 be aR a 670,627 *“*
1878...... 476 a 399,833 <*
1879...... 433 Se 89 oases 364,628 **
TSROL. sien One See RR 555,451 “*
1881.. 459 be waxes, (COO LOE n=

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. ~

THE FINER MANIPULATION OF LUMBER.

To what extent is it profitable to work up
lumber at the saw-mill, is a problem which has
puzzled the wisest brains of a proverbially wise
class of men. From the increased cost of logs
which the past few years has developed, it has
been no less a problem with manufacturers to
throw the least possible quantity into the saw-
dust heap and slab pile, than to make the most
of the manufactured product, and to utilize to
the most advantageous extent the inevitable
debris. The question of planing at the saw-
mill, of making box shooks, sash, door and

light handles, on account of its toughness,
where pine would prove a failure, but no one
would make from pine anything which required
greater strength than a curtain roller, and it
would not require the debris of many mills to
fully supply the demands of the market. Board
ends and the thicker slabs are, to a large extent,
now made available for the manufacture of
shingles by means of Spalt shingle machines,
and while it will pay any mill of any great
extent, to run one of these machines in the

| utilization of its waste, such as broad ends,

thick and meaty slabs, and in saving the sound

and the resultant debris is simply an edging, fit
only for firewood, but some of these are saved,
tied up with a piece of marlin into bundles and
sold, It is in this closer manufacture, rather
than in the utilization of the waste into smaller
articles, that the finer manipulation question is
to find its practical solution.—WNorthwestern
Lumberman,

8T, JOHN, N.B., EXPORTS.

The Daily Telegraph gives the following list
of clearances of lumber laden ships from St,
John, N.B., during December, 1881 :—

blinds, has been well considered and thorough- end of the core which comes from hollow butts, ~ E) : | 2
ly experimented with, and while many of the | We would not advise anyone whose mill is not a a oe
experimenters are. still striving to make their | Convenient to a dense population to depend :

earlier ideas upon the subject not only practi- | UP? making a profit from working slabs into = : 8 | 3
cable but profitable, by far the greater number | Shingles. On this point it must be admitted “

have abandoned the project, and sold or thrown | that location cuts the principal figure. The 3

away their machinery. The fact has become | Consumer on the prairie in many cases wants a S 2282358888395 /3
patent to all, that no profit can he derived from cheap shingle, and does not scrutinize sap. The OS) ket eo et wor s
any manipulation of forest products at a point, | 1ealers of the West make no difference between ges SS, aes. Se eee,
when, by reason of heavy freights and expenses | ® bastard shingle and those cut “rift.” With Be ane pi NL ay ie 2
attaching to its transportation to competing | them, a moderate amount of sap on a *A* Me eae a ak Z :
points, the same articles can be produced at | Shingle, does not injure the grade. The eastern 2 ; 2 ae ie 3 3 3:8 .
those points from lumber transported thither in | ™arket on the other hand is more fastidious. 3 8 8 s z : s 3 ae 3 4

the rough, at lower rates. lor this reason the | The Michigan mill man who would send sap > 6.5 z ~£ é : ace 2
endeavors to make box shooks, at the saw-mills | 0" bastard shingles to the eastern market, a 4 ° Hag = et si . 7 ° ‘: :

of the main producing localities, has almost | Would probably never repeat the experiment. ; Sues ee a
always, if not invariably, proved a failure, and | Many mills have endeavored to work up their : i vets. SS 8 : Ps

the enterprise abandoned. The profitable dress- | debris in the manufacture of pails and tubs, but : ae eae E ye 3

ing or surfacing of lumber at the saw-mill | We think it has been an almost universal experi- g P| J 8 : é s g :
depends largely upon the same question of trans- | ence, that it was not found profitable, and when pa g gas 5 £25
portation and competition. It is safe to say | the works have been continued in operation, it Bacau ne se -Caeegieaee + a A |

that any endeavors to prepare lumber for im- | has been through recourse to timber in the log, = 3 2 a 3 “25 A
mediate use, at a majority of the saw-mills of | perhaps after being prepared in cants by the Ach oes Gagan
Michigan, would prove unprofitable, because of | 8aw mill, but to the utter neglect of the slab =, waaspontonn |e
the many handlings to which the lumber must | Pile. g a 8 3 RSA A SSA58/5
be subjected before reaching the consumer, who | ‘The theory of finer manipulation of the debris Seabee a a
would be loth to purchase a lot of dressed] at the saw mill is a very good one, but the 52, Ski ie Wika Cae eae a
lumber, the edges or surface of which were | practice must inevitably depend upon the loca- Sys) gta pene’ Bile tame gee
either broken, indented or bruised, if his choice | tion of the mill and its facilities for transporta- ae : = § s < 3 Sasa --

was extended to such as by reason of but one | tion, direct to the consumer, with few or no dus 24 Beg gi: ¥:
handling to and from the cars to the yard of the | intermediate handlings. A case in point will - 5 : RES as 3 8 ae é
retailer, was nearly or quite in as good condi-| be recognized by every manufacturer of sash, 2 = FoI I e 2 2422 3 3 r,| 2
tion as when it left the machine. 'This objec- | doors, blinds, etc., whose manufactory is situat- Bel ae Cae BEES SEZ
tion would not apply with equal force to the | ed in the midst of heavy saw mill operations, 2 bite abel Bes ys
manufacturer on the Mississippi river and in | where slabs can be obtained for little or nothing, sz = FOOD A OSS Stuy Chi 8 CREE
Wisconsin, who cultivates a trade with the] and pick them at that. The pieces of lumber Fs x8 t tahoe ate Coen
retailer upon the prairies, and can ship the man- | which enter into the manufacture of blinds and SHIPPERS,

ipulated product to his yard. Neither does it
apply to such other localities as cultivate a trade
almost directly with the consumer by way of
rail transportation, and those who are thus
favourably suited find profit in the closest pre-
paration of their stock. To these it is a measure
of the greatest profit to work their lumber into
flooring, ceiling, siding and moulding ; but it is
then a question of great doubt, if in a majority
of cases it would pay them to enter into compe-
tition with the extensive preparations for box-
making, which in many large cities, especially
manufacturing ones, work up the coarser grades
of lumber most profitably, and by reason of
personal activity in secking for and retaining
customers among the actual consumers of boxes,
are enabled to turn out vast quantities at so
small a profit on each, as effectually to cut off
all chance for profit on the part of a manufac-
turer who has transportation to pay, even
though his stock be accounted as costing him
nothing.

That the waste of a saw-mill is immense, no
one can doubt, and it was a realization of this
fact which originally led to the abrogation of
board lathing, in favor of the piece lath which,
fully as good if not better, could be made from
a class of timber otherwise fit for the furnace.
This also led to the manufacture of four feet
pickets, and as well to square pickets, which
could be profitably made from slabs, when pre-
viously they had been manufactured from lumber.
These all are now exclusively made from an
otherwise waste material, and while we have
seldom or never known a successful experiment
in finishing them ready for use at the point
of manufacture, except when the mill enjoyed
railroad facilities, they have in the rough, usual-
ly proyed a handsome perquisite in connection
with the manufacture of lumber.

White and Norway pine do not present the
same adaptability to general use, in the smaller
manufactories, as do basswood, oak, beech,
maple, hickory, black walnut, and other varie-
ties of hardwood, including whitewood and pop-
lar. Basswood can be made into some kinds of

windows are very small, and to the novice it
would appear, could easily and cheaply be
taken from the large slabs which form the
debris of the mills. If, however, there is a
manufacturer of sash and blinds, who does not
find more profit in buying suitably manufactur-
ed lumber for the use of the factory, than he
can realize from working up the best of slabs,
we have no knowledge of his whereabouts. The
item of labor overbalances the cheapness of the
stock. Hardwood mills can, to a great extent,
work up their slabs into something in connection
with the furniture trade, if there is a factory
near them, but it is a fact that black walnut
ends and strips, of a foot long, and one to two
inches wide, are burned by the cord every day,
under the boilers of some of the largest furni-
ture manufactories in this city, where black
walnut is worth all the way from $75 to $200
per thousand feet. It would seem that in such
a city as Chicago, with its widely diversified in-
dustries, and especiaily in the furniture and
carriage departments, where small pieces are
used in large quantities, that it would be good
policy to work up every scrap of debris, large
enough to make a chair rung or a buggy seat
spindle. That such is not the case, is owing to
the fact that the labor of making them, and the
expense of handling the small debris overcomes
the profit, and it is far better and more economi-
cal to burn it at once, and cut full sized lumber
into the required shape. That a finer manipu-
lation of lumber at the mills would be
profitable there can be no doubt, but profit must
be sought in making less sawdust, and no slabs.
That this is, comparatively speaking, prac-
ticable, the practice which exists at many mills,
notably those on the lower Mississippi, is abun-
dant evidence,

A Michigan manufacturer visiting a mill at
any of the towns on the lower Mississippi, looks
in vain for such piles of slabs as he is accus-
tomed to at home. The logs are simply “‘ skim-
med” to a face, and the first board is sawed,
some of it to no more than three inches wide,
The butt slabs are worked into pickets or lath

The following is a statement of the individual
shipments from St. John in 1881 :—

Shippers.

Alex. Gibson.......+
R. A. & J. Stewart..

. Deals, etc. Pine, Birch.

92 80,234,000
70 49,764,000

Carvill, McKean & Co 50 28,891,000

W. M. Mackay...... +21 19,738,000

Guy, Bevan & Co....... 34 19,722,000 ....

S. Schofleld.....0..+.a08 10 3,496,000 1,062 1,512
McLachlan & Wilson.... 3 671,000... 852
Sundry parties.......... 2 716,000 wees

203,232,000 1,547 5,126

The following is a summary of the destination
of shipments from St. John during the year
1881 :—

Destination. Deals, ete. Pine. Birch,
Liverpool. ..cecevsssccseoees 69,199,000 1,485 3,905
TONGON saws crawes) sin se cemaee 24,586,000 .... aren
Bristol Channel....«+++..... 27,011,000 26 6
Clyde... ....ceveee vevseceens 7,763,000 .... THe
IPSIATC cnies pudaseiiek aaron 42,251,000 37 19
Other ports in the U. K.... 8,023,000 .... 1,008
Continent, etc...... cesses 24,399,000 .... 188

Totals cen celivanuice aieais us 203,232,000 1,546 5,126

UNITED STATES TIMBER LANDS.

Of the twenty-six states east of the Rocky
Mountains only four—Maine, Michigan, Min-
nesota and Wisconsin—are now able to furnish
supplies beyond what they themselves need. It
is a remarkable fact, however, that nearly every
state in the Union exports timber. Maine is so
far denuded of what once were thought inex-
haustible supplies, and the mills are being
stocked to a large extent with logs cut from
saplings of only six and eigh inches in diameter.
Much of the timber so recklessly destroyed is
used, not to supply its own needs, but to ship
into neighboring states and abroad, Ohio
forests of walnut have almost all disappeared.
There have now been cleared upwards of 10,-
000,000 acres of this valuable timber, which it
would take half a century to restore, Fires,
insects and the axe have almost entirely denud-
ed New York of its timber. The northern
sections of Michigan and Wisconsin are well
supplied with pine, better perhaps than any
other states in the Union, but it is thought that
the timber will not last eight years longer.

Lumbermen have now to seek the head waters
of the tributaries. No reliance can be placed
on Canadian supplies. From the Province of
Manitoba to the Gulf of St. Lawrence there is.
not as much spruce, pine, hemlock, ash, oak,,
elm and other commercial woods as would
supply the present consumption of the United
States for three years.

All the accessible pineries have been run over
for salable timber, and some of the Canadian
lumberers have trespassed upon our northwest-
ern territories in their efforts tosecure board wood
timber to supply the English demand. The
value of the annual product of our forests is
said to be near $1,000,000,000. A very large
proportion of this is obtained in a legitimate
way, but millions—billions, in fact—of feet of
splendid timber are annually stolen. The trade
in this stolen timber in Northwestern Florida is
immense, and gives employment to thousands
of men. Timber stealing is not confined to
Southern States, In the north and west some
of these timber thieves buy government land at
settlers’ rates, and after they have cut and sold
the timber allow it to go back to the govern-
ment in default of taxes; thus not only swind-
ling and robbing the government, but prevent-
ing actual settlers from gettting possession of
the land. Others evade the law by getting the
Indians to cut the timber from government
lands, and have them haul it to safe places be-
yond the jurisdiction of the government, when
they buy it, paying only the price of cutting it.
Probably not less than 30,000,000 people in the
United States are warmed by wood fuel, con-
suming annually about 100,000,000 cords. In
1871 Chicago alone consumed the wood taken
from 10,000 acres of forest land. Steamboats,
railroads, etc., consume in the same way about
35,000,000 cords. The railroads consume an
enormous amount of wood for ties, bridges,
fences, etc, The amount of wood consumed by
mechanical industries is very large. People
may realize to some extent how large the
amount must be by simply taking a look at the
objects before their eyes in their houses, when
they will observe how very few are the articles
that are not wholly or in part constructed of
wood.— Ez.

PROMOTING FOREST CULTURE.

A committee consisting of citizens of Med-
ford, Stoneham, Winchester, Maldon and Mel-
rose, Mass., has been formed for the purpose of
taking executive action to promote timber in
the old commonwealth. It is assumed that

88] areas in the state, like Middlesex Fells, are

more than for anything else fit for growing
forests, and that such areas, consisting of land,
ponds and marshes, can, and should be devoted
to this purpose. Such tracts should be convert-
ed into public domains for the reproduction of
forests. In furtherance of the plan the com-
mittee recommends that the state legislature be
petitioned to pass an act for the reproduction
of forests. The first section of the proposed act
has been drawn by the committee, and reads as
follows :—

‘“Where any town, by a vote in a legally
called town meeting, or any city, by its mayor,
aldermen and common council, shall resolve
that any portion of the territory of said town or
city ought to be devoted to the preservation,
reproduction and culture of forest trees, for the
sake of timber, or for the preservation of the
water supply, and its appropriation for the
purchase of the same, together with donations
for that purpose, shall equal the assessed value
of all the real estate included in it, said tract
shall become a public domain, subject to the
regulations hereinafter prescribed.”

It will be seen that the preservation of ponds
and water courses by overshadowing timber is a
part of the committee's plan.

Tuer London Timber Trades Journa! of Dee.
24th, says that the steamers now are mostly in,
and when they come to be summarized will be
found to exceed in tonnage and size any that
have previously entered the docks timber laden.
Amongst the biggest were the Wheatfield, Bar-
celona, and Avlona, from Quebec ; and the Wm.
Dickenson, from St. John. This latter was the
largest by some 300 tons, and turned out over
700 standards of spruce deals.

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Rapid Tree Growths.

According to a report of the Horticultural
Society of Madras two trees in the Botanical
Garden there display the marvellous rapidity of
tree-growths in tropical countries. The rain-
tree (Pitheco obiwm saman) in the gardens, the
measurements of which were given in the pro-
ceedings of the society 7th of August, 1878, and
then believed to be under six years from the
seed, continues, in spite of its having been
necessary to amputate some of the largest limbs
to grow enormously. Measured on the 30th of
July last it gave in girth nine feet four inches
at the ground, six feet three inches at three feet
high, and five feet nine inches at five feet high ;
_ in spread about eighty-five feet from north to
south, and a total height of about 46 feet. A
reference to the former measurements shows
that the girth at three feet from the ground has
increased in the last five years two feet two
inches. The age of the tree is, if anything,
over estimated ; but searches is being made for
traces of the receipt of the seed, which it is
believed came from Ceylon about 1872, A
casuarina tree, standing alongside, which was
the specimen of its order when that part of the
ground was laid out at the Botanical Garden,
and is therefore known to “be about ten years
old, now measures at five feet from the ground,
only two feet eight and a half inches, though it
is about eighty-two feet high,

By Rothschild & Co,’s monthly circular, it is
shown that the value of lumber shipped to
foreign ports, from Puget. Sound during the
month of November, 1881, was $33,135. The
lumber went to Melbourne, Australia; Levaka,
Fiji Islands ; Maubanills ; Hong Kong, China,
and Chili, South America,

THE stock of American black walnut in Liver-
pool, England, is stated to be exceedingly small
in good logs, and any that might be offered
would find a ready and satisfactory sale.

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— ee Es Sowa eS SN OS ES RS ae Ge

years ago it was thought had reached its fullest
proportions, has made an advance, so tar as the
bulk of trading is concerned, beyond any pre-
vious year of its history. Commencing on Jan.
1 last with a stock on hand of 497,840,673 feet.
of lumber and 188,720,000 shingles, receipts
came in at an average of over 6,000,000 feet of
lumber per day for the 300 working days of the
year. During this entire time the receipts, en-
ormous as they were, hardly kept pace with the
demand, of which but a small proportion was
for city use. During the entire season of navi-
gation the average number of cars required
daily for the filling of outside orders on the
lumber market was over 600, and much delay
and embarrassment was caused the greater part
of the time during the summer on account of
the inability of the railroads to meet the demands
of this ereat interest.

OF the 1,853,040,000 feet received during the
year, about 412,000,000 feet were absorbed by
building operations in Chicago and its suburbs.

The extent and gross value of forest products
handled during the year may be stated as fol-
lows :—

SAGINAW MEN IN ONTARIO.

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
in an article on the recent sale at Toronto of
timber limits in the Muskoka and Parry Sound
districts, says:—“ A significant feature’ of this
sale was the presence of Saginaw lumbermen.
There has been an active demand for pine Jands
in Michigan during the past season, and some
large transactions have been reported, in fact,
about all the available pine in the state have
been picked up by syndicates and capitalists,
while prices have largely appreciated. The fact
that Saginaw river lumbermen are going into
Canada after lumber, however, is something of
an innovation, and can be accounted for on the
theory that pine timber on this side is getting
scarce and that the future of prices warrants in-
vestment in Canada lands. Possibly some of
the lumbermen are also looking ahead at the
bare probability that the discussion of free trade
may result in the lifting of the duty on lumber.
The Saginaw parties who purchased berths at
this sale were Mayor Hill, C. W. Wells, A. T.
and L. W. Bliss. Their purchase included
about 88 square miles, and it is heavily tim-

to meet the wants of their customers. At the
full opening of navigation, May 6, the stock on
nand in the yards was 228,556,664 feet of lumber

238,483,874 feet of lumber and timber and 113,-
116,000 shingles at the same date the year pre-

Trade from this point on was remarkably good.
At a meeting of the trade called at the instiga-
tion of the ‘‘ bears,” May 21, for the purpose of
reducing rates on some portions of the yard list,
the movers were defeated, and at a subsequent
meeting on the 27th of May the price list adopt

month closed with a firmer feeling on all classes
of stock,

Following were the official yard prices at the
dates namred :—

Bulk, Value. Jan. Phe June 27. Nov. 26.
bered.” Teer it ae eee 2 1,863,000,000 $40,810,000 | Dimension. . ..911.50@13.50 $13.00@15.00 $14.50@17.00
Se Shingles, NOs... sae vere 785,400,000 1,600,0084 ducing... .- 1 DUGHamy A2siies 20 a aaa

OINn Th NOG Ene renee 104,000,000 A Jom. boards.. 13.50@15. 14.00@16. 15.00@17.
CHICAGO DOING. penn De 3,000,000 450,000 | No. 2 boards. - 11.50 12. 13.00

Cedar Posts, NO.+sscseseeeeeee

We make the following extracts from the | Railroad tics, Now... ss1+ ees 5,000,000 1,700,000 | Flooring B. .. 32.00 33.00 35.00
Tribune's exhaustive review of the year’s trade : | Cotdwood, cds-.+.++ +++ s+ess 40,000, 280,008 Dita Chaat res ghd roy
; ; yee 3 25,000 100,000 | First Clear...

Slabs, cds...0.ssecerres

Tanbark, CdS. .serseaves na
Telegraph poles, NOv.+.+- + +0 90,000 900,000

otal cp sisaidysweinele ores si aare $45,648,000

The total receipts by lake during the season
of navigation were 1,622,783,000 ft lumber and
718,633,000 shingles.

The lumber output in the Upper Mississippi
region for the year 1881 was, in round numbers,
1,400,000,000, while that of Michigan was 3,500, -
000,000 ft.

The year now closing probably gave larger
profits for the dealers than any year since the
great fire. During the boom in July and
August, when ordinary piece-stuff was selling at
$11.75@12.00, the large lumber firms were
straining every nerve to meet the unprecedented
demand for shipment, and, as has before been
said, failed to keep up with the urgent call, or
to fill promptly orders that came even from the
territory naturally belonging to the upper Miss-
issippi region.

During the latter part of the summer and
almost up to the close of navigation much
trouble was experienced from lack of dock-
room, or rather from the inability of yard-
owners, to pile and classify their stock as fast
as it arrived. This cause of itself had a depress-
ing influence on the cargo market for the time
being, and tended to delay shipments by rail to
some extent. Several of the largest lumber
firms with mills at Menominee, Grand Haven,
and elsewhere made preparations by the build-
ing of docks early in the season to pile largely
at the mills during the summer, and thus save
overcrowding at the yards in this city, and at
the same time have a good assortment of lum-
ber to draw from during the winter, This plan
has hardly been carried out, for the reason that
the demand for lumber throughout the season
of navigation was so heavy and continuous that

30,000 300,000

—The third interest in Chicago’s great com-
mercial trinity, the lumber trade, has made
wonderful progress during the year just closed.
True to its reputation of former years, it has
continued to spread until very few portions of
the country west of the Allezhanies where rail-
road communication is had with Chicago ean be
found where ‘the products of the Michigan
forests are not in greater or less measure utilized
for the manifold purposes to which lumber is
applied. The old trade barrier which has in the
shape of an imaginary line divided the working
field of the Chicago lumber merchants from
that claimed by the lumbermen of the Missis-
sippi Valley has been swept away during the
active season of 1881, and thousands of car loads
of pine lumber billed by Chicago merchants
have invaded the Upper Mississippi country.
This strong trade wind has made itself felt
strongest, perhaps, in the Sonth and Southwest.
All through the season builders and railroad
contractors in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New
Mexico, and even Mexico have checked their
extra baggage through to Chicago when they
have started out for lumber, coming through St.
Louis as if unconscious that that burg was the
headquarters of the Upper Mississippi lumber
trade, and on landing here finding what they
wanted without the least trouble, seen one of
the greatest feats of commercial enterprise, as
shown by Chicago’s resurrection from the ashes,
and gone home completely satisfied,

Chicago lumber during the year just closed
has traversed the entire breadth of the country
from Maine to Oregon, several consignments
having been made to the former region, where
the pine supply is becoming exhausted and the
spruce is not available for the needed purposes,
and to the latter where, although the coarser
pines abound, thero is little of the finer sort, and

Shingles, A... 290 3.15 3.90
Shingles, std.. 2.65 8.05 3.10

The following figures bear on the condition of

the stocks at the close of the year :—
4 Taumber. Shingles.
Stock in yards Dec. 1... .....- 620,781,223 263,262,174
Excess of shipments during the
Month. ..6++ 66 eee eeee +. 129,598,000 41,310,000

Estimated stock Jan. 1........ 525,998,223 230,352,174
Stock Jan. 1, 1881...... +000 497,840,673 188,722,000

The bulk of our hardwood lumber is received
from the forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Indiana, but the finer qualities, such as black
walnut, come from North Carolina, Tennessee,
and Kentucky, while the Southern pine is
largely obtained from Alabama, or from Jeffer-
son county in that State. Altogether the re-
ceipts of hardwood lumber have been over 250,-
000,000 feet, 60,000,000 feet of which has come
from the South. The value of the Southern
lumber received here footed up in the vicinity of
$3,000,000, while that from the more northern
forests represented fully $5,000,000, These
latter receipts were made up of maple; ash, bass-
wood, oak, etc., used for furniture and building
purposes.

No data is known to exist by which a com-
plete history of the receipts and shipments of
lumber at Chicago can be traced to a date earlier
than 1843, although it is stated by those engag-
ed in the business that the trade had in 1843 ac-
quired a volume not exceeding 12,000,000 feet,
which was steadily increased until 1847, begin-
ing with which year we may trace its increase

to the present time, as follows :—
Lumber.
.. 82,118,225 12,148,500
. 109,364,779 55,423,750
262,494,626 127,894,000
1,018, 998,685 652,091,000
,039,328,375 647,595,000
1183,659,280 610,824,420
1123,368,671 517,923,000
--1,060,688,700 619,278,630

Shingles.

no facilities at present for utilizing the native } it could not be spared from the market. Several ty eek aes stg hide a
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ro Bearetans toi "7138537040,000 785,430,000

their yards here.

One feature of the trade for several years
-past, the occasional shipments in deals, or three
inch clear plank, for the English market, has
been missed the past season, This was ac-
counted for by the extreme pricés realized dur-
ing the summer which would have rendered such
shipments unprofitable, as lumber of that de-
scription commanded better prices in this
market than was paid for it in Canada,

The following table shows the cargo prices of
prominent descriptions of lumber at the periods

named :—

room hired by the Lumberman’s Association,
where ill-attended meetings were held occasion-
ally, and where the accounts of the association
were kept by the simplest sort of single entry,
became last year a cuide as well as a source of
power to the lumber merchant, and he has now
come to believe in the value of statistical com-
pleteness as exemplified by the work of the
present Secretary, Mr. George W. Hotchkiss,
who has so systematized the labors of his office
as to grasp and record even the minutest item
of interest to the colossal trade, which in 1856-7
was represented only by a standing committee

forest outcome of next year has appeared more
especially in journals deyoted to the lumber in-
terest. As to the reliability of these numerous
predictions little can be said. The prospects,
however, for next year may be summed up in
the remarks of a prominent lumberman of this
city, who asserts that the mills will probably
increase theirjeapacity, and will find material
enough to keep them in operation throughout
the working season.

An exchange, speaking of the destruction of

of the Board of Trade, and which now boasts of Piccdietite ror May 100. sry Bt. Bouche. our pine forests, says fa :
$60,000,000 capital. dinars length It is asserted that during the season just closed
green. sos... $ 9.50@10.00 $11.75@12.00 $12.00@12.50 | more than six billions (6,279,950,000) of feet of

As compared with the receipts of 1880, the
year of 1881 shows an excess in round numbers
of 290,000,000 feet of lumber, and 136,000,000
shingles, together with a proportionate in-
crease in lath, posts, and other coarser forest
products.

The lumber interest of Chicago, which ten

lumber have been felled in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, The logging this summer will
swell this amount to seven and a half billions
(7,420,950,000) of feet. As the census agents
report that the whole quantity of pine timber
standing in these three States is but eighty-one

3 i rds
No. 2 logs.... 12,00@12.75 12.00@13.50 13.50@15.00
Boards & strips 12.00@16.00 14,00@15.00 14.00@14.50

Norway strips
and oars, 11.50@16,00 11.25@11.75 12.00@13.50

Shingles, A... 2.60@ 2.65 2.80@ 2.95 2.70@ 2.85
Shingles, std.. 240@ 2.50 2.60@ 2.80 2.65@ 2.80
The yard trade through the winter was good,

and long before the opening of navigation many
classes of lumber were exhausted, dealers being
obliged to resort to reciprocal exchanges in order

and timber, and _ 73,698,575 shingles, against

vious. Of the former quantities, 21,269,000
feet of lumber and 26,200,000 shingles had been
brought in by vessels that had managed to evade
the heavy ice which hugged the south shore of
Lake Michigan up to nearly the first ef May,

ed early in the month was reaffirmed. The

The usual flight of speculations regarding the

and a half billions (81,550,000,000) of feet, a
simple sum in division will show that the supply
will only last twelve years if the present rate of
destruction is kept up, and there is no way of
supplying the loss, since once the pine is ent off
a growth of hard. wood follows, which is not
only slow. of growth»and of the scrub variety,
but is practically useless for building purposes.
The Maine pineries are also comparatively ex-
hausted, lumbering operations now being con-
fined to spruce. Michigan lumber has even
been shipped to Bangor, indicating that the
home supply there is giving out.

According to the journal of the Agricultural
Society of France, the acreage of forest in
Europe, north and south, is 100,000,000 to 150, -
000,000. These, however, especially outside of
Germany, are rapidly thinning out. In Ger-
many great pains are taken to foster the growth
of forest trees, and the labors of that Govern-
ment have thus far been well rewarded.

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MOUNTAIN RAPIDS.

The following letter appears in the Ottawa
Citizen :—

Dear Sm,—Some time ago I saw by the
papers that the Government had sent engineers
to examine the Mountain Rapids above Matta-
wa with the view of building a dam at that
place. I have not as yet seen their report, but
hope they found the scheme feasible. If a dam
was also built at the natural outlet of Kippewa
Lake, but so arranged as not to interfere with
the driving of timber and logs through Messrs,
T. and C. Smith’s improyements; both dams
would, in my opinion, be a great benefit to the
lumbermen and farmers along the Ottawa
River. The two extremes of high and low
water would, no doubt, be a thing of the past,
as the dams could be so arranged as not toallow
too much water to pass in the spring and keepa
large portion of the water for the months of
August and September, when the water is most
wanted for the timber trade. Square timber
would be almost certain to reach the Quebec
market every year that it reached the Ottawa
River, and saw logs could be driven all summer
without any fear of being stuck and could be
driven cheaper than at present, The Govern-
ment are having dams built at the head of the
Calumet Rapids and_in the Rocher Fondu
Chenail, which, I think, may have the effect of
drowning considerable land along the Calumet
Chenail in the spring, and of course the pro-
prietors of the land will look to the Government
for damages, which they have a right to. Now,
by building a dam at the Mountain, all trouble
would be avoided with the land owners on the
Calumet Chenail and environs. Sir Hector
Langevin has always been favorable to improv-
ing the Ottawa River. I hope John Poupore,
M.P., and Peter White, M.P., will see to this
matter and urge and the Government on the
necessity of building the dams. By giving this
a place in the Citizen you will much oblige
Ay Otp LuMBERMAN.

Umbrellas and Pepper.

The umbrella trade grievously threatens the
existence of the pimento plantations of Jamaica.
An official estimate made in Kingston, last fall
reckoned that more than half a million umbrella

‘sticks were then awaiting export to England

and the United States. These sticks were al-
Inost without exception pimento, and it is not

surprising to be informed that owners and

lessees of pimento walks are becoming alarmed
at the growth of a trade which threatens to up-
root, in a few years, all the young trees. The
export returns for the past five years show an
average of 2,000 bundles of sticks sent out of
the island annually in the ordinary course of
trade, and the returns for the first three-
quarters of 1881 show an export of over 5,500
bundles, valued at* $15,000. When it is re-
membered that each bundle contains from five
hundred sticks, each of which represents a
young bearing pimento tree, the extent of the
destruction may be realized.—Scientijic Ameri-

can,
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No Hosrrtat NEEDED.—No palatial hospital
needed for Hop Bitters patients, nor large sal-
aried talented puffers to tell what Hop Bitters
will do or cure, as they tell their own story by
their certain and absolute cures at home.—WVew

York Independent,

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ae ELECTRIC LIGHTING,

a “ The Trent Valley Advocate says that Messrs,
/ Gilmour & Co., of Trenton, intended for some
time to light their new mill by means of the
electric light, which was done for the first time
on the evening of Monday, the 12th of Dee.
The apparatus was purchased from the celebrat-
ed Brush Electric Light Co., of Cleveland,
Ohio, and consists of what is known as a, six-
light dynamo-magnetiec machine, which gener-
ates the electricity necessary for producing the
light. This has been placed in the small engine
room at the machine shop, and is driven by a
twenty-five horse-power engine kept especially
for that purpose. The current of electricity
generated by this machine is conveyed by two
insulated copper wires to the large mill, where
connection is made with the lamps, which are
six in number—three in the lower storey and
three in the upper storey. Each lamp consists
of two pairs of carbon pencils, the points of one
pair being brought within a very short distance
of each other, and as soon as the current is
turned on a light of intense brilliancy appears
between the points, which burn away slowly
under the great heat, but are kept at the same
distance from one another by a peculiar action
of the current upon a magnet. As soon as one
pair of carbons is consumed (which takes about
seventeen hours) the current is at once autom-
atically diverted from them to the other pair,
which then commence to burn, and when these
are consumed two new pair have to be placed in
the lamp. The entire apparatus cost the Com-
pany only about $1,600, and the cost of carbon
for the six lamps will not exceed ten cents per
hour.

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WASHINGTON TERRITORY SHIPMENTS.

From the Resources of Oregon and Washington,
of Portland, Ore., some interesting facts are ob-
tained regarding timber shipments from Puget
Sound. The exports from the Sound of lumber,
shingles, lath and pickets have not materially
increased during the last eight years, but the
value of spars exported has, risen from $17,745
in 1870 to $245,588 in 1880, thus showing that
the advantages of the Douglas fir as spar timber
is coming to be appreciated. No official report
whatever is made of the quantity of lumber sent
from Puget Sound saw mills to California, but
the following table shows the amount shipped
by coasting vessels during the month of August,
1881 :—

Feet.

[kare on CSP ane Reece ... 18,436,610
Spruce 2,637,457
Cedar a ocis. 440,387
Piles, lineal ft 111,402
PSEA aridiney wpa crieccicasssics 2,651 :

Number.
LE Sees QO CCID ROE CT Ger IC iG 3,395,400
Wool slats......... 30,000
Ship KNCe8....0.....0s0c008 eae 57

This is equivalent to considerably over 20,-
000,000 feet, board measure, shipped from Puget
Sound during one month, which can be con-
sidered an average, and for which Washington
received no credit. On the contrary, if that
lumber was re-shipped from San Francisco to
foreign countries, as is undoubtedly the case
with much of it, California would get the credit
in the Government reports. Washington, with
its grand resources and unexcelled climate,
offers great inducements to those who wish to
work unfettered by competition or limitation.

Exhausting the Timber Supplies.

The United States Economist says the now
well known fact is that we are rapidly exhaust-
ing, largely by reckless and improvident waste,
our supplies of timber in the Northern States.
The demand for it increases at-the rate of 30
per cent. a year, and even those who are inter-
ested in high prices and immediate sales of
what is left of it admit that in twenty years or
sooner building timber will be extremely scarce,
and that in many parts of the country, yet sup-
plied in part from their own soil, it will have
entirely disappeared. It is stated on good
authority that more than 65,000 establishments,
employing 400,000 persons, and using material
to the value of over $350,000,000 a year, are en-
gageA in the United States in manufacturing
articles entirely from wood, in addition to
6,000,000 persons partly employed on wood, or

«sing that material yearly, to the value of $6,-
0,00), No country can be or ever lias been de-
spoiled of her timber and flourish,

sexual weakness.
A column.

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

NOVA SCOTIA,
From our own Correspondent.

Messrs. Miller & McKeen are preparing for a
large lumbering business at Economy, N.S.
Their new mill will be completed by the open-
ing of the spring. They have over eighty men
in the woods, logging and building reserve dams
on the river. They “are a new firm here, and,
unlike some of their predecessors, they pay as
they go. Their possession of a large and un-
culled area of good lumber land, and their ener-
getic and systematic way of doing things, give
promise of success, and have already won for
them general respect. ;

B. Young has heavy forces of men and teams
logging to his mills at River Hebert, Half Way
River Lake, and Ship Harbor. He is an old
hand at the business, and has a large stock of
business energy and tact.

EK. D. Davison & Sons, Bridgewater, shipped
over fourteen million feet during the past year.
They are preparing to put in about ten million
feet this season, beside what they will buy.

There is very little snow here yet, and the
swamps and ponds are entirely open, so that
operations have to be entirely confined to yard-
ing and making roads and bridges.

TEABERRY Whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. <A five cent sample settles it.

Have Horr,—Before you despair of curing a
troublesome cough just verging on consumption
try Hagyards Pectoral Balsam ; it has cured
fe why may it not cure you? All dealers
sell it.

ALL OUR DRUGGISTS now heartily endorse the
amazing success of Mack’s Magnetic Medicine,
and recommend it for both sexes in all cases of
‘See advertisement in another

RuEuMAtTIC Remepy.—There is no better cure
for Rheumatism than Hagyard’s Yellow Oil
used according to directions on the bottle. It
also cures Burns, Scalds, Frost Bites, Bruises,
lameness and all wounds of the flesh. All
dealers sell it, price 25 cents.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get aten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist, A few doses will surprise you.

Wortuy or Praisr.—As a rule we do not
recommend Patent Medicines, but when we
know of one thatis really a public benefactor
and does positively cure, then we consider it
our duty to impart that information to all.
Electric Bitters are truly a most valuable medi-
cine, and will surely cure billiousness, Fever
and ague, Stomach, Liver and kidney com-
plaints, even where all other remedies fail. We
know whereof we speak, and can freely recom-
mend them to all.—#xch.—Sold at fifty cents
a bottle, by Taylor & Macdonald.—6,

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Emory’s Bar to Port Moody.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Tender for Work in British Columbia.

Fa) sas
bra erats

EALED TENDERS will be received by the under-

signed up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 1st
day of FEBRUARY next, in a lump sum, for the
construction of that portion of the road between Port
Moody and the West-end of Contract 69, near Emory’s
Bar, a distance of about 85 miles.

Specifications, conditions of contract and forms of
tender may be obtained on application at the Canadian
Pacific Railway Office, in New Westminister, and at
the Chief Engineer’s Office at Ottawa, after Ist Janu-
ary next, at which time plans and profiles will be open
for inspection at the latter office.

This timely notice is given with a view to giving
Contractors an opportunity of visiting and examining
the grounds during the fin> season and before tha
winter sets in.

Mr. Marcus Smith, who is in charge at the oflice at
New Westminister, is instructed to give Contractors
all the information in hia power,

No tender will be entertained unless on one of the
printed forms, addressed to F. Braun, Esq , Sec. Dept.
of Railways and Canals, and marked ‘‘‘Lender for

CPR.”
F, BRAUN,
Secretary.

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Dept. of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, Oct, 24th, 1881.
2410 : ‘

Caledonian Hotel,

GRAVENHURST.
JOHN SHARPE, Proprietor. This Hotel has been

newly opened out, pleasantly situated on Main Street,
within five minutes walk of Northern Railway station.

Bar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors and Cigare
Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

Simcoe House,
CORNER FRONT and SIMCOE STS.
Tor onm : CO; ON LZ.

“Best accommodation in the City, TERMS $1.50

and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.

1121 WILLIAM HANCOCK, Proprietor.

The American Hotel,
BARRIE, ONT,

Collier Street, Adjoining the Market.

RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS.
hay Every accommodation for Commercial and

LUMBERMEN.
iutf

J. DAVIES & Co.

46 Church Street, Toronto.

Advances on
Whole
1111

W. D. McDONALD, Proprietor.

Sells all sort of Lumber on Commission.
Consignments. Prices given on application.
Stocks disposed on very low Commission.

BK. S. VINDIN,

Commission, Shipping, Forwarding and
General Agent.

LUMBER MERCHANT

Office, Tempest’s Block, Port Hope. 111

FRANCOIS MARCHAND,

Manufacturer of all Descriptions of

STEAM BOILERS,
SHIPS WATER TANKS, Etc.

St. Roch Street, i117 QUEBEC, P. Q.

CANADA TRUSS FACTORY

(ESTABLISHED. 1856.)

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Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORTHOPGDICAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS made to order.
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Can be adjusted without danger. You can take your
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All kinds of Brass & Iron Casting

PLAINING and TURNING done with
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CRAIG & CAMERON,

PENETANCUISHENE. 1112

GRATEFUL—COMFORTING.

EPPS'S COCOA

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“By a thorough, knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the fine properties of
well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our break-
fast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which
may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the
judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution
may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle mala-
dies are floating around us ready to attack wherever
there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal
shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure
blood and a properly nourished frame.”—Civil Service
Gazette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
packets and tins only (3-lb. and 1b.) labelled

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date of the next issue. ‘

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JAN. 16, 1882.

A MicuicAN lumberman, sometime during
the past season, bought a tract of pine land, for
which he paid $10,900. A few weeks he sold
the same tract for $23,500; which should have
satisfied the most greedy speculator.

Tut Bobcaygeon Independent says that Mr.
Hugh Regan, foreman of one of Mr. R. C.
Smith’s shanties, on the 25th of December had
cut 26,000 logs, and of those 10,000 had been
drawn to water. So good a return it would be
difficult to match in this neighbourhood. . *

THE Orillia Packet says that Mr. P. Shaw,
‘No. 20, has nearly a million feet of logs cut and
skidded, and had begun to truck them in, when
the merry jingle of sleigh bells changed the tune.
He is keeping the mill going cutting lumber,
shingles, lath, planing lumber, and grinding
grain.

Durine the season of 1881 the Flint & Pere
Marquette railroad, in Michigan, carried 98,-
964,559 feet of logs, all of which, except 15,000, -
000 feet, went to the Saginaw river, During
the same period the Detroit, Mackinac & Mar
quette road conveyed to the Saginaw river about
15,000,000 feet of logs.

Tue Culbute dam, at Bryson, on the Ottawa,
was finished on Monday, January 2nd, the last
pier or key being put into position, and there
now only remains some further filling in to make
the structure more solid and complete the work.
The dam has had the effect of raising the water
about three feet higher than it otherwise would
be.

The Yimber Trades Journal says that the
Marquis of Lorne and. Princess Louise visited
the establishment of A. & F. Halliday, at Eton,
and ordered several pieces of furniture in
American walnut to take with them on their re-
turn to Canada. Her Royal Highness said that
the whole of the furniture they had taken out
with them last time had gone to pieces in conse-
quence of the climate, an assertion not very
complimentary to the firm that supplied the
goods,

0 | £1,700, the property was withdrawn.

Mussrs. Irwin & Boyp’s annual sale at
Nassau Mills on the 10th inst. proved a great
success. The quantity offered was 1,200,000
feet, and every board found ready purchasers
at prices considerably in advance of last year.
The sale was largely attended by gentlemen
from Toronto, Whitby, Stirling, &c., and they

were the chief purchasers.

H. H. Hunnewewt has a contract to plant
550 acres with catalpa trees in Kansas, for Mr.
Douglas, of Waukegan, Ill. The soil, the first
year, is planted with corn, and afterwards the
trees are set out. They are placed four feet
apart, and take nearly 3,000 to the acre. The
agreement is to take care of them for three
cents apiece, until they are old enough to take
care of themselves.

————

Tu oldest remaining half-timber house in
Hereford, England, was offered for sale by auc-
tion recently. The building, which is in
Butcher's Row, dates from 1621, and it is sup-
posed that the architect was John Abel. The
ornament on the gable suggests that originally
the house belonged to a butcher. A large hall

| is within the building, with a chimney-piece on

which the arms of the Tanners’, Fleshers’ and
Butchers’ Guilds are carved. The highest price
offered was £1,475, but as the reserve price was
It was

afterwards purchased for the latter sum,

A CORRECTION.

The cut over the description of Hodgson’s
patent saw grinder in a few copies of our last
issue was by mistake placed wrong side up.
Our readers will get a correct view of it by
inverting the paper.

A CHANCE FOR SOMEBODY.

Those of our subscribers who are engaged in,
or have facilities for manufacturing broom
handles, Venetian blind laths, clothes pegs, &c.
had better make the fact known through the
columns of the Canada Lumberman, inasmuch
asa Liverpool firm writes us for the names of
some of the principal manufacturers of these
articles in this couutry. A word to the wise
should be sufficient.

1881’S OPERATIONS ON THE OTTAWA.

We have received from a reliable and well in-
formed correspondent living in the Ottawa
Valley the following statement of saw logs made
on the Ottawa River and its tributaries in 1881,
with stuck logs of 1880 added thereto, deducting
therefrom stuck logs of 1881, thus showing the
quantity sawn in the summer of the latter

year :—

Made in 1880-81, 249,246,200 ft. B. M.
oe “e

357,796,600 «
42,369,600 *

649,412,400 ft, B.
Stuck in 1881...... eessseveseeee 203,718, 200 Lt
Sawn in 1881......... sees.- 445,694,200 ft. B. M.

In the letter containing the foregoing figures
our correspondent states that while it is difficult
to obtain accurate information as to stocks
on hand of sawn lumber, it is certain that
such stocks are much lighter than usual, and
that more than half of the sawn lumber in the
yards and at the mills has been sold to American
buyers, and is awaiting shipment either by rail
this winter or boat in the coming spring.

The quantity sawn last year was small as
compared with some previous years, owing to
the very low water of last summer causing so
many logs to be stuck on the rivers and streams
—the quantity stuck in 1881 being nearly five
times as much as that of 1880.

We also learn from the same source that the
quantity of the timber of 1880-1 stuck in the
River Ottawa and its tributaries, to come down
in 1882, is as follows :—

Square White Pine........5.

Ontario side....
Quebec side....
Stuck in 1880, Both Provinces... .

731,700 cub. ft.

Waney Board....... Nera es 188,000 ld
Square Red Pine....... vecese 88,820 se
Total canivelelvass'c seer ses. 958,520 cub. ft.

See ES
ANEW OUTLET.

Tv must be obvious to those who haye given
the matter a moment’s consideration, that as
soon as the missing link, which at present cuts
in two that portion of of the C, P. R. between
Thunder Bay and Winnipeg is completed, a
new and yaluable market will be opened up for

the lumber, now manufactured on and about the
Georgian Bay. Should the present North-west
fever be maintained, the demand for all kinds
of lumber on the prairies west of Winnipeg
must be simply enormous and entirely beyond
the capacity of local* production. Eyen now
lumber in various forms is being shipped from
this part of Ontario to Winnipeg by rail. If it
will pay to do that now, how much more will it
pay to do it when it can be forwarded from the
mills to Thunder Bay, and thence by a single
railway corporation to wherever required, in
stead of by the present circuitious and costly
railway route. So far back as during the finan-
cial year ending the 30th June, 1880, we find
that there was imported into Manitoba from
the United States lumber, timber and shingles
to the value of $60,285, and upon which duties
to the amount of $12,057 were paid, and also
that during the same period manufactures of
wood not elsewhere specified to the value of
$63,454, upon which duties to the amount of $15, -
853 were paid, were imported. As in this item,
doors, sash, &c. are included, they no doubt
formed an important portion of the same. As
all these items can, as soon as the Thunder Bay
branch of the C, P. R. is completed, be quite as
well and be much more cheaply supplied from
our mills on the Georgian Bay, it can scarcely
be doubted that our lumber trade with our own
North-west must soon attain large proportions,
and prove a valuable outlet for the trade.

PROSPEOTS FOR NEXT SEASON.

W. S. Gerrish and Col. Fuller, two of the
largest log dealers in Michigan, have informed
the Tribune correspondent that the log crop for
next season will not exceed 500,000,000 feet, but
if the present soft weather continues any length
of time it may fall under that amount. This
amount, with the 225,000,000 left over, would
give for next season’s operations 725,000,000
feet, or about the same as was put in last winter,
the danger of a log famine can only be averted
by a change in the weather. Under the new
order of things in the woods snow is not abso
lutely necessary for lumbering. It enables the
operators to get their logs into the rivers some-
what cheaper; but when there is no snow
hard weather will answer very well. Loggers
can make ice roads by the aid of sprinklers,
which are in most cases preferrable to snow
roads. The numerous railways and tramways
now penetrating the pine forests haye caused a
revolution in lumbering, and logs can be carried
to the rollways in almost any kind of weather.
But as the greater part of the logging operations
are carried on in the swamps, usually filled with
water, hard, frosty weather is what the lumber-
men are anxiously awaiting for. Should Janu
ary and February be genuine winter months,
and the thermometer go down far enough to
freeze the swamps, the lumbermen will get in
all the logs they need for next season’s business,
The logging railways can put in half of the
500,000,000 feet needed for a full crop, and two
months’ favorable weather would enable the
balance to be drawn to the railways by teams.
This figuring, however, is wholly dependent
upon the weather. Five winters ago the
weather was much the same as this winter.
The camps were broken up and the men came
out of the woods in January. The situation
looked blue for the lumbermen, who had not
quite recovered from the panic, but in February
and March it snowed a full winter’s supply,
men were hurried back into the woods, and logs
were rushed into the streams at a lively rate,
There was no log famine that year, after all,
and I don’t believe there will be one this year
either. With the prospects of as good prices for
lumber as next spring holds out, the logs will be
got into the river. The lumbermen haye done
it before, when the prospects were much
gloomier than they are now.

MUSKEGON LUMBER.

The following is a special despatch to the
Chicago Tribune from Muskegon, Mich., dated
Dec. 30th, 1881 :—The lumber season just cloged
has been one attendant with many unfavorable
circumstances, yet upon the whole one of the
most prosperous ever known here. The mills
started out in the spring with the intention of
clearing up the full stock of logs on hand and in
the river, which amounted to about 725,000,000
feet—by far the largest stock ever put into the
river for one season’s operations. At the close
of last year’s business the lumber on the docks
held over reached 70,000,000 feet, and the logs
rafted and unrafted 125,000,000 feet. The mills
cut 624,458,526 feet, which was nearly 90,000,000
feet more than the previous year (1879), and
about 150,000,000 more than in 1878. With the
new mills and with large additions to the capa-
city of the other ones, the mill-men figured on
the largest lumber crop in the history of the
trade here, and at the outset of the season’s
operations everything was favorable to such

NORTH WESTERN PINE CUT.
The North-Western Lumberman in its annual
review gives the following fs the total product-

calculations, Late inthe season, however, the | 4

scarcity of labor and the strikes upset the calcul- | 18 of pine lumber in the North-West for nine

ations, and, consequently, instead of the mills | Y°@™S*—

cutting over 700,000,000 feet, the figures reached a weet. Years. Feet.

only 632,541,632 feet. There is no doubt but Sone temtone

that the strike lost to the mills between 60,000, - 3,751,306,000
3,993, 780,000

000 and 70,000,000 feet of lumber, and the short
hours since then a good deal more. Owing to
the open winter, the mills have run much longer
than usual, but on the ten hours system, and in
many instances shorthanded. The cut for
this year, notwithstanding the drawbacks, was
the largest ever known here, and yet larger
stocks are carried over to next season than ever

It says :—The figures in our table represent,
as nearly as figures can, the amount of white
pine lumber cut from the forests of the North-
west during the past nine years, and while in
all reasonable probability they. are considerably
below the actual production, they represent the
enormous aggregate of 39,881,229,261 feet.

before. Tor the yast three years the amount] Loaded into cars it would just make a train

of stocks on hand at the close of operations was} that would about reach around the earth. To

as follows :— Dei fe Sunder its producers it represents something like $600, -
1879 ccc thne eae 115,000,000 75,000,000 +~—«| 000,000 received for the stock in the rough.
RESO, vcvssswes<wenies 125,000,000 70,000,000 ichi i
iat 235'000/000 98,070.39 The forests of Michigan have contributed about

three-fifth of the entire amount.

An examination of the table will show that
for six years, 1873 to 1878 inclusive, the limit
of production was under 4,000,000,000 feet.
The last three years, however, show remarkable
strides, each season overlapping its immediate
predecessor by nearly or quite 1,000,000,000, and
to this must be added the still more significant
fact that at the present time the stock of manu-
factured lumber in first hands, or in the hands
of wholesalers at distributing points is not

The logs held over this year, rafted and un-
rafted, are given by the booming company at
225,000,000 feet, which will greatly help in pre-
venting the log famine threatened by the present
open winter. The total amount of lumber cut
by the several mills for 1881, together with the
cut of 1880, and also the manufacture of lath
and lumber on hand, as compiled by the Tribune
correspondent from figures furnished by the
mill men, is as follows :—

Cue weal. cpucenc cease Rea ys 632,541,632 : :
Cut 1880... seveses 624,458,526 sufficient to meet the requirements of the trade.
TAMA ccacaeeccaencseuereneane 104,815,850
Lumber on hand...... ......000s 93,070,339

Horacrk GREELEY’S bad penmanship has
passed into a proverb. No description of it
without a fac-simile of the writing could convey
any idea of its illegibility. It is charitable,
however, to the old philosopher to suppose that
the fault lay with the pens he had been accus-
tomed to use, but what a world of grief and

The shingles manufactured on Muskegon
Lake in 1881 amounted to 58,485,000,

For the past season the lumber products of
Muskegon County have been simply enormous,
There was manufactured—

Lumber, ft...... Raeivepces ate ceeeut 800,000,000

Shingles. .....+s 2 SRS 125,485,000 trouble would have been saved to the compos-
TA ee. ee ""''"y4e00}000—«d itors if he had written his editorials with an
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Influential men in Austrialia are waking up
to the importance of preserving the forests of
that great continental island from further im-
provident destruction. The country is not over-
abundantly supplied with woody growths, at the
best, the interior being one vast arid waste, de-
void of forests. Such being the peculiar char-
acter of its natural features, the question of the
future rainfall and water-supply becomes an
important one. Evils which attend the des-
truction of forests are already felt in many pro-
vinces in an increased dryness of climate, longer
drouths, and more numerous bush fires. A
lesson is learned in this respect from the history
of New Zealand since the settlement of the
English. During thirty-eight years ended in
1868 the annual destruction of New Zealand
forests was twenty-three per cent., and in the
five succeeding years twenty per cent. It is
proposed in South Australia that a block of
200,000 acres of land be reserved for systematic
tree planting, and that in the first year $70,000
be expended on it, and in each of the eleven
_ following years, $52,000, a total expense of

$650,000. After the first five years there would
be, it is estimated, a revenue from periodical
thinnings , of $172,000, and in twenty-one years
the colony would possess 310 square miles of
forest.—WNorthwestern Lumberman.

W. W. & J. H. Barrows, of Cameron, Pa.,
have built a slide six miles long, from their lum-
ber woods to their pond at Cameron. They ex-
pect to put in 4,000,000 feet of short logs and
2,000,000 of long timber.

Ir is stated that Capt. J. H. Williams, of
Washington county, Pa., intends to plant
10,000 walnuts. He will sow them in rows;
after two years will thin out, leaving only the
thrifty trees ; in five years will cut young wal-
nuts for table legs ; in eight years will cut again
alternate trees for newel posts ; in ten years will
begin to harvest nuts by the thousand bushels,
and in fifteen years will have walnut logs to
sell, ‘

Custer & Savipce are having a survey made
for a new logging railroad in Montcalm county,
Mich., to be twelve miles long. It will extend
from the first lake above the Six Lakes dam, on
Flat river, in @ north-easterly direction, to a
point nearly north of Cedar lake, reaching a
large tract of pine purchased about a year since.
The road is to be ready for operation on June 1,
next. There is 175,000,000 feet of pine on the
tract that thie road will open up.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

OTTAWA ESTIMATES.
The following is an estimate of timber expected to be manufactured in the Pttawa country
during the lumbering season of 1881-2, as prepared by the Quebec Zimes :—

Square Board Square | from which one or two logs, aa the case might
Name. Locality, white Pi me, ig de wiser ee be, that would saw out clear lumber were taken
Barnet & Mackay.s.... cesses ceeeeees Borinechere as etaeyeiels fe sideishieta etala ve + 250,000 200,000 | out of each, while the greater part was left to
Bell & Hickey.....sc.esseeuve JeeSaS sTemiscamang ..s.eessciseceee teeeeees 190,000 10,000 | rot in the woods, or furnish fuel to burn up the
Costello Brothers.......... pee enon Madawaska (Private lands).....+.+++++ 30,000 20,000 | remaining timber—and thus the most shameful
Hi Campbell cSon epi aacen deci eeteis Bonwechere. ses. csceves veccots sbi tee 110,000 10,000 | waste and destruction were permitted to run
Una d Oral Sy iso) No gadaa nota anode oesuvorio KCCPAWAi cesccsnes 0 sneolsiviesy enitiseie 90,000 20,000 10,000 | riot. © The officials at the head of the Crown
John R, Booth,....-.....+++ sss steeees Madawaska BONODOOORMON > sate. torr Wri - 130,000. 100,000 Timber Department, in both Provinces, gaye
eee tronts (ie! ts ORME HATE 5 iM") themselves no further trouble in the matter
Boyd Caldwell & Son.............- Holy! DMLACLAW ASIA sigtetere o> vale. algieielsG om elie) 850,000 than that of collecting all the dues they could,
Caldwell Sond. eee eee Misciasippl. ots. 7h sate ae ae 150,000 their chief object appearing to be to show which
Ur WV {CONVOY sfaciee clase ccemeniticn Madawaskar.\.,«clesweieisisdiletem ag ome Met: 5 180,000 45,000 25,000 | party official, for the time being, could make
PierrelCharettes s/sicinie mujaisemunee teaser Gatineau (Private lands)....:.....5 ++ 20,000 the largest exhibit im his budget speech ; while
Ua! 83 De) <ePo) reggen cian nono ony ooo. River Ottawa (Ontario side). . rere 180,000 timber, of as much value—if standing to-day in
ee seeeneeetnenreece d fadono iN Seal on Tatelo\aio arte cn 104,000 6,000 5,000 | the forest—as would pay off our national debt,
sMezanges LEC dhGhpor dnadts on dau Abs River Coulonge. . SOOO Gosiie 13 180,000 has Deen lost to the country.
Fraser & MeCoshen MAM ee sorfeo0 20,000 50,000 | . Referring now to the extent and condition of
McCoshen & Fraser..cecsssssesserencss Wey sine jase datetein a hadsrecklee nee heb to 240,000 10,000 | CUF timber supply of commercial value, we find
Sereeney & Fraser....... sosissesesass Temiscamang (Quebec Side)......+.++ 50,000 10,000 | that a clean sweep has been made of our oak
AltaniGrani es, wacker cite teas ee pa wa sa ae seine pacil= accel gel eelene ee 800,000 100,000 | and elm, which I had often heard spoken of as
GeoMAGrier feel aaa rienesls «siseeems al Darema ie ee SAR sare re eb 170,000 inexhaustible. That of both kinds, now reach-
Hilliard & Dickson....-+..,.sseeeee +MiSSiSSIPPi... 0.0... cccspleessasnnnes ce 160,000 ing and shipped at Quebec, is the product of
R. ELS WELOCK: crarelaptoialetsreereisitialsavamientsyeifett River Ottawa (Ontario side)......++++++ 180,000 Ohio and Michigan, Our remaining supply of
Veg EBD sm einis olen uals slvioietalotajstaia\ni Keepawa We ae sien Bie algae ar 190,000 60,000 pine may now be said to be c onfin edi ta iba
hob golnuuD ootwuadronnn ane Temiscamang (Quebec side)..........+« 80,000 40,000 ay
Day aMurrayi pisces: coe reeked BING BV ek eT ee te neons 100,000 10,000 | Valley of the Ottawa, and the St. Maurice and
©. Mohr & Co...seeceeu BL EDR Madaivmaiy cde. descr Bas. sAiinnactes 75,000 25,000 Muskoka districts, and the question of their
William’ Mackay siesice-is oss ss seca. dttcer So east AOE Area Oona ae 200,000 condition to supply our home consumption and
dale senve Ra Weleee nae J Savior ti ite 9(6l oAbooooticansinoo000 150,000 respond to the foreign demand is one that we
David Moore. ......0eersieeses onondeds GPE NSO MOUbo aaano atodadobecisdnb spW >. 260,000 40,000 should look squarely in the face. We should
SSSI ale refstatevatsislete siafetniatessteraveleiciet ID bbeKOb on cop GoD oosOO0 dou embonagane 120,000 try to arrive, as near as possible, at its actual
ane ei. Ra COsagqcons 5 ne ie rts tele, KayaveLo nate later eee Y dae ye me oe state, and not deceive ourselves, as T fear we
Bo tots SC PNGOOEHD hhogopnagadind. jonnechere........06 he (bishawle e(ate waatetotetiee i A é c
MIDLET BYE ano. gooud0 ODGGANduD Madawaskascsisasecse veerenssentereses 270,000 30,000 150,000 pre doing, with reeset ¥> (eke aaa pf phi
A. MeLean......0« ear ke Deke WOME Uh co Mics diets whe 270,000 go,000 | forest wealth. I-have no doubt many of your
Peter MclLarenii- wei ieuicneenteeeecsice Mississipplcriientia sie career ene 360,000 readers will be surprised to learn from the state-
Richard 'Nagle.ft...0.Scievecenoae ces Matawin....., ee oitca aca a ORS bord 85,000 65,000 ment which I here make, and that without fear
Perleyats Patteenan: sae seatiitsieteisninuee Betowalwaletarcdtea. deen tiie teers meetin 120,000 10,000 of contradiction, that we have not as much pine
VohnpRocherrimitiscicien sensei PecheiGatinedter sendy «sin stselsje stele 13,500 timber, fit for market, in the Muskoka and the
SOUL MACK AV. eviaelsie ns wisivieleleinr estat Madawaska... 120,000 St. Maurice together, as is cut in a single year
Thistle, Carswell & Co... .cccecenevesce PEtOWARLG \ incestes tater laters altace is ihe ie aes 200,000 50,000 50,000 in Michigan alone—nor is there now remaining
Ay Francis ICO s waienis a arevene Seadeding das. Madawaska We raiie Mee: Wie ARs vss (death ete toe 160,000 20,000 Shs valley of the Ottawa as Beh Chant
MHIShle yb aN eteiielolsjeteie lel slalslereinelrelerle Chalk River.... ....- a0 50,000 20,000 % 3 5 ite = :
Georee Mac rant ras isletisileemetuatameiie IBLOCK AY vetusmtetaisfele aliie stele ekalue(n(otain syst aia 75,000 75,000 able pine as is got out in Michigan, Wisconsin
Richard Whhiteaeaueeiecke see tok Black Rivers sPashas «Mande. he. eave 110,000 20,000 + ~—«-25,000 | 2nd Minnesota in two seasons’ cutting. Hyery
INV GAP Whites ecu naene <iccseren comer IN gANICIppI sa hi. dete stl act’ ndleciole: tori 260,000 stream on the Ontario side has been lumbered
See Ears wiciniveraeatcoe ath alcacannee ete River Ottawa (Ontario).........s0ereee 90,000 on to its source, and, with the exception of the
AVAL Caistelejeisieivatnselncitctaye, etste oft te VeEAVOFMROULE IN,» «slice hon’ sie Halas use 60,000 limits recently sold, the same may be said as
MOUME 8 BLONGOMN x10'e\ejs/0\e 4/2/41 1s sio\e)s10) ps8 Bete wawaacilasteiestelsiecereleeivelsyels(e(lae ieieis 35,000 respects the Quebec side of the Ottawa, and the
Allan Grant..... ndon obo: GbndgduGnDUAsS Black River and Dumoine............- 110,000 Se whole territory, with the exception above re-
7,847,000 626,000 1,025,000 | ferred to, has been culled over to such an extent
TIMBER STUCK FROM 1881 WHICH WILL COME DOWN IN 1881, for clear logs and square timber, that its pro-
Square Board Square | duction of the latter, which averaged, a few
Name. Locality. Prange: . bat ot | Years ago, from 80 to 100 feet to the stick, is
Olivenatours ces ee ee Kee pawastOnmas crits ate abivaneMenwseriute 260,000 76,000 68,000 | NOW brought down to from 40 to 50 feet, and to
David MOOK ue weer ec aean en oe eeoeeiles Tes aac HOE ORe Be er ts 168,500 18,000 600 | Secure a raft of the latter dimensions necessitates
ORS tf ateciveshteerek yc Se sate DUM OME MMe ele eisai deleteittater ep let 88,500 30,000] the culling over of a large extent of territory.
De Melaren! &2/Colais sl ols sisivisieisins ects» NOMISCATMANS enreteleisteiele ei relnfente erintere 2,820] The larger square timber shipped from Quebec
McLachlin Bros..... Nielalallufatatarelorerevaljalh au Colon perccitsmeieies) eeieiaehity terials 87,000 80,000 2,000 | to the British markets is now got out on the
Sherman, pore & Hurdmans.......... Keepawa eeferefedelofalniele'el lefeleie aipye ejursuletelelninp aren south shore of Lake Superior, in the upper
te oe el ote Sees ODOR ee oeprep oes: " ape sh peninsula of Michigan, which also supplies
Tht aaenat es ie vice a, ee : eh nearly all the board-wood logs for the same
731,700 188,000 88,820 | market,
SUMMARY. Our Government gives us no information with
Total Timber expected to be manufactured during the winter of 1881-2........ 7,347,500 626,000 1,025,000 regard to the amount of lumber manufactured
Total ‘Limber stuck of 1881. . sees ee ne ee en aeens ee enee teseeeeas eeeenvees, afin as BI, T00 ee, O00 _, 88,820 in the country, or of the industries in which it
Total. ... ssrerevccecsesevens ceetverersseeees 8,079,200 764,000 1,113,820] is consumed. They think a statement of the
Ottawa, 26th Deoetaher, 1881, amount yearly shipped out of the country is all
° that is worth while submitting to the people.
THE TIMBER QUESTION. effect. On the contrary, the Governments of | But we may, in some measure, form an estimate

We find the following paper by Jas. Little,
of Montreal, in the proceedings of the Montreal
Horticultural Society :—

Witnessing, as I did, while engaged in the
business of lumbering, in the western part of
the Province of Ontario, how rapidly one exten-
sive timber section after another was stripped
of its commercial wood, my attention was neces-
sarily drawn to an investigation of the extent
and sources of supply, both in the United
States and Canada, of a material so indispen-
sable in the industries which minister to the
wets and well-being of every individual, rich
anc poor, of our whole people, and fully realizing
that the question was beyond dispute one of the
most momentous that could engage the attention
of our authorities and statesmen, I have been
laboring, for years, through the papers and in
pamphlets, to impress upon them the necessity
of adopting all possible measures for the preser-
vation of our forests from waste, destruction by
fixe, the vandalism of the lumberers, and, by
witho.ding from market such portions of our
tim}er territory as remained unsold, keeping
off, as long as possible, the terrible calamity of
a timber famine in the country, but without

place, the lumberers were all along allowed to
run over their limits and cull out the best trees,

sof its requirements in the industries of our com-
munity, apart from that of house building and
the like, by consulting the census returns of the
United States, which furnish valuable and
highly interesting statistics on the subject re-
lating to their consumption. The census of
1870 reports 63,938 establishments manufactur-
ing articles made entirely from wood, and em-
ploying 398,387 persons, and using material
worth $309,921,401. There were besides 109,512
industries in which wood is an important part,
for example, carriages, furniture, bridges, ships,
&e., employing 700,915 persons, and using
material worth $488,530,844 ; 250,000 cubic feet
of the best pine were consumed in making 20,-
000,000,000 matches. At least 125,000 miles of
fencing were required to enclose the railways of
the country, which, says Professor Sargent,
could not cost less, on an average, than $700 a
mile, one-half of which would barely represent
the wood employed, or $43,000,000, while they
must take annually to the value of $10,000,000
to keep them in repair. It required the stripping
of 36,000 acres, principally pine, to burn t
bricks of that year. The value of pine packing
boxes in 1850 was $1,000,000, while in 1879 they

both Ontario and Quebee, through their Crown
Timber officials, who are generally lawyers,
and consequently totally ignorant of the duties
they are appointed to administer, have been do-
ing all in their power to hasten the stripping of
the country of its invaluable timber resources,
by throwing them on the market, year after
year, without any reference whatever to the re
quirements of the trade, until a clean swecp has
been made of every patch of timber held by
both Provinces. No less than thirty-four town-
ships in Ontario—the last the Province possess-
ed—were put on the market three years ago,
neither the officials nor the purchasers being,
at the same time, aware that nine-tenths of the
territory contained no timber of any commercial
value, and the last limit held by our own Pro-
vince of Quebec was disposed of but a few
months ago ; and this reprehensible course has
been the means of stimulating production to
such an extent, by bringing new operators into
the field, that the foreign markets have been
kept constantly glutted—the manufacturers, for
several years prior to 1880, not realizing the
cost of production.

Instead of being obligated, as they should

have been, to cut the timber clean out of a| were valued at $8,200,000, and in 1874 at $12,-

The value of lumber converted into
; tu implements, in 1850, was $8,000,000,

iw ile their total yalue in 1870 had reached the

enormous sum of $73,000,000, of which the
forest must have furnished $20,000,000 ; 34,000, -
000 million sleepers, or thirty years’ growth on
68,000 acres of the best natural woodland, or, if
the sleeper is artificially raised, some 700,000
acres would be required, planted with trees
solely adapted to the purpose, regularly cropped
and scientifically managed to supply the rail-
ways already constructed. The census of 1872
shows 63,000 miles of telegraph, which required
for their construction 1,600,000 trees, for poles ;
while the annual repairs call for 250,000 more.
The mamufacture of shoe pegs consumes annual-
ly 100,000 cords of white birch, worth $1,-
000,000.

Now, when we add fifty per cent. to the fore-
going exhibit of the partial uses of wood and
its value at the present time, can we, with the
utmost stretch of imagination, conceive the con-
sequences to the community when the supplies
for those industries alone, with their vast year-
ly increasing requirements, are cut off? The
terribleness of the calamity canriot be grasped
by the mind, and will only be realized when a
dearth of timber takes place—a calamity which,
in a comparative degree, we must share with
our neighbours across the line, and although it
is certain to reach us in a few short years, not
the slightest thought has yet been given to the
subject by those having control of our affairs—
whether of one political party or the other—
and our lumbermen are now in the woods, with
double force, slashing away as if timber was
some noxious product which it was necessary to
extirpate and rid the country of as rapidly as
possible. The United States Government,
awake, at last, to the necessity of endeavoring
to made provision against the evil day of a tim-
ber famine, have established a department and

‘schools of forestry, and set apart a large portion

of their domain for tree planting—giving the
settler a free deed of the lot he may select, on
condition that he plants a certain number of
acres of it in trees—and I find that over 2,000, -
000 acres have been taken up for settlement, on
such terms, within the past year alone. But
they have commenced too late. It takes a cen-
tury to grow a standard pine saw log, and the
expert they employed to estimate pine timber
in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, which
contain all they have from here to the Rocky
Mountains, gives them a supply but for one-
tenth of that time, and, when we take into ac.
count that a million and a half of consumers
will be yearly added to the population—their
whole stock, at their own excessive estimate,
will be swept away before their plantations af
ford timber for a hoe handle.

I have watched the course pursued by the

lumberers of both the United States and Canada,
and it has been reckless in the extreme. A Mr.
Ward, of Michigan, is the only one among
them who, it appears, is able to take a common-
sense view of the question of supply and de-
mand.
away their timber and laboring hard to get rid
of it, as if of no value, he has been quietly pick-
ing up the most valuable lots, and has now se-
cured in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
some 2,500,000,000 of feet, from which he is sure
of realizing, as it stands in the woods, $25,000,
000 in five years, and double that sum within a
decade, should he keep it so long.
besides, now turning his attention to the timber
lands of Washington territory and the South,
and certain it is he will run both Jay Gould and
Vanderbilt, the railway kings, a close race in
the millions, and that at a comparatively insig-
nificant outlay, and with but little trouble or
anxiety to himself,

While others have been slaughtering

He is,

The Western papers informs us that a 100

acre lot of pime was recently sold, in Western
Ontario, for $22,000, or about as much as would
purchase half a dozen farms with their buildings
and improvements in the same neighbourhood,
and near Guelph, where pine timber on a farm
lot was looked upon, a few years ago, as an eye-
sore, $1,000 were recently refused for ten trees
which would not occupy half an acre of ground.

ur lumberers might surely learn a lesson from

these facts. It is evident that the owner of
timber land who sat quietly by without lifting

an axe has been making more money than if he
had been at work in the most productive gold
mine. His bonanza is secured, and he will be
able to realize its full value in the near future,
when, from the falling off of supplies from the
Wost, our lumberers will be called on to furnish
the consumption of both white pine and spruce
of New York and the Hastern States, requiring
them to double their present manufacturing ca-
pacity, and enabling them to fix both terms and
price.

Our average exportation of forest products for
the five fiscal years from 1871 to 1875, inclusive,
amounted to $25,246,781 a year, and was largely
in excess of our exportation of cereals for the
same time. From 1875 to 1880 the exportation
of wood goods largely fell off, which was one) of
the chief causes of the depression which over-
spread the eountry during thattime, But when
this source of revenue totally ceases, and we are
necessitated to import wood for our own home
consumption, and when, besides, our foreign
markets are at the same time flooded with
wheat and cattle from the Northwestern Pro-
vinces, reducing the price of our farm products
to the lowest pot, a condition in which the
statesmen of both our political parties, by rush-
ing the country into ruinous debt in the interests
of the Northwest, have been laboring to place
us—your readers will, I think, find but little
trouble in figuring out for themselves the state
of things that must then exist in both Ontario
and Quebec, from such adverse circumstances.

THE PINE AND THE WALNUT.

A mile or so from the gray little town

Of Neweastle, perched like a gull by the sea,
On the Kittery side (where the banks shelve down
To the lovely river’s golden brown),

There towered, long siice, an old pine tree.

And across the stream, in a right bee-line,
Like a sentry guarding the ruined fort,
Was a large-limbed walnut, where the kine

Huddled together in shower and shine,
Nibbling the herbage, sparse and short.

Summer and winter those brave old trees
Watched the blue river that slipped between—
Leaned to the sunshine and drank the breeze,
Clothed like emperors, taking their easé,
Now in ermine, now in green.

Many a time, when I was a lad,
I drifted by with suspended oar,
The wind in the walnut seemed so sad !
But, ah ! what a blustering voice it had
In the rugged pine on the other shore.

And often, in restless slumber tost,

I seemed to be drifting down the tide,
Hearing the strident wind as it crost—
To die away like a murmuring ghost

In the drooping boughs on the farther side.

Prehaps *twas a boyish fantasy—
The dream of a dreamer, half afraid—

That the wind grew sad in the walnut tree,

But surged through the pine like the surging sea,
With a sound of distant cannonade !

Only a fantasy ! Who can tell?

But J think ‘twill haunt me to the end,
Seeing what curious things befell
The walnut tree and the pine as well—

For they went together friend and friend !

From a sullen cloud broke war at last,
And a grim sea-dog of the quarter deck
Took the gaunt old pine for a mizzen-mast ;
In the flame of battle his spirit past,
And the mizzen dragged by the shattered wreck.

With the Union Jack across him laid,

They bore him back to the town by the sea,
The guns at the yard his requiem played,
And the admiral’s coffin, it is said,

Was shaped of the planks of the walnut tree !

A Gezat Enrerprise.—The Hop Bitters
Manufacturing Company is one of lMochester’s
greatest business enterprises. ‘Their Hop Bit-
ters have reached a sale beyond all precedent,
haying from their intrinsic value found their
way into almost every household in the land.—
Graphic.

“AnD fools who came to scoff remained to

ay.”"—We receive many letters from those
tices tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Lopes, Clergymen write us earnestly to its
wonderful effects, ,

Sone Tunoat.—Apply Hagyard’s Yellow Oil
and take inwardly according to directions.
Yellow Oil is the best remedy for rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Bruises, Burns, Poa Lites and all
lameness, inflamreation and pain,
hold should be wivhout it,

No house-

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

oN

| Chips.

A PROMINENT lumberman in Burlington has
had his coat-of-arms painted on the panels of
his carriage, with the Latin motto, “‘ Vidi.”

Tuomas Nustmr, of Saginaw, Mich., will put
in 20,000 feet of logs this winter, from his Michi-
gan lands, while he puts in his own time among
the orange groves of Florida,

THE Manistee Advocate says that many com-
petent judges engaged in lumbering think that
the log crop this season will be much smaller
than last year, notwithstanding the high price
of lumber. Provisions and wages are so high
that lumbering is very expensive, and many
timber owners prefer to let their pine stand to
cutting it at present.

THe Timber Trades Journal says the con-
sumption outside of the United Kingdom, and
even of Kurope—South America, for instance—
for housebuilding materials is an ever-increasing
one, and, as fashion leads the way, each succeed-
ing season the demand for suitable timber for
constructing cities on the European model will
give an impetus to trade that will materially
assist the market when temporarily overburden-

ed.
THE Worthwestern Lumberman says that a

boombshell, supposed to have been fired by.
Union troops during the war, was encountered
in a large white oak log at a saw mill near
Augusta, Ga., recently. A circular saw was
going through a piece of timber when it struck
a hard substance, which broke its teeth and
stopped progress. Examination revealed, buried
in the wood to the depth of eight inches, a large
percussion bombshell, which, according to the
calculations of those familiar with the growth
of timber, has been there sixteen or seventeen
years, and the tree has grown over it until there
was but a slight scar left. It was found to be
loaded.

Mr. Cartwood has charge of a lumber camp
on Pinery Point, Penetanguishene, for Mr.
Dodge. He and his men were fortunate in dis-
covering a hollow tree, with about a bushel and
ahalf of the meats of nicely peeled beech-nuts,
carefully stowed away, and which were, of
course, unhesitatingly appropriated. As if
robbing a squirrel’s nest of the winter supply
was not enough, they also discovered a ‘‘ bee
tree,” in the hollow of which was deposited
about three hundred pounds of the purest honey.
None of the discoverers had any compunctions
as to its being wild honey, but cheerfully ac-
cepted their share of the booty, regardless of
the protests of the bees, and wended their way
homeward bending under the weight of the
saccharine treasure. That was a lucky find.—
Herald.

THE Muskegon Reporter says that four saw
mills are running yet. About a dozen were
obliged to shut down on Saturday, 24th Dec.,
either from the want of logs or room to pile the
lumber. Never before has the sawing of lumber
continued so late in the season as this year—
being all of a month later on the average than
in times past. The loss of time by the two
weeks’ strike in the fall has more than been
made up. Hadthe booming company continued
rafting with a full foree of men up to the
present, fully 600,000,000 feet of loves would have
been handled and delivered to the several mill
booms this season ; as it is, the amount does not
exceed 550,000,000. Navigation is closed, and
upwards of 70,000,000 feet of lu:ber are on the
several mill docks here—fully two-thirds of
which is sold.

IncEnious Invention.—Some shrewd Yan-
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watch ; itis a neat attachment toa charm, and
it is said to work like a charm. So does tha
grand Key to Health—Burdock Blood Bitters,
the greatest discovery of the age. It unlocks,
all the secretions, and cleanses and invicorates
the entire system. Sample bottles, 10 cents ;
large size, $1,00 of all medicine dealers.

WHERE IGNORANCE Is Briss 118 Fouiy To BE
Wisk,—Dr. Bliss if not a success at probing for
bullets, was highly successful in despatching
bulletins : but the grandest bulletin of success
is that which heralds the wonderful cures per-
formed by Burdock Blood Bitters, that match-
less tonic and blood purifier which acts at once
weer the Bowels, the Skin, the Liver and the

idneys, while it invigorates and strengthens the
whole system,

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JOSEPH McAFEE,

(LATE ANGUS McAFER.)

Warehouse, Main St., St. John, N-B,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

MANUFACTURER OF

Cooking, Ship, Parlor & Office Stoves

MILL CASTINGS

Ship Windlasses, Capstans, and

Ship Castings of all kinds,
(QIADE TO ORDER.)

Power Cepstans, Patent Ship Pumps

With Copper Chambers, 115

Lead Scuppers & Water Closets & all
goods in my line for Ships’ use.

Work done to Order with Quick Despatch.

IRWIN & BOYD

Commission
Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
ShippingeGeneralAgents
PORT HOPE.

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLERAI
Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER.

J. K. POST & CO.

LUMBER MERCHANTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWHEGO, N.Y.

J. & F. N, TENNANT

Dealers in all kinds of

Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Office, Union Loan Building,
Toronto Street, Toronto.

litf

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERKKY, BUT
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

4a, P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER iLtf

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

eee ee

F. CRUMPTON,

“The Jeweller,”
83 King St. East, Toronto.

WATCHES,
DIAMONDS,
: JEWELRY,
SILVERWARE,
CLOCKS, Ete.,

Suitable for “Xmas Presents.

& PRICES WILL BE FOUND
10 % CHEAPER THAN HOUSES
WHO ADVERTISE

LARGE DISCOUNTS.

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Goods sent by mail or §

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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

AMarket Aeports,

MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

Jan. 9,—As usual, at this season of the year
when there are so many holidays, trade has
been very limited and confined to the immediate
wants of builders and others. We fully ex-
pected that winter had fairly begun last Friday
evening when we had a pretty heavy fall of
snow, since then we have had a continued
thaw and nearly all the snow has gone. Sleighs
were out on Saturday, but carters have again to
resort to wheeled vehicles. The late winter
will probably effect prices this spring. Bass-
wood will in all probability be dearer, but if we
have plenty of snow by the 1st of February
there will not be much change in the price of
pine lumber. The quantity to be to be taken
out this winter will be large, consisting not only
of what was cut last winter, but also this year’s
production, The demand for shipment is re-
ported to be good, and will most likely be in
excess of last year. We generally look for some
Amcricans here at this time to try and pick up
a few car loads of lumber, but as yet they have
not made an appeaeance. Prices remain the
same as at the date of our last report. We

quote :—
Pine, 1st quality, e ce sevecese seveeee G32 00@40 00
Pine; 2nd“ 18 00@24 00

. 12 00@15 00

Pine, shipping ‘als, . M
8 00@12 00

Pine, cull deals, # M..

Pine, mill culls, #% M 5 00@ 8 00
Spruce, ®@M.......+ 8 00@10 00
Hemlock, M......+ese+es0s 8 00@10 00

.... 16 00@18 00
«se 14 00@16 00

. 85 00@45 00
.» 17 00@20 00
. 18 00@25 00

Ash, run “of long culls. out, hes M

Tate ReIMe Lee Ra ee ae he 1.) 1 26@ 1 35

Shingles, 1st, @ M....--+.+e-- DINIIID 3 00@ 0 00

Shingles, 2nd, BM....sse..sseeseeeeeee- 2 00@ 0 00
CORDWOOD.

During the few cold days which we have
had since our last report, the demand for
firewood has been very brisk, but with the
return of mild weather the demand has slacken-
ed off. On account of the want of snow they
have not been able to draw much in the country
as yet, which has lent a certain degree of firm-
ness to the market, but the prospects are that
there will be a good out turn of wood. We
have no change to note in value, and quote
prices at the railway depot, ex-cartage.

Long Maple.. AOOUCHOC Oj! et)
Short ‘

Cnn i Cn mr)

Long Birch. 6 00
Short ‘“ 5 50
Long Beech. 5 50
Short ‘‘ 6 00

Long Tamay: rack.
Short ee Bn

ST. JOHN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

JAN. 6.—As is usual at this season of the year,
the operations in lumber at this port are confined
chiefly to the loading of the small number of
ships which generally constitute our winter

fleet. Regarding the operations in the woods,
the want of snow is causing great inconvenience,
except on the upper part of the Main river and
tributaries, which will tend still further to re-
duce the log supply for next season.

DEALS.

The following table shows the quantity of
deals, in superficial feet, shipped at this port
for the various markets, during 1881, as com-
pared with the previous year, from which it will
be seen that the difference in the shipments of
the two years was very trifling :—

1881. 1880.

AUsiYalia sia es weld 3,116,000feet. 1,262,000 feet,
Barrow. 1,460, 000 wc 2,691,000
Bristol Channel.. . 28, 182, 000 ‘* 28,685,000
Continent..., ....... 23,458,000 ‘32,869,000 ‘
Treland.........e eee 42,704,000 ‘* 31,702,000 ‘
MAVELPOOl ss. cake 76,263,000 ‘* 89,561,000 ‘
London...... . 24,648,000 ‘* 9,204,000 ‘
Scotland......... 7,987,000 * 2,096,000 **
WAC Basgoneed 1,172,000 ‘* 1,120,000 <‘*
Sundry ports......... 1,463,000 ‘ | 7,822,000 ‘

Total. ......+.5.++210,453,000 207,012,000

The following gives the quantity of sawn lum-
ber shipped to ports on this side of the Atlantic
in 1881, but we have not the figures to hand for

1880 :—
United States.....
West Indies. .
South America....
Wotal:. vucveamamats

FREIGHTS.

There has been scarcely anything doing in
freights since last report, We have heard of

. 47,027,000 feot.
000

.. 1,095,000 «

61,531,000

senee

one charter during the period for Penarth Roads

for orders, at 62s, 6d. We quote rates nominal-

ly at 60s. to 62s, 6d. for principal English ports.
SHIPMENTS,

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

are as follows :—
For Europe....... . 4,875,000 Sup. feet.

“ United States. nang nic Paiste 807,000
“© West IndieS.....sssesesssees . 291,000 AS

The number of sugar box shooks: shipped for
Cuba is as follows :—

Sept. 1 to Dec. 21..... Anganmnongecods 34,856

SINC. cssinscs vise 200000 ara orate ine rais ele . 11,887

OLA) cis isaisiols en/0\cjr. Fidsiaen'e'a gai ie 6,745
SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,

with their tonnage and destinations :—

Atlantic, 412, Liverpool, Barrow or Fleetwood.
Emily Lowther, 762, Liverpool.

Etta Stewart, 787, Liverpool.

Cambusdoon, 1, 200, Bona (Afr.) orders.
Carrick Castle, 878, ” Adelaide, orders,

Linden, 913, Liverpool or Bristol Channel.
Souvenir, 828, Liverpool.

Gettysburg, 1, 015, Adelaide, for orders.
Templar, 778, Liverpool, Barrow or Bristol Channel.
Torryburn, 447, Jamaica,

Oscar 1st., 650, United Kingdom,

Melbourne, 622, Bristol Channel,

Memory, 409, discharging.

—————
BOSTON.

The Journal of Commerce of Jan. 7, says that
the demand has, of course, diminished some-
what as is usual at this season of the year.
Still there is at present a very fair movement
in some quarters. In fact, it is many years
since trade has continued so good and kept up
so far into the winter months. Dealers who
have been years in the business report that “81”
has been the most active within their remem-
brance, The great consumption has included
everything worthy of the name of lumber.
Prices are higher than a year ago, and many
assert that the coming of another season will
witness a still farther advance on all grades.
Among the reasons may be mentioned the fact
that the present season, owing to the light snow
falls, has thus far been very unfavourable for
logging operations. As last season’s cut is
known to have been pretty thoroughly worked
up, it is feared that the supply will fall far
below the demand. Reports from the south
and west are that many of the mills are behind
in forwarding their orders, owing to the scant
arrivals and lack of facilities oor shipment.
Most of the yard dealers are preparing for a
very heavy trade, and are probably discussing
a higher range of prices at the same time.
Hard woods have alse enjoyed a good consum-
tion and prices have remained firm. The follow-
ing are carload quotations :—

CANADA PINE,

Nekeota Dressed is ciicnncivecsieleiet cjvjsisictcieis $48 00@50 06
Shelving, Dressed, LEED cision telop foie Societe 40 00@42 00
SNA vreteee tm ciaeiure (aisle eters 83 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers.......++ sietdataleliieeinesa sis 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box........sceeeeees nineties tisies 18 00@20 00
Sh tathing, Ist quality. oe/t oiaialatateraey Wie a's)» 42 00@45 00
nd Fe Ry ce RaWeeNs's asieis 34 00@35 00
_——
CHICAGO,

Jan. 4,—Prices are held with firmness,
dealers showing no disposition to relax their
hold om values in the slightest degree. The
broken condition of assortments, the general
lowness of the supply of dry lumber, and the
prospect that there will be a loud call for ayail-
able stocks in the early spring, added to a
similar condition existing at all the points of
supply throughout the country, are sufficient
causes. why rates should be maintained, inde-
pendent of any effort to sustain them by the
holders of lumber.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1 to December 31, 1881,

inclusive :—
REOBIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Inumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
*81. .1,854,029,000 794, Bal, 000 1,920,056,000 886,972,000
*80. ay 519, 7040, 000 636,992, 7000 1,538, 021, 000 747,514,000

Inc. .834,989,000 157,689,000 382,035,000 139,458, 000
The following was the stock on hand Decem-
ber 1 s—

1881, 1880. 1879.
Lumber. ....«... .620,781,228 569,879,283 481,129,208
sae ve e+ 0+265,262,174 200,089,000 164,028,000
seeceesewss.. 53,017,573 69,186,826 45,633,485
Piokets. eesce sere 2,846,682 2,706,803 . 2,303,826
Cedar posts....... 241,186 47,726 435,088
—_——__—_——_—_—_
BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers........ eientosisiercioh iets veneseesees 940 00@45 00
Common eset ccna Seo coudoraacenos - 17 50@20 00
CUP ceccrucctitiaveevaneurverseccese 2 FO@L2 60

ALBANY.
JAN. 7.—Quotations at the yards are as fol-
lows :—

Pine, clear, @M.....-...-+ oipieieseide Meee 253 00@63 00
Pine, ZOULEDS. sce cs0asressvs seceecess-e 48 00@58 00
Pine, SelectsS......00cceecceeces sseeees, 43 00@53 00
Pine, good box..... no bieinle be teed aiamiate 18 00@30 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each..-- sees eeeeees 00 38@00 42
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. . . 00 20@00 22
Pine ’poards, OAD ise ckvies once 00 26@00 28

Pine, 10-in. boards, culls........
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M..

Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft.......... 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, STG. reiasiapie 28 00@30 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.......... .. 40 00@42 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... ... --. 16 00@19 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.......++s0+-++-- 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........+- 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boat, PACD ais dope eidstapy 00 00@00 16

Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each. .
Spruce, plank, 2-in., ‘each.
Spruce, wall strips, each. .
Hemlock, boards, each.
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each. .
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each
Ash, good, OM.....c006 .
Ash, second quality, # M
Cherry, good, #M......
Cherry, common, # M
Oak, good, #@M.........
Oak, second quality, # M
Basswood, 7 M.....-
Hickory, # M......+0+ 3
Maple, Canada, #@ M.........++

25 00@30 00
60 00@70 00
.. 25 00@35 00
.. 88 00@43 00
.. 20 00@25 00
« 22 00@25 00

Maple, American, per M.......-« 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, BM: vesccccsseccovens 35 00@40 00
Shingles, ‘shay ed, pine, @M....... 6 0 00@ 6 25
2nd quality son adblichi peas Seess 0 00@ 5 00

as extra, sawed, BUNIO - pivideiate'oa eins 0 00@ 4 40
clear, a ebaiaiate aos ante 0 00@ 3 40

pe cedar, mee Bia sins ane neta 0 00@ 3 30

sf cedar, 2. ©.6. PE PIO «see. 0 00D 4 00

2 Hemlock. oso. sxnaenancie veces 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @ M..cccccsccccsesscenes 0 00@ 1 62
Lath, spriice, ‘* csccupscnuccesesesinam 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, BE isiv e's ee Mnain nitinol 0 00@ 2 00

OSWEGO, N.Y.
JAN. 7.—The following are the quotations :—

Three UPPers.......cceeccercenensencess $42 00@45 00
PICHINGBs) sc cada toh ee senanWisetwe so ewe 82 00@35 00
Fino, COMMON . «1.2000 c0cceasssseasee ses 20 00@25 00
COMMON: csi ctnap cee alstaaiee we walie(se-ahisktd - 14 00@18 00
CULE... «ce acesceuecvencss pus eeeweanwele’ 18 00@15 00
Mill run lots.....ccsccccceesssececsecere 17 00@22 00
Sidings, selected, 1 inch... ......seeeeeeeee 34 00@38 00
Th ING oso. 5 le cne sail snin ws eel 34 00@38 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet.......-....5 17 00@21 00
SOIDUNAA a naece tas ka ches os wena None 23 00@25 00
Shippers.........cesseesteveece sees» 156 00@16 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch mill run.....s.sese 15 00@22 00
Culls, selected. .....ccseccreccceccsees .. 23 00@32 00
CUI 2. cit oncdce ean ee eer 13 00@15 00
1x6 selected for clapboards pieowies bee men 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, PINE.....5 svesee 3 85@ 8 90
wwbeedtecs ued 2 80@ 3 00
XXX, 18 inch, cedar. ee 3 00@ 3 30
Sk we) can eee 2 25@ 2 50
Tathivstectts cvs onvcctutwsctcwe(sevesaine 1 40@ 1 60
—_—_—___—_<_—_—_

TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

THree Uppers..cccccsceccoeeceess seeees. 840 00@45 00
Common......ceasesee bias He tea Ae 17 50@20 00
CUB asseraceet evactsenesae see <9 uinie'ns 11 50@12 50
—___——_——_—__—_
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of December 24th
says that the delivery of wood goods from first
hands during the week indicates a fair amount
of activity in this department, and it is now
evident that the restricted imports of the past
few months will result in comparatively moder-
ate stocks being shown on hand at the close of
the year.

During the past two months the tonnage em-
ployed for the conveyance of wood goods arrived
at Clyde ports from Quebec amounts to 7,300
tons, being nearly 20,000 tons tens less than
the total for corresponding period last year.
The imports in the earlier part of this year,
however, were so considerable that the aggre-
gate stock of Quebee goods now held will not
show much difference when compared. with that
of a year ago.

There has been no import of pitch pine for
over two months. The stock of this wood was
low at the end of 1880, but was greatly aug-
mented in the early months of this year, and
even on to the fall, so that at present, although
the consumption has been large, owing to the
active operations of shipbuilders, the stock is
still in excess of what it was a year ago.

With regard to Quebec deals the stock ap-
pears to be decidedly less than at corresponding
date last year, which is to be accounted for by
the extremely sparing import for several months
past, and evidently points to firm rates at the
opening of the new year.

During the past week there have been no
auction sales held by timber brokers here or at

Greenock.

The arrivals at Glasgow inciude a cargo of

New Brunswick deals, consigned to Messrs,
Brownlee & Co,, City Saw-mills ; and at Green-

ock a cargo of Quebec timber, Messrs, Wright

& Breakenridge, consignees,

It appears within these few days that a num-
ber of capitalists, both in and out of the shipping
interest, have agreed to take a large amount of
capital stock in a new fast line of Transatlantic
steamers, to make the voyage in six days. Mr,
Pearce, of Messrs. John Elder & Co. shipbuild-
ers, Glasgow, has been engaged in promoting
this undertaking.

ee —

LIVERPOOL.

The Yimber Trades Journal of Dec. 24th, says
that the business of the past week has been fair
all round, and, considering that this may be
taken as the last week in which any large
amount of trade will be done this year, it must
be satisfactory to all concerned. Prices remain
firm, and with an upward tendency, which will
probably develop itself in a more pronounced
manner after the approaching holidays. The
increased price demanded abroad for nearly all
kinds of wood goods is not the only element
that buyers for future delivery have to face, but
there is the sudden increase in the premiums
now demanded for insurance over what has
been hitherto paid. The numerous disasters at
sea which have recently taken place, wherein
timber-laden vessels figured very conspicuously,
have had the effect of raising the cost of insur-
ance very materially, and this, which under the
most favorable circumstances isan important
item in the cost of a cargo of timber, becomes
still more so when ten guineas per cent. is quot-
ed for pitch pine cargoes, with other rates in
proportion.

Taking the present position of business all
round, it appears more than probable that after
the turn of the year a further upward movement
may again take place, the present comparative
quietude being merely the lull experienced even
in the best of years during the end of December.

MIRAMICHI SHIPMENTS,

J. B. Snowball’s Miramichi Wood Trade
Circular, for the year 1881, is as follows :—

CHATHAM, Miramichi, Dec. 15th, 1881.—The
shipments from this port have been very steady
during the season. There was at no time an
excessive number of vessels in port, as was the
case in many previous years.

Navigation opened early. Stream driving
was good and all the logs procured during the
winter came to market.

Preparations for this winter’s operations are
rather below the average, and it is anticipated
that with the increased distance operators have
to go for logs each year, next season’s stock will
be rather short, (at one time the estimate was
at least twenty per cent. under average, but the
favorable weather so far inthe season makes the
prospect more encouraging.)

The general business of the country has im-
proved during the year, and wages are now
higher than for many years ; this, with the in-
creased price of provisions and all other ma-
terials which go largely into the expense of
producing deals, will make the first cost for
next season much higher, and a large advance
on last season’s prices is looked for.

The contract sales made from January to
May of this year only covered first cost, the
summer sales were most disastrous to shippers,
but the late sales fully sustained Spring prices.
The low rates of freight ranging during the
season (from 56s. 3d. to 61s, 3d.) helped to bring
about a result which otherwise would have been
unfavorable.

The stocks held over this winter will aggregate
in round and sawn woods 33 million superficial
feet, against 16 millions last year and 70 millions
in 1879.

The shipments for the past five years were as

follows :—
1877—150 millions superficial feet.
1878—106 Ee
is79—114 “* > =
1880155“ < .
1881—128 “ “ “
SS

Mr. G. PHittres BEAVEN read a paper before
the Statistical Society on the Industrial re-
sources of Ireland. Referring to Irish timber,
he said that if more attention were given to the
planting of woods and forests this would
stimulate shipbuilding ‘at local ports, and en-
courage manipulation trades in woodwork (in
which Ireland is deficient), barrel hoops, hay
rakes, and even firewood having been imported.

a

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BAMBOO FOR OREGON.

The American Consul-General at Shanghi has
lately sent twenty boxes of bamboo cuttings for
transplanting in Oregon. He writes to the
State Department that in the Chinese Empire,
south of the Yang-tze, about sixty varieties of
bamboo are said to grow, although five or six
furnish the principal materials used. At Foo-
chow and Swatow, the large size grows 40 to 50
feet high and 6 or seven inches diameter ; on
the island of Formosa it is found even larger.

The bamboo serves at lesst five hundred dif-
ferent purposes in China. The roots are carved
into images, lantern handles, and canes, the
tapering culms are used for every conceivable
place where poles and ribs can be put; the
leaves can be worked into thatches, umbrellas,
and screens; cut into splints, the wood is
woyen into baskets, plaited into awnings, and
twisted into cables ; the shavings stuff pillows ;
other parts supply chop-sticks for eating, beds
for sleeping, brooms for sweepiug, pipes for
smoking, fuel for cooking, skewers for the hair,
paper for writing, rods for whipping, tables to
eat on, buckets for water drawing, and the
tender shoots are highly esteemed as a vegetable
to be eaten. The consul-General urges the
naturalizing of the bamboo in the Southern
States and on the Pacific coast.

SS SS Se

P. T. Barnum Fatts Inro T.inz.—Scanning
our various exchanges, we notice especial dis-
tinction given in prominent New York dailies
to Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson's strong
endorsement of St. Jacobs Oil as a pain-reliever.
They too, have fallen into line, it would seem.—
Cincinnati (O.) Enquirer.

J. L. Goodhue & Son

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work remaining to be done at Greece’s Point, towards
the enlargement of the lower entrance of the Grenville
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Plans and specifications can be seen at the Office of
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Resident Engineer at Grenville.

Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted
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the party decline to enter intoa contract when called
upon to do so. If the tender be not accepted, the
cheque will be returned.

The department does not bind itself to accept the
lowest or any tender.

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Secretary.
Dept, of Railways and Canals, \
Ottawa, 4th January, 1882. d7-2aw-11L2

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427 Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire
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Mack's Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
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Ships Windlasses, Iran Capstans

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28 THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. Ag No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always op hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &e., &e.

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ROBIN &
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MONTREAL

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Sy
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I have much pleasure in drawing attention to my WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoyes are made of Heavy Sheet
Iron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 xX 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with twoloyvens, each 16
X 24x 26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well Known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do.

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PETERBOROUGH, May 31, 1880.
_ Apam Haun, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stoye L haye ever
used. You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.
Yours truly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

The Stove for Lumbermen,
PETERBOROUGH, June ist, 1880.

_ _ Adam HALL, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find
it is very satisfactory for lumber operations, especially so on drives. Wo can recommend it highly. ‘
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.

PETERBOROUGH, June 3rd, 1880.

A. Haun, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO, HILLIARD, M.P.

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties suppied at the Lowest Prices.

17

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

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We are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada.

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We watch the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the
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We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business
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NOTE THE PRICES.

We give a Good Tweed Suit for..........36 00
We give a Good Tweed Pants for.....---. 1 50

We give a Good Overalls for .....----.-... 0 35

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When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with a
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 29

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MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
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These Wheels are And Specially Adapted
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Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESOQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO, Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. |
WE ALSO REFER TO
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PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

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gee _ Tan CANADA LUMBERMAN,

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in unlversal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only a single saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $1 each, and when such small mills order single /mery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal thé cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was s0 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them instock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth aLa time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-cigths of all in use are beveled,

Tne principal sizes are:

12x )
8x} 10x} \ 12x¢ =
pik a2 10x¢ 3 / 12x oles,
Sxi \ jin. hole, 10x i j} in. hole. 12x8 2 3 and 1 inch.
Xe 10x32 12x;
12x

Probably more wheels 12xj, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that, you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will sbape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over 1t once), and§this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUBS TION OF _ Oe ee

Thirteen years of experience a8 makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality 1s the best. We prefer for almost every use an
“Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of tbe wheel ls more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet thelr views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tahite), that we can furnish
qualities <o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you @ Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels fs as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gummivg Wheel all over the world. Probably seven-elghths of all the Saw Gufaming Wheels usedare “Class 2
It cuts fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too bard, some too soft. Woe prefer the * Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM~—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as “ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—Tbis Wheel we prefer to all others. Lt is both finer In grain and softer than either of the above. As aSaw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experlenced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Hilustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 1s

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sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Cireulars
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I would also call special attention to my Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
Heavy Circular Saw Malls
and for STM!AM MILLS, would recommend the Steam
Feed, having put inseveral which are giving the best of sat-
isfaction, 2s will be seen by the following testimonials :—

mers, Power Gummers, and ail Machinery used In a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, sma!l Hand Gum-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Puwps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

Horizonal Engines and Boilers

GRAVENHOURST, August 20th, 1880,
Wm. HAMILTON, Esq, Peterborough.

DEAR SIn—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put it into my
mill, 1] have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. I can cut 18 boards 18 ft. long In one minute,
It can @o much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages In-
stantly. fam thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
eutting long or short logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

CORLISS

i
i = Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along

Yours respectfully, ‘ ! Ta —— Hi | === with uniformity ot speed, such as is required in Grist and
WILLIAM TAIT, Sh i rt i PE) 4 = Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large
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ToRoNnTo, August 11th, 1880. i y=——— _ justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish

Ww, HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.

DEAR Sir—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen-
didly. Yours, &c,,

THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

WEEE AWE EXAMIttL Ton,
PHTHRBOROUGH, ONT.

¢ i iN 7 on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
ae i HA Mts Save tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
hy I have them working at 2} pounds of coal-per horse-power
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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., FEBRUARY 1, 1882.

BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.

Although the revenue derived from woods
and forests stands second in amount among
Ontario’s receipts, it is really surprising to note
the manner in which so important a subject is
treated, when referred to, by both parties in the
Legislature. For instance, in the speech de-
livered from the throne the other day, on the
opening of the present session of the Ontario
Legislature, we are told that the recent sale of
timber limits was effected ‘‘in the interest of
settlement and revenue,” which means, we sup-
pose, that now that the right to cut the timber
on the lands in question has been sold to private |
individuals, the Ontario Government proposes
to minimize its valueboth to the purchaser and
to the Province by throwing it open to indis-
criminate settlement under the ‘‘ Free Grant
Act,” and the only objection which the leader
of the Opposition apparently has both to what
has been done, and what is proposed to be done,
is that the Legislature was not consulted as to
the expediency of the sale before it took place.

Now, all this, to our mind, is very much like
barking up the wrong tree. In the first place,
all past experience proves that those lands,
which are chiefly valuable for their timber, as
the prices realized for these limits amply prove
them to be, are not the best for bona fide settle-
ment, while their attempted settlement un-
avoidably causes the destruction of much valu-
able timber by fire, and thereby a loss of revenue
to the Province, and a loss of employment. both
directly and indirectly to the people, of infinite-
ly more benefit than any settlers which will
ever make a permanent home on these lands—
especially at the present time, when the North-
West offers so many inducements to the intend-
ing agriculturist.

We had hoped that in view of past experience,
and in view of the necessity which exists for
making the very most of our timber resources,
the present Ontario Government would
have been prepared to try the experiment of
setting apart the district covered by the recent
zale for timber production only, and adopted
special measures for protecting the timber grow-
ing thereon from destruction by fire. The im-
portance of the revenue yet to be derived there-
from by the Province, and the importance of
making the very most of the forests which we
are so fortunate as. to inherit from the past,
should forbid any carping over any reasonable
expenditure for such a purpose, or any high-
falutin about the rights of the would-be-settler
to settle wheresoever he pleases. So far as
settlement is concerned, the question simply is.
Will the Province, as a whole, derive most
benefit from protecting the timber, or from the |
settlers which will go on these lands?, When- |
ever the lands are chiefly valuable for the timber |
upen them, if cannot be questioned that the |

timber is worth both directly and indirectly
tach more to the province than any settlement |

which is likely to take place on such lands under
existing circumstances, while we do not think it
would be difficult to prove that the timber thus
protected would addmoreto the population of the
Province in the course of its manufacture than
is likely to follow from opening the land itself
to settlement under the Free Grant Act.

PROTECTION FROM FIRE.

The Ontario Legislature having now met, it
should be its urgent duty to pass some measure
whereby the provisions of the Hon. T. B.
Pardee’s Fire Act could be practically enforced,
As it is now, the Act is a dead letter. Its 14th
clause provides that it shall be the special duty
of every Crown Land Agent and Bushranger to
enforce this Act, and to prosecute every person
euilty of a breach of its provisions and require-
ments; but as they have no instructions or
authority from their Department to that effect,
they can do nothing, and as for lumbermen
taking up and prosecuting parties guilty of
breaches of the fire act, it is simply absurd, as
they would do it at the risk of having more of
their limits purposely burned another year in
retaliation.

It would appear that the greatest ;fires have
occurred since the passing of the Act, and this
may be due to the fact that no person is afraid
of being prosecuted under its provisions.

Most people are under the impression that it
is only the license holder who suffers from fires
set out in the limits. They forget that every
timber forest destroyed by fire represents so
much revenue lost to the Province, let alone the
actual loss to the license holder, in his limit and
extensive river improvements.

There is another greater loss to be considered,
and that is the loss to the country of the money
which would be paid out in manufacturing and
bringing this timber to market had it remained
green,

During the past summer fires overran large
parts of the Parry Sound and Muskoka dis-
tricts, and the country lying between the
Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River, and ac-
cording to an estimate made in the Glove, of
Nov. 10th, destroyed $10,000,000 worth of pine
in Ontario. This does not nearly cover all the
loss, as there were many fires of licensed lands,
of which the public knew nothing, the holders
of the limits burned keeping the knowledge of
it to themselves, not wishing the value of their
properties to be depreciated.

If these annual fires continue, they will in a
few years make a large hole in the revenue of
Ontario,

There were three quarters of a million dollars
in bonus alone obtained from the last sale of
timber berths, and the duty on the timber grow-
ing on them will represent to Ontario, if not
burnt, upwards of five millions of dollars, and
perhaps more. The parties who have paid such
large sums for timber berths have a right to

look to the Government for protection against
fires, and that the existing Fire Act be properly
enforced.

As these berths are all likely to be operated
on within a few years, (buyers being anxious to

get returns), and as they are now owned by s0 |
many different parties, the risk of fires is very |

much increased. Before the sale these berths
were in their virgin state, and not much exposed
to fires, being held by the Government, but as
soon as operations commence on them they will
stand a poor chance.

There should be a distinction made by the
Crown Lands Department between pine lands
and hardwood lands fit for settlement. It is
well known that in the back districts of Ontario
and the Ottawa Valley, the pine lands are
generally not fit for settlement, and that where
settlement has been made on them the settlers,
instead of prospering, yearly [grew poorer and
poorer, tillin many places they were actually
driven from their holdings by starvation, as
witness the Opeongo Road, the Bonnechere and
Mississippi counties, which are now nearly
deserts, nothing but dry pines to be seen as far
the eye can reach, while on the other hand
those who settled on the hardwood lands have
done well, and made themselves comfortable.

Now that the country is mostly all surveyed
and the quality of the lands known to the Gov-
ernment, through its surveyors and bushrangers,
it surely would be easy to make a distinction

between lands for settlement and those for |

lumbering. A large portion of the Opeongo
and Bonnechere country was not surveyed until
after its settlement, and the Government had
not therefore the knowledge they now have
about their unoccupied lands.

It surely would not be too much to expect

that the source of ‘Such a large revenue to this |

Province as its timber forests should be better
guarded against loss than it now is.

If the present staff of woodrangers were in-
creased, and kept in the woods during the
months of May, June, July and August, being
good, practical bush and canoe men, and well
posted in the back country, they could prevent
many bush fires being set out, and generally en-
force the provisions of the Fire Act) if authority
were given them to do so, If one fifth of the
revenue, which would have been derived from
the timber destroyed by fires last year alone,
had been expended in watching the Crown
domain, it would have paid the salary of a large
staff of men for several years, and it is more
than probable that very little damage from fires
would have occurred.

If persons holding and working limits, and
their agents and foremen, were all held respon-
sible for the damage done by fires set out by
them or their men, and also the heads of survey-
ing or hunting and fishing parties, they would
be more careful than they now are. It is not
so hard to trace the makers of fires in the woods

{

| the profanation of plow or woodman’

as it to trace mecendiaries in cities, as «
practical bushmen knows that almost all
the woods can be traced to their starting |
and to the parties who set them out.—Com.

WOODEN BREAD.
It has lately been discovered that whis
can be made from saw dust, and whilk

yet calculating on the good times when on
“set e’m up” without stint or limit, and
what is likely to be the increase in the
product, if science keeps on in this fas!

along comes another scientist, and informs us
that we may also have bread made from wo
We clip the following from a recent edition
Good Health :—‘‘ It is well known to the bot:
that many plants besides those commonly us
for food, contain nutritive elements. Nearly all
plants contain starch. The barks of sever
aspens and pine trees contain so much of this
substance that it can be extracted from them as
from potatoes by trituration with water. It exist
alsoin the rootsand other parts of perennial pl
to such an extent asto have beenemployed
preparation of bread in families. In illus
of this we quote the following directions, ¢
by Prof. Autenrieth, for preparing a palatable
and nutritious bread from the beech and other
woods destitute of turpentine: “Everything
soluble in water is first removed by frequent
maceration and boiling ; the wood is then to be
reduced to a minute state of division, not mere-
ly into fine fibres, but actual powder ; and after
being repeatedly subjected to heat in an oven,
is ground in the usual manner of corn.’ Wood
thus prepared, according to the author, acquires
the smell and taste of corn flour. It is, how-
ever, never quite white. It agrees with corn
flour in not fermenting without the addition of
leaven, and in this case some leaven of corn
flour is found to answer best. With this it
makes. a perfectly uniform and spongy bre
and when it is thoroughly baked and
crust, it has a much better taste of br
what in time of scarcity is prepared
bran, and husks of corn. Wood flow
boiled in water, forms a thick, tough jelly, which
is very nutritious. ”°—Worthw ) 7 m
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Adirondack Preserves.

Mr. Wm. Pickhardt, of New York, has pur-
chased a tract of 6,000 acres of land, on Schroon
lake, called the Pharath property, .whi
the eastern portion of the Adinc 1
This large area he proposes to prese

devote it entirely to natural wildness
the home of untamed beastand bird, Ti
paid for the tract was $10,000. The owner

appoint keepers, hunters will be watched, and,
if possible, no poaching will be allowed, while
violators of the game law will be prosecuted.

A section-of aristocratic old England let d
in the woods of northern New York,

34 THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

American prairies, but not nearly enough
to replace the destructive consumption of timber
which is now taking place. In this country the
Government should take steps to preserve exist-
ing forests, and to plant trees wherever avail-
able. The rural municipalities might be com-
pelled by law to plant their roads with trees,
and thus three per cent of the whole land of the
country could be made to bear timber. We re-
peat,—this subject must be carefully considered
by the Government.—Bobcaygeon Independent.

McLAREN vs. CANADA CENTRAL R. RB,

Tn the case of McLaren vs. The Canada Cen-
tral Railway, for damages for\lumber burnt by
sparks from a locomotive, after a long trial the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, assess-
ing the damages at $100,000. Mr. Justice
Osler then directed judgment for the plaintiff
for $100,000, but the entry was not to be made
until the fifth day after the next Hilary sitting.
The following were the questions submitted to
he jury by the judge, and the answers made :—

Q. How did the fire occur—from sparks or
cinders cast out from the locomotive, or from
some other cause?

A, We think the fire occurred from sparks
east by the locomotive.

Q. If you find that thetfire was caused by fire
cast out by the locomotive, did it come from
the smoke-stack or the.ash-pan ?

A. From the smoke-stack,

Q. If you find, that,it came from the smoke-
stack, was it from any imperfection in the con-
struction of the stack,$or from the way in
which it was managed by those in charge of the
train ?

A. Imperfection in the stack.

Q. If you find that it was from any imperfec-
tion in the construction, state what the imper-
fection was. Was there anything too large, or
was the opened or unfastened bonnet improper,
or was the cone too close to the netting?

A. Cone too close to thefnetting.

Q. Would there be more substantial danger of
fire from a bonnet provided with a mesh of the
size used by the defendants than from that used
by the Northern Railway, which appears to be
the smallest in use?

WAC IGS,

Q. Were the defendants, in your opinion,
guilty of negligence in using such a mesh ?

A. No.

Q. Was the plaintiff guilty of contributory
negligence in piling his lumber so near the
track, or by allowing sawdust to remain on it,
or by not having sufficient appliances to extin-
guish fire? If the plaintiff was guilty of negli-
gence, could the defendants, by the use of ordi-
nary care and diligence, have prevented the in-
jury?

A. Not as to piling the lumber, or as to the
sawdust, but’somewhat as to appliances. We
think the defendants could have prevented the
fire.

Q. What was the actual value of the lumber
destroyed ?

A. $100,000, including ties and rails,

Q. Do you allow anything for interest ?

A. No.

Another question was then raised by Mr.
McCarthy, and at the request of His Lordship
the jury once more retired, this time to consider
whether the bonnet-rim of the smoke stack fitted
to the bed. They occupied fifteen or twenty
minutes in discussing this question, and at a
quarter to eleven o’clock returned for the third
and last time to say that the bonnet-rim did not
fit so completely as it should have done.

LAKE OF THE WOODS TIMBER DISTRICT.

Until quite lately the vast timber resources of
this portion of Canada were but little known.
Parties passing through islands onthe Lake of
the Woods could form a very limited idea of
pine actually within reach. The timber limits
surveyed in 1873 for Fuller & Co. were, we may
say, unexplored, and in fact the Government
knew very little about what they were leasing.
This limit included all the islands north of the
steamboat channel (islands, the number of which
is not even yet definitely known), besides the
several limits on the mainland, Since the
Keewatin Lumbering and Manufacturing Co.
have been running their mills at Keewatin,
these islands have been more carefully pros-
pected and explored, and the result is the dis-
covery of a much larger district of timber than
was thought to exist inthe country. The limits
belonging to Mr. W. J. Macaulay, recently
transferred to Dick & Banning, are scattered
over a large tract of country, and embrace a very
considerable area of land. One pinery especially
is worthy of notice. On the Rainy River, near
the Sault rapids, the timber is all white pine,
and will compare favorably with the product of
Lower Canada. Proceeding to Fort Francis,
we find Sutherland & Bros.’ saw mill. This
firm has almost inexhaustible limits on Rainy
Lake, the Manitou River, and elsewhere, and
employ this winter a large force in the woods.
The development made in this industry during
the past summer lead us to believe that no in-
considerable portion of our future wealth will be
derived from the pine districts of the Lake of
the Woods and Rainy River.—Rat Portage Pro-
gress,

THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett & Co.’s timber re-
port, dated Melbourne, Nov. 22nd, states there
has been a brisk demand for all kinds of timber
for building purposes, and prices realizéd for
some lines show an advance on late rates.

American lumber continues in short supply,
and prices are firm at present rates. Sales ex
Oneida and Claud Hamilton—Michigan clear, 2
and 8 in., brought £18; 4 and 4 in., £18 10s. ;
w. p. shelving, 12 in. and wider, £14 2s. 6d. to
£14 5s.; w. p. t. and g. ceiling, £10 17s. 6d. to
£10 12s. 6d. per M. super.

Messrs. C. S. Ross report that during the
past month there has been an active demand for
building materials, and prices have slightly ad-
vanced, Sales by auction have been well attend-
ed, and the bidding has been more spirited
than usual for nearly all descriptions of timber.
There is evidence of a substantial character that
the present activity in the building trade will
continue as the exports from the colony this
season of wool will be far heavier than usual.
The arrivals for the month have been the ZEthio-
pian, Northern Monarch, Cambrian Prince, Loch
Sloy, Hoghton Tower, Chrysomene, Ganges, and
Antiope, from Great Britain, with flooring, red
deals, &c.; Cheviot, Konoowarra, and Borrabool,
fronr Sydney, with cedar ; Wemesis, from Sydney,
with redwood aad white pine; Amoor from
Drammen, and Mawry, from Fredrikstadt, with
flooring and deals; Drumlanrig, from Gefle,
with red deals ; Mleetwing, from Burrard Inlet,
with Oregon laths and pickets ; Grace Deering,
from Boston, with spruce deals, clear pine,
shelving and laths,

Presupice Kinns.—‘‘Bleven years our
daughter suffered on a bed of misery under the
care of several of the best (and some of the
worst) physicians, who gave her disease various
names but no relief, and now she is restored to
us in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop
Bitters, that we had poohed at for two years,
before using it. We earnestly hope and pray
that no one else will let their sick suffer as we
did, on asconnt of prejudice against so good a
medicine 3 Hop Bitters,"—The Patients.—
Pellegr,

FOREST CULTIVATION.

The necessity for forest culture is forcing
itself on the attention of the people. Many of
the leading journals have had articles on the
subject. Over in the States the same anxiety
on the subject prevails, and a convention will
be held in Cincinnati to carefully consider the
matter. ‘The general Government, the States,
scientific and agricultural societies, and other
associations interested in saving the timber
from wanton destruction, will send delegates to
Cincinnati to discuss the whole subject of
forestry. This is a subject that we in Canada
should also be seriously considering, as it is one
of great and vital importance. Our forests are
now thinned out at a rapid rate, aud in the
most prodigal way. Many thousand acres of
woodland are annually burned over, mostly by
accidental fires, but often intentionally, tomake
Railroad ties consume every year
a vast amount of growing timber. An
enormous quantity, too, and.some of it of the
most valuable species, is needlessly used up for
firewood. In all parts of the country the waste
goes on. This waste must be stopped, or the
world will witness a timber famine before the
middle of the next century. It is true that
many millions of trees are being planted on the

clearings.

MICHIGAN TIMBER SUPPLY.

A Brighton, Mich., despatch says some inter-
esting figures relating to the timber interests of
Michigan are furnished by the Forestry Bulletin
just issued from the National Census office at
Washington. The timber supply of this State,
that is the estimated amount of merchantable
timber standing on May 31, 1881, was as fol-
lows :—Lower Peninsula—Of white pine the
basins of streams flowing into the Saginaw Bay
have 7,000,000,000 feet, board measure ; the
basins of streams flowing into Lake Huron have
8,000,000,000 feet ; the basins of streams flowing
into Lake Michigan have 14,000,000,000, making
a total of 29,000,000,000 feet. The pine on the
Lower Peninsula is distributed over about 6,-
500,000 acres. Of hardwood there is an estt-
mated amount of 575,500,000 cords distributed
over some 20,000,000 acres. Of this about 20
per cent. is suitable for lumber and cooperage
stock. Some 7,000,000,000 feet of hemlock
lumber and 7,000,000 cords of bark still remain,
together with about 5,000,000 cords of white and
yellowcedar. Upper Peninsula—Of white pine,
Marquette and Menominee counties have some
1,600,000,000 feet ; Ontonagon, Houghton, Ke-
weenaw and Bargo counties have about 2,400,-
000,000 ; Schoolcraft, Chippewa, Mackinaw and
Delta counties have 2,000,000,000 feet, making
a total of 6,000,000,000 feet. Of hardwood
there is an estimated amount of 124,500,000
cords distributed over 10,000,000 acres; also
about 62,500,000 cords of tamarac and white and

yellow cedar.
aX

After Pine, Paper.

In a paper on the white pine of Michighan,
Mr. W. H. Ballou shows that the quantity of
pine in that state has decreased from 135,000,-
000,000 feet on 20,000,000 acres of landto 35,-
000,000,000 feet on 10,571,000 acres. Some
5,000,000,000 feet are now annually taken away,
so that in seven years the supply will be ex-
hausted. It almost seems a despairing task to
hope ever to raise forests for another such enor-
mous production, and science will have to de-
vise other materials as a substitute for wood.
Lumber is already made in boards an inch thick
from wheat straw, and can be colored so as to
resemble any realluinber. The inventor manu-
factures two thousaud square feet of a more
durable and cheaper material than lumber from
a ton of straw.—Popular Science Monthly.

Albany, N.Y., Stocks.

The following comparative statement of lum-
ber on hand at Albany, N. Y., on the Ist of
January in each year for the past ten years, is
taken from a statement just issued by Sumner
& Hascy, lumber dealers, at that city :—

Spruce &

Pine, Hardwood. Hemlock. |
1873 79,242,000 4,972,000 26,395,000
NST: csc wakab evens 90,996,000 5,594,000 16,992,000
US7G. dianmrwaw ree 67,704,000 5,355,000 16,875,000
TS7C\.ccticeee noenes 67,800,000 6,652,000 8,336,000
STi cles Uv eemete 75,589,000 5,495,000 12,321,000
1878. .... dc onlin 69,547,000 3,645,000 22,482,000
ISTO. occ cce eee 68,766,000 2,231,000 30,614,000 |
VRBO on vein ce ween 76,468,000 2,097,000 5,415,000
LSS. te welsgsalsnia ss 114,977,000 2,689,000 2,317,000
VRE tans cone minis 101,587,000 8,205,000 6,256,000 |

LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of Jan 7th, says «
—The business of the past week has naturally
been upon a very limited scale, and the usual
course of trade has yet hardly had time to settle
down into its normal condition ; this position is,.
however, a question of only a few days, and
everyone appears to look forward to a resump-
tion of bu8iness as good, if not considerably
better, than has been the case during the past.
three or four months,

The circulars issued from nearly every brauch
of business show that the trade of the country
has been fair, and positively good during the
latter portion of the year, and in all possibility
the timber trade, always the slowest to feel the
nfluence of the ups and downs sf trade, wilk
enter the year with good prospects of obtaining
“higher prices than have recently been obtained,
although these are higher than we have been
accustomed to.

The imports continue moderate here, and as
the import season for North American and
Baltic goods is now practically closed, shippers
are not willing to part with their goods except-
ing at a price which will see them recouped for
their outlay, and therefore several auction sales
are announced to take place during the next
ten days, which will include most of the goods
now on the way from New Brunswick and other
deal ports.

Messrs. Farnworth & Jardine state that the
arrivals from British North America during the
past month (December) have been 17 vessels,
against 17 vessels in the corresponding month
last year, and the business of the month has
been of a satisfactory character, prices having
advanced, especially in Canadian woods. The
imports for the season is now about closed, and
stocks are generally very light. Canadian
Woods—Of square yellow pine the stock is very
small, and the late sales show a considerable
advance in prices ; for waney board also there
has been a fair demand, and prices are improv-
ing. For red pine there has been more enquiry
and the stock now is light. Of oak the consump-
tion has been large, and prices are firmer ; there
is an increasing demand for planks cut to waggon
sizes, the prices of these being so much lower
than oak in the log, but they can no longer be

| had at the extremely low prices lately ruling.

For-elm and ash the demand has been limited,
but prices are fairly maintained. Pine deals—
There has been a good demand, and the late sales
have been at improving prices, but they are still
disproportionately low as compared with pine
timber. Staves—Pipe fully maintain their
value ; but puncheon are rather easier. New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia Pine and Spruce
Deals—There has been a moderate import and
a good consumption, and the stock is only about
half as much as it was at the end of last year.
The late sales of spruce deals shew a slight ad-
vance in prices, and now that the season’s im-
port is practically over we may soon expect to
see a further improvement in value. For pine
deals there has not been much enquiry, but
stock are now getting very low and the next
sales will probably be at higher prices.

SvuBsorIBE for the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

LIVERPOOL STOCKS.

We take from the Timber Trades Journal

the following Comparative Table showing Stock

of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on Dec. 31st, 1880 and 1881, and also the Consumption for

the month of December, 1880 and 1881 :—

| Consumption Consumption
° Stock, Dec. 31st.|Stock, Dec. 31st.\for the month ‘or the month of
3 1881. 1880. Dee. 1881. Dec. 1830.
Quebec Square Pine.....-..e..ee ... 348,000 ft. 869,000 ft.
wt Waney @0ard "353000 * 303,000 “ | 190,000 ft. 223,000 ft.
St. John Pine..... 32,000 “ 21,000 * 12,000 “ 2,000 **
Other Ports Pine .. 37,000 ‘ 43,000 “ 8,000 “* 8,000 “*
Pitch Pine, hewn. 510,000 ** 394,000 “ 120,000 ‘* 141,000 “*
BOW cea diate tent alates ene 412,000 “* 200,000 “* 72,000 ** 43,000 “*
PlANKS. cee. sees chee ceiwine the RS 59,000 ** 37,000 ** 27,000 <* 8,000 “*
Red DINb. boss cusipewesne Manbeeme eens SNA CeCe 26,000 *“ 63,000 “* 19,000 “* 14,000 “*
Dantzig &e., FIT is. what es weed eins 50,000 “* 219,000 “* 6,000 “ $2,000 “
Sweden and Norway Fir. i... scree eseee we enee 16,000 “ 4,000 ** 000 ** —
Oak, Canadians... ..sceseseeee eee een ene cane 347,000 “ 524,000 * 119,000 ** 78,000 “*

CC ODIANKG. oc. .v yn hee re iste ees Cocina siwna sve 92,000 ** 57,000 “* —

C -BRlGiqQueemk oa cdenathens ch. Ge we + See 64,000 ** 7,000 ** 4,000 “ 8,000 “
PUT TV Ae Gare a piv ates wie ccavecott e's GRU Wer I RIR AT Ais RES Bibra lsc 50,000 ‘ 43,000 ** 12,000 “ 34,000 “*
ENF de rrey a icia cos nialesl ONT tis Risers bie GRIN The! 18,000 ‘* 13,000 ** 1,000 ** 7,000 “*
Birch jock es sic SORES cE GRR eink wee cele ewes 127,000 ‘* 275,000 ‘* 27,000 “ 62,000 “*
Greenheart c.ssg.a sieve SCARE SASANR ea 30,000 ‘ 38,000 “* — 25,000 **
ASH India Weak we: skh. Wee ed eee ; 14,000 “ 77,000 « 6,000 29000 «

> val » a x. =
Quebeo F ine Deals at & L 7,882 stds 11,095 stds. 2,773 stds. 1,755 stds,
Spruce “ ....... )
N. B. & N.S. Spruce Deals 15,985 “ 30,641 “ )
es Pine 5 jis s 1,856 “ j 6,379 “* 7,736 *“*
Baltic Deals .......+ 000s 3,118 * 6,048 ** 473 “ 615 *

“ Boards.... . lgs “ 790 ** 4s “ si *

® Flocring Boa 1,698 ** 2,330 “ 4s9 “* 482 “

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James Eppy, of Flint, Mich., has established
a wheel-barrow factory, which promises to con-
sume 500,000 feet of hardwood a year.

By next summer square timber can be shipped
from the forks of the Clyde River to Kingston
by rail. A track, six and a half miles long, will
be built.

J. T. ALLEN, a dealer in Boston, recently had
one of the finest ash burls ever seen in that
market. It cut over 7,000 feet of veneers, the
largest sheets being five feet long by two and a
half feet wide.

W. L. Crimmett scaled one of the largest
pine trees ever cut in Saginaw county, recently,
in his camp on Klacking creek. The tree cut
16 feet logs. The butt log measured 800 feet,
and the top or smallest log 600 feet, making a
total of 8,000 feet of lumber in the tree.

TuHE Seattle, W.T., Chronicle is stirring up
San Francisco capitalists with a view to the
erection of a wood pulp factory on Puget Sound.
Cottonwood is being shipped from Skagit to
San Francisco for the purpose of testing it for
pulp.

Se

Tuat plebeian of the forests—hemlock—is
gradually coming to the front for recognition.
In New Brunswick luumbermen are becoming
fully awake to its value. An operator at St.
Stephens recently stated that last season he re-
ceived $5 for stumpage on 2,000,000 feet, board
measure, of hemlock logs.

Tuomas C. Warson’s circular, just issued
from Pensacola, Florida, says there is a pressing
demand for vessels for hewn timber, sawn
timber and deals or board cargoes, to ports
in the United Kingdom, continent between
Bordeaux and Hamburg, and Mediterranean,
and full and satisfactory rates can be obtained
for almost any size of vessel.

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For Consumption,
Winter Cough, Af-
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and all Wasting Di-
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Prescribed by the
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England, the United
States and the Do-

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A WONDERFUL FACT.

HYDROLEINE mixes
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showing a complete arti-

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and just as the Hypro-
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water, so does it mix with the liquid contents of the
stomach, and enters immediately into the systemto
nourish and builditup. The efficacy of HyDROLEINE
is NOT CoMFINED to cases of Consumption, asfromits
valuable tonic effect on the nervous system in addi-
tion to its special stimulating action on the organs
concerned in the production of Fat in the body, it
causes marked increascin weight in persons of naturally
thin halit, who do not present any.evidence of disease.

Unlike ordinary preparations of Cod Liver Oil, it
produces no unpleasant eructation or sense of nausea,
and should be taken insuch very much smaller doses,
according to the directions, as will ensure its complete
assimilatwon ; this, at the same time, renders tts use
wonomical in the highest degree.

For sale by all Druggists,

Iv is the purpose of the Sturgeon Bay Lumber
Company to purchase another tug during the
winter, if a suitable one can be obtained. In
case a large one is bought, it will be employed
in towing lumber scows Chicago, and the
Lawrence will be kept for local work. Other-
wise the Lawrence will run to Chicago, and a
smaller tug will do her business at this port.
The company is looking around Detroit for a
new tug, but has not yet found just what it
wants.

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. A five cent sample settles it.

The classic moralist bids ‘‘Festina Leate,” but
when you want a good pen you cannot get one
of Esterbrook’s too quickly. The stationers
have them. Wholesale by Toronto stationers,

Statistics or Lunatic AsyLuMs show that
nine-tenths of their patients are brought to
their condition by abuses of the generative
organs: A great Brain and Nerve food, known
as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, is sold by our
druggists, and comes highly recommended as an
unfailing cure in all these diseases. See the ad-
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Bridge over Fraser River, B. Columbia

ge ea addressed to the undersigned will be re-
ceived on or before the 10th day of FEBRUARY,
1882, for furnishing and erecting a Bridge of Steel or
Tron over the Frazer River on Contract 61, C. P, R.

Specifications and particulars together with plan of
site may be seen at theoffice of the Chief Engineer, at
Ottawa, on or after the 10th of January, instant.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that ten-
ders will not be considered unless made strictly in ac-
cordance with the printed forms. An accepted bank
cheque for the sum of $300.00 must accompany the
tender, which sum shall be forfeited if the party ten-
dering declines to enter into contract for the work,
at the rates and on the terms stated in the offer sub-
mitted.

The cheque thus sent in will be returned to the re-
spective parties whose tenders are not accepted.

For the due fulfilment of the contract, satisfactory
security will be required by the deposit of money to
the amount of five per cent. on the bulk sum of the
contract, of which the sum sent in with the tender will
be considered a part.

This department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any. tender.

By order,
(gigned,) F. BRAUN,
Secretary.
Department of Railways and Canals, )
Ottawa, January.5, 1882. f 5d8-law

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Emory’s Bar to Port Moody.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Tender for Work in British Columbia.

EALED TENDERS will be received by the under-

signed up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the ist
day of FEBRUARY next, in a lump sum, for the
construction of that portion of the road between Port
Moody and the West-end of Contract 60, near Emory’s
Bar, a distance of about 85 miles.

Specifications, conditions of contract and forms of
tender may be obtained on application at the Canadian
Pacific Railway Office, in New Westminister, and at
the Chief Engineer's Office at Ottawa, after ist Janu-
ary next, at which time plans and profiles will be open
for inspection at the latter office.

This timely notice is given with a view to giving
Contractors an opportunity of visiting and examining
the grounds during the fin> season and before tha
winter sets in.

Mr. Marcus Smith, who is in charge at the office at
New Westminister, is instructed to give Contractors
all the information in his power.

No tender will be entertained unless on fone of the
printed forms, addressed to F. Braun, Esq., Sec. Dept.
of Railways and Canals, and marked ‘‘Tender for

c. P, R.”
F. BRAUN,
Secretary.

Dept. of Railways and Canals, t
Ottawa, Oct, 24th, 1881,

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36 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

hand it back to him again, unsoiled,-as I have
never used it, “

As for Mr. Little, of Montreal, I have known
him for 30 years, and during that time he has
written poetry and lumber statistics in large
quantities. And if his knowledge of Canada is
equal to that of Michigan, as shown by his
published statements regarding the supply of
Michigan pine playing out every four or five
years, I don’t think he is in a position to con-
tradict any figures made by anyone.

This is a long article, Mr. Editor, but as you
have printed longer ones in regard to me, I think
I am entitled to the insertion of this.

. Witutam Mercer,
Jersey ville, Il., Dee. 31st, 1881.

by no means a truthful’ connection, | may say
that the Press and a Chicago paper seem to
have it all their own way, and contain state-
ments that are quite new to me and in fact were
never heard of before by me. But not having
had an opportunity to see or hear what has
been said in the matter, I will state the facts
and you can judge how far they agree with the
statements made.

When leaving Bay City for Canada on the
expedition named, the caution was given to say
nothing about the object of the journey. This
is the usual custom in all such cases, but they
only extend to the time in which the would-be
purchaser has the refusal of the land, and are
never meant to extend oyer a whole province,
nor to a period of a man’s natural life. If I
had imagined that the gentleman had the least
idea of purchasing the whole of Canada lying
between the Georgian Bay and the North Pole,
I might have been more cautious, but I con-
sidered that after the lafi@ was bought it was of
little consequence making a secret of it, if in-
deed any secret were necessary at any time, the
land haying been ‘advertised for sale in the
Canadian paper for several years back, and had
been inspected by several Michigan lumber
firms before we ever saw it. On my arrival in
Bay City I found telegrams awaiting me that I
had to leave for Chicago immediately ; and be-
ing in Chicago next day, and while waiting for
a train, I called at a friend’s office, and the sub-
ject of the Canada Pacific came up, in which
the Chicago people are interested as a diverting
line for ‘‘northwest” freight. A gentleman
came in and was introduced, but I did not
catch the name (he turning out, however, to be
a reporter of one of the Chicago dailies). I
made the remark in the course of conversation
that the Canada Pacific never could compete
with our lines of railroads on this side of the
lakes, simply because the road ran through
several hundred miles of country that had no
local traffic or freight to support it, and conse-
quently had to charge all expenses to “through
freight ” from the great *‘ northwest,” while
ours had every few miles along the lakes im-
mense quantities of freight to carry that would
share the general expense and make these roads
able to compete successfully with any road that
can be built. Whether 1 am right or wrong in
this has nothing to do with the question. The
question was asked if there was nothing to carry
in that section through which the C. P. R. runs.
I said I had just come from the country north
of the Georgian Bay, and with the exception of
a tract of pine on Sable river, and as the Indi-
ans reported, also on the Spanish river some

OUR QUEBEC LETTER. A UTILITARIAN PROTEST.

Some opposition is being expressed concerning
the proposed reservation of a tract of land in
Tulare county, California, as a national park.
A pill is now pending in congress with this end
in view. This reservation will be for the

Quzpec, Jan. 11th.—The extreme inactivity | especial purpose of saving the giant trees that
which prevails in the lumber business renders | grow on the tract from beingsdestroyed. The

it a difficult matter at this season to compile a opponents of the reservation scheme allege that
very readable or interesting letter on subjects | yeally there are only two trees of notable size in
entirely connected with the trade. In face of | that locality—the General Grant and Hugh
the very useful and interesting annual statement | \filler, These stand in a large body of timber,
prepared by Messrs. J. Bell Worsyth & Co,, of | und are seyen.or eight miles apart. The opera-
this city, concerning the season’s business in| {ors who want to cut this timber, talk as fol-
lumber at this port, and the stocks wintering | lows :—

here, which statement has been analyzed in the “Very few stop to consider that by reserving
columns of the Canaps LUMBERMAN, ib would | this large tract considerable money is kept out
be decidedly presumptuous to attempt anything | of circulation. It contains upwards of 15,000
further in this direction. aeves of land, with perhaps 300,000,000 feet of

Quotations it is at present impossible to give, | tisher, of which probably 50,000,000 feet are
since no transactions hayé occurred for some | yedyood, or Sequoia. It is hard to tell where
weeks back. one kind of tree leaves off and the other begins.

Mr. R. R. Dobell, of this city, left town a) The tract lies on the south side of King’s River,
couple of days ago for Penascola, and will be| and has so far been untouched, because it was
absent about three weeks. impossible to haul out or get at in any ordinary

The firm of Hamilton Bros. & Co., doing] way, It will require some $200,000 to utilize
business here and at Hawkesbury, Ont., has | the tract, so that cutting and marketing would
been dissolved by mutual consent, and the | be of benefit to some persons, of course. Some
business is now being carried on under the old | capitalists had just made arrangements to
name and style by the Hon. John Hamilton, of | utilize this tract, and were prepared to spend
Hawkesbury. the above amount of money. The land, as it

Mr. J. B. Charleson, of this city, has purchas- | stands, is represented to be utterly worthless
ed all the standing spruce and pine on Brooks & for any small operation, and can never be touch-
Tool’s lands, at Windsor Mills, in this Province. | ¢d unless done cheaply on a large scale. Of
This, with other lots bought on the same river, | course, as soon as the bill was introduced, the
makes his purchase of standing spruce and pine | capitalists stopped work. The damage around
foot up to 27,000,000 feet. Both of these lands | Take Tahoe has been exaggerated. Some of
are quite close to Mr. Charleson’s Mills, and in | the logs have been cut off, but a very large pro-
proximity also to a station of the Grand Trunk |} portion was still left around the shores. One
Railway. ‘ acre out of every 5,000 has been cut off the

The Arthabaska Timber Co.’s property, con-| shores of the lake, and no more. It would be
sisting of extensive steam and water mills at} more sensible to create a reservation around that
Arthabaska, with limits, and hitherto the pro- | Jake than in Tulare county.”
perty of the Russel Hotel Co., of this city, has] There are two sides to this question. If the
been sold to American operators. The price} general governmént has a right to the land, and
has not transpired. can legally reserve the Tulare tract for the pur-

The vessels efgaged in the lumber trade of | pose of preserving the great trees, no private in-
Quebec this fall have been, as a rule, singularly | terests have much to offer against it. If the
unfortunate. Besides those already. reported | qistrict is well timbered, so much the better ;
lost, the following over due vessels, of which | there will be one forest on the continent that
small hopes are now entertained, are published | will be saved to future generations, in all its
in the newspapers of this date :— primeval grandeur and beauty, untouched by

Bark Pearl of India, Captain Kelly, from | the destroying lumberman. Tf forest preserva-
Quebec, Sept. 21, from Geenock, 1,256 tons| tion, by government interference, is to make
register, loaded by Messrs. It. R. Dobell & Co. | headway at all, it might as well begin in ‘Tulare

Bark Thomas Lee, Captain Wilson, from Que- | county, California, as anywhere else.—Wor'th-
bec, Oct. 21, for Whitehaven, 390 tons register, | western Lumberman.
loaded by Messrs. R. R. Dobell & Co.

From Our Own Correspondent.

DULLNESS OF THE TRADE—MOVEMENTS OF PROMI-
NENT LUMBERMEN—THE SUPERVISORSHIP OF
CULLERS—MINING NEWS.

QUEEN vs MCFARLANE & MCFARLANE,

Orrawa, Jan. 14.—The Supreme Court met
atllam. In the Case of the Merchants’ Bank
of Canada, appellants, and The Queen, respon-
dent, Mr. Bethune, Q.C.,. was heard in reply
on behalf of the appellants. Judgment was
reserved. j

The case of The Queen (defendant), appellant,
and John McFarlane and Duncan McFarlane,
(suppliants), respondents, was then proceeded
with. Mr. Lash, Q.C., appeared for appellant,
and Mr. Bethune, Q.C., and Mr. McIntyre
for respondents. The suppliants’ petition
of right claims payment of certain losses
sustained by them, arising from the breaking of
a boom at the mouth of the Madawaska River,
owned by the Dominion Govermment as a
public work, and constructed for the purpose of
facilitating the transmission of saw logs down
the Ottawa River. The suppliants were carry-
ing on lumber operations on the Madawaska
River, and certain timber and logs owned by
them passed into the Government beom at the
mouth of the Madawaska. The suppliants
charge that the boom-master, by reason of the
unskilful and negligent manner in which he
performed his duty, allowed a larger quantity of
timber and logs than the boom was capable of
holding to pass into it, in consequence of which
the boom broke, and the timber and logs of the
suppliants floated out. That some of the logs
were lost, and the suppliants were put to ex-
pense in recovering the others. The petstion
also alleges that the boom was negligently and
unskilfully constructed. The petition prays
that Her Majesty may be held liable for the
losses sustained by them by reason of the un-
skilful and improper conduct of the boom-
master. :

To this petition the Attorney-General for
Canada demurred for several reasons, among
which are :—That no liability on the part of

Bark Caprea, Capt. Whittake, from Quebec, THAT MERCER TIMBER MUDDLE, distance up, I saw nothing for a railroad to z 2 %
Oct. 24, for Newcastle, 735 tons register, load- As we have republished criticisms on Mr, | carry, and as these rivers were good streams to Her Majesty exists towards the suppliants =
ed by Messrs. R. R. Dobell & Co. Wm. Mercer’s account of the Spanish River | drive, I thought all the timber would come out the premises, the Crown not being liable for the

negligence of its servants. That no contract
with the suppliants on the part of Her Majesty
is shown, and a petition of right does not lie to
recover damages not arising under contract with
the Crown. That no liability on the part of
Her Majesty exists by reason of the insufficien-
cy of the boom or the want of care in the selec-
tion or employment of the slide-master, and
that Her Majesty is not liable for the negligence
of the persons having charge of such works,
The demurrer was argued before Mr. Justice
Henry, and judgnient given thereon in favour
of the suppliants. From this judgment Her
Majesty appealed to the Supreme Court. The
case was argued, and judgment reserved. This
being the last appeal on the list, the Court rose.

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that way. That was the substance of the
whole conversation, which I claim was utterly
private and not meant for publication in any
vay, and could not be distorted into an absurd
claim of discovering a country that has been
settled by whites over 100 years ago; and the
Hudson Bay Company have a station near the
mouth of the Spanish river that may have been
there longer than that for all I know. Now if
you read the article in question, you will find
that the industrious scribe of the Chicago paper
does not state that I made these enormous
figures about the pine. ‘That is all his own
work from whole cloth, and must have been
done on the principle of the natural philosopher,
on being given the tooth of a mastodon, will
construct the whole animal for you, even to
giving you the length of its tail and the kinks
thereof. I disclaim any such ability, and as
you, Mr. Editor (I refer to Mr. Bennett), have
known me ever since you were a boy, you can
answer as well as anybody for my veracity.
- The above facts are all there is to the matter.
Only I must.say that, had the member of the
firm purchasing the land, who is well known as
a professing Christian gentleman, remembered
that there was such a thing as “‘ Christian
charity,” he might have waited before he im-
puted such motives to me as he has, and if any
blame attaches to me, it is in having alluded in uble threatens to return relief is immedi-
advertently to the subject at all in the company] ately secured by the use of the celebrated St.
of strangers. 1

T can’t conclude without thanking the Chieas
gentleman for my “ brevet rank,” butas I find
every second man here owns the title, I beg to

Bark Elia, Capt. Sjostrom, from Quebee, Oct. country, we think it only fair to give the other
27, for Dublin, 641 tons register, loaded by | side of the story, from the Zwmberman’s Ga-
Messrs. R. R. Dobell & Co. penie ee

Bark Eastern Empire, Capt. Love, from Que-| By courtesy to Wm. Mercer, we publish the
bec, Oct. 28, for Greenock, 1,751 tons register, | following communication, addressed to this
loaded by Messrs. R. R. Dobell & Co, ~ paper. Still we are at a loss to understand by

Bark Matador, Capt. Ewart, from Quebec, | what manner of reasoning he is brought to the
Noy. 1, from Limerick, 420 tons register, loaded | conclusion that we have used his name in any
by Messrs. Wilson & Co. 2 sense which savors of an untruthful connection,

Bark Koomar, Capt. Morris, from Quebec, | afd Mr. Mercer fails to explain the method by
Nov. 8, for Plymouth, 1,187 tons register, loaded | which he reached such a conclusion. We dis-
by Messrs. J . Sharples, Sons & Co., tinctly set forth in our former article that we

The appointment of a Supervisor of Cullers| had very serious doubts that Mr. Mercer had
for Quebec has not yet been mado. There are | eyer made the statements attributed to him by
those who anticipate still that the appointment | the Chicago papers. Further than this Mr.
will be a political one, as it is known that party ‘ ;
hacks, possessed of not the slightest business
knowledge, are actively canvassing for the posi-

Mercer fully corroborates nearly every state-
ment in our former article, not only as regards
: 3 himself, but also sustains the views expressed
tion. The trade, generally speaking, however, by us & relation to Mr. Little, the ee
have reason to hope that the Gover i : x : ; ia ae
li : rovernment will | who scourged him so mercilessly. In regard
pay some attention to their oft-r ted A eae
; orb-repeated Ye- | \y, Mercer's strictures on the Chicago reporter,
presentations and to the law which requires the | we faye nothing to say further than that we
appointment of a duly licens Y ; = ;
12 y licensed culler. are new fully satisfied that the representative of
Mineral matters have looked up somewhat of | ¢hat paper misrepresented him
late. New French capital is expected to pour With regard iO the secrecy enjoined by the
into the Province next year, to be utilized in parties who employed Mr. ; Mercer, and the
A mete. A 5 5 I: . )
developing our mines, and in fact a Mr. Fortin, Jledee thereto, Mr. Mercer’s memory must b
of this city, has recently received fr Frone ree : ; = ae
ee ri ig : aint rom a French | somewhat short, as by his own statement he
a pe 2 B Ree 100,000 for a one-half divulged the business inside of forty-eight
- a8 set oeas on wig by oa m Pee hours after returning from his trip; he has no
of a number of speculators, | yoh¢ 5 . < . . one
Per hold mip arerddiryf5300,000nactes oR i right, therefore, to find fault with these parties
eras SRM eB eM ashorn / Hs uning | jf they do aceuse him of a breach of confidence :
ands in the Eastern Townships, to open an| gar Str—As some one has sent me a copy
office for the exhibition of specimens and sale | of the Lwinberman’s Gazette, in which I see you

f lands, in this city, : 2 :
9 » in this city are using my name ina very free way, and in

Here in Our Own Territory.
Ir can almost be asserted that St. Jacobs Oil
works wonders. Shortly before the New i

‘}eannot withhold reeommending St. Jacobs Oil

to suffering humanity as a true benefactor.
Charles Metzdorf, office of the Volksfreund,
German paper of Stratford, Ont.

j

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BAY CITY STATISTICS.
The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
in its annual review gives the following statis-
tics of the business of the Bay County mills :—

Lumber manufactured. ... sees 972,820,317
On dock at C]OSC.++++se eereeree 282,120,929
On dock Sold... veseeseeesereees 118,605,117
On dock unsold....- phidbedin ei» she! 163,515,812
Lath manufactured...-...-+ venee 65,983,750
Shingles manufactured.......... 354,925,500
Staves manufactured....++..++++ 47,480,959
Headings manufactured... «+++. 5,440,947
Logs in mill boom.....+ «+--+ 46,495,890
ane!
LIVERPOOL.

Messrs. James Smith &.Co.’s wood circular,
of January 2nd, says:— .

The wood market is enjoying a more exten-
sive rest than has occurred for some years. The
import has been small and may be considered
now closed. The consumption has been good
and has exceeded the import, and the present
stock is the smallest held for some years past,
so that holders are firm, as there is no possibility
of replacing any article they have on hand on
the same terms, ‘The open winter is general,
extending over all the wood -producing countries.
The Canadian mail, just in, reports the weather
there more like April, and that this is seriously
affecting the logging, while here building is still
going on, thereby increasing the consumption,
and reducing stocks largely. Freights are with-
out change, as is also the money market.

Conontai Woops.—Yellow pine—The im-
port is closed, and the stock is about one-half
that of last year. Second-class waney pine, 18
inch average. has been sold at 2s. 3d. per foot,
prime at 2s, 6d. per foot, and short wood, 16
inch square, at 2s. per foot. Red pine—The
stock is light ; small average has been sold at
15d. per foot. Ash is enquired for, and may
be quoted at 2s. Elm—The stock is sufficient.
Black walnut continues in good demand,
especially for good quality and large sizes ; sales
have been made at 5s. 9d. per foot for 20 inch,
and larger sizes at 6s. to 6s. 6d. per foot. Chest-
nut and square maple have been tried this year,
and have come forward in good sizes and quality,
but prices haye not been equal’ to cost of pro-
duction. Birch—The demand has been large,
and prices have considerably improved ; sales
by private have been made for Pictou at 18d.
per foot, and St. John’s, 604 logs, realized 183d.
and 192d. per foot. Oak is more inquired for
and the consumption is increasing ; good wood
is wanted. and the present quotations are from
2s. 11d. to 3s. per foot, and wagon scantlings,
2s. 8d. to 2s. 9d. per foot. N.B. and N.S.
spruce deals—The consumption continues large,
and, with the reduced supply, prices are firmer.
The present stock is the smallest held for some
years past, and is only one-half of last year’s;
the stocks wintering at the shipping ports are
lighter than for many years, and the advices to-
day report spring and summer weather in Cana-
da, seriously affecting the work in the woods,
which cannot progress without snow, so that
this state of things must be considered, along
with high wages, cost of provisions and scarcity
of labour. The estimate of short supply next
season is therefore put down at fully 25 per cent.
less. The late sales have been of Shediac at £7
13s. 9d.; St. Jobn, inferior specification, at £7
12s. 6d., and by auction, St. John, at an aver-
age of £7 15s. ; Musquash at £7 9s. ; Dalhousie
at £7 10s. ; Bathurst at £7 10s. per standard.
Pine deals—The stock is only.718 standards,
and prices have improved ; the last sales were at
£7 5s.@£9 per standard for Dalhousie, and £7
10s. for Miramichi. Scantling and boards are
wanted ; the former have been sold at £7 2s. 6d.
per standard and the latter at £6 10s.@£6 12s.
6d. per standard. Quebec pine deals—There
has been more enquiry and the stock is now
3,263 standards less than last year ; sales have
been made at advanced rates, and 3rd quality
bright realized from £9 5s.@£9 10s. per standard;
2nd at £4 10s. ; Ist at £20 per standard. Red
pine deals—-On account of the advance in Baltic
redwood they are improving in valuc; sales
have been made at £9 15s. per standard. The
consumption of these will improve if shippers
can give a greater variety of sizes and are more
careful in the seasoning before shipment. Que-
bec staves are in good demand and the stock is
nearly exhausted. Palings have been sold at
from 658. to $28. 6d. per mille, according to di
mensions, Laths, 16s, per 1,200 pieces,

more or less stuffed with it.
the least dust and the best saw dust, and has a

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ee —_

The arrivals since our last have been 30 vessels,
19,949 tons, against 31 vessels, 19,856 tons in
corresponding period last year, and 27 vessels,
8,268 tons, in 1879.

From the 26th January to the 31st December,
1881 :—

Vessels. Tons.

Quebec sesse cacsnresen eeeeee 94 78,822
St. John, N.B,, &essseereeseee 204 152,457
United States...... Wireittetaliir' ease 95 98,580
THON Yeas a mata Red Rhe oto whale 139 57,079
Motalsnars aa 2/8 eA 356,908

From the 26th January to the 31st December,
1880 :—

Vessels. Tons.
QUCDEC. eee cece teens tenes 125 119,278
St. John, N.B., &C..seseveeees 293 217,076
United States..ccce . pene vere 69 55,891
Baltic. ...ssveecne suvcersveres 226 90,257

Ot ATR TEE Peta nade «Leas oee002
From the 25th January to the 3lst December,
ey)

Vessels. Tons.

QUebeC. 45 eevee e cer neeeneeee 73 66,746
St. John, N.Biy &C.sdaweces ees 213 151,446
United States.... sssseereeee 42 37,156
IBalICas scsi e ate Sataiatee yates 149 58,989
(uote ann oamo- @ebiauh obs v In 447 314 337

a EY
Saw Dust. :

There are 500 venders of sawdust in New
York, with.a capital of $200,000 invested, and
an annual business of over $2,000,000. Four
decades ago the mills were glad to have the saw
dust carted away ; 25 years ago it was worth
only 50 cents a load at the mills. It is used
principally at hotels, eating-houses, groceries
and other business places. When wet and
spread over floors, it makes the sweeping cleaner
work and prevents the raising of dust. Packers
of glass, soda water, and many other small
articles use it. It is used by plumbers about
pipes and buildings, to deaden walls, floors and
Dolls and some living bipeds are
Yellow pine makes

ceilings.

pungent, agreeable odor. Any white wood will
answer for the above purposes. Black walnut
sawdust, which has generally been burned he-

cause it would not sell on the market, has late-
ly proved to be very valuable for the tumbling
process of pin manufacture.—Lumberman’s Ga.
zette.

Eee
Effects of Lightning.
Tn a grove of 500 popular trees, with telegraph

wire passing near them, eighty-one, or about
one-sixth of the whole number, have been struck
by lightning, and this upon the south side of the
trunk nearest the wires.
the wires are very rarely affectcd by the electric
fluid. The wounds made by this element are

Those farthest from

said to be of three kinds; first the bark is
shivered and rent upon the side toward the
wire, over a narrow portion of the trunk.
Second, the thunderbolt traces upon the tree a
furrow, more or less broad, according to the
severity of the stroke, beginning at a parallel
with the wire and descending to the ground,
sometimes spirally, but most frequently in a
straight line. Third, the wounds are peculiarly
formed, being oval, and the edges of the bark
are colored a clear brown, These observations
were made by M. Montigny, at Didant, France.

TimeLy Warninc.—Now is the season for
sudden colds and distressing coulis, treat them
with Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam, it cures in-
fluenza, asthma, croup, whooping coughs,
bronchitis, and all pulmonary complaints lead-
ing to consumption.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

Bisuor Bevertpexr.—A gentleman mecting
the celebrated and excellent Bishop, Beveridge,
asked him how he was. Beveridge replied:
“Tf I answer in Latin, I amsic, sic ;if in English,
30, 30.” There are many, who, if they spoke
truly would give the same answer as the éx-
cellent Bishop. They have contracted lung
disease, or it may be are suffering from asthma,
and in great danger of that fatal malady con-
sumption. Take warning in time, use N. H.
Downs’ Vegetable Balsamic Elixir, it is really
what many have called it, the “‘king” of reme-
dies, Sold by all druggists throughout the
Dominion,

GRAVENHUBES?.

JOHN SHARPE, Proprietor. This Hotel has been
newly opened out, pleasantly situated on Main Strect,
within five minutes walk of Northern Kailway station
jar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors ¢ id Cigars,
Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

Simcoe House,
CORNER FRONT and SIMCOE STS.
TOBONCL O.n1Ow Z-

ar Vest accommodation in the City. TERMS $1.50
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Kooms.
1121 WILLIAM HANCOCK, Proprietor.

———

The American Hotel,
BARRIE, ONT.
Collier Street, Adjoining the Market.

RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS.

far Every accommodation for Commercial and

LUMBERMEN.
itt W. D. McDONALD, Proprietor.

J. DAVIES & Co.

46 Church Street, Toronto.

Sells all sort of Lumber on Commission, Advances on
Consignments. Prices given on application. Whole
Stocks disposéd on very low Commission. 1111

B. S. VINDIN,

Commission, Shipping, Forwarding and
General Agent.

LUMBER MERCHANT

Office, Tempest’s Block, Port Hope, 111

FRANCOIS MARCHAND,

Manufacturer of all Descriptions of

STEAM BOILERS,
SHIPS WATER TANES, Etc.

St. Roch Street, i177 QUEBEC, P. @.

CANADA TRUSS FAST ORY

(ESTABLISHED 1856.)

dt yuG@aewG) Ss =o.

Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORT [O° viCAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS iiac~ io order.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every deser: )tic:. 114

688 and 690 Craig Street, Ion‘ veal.

P. PAYETT’S NEW IMP. 0.20

Adjustable Saw Cuca |

Can be adjusted without danger. You can ‘ake your
saw off without taking the guide off whe i snie.

All kinds of Brass & Iron Custing
PLAINING and TURNING dove wiih

Despatch. For particulars a lress :
CRAIG & CAMEEON,

PENETANGUISHER -. 1112

GRATEFUL—COMFORi iNG.

EPPS $ GO

BREAKFAST.
‘By a thorough knowledge of the sat
which govern the operations of digestion an:
and by a careful application of the fine p)
well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our break-
fast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which
may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. {5 i
judicious use of such articles of diet thata son-t “tio
may be gradually built up until strong enoves ':
every tendency to disease, Hundreds of suutic mala-
dies are floating around us ready to attack wherey«r
there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal
shaft by keeping ourselves well fortific; with puie
blood and a properly nourished frame.”—Ciow Svreice
Gazette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
packets and tins only (-Ib. and Ib.) labell« |

JAMES EPPS & CO., Homeopathic 2-2:
London England.

BSucdock Mealiine Gintiwe

used in connection with Burdock Blood i rs. for
curing Ulcers, Abscesses, Fevers, Sores, &e. Price
25 cents > 1 box T. MILBURN & CO.,

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CAST STEEL,
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Factory and Offices: uA
35, SHERBOURNE STREET, TORONTO.

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IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN

Rubber = Leather Belting

RUBBER HOSE, STEAM PACKING,
LUBRICATING OILS, COTTON WASTE

Wrought Iron Pipe and Fittings,

And all Articles used in the Application of Steam
to Machinery.

No. 41 Dock Street, St. John, N. B.

(SMALL’S BLOCK.)
N.B.—Estimates for Steam and Hot Water Heating
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Vegetable Balsamic

ELIXIR!

This valuable medicine is purely vegetable
the discovery of which w«s the result 0
many years’ close study ,in order to discover
the cause, thesympioms and the cure—viz:

Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Catarrh, Croup, Asthma, In-
fluenza, Pleurisy,Hoarseness,
Spitting Blood, Bronchitis,
and every species of oppression of the Chest
and Lungs. In allcases where this Elixirhas
been duly administered its efficacy has been
invariably manifested, convincing the most
incredulous that

CONSUMPTION

is not incurable, if properly attended to.—
Consumption, atits commencement, is buta
glight irritation of the membrane which
coversthel ungs; then aninfiammation. when
the coughis more observable, butratherdry-
then becomes! ocalfever aad the pulsemore
frequent,the cheeks flushed and chills more
common. This Elisirm eurizg the abovecom-
laints, operates so as to rm i
irritations and infia
lungs to the surface, an

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IT HEALS THE ULCERATED SURFACES

and relieves the cough and makes the breath-
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same time reducesthe fever. Itisfreefrom
strong opiate and astringent articles, which
areofso drying & nature as to be in great
danger of destroying the patient; whereas
this medicine never dries or stops the cough,
but, by removing the cavss, generally des-
troys the hectic before the cough is entirely
gone. Consequently, when the cough is
Cured the patientis well. Send address for
pamphlet giving full_directions for cure of
pulmonary diseases. Price 2dcts. and $1
per bottle. Sold everywhere.

HENRY, JOHNSONS & LORD, Props.
MONTREAL, P.

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38 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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than would separate conventions.

and lath, 2,000,000.

ash, maple, elm, and birch timber, all of which

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. FEB. 1, 1882. of furniture.

Mr. Wm. Tarr, of Gravenhurst, has sold his
saw mill and timber limits to Mr. Chas. Mickle,
for something over $20,000,

An Ottawa correspondent says that the un-
precedented scarcity of snow at the beginning of
the season has had the effect of considerably
shortening the lumbering season, yet re-
ports from these districts are not such as
would lead to an anticipation of any shortage in
the supply for the season. The recent fall of
snow has greatly facilitated the hauling of tim-
ber from the more remote districts, and it is be-
ing prosecuted with great vigour. The fears
entertained by some of the lumbering firms at
the commencement of the season that there
would be a scarcity of teams occasioned the
unusual high rates that prevailed at that time,
since when, however, rates of hire have consider-
ably fallen, and’no scarcity of horses is reported.
In many of the higher and rougher districts the
absence of a sufficient quantity of snow renders
the hauling still somewhat difficult.

A MuskEGON paper asserts that in making an
inventory of its property, the Muskegon Boom
Co. found that its boom chain was 31 miles long,
and a value was meced on if amounting to
$32,000.

Two lumber camps at Hubbard Lake claimed
the same landing. The result was a kind of
guerrilla warfare, until the men at one of the
camps cleaned out the other—the foreman of
the vanquished camp taking to town in his

shirt sleeves.
(SS Ses a Cee

THE season thus far has been open in Norway
as well as in this country. Cutting timber does
not begin in that country till the frost makes
the bogs passable, and the snow permits of haul-
ing logs. Both these conditions were wanting
at a late date.

WOODS AND FORESTS.

An attentive reader of the debates in the
Ontario Legislature, now in session, cannot
have failed to notice the fact that unusual atten-
tion has been given to the subject of our forests
and the lumbering industry. Of course the dis-
allowance of the Rivers and Streams Bill has
raised much discussion, and several members
have devoted much of their attention toit. But
this is not all. Member after member has
spoken, at more or less length, as to the necessi-
ty for protection from fire, the preservation of
timber, and the perpetuation of our forests.
But though this is very satisfactory, as showing
the increasing interest that is felt in this impor-
tant subject, it is unfortunate that no practical
step has been taken in the matter. -

The establishment of a separate Department
of Woods and Forests would be of great public
benefit. We hope that the Government will
take this matter into immediate consideration,
for there is now no more important subject to
which they could turn their attention. If the
administration does not act in this matter, some
private member, and there are several who are
fully competent, would render a public service,
and secure for himself the gratitude of the
whole community, by taking up the subject and

PROBABLY more saw mills are being operated
this winter than ever before in the history of
lumbering. This is owing partly to the open
weather so. far experienced, but more to the
great demand for special sizes which have to be

cut to order.
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For the season of 1881 Cheboygan shipped
board timber, 410,000 cubic feet ; cedar posts,
mixed, 40,500; cedar posts, paving, 80,750;
cedar railroad ties, 117,500 ; hemlock ties, 2,000 ;
tamarac ties, 2,000 ; telegraph poles, 5,000; tan
bark, 673 cords. Itisestimated that during the
coming season she will ship 150,000 posts, 100, -
000 ties, and 500,000 cubic feet of board timber.

Tue last quarterly report of the state board
of agriculture of Kansas contains a statement
of the number of acres of timber planted and
srowing in that state, other than the native
forests, The statement is made by counties, and
the totals appear as follows:—Walnut, 5,895
acres ; maple, 6,453 ; honey locust, 1,215 ; cotton-
wood, 39,108 ; osage orange, 617 ; catalpa, 788 ;
other varieties, 38,763.

THE shipbuilding trade on the Clyde has now
From the
statements of the launches at five districts
on the river—say from Glasgow to Greenock, or
within a distance of 22 miles—it is shown that
there have been built, during 1881, 217 steamers
and 52 sailing vessels, ‘representing a total of
331,868 tons, and an estimated value of about
£7,000,000. The largest steamer launched was

(This firm were
engaged in the lumber trade, and effected a
compromise with'their ‘creditors in 1879, at 50
Their present liabilities
are placed at_$200,000, the heaviest creditor be-
ing the Bank of Commerce, which has a secured
claim of $30,000, and an nnsecured one of $10,-
000. The assets are nominally placed at over

Tue Montreal ; Witness says that a contem_

would return greater benefits to all concerned

The Globe in its annual report of the trade of
the city of Toronto, estimates the consumption
of lumber during 1881 at 80,000,000 feet, (as
against 65,000,000 in 1880), made up as follows :
—Lumber, 45,000,000 feet ; shingles, 15,000,000,
The same report also
notes a considerable development during the
past year in our native hardwood trade, and
predicts a good demand next season for black

are now being largely used in the manufacture

These are remarkable figures, and show that
if the increase for the next fourteen years is in
anything like the same proportion as in the
fourteen last years, we shall be up to a million
standards before the century is out. The
possibility of such a thing will doubtless be ta-
booed by many members of the trade here, but I
do not consider it at all unlikely. The popula-
tion of the United States and Canada is increas-
ing at the rate of about one and a half million
yearly, and, if we are to lay any stress at al] on
the outcry in those countries, the dark spot on
the horizon of the Swedish timber trade, refer-
red to in the late report of the Society of Saw
Mill Owners, &c., viz., America, may be expect-
ed to diminish in size yearly, and, if so, the
forests in Europe will be called on for an in-
creased supply. The question whether they are
capable of supplying this increased demand in
perpetuity is another thing, that cannot be
entered into here with advantage.

pressing it upon the attention of the House and
the country.

With the formation of such a department we
feel confident that a better system in regard to
our forests would be inaugurated, and therefore
we abstain for the present from pointing out
the details of the legislature that is desirable.

Who will move in this matter and earn the
thanks of the whole country ?

TIMBER STATISTICS,

The United States Government have already
issued several valuable documents giving the
statistics of their forest areas, as compiled from
the recent census returns. There is thus made
public, on the best authority, the extent of the
forest wealth of the country.

We trust that our own Government will fol-
low this good example. It is of the utmost im-
portance that we should know the extent of our
standing timber, and the probable duration of
the supply.

It is true that rather unfortunately the crown
lands and forests were vested at Confederation
in the several Provinces, who enjoy the revenue
to be derived from them. But in reality this is
no Provincial question. 'The whole Dominion
is deeply interested in the prosperity of the
lumbering industry, and has even a greater, if
deferred, interest in the preservation of
our forests, in view of the probability, that if
the present system continues, we may in time
become a timber importing, instead of exporting,
country. These considerations make trust-
worthy statistics very desirable.

Lumber Districts in the South.

A Southern States paper gives some facts
which show that those who prate continually
about the imminent exhaustion of forests leave
a most important forest country out of account.
The States of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and West
Virginia, contain in the order named from 58 to
66 per cent. of forest land, whereas, Maine and
Michigan, which now produce one-half of the
lumber used, contain only 47 and 40 per cent. of
forest land. North Carolina, Louisiana and
Mississippi have an even greater extent of forest
land still untouched than the states just named.
Neither is the world generally aware of the
good quality of the timber in the south. All
the trouble is that, owing to the absence of
snow the wood is not won so cheaply as in the
north.

APPRECIATED.

We publish the following as a specimen of
many gratifying communications that we are re-
ceiving, and which prove that the CANADA
LuMBERMAN is appreciated :—

Bismarck, West Lorne P.O., Jan. 17.
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman :

Dear Sir,—Herewith find two dollars for an-
other year’s subscription for the Canapa Lum-
BERMAN. It is really a valuable paper for
lumbermen, and I was glad to see you start it.
Hoping you will have. the success your enter-
prise deserves, I subscribe myself as one of your
patrons and wellwishers,

Glasgow,

The Timber Trades Journal, of Jan. 7th, says
that there has been little business done during
the past week, being the New Year holiday
season. Imports of wood to Glasgow and
Greenock amount to 500 loads, consisting of
sundry parcels of wainscot oak and staves, &c.,
and a small cargo of Riga redwood at Greenock.
In view of prospective requirements for ship-
building and other operations the aggregate
stock (all descriptions of wood) now in the Clyde
ports appears moderate, being decidedly under
the average of the three preceding years, thongh
equal on the whole to the quantity held a year
ago. ¢.

J. C, ScHLEIHAUF.

.

LOSS BY FIRES,
From a Special Correspondent.

The loss sustained by mill owners through
fires in I881, as far as ascertained, is as fol-
lows :—

Henry Allen, Stayner, Ont........... $10,000

Anderson & Tennant, ‘Hendrie, Ont... 15,000 ood Making.

Ball, Caledonia, Ont ........ partially insured Ey Fi ae ee

Thos. Bey aut Coulonge, QHIB sic. camss ah 16,000 Wood is going in to the Yarker paper mills
obt. Bingham, Bordeau, Ont....... unknown ~ . “ 5

John Boyd, Whitevale, One ee. eee 2,000 with a rush in this good sleighing. The ther-

M. Cryderman, Northampton, Ont... 1,500 mometer is 22° below zero. The Napanee Paper

S. Currie, Bardsyille, ODGiasses ven cae 2,000 Mill Com buyi all the standi

0, Collins & Co., Gorrie, Ontsw. ve nss 4,000 é pany. ae Mying Up 2 ing

Sanne Co., Black Lake, Que. 15,000 wood in the vicinity. They bought 600 acres
I iott, Elgin, One abeccs orc 000 ~eee

A. Eyer, Richmond Hl, ‘Ont... 0000. 10,000 from E. W. Benjamin, an the drowned lands,

E. B. Eddy, Hull, Qe ecm tore 15,000 for $6,000, for the wood, and also purchased all

H. R. Fleming, Weydale, Ont...... .. 500 of H. McConnell’s in Portland. Th d

W. A. Fraser, Wallacebury, Ont...... 4,500 3 - Mcvonnel 5 1% Ors ey AKO Craw

Jos. Gentetis a3 Am 8, Que Smee ® 16,000 ing the wood to the river bank in order to fleat

Georgian Bay t) aubaushene. . 5,000 ee - :

H. Gaw ley, Belle Riv or, Ont. cvsew.. cs * “Bo00 it in the spring to the mill. The Napanee Paper

a Ww. Fiarrison, Brantford, ORG ces 4,000 Company want to get a start of the new Com-
owar tchemin, Que:....ccsesesee 1,500 q N

R. Irwin, Spence, Ontiiee nace 2,000 pany.— Kingston Whig.

Geo. Kent, Delta, Ont iie iste ss ae cree ee 6,000

Kingsford ’xCo., ‘Lindsay, Onbceien<. 6,000 .

J Lene, Orangeville, ‘Ont. St ae 3,000 Ir has been decided by the Menominee,
apineau, Montreal, Que. ........... 30,000 2 he turi

Snider & Goff, Holton, Ont... -....... 3,000 Michigan, Manufacturing Company to cut a

pont € Wotsaan, Mapeact ONG, 5 eas 2,000 sluiceway around Little Quinnesec falls, on

‘ait, Gravenhurst, Ont........... 14,000 ichi H enominee.

A, Thompson, London, Cr Se a 4,000 the Michigan _side of the M a

Woodstock Lumber Co.,Gravenhurst, unknown facilitate the driving of logs, and to prevent their

Lindsay Mills, Lindsay, Ont...... .... 20,000 becoming injured by battering on the rocks as

they pass the falls.

THE SWEDISH SUPPLY.

The Timber Trades Journal says that although
the returns of the exports from Sweden for 1881
have not fully been made up, we can, by adding
about 5,000 standards for December—and the
amount seldom exceeds these figures—come
pretty near to a correct return. Making this
addition, we arrive at the following comparative
rough totals of the exports of sawn and planed
wood from Sweden for the last ten years, and
likewise for the year 1868, all expressed in St.
Petersburg standard hundreds, viz. :-—

THE Timber Trades Journal says :—“* We
notice the prospectus of a new company, which
may possibly affect the supply of pine deals to
this country. The ‘‘ Dominion of Canada Free-
hold Estate and Timber Co., Limited,” is form-
ed to acquire possession of an estate of 80,000
acres, situate on the banks of the St. Lawrence,
about 150 miles from Quebec, and nearly oppo-
site Rimouski. An engineer’s report, accom-

the timber at £800,000, said to consist of pine,

BS hi cas ace cate 0 BYTE veecoee ce - . .

ea 850,000 | 1878 resco red and white spruce, silver birch, and aspen.
isis ey tae Beso 1879 Ra os 620,000 | With a working capital of £15,000, the annual
1875. sveccccoceee, 800,000 | 18810020227? O00 | Profit, to be derived from the sale of timber

000
’
ISTE vacx viastanenns 585,000 alone, is estimated at £24,000,

panying the prospectus, sets down the value of -

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Tux Timber Trades Journal says that serious
havoc was committed in the policies and woods
of Dunse Castle by the gale of the 14th October,
thousands of trees having been uprooted. In
the avenues and parks around the castle, sixty:
fine old trees, many of them of large dimensions,
have been replanted; the remainder of the
fallen timber, estimated at over 50,000 trees,
has been sold to Messrs. Brownlie, Earlston,
who engage to remove it within four years.
The purchasers are to be allowed to erect saw-
‘mills on the estate to cut up the wood.

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Yellow Oil. Croup, sore throat, colds, burns,
‘sealds, bruises, frost~ bites, chilbiains and all
wounds of the flesh are quickly healed by
Yellow Oil.

“Don’n Give up THE SHIP” were the memor-
able words of Commodore Perry. We repeat,
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involid, but try Burdock Blood Bitters. It
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borne, drink freely of warm ginger tea_ or sage
tea, to induce perspiration, and take Hagyard’s
Pectoral Balsam according to directions on the
bottle. Hagyard’s Balsam cures coughs, asthma,
and bronchitis.

Hap SurFERED MANY PHYSICIANS and grew
no better but rather worse. Mr. D.
Howard, of Geneva, N. Y., after dismissing his
physicians, tried nearly half a gross of the
various blood and liver remedies advertised,
no benefit ; when one bottle of Burdock Blood
Bitters cured him of Paralysis and General
Debility. At the advanced age of 60, he
‘says he feels young again, and is overjoyed at
this wonderful recovery.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway Company offer !ands in
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Territory for sale at

$2.50 PER ACRE,

Payment to be made one-sixth at time of purchase, and
the balance in five annual instalments, with interest at
SIX PER CENT,

A Rebate of $1.25 per ACRE

being allowed, on certain conditions, for cultivation
and other improvements.

THE LAND GRANT BONDS

of the Company, which can be procured at all the
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Received at 10 per Cent. Premium
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or fall particulars, apply to the Company’s Land

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AND
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For further particulars address P. O. Box 514,
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FORESTRY, ITS CLIMATIC AND HYGIENIC
INFLUENCE. i

The following essay, by M. McQuade, Hg-
mondville, we take from the report of the Agri-
cultural and Arts Association of Ontario, for
1881 :—

“Remarks.—If the following rough sketch
shall be the means of adding one acre to our
forest area, shall add fertility to one acre of
land, shall be the means of adding to the beauty
of our landscape, the comfort of one family, the
grateful feelings of one true Canadian, the
efforts of the writer will be amply rewarded.

How rapidly our world moves, and circum-
stances with it! Seems but yesterday since he
who would think of saving timber in Ontario
would be considered a madman. It is only
forty years since this part of our peninsula was
almost an unbroken dense and magnificent
forest, when the sole aim of the pioneer was
how most readily to get the timber burned, de-
stroyed, or put out of the way in any. fashion
most speedily. Such a desire was commend-
able under the circumstances ; but the practice
has been carried too far by all and to a ruinous
extreme by some—partly through ignorance,
and partly through a mistaken desire for gain,
by which they bartered the few remaining trees
for afew cents. The plea set up by this class
of people is that an acre of grass-or grain is
worth more than the timber. This would be
very good thirty years.ago, when clearings were
small, but when the timber belts are getting so
thin that they are scarcely sufficient to break
the breeze or arrest the snow drift, when the
owner of these wantonly sacrifices his few re-
maining trees because cordwood is three dollars
a cord, such a one is not only inflicting an irre-
parable loss on himself, but on the whole com-
munity. A custom prevailed, at least in this
vicinity, of cutting down every tree and twig
along roadsides and boundaries, leaving the
country treeless and marked only by dead line
fences. Such conduct is wrong, and can be
corrected by planting rapid growing trees on
roadsides and boundaries, and the sooner the
better for all concerned. Want of knowledge
of nature’s laws is the cause of such a state of
things. Our ordinary farmers never imagine
that a few trees scattered through their fields
can have-any effect on their grain crops other
than as so many obstacles in the way of the
plough, the reaper, and the horse-rake ; and the
boy who drives these declares that they should
be eut down. We all know that it is very con-
venient to have a piece of timber to furnish our
winter’s fuel, to make a few fence rails and the
- like; but how few ever think that those trees
are not only nature’s ornaments, but the farmer’s
best friend in tempering either a hot or cold
climate, in producing copious dews, frequent
showers, increasing snow falls, not to speak of
their grateful shade, friendly shelter, and
mercantile value. How many of our people
think of these? How many can believe the
natural fact that when our timber belts shall
have been cut or blown down, the farmers of
Ontario can no more grow fall wheat than they
can in Minnesota and Dakota ; that showers in
summer will be rare and uncertain ; that those
terrific storms which cause such destruction in
prairie districts will sweep our Province with
merciless fury ; that our overflowing springs will
diminish and dry up ;that where water can now
be got at from fifteen to twenty feet, none will
then exist ; that our rivers will dwindle down
to a few stagnant shallow pools; and that the
crystal brook in which the speckled trout was
wont to leap and gamble, in days gone by, now
presents only a crooked line of dry gravel from
June till January? In those days of universal
tillage the grass will burn off the earth, the
cattle perish for want of water—and why? Be-
cause we have not the everlasting snow-capped
mountains hanging over us to feed our creeks
and springs, because we haye destroyed our
forest trees which nature’s Great Architect
planted for that purpose. Do our people know
all this? Will they believe i when told? O!
that some mighty genius with the tongue of
Demosthenes, eloquence of Cicero, and pen of
Homer, would proclaim it in every hamlet
throughout the length and breadth of our fine
young Province before it is too late! Will not
the press of our country announce in thunder
tones the dire fate that awaits this garden spot

of America, if the remnant of our once magnifi-
cent forests is not spared and saved from utter
destruction? 2B

Someone may say that we have been trying
to manufacture an agricultural fright, that we
are courting an imaginary evil. Would that
we were wrong, or that nature’s laws could be
reversed, Such is not the case, however ; they
are all stubborn facts, and in painting them we
have not used the darkest colours, nor even the
deepest shade which our brush would give in
the hand of a master. We shall try, in a simple
and familiar way, to prove what we have advan-
ced from a farmer’s view of the case, with a few
facts from science as corroborative evidence, and
we must remember that when nature speaks
shé means it, and science applied is nature’s
voice modified.

Everyone will admit that a fertile soil is the
most desirable feature in a farming country,
but a soil to be fertile and retain its fertility
must be irrigated from the clouds, either by
snow or rain, It is also a melancholy fact, too
patent to many on some of the prairie sections
of Western Kansas, that a soil, however fertile,
is useless without rain, and what is true there 1s
true here. Take our richest land and sow it
with any crop and let not a shower fall on it
from January till November, what will be the
result? Failure. Rain must be had to grow a
crop on any land away from the sea shore;
frequent showers mean good returns in a warm
climate. To insure these, there must be a
source of supply and means of distribution.
Thore must be a wet surface from which the
rain cloud can be formed ; there must be a me-
dium to attract and condense that cloud, else
it will constantly float in mid air and never
descend. We must remember that rain and
dew clouds are produced by evaporation from
the wet surfaces on the earth, just as steam
rises from a boiling kettle. Now, it is easy to
understand that if the kettle is dry there will
be no steam. In the same way, when our water
supply runs short, our dew and rain clouds will
be deficient. What is the experience of the
old settlers on this point? Will they say that
our water supply is now what is was forty,
thirty, twenty, or ten years ago? Let the facts
speak. Thirty years ago the brook which runs
through Egmondville furnished water to turn a
great undershot wooden bucket wheel, about
eight feet wide and ten feet in diameter, to
drive two run of stone ; also sufficient to drivea
saw mill. The saw mill ran during about six
months, and the grist mill had water to run the
whole year through, except perhaps a week or
so in September, when a full head could not be
got. Imagine the volume of a stream eight feet
wide and two feet deep at a rapid current for
twelve months. A few years later water began
to shrink, when the old bucket wheel was dis-
placed by a centre discharge, and the saw mill
was put on short time. Ten years later the
grist mill had to rest in September by reason of
low water. It after this passed into other hands
and an improved turbine took the place of the
centre discharge, but even with this great econ-
omizer of water power, steam had to be intro-
duced, and this magnificent stream has to-day,
and since the middle of June, not sufficient
water to wet its bed, except in a few places,
where some bush land is on both sides, a few
small pools of green, stagnant water may be
found. Twenty years ago the lover of sport
could catch trout, bass, chub and suckers, at
any time in summer, from Bayfield to Dublin,
or shoot the grey or wood duck ; to-day there is
not sufficient water in its whole length to keep
a decent family of frogsin drink. This instance
is the history of all similar streams in this
country. ‘Twenty years ago there were swamps
and patches of low land, where water could be
got for cattle, if not on the surface, at most at
the depth of a foot or so during the driest part
of the summer ; now, twenty to forty feet is the
level, and, at the time of writing (the 16th
August), complaints are numerous that wells of
twenty feet and over, sources which did not fail
in the past thirty years, are dry. What a
change—gradual, sure and great ; leaving cattle
and owners without a drop to wet their tongues.
Since every effect has a cause, we must have one
for this great change. Will anyone say that
the days are getting longer, the sun hotter, the
earth going nearer the source of heat? Certain-

LUMBERMAN.

ly not. Then what great physical cause has
brought about this physical result, for the cause
is here and is local? What local change has
taken place over the face of our country in forty
years, and has continued up to the present time ?
What is the comparative area of tillage and
timber land now and thirty years ago? He who
will answer this question exactly will show the
cause why wells and streams are dry at present.
He who, on this data, with the present rate of
destruction of our woods, would institute an ex-
act mathematical calculation, could determine
how long it would be till farming and stock
raising must cease in this part of Ontario ; how
many years it would take to cut off our water
supply entirely during the summer months, ex-
cept what might accidentally be got from some
stray tornado or violent snow storm in winter.
We may venture a rough estimate at present.

‘We now know the cause, and, since it is local,

shall not take in the whole country, but use the
two adjoining townships forcomparison. Forty
years ago the proportion of woods to cleared
land was about as 98 to 2; thirty years ago, as
80 to 20; twenty years, as 70 to 30; ten years
since, as 60 to 40, and to-day, as15 to 85. Our
water supply has dwindled down from 60 to 15
inches, or 400 per cent. in ten years. We hope
to be able to prove that it must always, in an
inland country like ours, keep in exact propor-
tion with the area of timber growing in the
country immediately around.

HOW GROWING TIMBER ATTRAOTS MOISTURE FROM

AIR AND PRODUCES WATER.

To understand how timber land acts in con-
densing moisture from air, we must have some
idea of the agencies at work in the structure of
it and the effects of these agents on external air ;
in other words, we must have some idea of how
trees grow. This we shall try to sketch in a
few simple words. The tree, like every other
vegetable, is made up of two kinds of substances,
one called mineral elements and the other vege-
table, or organic elements. The first set of

elements is composed of the alkalies, potash,’

soda, with flint and rust, or what chemists call
oxide of the metals, iron, magnesium, man-
ganese, calcium, together with sulphur, phos-
phorus, and traces of other minerals sometimes.
These substances it gets from the subsoil, and
when we burn a piece of timber in the open air,
they will be found in the ashes. Now, if we
examine the little mouths of the roots, or the
sap vessels of the new wood, we will easily con-
clude that pieces of iron rust, little grains of
manganese, pieces of limestone, little bits of
bone dust, or granules of flint, could never get
through them alone, although all these are
formed in the ashes, and therefore formed part
of the wood. They entered the extremities of
the radicals in a decomposed form and in per-
fectly thin solution. The air enters the soil,
seizes the mineral compounds, decomposes them,
reduces them to their simple elements; the
water of the soil and the subsoil takes up the
newly-born substances, some as gases, others
fine atoms ; the little spongy roots suck up the
water, which is now the sap that courses through
the newer wood ; it reaches the leaf, where the
air again acts upon those mineral elements and
prepares them to form part of the vegetable
structure by being deposited in the rind, or
where the next coating of new wood is to be
formed. The water which carried them to the
leaf, having performed its mission, is poured
out on the air as vapour. Herein lies the bene-
fit. Who has had on a garment thoroughly
wet through to the skin and allowed it to dry
on his back and felt warm all the time? Even
in the warmest day in summer will not a wet
shirt produce cold? Everyone knows how
much heat is required to boil water in the open
air. It is just so at the surface of the leaves;
every drop of that water which was thrown off
is changed into steam and the operation sends a
volume of cold, or, philosophically speaking,
destroys or absorbs a volume of heat in the air,
and the result is the condensation of the vapour
of the air into rain clouds which, when of suffi-
cient density, come down in showers. Where
vegetation flourishes, the air is always humid,
and only needs cold to bring it down in dew,
rain or snow. To illustrate this, let anyone fill
a jug or glass pitcher with cold water, wipe the
outside perfectly dry, and set in a close, warm
room, when, in a few minutes, it will be covered

with dew ; and if the room has been quite warm
and the water below 40 degrees, the drops will
assume quite a considerable size and run down
to the table. This is a miniature example of
what is going on above the tops of our forest
trees. But we saw that the trees drew a large
supply of water from low down in the subsoil ;
they also condense much of what is constantly
flowing around them in the air and suck it in
through the lower layer of veins in the leaf;
strain the carbon, ammonia, and other vetegable
foods from it; then send it out again through
the upper layer as vapour, still adding to the
cooling process, This accounts for the refresh-
ing coolness experienced under the shade of
growing trees, and the greater the heat of the
weather, the more rapidly will evaporation go
on and the more cooling the shade. Hence,
no shade artificially constructed can equal na-
ture’s living canopy, so beautifully designed and
wisely constructed that they not only neutralize
the fierce rays of the sun, drink up poisonous
and noxious vapours, but pour out a plentious
flood of oxygen to vivify man and beast under
the debilitating and lethargic influence of con-
tinuous hot seasons. This is called ozone, and
is composed of two measures of oxygen gas in
chemical union. So wonderful is its effects
supposed to be, that it was made a specific by
quacks and itinerant medicine men ; yet, be-
neath the shady ardour, or in the open forest
nature showers this precious medicine around
our heads. Although not strictly relating to
forest growth, yet a product of it, a hint of its
source may not be uninteresting here. All the
mineral elements which are carried from the
subsoil are united to oxygen in their natural
state, but since the tree does not need this oxy-
gen, it is set free in the leaf ; the carbon of the
soil, as well as the carbon of the air, which the
tree must have, are both got through union with
this same oxygen gas, Here, then, is a double
supply of oxygen to spare, and a chemical union
takes place, forming the double oxygen com-
pound, ozone. Not having an authority by me,
T cannot give its specific gravity, but conclude
that it must be heavier than air, and, there-
fore, falls rapidly towards the earth. From
these facts it is clear that no shade for man or
beast is equal to green spreading foliage. Cattle
especially should have plenty of such shade, and
milking should be done under the shade of trees
with green grass under foot if we would secure
pure, sweet milk, free from unhealthy odors.
HOW MUCH WATER IS YIELDED BY AN ACRE OF
WooDs ?

Since we know with certainty that on grow-
ing timber we must depend for our supply of
water, a very natural question is, How much
water will an acre of our forest supply during
the season of growth? This question can only
be answered with approximate certainty, as it
will depend on the leaf surface, the age, vigour
and kind of trees, as well as the length of day
in summer, the duration of the growing season,
and the heat and light to which it is exposed,
together with its situation in a moist or dry
atmosphere, as well as the general rate of motion
of the air during the season. In order to solve
this question, Professor Rutland, Vermont, in-
stituted an experiment in 1789. The tree select-
ed was the hard maple. Two leaves and a bud
of a branch were sealed in a bottle while yet at-
tached to the tree. The expired water collected
and weighed was found to amount to 16 grains
in 6 hours. The tree was 84 inches in diameter,
and thirty feet high. It was cut down, and the
leaves carefully counted were in number 21,192.
Supposing all these to have evaporated like
those in the bottle, they would have expired, in
twelve hours, 339,072 grains of water. A very
moderate estimate, and below the usual quanti-
ty of wood per acre of similar land, gave four
such trees to a rod, or 640 per acre. At 7,000
grains to a pint, 3,875 gallons, or 31,000 pounds,
of water were evaporated from an acre of wood-
land in twelve hours. On the 26th of May the
maple leaves were one-sixth of their full size,
and on the 15th of September following these
Jeaves began to turn white. By throwing the
fifteen days in September and the four days in
May out of the calculation, the leaves may be
considered fully developed for the three months.
During these ninety-two days the evaporation
Would have amounted, at twelve hours a day,
to 2,852,000 pounds, The rain at that place

during that period was 43 4-10th pounds to
every square foot of surface, equal per acre of
43,560 feet, 1,890,504 pounds. From this it is
clear that the amount of water by evaporation
from an acre of woodland exceeded the quantity
of rainfall during the same period by nearly
1,000,000 pounds of water to the same area, and,
if the calculation had taken in fifteen hours to
the day in July and August, as expiration goes
on rapidly when the sun shines, the quantity
would have been much larger.

Such experiments are of vast importance in
determining the proportionate quantity of tim-
ber to cleared land, in order to secure a sufficien-
ey of rainfall during the summer. But this one,
though valuable in proving one of nature’s laws,
is not of any definite practical importance as a
means of guiding us in Ontario, since our loca-
tion is different with regard to many important
essentials, such as soil, proximity to ocean, ele-
vation above sea level, and relative timber and
cultivated surface; but such an experiment,
carefully conducted, in any particular locality,
and careful estimates based upon it, should be
able to estimate pretty correctly what area of
leaf surface would be required to insure a full
crop under ordinary circumstances.

[To be continued.)

Preserving Woods.

That mortar is a preservative of wood isa fact
well known, and many instances are noted of
its value for this use. It has recently been
stated that a schooner of unseasoned Maine
timber, laden with lime, which went ashore
and bilged forty years ago, was raised some
time after and is still in service. Another in-
stance is that of a platform, consisting of nine
planks, which had been used successively by
father, son and grandson for mixing mortar,
was thrown aside, allowed to be overgrown
with grass, and aftersixty years was resurrected,
and found to be-in a perfect state of preserva-
tion. It is somewhat remarkable that no sys-
tematic attempt has hitherto been made to
utilize this knowledge; but recently a method
has been brought forth in France, based ‘on
these facts, which is simple, cheap, effective,
and requires no special apparatus. It is de-
scribed by a contemporary as follows :—Pile
the planks in a tank, and put over alla layer of
quieklime, which should be gradually slackened
with water. The time required depends on the
thickness of the wood. Timber for mines will
be thoroughly impregnated in about a week.
The material is said to acquire remarkable con-
sistency and hardness after this process.

The Rig Trees. ‘
The Secretary of the Interior in his annual
report asks Congress to enact a law for the pro-
tection and preservation of the famous “ big
trees” of California. These trees, the giant red-
wood and the evergreen redwood, are found
chiefly in two townships in the northern coast
range, and a similar area in the southern part of
the State, and they are not found of equal size
anywhere else in the world. They are giants
of growth, being 350 to 400 feet in height—and
with a circumference in proportion; and they
are as venerable as they are large, being at least
a thousand years old. And yet they grow on
public land subject to entry at $1.25 per acre,
and may be bought up and destroyed by any-
one who wishes to make such a use of them.
They have excited the wonder of scientific men
in this country and Europe, and our government
has been asked repeatedly to take measures for
preserving them. It is to be hoped that Con-
gress will comply with Secretary Kirkwood’s
recommendations.

Havnytep Me.—A Workingman says: Debt,
poverty and suffering haunted me for years,
cansed by a sick family and large bills for
doctoring, which did no good. I was completely
discouraged until one year ago, by the advice of
my postor, I procured Hop Bitters and com-
menced their use, and in one month we were all
well, and none of us have been'sick a day since;
and I want to say to all poor men, you can
keep your families well a year with Hop Bitters
for less than one doctor’s visit will _cost.”—
Christion Advocate.

“ASD fools who came to scoff remained to
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OPERATORS in northwestern Wisconsin are
building sun-shades over sections of their logging
roads to save the little ‘slipping ” there is on
them. Sometimes these road sheds are half a
mile long. There is no end to the lumberman’s
devices for banking logs in all weather, and
under all conditions.

TuE Buffalo Lumber World says it is stated
that there are about 3,000,000 acres of excellent
pine lands in Louisiana, which are beginning to
attract northern attention, and Michigan
parties have recently purchased 11,000 acres in
Calcasieu parish, with a view to the manufac-
ture of lumber. These lands are offered at $1.25
per acre, and a lumberman who smells pine
land at that figure usually may be counted on
to take up the trail. These southern pine lands
will come into active demand much sooner than
is generally expected, should the enormous re-
quirements-of lumber continue, and there is not
much doubt on that score.

THE Chicago, Portage & Superior Railroad
Company received a grant of 407,000 acres of
pine land in northern Wisconsin for building
its road. Sixty-four miles are already graded
from Superior southward, and track laying will
be soon begun. When this section of the road
is completed the land grant will be fully acquir-
ed. Sixty miles of grade have been accomplished
on the southern end of the line between Geneva
lake and Jefferson. It is the intention to have
the road completed and cars running between
Chicago and Superior City, before the end of
the present year. The opening of this route
will develop a chain of lumber» manufactories
along its northern section, and induce specula-
tion in the pine lands that the company will ac-
quire by its completion.

Tuer Lafayette tree which stood in front of
the city hall, Portland, was cut down recently
by order of the Mayor. For many years the
tree has been patched and painted, but the rot
has now conquered it. The history of this old
elm tree is interesting. The Marquis de La-
fayette came to Portland on the 25th of June,
1825. A public reception was tendered to him,
and was held under the branches of this tree.
An awning was spread from the cornice of the
old state house to this tree and another one
above, which fell in the fire of 1866, Lafayette
stood under this tree and shook hands with
whoever saw fit to present himself. This was
the only tree within the burned district of 1866
which survived the fire. It marks the eastern
limit where any green thing can live.

Tur Kingston Whig says that the advancement
northward of the K. & P. R. is leading to the
rapid development of the resources of the back
country. Mr, W. C. Caldwell, M.P.P., of Lan-
ark, arrived in the city lately and conferred
with the President and Superintendent of the
railway, arranging freight rates for which the
lumber from a new mill which he has in course
of erection at the Clyde River can be shipped to
the States via Kingston. The new mill will be
located alongside the railway, so that every ad
vantage can be given the shipper. The mill
will have a cutting capacity of 6,000,000 feet per
year, and is to be ready for operation by the
15th of April. The logs from the timber limits
will be floated down the Clyde river. The
amount of freight that the railway will have to
carry is daily increasing.

JOHN NEWTON is about to erect a saw mill at
Lachute, Que., where he has secured an eligible
site. This section of country contains an
immense unbroken forest, which only requires
an outlet to make it a source of wealth to its
owners, a difficulty which Messrs. Newton,
Charles Vary, and others, intend to overcome
by the erection of a timber slide from the mouth
of Lake Louisa to Lachute. A survey, with
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which is rather level, but this difficulty will be
overcome by staging, etc. When completed
this slide will be a valuable accession to the
province, and will open up a new source of
supply for its lumber market,

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From our own Correspondent.

JAN. 10th.—In consequence of ,this being the
holiday season, there is not much‘doing in the
way of lumber sales,’ but the open weather has
had the effect of causing large numbers of new
buildings to be started, and there being so little
frost in the ground, foundations can be laid and
cellars taken out withsmalllabor, compared with
that of lastseason, and builders seem determined
to take advantage of our present mild spell. Bill
stuff by car load still tends upward, and the
retailers begin to realize the,fact®that they will
have to advance prices from{their yards. It is
atrange that they could notjhave been satisfied
upon this point long before this, and doubtless
most of them will wonder now, as they begin to
replenish their stocks at the advance demanded
by mill men, that they could have been so blind
3 to deplete their stocks and hug the old figures,
while the wholesale men were advancing rates
from week to week, but it is the old story over
again,—want of unity, and therefore common
consent to advance prices on the part of the en-
tire trade,

The question is now being mooted by the re-
tailers as to the advisability of calling a meeting
of the middlemen (to comprise all those who sell
by car load on this market), and try to induce
them to demand yard prices for car load lots,
This is intended, of course, to throw the entire
trade of consumers into the hands of the yard men;
but now comes the question, What is the sop
to be given the car load men in return. In the
first place it is"’manifest that the retailers must
bind themselves to purchase only from those
who sell by carload here, and that would only
be a small part of the compensation needed to
recoup the wholesale dealer, as it is question-
able if retailers could do any better by going up
to the mills to purchase, especially if they count
their time and travelling expenses. Then how
will the retail men like to compensate the whole-
saler for the difference in price obtained from
the consumer, over that charged to the retailer,
which would be from fifty cents on the lower
grades, to two dollars per M. on the better class
of lumber. [I fear that the difficulties in the
way of any such arrangements being come to
are insuperable, and much the better plan would
be for the retailers to combine with a will and
determination to improve many matters in con-
nection with their trade, which are immediately
_ under their own cantrol.

Since the new year came in I have been en-
deavoring to ascertain the amount of lumber
consumed in this city during the year 1881, and
I find it extremely difficult to determine the
quantity with any degree of certainty. It is
comparatively an easy matter to give you the
quantity brought here and intended for local:
consumption, but not so accurately can I deter-
mine the quantity transhipped to points east
and west ; however, after due consideration, I
am led to the conclusion that upwards of 55,-
000,000 feet has been consumed in this city and
the adjoining municipalities of Parkdale and
Yorkville. In coming to this conclusion I esti-
mate that the various yards throughout the city
‘closed up the year with about the same stocks

- on hand as held by them at the beginning of the
year, and in this surmise I think IT am not far
wrong, although the stock of joisting and scant-
ling now on hand is much lighter than has been
held here for some years past ; but the deficiency
in that respect is doubtless made up by other
kinds of lumber.

Prices for car load lots of joisting and scant-
ling up to 16 ft. lengths are fully $1 per M.
better than obtained during the months of Sep-
tember and October, and the fact is, dimension
stuff can scarcely be obtained at all, and I ques-
tion if there is a single car load on track here to
dispose of.

Cherry and other hardwoods have arrived
more freely of late, but not sufficient to glut the
market in any sense. Black ash obtains ready
sale if the quality is good. This wood has been
rapidly coming into favor as a finishing wood,
whereas, a few years ago, it was only esteemed
of value for barrel hoops and fence rails. It
will now sell readily for $14 to $16 per M., and

good white ash for $20 to $25, the latter figure
if suitable for carriage work. In fact all kinds
of lumber, hard or soft, if quality and manufac-
ture are right, will command ready sale at fair

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JAN. 24.—The present frosty spell has had
the effect of slackening the demand for lumber
on our local market, and the planing mills are
also quiet, and in this connection I would re-
mark that the excellent buildings and perfect
machinery in use for sash and door factories in
this city are"far"aheadof any other city in the
Dominion, and in a future letter I will endeavor
to give you'a full description of the wood work-
ing machinery, and the different firms engaged
in that branch of industry here. Referring to
my last letter, and to the amount of lumber
said to have been sold‘lin this city during the
season of 1881, I would say that probably 100, -
000 feet of that amount has been sold to far-
mers. There is now considerable trade done
with farmers living from 5 to 20 miles from the
city, as nearly all the small mills that once ex-
isted in the rural sections within that distance
arenow silent for want of the material once so
plentiful,

Prices for all short bill stuff from the yards
are now firm at $13 per M., but as the prospect
for a fair supply of logs is now good, it is doubt-
ful if prices now demanded for common lumber
will hold longer than the spring.

The resolution formed by some of the retail
men to force the middlemen into a position
more favourable to the retailer, and to which I
alluded in my last letter, seems to have fallen
through, if indeed it was ever seriously enter-
tained ; and as the middlemen hold nearly all
the dry stuff there is for sale here, they hold the
key to the position, and it would be useless to
attempt to force them into any position at all
distasteful to them, so that we have likely heard
about the last of the matter. All the yards
hold light stocks, with no surplus of any kind
so far as I have been able to judge, and there is
no prospect of any large quantity of any particu-
lar kind of lumber being forced upon the market
this winter, and wholesale men are firm in their
prices for all kinds of stock held by them.

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OTTAWA,
From Our Own Correspondent.

JAN. 10th.—Lumbermen in the Ottawa Val-
ley, as well as the general community, has great
reason to complain of the unbroken weather
which has almost continually prevailed during
what should have been winter months, but a
recent arctic wave has somewhat revived their
drooping spirits. Since sleighing has set in the
past few days hundreds of men and teams are
flocking to the woods. Agents have been eager-
ly at work looking in all directions for hands,
and the supply is said to be far from equal to
the demand, This week may virtually be called
the opening of the season’s operations, for, up to
the present, work in the woods has been carried
on upon a rather small scale only. However, the
actual number of men now engaged in taking
out timber on the Upper Ottawa limits is said
to be larger than at any time last year. This
is accounted for by the increased number of log
jobbers operating this year, and also the good

prospects entertained for next season’s demand,
which promises to be unprecedented in the
timber history of this locality.

ON THE UPPER OTTAWA.

Snow has fallen in sufficient quantities to
facilitate the taking out of logs, but not on a
scale desirable. The principal firms here operat-
ing are Allan Grant (Scotch Canadian Lumber-
ing Co.), Gilmour & Co., Oliver Latour, David
Moore, Sherman, Lord & Hurdman, Bryson,
Edwards & Co., Booth & Gordon, and J. & M.
Grier. On the Temiscamingue Lake those
actively operating are R. Ryan, Bell & Hickey,
W. B. Latour, Allan Grant, and Fraser &
Screeney. The foregoing firms willfonly engage
in taking out logs.

ESTIMATE OF THE CUT OF 1881-2.

The following is a pretty correct estimate of
the quantity of timber that will be manufactur-
ed this season on the limits of the firms men-
tioned :—

White Board
Pine, ft. Timber, ft

J. & G, Bryson. son.s. csves 90,000 20,000
i. Ry BOORH wnnsmrgene an pet aias 300,000 100,000
R. & W. Conroy:.2.::.ses6% 175,000 40,000
Oliver Latour, 2), . sap vteed i... 275,000 ,000
Wim. Mackey. .....0) 000+ 0+» 200,000
David Moore...... »..- ... 880,000 40,000
Richard Nagle...... «sss. 85,000 65,000

If no serious obstacles are encountered, such
as the low water of last summer, in bringing the
logs to the mills, everything indicates a busy
time next season at the Chaudiere, and at other
mills in the surrounding vicinity.

ON THE GATINEAU,

Operations are here carried on as usual in
other seasons. Logs taken out on this river
generally reach their destination in the spring,
the drive not being as long as on the Ottawa.
The following firms have limits on the Gatineau,
and the estimate of what they will manufacture
this season is subjoined :—

Logs, Timber. Spars.
McLaren & Co ... «sees 23,467 1,671 750
Gilmour & Co..--.....5 39,913 1,253 35
Edwards &Co.. ...-... 62,058 4,125 9
Hamilton Bros''**..... 54,514 7,721
Hall &@ Cot, wi. 5..+. 0k 245,483 1,319

415,435 16,089 794
CHIPS.

A boat is being built at present by a company,
that will be used for towing and moving ia
in Kippewa Lake.

A new mill is being.built on the C. P. R.,
west of Pembroke, by Mr. James Findlay.

A. & P. White are also building a saw mill on
their limit at Deux Rivieres, on the C. P. R.

In a log shanty on the Keepawa three men
recently cut in one day 230 logs, one-half of that
number being 164 feet long, and averaging 164
inches. In the same shanty three square timber
makers made in one day seventeen pieces. This
is hard to beat. eee

Messrs. Walker & Mills, who purchased
White’s mill at Pembroke, will make things
boom next summer. The gangs at the shanties
of the firm on Indian and Chalk rivers have so
far this winter put 30,000 logs on the roll-ways.

LATER.

JAN, 23rd.—All commercial industries gener-
ally have a quiet spell at a certain time.of the
year, and as regards the headquarters of the
lumber trade of the Ottawa Valley, that lull
prevails at present. The many concerns center-
ed here have their shanties on the Upper Otta-
wa in full blast, operations being carried on to
the fullest extent. All the hands required, or,
at least, as many as could be engaged, have been
despatched to the woods, and nothing now re-
mains but to anxiously await the breaking up
of the shanties in the spring, and the sending
up of men for to engage in

THE DRIVES.

Fears previously entertained of an insufficien-
cy of snow for the successful carrying on of
operations have now been dispelled, there being
an ample supply of ‘the beautiful” to facilitate
operations. Although there was an unusually | Bass
late beginning this winter of shanty work, a
prominent lumberman informs your correspon-
dent that the cut which will be taken out from
the present till the end of the season will be as
large, if not larger, on the whole, than for a
number of years back. More sanguime hopes
are entertained that the logs and square timber
that will be taken out, and also that which was
stuck last season in the streams, owing to the
extreme low water, will all be safely brought to
their destination, as a result of the great, and

VALUABLE IMPEOVEMENTS
that are being made this winter by the Upper
Ottawa Improvement Co., and also by private
individuals. As an evidence of the prosperous
condition of the trade, but more especially of
the hopes entertained, may be be mentioned
the boat building operations that are at present
being carried on. Seales & Murphy, of Pem-
broke, owners of the steamers O’ Kelly, Baldwin,
Pembroke and Sir John Young, are building four
new steam tugs for towing purposes next sum-
mer, between Portage du Fort aud the Chats
Lake. The Square Timber Co. are also con-
structing anew steam tug on the Temiscam-
ingue. New tugs are also being built for the
Upper Ottawa Boom Co. and Mr. O. Latour.
The latter will ply on the Kippewa.

QUOTATIONS

remain firm, and few sales arereported. Stocks
are getting low, consequent upon the steady
railway shipment to the States, for the fulfill-
ment of orders already contracted for. A number
of the largest lumbermen here, and in fact all,
are taking considerable interest in the proposed
Canada Atlantic R. R., which will, when con-
structed, be of great value to the trade of the
Ottawa Valley, affording better facilities for
shipment to the States. Mr. G. W. Perley, of
the firm of Perley & Pattee, is one of the princi-
pal stockholders, and being an active and enter-
prising gentleman, his interesting himself in the
scheme carries with it a guarantee of the early
completion of the road.

SAW MILL IMPROVEMENTS
this winter are being carried on upon a much
larger scale than in former seasons, in sume in-
stances extensive and costly improvements are
being made. It is the intention of a number of
establishments to adopt the electric light next
season, as it was such a signal success with
those who tried it the past summer.

SAWDUST.

Four men in one of J. R. Booth’s shanties on
the Opeongo river made in one day recently
306 saw logs, averaging 16 inches. This is big
work,

Lumbermen fear a scarcity of men next sea

son.
—_———_—__——_

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Jan. 24th.—Since the date of our last repor
the only subject of interest to the trade which
has taken place is the suspension of the well
known firm in the lumber trade here, Messrs.
McGauvran & Tucker. The cause of the
stoppage is said to be the want of floating capi-
tal, so much of the money belonging to the frm
being locked up in real estate, said to be worth
about $160,000. Liabilities about $217,000, but
very little of this is said to be due for lumber.
This firm failed and made a compromise with
their creditors about two years ago. We have
not yet been able to learn whether they will
resume operations again or not.

The violent storms with snow whicli we have
had lately have caused the demand for lumber to
be very slack. It is rather early yet for Ameri-
cans to come round to see what can be picked
up, but there has been a few, and now that
sleighing is good, a large number is lecked for
in the course of 10 days or so. Lumber opera-
tions in this region are progressing favorably,
with plenty of snow to get it drawn out. It is
fully expected that prices of all kinds of lumber
will shortly be advanced, and to-day we note
an advance in the price of lath, but in the mean-
time our other figures are unchanged. We
quote :—

Pine, 1st quality, @ M.. «ac ‘amwosegeeae
Pine, 2nd se ni Te a 18 00

Sy

Bare ee
Shingles, _ eM
Shingles, 2nd, @ M

Coxpwoop.—Trade has been very slack until _

the last few days, when a good demand has
sprung up, which the present very severe cold
weather will help to develop. There is not
much green wood coming in to the depot, dry
wood, however, is arriving in fair quantities.
We have no change to make in our quotations,

‘
2

THE CANADA

but the probabilities are that lower prices will
soon prevail, We quote prices at the railway
depot, ex cartage :—

Long Maple............ Bre eich Sis Rip aN win a ecridle'o.n 96 50

GO AB SY Sygp tnt 6 Geek Ayes. Libero anna onmOete 6 00
ODE BING: ceive cocccuewcntores he rsvieetee venne, OlUC
Shon EP Eats oad tasted ae hake Gaeta wird «ads c 5 60
HONE BEGG ede oie tomcte tape wis eA Wiote:ai «-siaisiaty aie 5 50
HOVE wen MMeREETSS ceine Miamciioc ch Heras ccleciteiass us 6 00
Hhoneylamaraals.'. itis Fhasate ss, Gadde wenn gee ans 4 50
Short debe ea Soodontics seed GHeoa cena borat 4 00

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LONDON, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent,

JAN. 25.—Your last issue of Jan. 16th did
not contain a letter from me in consequence of
my absence in Montreal. Since mine dated
Dec. 22nd, a marked change has taken place in
the lumber market here. Some time ago the
merchants held a meeting to consider the ad-
visability of advancing prices as a necessary re-
sult of scarcity and diminishing stocks, with
little prospects of replenishing, and the result of
this meeting was that prices were advanced
about one dollar all round. Business cannot
by any means be called brisk, in fact a quiet
feeling prevails, but notwithstanding all this,
prices are maintained firm. All stocks from
the base of supplies are getting very low.
Sarnia market has been higher for a consider-
able time, and Goderich has also advanced; both
of these places are supply markets for much of
the lumber coming here.

The lumber contract for the new wholesale
block has been let to Messrs. Green, and build-
ing is proceeding.

Unless we have a good, long spell of cold
weather, and an abundance of snow, such as we
now have, prices are not likely to show any de-
cline.

I intended giving you a data of our lumber
market for the past year in this letter, but will
have to defer it, and if possible give it in my
next.

The prices ruling at present are :—

QUOTATIONS.
Mill cull boards and scantling................. + -$11 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths...... 12 00
as ae 10 and 12in. stocks....... 12 50
Common boards, promiscuous widths........... 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft..............000% 15 00
Lia «“ “e

“ “ “
“ se “
“ “ “

Common stocks .....

Common Zane Plawle gas supe s Ae vis cc ons oss vdaie dies
Cutting up plank and boards:::-...............
Sound dressing stocks... 18 00
Clear and picks ......... 28 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection........ 35 00

q ‘«

1“ “ “

XXX sawn shingles, @M.................5 eee. 3:00
Lath per 1000 feet.............2. m 4 50@5 00
—___—_@—
BRACEBRIDGE.

From our own Correspondent.
BRacepripce, Jan. 19th, 1882.—Since my
last things have changed some; we have now
about six inches of snow with plenty of frost,
and the hauling could not be much better.
Every one is rushing in teams, and no doubt
there will be a large quantity of logs and tim-
ber hauled this month. Teams have been very
scarce and wages high, $1.75 to $2.00 per day,
and the demand is not more than half satisfied
yet ; but they are coming in now. David
Moore, from Walkerton, went in this week to
commence operations in the township of Mc-
Konkey, on French River, on one of the berths
sold at the recent sale. He will build a mill at
the mouth of the French River in the spring.
I believe that he is the only operator so far in
that portion of the recent sale. I noticed an
article in your last by Mr. Little. He is evi-
dently writing about what he knows nothing.
There is no fear of the lumber supply being ex-
hausted in twenty vears, nor in forty. He says
that the Government three years ago sold 34
townships, the last they possessed. How does
it come that last December they again sold 18
townships, and they have plenty to sell yet?
The north shores of lakes Huron and Superior
have been very little worked yet, and it is
Principally a pine country, exéept where the
fires have destroyed it. There is no use trying

to mislead ; we have plenty of timber.

——__~>—___.
ST. JOHN, N. B,

From Our Own Correspondent.
Jas. 21.—From the very nature of things
we cannot expect to have much to record in
making up a lumber report ata shipping port

LUMBERMAN.

in the latter part of January. The most notice-
able circumstance we have to report at the
present time is that we have had several snow
falls recently, which were greatly needed. The
snow being now of moderate depth, and having
fallen very evenly, the facilities for teaming in
all directions are all that can be desired, causing
a very agreeable change in the movements of all
winter occupations.
OUR HARBOR.

Doubtless some of the readers of the LumBEr-
MAN are not aware that the harbor of St. John
is never obstructed by ice in the least degree, which
is more than can be said of any other harbor on
the Atlantic coast, from Baltimore to the North
Pole,—we do not say ‘‘both inclusive,” as our
knowledge of the latter place is rather too
limited to enable us to speak authoritatively so
far as it is concerned,—the open water extending
some two miles upthe river. This circumstance
is a very important one as bearing upon the
question of a winter port, now being agitated
throughout the Dominion.

Another very important peculiarity of our
harbor is the great rise and fall of tide (between
twenty and thirty feet), which could be exten-
sively utilized in the shipment of grain cargoes,
dispensing with elevators, if not altogether, at
least with any such structures at all approaching
the magnitude of those required in other places,

We would earnestly press these features of
our harbor upon the consideration of the Goy-
ernment; the C. P. R. Company,—of all people
in Canada, indeed,—in discussing the subject of
a Canadian winter port, in connection with the
trade of our great North West, which is now a
burning question. Any manifestation on the
part of the ‘‘ powers that be” in favor of a
foreign port in this connection would cause a
commotion in these Maritime Provinces not

easily allayed.
FREIGHTS.

The freight market is easier, the latest trans-
action being at 60s. for Dublin, or a port on the
west coast of England. Very few transactions
in deal charters may be looked for during the
next two months.

SHIPMENTS,

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

are as follows :—

For Europe..... ohdGhasbtnnak oaps 2,295,000 Sup. feet.
SAPALDICA re lciaicieitieis scr ensicisia iain oan 1,188,000 ds
PA AUIS PAID fideinse ud cuieinenietiys 637,000 ‘
“United Statesicn oc. c is ccnee 1,353,000 OG
c& Wiest Indiestige tessa vei. elec 579,000 a

The number of sugar box shooks shipped for
Cuba is as follows :—

Nephy MtO TANG. wets. ae SOMO AAG 46,745
MINComne pile stein ey atiatss et, 000;
EET Qi ee 53,745

SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :—

Etta Stewart, 787, Liverpool.

Souvenir, 828, Liverpool.

Gettysburg, 1,015, Adelaide, for orders.

Templar, 778, Liverpool, Barrow or Bristol Channel.

Torryburn, 447, Jamaica,

Memory, 409, Spain. ,

Athlow, 839, Bristol Channel. °

Themis, 975, Liverpool, Barrow, Bristol Channel or
Dublin.

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BOSTON.

JAN. 21.—The Journal of Commerce says the
market is still a very good one, and remarkably
so for this time of year. Holders of stock are
masters of the situation and name their own
prices in every case. Arrivals are now beginn-
ing to be less frequent, and stocks (especially of
the finer grades) are getting pretty low in most
of the yards. Dealers at productive points are
refusing future contracts, except at advanced
rates. At the west there is quite a scarcity of
dimension stock in flooring strips. In Chicago
it is not an' uncommon occurrence for sales of
100,000 feet in one lot to be made at regular
list prices. The general opinion seems to be
that the price of lumber will materially advance
by the coming of spring, if not before. It is a
well known fact that the supply to draw from
has never been lower than at present, and that
the amount of stock on hand in most of the
yards is small. When these facts are considered
it is plain that they point pretty strongly to
higher prices, and dealers are making money if
they hold on to their lumber. Hardwoods are
as firm as ever, with indications of an improved
demand in the spring,

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Selects Dressed tuseeiieeiraseeniiciseciceniae $48 00@50 00

Shelving, Dressed, Ists.......... ......- 40 00@42 00
Se ss Pat hs onnae ae ancecre te 33 00@35 00
Dressed, |Shippersien eck geen cows seers 27 00@29 00
DressedsBoxie tae eta acbitncs cealtoed sine 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Ist quality...........eeesecss 42 00@45 00
“ 2n CO areleloko/er ovale eisis ete airicte 34 00@35 00
i
ALBANY.

JAN. 20.—Quotations at the yards are as fol-
lows :—

Piney Clear AAPM. «:s).iteensehe ato vieielcctee ciloieiete $53 00@63 00
Piney LOUNLNS ayers «yee oe ook leietet unc - 48 00@58 00

Piney SClECHS iy vanystsl amare cera s 43 00@53 00
Pines ooduboxrne ety eene nee ronan 19 00@31 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.. ........... 00 38@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... ....- 00 19@00 22
Pine: boardaylO-intis cg. wcle ap maceeiineels 00 26@00 28
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.............++.. 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.......... 25 00@30 00
Bing, WAIN, DORIS MS lahs sono neann snudeee 25 00@30 00
Pine L2-Ue DOALAS) Vaittienireemerieestsinele 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select............0... 38 00@40 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common..,........-. 15 00@18 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select... ... 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common. .-.- 16 00@19 00

Spruce, boards, each.....
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each
Spruce, wall strips, each. .
Hemlock, boards, each ..
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each...

Hemlock, joist, 2x4, each - 00 00@00 13

Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10
AS PDOdS ABM ayela aaoscieccisistvin vie/neie o awieinn 35 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, @ M..............5% 25 00@30 00
Chrerrysue Ody idan Mlce rate elcicteialeteretein starve rarer 60 00@70 00
(iGo, Common ts witag Goocbcesennan a 25 00@35 00
Oak; Boods aie. sis.cva test necencec 38. 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, @M................ 20 00@25 00
BasswOOds iii Mis .cisiss wiepive vacins oe Sogode 22 00@25 00
ISO oy aye JANES oe aonb OUOUOb RS soneaabsee 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @ Mics... ccsweseenecss 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M............-..., 25 00@28 00
ChestmutyasuMinnaeccimsissseiatonenen cues 35 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, pine, ®M..... ........ 0 00@ 6 00
ae And iqality saree. wiht oe iaveniees 0 00@ 4 50
AS extra, sawed, pine............. 0 00@ 4 40
se clear, os a NS SFIS 5 See 0 00@ 3 40
cedaremixedernsnernae anccce 0 00@ 3 25
ky COM ATL RERUN an ee yteasisioinivisieisrece 0 00@ 4 00
ss hemlock sev deyaap eto eae ee 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @M.......0%.....+-...-.- 0 00@ 1 62
Bathy spruces 80 tavsacecnstkedmrceisce 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, MECC Socrintroctoreadee 0 00@ 2 00
——
CHICAGO.

JAN. 18.—The stiffening of the weather, and
the resulting improvement of the roads in the
country, has had an effect on trade, and a con-
siderable increase in orders and movement of
lumber is noticeable, the shijments for the last
week exceeding those of the preceding one by
about 1,000,000. This may be taken as an indi-
cation of a coming improvement of considerable
proportions, if the weather continues favorable.
The facts that generally stocks in country yards
are low, and that country dealers report a very
satisfactory trade for the time of year, go to en-
courage wholesale holders of lumber to hope
that February will be a good month for busi-
ness,

The feeling in regard to prices was never
stronger. Holders of lumber are not forcing
sales, but are content to let trade take its course,
The prevailing opinion is that lumber is making

a profit as it lies in the pile, and it is sufficient
to sell it when it is called for, without using any
urgency.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles for the week ending January 19, 1882 :

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882..... 3,958,000 1,630,000 18,644,000 7,010,000
1881..... 4,962,000 1,405,000 13,371,000 7,512,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1 to January 19, 1882,
inclusive :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882..... 10,440,000 3,615,000 40,378,000 20,815,000

TEST. on 10,353,000 3,470,000 36,274,000
The receipts for the season also embraced
104,499,000 lath, 2,846,340 cedar posts, 3,205,560
railroad ties, 33,055 cords of wood, 22,549 cords
of slabs, 29,702 cords of tan bark, 86,993 tele-
grapu poles, and 25,118 piles.
STOCK ON HAND JANUARY 1.

20,292,000

1882. 1881. 1880.
Lumber. 560,416,842 497,840,673 451,282,059
Shingles 260,906,494 188,722,000 190,057,000
Lath ... 48,820,438 50,321,185 48,630,800
Pickets.. 3,784,178 2,497,858 2,129,760
Cedar posts. 229,012 63,659 404,730
—<$<<$<___5——___
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
UPPersiinnisicnnetioces nosaeeocaeceiess ase $46 00@48 00
Commons 5 caseernn isnt seciuat bes smcee 18 00@19 00
ODT 3 meg abo sda 38 a50 $6 5c eee 13 00@14 00
=e i ee
i TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
Three! Upperdsnesniet onsets sces seeewn nck 340 00@45 00
Commoners eewcet ysmacecnk cousin acuees 17 50@20 ov
ECL igh SIS SES ASN eee gaat SI 11 50@12 50

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T have much pleasure in drawing attention tomy WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
Iron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 x 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with two ovens, cach 16
x 24x 26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who haye used my Wrought Tron Cook Stoves since |
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well Known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do.

Will soon pay

Bitts,

jute on 10 to 15
Brooke Bitt on 6

2-66 inch Brooke

UR SPECIALTY,

Address, WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., Brantford, Canada,

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PrrerBoRouGH, May 31, 1880.

ApAm Haun, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in say ing that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stove Ll have ever
used. You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.

Yours truly, THOS. GEO. WAZLITT.

000 feet with two sets of

‘THE BROOKE BITT SAW,

es out of slabs and all manner of refuse.

any large Mill.

Whe Stove for Lumbermen,
, : PerrrBorovan, June Ist, 1880.
ApAm ITAL, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find

it is very satisfactory for lumber operations, especially so on drives. We can recommend it highly. ‘
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

SIX SAW EDGERS, and the most improved Saw

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.
Prererporovan, June 8rd, 1880.

A, Haun, Peterborough, Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. Tcan recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO, HILLIARD, M.P-

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties supplied at the Lowest Prices. a

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

for itself aroun

With Interchangeable Trenton Teeth.
fat ORDER BY THIS GAUGE. “EX
BROWN’S PATENT SPALT MACHINE

PORTABLE SAW MILLS 0

Also, E. E. Parson’s, Arnprior, ru

800 revolntions per minute ; cut 500

THE HOE BIT SAW,

and 2-66 inch Hoe Saws—running 800 revolutions pe

inch feed.

Write McLachlan Bros., Arnprior, as to how they like
A inch feed-

Pitt,

EWwWART’S PATHNT DRIVE CHAIN

7 costing less than $10,00,
FOR SAWDUST CARRIERS, LIVE ROLLS, TRIMMERS and REFUSE CARRIERS.

Mill Machinery.

HEADQUARTERS FOR INSERTED TOOTH SAWS!

Cuts three perfect Shingles out of inch board. Cuts pting!

AUTOMATIC GANG TRIMMERS,

110

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poe NSE a 45

D. McLACHLAN & SONS, loyp Making by ‘the New Process
GRAYS PAT EN T

STHAM BOTDLERS.
a NORTH SLIP: ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, ATS EL ESS BALLER i iM] if l
ABRAMS & EERR |"
Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting, A Model of £ or fe ection é
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders. Every Mill a Success :
SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER Ss
Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Varieiy of Heavy and Light Casting.

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Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road,
ST JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Smooth tron or Porcelain ROLLS,

ESTABLISHED 1874,

‘SOIVIS PORIUQ OD JO SLOT
DATIVIMOSITAOY OUD TLV AG POSN OAV STP Lo[[OY Isat] ee

Normans Electro ee ce Appliances

RELIEVE AND CURE
Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

CORRUGATIONS of all Descriptions.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belis aud you will besafe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price.
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ear Sir,—Please send me a waist belt. neloged find price. Head band I got for my wife 5 5 5 ‘ :
has almost cured her of neuralgia. Yours truly, Ci TILLEY. The Machine is Perfect m all its adjustments, and RUNS

Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy Ww
the attention ofall sufferers. Circularsfree. No charge for consultation, 5 ITHOUT NOISE.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Horantas It is doing Better Work than any other Machine in use.
N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best in oe and Electric Batteries always on he and at Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.

reasonable prices. :
Driven entirely by BELTS.

O a K HH. a Tey L, Differential Speed always insured.

WEYMAN’S NEW / IMPROVED pa
Nos. 115, IT, 119, (21, I, King St. Easi, Toronto.

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We are the most Extensive » CLOTHIERS in Canada. : ~
We carry 2 STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to cheose from. .
~~ N h rid. Over 6000
We watch the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the The Se Ot ee ee oe
very best goods in Scotch, Hnglish and Canadian Tweeds.

We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business MILLER BROS & MITCHELL
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on very SMALL PROFITS,

in use in this country and Europe. Send for particulars.

NOTV=. THE PRICES. , Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET
We give a Good Tweed Suit for.......... $6 00 MONTREAL.
We give a Good Tweed Pants for......... 1 50

SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.

We give a Good Overalls for.............. O 35

L U Vi B E R Mi sa Ni | Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING

When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with a}jand CONTRACTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL
Good Suit. Bemember the address:-OAK HALL, the G t P t
House, Toronto, opposite St, Jame’s Cathedral, reat One Price Clothing | WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper, in19

46 THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ADAM McocKAY

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Hngines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

Drake Brothers Box Mill,

Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, N. 8.

SPRUCE, PINE? HEMLOCK SHINGLES

IN. HH. DRAKE.

BE. DRAKE. 1117

ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS,
MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines, Rotary Pumps, of all sizes, fer Paper

and Pulp Mills, Steam Pumps, and a Variety of other

Pumps, Propeller Engines for Yachts & Tow Boats.

1119

Iron Railings, Hoisting Machines for Stores, Jack Screws, Park
Mills, all kinds of Machinery for Mines, Saw Mills, Flour Mills.

St. Paul St., QUHBEHC.

PARKHR&HVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once.Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN. 1119

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

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STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS

Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association

HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.

GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.
A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer. 1-13

To MILLMEN!
HODGSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

y Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and

- is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is moved along the Jength, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
lumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of
$100. Send for circulars to

1124 T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

Saws,of all kinds manufactured from
the BEST CAST STEEL that can be
procured in any Market.

EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
and on Short Notice.

Send Address for Price List, Terms, &c.
1117 J. F. LAWTON.

SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President.
HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres.

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No Shoddy Cloths used. All Goods Manufactured on the Premises.
s@- EVERY GARMENT WARRANTED.-ea
Men’s Flannel Shirts and Durable Underclothine.

ORDERS SENT WITH MONEY PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, 47

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

FIAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
| DETROXT

MERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted ©

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are |
Wire Strengthened :

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels Jor Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESO.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. ~ | TORONTO. :
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners, Lumber Merchants.

48 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

MERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws: Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use ove or Lwo
wheels a year, costing $3 to $1 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal.the cost of the whee). There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels wasso uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, thaf storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, bowever, Saw Gumming Wheels have become us staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford Lo carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-ecigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne prineipal sizes are:

12x )
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Ag B34 XK a: Xx oles,
oxi f # in. hole. 10x} f # in. hole. 12x8 f Z, | and 1 inch!
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12x J

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12xj are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer is that, you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a sofisaw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and§this second

touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUBSTION OF OVA 22.-——

ers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a declded opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almostevery use au
arough the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of whee!s (not Tanite), that we can furnish
e special quality of wheel, let us know what itis, and we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

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Thirteen years of experience as makers of, deal
«Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost tk
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views.
qualities o match any and every otber make. If you have got used to som

classification of Saw Gumming Wheels Js as follows ;

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw G umming Wheel all over the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2

It cuts fustand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer Lie * Pocono.”

CLASS 8. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as “ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer culting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both /imer in grain and softer than either of the above. As aSaw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta frec eulling wheel that will not create much heat.

Illustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 148

The Tanite Go, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania

-~CNADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED. ay

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M. Covel’s Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.
CIRCULAR SAW | = : MILL MACHINERY!
S TEA M FEED / & Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery, for all

sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Doub’e Circulars
I would also call special attention to my

for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
Heavy Circular Saw Mills

ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam .¥ iH:
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mers, Power Gummers, and al) Machinery used in a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, smal! Hand Gum-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

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Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
Markers, differentsizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-

Feed, having put inseveral which are giving the best of sat- ) ; i

isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :— ! \

GRAVENHURST, Augus':20th, 1880,

Wm. HAMILTON, I'sqQ., Peterborough.

DEAR +IR—I have used your Steam feed for near four
months, and it bas given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put it into my
mill, 1 have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. Ican cut 18 boards 13 ft. long In one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. I am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting long or short logs. I consider 1 have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since L got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst.

CORLISS

Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, alone
= with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
= Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large
= Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel
justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish

Toronto, August 11th, 1880,

Wm. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.
DEAR Sir—The Steam Heed you put in is working splen-
didly. Yours, &c,,
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

on this Engine will be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
I have them working at 2} pounds of doal per horse-power
per hour, lutf

WIEEITARE FEZ AMILTONRN!,
PHETHRBOROUGH, ONT.

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NO. 4.

THE SAW MILL CHANGES OF A CENTURY.
Among the most marvellous of the many
wonderful things which distinguish the United
States from other nations, are the results which
have grown out of the possession of immense
forests of valuable timber, in stim lating inven-
tive genius to the preparation of an article of
building material so cheap as to enable the
poorest to have a comfortable home, while at
the same time so excellent in character as to be
not only suited, but indispensable, to the work-
ing classes. Those more readily accessible re-
gions of the continent which possessed these
forest growths in the greatest abundance were
among the first to receive large accessions to
their population, drawn together at those
centres which presented the easiest access to
cheap building material, not less than for
their personal safety from a savage foe. It was
not until the demand for lumber far exceeded
the ability of the “greatest” mills of a half
century ago to supply, leading the manufac-
turers to feel the need of a more extended sys-
tem of production, that the star of empire made
any progress westward, or it became a possibility
to settle on the prairies of the West, or to de-
velop the mineral resources which have already
shown our nation to be the peer of, if it does
not excel, ali others in the extent of its posses-
sions. To possess isto need. And the cheap
building material which the cheap mills of the
days long gone by enabled a scanty population
to utilize, stimulated a more extended immigra-
tion, with its increased needs, as well as a
higher order of genius to increase the supply.
The mills of the olden time were, first, the
windmill, with its uncertain power, scarce ex-
ceeding that of the men who ran the pit saws,
which were then in a measure superseded, and
whose indignation at the effort to lessen their
manual labor caused them to mob the owner
and tear down his machinery. Second, the
adoption of a current water-wheel of scarcely
greater power, if more reliable, run by the
natural current of a small stream. Next came
the simple flutter-wheel, to impart motion to
which required the building of dams to hold
large bodies of water, which would at all times
be available. But for large operations the
flutter-wheel was found to possess too little
power, and the overshot or undershot wheel
became a necessity, to be superseded later by
the adaption of turbine-wheels, now so much in
favor with mill owners who control water power,
For the first fifty years of our national growth
as well as during the preceding portion of the
world’s history, none of the mills were equipped
with anything more than a single upright saw
working in a gate, and when another saw was
added, as the inceptive idea of the gang, which
a caupcaney with its large number of
saws, words could scarcely express the astonish-

{

Up to this time, all the lumber which was
manufactured had been edged upon the top of
the log after it was turned down; an auxiliary
Saw was not thought of, for the buzz saw, just
beginning to be used, was considered a most
dangerous piece of machinery. But the in-
creased manufacture growing out of an increase
in the power and an increase in the number of
saws, led to the introduction of the small circu-
lar or “buzz” saw, which was at once found to
nearly double the capacity of the mill. It is
needless for us to enlarge upon the introduction
of steam power into the saw mill, or to follow
the original idea of an engine, 6x8 inches,
attached to the lower end of the pitman or saw
gate, through its successive stages of develop-
ment and enlargement to the present time,
when the Corliss, or Estes, or other well known
engines, of a power from ten to one hundred
times greater capacity than was the original
device, are by the thousand in number engaged
in turning out lumber, each in one season agegre-
gating a greater manufacture than were all the
saw mills of the country combined at a period
scarcely fifty years in the past.

The old gate saw was superseded by the
mulay, with a reduction of friction equal to
thirty or fifty per cent. increase in cutting ca
pacity. The mulay gave way to the circular,
and with its introduction may be dated the
commencement of an era which has been prolific
of innovation, improvement, and advantage to
the saw mill world. As the use of the circular
became better understood, and men became
more expert in dressing it as to make true lines
and smooth surfaces, they found themselves
able to produce more lumber in the rough than
they could properly edge and prepare for mar-
ket. The old edging-table could not keep up
with the cut of the saw. This was remedied by
the introduction of gang-edgers, which no mill
doing any considerable business could dispense
with. Now the work of the main saw could be
safely increased, for the gang—or, as it was at
first known, ‘‘ double ”—edger was abundantly
able to keep pace with it, and while at first a
capacity equal to 1,000 feet per hour was doubt-
fully claimed, later developments have shown in
not a few instances an entire season’s work at
the rate of 6,000 feet per hour,

This increase in capacity called for a more
speedy method of handling the logs on the
carriage, and the lumber as it left the saw, and
a multitude of inventive minds were concentrat-
ed on mill dogs, which should successfully take
the place of the lever and pike, driven by a
mallet, and the modern saw mill could not now
be operated with the original method of dogging
the log. The “nigger,” for turning the log on
the carriage, as well as rolling it on the skids,
has superseded the cant-hook and muscular
power formerly relied upon, while the Inmber,

nent of all who saw the working of the bold in&
ovation,

as it leaves the saw, drops upon a system of live

| rollers, which does the,.work fto much better

advantage than it was formerly accomplished
by a hard-worked “‘off-bearer,” who could not
in these days by any possibility keep up with
the work which would crowd upon him.

Plenty of lumber, cheaply manufactured, and
sold at reasonable prices, has enabled the settl-
ing up of a nation at the rate of nearly fifty per
cent. increase of population during each decade.
This in turn demanded a network of railroads,
and carriage by them has not yet been reduced
to a science, which enables us to believe that
rates have reached a minimum which they will
realize in the future. The manufacturer of
lumber, bearing this in mind, must reduce the
weight of his product to the lowest possible
point, and the trimmer became a prime necessity
as an economizer, not less than for advantage in
an esthetic point of view. And the old gang
mill, from its original adaptation of two saws,
hung in a cumbrous frame, upon monstrous
posts which headed in a weigh beam, made from
the largest stick of timber which the forests
afforded, and footed in the mill foundations,
shaking the structure and the surrounding coun-

‘| try, and keeping the machinery about one-half

the time in the repair shop from its everlasting
jar, has been displaced by the neat, effective,
and comparatively noiseless devices of more
modern times, developing a sawing capacity of
which the fondest anticipation of the original in-
ventor of the idea had not the remotest concep-
tion. The heavy-weigh beams have disappeared,
the monstrous wooden posts have given way to
equally advantageous and strong but less cum-
bersome and more sightly iron supports, resting
upon foundations independent of those which
support the mill frame. The old, stiff, and full-
of-friction gate has been superseded by oscillat-
ing slides, giving to the saws the same motion
which the pit sawyer seeks to obtain in order to
accomplish the most work with the least outlay
of strength.

Time would fail us to trace out all the changes
which a quarter of a century has developed in
the saw mill. Should a Rip Van Winkle of the
last century be suddenly awakened from his
long sleep, still dreaming of the last act of dog-
ging the log on his old-fashioned carriage, in the
old mill, when he took long naps between the
cuts, and esteemed a production of 1,000 feet
per day something to brag of, and open his eyes
on the floor of a modern mill of the smallest size,
he would truly think that the world had turned
upside down, and if he saw the army of men
carrying off a quarter of a million feet of boards
per day from the saws of some of the larger
mills, he would not believe the evidence of his
senses. All has changed ;the water-wheel has
given place to the steam engine; the single
small cylinder boiler, to the monstrous tubular
or flue in large batteries ; the upright saws in a
gate, to the mulay and the circular; the two-
saw gang, to a forty-saw ; the rag-wheel, to the
steam feed, adding countless possibilities to tne

ability of the circular saw to cut up logs; the
single buzz saw, to the double-edger ; the rough
end lumber to the well-trimmed ; the vast piles
of worthless slabs, to a useful article of lath and
pickets’; and the final debris, in many localities,
to usefulness in the manufacture of other com-
mercial articles. The pioneer knew nothing of
lath and shingle manufacture ; live rolls had not
entered his noddle; gang slab cutters would
have been pronounced by him an invention of
the devil to feed the flames of his insatiable
furnace. Endless chains would have no use in
his mill economy ; saw sharpeners and gummers
would have no value in his eyes, for he could
cut all the lumber he expected to, and find
plenty of time for dressing his saws by hand.

The modern saw mill is indeed full of im-
provements, down to the last device for sorting
by machinery. The production in one day, by
one saw, of more lumber than was accounted
the work of a year in former times, is not only
the result of the genius of invention such as
marks the spirit of the age, but has rendered
possible the remarkable development of the
youngest in the sisterhood of nations, forming
no unimportant factor in the influence of this
country among the people of the earth. All
hail to the modern saw mill, and the wise intel-
ligence of nearly every man who is connected
with it, either in the production of logs from
the forests or the manufacture and sale of lum-
ber, for each progressive step in the march of
improvement has reduced the cost of manufac-
turing lumber, keeping pace with the inevitable
increase in the cost of timber, due to the gradual
decadence of forests !—Worthwestern Lumberman.

—_—_—_————
MICHIGAN BUSH FIRES.

Detroit, Feb. 1.—A meeting of the State
Fire Relief Commissioners was held here yester-
day, at which Governor Jerome and a number
of gentlemen from different parts of the burnt
district were present. The Governor stated he
had received many communications asking that
a special session of the Legislature might be
convened for the purpose of granting aid to the
fire sufferers. After a long discussion as to the
wants of the people a memorial, extensively
signed, was adopted urging the Governor to call
a special meeting of the Legislature as request-
ed. The Governor subsequently urged on the
members the necessity of preparing full, com-
prehensive, and correct reports of the necessi-
ties of their respective districts for submission
to the Legislature, so that that body, if called
together, can act intelligently and without de-
lay. The meeting then adjourned. From re-
ports submitted by the agents of the Commis-
sion, the assistant secretary compiled the
following statement of the loss incurred by the
fire :—Number of houses burned, 1,464; number
of barns burned, 1,516; number of persons, 13,-
995, Total loss, $2,251,564 ; average loss per
family, $782,

50 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

MICHIGAN FOREST FIRES.

Detroit, Feb. 10.—The Michigan Commis-
sioner of Insurance reports that the losses of
1881 exceed those of 1880 by $500,000. Only
twenty stock companies had losses in the burned.
districts, aggregating $101,942.66. which has
been paid, nearly half of it by one company, the
Watertown, N.Y. The two mutual companies
of Huron, Sanilac, and Tuscla counties hadi
about $80,000 loeses, none of which have been
paid. It is estimated that the property losses
of persons who applied to the Fire Relief Com-
mission for aid amount to $2,138,320, or over
$200,000 less than those occasioned by the forest
fires of 1871. It is probably however, that
when full statistics are collected, the fires of
last fall will be found to exceed in damage those
of 1871 by many thousand dollars. There are
one hundred companies of other States doing”
business in Michigan, whose aggregate capital
is $45,719,280 ; reduction of assets, $2,392,937.65 ;
admitted assets, $112,935,346.47; liabilities,
$81,380,246.23 ; surplus as regards policy-holders,
$77,274,380.24 ; surplus over capital, $31,555,-
100.24; risks written in Michigan, $139,-
891,998.59 ; premiums on risks in Michigan,
$1,675,853.06 ; losses incurred on above, $1,111,-
168.19; losses paid, $1,091,956.52. There are
only two Canadian companies doing business in |
this State, the British American Assurance
Company of Toronto, and the Western Assur-
ance Company of Toronto, The 1881 statement.
of the latter is not yet received, but the former
has a capital deposited in the United States of
$200,000, and its Michigan business for 1881
amounted to $1,588,301 in risks, $27,078 received.
for premiums, $17,569.03 losses incurred, and
$8,959.98 losses paid. -

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only 1,589,000 cubic feet, as against 2,516,000 | ate one, being as nearly as possible the same as

cubic feet last year, or, to put it briefly, nearly that of 1879.
1,000,000 cubic feet less. The stock of these goods on hand now is only

This great shortage is mainly accounted for about one-half of that of last year at this time,
in the deficiency of three or four articles, viz.,| and this fact, together with the reports from
Quebec yellow pine, oak, birch, and Baltic fir | St. John, N.B., and other deal-making districts,
timber. The unsatisfactory condition of trade | of continued mild weather, which prevents saw-
at the opening of the year made buyers reluc- | logs being got out of the woods, makes this
tant to enter into contracts ; hence the importa- | article, at the prices asked for it, appear one
tions of these goods have been comparatively | of the safest in the market, to purchase now.
small, and this has had the beneficial effect of | There has been a considerable reduction in
lightening many of the old atocks, and bringing | the consumption of Canadian oak logs, which is,
them into their present moderate dimensions. | however, balanced by the increased quantity of

In sawn goods, deals, battens, boards, &c., | oak shipped from the United States, and cut
we find a similar reduction compared with last | into sizes suitable for railway waggon building,
year’s stock ; thus at the end of 1881 the total | and as this branch of business has increased to
stock of all kinds was 29,659 standards, while at | such an extent that not less than 305,000 cubic
the end of the preceding year it was 53,664 | feet has been sold since the commencement of
standards, showing here a reduction in stock of | the past year, it is palpable that it must greatly
not less than 24,005 standards, or nearly one- | affect the price of the old-fashioned shipments
half, so that, even taking the present quiet state from Quebec, seeing that at present these goods
of the trade into consideration, the outlook is} sawn ready to size and of prime quality, can be
hopeful from a seller’s point of view, especially | bought at less rates than the oak in the log.
as the weather in the various provinces in Pitch pine timber has been imported very
Canada continues to be from the most recent | freely, and the arrival of vessels with this wood
advices of an almost unprecedented character, | on board may be said to have continued without
little snow having fallen and the task of getting | cessation from the first day of the year to the
out logs in the forests being thereby hampered | last, the steady increase in this trade being
to a large extent. In addition to all this there] shown as follows :—In 1879, about 39,000 tons
is the increased cost of provisions, and the ad- | of shipping were employed, in 1880 about 56,000
vance in wages which have now to be paid to | tons, and in 1881 about 70,000 tons. With this
the lumbermen. continued pressure upon the market prices have

These facts all point towards an advance in | ruled low throughout the past year, and this
prices upon those now current, and buyers must | state of things is likely to continue so long as
be prepared to pay prices for Canadian goods | the pressure to sell for arrival is so visible and
which a couple of years ago would have appear- | the stocks on hand go large. In hewn timber
ed absurd. Owing to the causes referred to| the stock now is 510,000 cubic feet, and sawn
above, there is a very strongly marked decline | timber and deals 471,000 cubic feet, say nearly
in the extent of the importation of wood goods | 1,000,000 cubic feet of all kinds, as against about
into Liverpool and the other ports in the 630,000 feet at the end of 1880, and, as the im-
Mersey, the tonnage employed only amounting port season for this wood is now again com-
to about 360,000 tons in 1881, as compared with | mencing, there is little prospect for any imme-
485,000 tons in 1880, 326,000 tons in 1879, and diate rise.

373,000 tons in 1878, This 360,000 tons is dis-] The importation of Baltic timber has been so
tributed amongst the great timber shipping dis- | small during the past year that the comparison
tricts as follows :—Quebec and Montreal, 83,000 | between it and that of the previous year is most
tons ; St. John, N. B., 70,000 tons ; Miramichi noteworty. During 1880 the quantity of fir
and other spruce deal shipping ports, 81,000 timber imported into Liverpool was 33,700 logs ;
tons; pitch pine ports, 68,000 tons; and the in 1881 it amounted only to 8,200 logs, roughly
Baltic, White Sea ports, etc., 59,000 tons. — speaking, one-fourth. So far as this port is

With this moderate importation merchants | concerned, we can only look upon the prices
have not experienced the effects of over-crowded | asked for red and white fir as being altogether
quays to the extent that has been the case in | out of proportion to the merits of the wood,
former years, and which has caused so much | when compared with its rivals.
loss and expense in endeavoring to keep the oO
vessels discharging without incurring the cost STILL APPROVED.
of demurrage. This, in some measure, Was OW- We have received the following letter, which
ing to the use made of part of the system of | speaks for itself :—
new docks opened during the past summer, | To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman :
which may sometimes afford relief to the ordi-| GENTLEMEN,—Please send your paper, the
nary timber docks, when any occasions of emer- CANADA LUMBERMAN, to the enclosed addresses.
gency present themselves, though it would be

T can get quite a number more subscribers, as it
unwise to assume that any regular accommoda-

is a very useful paper.
tion will be given to the timber trade, as these I am yours respectfully,
magnificent constructions are intended chiefly C. WEBSTER.
for the use of the great transatlantic lines of
steamers plying from this port.

The import of Canadian yellow pine timber
from Quebec for the past year was 29,634 logs,
as against 48,147 in 1880, 25,253 logs in 1879,
and 25,100 logs in 1878 ; and from St. John, N.
B., only 1,140 logs, compared with 2,228 logs in
1880, and 2,631 logs in 1879. This is about an
average quantity of Quebec wood, but so far as
as the St. John, N.B., pine timber is affected it
shows a steady decline, which is owing solely to
the ever-increasing scarcity of this favourite
wood, The import of Quebec pine deals has
been much less than that of 1880, the relative
quantities being 1,530,000 pieces, against 2,040, -
000 pieces of the preceding year, but the increase
in consumption has again shown how yellow
pine in the form of deals is taking the place of
log timber, for the consumption has not only
swallowed up the whole of the past year’s im-
port, but has made an inroad into the old stock
of 1880 to the extent of about 4,000 Petersburg
standards. ‘The importations of spruce deals
from St. John, N.B., and the various other New
Brunswick and Nova Scotian ports, show a con-
siderable decrease from 1880, when the quantity
was about 6,300,000 pieces, whilst during the
past year about 4,900,000 pieces were imported.
his shows a large decrease at first sight, but it
must be remembered that the import of 1880
was oxcessive, and the quantity is only a moder-

OUR QUEBEC LETTER.
THE HALL ESTATE—A LAND DISPUTE—INCREASED
Cost OF MANUFACTURING TIMBER—IN THE
BUSH—HIGHER PRICES—MINING NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent.

QursBEo, Feb. 8th.—A rumour which proves
to be a canard has been in circulation for some
time past, to the effect that the estate of the
late G. B. Hall, including the mills, ete., at
Montmorenci, and limits elsewhere, were about
to be disposed of to a company for the sum of
$2,000,000.

A dispute is now in progress with respect to
the timber upon a large tract of land recently
secured from the Crown Lands Department of
Quebec, by the English Colonization Society, of
which Lord Dunmore is President. The land
in question is a portion of that under license to
Messrs. G. B. Hall & Co. for lumbering pur-
poses, and this firm assumes therefore that the
usual conditions of lumbering licenses had not
been effected by the consent of the Department
to grant the land for colonization purposes.
Their contention is therefore that they have the
same right as heretofore to cut timber over the
limits in question, with the exception of those
parcels of it allotted to actual settlers for a year
past. The Colonization Company on the other
hand affect to believe that in virtue of the Hon.
Commissioner’s decision to grant the land as it
may be required for settlement, they have be-
come actual proprietors, not only of the land,
but of all the timber standing upon it. Hence
a dispute which has recently occupied the at-
tention of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council.
Some time ago the Company caused a lumber-
man in the employ of Messrs. G. B. Hall & Co.
to be arrested for robbery, because he was found
cutting timber on the land in question. The case
was dismissed, and later a writ of injunction
against the firm was applied for. The whole
case was argued a day or two since before the
Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council.

Logging, which was for so long a time delayed
in the early part of the winter, through the
absence of the necessary snow, is now by all
accounts vigorously prosecuted. Last week’s
thaw caused very bad roads in the bush in por-
tions of the HKastern Townships, but subsequent
snow storms must have remedied this condition
of affairs very materiallly.

Manufacturers complain that the cost of mak-
ing timber has very materially increased this
winter in consequence of the higher cost of pro-
visions, and of the increase in wages and Gov-
ernment charges.

Advices received here by last mail from Eng-
land confirm previous reports as to the scarcity
of stocks and increase in prices on the other side
of the Atlantic. Holders in this city, in conse-
quence, are not apparently anxious to sell, and
manufacturers prefer not to enter into any im-
mediate contracts for future delivery. Several
offers for the cut of deals at mills in this district
have beenrefused. Ihave been unable to obtain
the prices offered.

A quantity of manufactured lumber for special
building purposes, a portion of the yield of the
Montmorenci Mills, has been sold in New York
at a considerable advance on last year’s prices.

As there have been no transactions for so long
a time, it is difficult to give quotations. From
enquiries made of several brokers, however, I
have reason to believe that the following may be

regarded as approximate :—

Waney white pine, 19 in. average.;++-- $00 00@00 38
Square Ls 50 ft. av’ge, 1bin... 00 30@00 81
Oak, 60 ft. average... 00 00@00 50
Elm, 45 to 60 ft pin (lelsvebinte 00 00@00 30
‘Ash, 14 inches and up..++++. s++++" . 00 28@00 30

A meeting will be held here to-morrow of the
promoters of the new Asbestos Manufacturing
Co. The directors will be selected, four from
the Quebec shareholders, and three from those
in Boston. The capital is $500,000, and the
factory, which will employ about 100 hands,
will be erected either at Quebec or Lewis. This
Company owns the celebrated Ward Asbestos

Mine at Thetford, Megantic.
————

LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—It may be
as well to contrast the present position of the
stocks held here now with what they were last
year at the same time, leaving out pitch pine,
which will be referred to later on, and we find
that the whole of the stock of square timber is

THE Montreal Witness says the lumbermer:
are pushing operations vigorously in the vicinity
of Lake Kazizskichiwogamog.

$$

Ir is now thought that the Maine lumber cut
on the Penobscot waters the present season
will not be far from 100,000,000 feet. Last
year the total reached 150,000,000. There is,
however, said to be an overstock of 60,000,000 of
old logs.

_————

Enp Spiittinc or Locs AND PLANKS.—Logs
and plank split at the ends because the exposed.
surface dries faster than the inside. If muriatic
acid be saturated with lime and applied to the
ends like whitewash, the chloride of calcium
formed attracts the moisture and prevents the
splitting.

LT
SS

A CALAIS correspondent says on Wednesday
morning last, the Custom House door was sur-
rounded by teams from the St. John. River.
They were being bonded, for the purpose of
working in the Maine woods, for which they ©
started as soon as they had complied with the ©
Government requirements.

————_—_——

Tur Northwestern Lumberman says the New |
York Central Railway Company has supplied & —
train of new lumber cars, which arrived at
Tonawanda, N.Y., recently. They are so con-
structed that they can be utilized for either 7
lumber or cattle. Other roads would do well to :
take pattern after the Central, and thus greatly —
benefit their patrons, and faeilitate the business
of lumber shipping, which would prove to the ;
former’s pecuniary advantage. :

Dene |

THE Moncton Times says reports that have
reached us show that the season so far has been
good and favorable to economical logging. The
lack of snow till January prevented hauling -
operations, but the weather was most favorable
for cutting and yarding. Since the snow has_
come, hauling has been prosecuted vigorously, —
there not being sufficient snow to impede the
work, as is often the case. Should the season
continue steady the result will be very favour-—
able.

Lion’s Head, Feb. 3, 1882.
TT

Tur value of the lumber cut yearly on the
Pacific coast, at the rate of £10 per 1,000 feet
at the port or place of shipment, is $6,000,000.
A thousand years would not suffice to exhaust
the giant woodlands extending from Alaska to
Santa Cruz, so that on a very rough estimate
this portion of the resources of the Pacific slope
is worth at least $6,000,000, 000.

——oooo

Tur Cincinnati Gazette says there is now at
the Public Landing in this city a steamboat of
large size, built for the purpose of developing a
new enterprise, which, if successful, will add to
the long list of American exportable produce.
The boat is supplied with machinery for the
purpose of grinding and compressing tanbark.
She will be run up the Tennessee River, where
bark is obtainable. There the bark will be
taken on board, ground, compressed, and packed
in kegs or half barrels, and in that shape shipped
to Europe. Bark is now brought to market in
bulk and handled at great expense, and cannot
be shipped to Europe at all. It is needed in
that country to enable tanners to compete with
American manufacturers in the production of
leather, The compressing of cotton has greatly
reduced the cost of transportation, and it is
this principal that is to be applied to the tan-
bark business,

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Mrs. Partrneron says, dont take any of the
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human system; but put your trust in Hop
Bitters, which wil] cure general dilapidation,
costive habits and all comic diseases, The
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They are the ne plus unum of medicines.—
Boston Globe.

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The Globe says Canadian capitalists should
take immediate note of an enterprise just being
introduced on the rivers of the Southern States
—namely, the pressing of tan-bark for carriage
by rail or export. The press is carried on a
stern-wheel steamer which is to run on the Ten-
nessee River as far up as Florence, Ala. She
cost $50,000. The press, which is a 14 inch
cylinder, is driven by the engines which drive
the boat. A pressure of 1,500 tons is put on the
bark in the cylinder. The bark is first ground
on a machine located in the fore part of the ves-
sel, and is then conveyed by a traveller to hop-
pers which feed the cylinders. Another travel-
ler conveys the pressed cylinders of bark to the
hold for shipment. The substance when pressed
is as hard as rock, and needs no barrel, bale tie,
or covering. On soaking in water it expands to
its former size. In that section loose tan-bark
_ is worth $10 to $15 aton. The price in Europe
is about $30 to $35 a ton.

THE Port Hope Times says that the Georgian
Bay Lumber Co. intend shipping 50,000,000 feet
of lumber at Port Hope next summer,

LARGE quantities of cedar are being gotten
out in Door county, Sturgeon Bay region, Wis.,
notwithstanding the lack of snow. The local
papers pronounce the industry a bonanza to the
people in that vicinity.

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Is 1 a Humsua? Some people think all
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continually increasing sale justifies us in re-

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The lunch meetings of the lumbermen of this
Nothing

city have resulted in much good.
could have been devised that would do more
toward creating a brotherly feeling, and bring-
ing about an understanding between the mem-
bers of the trade. Several questions of great,
moment have been discussed, and no doubt
with much profit. Over the lunch and cigars
good feeling invariably prevails, and when such
is the case there is always exhibited a degree of
frankness which is not at other times observed.
The benefit thus far is almost incalculable, but
it need not rest here. There are other steps
that can be taken, and which, possibly, would
be more valuable than any that have been
taken.

The Lumberman’s Exchange is a great power.
Among its members are included men of un-
usual intelligence, as well as business ability.
Tt represents a vast capital, and its united voice
is one which would not be likely to be ignored.
When it speaks it represents one of the leading
industries of the nation, and its voice proceeds
from the headquarters of that industry.

A question that the members of the Exchange
could profitably discuss is, What steps can be
taken toward bringing to the notice of the
government the necessity of protection against
forest fires? It is a question that has a direct
bearing, not only on the interest of every owner
of pine lands, and manufacturer, but every whole-
saler as well. The interests of these classes are
inimicable, and any action by government
toward the protection of the pine that forms
the stock in trade of each, would be of mutual
advantage. Individuals have labored to interest
our law makers in the question ot fire protection,
as well as forest protection from other sources,
but with little success. We believe the voice of
the [Exchange would command attention, and
attention is the first thing to be desired. Some
of the states have made provisions for the culti-
vation of trees, and it would be eminently
proper for government to arrange for the protec-
tion of trees.

We believe there is no lamberman who owns
pine lands who will disagree with us. A man who
purchases timber lands is of course the owner of
them, but it does not follow that ownership
should give him the liberty to do with them as
he likes. If his timber patch is isolated let him
operate as he desires. If his leavings are per-
mitted to accumulate and dry, and at last be
the means of his standing timber being destroy-
ed, he alone will suffer. But when his timber
stands on land adjacent to other of the same
kind, or if in case his possessions were swept by
fire it would hazard the homes and property of
others, the question takes another form. The
same law should hold good that is forced in
other directions. Under good municipal man-
agement a tinder box is not permitted to be con-
structed in a city where the burning of it would
hazard the property of others. By common
consent a man must pay some respects to the
rights of others, but in the logging business he
does not. If he steps over the line and steals
a few trees from his neighbour, the law stands
ready to make him suffer a penalty, but it is in
reality a small offence when compared with the
course he does pursue—a course to prevent
which there is no law. It is the absence of
such a law, and its enforcement, that so often
makes pine lands risky property to own, <A
single winter’s operation, as logging is now con-
ducted, forms a good excuse for the flames, if
once started, to make hayoe that, while deplor-
able, might easily have been prevented. When
the ground is covered with dry tree tops, fire
finds food to feed upon, and gets such headway
that it sweeps through forests which it would
not except for the force which it had already
obtained. To do away with these conditions
would require considerable work, but no work
could be done in the woods that would pay
better. As a proof of this we may instance the
loss in Canada by forest fires for the year recent-
ly ended. In the Ottawa Valley it has been
estimated at $5,000,000, and in the entire Pro-
vince as high as $10,000,000, That amount of
money would pay for a vast amount of labor,
and a small proportion of it expended at the
proper time would have prevented the loss of the
balance.

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

later that there is a “cause underlying every
effect. With no material for fire to feed upon
there will be no fire. It is not an impossible
thing to get this material out of the way. The
tree tops could be piled into heaps and burned
under the supervision of men who would see
that the fire did not spread, There are wind-
falls which leave vast areas in shape for confla-
gration. In this territory the match of the
careless hunter or woodsman will, to the end of
time, for aught we know, set the dead timber
ablaze, but beyond this forest fires need not be
extensive, or occur often,

No state in which the lumber business has
been extensively carried on has suffered so little
from forest fires as Maine. The reason is very
apparent,and is due to a species of forest preser-
vation which is practised nowhere else in
America, The larger trees are cut, leaving the
smaller ones to shade the earth, and thereby so
much humidity is retained as to make the
running of a fire next to impossible. We do not
make this statement, however, with the expec-
tation that such a course will be pursued in
Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota until tim-
ber is much scarcer than it is now. It shows
the wisdom of the Maine lumbermen, neverthe-
less, and gives them a solid foundation upon
which to stand when they assert that there will
be timber in that state for the coming genera-
tions, in response to the oft-repeated statements
made by the western lumbermen for the past
twenty years that the timber resources of Maine
are exhausted.

It is the experience of nearly every man that
to make a success of life he must unlearn much
that he has learned. Our pine has been so
plentiful that operations have been carried on
Tf a portion of it burned, there was
thought to be plenty left. It is time that such
operations were checked. A habit of careless-
ness that has been prevalent since the first blow
was struck by the lumbermen in the Michigan
woods, and an indisposition te spend a few
dollars, when the expenditure of them would
be an almost perfect assurance against losses
which are irreparable, should be rebuked and
corrected.

There are no hopes that men in the woods
will so conduct their work that fires will be less
frequent, unless they are obliged to. They
plainly see the necessity of it, and many of
them would welcome a law that would force
them to do as they are conscious they ought to
do. The members of the Exchange can discuss
no question that is of more interest to most of
them financially. They can decide among
themselves what ought to be done, and then
take the proper steps toward its accomplish-
ment.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

— ee
TREE CULTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON
RAINFALL.

The rapid denudation of the forest lands of
the country has been the subject of much
thought and study, not only on the part of those
interested in a pecuniary sense, but has called
forth numerous lengthy discussions in regard
thereto on the part of literary and scientific
men whose motives may be less sordid than
those of the former class, and whose only ob-
ject apparently has been the prevention of the
wanton waste of one of nature’s great donations
to humanity, in order that future generations
may reap a portion of the benefit thus lavishly
bestowed, but of the value of which many people
of the present day and generation appear to
have a very faint conception. Forest culture to
supply the present use and waste of timber has
been urged upon the government, and has re-
ceived such serious consideration on the part of
our national legislature that the commissioner
agriculture has been induced to form a distinct
division in that department, to be devoted
entirely to the investigation of this subject, with
a distinguished professor at its head, who has
been to Europe for the sole purpose of the in-
vestigation of this subject, and who is at present
engaged in the preparation of recommendations
to congress, having in view the planting, preser-
vation, and maintenance of forests on the
prairies of the west, the principal object of
which, of course, is to supply the future de
mands of that country, in regard to lumber.

But another and very different motive for

recklessly.

It is a fact that most men learn sooner or! the consideration of this subject has lately at-

to infer that when the percentage of woodland
is fair (25 to 30 per cent) at least twelve inches
of water is transpired in the course of a season in
mild or temperate climates, or, in other words,
twelve inches of the total annual terrestrial
evaporation. All this vast amount of water is
transpired in about six months, or during the
vegetative period. Under these circumstances
an equivalent of nearly half the rainfall during
the warm season may be accounted for by the
transpiration. These are striking facts, and
tell in indisputable terms of the happy effect of
plant life upon the humidity of our atmosphere,
as this substance in due proportion is very
essential to an equable and salubrious climate.
Were it not that the atmosphere was properly
moistened so as to intercept nocturnal radiation
from the earth, our cereals and other products
of husbandry as well as vegetation rally,
would greatly suffer if not be entirely destroyed
by the resulting frost.—Lumberman’s Gazette. —

tracted the attention of writers thereon, Not
only do forests supply a necessary want—the
supply of the material on which such a vast
number of the industries of the country are
based, but the imfluence of the forests on the
rainfall of a country is receiving at the present
time thoughtful and serious consideration. That
they do exert such an influence there is no
possible room for doubt. Not only is the view
sustained theoretically, but the actual practical
experience of thoughtful and observing men,
whose interests and occupation has led them to
an investigation, coincides precisely with the
views of scientific men in this connection.

The writer remembers several years ago, dur-
ing a trip through Iowa, Kansas and Dacota,
having his attention called particularly to this
subject, by the pioneer settlers, some of whom
had so far succeeded pecuniarily that they were
enabled to make practical tests, in order, if
possible, to demonstrate the correctrtess of the
theory, that tree-planting or forest culture,
systematically carried out on the prairies of the
great west, would supply the much needed and
anxiously coveted rainfall, the lack of which
was the only obstacle to the immediate pecuniary
prosperity of the pioneers of civilization, whose
influence on the development of the resources of
that country has never yet been properly esti-
mated or recognized. So serious consideration
had this subject received at that early period
in the history of those territories that very
many of the settlers were already carefully
watching and noting the results of their tree
culture, and its influence, and the invariable

A TALK WITH A TIMBERMAN.

When an Advance reporter dropped into the
office o Messrs. Burton & Bros., yesterday, he
found Mr. James Burton, the senior partner mm
the firm, scanning a map of the Muskoka and
and Parry Sound Districts. “‘No, we don’t
own the whole district, my gentle ” he
said with a laugh at the reporter's little famili-
arity. ‘“‘But we have astake in the country.
You see these colored sections. Well, they re-
present $750,000 of timber limits. A nice little
figure, and don’t you wish you had it to your
credit in the bank?’ The newspaper man dis-

testimony was that in proportion to the extent | claimed any such sordid ambition. It w
to which it was carried on, the increase in the glory he was after,—and local items. “Our

limits,” continued the timberman, “are in these
townships. They embrace about seventy square
miles. In this one, Armour, we have now at
work over 100 men and teams.” “How do you.
get out the timber, and where do you ship it,
Mr. Burton 2” queried the scribe. “The Maga-
nettawan runs right through our limits. We
take our stuff down that river to Byng Inlet;
there our boats take it on down to Kingston
where it is rafted and sent down the St. Law-
rence to Quebec.” ‘*You are not in the lumber
business now, I believe.” “No, Last year we
sold our lumber interests in Michigan for $50,-
000. But we have land there—15,000 acres of
good land, and the Marquette railway runs
right through it.” ‘Business good?” “‘Splen-
did!” “Paying?” ‘‘At present prices I should
think it was. Nobody needs to lose money in
the timber business in this country now. The
demand is constantly increasing while the sup-
ply is rapidly decreasing.” ‘‘You are one of
those alarmists who believe that our forests are
disappearing and that before many years there
will be a wood famine ?” ‘““That’s a fact ; unless
some means are taken to repair the waste going
on we must exhaust vur timber resources.
What with bush fires and wasteful cutting,
timber is becoming more and more and
dear. Take a look around you in this very
county. Twenty years ago Cook Bros. bought
1,800 of bush land in Tiny township for 10 cents
an acre. To-day they refuse $90,000 for it.
This may be hard to believe, but it’s truth. Oh,
yes! There is money in timber just now.” The
lumberman turned to his map and the reporter
turned to his heel.— Barrie Advance.

amount of rainfall kept steady pace. Of course
when pressed for an explanation as to the manner
of this influence, they were unable to give any
very definite ideas, but the fact was there
nevertheless, and that was satisfactory to them
at least.

That forests do therefore induce and increase
the rainfall to no inconsiderable degree is indis-
putable, but as to the manner or methods by
which their influence induces such a result it is
not quite so comprehensible to ordinary mortals.
Experiments not only in this country but in
Europe, prove beyond a peradventure that tree
planting is beneficial in more directions than
one, but especially in regard to the increase of
the humidity of the atmosphere.

The Cincinnati Commercial of a recent date,
in a well written arti¢le on this subject, in a
measure explains the influence of tree culture
on the atmosphere. It says :—

‘* Forests influence the atmosphere, though,
more powerfully by their effect on its general
humidity than in any other way. An evapora-
tion of moisture from both earth and trees takes
place constantly. The evaporation is greater
from open soil than from woodland, but the
difference is far more than made up by what is
called ‘transpiration’ of leaves of the trees.
This corresponds in a degree to the insensible
perspiration of animals. Some conclusive ex-
periments have been made with growing pot
plants, going to show that leaves do not absorb
moisture, but that, on the contrary, they give
it out. The moisture is absorbed through the
roots.

“The quantity of insensible vapour that is
given off through leaves is immense, amounting
to one and a quarter ounce to the square foot of
leaf surface. The world-old metaphor of count-
ing the leaves of the trees has a new significance
in the light of science. Painstaking experi-
ment has enabled those studying the matter to
make an approximate estimate of the compara-
tive amounts of vapour given off by earth sur-
face and leaf surface. They have calculated
that a square foot of soil sets free about six
times as much moisture as a square foot of
leaf. The leaf surface is, however, many times
greater than the soil surface—twelve times
greater, the scientists put it—so that twice as
much evaporation takes place from forest as
from open land. When the wood of the country
is cut away, therefore, other things being equal,
two-thirds of the moisture-giving material of the
atmosphere is gone with it. Hence the long,
fearful droughts on lands bare of trees.”

A writer in the American Naturalist also says
in this connection :—

“From the data obtained it,would seem safe

PLANTING FORESTS.

A correspondent of the Timber Trades Journal
says :—‘‘ In our day we have seen the desirable
policy of planting forest trees largely pursued.
In the hands of those interested in this nationa
work the old stock of native trees has not been
neglected, overlooked, or despised, but along
with them have been planted great numbers of

gers to the land, viz., the Scotch fir, the Norway
spruce, and the European larch. As these
trees are ready, for the market, we have for the
first time in English history a native-grown soft
wood, which can be used fer the thousand and
oue purposes to which the soft imported woods
of the Baltic provinces are applied.”

“AND fools who came to scoff remained to
."—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were -enti
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wil
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to its
wonderful effects,

soft-wooded trees, which were previously stran-

PROTECT THE FORESTS.

Those who have read the late census reports
of the rapid destruction of the timber in the
great lurabering districts, and note on the maps
the location of forests distant from navigable
streams, will see at a glance that in the near
future lumber must largely increase in value
from necessary increase of cost in procuring it.
Men raised in woody countries seem to cultivate
an enmity to trees, and the destruction from the

axe, from carelessness and from fires can scarce-
ly be overestimated. Tt has been the history
of the West and Northwest. There are millions
of acres which have been denuded of their
forests to make way for farms, where to-day
single trees that were then sacrificed would sell
for more money than any acre of the ground.
Tt may be said that this was a necessity, which
is doubtless true to a certain extent ; but that
necessity does not continue. The man who
owns a forest should guard it and reasonably
expect a rich reward in the future for his care.
Tt would seem as if the United States should
imitate the German empire in protecting its
timber, and, as well, replanting large districts
not otherwise used. Germany has acted far
more wisely in this matter than other European
countries. Italy, Spain, Austria and Russia
have allowed the destruction of millions of acres
of as forests as ever grew, and are now
paying the penalty of gathering their timber
from mountains and places difficult to reach, or
importing from more favored countries. The
Gulf States and Oregon and its adjacent Terri-
tories are yet rich in fine timber. That there
should be some sure means of protecting it from
odless ravage and destruction no thinking man
can doubt.—Inter-Ocean.
ee se ES
THE WAY IT IS DONE.

The extent to which the modern appliances
of railways and rollways are employed for get-
ting logs to waters and mills is illustrated by
the following :—The Saginaw and Northwestern
railway runs from Saginaw Bay through Pin-
conning, a distance of ten miles, then north
twelve miles. It has several branches from one
half to two miles in length. At the Bay there
are two trestles, their united length being 3,000
feet, and they stand about tweuty feet above
high water mark. On the line of this road and
its branches are twenty-two camps in operation
—three camps belonging to Yawkey & Br.dley,
three to H. W. Sage, two to Falsome & Aarnold,
and four operated by W. J. Miller & Co.
These camps are worked by an average of eighty
men, divided into a day gang and a night force.
At the Bay there are eighty men, divided in
the same way, one gang to load cars and the
other to unload. The road has six engines, five
in constant use, night and day. At the Bay the
logs are dropped off the trestle and rolled a
distance of 600. or 800 feet, and then ‘‘ tiered
up,” so that at the finish they are in perfect
tiers, each marked by itself with appropriate
camp marks. At this rollway have been banked
this year 26,000,000 feet of logs. The President
of the Company operating this road is W. S.
Gerrish, of Muskegon, and W. J. Miller is t
general manager.—Worthwestern Lumbermga,

Manufacturing Economy.

While on all sides endeavors are being made
for the preservation and culture of our forests,
why is it that so little is said about proper
economy in the use of forest products? We do
not refer to the reckless spirit which leads the

_ farmer in some districts to build hog pens out of
black walnut, but to the failure to utilize all
that is possible in large manufacturing establish-
ments, Not only the vast piles of slabs from
the saw mills, but the ends and strips from the
furniture manufactories, and kindred establish-
ments, might, it would seem, be used to better
advantage than to feed the furnace. In some of
the large mills abroad a most rigid economy is

* practised in this respect, and indeed this spirit
is beginning to be introduced into this country.
OF course it is a little difficult to be economical,
when seemingly unlimited si

antici-
what

sooner or later. Would it not be wis'
pate things a little by employing much
goes to waste for purposes for which it is
—Buffalo Lumber World,

hard thing to get.
task. Plough your ways four feet apart, follow
the marker with a roller that will not efiace the
mark, Do this the first week in October, or
maybe earlier.
hulls on, sent you as soon as they get ripe],

tend to them with the hoe.

tion is a constant reminder.

Numa Pompilius,

PLANT HICKORY TREES.

Many people would like to haye a hickory
grove, but have a vague idea that it is a terribly
But it is not so much of a

Have a sack of nuts, with the

enough to grow. ‘Take a hoe, and at each cross-
ing of your check-rows plant a nut about an
inch and a half deep, stepping hard upon it.
Next spring run a harrow over the ground quite
early, say as soon as the frost is well out. When

your trees come up cultivate them the same as
corn, being careful not to bruise in any way.

After they get too high for the cultivator, at-

sufficiently to keep the weeds out the next
spring. If any should come, keep them pulled.
Tn ten years you will have all the hickory nuts
and timber you want, if you have an acre in
your grove. A moist location is the best—just
as wet as will do to plough—if you have it.—
Lincoln (Neb.) Journal.

Two Orcans.—Regulate first the stomach,
second the liver; especially the first, so as to
perform their functions perfectly and you will
remove at least nineteen-twentieths of all the
ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other
climate. Hop Bitters isthe only thing that will
give perfectly healthy natural action to these two
organs.—Maine Farmer. :

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
eents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the

new and remarkable compound for cleansing

and toning the system, for assisting the diges-

tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food.
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist.

Get a ten

A few doses will surprise you.

‘Don’? Grve up THE SHIP” were the memor-
able words of Commodore Perry. We repeat,
“Don’t Give up the Ship,” poor, despairing
involid, but try Burdock Blood Bitters. It
cures others, why not you? It renovates, regu-
lates and tones all the organs of secretion, and
restores lost Vitality.

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Tullus Hostilius, Ancus
Martius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius: Tullius,

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sudden colds and distressing coughs, treat them
with Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam, it cures in

fluenza, asthma, croup, whooping coughs,
bronchitis, and all pulmonary complaints lead-
ing to consumption.

‘“ TWENTY-FOUR years’ experience,” says an

eminent physician, convinces me that the only

way to cure nervous exhaustion, and weakness

of the sexual organs, is to repair the waste by
giving brain and nerve foods, and of all the
remedies compounded, Mack’s Magnetic Medi-
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See advertisement in another

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WELLAND (

Notice to persons skilled in fitting
up Electric Lights.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned

and endorsed ‘‘Tender for Electric Lights,” will be
received at this office until the arrival of the Eastern
and Western Mails, on TUESDAY, the 21st day of
FEBRUARY, next, for Lighting the Locks, &c., on the
new part of the Welland Canal by means of Electric
Lights.

A plan, showing the relative position of the proposed
lights, can be seen at this Office and at the Office of the
Resident Engineer, Thorold, where a printed copy of
general conditions and other information can beobtain-
ed, either on application personally or by letter.

Tenders must be made in accordance with the
general conditions.

This Department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,
‘ F. BRAUN,
Dept. of Railways and Canals, } Secretary.
Ottawa, 31st January, 1882. f 4d30-1L4

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
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Mr. §. C. Kanapy, lumber dealer, of To-
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Tun pine forests of Georgia are being rapidly
destroyed. The State exports 300,000,000 feet
of lumber every year, and so strips 96,000 acres,
and it is thought that half as much more is
spoiled and wasted by the turpentine makers.

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B. F. Weston, of Muskegon, is building a
tram road to facilitate his lumbering operations.
He don’t propose to be dependent on snow in
the future, but will get out the logs whether the
“beautiful ” puts in an appearance or not.

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Tue project of a hospital for lumbermen, at
Chippewa, Wis., is growing apace. A consider-
able proportion of the $8,000 required to put up
the building is already subscribed. Subscrip-
tions are to be asked among the loggers them-
selves to pay the running expenses of the enter-

prise.
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Messrs. Bryon, Junor & Co., of Glasgow,
have taken Mr. Joseph White into partnership,
the firm now being Bryce, Junor & White. In
their circular they say :—‘‘Our Canadian friends,
Messrs. H. B. Rathbun & Son, have greatly
enlarged their factories, and we can now offer
their doors and mouldings in increased quanti-

ties.”

Wr take from the Zimber Trades Jowrnal’s
cable of the distribution of imports, the six
principal British timber ports with the number

of loads they received :—

LONGON. veccccesene sovurevecsuvenns 1,404,793
Liverpool ...c-scceceeeresweweneenes 524,404
ELD ele cole dulsd pviere veloleie'sMlaiven hiss 364,831
Cardiff... cccccceceeretrenncereveens 288,182
Flartlepool csececssreereceeereeeens 259,942
GYUNSDY sec ceeep sees ee eeeereenene 216,942

No other ports received over 200,000 loads,
Newcastle coming next with 175,413. In the
Clyde, Glasgow has 67,042 loads, and Greenock
155,157, a total of 222,201. Of Irish ports,
Belfast heads the list with 88,998 loads,

POLE ROADS.

In reply to an enquirer the Northwestern Lum-
berman says :—Pole roads for logging purposes
are the simplest among the many forms of road
which lumbermen find convenient and necessary
in the prosecution: of logging operations, when
snow and ice roads are not available. They can
be constructed in any locality where the ground
is reasonably Jevel, and are particularly adapted
to such locations as present a sandy or fairly
firm soil, They consist of long, small, peeled
poles, the longer the better, from four to five
inches in diameter at the top, to eight or ten
inches at the butt end. The more evenly they
carry their size from butt to top, the better the
road. The ends of the butts, as well as of the
tops, are long scarfed, and pinned together with
suitable hardwood or strong pins, of one and a
half or two inches in diameter, according to the
size of the timber through which they are to be
driven. Tops should be scarfed to tops, and
butts to butts, in order to provide a perfect
bedding of all parts in the ground. If the
scarfing is done so as to cause the poles to lay
naturally on the ground when in place, the pins
should be long enough to penetrate the ground
for some distance. This is all the fastening or
anchoring usually provided. The wheels of the
car are concave, or V shaped, and as they pass
over the rails naturally force them to maintain
their proper distances from each other, while
preventing thei from spreading apart. It will
take but a few trips of a loaded car over these
poles to bed them in the earth, when spreading
is practically out of the question. The wheels
must, in their concave surface, be adapted to
the general size of the poles to be used, and if
larger poles are employed, or large butts are
used, the axe must be used in hewing off enough
of the surplus wood to give the wheels a sure
bearing. Any kind of timber that carries its
size well, may be employed, and if a pole gives
out it is easily replaced. But comparatively
little grading is requisite, although it is obvious
that the more level the top of the track is
kept, the less friction is encountered, for this
reason it is well to bed the butts enough to bring
them level with the bedded tops. No cross-
tieing is employed, and so solid are these roads
that in many sections light locomotives are run
upon them. With these general points stated,
any man who comprehends the conditions under
which concave wheels may be kept from running
off through mounting the poles should have no
difficulty in building a pole road. If the soil is
not sufficiently firm to prevent the poles from
becoming too deeply imbedded, cross-ties of
poles may be used, but as a rule they are more
harm than advantage, as they tend to prevent
the self-adjustment of the track for which the
concave wheels would naturally provide.

THE CLYDE TIMBER PONDS,

The Glasgow Herald states that an inspection
of the timber ponds along the south side of the
river, from Greenock to near Langbank, which
were broken up by the severe gale of Friday,
the 6th Jan., shows that the damage done is
very great, many of the ponds being completely
denuded of their logs. The river from Bowling
to near Greenock was covered with floating
timber on Friday and Saturday, rendering navi-
gation very difficult. Thousands of logs have
got stranded on the north banks, but the greater
proportion is still afloat. Squads of rafters
were despatched from Greenock and Port Glas-
gow to the ponds on Friday night, and they
were engaged up to dark on Saturday securing
what timber remained in the ponds, and repair-
ing breaches made in the palings. The timber
measurers of both ports resolved to act together
for the benefit of all concerned, and on Sunday
morning three tugs left Greenock with about
twenty-five men each on board. One of the
tugs proceeded down the river as far as the
Cloch, and picked up every floating log which
could be seen, instructions having been given
that any timber found on the shore was to be
allowed to remain in the meantime. The other
two tugs proceeded up the river collecting the
timber afloat, and having it towed to places of
safety. Their efforts proved very successful,
upwards of 2,000 logs being towed into Port
Glasgow the same night by the three tug
steamers, A like number of logs was again

picked up on Monday, but this is only a frac-
tional part of the timber adrift and ashore on
the north side of the river. It will be several
days yet ere the river is clear, and steamboat
masters would therefore do well to use every
precaution while navigating their vessels. Al-
ready two paddle steamers have sustained
considerable damage, and the traffic on the
river for some days past has been comparatively
light, else greater damage would probably have
been done. It is computed that the cost of
collecting this enormous quantity of drifting
timber, replacing it in the respective ponds, and
repairing the damage to the stakes will not be
less than from £2,000 to £3,000.

TORONTO LUMBER SUPPLY.

It is probable there will be a somewhat hmited
supply of lumber in the Toronto market this
year. Most of the pine lumber used in this
district comes from Muskoka, and although
there is at present very fair sleighing in that
region, the snow was so tardy in putting in an
appearance that many of the lumber operators
dismissed their hands for fear that they would
not get good hauling. There is, moreover, and
will continue to be, an unprecedented demand
for lumber in the United States, so that it may
be expected to be abnormally dear in the spring
and summer. A Mail reporter yesterday inter-
viewed several of the prominent lumber opera-
tors, and they all were apparently of the opinion
given above. Mr. H. H. Cook, M.P.P., thinks
there will undoubtedly be a shortage of logs.
He is of opinion that the supply of lumber in
this country will be about the same as in former
years, but cannot be increased, and will be
absorbed by the demand. There will in all
probability, he says, also be a short supply of
logs in the United States, as in North and
South Michigan, where large quantities are cut,
there is no snow at all. A great quantity of
logs had been cut in the Ottawa district, but he
did not think the lumbermen would be able to
get them to the mills. It often happened that
it took the Ottawa lumbermen two years before
they got their logs down to the mills, In regard
to the future supply of lumber, Mr. Cook said
there was not the slightest danger of overstock-
ing the market as long as the present prosperity
of Canada and the United States continued.

It is almost a certainty that most kinds of
lumber will be much dearer this year, and the
additional price will no doubt affect the cost of
buildings in this city, and increase the estimates
for contracts generally. In view, however, of
the augmented business of the country and the
prosperity of all classes, the differences in prices
is not likely to check building operations, and
may perhaps pass unnoticed in the general ca-
pacity to pay more money for all kinds of ma-
terial and labor.—Mail.

OLD TREES.

The ages attained by some of the conifers are
scarcely less extraordinary than their colossal
bulk. The greatest longevity assigned to any
tree is perhaps credited to the celebrated taxo-
dium of Chapultepec, in Mexico, 117 feet in
circumference, which is thought by De Candolle
to exceed in age the baobab of Senegal, inferred
to be 5,150 years old. Goeppert states that
Taxodium distichum has been ascertained by
its annular rings to live 2,000 years. The mam-
moth tree has been estimated to live 4,000 years
in California. De Candolle quotes a number of
instances of longevity in the yew,and Endlicher
considers one in Derbyshire to be 2,096 years
old, and the one at Grasford, in North Wales,
1,400 years old. The pines, cypress, firs, lar-
ches, and cedars are credited with ages of 200,
300, and even 500. Picea 200 feet in height is
mentioned by Goeppert, as ascertained by its
annular rings, to be 460 years old, and a larix
of 120 feet to be 576 years old. The Scotch
pine (Pinus sylvestris) is said to require 200 years
to mature its timber to perfection. In Veitch’s
Manual of the Conifer the ages of some of
these are stated at considerably less. Other
examples of longevity greater than 500 years
are mentioned. These are Cedrus deodara, 750
to 900 years; cedar of Lebanon, 600 to 800
years. It is important, however, to recognize
the fact that rings of growth are not in all cases
trustworthy guides, and the subject is still in-

——

volved in some obscurity. The rings of growth
in eucalyptus have been ascertained to be
biennial, White cedar planted in England
show symptoms of decay,as in Richmond Park,
as if their full age in this climate at least were
already reached,—Gardeners’ Chronicle.

MADOC.

The North Hastings Review says that the
Midland R. R. Co., have arranged with Mr.
Wood for their supply of ties on the Madoc
Branch. Mr. Wood is also buying for Messrs.
Rathbun & Son, on the Moira river at and be-
low Malone. We are informed he has a large
quantity already secured. Taking the lumber-
ing operations in all its varied branches in this
section and vicinity, including logs by the
Messrs, Gilmour & Co.; square timber by
Messrs. Buck & Stewart, with the ties, posts
and round timber by Mr. Wood, on the Moira,
and Messrs. Thompson & Diamond on Black
Creek, and Mr. Harrison on the Scootamatta,
for Rathbun & Son, and the amount must be
simply enormous. At the Madoc station alone
there has been, we are informed, delivered by
teams and railway, oats and peas, for supplies
to these various lumbering establishments, not
less than 60,000 bushels, to which must be add-
ed large supplies of pork and flour. € also
learn that supplies are purchased at this
point for some of the shanties belonging
to H. R. Booth and Bronson & Weston, of
Ottawa, Mr. Booth having purchased a large
quanlity of oats and flour from Mr. A. F. Wood
for the use of shanties where the logs will be
drawn to the Madawaska and its branches forp
Ottawa. The amount of business done at the
Madoc station by Mr. Blount for Gilmour &
Co., and Mr. ‘Dwyer for Rathbun & Son, must
have been very large, and shows beyond a doubt
the wisdom of railway connection in the lum-
bermen’s interests alone. We are informed
that the quantity of logs and ties that will be
driven down the Moira this coming season will
exceed anything in that line that has ever taken
place on that river before.

IMPORTS AT CLYDE PORTS.
The following is a table of comparative im-
ports at Clyde ports during 1879, 1880, and
1881 :—

= 4 1881.
Waney board pine, Quebec.... 2,101 11,167 aim
Square yellow ‘ (cee 18,231 36,787 33,136
Red va «ees §=$8,028 13,241 6,004
18,360 61,195 48,354
Oak, Quebec... ....eeeceesesees rr) 6,789 6,943
‘. (Op cves ucnewsenadeun 902 5,712 4,625
Ash, © paseneaananel ese s 408 2,215 2,381
Birch, all sorts.......ccc00see0e 2,039 9,676 7,256
7,730 24,392 21,205

Deals, Quebec. .... 66.200 499,700 1,003,262 415,7

« N.B, and N.S.. .... 29,500 773,344 805,S26

529,200 1,776,006 1,811,530

Mille. Mille. Mille.
Staves, Quebec.....0....ee0 apvon ens 176
so New York. .ocss cupseues 203 500

The following is a comparative statement of
stock in Clyde ports, on December 31st, 1880 and
1881 :—

1880. 1881,
Cub. ft. Cnb. ft.
Quebec waney board pine....... 672,525 767,581
3 square yellow pine......1,316,200 1,127,900
< red pine. ..........« «+» $87,232 372,306
Lower port yellow pine 4,189 —
Baltic red and white pine...... . 180,311 94,965
Pitch pine timber............... 535,500 1,100,381
Quebec oak. ... .cucn sn vcauscnens $19,344 348,
66 ele... sentevecccctesscels’ EMGVOES 244,781
ash... sank Gans Saeeeeee 32,367 $5,855
“* and lower port birch... .. 60,230 336
maple ... eccse eacscses | | — 8,154
- cherry et -- 1,442
“HIcKOry...<..cnaccseaean a 3,961
« ~=whitewood... <.... ieee 633 3,468
ss - SAMATAC. ..6 we0ces eecees 1,511 1,128
‘« 1st pine deals............ 548,430 271,451
ae oe 80,102 20,242
« Salt, fY eeu 7,150 271,599
<2 RO ne. cane 129,100
“« ved pine deals........ 045. 134,000 59,154
ce spruce deals. ........s..- 144,810 76,538
Lower port spruce deals......... 174,230 186,292
. pine deals.. . +s» 158,600 174,898
Mille. Mille.
Pipe staves......... eee wnasenes 47 12
Puncheon staves..... asnut weeree 166 49
New York staves. ...... 06... eee 30 80

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says that a bill is te
be introduced in the Wisconsin Senate levying
a tax of 15 cents on every 1,000 feet of logs run
out of the state. This is aimed particularly at
one company. If the bill passes it will add
$100,000 to the revenue of the state,

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FORESTRY, ITS CLIMATIC AND HYGIENIC

INFLUENCE,

The following is the conclusion of Mr. M.

McQuade’s essay :—
THERMAL INFLUENCE OF TREES.

In the former paragraph we considered the
use of timber in the collection and condensation
of water, and shall now try to show their in-
fluence in modifying the heat and cold of the
It is one of nature’s laws that when
a body passes from a rarer to a denser state, heat
as liberated, and from a denser toa rarer, heat is
absorbed. Now, the sun’s heat is a very power-
ful agent in the growth of plants, so much so

climate.

that withoutit no vegetablecan come to maturity,
but experience proves that too much heat will
destroy vegetation.
crops have been burned off the ground in several
parts of the Western States during the past sea-
son, We have had similar experience in Huron
County some five years ago, when a hot wave,
of some two days’ duration, passed over us, at
the time when fall wheat was getting in the
milky state; the result was that there was no
grain formed. Im a rich field which had been
summer-fallowed from an old common at Exeter,
and was some twenty acres in extent, with a
crop of straw that should ensure forty bushels
to the acre, there was not one grain of wheat.
Others, from fifteen acres, got from forty to
fifty bushels of chicken feed, while others, who
happened to have it on strong clay land, and
with timber land on the west side, got somewhat
over half a crop. (Our prevailing winds in
summer blow from west or south-west), The
question is, How did the woods to the wind-
ward save the grain? Was it by its shelter or
by its evaporation? By both. First, a hot
wind moying rapidly will heat and dry more
than a slow one, or a calm of the same tempera-
ture. Second, the chemical action going on at
the surface of the tree tops takes the fierceness
out of the sun’s rays, which afterwards reached
the ground through a stratum of vapour, and on
that account the crop was not completely de-
stroyed.

If this paper were intended for scientific
rather than agricultural information, we could
show how much heat is converted into motion,
and therefore rendered insensible by a given
quantity of water at, say sixty degrees, passing
into vapour and then into its gases ; but since
the calculation would not be very interesting to
farmers, we shall take a familiar illustration.
To change water into steam at the least requires
212 degrees ; but this is not all. You may con-
fine that steam, and add another equal quantity
of heat and the thermometer will indicate no
higher temperature. The only difference be-
tween steam at the boiling point and steam
which has taken the double quantity of heat, is,
that that which has absorbed the most heat will
have the greatest motion among its particles.
We see then that the power of water to neu-
tralize heat is very great, and will increase as
the heat is intensified. But we must go a step
farther in this direction, and show that the
leaves of vegetables are natural laboratories in
which, through the agency of heat, an intense
degree of cold is generated. Part of the water
which flows as sap, by the natural forces, at the
surface of ‘the leaf, is decomposed and changed
into its elements—oxygen and hydrogen. We
have seen that water passing into vapour may
neutralize from 450 up to perhaps twice that
quantity of heat; but when we come to con-
sider its still greater change to its gases, a very
much greater effect will be produced,

If we wish to decompose water by means of
heat we must first bring it to steam, then throw
that steam against some body that is as hot as
iron at a red heat, when the water will pass into
its elements. (This is the cause of steam boiler
explosions), From these facts we may easily
comprehend the wonderful influence of growing
timber in the reduction of temperature in our
hot spells in summer, when our crops are liable
to be roasted before they come to maturity, and
pastures are burned brown.

Let us now take a look back, and see how
these facts square with our experience from
thirty years ago down to the present time. At
that time, when little land was cleared, when
such a thing as prevailing wind was uuknown,
when the sun’s rays struck directly down on the
little clearings and were reflected from the walls

Newspapers report that |

was the result ?

parched? Never.

twelve hour system, would have spoiled clover,

and see his cakes tun out of the pan. Short or

parched pastures were unknown in those days.

Cattle which could be brought through alive to

the first of May would be fit for the butcher on
the first of November. Even the after-grass on
stubble-fields was so rank as to interfere with
fall ploughing. Contrast themand now. Bare,
square, open pasture fields, with the colour of
the soil shining through, as if fire had passed
through them, leaving the stubble of grass ag
brown points, and the roots like dry stubble.
Nothing green, except, perhaps, a few omni-
present perennial thistles ; cattle panting with
heat, or going in a trot to watering trough ;
while some unfortunate, ignorant of the thermal
influence, or driven by necessity to dangerous
exposure, falls a victim to the sun’s rays. The
verdict charges the calamity to the sun, and
some extra religious body may go so far as to
charge the Maker of the sun with the damage,
when in reality it or He had nothing to do in
the matter. The paying price of cordwood, the
great demand for salt and flour barrel staves,
the wasteful conduct of the farmer and lumber-
man must shoulder the blame. The time is
very near at hand when we shall not be able to
find a single tree fit to make a stave in our dis
trict—when all the elms over twelve inches in
diameter will have vanished from the land.
Then, why not spare before all is spent? Saye
at least the remains of our original forest elms
which have not attained maturity ; do not cut
down a young, healthy, vigorous-growing tree,
unless you haye more timber than clearing—
unless you are prepared to see your grain and
grass shortened beyond the point of profitable
cultivation,

THE EFFECTS OF GROWING TIMBER IN MODERAT-

ING COLD.

Like the raw recruit who blew his fingers to
warm them and his soup to cool it, nature uses
water as a check to the extremes of cold as well
as heat, and has placed a beneficent law which,
under proper management, will soften down
both ends of the scale. Water increases in its
density from its elements down to forty degrees,
where further density stops, and from that
point it will begin to lose density and be changed
into snow or ice. Here we have to begin at the
other end of the process, and use the agent that
destroyed or stored up heat to give it out again,
confirming the philosophic axiom, that nothing
can be lost in the world. As we saw before,
that when a body passes from a denser to a rarer
state cold is produced, so, when it passes from a
rarer to a denser, the heat is once more given
off. When the sun’s rays strike the surface at
a small angle, and the mereury drops down to
thirty at nights, the vapour in the atmosphere
condenses to water, and is further converted
into snow or hail. That heat which was used
in vapourising the water is again thrown out on
the air, to warm the breeze and make northern
lattitudes habitable.

TREES AS SHELTER AND FENOE POSTS.

It will be only a tedious repetition to go
further into the climatic influence of woods, and
we shall now consider its use as shelter to fields,
and the necessity of keeping our fields covered
with snow, if possible, during winter. Where
our wheat and grass lands can be kept covered
during the winter season—which will prevent
the surface from freezing and thawing—good
results are sure to be obtained ; while if left
bare the ground will freeze, and by its expansive
force break the roots of grain or pull up clover.
When a thaw follows the surface shrinks, and
sometimes runs, leaving the surface roots expos-
ed, which are dried out and killed by the sun’s
rays and dry winds—a practical experience of
which we had last spring, when the surface
roots of the wheat were so dried up that all the
side shoots died out, and only about one or two

of timber both morning and evening, when one
would suppose that by the addition of reflected
heat the crops should be in more danger—what
Were there any sunstrokes,
did our crops wilt prematurely, or pastures get
It is true that we then had
rather unfriendly showers in haying and harvest;
that he who wrought hard, watched the weather
signs, and was not afraid to haul in hay or grain
all night, would have good flour and fat cattle ;
but he who took his ease, stuck to the ten or

of "the centre stalks in each bunch came to

taken away.

learned by every one, for each soil and climate

others, The evergreens, pine and spruce family,
are best suited as wind-breakers, and some,
among which may be mentioned the European
larch, very valuable for the durability of its

wood, Our own and Norway spruces grow well

when properly started. The tamarack grows

fast on any soil, but has the disadvantage of

shedding the leaf in autumn, and its timber is
not durable, besides it is liable to be attacked
by borers and killed early. The Austrian pine
succeeds very well in heavy or light soil, but,
except for variety, must give place to the spruce
family. Anyone desirous of planting should
consult an experienced nurseryman, who will
not only furnish him with the proper stock, but
the information concerning his soil and modes
of planting. One thing must be borne in mind,
that the cone-bearing, or resinous trees, must
be planted by themselves, for when mixed with
those that shed the leaf, such as the hardwoods,
or even poplars, neither will succeed. Our own
forest timbers, those which grow naturally on
the soil, should be preferred for general planting,
and may be so placed as to be used as shelter
and fence posts. By selecting some of our
rapid-growing kinds, such as hard maple for
high land, soft maple, black ash, and soft elm
for low, heavy land—and planting in close triple
rows along boundaries, or dividing fences in
such a way that the middle row might, after it
had grown sufficiently large, be used to fasten
fence wires to, thus securing the double purpose
of shade, shelter, and fence. On that side of
the farm most exposed to storms it would be
advisable to plant the coniferous kinds, which
would not only tend to the beauty of the land-
scape, but protection from storms, and would
more effectually secure a covering of snow to
the adjoining fields. Unless in cases where
there may bea plot of poor land, unprofitable
for cultivation, we know of no better place to
plant than around fences.

Piantine.—‘‘ Where there is a will there is
a way” is as true in this as in any operation ;
and anyone who is in earnest will find not only
the plants, but information and time to put
them down. Since failure or success in the
first attempt will exercise considerable influence
in after operations, it is desirable that ardour
should not be damped in such beneficial opera-
tions, but that all the elements to secure success
be present from the commencement.

In our short, hurried seasons time is a great
deal to the farmer, and the labor of planting
should not interfere with seeding. Although it
will be both cheaper and better to get spruces,
larches, and the like, from the nursery ; the
hardwoods can be got in abundance almost any-
where that old timber has been extensively cut
and left commons. ‘There are places in this
vicinity where hard and soft maple and all the
kindred timber plants can be got of any age,
growing in the sunlight, and standing often so
thick that a person cannot get between them,
from half an inch to an inch through, and from
seven to nine feet high, healthy, vigorous and
straight. For those who have not much seeding
or other work in early spring, the supply can be
got in spring and immediately set out ; but
where it is desirable to set out many at a time,
the better plan will be to take a sharp axe and
spade and dig up the required number just as
the snow is beginning to fall, shake the clay
from the roots and dip the roots into a puddle
of clay, made to the consistence of thick cream,
pile them in your hay rack and take home.
Next, select a place in some of your fields where
snow will not drift very high, but away from
fences, for fear of mice, and plough three
furrows, throwing one twice over; lay the trees
close in a row with roots against last furrow
thrown out ; hitch one horse to your plough and
throw one furrow back on the roots ; then put
on your other horse and throw up two deep
furrows, level the clay in over the collar and
part of the stalk with the shovel, and the fall
work is done, The object of the deep furrow is

maturity. Such a state of things is new with
us, which only proves that we must be prepared
for new and costly experience, unless we can, in
some way, replace the timber that has been

The kinds of timber to plant can easily be

has some variety peculiar to itselfi—some sort
that would do on one soil and would fail on

‘drainage, and should run with the water-shed of
the ground, We would also plant with the
plough, and, if possible, summer-fallow the
ground. Before setting down in spring, all
bruised roots’ should be cut off smooth with a
sharp knife, and the head shortened in to cor-
respond with the reduced roots, then dip once
more in clay puddle, plant while the ground is
in good order, shake the tree to get the fine
mould well among the roots, set a little
deeper than it stood in the woods, stamp well
down, seed with clover, and mulch heavily with
sawdust or short straw around each tree and
leave the rest to Providence. It will be prudent
to bring about two plants to the hundred more
than you have spaces for, which can be set in a
corner to fill a vacancy in case of accident.

THE PRESERVATION OF OUR ORIGINAL FCREST.

On this topic very little need be said. Like a
fish out of water, the few patches of original
forest have had their surroundings changed by
being exposed to rapid currents of air to which
they were not accustomed at birth, or during
growth, and therefore their means of feeding
have been entirely changed. The result is that
those that have advanced towards maturity and
attained high heads are dying of starvation,
while trees of later growth with low heads
drink up all the carbon of the air which circu
lates among their branches, and leaves the light
barren air to rise in mockery around the heads
of their hoary parents.

The cause of decay of high-headed trees may
be explained in this way: Trees derive nearly
all their vegetable food from air. The coat of
leaves which annually falls undergoes fermenta-
tion. In this process carbon, which forms the
more bulky part of wood, is, by the action of
oxygen, converted into carbonic acid gas, which
is once and a half,as heavy as air. This gas, in
forest in its pristine state, rose slowly in the
calm of the woods till it came within reach of
the high-headed trees, where, in the sunlight,
they drank it in and flourished. Since plants
feed plentifully only in sunlight, the younger
trees that were lower and consequently in the
shade of the older ones, were enabled to take
only a small portion of this vegetable food. On
account of their unfavorable stature they
struggled with all their strength to get their
heads up in the light. In an unbroken forest a
breeze is impossible, and the gases rise calmly
and slowly to the top of the tallest trees, but
the moment that forest becomes reduced to a
clump or thin belt, a continual breeze sweeps
through, the vegetable gases are hurried along
at a low level, and never, in any considerable
quantity, reach the high-headed trees. The
result is that they are robbed by their more
humble and younger neighbours ; they soon die
at the top, and, unless they can push a few
branches lower down, cannot long survive.

The only plan at present apparent is to cut
down all timber that shows any symptoms of
decay at the top ; plant three young trees where
one was cut down ; fence’ woodland so that
cattle cannot get through it till a new growth of
seedling wood has been obtained, and, where
the owner can afford the time and outlay, set
out a hedge-row of spruce on the side of the
prevailing winds. __

If we would secure a growth of tall, young,
clear wood it must not only be shaded, but
sheltered, Our main resource must consist in
planting. Although very much more might be
said on this point, still what everybody knows
is no news.

What our Legislature should do in the way of
promoting tree planting is not quite clear. It
is evident that the bonus system will not have
the desired effect. Would it not be well to

make it a statutory obligation on everyone who |

owns an acre of clear land, in fee simple, to
plant or cause to be planted a given number of
trees? By this means, everyone who owns
cultivable land would be obliged to contribute
his proportion to the general good; while by
the bonus, or by the voluntary system, some
would save their timber and plant more, while
a next neighbor, more selfish, would destroy his
timber and reap the benefit equally with those
who do plant.

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls, A five cent sample settles it.

~— a

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN, D7

Novel Ending in a Bankruptcy Case.
Orrawa, Jan. 27.—A dividend of one hundred
cents on the dollar in all filed claims, with a
surplus of about $20,000 after making due allow-
ance for reserved claims and reasonable costs in
the case, is a new item in the record of the In-
solvent Courts. Four years ago the fine timber
limits owned by Mr. John Lorne McDougall
and Mr. Duncan Campbell McDougall, were
taken possession of by their creditors, and the
firm forced into insolvency. At this time a Mr.
Frazer held a mortgage on the properties to the
amount of over $40,000, and valued his security
at $20,000, and the best experts say that had
the estate been turned into a cash realization he
could not have got more than $25,000 for the
estate. Two banks held large claims against
the concern, and so convinced were their repre-
sentatives that the affair was ‘‘ gone up,” that
they advised the assignee to hand it over to
Frazer and relieve them of the liability. Mr.
Bell, of Carleton Place, who was the party in
charge, refused todo so. He had every confi-
dence in the recuperative power of the country,
and now has the satisfaction of knowing that
he has enabled the estate to pay all its claims
and have a handsome amount on hand for the

benefit of its first owners.
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Chips.

S. P. Buss, of Tonawanda, reports not yet
having found a large raft of long timber, of
fifteen cribs, containing 88,000 feet, which went
out of Au Sable river during the month of
November. On the opening of navigation he
will send parties along both shores of Lake
Huron in search of it. The raft is valued at
over $1,000.

LuNoH meetings are the latest feature on the
Chicago Lumbermen’s Exchange. The mem-
bers get together on the invitation of some one
member, and eat, smoke and talk. Says the
Lumberman :—‘‘The Saturday lunch was largely
attended, the lunch was bountiful and appetiz-
ing, while the after discussion was particularly
interesting and able.

Lerrers patent of incorporation are beings
applied for by the St. Lawrence Lumber Co.,
of Quebec and Levis, the applicants being G. B.
Hall, E. J. Price, A. Thompson, J. Hamilton
and P. P. Hall. The capital stock is to be $80, -
000, and the business to be carried on that of
manufacturing various kinds of wooden goods,
as well as the dressing of lumber, &c,

Norice has been given that application will
be made, at the next session of the Dominion
Parliament, for an Act to incorporate a company
for the erection and maintenance of Booms and
other improvements affecting the lumber in-
terest on Rainy River, for the levying of tolls,
dues and charges thereon, and for colonization
upon the territory bordering on said river.

Tur Minneapolis Lumberman says :—Men and
provisions are being pushed forward, but teams
are scarce and hard to find. We have had
little flurries of snow lately over portions of the
north-west, enough to whiten the ground, but
not enough to cut any great figure in the pros-
pective log crop. On the whole the Chippewa
and North Wisconsin people are hopeful, and
are now pitching in lively to secure a fair
supply.

Tue interior department at Washington has
decided that Lombardy poplar, balm, and
cottonwood are not timber in the meaning of
the law relating to tree planting. The Olym-
pia, W.T., Zranscript states that a petition is
now in circulation in Eastern Washington to
get the decision amended so as to include these
trees in the list of those lawful to plant. Many
have set out Lombardy poplar in good faith,
thinking that it was in compliance with the
law, and they are now in danger of losing their
claims,

THe Timber Trades Journal says that the
gravest fears are being expressed at Greenock
for the safety of the large timber laden ship
Eastern Empire, which sailed from Quebec for
Greenock early in November, and since leaving
Bic, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, a few
days afterwards, has not been heard of. As all
the other timber vessels which left the St. Law-
rence subsequent to the Hustern Empire have
now been accounted for, there is much reason
to fear that she has broken up during the fearfu]
gales which swept the Atlantic during the two
last months of the past year.

AccorDINnG to the Bangor Commercial, which
is good authority, the lumber cut this winter on
the Penobscot and tributary streams will be at
least one-third lighter than that of last year.
Then the season was a most favorable one. It
lasted four months, during which time fully
150,000,000 feet was cut, nearly all of which was
turned into the streams. The total cut this
season is estimated at from 95,000,000 to 100, -

Tr is the intention of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, late Canada Central, to appeal against
the judgment rendered last week in the suit
brought by Mr. Peter McLaren. The case in
all probability will go to the Privy Council.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says that a
number of camps in the Muskegon district, since
the opening of the new year, have been broken
up, though the freeze about January 7 checked
the disposition to relinquish logging, and en-
couraged operators. Of course the larger opera-
tors, in favorable locations, continue to push
work vigorously, by the aid of the modern ap-
pliances of tram and pole roads, trucks and
sprinkled roads for short hauls. Snow, while
yet not to be despised in the lumber woods, is
not as important as it once was, capital and
energy having made operators largely free from
the effects of URC a ae weather.

RAEUMATISM,

Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest,

000,000 feet. Last season 40,000,000 feet was

the cut on the Mattawamkeag, while this year Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, ree
it is not likely to be over 30,000,000 feet. Last ings and ‘Sprains, Burns cnc
season’s cut on the west branch of the Penobscot Scalds, Gener al Bodi ly

was about 50,000,000 feet, and this season it will Pains, #)

Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Foot and Ears, and all other

Pains and Aches.

ration on earth equals St. Jacons Ou
a safe, aes simple and cheap External

key A trial entails but the comparatively
sifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one suffering
bute pain can have cheap and positive proof of its
tlaime.

Directions in Eleven Languages.

BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS
IN MEDICINE,

A: VOGELER & CO.,

Baltimore, Md,, U. 8, As

not exceed 35,000,000. Three-eights of the
season is already gone, and until recently there
has been but a very light fall of snow. At
present the average snow depth is from fourteen
to fifteen inches, and there is good hauling.
There is a large overstock—some 60,000,000 logs
—and if there shall be plenty of water in the
spring, so that these, together with this season’s
cut, can be rafted to the mills, all will be well.
Otherwise the stock for 1882 will be astonishing-
ly light and prices will be high,

j Mp wen

PORTLAND FOUNDRY..\CHOPPING AXES

(Made to Order and on hand.)
tte PICKS SE ROOED in « firet-clase style.
hose shipped by rail will be returned promptly.
JOSEPH McAFEE, sar Lance Tooth Sawe Gummed. AXES
(Late ANous MCAFEE.) WARRANTED. Buus

W. HERLIHEY, Lindsay.

D. 8. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLEBALE DEALER IN

Olear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER.

J. K. POST & CO.

LUMBER MERCHANTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWHEGO, N.Y.

iLtf

J. & F. N. TENNANT

Dealers in all kinds of

Lumber, Lath & Shingles,
Office, Union Loan Building,
Toronto Street, Toronto.

1tf

S.S.MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &e.

4@7P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. 1itf

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT. |

ROBERT SMALLWOOD

The Patent Lever Feed Shingle,
Box Board & Heading Machine

(Always takes First Prize.)

Rotary Saw Mills
IN FOUR SIZES, and other
MACHINERY for SAW and
GRIST MILLS.

GFSEND FOR CIRCULAR, @&&

CHARLOTTETOWN,

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Warehouse, Main St., St. John, N-B.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

MANUFACTURER OF

Cooking, Ship, Parlor & Office Stoves

MILL GASTINGS

Ship Windlasses, Capstans, and
Ship Castings of all kinds,

(MADE TO ORDER.)

Power Capstans, Patent Ship Pumps

With Copper Chambers, 1115

Lead Scuppers & Water Closets & all
goods in my line for Ships’ use.

Work done to Order with Quick Despatch.

IRWIN & BOYD

Commission
Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
ShippingsGeneral Agents
PORT HOPE.

11tf

ya FOUNDRY

Union Street, - - - Carleton,
Warerooms, Water Street,

ST. JOHN, N. B.

Ailan Brothers

(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

Steam Engines
MILL MACHINERY.

Ships Windlasses, fron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS of all kinds.

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves
COOKING AND HEATING

STOV Es,

Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins.

FREEMAN'S
WORM. :- POWDERS:

Agricultural Implements.| ,

BRASS CASTINGS.

Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware for SHIP and
1118 HOUSE use.

Are pleasant to take. Contain their owm
Purgative. Is a safe, sure, and effectual?
destroyer of worms in Children or Adults,

58

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

: AMarket Aeports.

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

F rp. 10.—Business has been about as usual
for the season, but nothing extra is reported,
Some Americans have been looking after lots
here, but have not picked up much that is suit-
able, as their market is now supplied nearly as
cheap as here, and so little difference in prices
makes it hardly worth their while coming here,
and they have a better assortment to choose
from in their own markets than in this city.
The tendency in prices here is upward, and we
advance quotations for 1st quality pine, pine
shipping culls, and basswood. Stocks of choice
lumber here are small. Lately the weather has
been good for work at the shanties, and lumber
will be plentiful if only got well out. Rates of
freight this summer by boat are expected to be
low from Ottawa, about $1.25 per M. ft. The
railway is now importing it at $1.10@$1.25,
which will help to keep down prices. We now

quote :—

Pine, 1st quality, bs de os . -$35 00@40 00
ATV 271 Caen tA Mele etacatelate eivclets aiars eve 18 00@24 00
Pine, shipping out r Mitre sree Amibieteteteraves 14 00@15 00
Pine, GUNES ASS eB ANT mtaramiersteiatars tees ota 8 00@12 00
Pines snail licw lls eqByM sen atares/sereie isles feisinie 5 00@ 8 00
Sperone) Wit aaccrpodtuons soGnononse™ tae 9 8 00@10 00
Lert OGM IGA are cies sreasieiataateysre die vievereteizra wets 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls OPI an ood sah a4 16 00@18 00
Bass, s £7) Mt copa euobon 16 00@17 00
pi 48) NU, s opind dodondosoenooebUMGE tab An 36 00@45 00
Birch, Gal Wi ocsoobn oe poopeeaanortane. CMAQ O 17 00@20 00
ET eine WIV ero) sap aN evade eletarctelvatelaletsiastelaigie/ aici 18 00@25 00
Lath, M.....-.... 1 50@ 0 00
Shingles, lst, @M .. 3 00@ 0 00

Shingles, 2nd, ®M..... 2 00@ 0 00
Corpwoop keeps dull and can now be bought
about half a dollar cheaper than at the data of
our last report, this remark does not apply to
tamarac, which is frm and maintains its value.
No green wood has been drawn yet, and this
year’s cut is not expected to be large. Dry
wood is in good supply at the depot, and large
importations are coming forward. We quote
prices at the Je depot, ex cartage :—

ong. Maple..
Short ‘ 2
Long Birch.
Short “
Long Beech...
Short ‘“ clap ;
Money am ara chia terastecitaectirnin niensenittiettits
Short GS

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TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Frs. 8th.—Lumber shipments to this city at
present are dropping off rapidly in consequence
of the action taken by the various railway com-
panies in the matter of weighing all car loads of
lumber. At this season of the year it usually
appears in epidemic form, and doubtless may be
partly accounted for through the fact that the
various railway companies have more time to
attend to weighing cars, as well as being desirous
of supplementing their decreased earnings at this
season, by charging excess upon all cars having
more than 24,000 lbs. The railway companies
seem to forget, or else ignore, the fact that what
is for the interests of their customers is also to
their advantage, and so they bleed them un-
mercifully. Of course there are two sides to this
question, as well as to most others. The com-
panies claim that if they do not take this step
to protect their rolling stock they would soon
haye none to protect ; but still it is plain that
selfishness has the most to do with it, or why
not avoid all this bad blood being stirred up
between them and their patrons, by consenting
to carry by the thousand, instead of by weight,
there would then be no inducement left for the
shipper to overload, and it would tend to encour-
age the shipment of more of the coarser grades of
lumber, such as hemlock, whereas, the present
system of charging by weight is virtually pro-
hibitive to shipping hemlock bill stuff. The
writer had the opportunity of seeing one weigh
bill for a car load of 2x4 hemlock, and the total
charge was $51.75, and the value of the carload
at this place was about $90, leaving the splendid
margin of $38.25 for the manufacturer. Shippers
would not complain so bitterly, I presume, if
the N. & N. W. R. Co. would do the same as
the G. T, R. Co., that is, charge the entire load
at the sthedule rates, but the former company
charge on all excess as follows :—On the first
ton of over-weight, single rates, and on all over
that double 4th class rates. There is,no ques-
tion if our lumbermen had only vim enough to

test this question no such rates as that just
named could be collected, unless means were
furnished shippers to weigh all cars at the point
of shipment, but there is no reason why this
matter could not be amicably arranged, if
the company would not adopt that stand-of-at-
arm’s-length tone, which ill becomes a company
dependent upon the lumber carrying for three-
fifths of their entire revenue. Lumbermen are
noted for their forbearance and patience, but
they are somewhat riled just now, and if they
will only work shoulder to shoulder, this matter
can soon be solved.

The various yards are doing a quiet trade at
present, and none of them are at all overstocked,
and prices remain firm at last quotations. Dry
stuff is rapidly diminishing, and by the opening
of spring but little dry lumber will be left on
this market. There has been but little diminu-
tion in building this winter, so far. Of course it
cannot be pushed as rapidly as during the
summer months, still there is a large number of
houses in course of erection, and many more
just started. The sizes and lengths of dimen-
sion stuff that are the most difficult to obtain
just now, are 2x8 18ft. and 2x4 all lengths,
Lath are also hard to get at any price, and will
likely continue scarce until the opening of the
spring.

In your last issue you state the probable
quantity taken away by farmers from the city’s
consumption as being 100,000 feet, it should
have read 1,000,000.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Mill cull boards and scantling................+- beets 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths. . 12 00
MROCES aalsicts ties ace.sin'v ele alintearucte. dw alone 13 00

Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft...........seeees 13 00
wials\ajaie (ayole[syslep\nle ivie 13 60

. Ks a ZOE arelavoiniete's lei eteiaintelevelare 14 00

us as by 22 thie cacnccavevoresens 13 50

ae a ae DA TG sha lwieisthais age melaads 14 00

ss 5 of BOL se vcce sen aciestiseus 15 60
Scantling and joist, Up WOS2S ft ec crs sin ale je slataaraie 16 50

BO £6, cece req evecven 18 00

“ “ “

¢ “t ss BELG. ochimels: ew aachiere 22 50
Ms i ee OO/LUstereweltiaein Mam wiaterree 25 00
fe ef ef Chao Sobecoghne ce 30 00
ss “ ss 40 to 44 ft. ... 85 00

Cutting up race todry...
“ oards ‘“ .,

Sound dressing stocks. .
Picks Am. inspection. .
Three uppers, Am. inspection

ie “inch flooring, MAYOBNO «ts o/sle l/c d)s'oles Bialirein\e a's
1 TOURD 0. rcv acccnccecvececncess
oD AL) FAYCRROE Jerciucts«ic'eles
1; ‘“ “ undressed...
: “ ¢ dressed .

a e undressed.

H Beaded Sheeting, dressed.

he degeees F dressed .....
sawn shingles, 8 M....... ve

aM BANC (SIN SON -oia gicietel clause eieiair enters (cena anetalmie

OS VA POU Reiataeedb obopctnacodiodondiopocestiacdds

OTTAWA,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Fes. 9th.—Little is at present transpiring at
the head offices of the lumbering firms in this
city. No sales have been reported lately, and
few will now be made until the opening of the
spring trade in March. The necessary supplies
and men having already been forwarded to the
shanties of the different firms, a quiet spell will
prevail until the beginning of preparations for
the drive. Advices from the shanties are not
altogether encouraging, the recent

HEAVY SNOW FALLS
having seriously interfered with the progress of
work, This is aremarkable change from former
reports. Until a few weeks since grave fears
were entertained of an insufficiency of snow,
but the state of things is now quite the reverse,
On the south side of the Ottawa lumbermen
have no great aeason to complain. On the north
side, however, there is a great deal too much
snow. On the Kippewa for the past two weeks
contractors have experienced great difficulty in
having their supplies conveyed to the
SOENE OF OPERATIONS,
The woods have been blocked, and in some in-
stances operations have had to be completely
suspended. How long this state of affairs will
last it is difficult to say. The estimated cut of
logs on the Ottawa and its tributaries this
winter is about one and a quarter millions,
This includes merely the logs cut in the imme-
diate vicinity of this city, irrespective of the
quantities taken out for manufacture at the
mills at Arnprior, Braeside, and others in the
Upper Ottawa district. It will be observed
that this estimate about equals the
CUT OF LAST YEAR,
but owing to the unprecedented lowness of the

water the past season, not less than one million
logs were stuck in the various streams in that
district. In addition to the actual cut of this
season, the quantity to be manufactured during
the coming summer will include this one million
left over from last season, all of which it is con-
fidently expected will be floated down success-
fully to its destination in the spring. Every-
thing points to the probability of
HIGH WATER

in the streams and lakes in the lumbering dis-
tricts. It is said that all the swamps are full
of water, and as many and valuable improve-
ments have been made as to navigation, it is
safe to assume that there will be no repetition
of the detrimental effects of last season’s low

water.
CHIPS.

John P. Mills recently purchased James
Findlay’s limits on the Black River, paying
therefor $60,000. The limits comprise 100 square
miles.

Considerable trouble is experienced this sea-
son with teams in the woods. Wages advanced
about a month ago. In some shanties this fact
having been heard of, and the demands of the
parties having been refused, a strike was resort-
ed to. Wages at present paid are from $1.50 to
$2.00 per day.

The Scottish Lumbering Co, have fourteen
shanties in operation this season on the Upper
Ottawa, employing about 700 men. The Com-
pany will take out in the neighbourhood of 125,-
000 logs on the Kippewa, and 25,000 on the
Black River. They will take out about 1,200,-
000 feet of square timber.

Between seventy and eighty shipbuilders are
employed in the yards opposite this city on the
Hull side, constructing barges, tugs and
steamers for the next season’s navigation. Al
these will be engaged in the lumber trade.

The patent ‘‘ Kenny Swedge,” is being placed
in a number of mills in the Chaudiere, for trial
next season, All the mills are now undergoing
repairs in preparation for the coming busy

months,
— ees

LONDON, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent,

Frs. 10.—I cannot give as favorable a report
of the lumber market here as I did in my last.
There is a desire on the part of merchants to
make concessions on the late advance, and
where cash transactions are made the old rates
are invariably accepted, but booked accounts
remain firm at my last quotations. There is a
general appearance of lassitude throughout the
trade in this city. Little stock is coming in,
and the demand is not what would have been
expected. One reason for this may be the very
open winter, and the opportunity to “‘ make
shift” by those who needed lumber in the event
of an ordinary season. Building in this city
will be very brisk this spring, as builders are
well engaged ahead, and architects are, and will
be, well employed for many months. Though
prices are somewhat easier, I cannot give you
any reliable lower quotations, and my list must
remain the same as in your last issue.

QUOTATIONS,
Mill cull boards and scantling.............ersees $11 00
Shipping eull boards, promiscuous widths...... 12 00
: 10 and 12in. stocks....... 12 50
Common boards, promiscuous widths........... 14 00
Scantling and joist, up TIGA: oe ina daeawn cee 15 00
32 TS Tee keaeterae «we eee 15 50
ae ae pb SAU EMy wieices a'e'0:.,n.0/v sip = Si 16 50
‘} Ww - BF BE. ase cases tes oume € 17 50
‘s re pS OS eS ee ee 19 00
Common stocks ......+ ahs DeNMc esr enibe habia fe 15 00
Common 2 in. plank... eres cesacceevevsnncavess 14 00
Cutting up plank and boards**'*............... 19 00
Sound dressing stocks.... sesccececoscccceueces 18 00
Clear and picks .........cccevcccessecece ++» 28 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection.......... 35 00
4 inch dressed and matched flooring .. 21 00
“ “e “ “ ~ 21 00
1 ce “oe ae “ é 21 00
XXX sawn shingles, ® M...........- -. 300
Lath per 1000 feet... cece evecennessece 4 50@5 00

———————— em
ST. JOHN, N. B.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Fes. 7.—About the only noticeable occurrence
bearing on the wood trade since last report is
the very severe snow storm of Sunday last, ex-
ceeding in severity anything of the kind we
have experienced for many years, During the
fore part of the winter the logging operations of
our lumbermen were greatly impeded for want
of snow; latterly, however, since snowing has
fairly commenced, the supply is so liberal as to
cause fears of becoming troublesome in the

other extreme, so that altogether the supply of
lumber the coming season cannot be other than
moderate.

Taking these circumstances into account in

connection with the prospects of the markets
abroad, there is every reason to count on a very
profitable business being done, in the deal trade
especially, this year, which should stimulate
our operators to do their best, as an over supply
for the present year appears now quite impos-
sible.

The following extracts from the London

Timber Trades Journal, of 2ist January, are
very strong in support of the views above ex-
pressed :—

“In point of fact we do not remember the

eommencement of any year on which we could
venture to speak with less reserve of the good
prospects of the trade than we feel justified in
doing now.” * . . * as .

‘* Assuming that active operations will be

carried on successfully on both sides, there is
nothing likely to operate unfavorable to a good
spring trade for all.”

FREIGHTS.
We have no new feature in the freight market

to report. The latest charters we hear of are:
—Syringa, 604 tons, for Cork, at 60s., and Grace

£. Cann, 683 tons, direct port, East Coast of
Ireland, at 61s. 3d.
SHIPMENTS.
The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

are as follows :—

Wear Bas nisaip web dane cnaiehen 2,232,000 Sup. feet.
* United States........ccescess 1,269,000 sd

560,000 =

The number of sugar box shooks shipped for

Cuba is as follows :—

Sept. 1 to Jan. Zl. .-...ns.speeee 53,745

Biviod: soe eco cderacces Stee enE . 9,300

Pole «a+ asneensdam pace 63,045
SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,

wath their tonnage and destinations :—

Souvenir, 828, Liverpool.

Gettysburg, 1,015, Adelaide, for orders.

Memory, 409, Spain.

Fidelia, 450, ——

Buteshire, 967, ——

Alfarin, 446, So

Syringa, 604, Cork.

Grace E. Cann, 683, E. C. Ireland.
——».

CHICAGO,

The Northwestern Lumberman says that busi-

ness at the wholesale yards in this city has made
considerable improvement within the past few
days. As a favorable sign one dealer reports
the constant and liberal receipt of orders from

various western points, Thesame dealer makes

a very encouraging showing for January, having
shipped during that month 450 cars—an amount
that would appear well on his books for any

month in the year. February promises a brisk

trade, the opening week of the month bringing

an increase of orders to nearly all the yards.
The shipments of the week ending February 2,
show an increase of about 5,000,000 feet over
the corresponding period last year.

The feeling in regard to prices is still very
firm, and sales are being generally made up to
the full list rates, and the prospect of an advance
is being considered.

It is now quite apparent that the log crops in
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, will fail
to come up to the intended cut by 20 to 30 per
cent. It is reasonable to conclude that this fact
will have 3ome effect on the manufacture of
lumber next season, and also in prices. That
there will be a large amount of logs put in can-
not be doubted, and if the demand for lumber
were only moderate, probably the percentage of
shortage would not be noticed. But when it is
considered that the demand has been well sus-
tained throughout the winter, and that many
mills have continued to run, some of them night
and day, to satisfy the railroads and other re-
quirements, that stocks are much reduced and
broken in assortment, it may be inferred that
manufacturers will fix an enhanced value on
their diminished stocks of logs, and will not
crowd their product on the market to such an
extent as they havein former years. The result
on prices is not hard to guess,

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1, to and including Feb,
2nd, 1882 ;—

ei

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.

Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.

1882...19,410,000 6,582,000 87,916,000 31,660,000

1881...18,043,000 6,911,000 65,399,000 82,100,000
Inc.. 1,307,000 22,517,000

Dec.. 329,000 440,000

For an entire week we have no arrivals or
clearances by lake to report, so that with the
close of January navigation may be said to have
finally come to an end.

—____—_—_——_-
ALBANY.
Jan. 20.—Quotations at the yards are as fol-

Cherry, good,
Cherry, common, @ M
Oak, good, # M 00@4:
Oak, second quality, @ M........++--..+- 20 00@25 00
Basswood, @ M.....-.seees coceecsceeccs 22 00@25 00
Hickory, @ M......--eeeeeees eee ceteris 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, 8 M...-....--sseeee+e--s 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M.......-++++++e0+ 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, @ M..... ees seeesecereeeees 35 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, pine, @ M..... -.++-.-- 0 00@ 6 00
9nd quality......-+s+..seeeees 0 00@ 4 50
> extra, sawed, pine.....-.....-+ 0 00@ 4 40
= clear, he 2a eRe 0 00@ 3 40
ae cedar, mixed..............+-: 0 00@ 3 25
Se gedar, XK... 2. ese e es cee noes 0 00m 4 00
t8 femlock.--..- wc ccasecsenncess 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @ M...esseeeeeeseseeeeee 0 00@ 1 62
Lath, spruce, “S sseees scenes eeeeeeee 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, Nee ea eels nine cyo.caleiene« 0 00@ 2 00
—EEeEE——EE
BOSTON. :

The Journal of Commerce, of Feb. 4th, says
the firm tone referred to last week still continues
and there is a very satisfactory demand for both
building and manufacturing purposes. There is
also a very good export inquiry. From the
south and west reports continue to be received
of the inability of handlers to fill orders, owing
to short supplies and poor facilities for shipping
stock. All of the mills, both in the east and
west, are fully employed and are working up
the logs as fast as possible. In the New York
market trade is reported as good, with prices
firm and a short supply of desirable grades.
From all points come the most encouraging re-
ports, and it is universally agreed that trade
thus far has been ‘“‘ immense,” considering the
season of the year. The loggers at the west
have been delayed a great deal by unfavorable
weather, but the latest reports say that sufficient
snow has fallen to allow operations to go on in
amore satisfactory manner than for some weeks
past. Hardwoodsare firm and in good demand,
The following are car load prices :—

CANADA PINE.

Selects, Dressed............0s-+000- .248 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, Ists... . 40 00@42 00
- 2nds . 33 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers...... . 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box......... 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Ist quality.. 42 00@45 00
a! waa «| 34 00@35 00
ee
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers. 22.02 -eeerceeecesceeececeneeees $46 00@48 00
COMMON.......-.5-2 scence esesesneces 18 00@19 00
| ie SRB pees orc 13 00@14 00
—_—_—__o—_—_{__—
TONAWANDA.

CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

GLASGOW.

From Singleton, Dunn & Co.’s annual timber
circular, dated January 7, 1882, we learn that
the imports of wood goods into the Clyde during
the year 1881 were as follows :—Waney board
9,560 logs, yellow pire 32,661 do., red pine 6,241
do., oak 6,325 do., elm 4,855 do., ash 2,688 do.,
birch 2,889 do., sundry hardwoods 3,645, deuls,
battens, etc., 424,235 pieces, pine and spruce
boards 1,437 pieces, oak plank 16,135, pipe staves

THE CANADA

16,135, puncheon staves 163,699. The imports
all round were slightly less than in 1880. The
following quantities in cubic feet of Quebec
timber were in Clyde ports on December 31,
1881:—Waney board, 767,531; yellow pine,
1,128,464 ; red pine, 372,366 ; white oak, 348,577;
rock elm, 244,781 ; birch, 41,570; spruce deals,
79,030. The circular says :—‘‘ Business during
1881 was fairly good, and the consumption in
the aggregate fully one million cubic feet over
that in 1880. The imports during the year of
Canadian goods were nearly the same as in 1880;
while in pitch pine there was an enormous in-
crease, The consumption of Canadian timber
was less over all than it was in 1880. There is
a large increase in the items of deals. This in-
crease is mainly of lower port spruce and pine.
Quebec deals have not gone into consumption so
extensively as was anticipated. The consump-
tion of pitch pine was fully half a million feet
ahead of the consumption the previous year,
and this increase to a considerable extent ex-
plains the falling off in the absorption of square
white pine and red pine. Quebec pine, of the
various qualities, are only about half what they
were a year ago. ‘This deficiency is not com-
pensated by any substantial increase in lower
port pine deals, which are only a few thousand
pieces in excess of the stock at the same date
last year. In red pine deals the stock is just

————————————————————
LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal says that the im-
portation from Canada to London last year
was :—

Pieces.

Yellow pine deals and battens, from the St.
Lawrence

1,673,500

Spruce deals and battens, from the St. Law-
FENCE. 6.0. secece cece Bie cre cise ninialciainye atte 989,000
Spruce deals and battens, from New Bruns-
Wickneees costes eae ssc eeatc eee . 1,074,500
Total. ...- 2220... c00e cevscsccecvccees 4,737,000
Against in 1880 :—
Vellow pine. ....ceee-seeeecnveceeececeeeees 1,805,000
SPruce. ....seceee eee cece ce eeeeeeeeceeneees 2,977,000
AT Falte <<; pen a.nemvn's stoeasimai sage 4,782,000

Showing a decrease in the importations during
the last twelve months, on Colonial deals and
battens, of only 45,000 pieces ; so that the im-
ports may be reckoned, as far as the effect on
prices is concerned, about the same.

Of timber, Canada sent to this market last
year :—

Wellow Eim@-csscecssisss cee 05 5,099 loads
Red MR oes dae aie wie si sie 1,768 ‘‘
Wie ask cle Se aise wjnelepuesine <0 2,086 ‘‘
OPE ES Ei es See 282
LEDER GARR ScOnIORGS SOOnmpericn 182 ‘S
(fo ny = eee 3,004“
Biche Cee sesee fe eke pcre 4,324“

The importation of oak has been a full one,
notwithstanding the large stocks that were in
the docks at the beginning of the year, and
prices did not share last season in the almost
general advance. Birch timber, however, owing
to the stocks being greatly reduced, showed
considerable improvement as the season drew
towards its close, assisted by the moderate im-
portation and the large unreserved sales that
were held during the summer. The low price
at first realized, induced by the excessive import
of the previous year, proved attractive to buyers
from all sides, and we have now not more than
a fair average stock in hand to meet the spring

demand.

In 1880, Canada sent to London :—
Yellow pine timber.............. 4,357 loads.
Red ce Soe Vaveidiglece cis eros ei 997 **
1D CEG sie AAR SISAB Dao ger cero age 1,991 *
Re See Wena Bieta 2719 «
RPK Orgs (a5 ooresnaaewcninnies ey sil.
“UP enAbo nee ooneech deans 2 2 S:7a8, ‘*
"TTS eactgr ee ee ile See 8.617“

With the exception of ash, oak, and birch, the
Colonial import of timber for 1881 has been
heavier than that of the preceding year.

TRADE WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

The Timber Trades Journal says the increas-
ing influx of United States timber is the princi-
pal cause of the difficulty which our own North
American possessions have to contend with in
getting remunerating prices for their wood pro-
duction in this country. There has been a large
increase in the importation of pitch pine, and a
proportionate decrease in Canadian pine ; and
now the importation of oak from the States cut
tu scantling is supplanting that from Canada in
the log, and is sold even at lower prices. This
seers & paradox, but on reflection it is account-

about one-third what it was twelve month ago.” |

LUMBERMAN.

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ed for. Wood is more easily handled in sawn
scantling than hewn timber, and stows closer,
and it is carried over sea at the freight of
deals, also smaller and less perfect trees are
convertible to this fashion of wood, and what is
lost by the sawing is made up by these advan-

tages and the saving in freight and waste. |

Scantlings and deals are brought over at about
12 to 15 per cent. less carriage than square tim-
ber. Canadian houses will doubtless soon put
themselves on a level, as regards the conversion
of oak, with their enterprising neighbours, but
the low price of pitch pine and its ampledimen-
sions and length rendering it applicable to al-

most all the purposes of Canadian pine will not |

be so easily got over. Theimportation to Liver-
pool this year was smaller than that of 1879.

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BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

The following are the official returns for the

month of December and the year 1881 :—
MONTH ENDED 31ST DEC.

QUANTITY. VALUE.
Timber (Hewi). Loads. 2.
RUSSIa .. 2. ce ccs wees cles 15,190 32,928
Sweden and Norway........+ 45,656 73,889
Germany... . 2.2... ees eee eee 35,013 91,398
British North America...... 11,060 50,277
Other Countries...........-- 25,020 54,085

Total! icjcal sy see Seteite le 131,939 302,577
Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).
imciih: Sane a. SAAR eBook 74,123 184,261
Sweden and Norway......- . 137,545 363,789
British North America...... 51,162 135,120
Other Countries .. ....-..- 17,740 53,467

Motal sev cncctaele eesti se 280,570 736,637
Staves (all sizes)....+.-..5+.- 11,414 75,524
Mahogany (tons). ...-...-.-- 4,541 43,369
Total of Hewn and Sawn.... 412,509 1,039,214

TWELVE MONTHS ENDED 31ST DEC.
Timber (Hewn). Loads. £.
ARUINSID . cici-wejec ies == «imi sine 229,914 454,377 |
Sweden and Norway........- 600,002 941,720 |
Germany....--.- -- se seee eee 224,205 674,220 |
British North America...... 289,514 1,291,096
Other Countries.......-..-.. A13,€64 1,429, 884 |

ve) Ae ee mete oe 1,866,289 4,791,297
Tiinber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).

RRISSIS.S sn civans =, Boossedsoc 2,259,756
Sweden and Norway.......-- 3,407,984
British North America....... 2,489,989
Other Countries............+ 1,032,390

TOL Io Salen isles eines wae 9,190,119
Staves (all sizes)...... seee-- 118,664 586,655
Mahogany (tons) ...+.+++--6+ 42,214 388,476
Total of Hewn and Sawn..... 5,535,146 13,981,416

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no benefit ; when one bottle of Burdock Blood
Bitters cured bim of Paralysis aud Generai
Debility. At the advanced age of (60, he
says he feels young again, and is overjoyed at
his wonderful recovery.

Liverpvol Stocks.
lst Jan.
| 1881, ft.
Quebec Square Pine.......... . «. -869,000
‘© Waney Pine. .. 303,000
St. John’s Pine... . 21,000
| Other Ports Pine . 43,000

Red Pine ....-cccssssee 63,000 26,
Oak, Oanadian and American ......524,000 347
6 Planks .....-cesccsccccenecer> 92,000
N.B., &c., Spruce Deals....... ---- 30,641 15,935
“ Pine io. acc escpha- sare one 1,856 7i8
| Quebec Deals......++eee--2seereeees 11,095 7,832

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Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &c., &e., &e.

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ROBIN &

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

THE GOLDEN LION

Mill Supplies, éc.

1113

Wrought Lron shanty Cook Stoves

The Best Article ever offered to the Trade.

iS THE RICHT HOUSE FOR

CLOTHING

No Shoddy Cloths used. All Goods Manufactured on the Premises.
parrEVERY GARMENT WARRANTED.-@a
Men’s Flannel Shirts and Durable Underelothing.

ORDERS SENT WITH MONEY PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

R. WALKER & SONS, 88-37, King & Colborne Sts., Toronto

I have much pleasure in drawing attention tomy WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
Iron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 x 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with two ovens, each 16
x 24x 26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do.

Will soon pay

and the most improved Saw

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PETERBOROUGH, May 3], 1880.

ApAM Hath, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stoye 1 haye ever
used. You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.

Yours truly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

ey like 2-66 inch Brooke

any large Mill.

AUTOMATIC GANG TRIMMERS, SIX SAW EDGERS,

The Stove for Lumbermen,

THE HOE BIT SAW.
| FLANGE TOOTH SAWS.

PETERBOROUGH, June Ist, 1880.

ApAm TIIALL, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find
it is very satisfactory for lumber operations, especially so on drives. We can recommend it highly.
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

Cuts Shingles out of slabs and all manner of refuse.

., Arnprior, as to he

18 per minute ; cut

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.
PrTeRBOROUGH, June 3rd, 1880.

A. HAL, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
Stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO. HILLIARD, M.P_

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties supplied at the Lowest Prices. 1

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

for itself arounc

With Interchangeable Trenton Teeth.
BROWN’S PATENT SPALT MACHINE

FOR SAWDUST CARRIERS, LIVE ROLLS, TRIMMERS and REFUSE CARRIERS.

(THE BROOKE BITT SAW, |

Mill Machinery. PORTABLE SAW MILLS OUR SPECIALTY,

Address, WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., Brantford, Canada,

Or
EWARLIYS PATHNT DRIVE CHAIN

SS OE Seek ete

HEADQUARTERS FOR INSERTED TOOTH SAWS!

Cuts three perfect Shingles out of inch board.

1110

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ST TST Tas

Flour Making by | the New Process Northey s Steam Pump Works

GRAY’S PATENT

NOWSELESS AULDER MULL

A Model of Pevecton /

Every Mill a Success !\.

Smooth tron or Porcelain ROLLS.

‘SOJVIS POPTU 94} JO STOTT
SAUVINISIAGSY I) [[@ AQ PIS BAI STL LoTOy osoyyea

CORRUGATIONS of all Descriptions.

The Machine is Perfect in all its Sen and RUNS
WITHOUT NOISE.

It is doing Better Work ikdn any other Machine in use.

Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.

Driven entirely by BELTS.

Differential Speed always insured.

WEYMAN’S ied IMPROVED PATENT

WwW \

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Porcelain
—
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The BEST ROLL FOR MIDDLINGS in the world, Over 6000
in use in this country and Europe. Send for particulars.

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

MONTREAL.
SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.

Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING

MINING PUMPS,
PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for

BOILER FEED PUMPS,
AIR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS,

STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES,
WRECKING PUMPS. And CITY WATER WORKS.

No. 47 King William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

SEND HMOkz ne ae

ESTABLISHED 1820.

G E. O R GE BR b S H}
14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,

Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,
Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &c., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR 1,20
“‘Water’s’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s’’ Centrifugal Pumps

ABRAMS & KERR

Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

SPFCIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER

Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting.

1119

Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road,
ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

OAK HALL

Nos. 115, 117, £19, 121, King St. East, Toronto.

We are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada.

We carry a STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to choose from.

We watch the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the
very best goods in Scotch, English and Canadian Tweeds.

We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business

on very SMALL PROFITS.

NOTE THE PRICES.
We give a Good Tweed Suit for.......... $6 00
We give a Good Tweed Pants for.....---- 1 50
We give a Good Overalls for ......--..... . 0 35

LUMBERMEN!

and CONTRACTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL! when you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and ft yourselves out with a

WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper.

Good Suit. Remember the address:-OAK HALL, the Great One Price =

119 House, Toronto, opposite St, Jame’s Cathedral,

F 62 THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

‘STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS, D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association STHAMW BOTLERS.

if HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.

GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.
A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer. 1-13

SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President.
HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres.

6. — =
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The hainer Piano Always Triumphant!
CARRIES OFF THE HONORS OF 1880 AS FOLLOWS:
At Toronto Industrial Exhibition, Ist Prize, Miplomes & Medal for Best Square Piano
At Hamilton Provincial Exhibition - - - Ist Prize and Diploma
At Brantford Southern Fair - - - - - - Ist Prize and Diploma

At Guelph Central Exhibition - - - Ist Prize and Diploma
72 SEND FOR CATALOGUE. -@X

RAINER, SWEETNAM & HAZELTON,

MANUFACTURERS,

GAB ye. UNE Ae ota

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

as NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.
ADAM McoKAY

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

ESTABLISHED 1874.

u s
NORMANS
ACME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE?
A.NoRMen 4guceN 5T.EAST
TORONTO

ESTABLISHED 1874.

Norman's Electro Curative Appliances

RELIEVE AND CURE a

Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price.
A. NORMAN, Esa., WATERVILLE, N. B.

Dear Sir, — Please send me a waist belt. Enclosed find price. Head band I got for my wife

has almost cured her of neuralgia. ours truly, . L. TILLEY.

Numeroits of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy
the attention ofall’sufferers. Circulars free. No charge tor consultation.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto.

'N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best in America, and Electric Batteries always on —— at
reasonable prices,

LUMBERMENS

STATIONERY.

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber

Shanties and Offices at City prices.

And everything necessary to a complete office outfit.

All Printing done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

Book-Binding of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER

"THE

& CO.,

CANADA LU MBERMAN,”
PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 63

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

EMERY ani CORUNDUM WHEELS

These Wheels are | And Specially Adapted
Wire Strengthened For Saw Gumming

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. |
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

1nli

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants.

64 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

M. Covel's Latest Improved Automatic Saw: Sharpener!

Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill } achinery, for all
Sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Doub e “ireulars
for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by ail to be the
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a Orst
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gam-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &e.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

STEAM FEED |

I would also call special attention to my

Heavy Circular Saw Mills

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam
Feed, having put inseveral which are givinz the best of sat-
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880,
Wm. HAMILTON, Esq, Peterborough.

DEAR “IR—I have used your Steam feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Sinee I put it into my
mill, 1 bave not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. I can cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. Iam thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who bas a Circular Saw Mill for
eutting Jong or sbort logs. I consider I have cut more
Jumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumbermapn, Gravenhurst,

W here economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
Th (i = Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large

| i | MI MTT = wll! Ni = ’actories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel
i ) Hi Y justified in saying that ourStyle, Workmanship and Finish
| | | i on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
! il
didly. Yours, &c,, SUN
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

WELLL A RE ETA RAIL TON,

I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power
hi hi RbOnOwGea. Ona

ToRONTO, August 11th, 1880,
Wm. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.
DEAR SIR—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen-

per hour, lutf

KMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw- mills in the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $1 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was s0 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled,

Tne principal sizes are:

ioe
10x} ) 12x;
8x ‘ x
8x8 \ fin, hole, 10x¢ ( ? in. hole. =) § Jand Linch
8x} 10x8 j 12x}
12x¢

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer is that you don’t wanta file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale,

A QUHSTLON OF VG aazee

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almost every use an
«‘ Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved On wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities co match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us Know what it is, and we can send you @ Tanite Wheel of similar quatity. Our regular
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world. Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels usedare “Class 2.
1t cuts fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the ‘‘ Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both jiner in grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

IMustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 1s

The Tanite Co, Stroudsburg, Wonroe Co. Pennsylvania

CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED.

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., MARCH 1, 1882.

NO.

LUMBER LOGIC.

The United States census bureau having set

at rest with its reports of the amount of standing

imber the fears of a pine famine which have
been excited of late by ill-advised calculations,
the trade may settle down to a practical con-
sideration of the situation and calmly determine
at what rate of consumption the best results
may be secured from their investments. We
have, occasionally, in a facetious way, expressed
the right of the present generation to cut and
slash away at the forests while they could, as
the only means of securing the greatest return
for their investments, well knowing that would
be the course pursued, whatever advice may be
given. At the same time we have always be-
lieved and tried to teach that the utmost econo-
my in the use of the timber should prevail. It
is a fact, more readily recognized by others than
by themselves, that the American people are
careless and extravagant in the use of timber.
Knowing that, although there is yet standing in
the forests of this country a vast amount of
timber, there is none too much, and that the
fature welfare of mankind on this continent de-
pends greatly upon the amount of desirable
timber this generation shall be able to leave,
and the amount of new growth that shall be
started, an intelligent and practical system of
forestry should be inaugurated by the state and
national governments, while at the same time
a more economical and considerate use of the
product of the forests is entered upon by the

eople themselves, and tree culture is encouraged
and pursued.

‘What of the winter,” is a question started
by the reports which come in from nearly all
quarters. To the extent that snow and ice are
relied on to facilitate the movement of logs, it
may be said that the conclusions are not very
favorable for a large stock of logs. The general
testimony of those in the woods is, that the crop
of logs banked this winter will fall a good way
below the crop of last winter in quantity. The
lumber producing regions which have been
blessed with snow and ice are an exception, and
the logs banked have been got tothe grounds by
real hard tugging. The consequence is, that
the cost has been increased to a considerable
extent. Advices from Wisconsin are to the
effect that the indications are decidedly unfavor-
able for a full cut of logs, and the same can with
certainty be said in Michigan.

As to the markets, it may be said that the
firmness which marked the closing weeks of the
season of 1881 has been projected into the new
year, and from every direction favorable reports
are received. The eastern markets are steady
and the movement of timber and lumber is de-
cidedly active. In Chicago, too, a good deal of
stability is felt, and the Lumbermen’s Exchange
has decided to allow the January list to stand
for February, with the exception of advancing

common boards fifty cents to one dollar per
thousand. The prospects of the log crop excited
a good deal of attention, and a divided opinion
prevailed. On the Saginaw River there is no
special change to note, but prices remain firm

and transactions active.—Lumberman’s Gazette.
—————

OUR FORESTS.

These, with our mines, are the chief, indeed
the only, sources which we have to rely upon
for an increase of Provincial revenue. It is
therefore a matter of great importance that they
should be carefully looked after with a view to
their protection and development.

By “looking after,” in the case of our forests,
we mean by the active out door supervision of
some competent man, who should be able to
point out the different kinds of land, namely,
that which is fit and proper for settlement pur-
poses and that which should be reserved for the
uses of the lumberman alone.

It seems to be very generally conceded by:

those best qualified to judge, that a vast amount
of damage has been done to the public demesne
by forest fires started by settlers in clearings
made in or in the neighbourhood of spruce or
pine lands, and it is in land of that character
that fires have proved to be the most destructive.
We have talked with a person well conversant
with our timber lands, and he informs us that
many, very many, of our settlements which
have had much public money spent on the roads
and bridges leading to them would have been
to-day of much more value and the settlers
themselves would in all probability have been
in better circumstances if no attempt had ever
been made to clear an acre of lands in them.

In order to determine the character of land
for settlement purposes, a considerable amount
of knowledge is requisite, and it is certainly un-
wise for the Province to spend money as it does
yearly in opening up roads for the purpose of
bringing in settlers to burn up and destroy its
very best property, while these very settlers
themselves are injured by the act of placing
them upon poor lands. There must be certainly
yet a sufficient quantity of good land in the
Province upon which we can place intending
settlers. The present system of settlement
without proper supervision, our informant tells
us, costs the Province yearly many thousands of
dollars which, he says, might just as well be
saved to the country.

Another matter in connection with our forests
also demands attention—it is the rewooding and
protection of burnt districts which are growing
up in young timber. Although nothing can
perhaps be done in this matter at present, it is
well that, looking to the future, we should begin
to collect information about the growth of
young woods, and ascertain the length of time
which they require to attain a size which will
render them of marketable value, and also as

to how these growing woods can best be protect-
ed from the destructive effects of forest fires,

either by leasing at low rates to individuals who |

shall be bound to protect them under certain
penalties, or by some other methods which in-
vestigation may prove to be most necessary and
proper.

We daily hear of manufactories being started |

for the preparation of pulp from small woods,
for the making of spools, etc. It is well that
the public should be kept accurately informed
as to where these small woods can be found
sufficiently near the sea or railroad to be made
use of. This information might be embodied in
a yearly report, which being circulated abroad
would offer a ready means of acquiring know-
ledge to such as may be desirous of obtaining in-
formation about our woods.—St. John, WV. B.,
Sun.

CAN IT BE ACCOMPLISHED ?

The reproduction of the timber which is being
consumed in this country and in Europe is a
subject which is engrossing the attention of not
only the statesmen, but the press of the United
States, and in fact the whole world. The sub-
ject is fraught with momentuous consequences,
not only to the people of the present day, but
to the generations which shall succeed us. It
is a very knotty problem, however, the satisfac-
tory solution of which has not yet been accom-
plished. Many suggestions have been presented,
which may be considered good, bad and indiffer-
ent. Conventions have been called and meetings
held to take into consideration this important
question and endeavor to devise some remedy
for the evil which is presenting itself with so
much force—the rapid destruction of our forests.
Not only is this destruction being accomplished
by the removal of the timber which is utilized
for the requirements of the people, but the
forest fires are also aiding in the work. If the
loss of timber were the only loss in this direc-
tion it would be less serious, but it affects the
climate, agriculture, rainfall and much else, as
has been amply demonstrated, not only theoreti-
cally and scientifically, but practically. But
the important question is not the destruction of
timber, but its reproduction. Of course much
can be accomplished in adopting measures to
prevent its destruction, either wantonly or by
the numerous forest fires by which it has been
devastated heretofore ; but its reproduction is a
vast and gigantic undertaking, from which
those engaged cannot hope or expect to receive
any benefit, and their reward lies solely in the
satisfaction and knowledge that by their efforts
provision has been made for the prospective
wants of future generations. This reproductive
work is not to be accomplished in a day or a
year ; but it takes nearly a century to producea
forest ; and hence the difficulty surrounding the
question. Suggestions have been as numerous
as blackberries,{but many of them have been

/on the part of the people, the state and

fallacious and not susceptible of accomplish-
ment. Bonuses have been suggeste
shape of remittances of taxes for tree

which is a good idea so far as it goes ; buti
require some systematized endeavor and action

nation, for the accomplishment of so vast az
undertaking as even to reproduce tl

consumption of timber by the ac ads
of the mechanical requirements of the age. If
some of the conventions which have been called,

therefore, shall succeed in the develoy
some plan which shall be productive of
great and grand results, an inestimable boon
will have been conferred on future generations
which is almost beyond the scope of comprehen-
sion. ‘The task seems almost a hopeless one
however, because of the disposition evinced on
the part of the people to take advantage of
present chances and allow the future to take
care of itself. United action, however, and the
concentrated thought of the writers and states-
men of the country whose attention is being
brought to the consideration of this momentous
and important subject may yet succeed in de-
vising some method which shall result in the
accomplishment of the object sought ; but like
all subjects which is completely void of selfish
considerations, it is likely to be a movement of
slow growth.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

such

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MAMMOTH BELTING.

We were yesterday shown some mammoth
leather belting which is being manufactured by
Messrs. Robin & Sadler, 594, 596 and 598 St.
Joseph street, for the Stormont Cotton Com-
pany, the Quebec Lumber Company and Messrs.
A. W. Ogilvie & Co., of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The order from the Stormont Cotton Company
amounts to about $7,000, and includes a 36-inch
double driving belt, 143 feet in length, and
weighing about 1,000 pounds, and two 24-inch
driving belts, 151 feet in length, which are in-
tended to run side by side on a 50-inch pulley,
besides 18, 15 and 12-inch and a large number of
smaller belts.

The order from Messrs. A. W.
Ogilvie & Co., is for their new mill in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, and is for nearly $5,000 worth of
belting. The order includes a 36 inch double
driving belt, 112 feet in length, a 24-inch double
driving belt over 100 feet long, and a large num-
ber of smaller ones, both single and double.
The belts that are being manufactured for the
Qtiebec Lumber Company, Etchemin, Que.,
include a very fine 28-inch double driving belé
for the main driving wheel of the Company's
saw mill, Six of the largest of these belts were
weighed, when it was found that they were
nearly two tons in weight. The general appear-
ance of the workmanship of these belts reflects
the greatest credit on the firm, who are doing a
large and thriving business in leather belting.—
Montreal Herald,

66

ee

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

RIVER IMPROVEMENTS.

A Bill has been introduced in the Ontario

Legislature by Mr. Boulter to authorize Messrs.

Gilmour & Co, to make certain improvements
in the River Moira, to enable them to bring

saw logs to their mills at Trenton. It is as fol-

lows :—
1. “The said Gilmour & Company shall, in

the said River Moira, where it passes through
the said townships and lands above in the pre-
amble to this Act mentioned, have the right
and full power to erect and maintain piers,
dams and works such as may be requisite to
enable them and all others using the said river
for the navigation of saw logs, timber and other
material, to float the said logs and material
down the said river: Provided always that each
of the said dams respectively shal] be provided
with a slide and the appliances now required by
law in the case of mill dams on streams used
for the purpose of floating down logs and tim-
ber.”

2. ‘Provides for detailed plans and specifica
tions, and for the consent of the municipalities.

3. Provides for filing the plans with the Com-
missioner of Public Works and advertising, one
month after which the works may be proceeded
with.

4, Gives power to make surveys.

5, ‘For all lands flooded or injured by reason:

of the said dams or works and which have been
patented or agreed to be sold by the Crown, the
said Gilmour & Company, their heirs or their
assigns, shall, to the owners, tenants and lawful
occupiers thereof, make compensation for the
injury, if any, done to said lands, such compen-
sation to be ascertained as hereinafter provided;
but in cases wh€re the patents hereafter to be
issued by the Crown provide that no compensa-
tion shall be made for such injury, the patentee
shall have no claim on said parties owning said
dams and works, or any of them, their heirs or
assigns.”

6. Provides that there shall be no compensa-
tion as to lands now vested in the Crown.

7, 8. 9. 10. Provides for arbitration for com-
pensation for damages to land owners, etc.

11. ‘‘ No such dams or works shall be main-
tained, and no powers hereby given shall be
exercised, in such a manner as to injure any
millowner or manufacturer in respect of any
mill or manufactory lawfully existing either be-
low or above any such dam, and using the said
river as a water power: Provided, however,
that all statutory rights, if any, acquired under
the Statute of Limitations or otherwise against
any such manufacturer or millowner to use the
said river shall not be prejudiced, interfered
with, or taken away by anything in this Act
contained : Provided always that any powers or
rights conferred by this Act shall be subject to
and not interfere with the powers vested in the
Commissioner of Public Works, under chapter
thirty of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, and
shall also be subject to sections nine, ten, eleven
and twelve, of chapter one hundred and thirteen
of the said revised Statutes of Ontario: Provid-
ed, moreover, that the Lieutenant-Governor in
Council may, whenever it is deemed expedient
iu the public interest, cause said dams or any of
them to be taken down and removed.”

12, ‘‘ Any person or persons floating logs or
timber or such like material down the said river,
and usii g the said works, or any of them, shall
pay a reasonable sum or compensation for such
use ; a schedule of charges for such use shall be
prepared and submitted to the Lieutenant
Governor in Council, and shall be subject to his
approval, and upon the same being approved the
said Gilmour & Company, cv their assigns, may
charge and collect the said tolls or fees for the
use of the said works.”

13. ‘‘It shall be lawful for the said Gilmour
& Company to alter, increase or decrease the
said charges, but no such increase or change
shall be made until the approval of the Lieuten-
ant-Governor in Council has been obtained
thereto.”

P, JEWELL & SONS’ BELT FACTORY,
One of the three largest belt-making firms in
the world, and perhaps the largest of all, is that
of P. Jewell & Sons, on Trumbull street. The
daily production of belting is about three miles,
and a reckoning up of the orders on the books
within a few days showed that the concern,

although running day and night, was still
seventy-three miles and 1,910 feet behind its
orders. Three orders aggregated thirty miles.
There are belts large and small, and some of the
most important do not get their value chiefly
from their length. For instance, there were a

few days ago on the floor of the factory the fol.

lowing large belts, either complete or in course
of construction :—A 48-inch belt 100 feet long
is among the widest belts ever made without
lapping two hides to secure the necessary width,
Four 36-inch belts each of 100 feet, and one 24-
inch of 110 feet, make part of a single order.
One 36-inch of 100 feet, one 24-inch of 100 feet,
and two 24-inch of 200 feet are included in an-
other order. Another 36-inch of 100 feet is for
Hubbard, Bakewell & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa.
There is a 30-inch of 110 feet for use in a Proyi-
dence cotton mill, and another of the same width
and 100 feet long, laced instead of riveted, for
a cotton millin Maine. One of the largest belts
ever shipped is a 28-inch 275 feet long, for
Walter A. Wood, Hoosic Falls, N.Y., the
maker of the Woods reapers and binders. The
weight is over 1,500 pounds. <A 24-inch laced
belt of 100 feet is for the American Zylonite
Company at North Adams, Mass. All the
above belts are double thickness. An immense
quantity of smaller belts are turned out con-
stantly. All, large and small, are made from
hides tanned by the Company at their tanneries
in Michigan. Various machines are used to
facilitate and improve the manufacture.—Hart-
ford Post.

THE ENGLISH TRADE.

Messrs. Robert Coltart & Co.’s annyél wood
circular, dated Liverpool, Jan. 31, 188F, says :—

Business in the wood trade at the commence-
ment of the past year was in an unsatisfactory
state, as stocks for several months had been
accumulating, while the consumptive demand
continued on a limited scale, and prices continu-
ed to droop until the month of July. Much of
the depression was, no doubt, attributable to
the extreme severity of the weather during that
period, which interfered with out-door work and
building operations, and*thus had the effect of
curtailing the consumption, but the trade was
also still suffermg, to some extent, from the
natural reaction which followed the buoyancy
and speculative excitement at the commence-
ment of the previous year. In the summer of
1881, however, a better tone was observable in
the trade, which was still further developed
during the succeeding months, the import being
on a moderate scale, and prices consequently
more than recovered the fall that had occurred
during the early part of the year, while for
some articles, notably Quebec goods, much
better prices were obtainable. A further im-
provement would, no doubt, have been estab-
lished but for the deficient harvest and the con-
tinued depression in the agricultural districts.

The import during the past year was 21 per
cent. less than in 1880, while the consumption
shows an increase of about 3 per cent., which
although only a moderate increase, still follows
an increase of 15 per cent. on that of 1879.
Present stocks, which are very moderate, are
35 per cent. less than those held at the same
time last year, and 35 per cent. less than the
average of the five preceding years. It may
be noted that in consequence of the unusually
open weather which has so far prevailed in
Europe and America this winter, it will be
difficult, in the absence of sufficient snow, to get
down the usual supplies of logs to the shipping
ports. therefore, the wood goods available for
shipment during the spring will probably be
much curtailed, while the very mild weather in
this country will also tend, by favoring out-door
work, to increase the consumption of wood as
compared with the early part of the past year ;
but, on the other hand, it should be borne in
mind that the introduction of steamers in the
wood-carrying trade, which is increasing every
year, will, if such supplies are obtainable,
speedily remedy any falling off that may take
place in the stock of any particular kind of
wood.

There has been very little variation in wood
freights during the past year, and on the whole
they have been very favorable to importers,
from the Baltic as well as from the United
States and Canadian ports,

The general trade of the country is at present
in a sound condition, and the prospect for the
current year is very hopeful. The present
statistics of the wood trade, to which we have
already made reference, also point to a very
satisfactory business during the coming year,
provided production is not unduly stimulated
and all chance of a remunerative business de-
stroyed by an over-supply.

The following is a statement of the cargoes of
timber imported from British America, the
pitch pine ports, anid the Baltic for the last
fifteen years :—

British AMERICA. Pitch Ping.

Year ending the| —

import season of| Vessels) Tonnage. |\Estimated Ton.
1867... 371 307,387 27,113
1868 .. 832 288,007 37,266
1869. 317 259,598 36,488
1870. 340 266,753 41,765
1871. 303 262,725 47,239
1872... 337 272,809 66,055
1878 .... 430 327,396 56,997
1874.. 468 367,377 85,260
1875 418 307,134 74,196
1876 621 394,907 69,369
1877 468 391,952 80,006
IOVS igs) lennictas 359 269,343 665
1870'S eecatene 296 229,334 41,044
SABO ase as see 424 332,375 58,972
TES) rsiwinle bon ciee 318 242,169 69,834 -

FOREST TREE CULTURE.

The following letter appears in the Winnipeg
Times of Feb. 13 :—

Sir,—The necessity and practicability of
clothing at least a portion of our treeless prairies
with plantations of timber has been so fully de-
monstrated that any discussion of the subject
in abstract or general terms would be a waste of
time.

To break the force of the cruel prairies winds ;
to check destructive fires ; to provide a supply
of fuel and fencing timber for the future, and to
adorn our magnificent country, we must plant
trees, and do so on a large scale. The question
is, how ?

The bonus formerly offered by Government
in the shape of tree claims has been discontinued,
a tacit acknowledgement of the failure of that
plan. Many attempts have been made to pro-
mote tree planting by individual effort, but
these again have failed, because few pioneer
settlers have either time or means to spare from
their more pressing needs. Such efforts would
at best be feeble and isolated, while the work
requires a vigorous and general movement em-
bracing large areas.

Government aid having been withdrawn, and
private enterprise having proved wholly inade-
quate, municipal authority may now be fairly
invoked to deal with the matter.

County Councils have an ownership express
or implied in road allowances. They can pre-
serve, cut down or sell any timber growing
thereon ; and to this power in the County Coun-
cils, coupled with the fact that our road allow-
ances comprise so large an area of land, we
must look for a solution of the tree-planting
problem.

Starting, then, with the assumption that local
municipalities are the best qualified bodies to
deal with such an undertaking, and that the
road allowances on open prairies furnish the
best field on which to operate, I throw out the
following suggestions, believing that they indi-
cate a basis on which a satisfactory scheme can
be perfected.

Of the 99 feet road allowance plow 33 feet on
either side, and 164 feet in the middle, leaving
two strips of unbroken sod 8 feet 3 inches wide,
equidistant from the middle, for temporary
travel pending the completion of the roadway
proper. Backset in the fall, and then, leaving a
fire break five feet wide outside, sow or plant
with tree seeds or cuttings the remainder of the
two outside 33 feet spaces. In reploughing the
middle or 164 feet strip, it should be turned in-
wards in order that repeated ploughing may
throw it up to a proper curve for a roadway.

The cost of the ploughing, backsetting and
seeding would be about $120 per mile, or ina
township of bare prairie containing 72 miles of
road allowance, say $8,000, An average town-
ship, however, would not require more than half
the road allowance to be improved, there being
sloughs, ravines, etc., to prevent it. There-
fore, the roads of a county containing twelve
townships would probably cost fifty thousand
dollars, the interest on which, at 6 per cent.,

would constitute an annual charge upon the land
of one cent and one-tenth of, a cent per acre,
viz., $1.80 per } section.

The ways and means could be provided either
by a special levy on all the land, graduated ac-
cording to the proportion of broken land in the ©
district, or the work could be done on the local
option principal, on a petition signed by a
majority of the owners of property to be imme-
diately benefitted ; and the cost charged as a
special rate oyer and above all other rates
against that property.

After the seventh year, however, the improve-
ment should be self-sustaining, as the right to
thin out the young timber would let for a suff-
cient sum to pay interest on the outlay.

From the completion of the first ploughing,
destructive prairie fires would be a thing of the
past. From the same date, no man in his senses
could lose himself on the prairie, therefore
would be rendered safe at any season of the
year, and at any hour of the day or night. An
ample supply of timber for farm purposes would
be assured, and for all time. Gradually the
growth of timber would mitigate the keen blasts
of winter, inducing other climatic changes of a
beneficial character. And lastly, by enclosing
each square mile of prairie with those gigantic
hedgerows our country would be beautiful be-

yond description.
Yours truly,

James Lane.
Langvale, January, 1882.

‘

A Canapian Frenchman named Procule

Cadieux, was killed at John Dudgeon’s camp,

Alcona county, by the butt of a tree which he

was chopping, falling on him and crushing and
mangling him in a terrible manner.

THE St. John, N.B., Freeman says that there
were shipped from the port ef St. John, for
trans-Atlantic ports, during the month of Janu-
ary, 1832, 6,177,225 sup. ft. of deals, battens
and ends ; 84,748 sup. ft. of scantling and boards;
33,000 pkgs. of palings ; 524 tons of pine timber,
and 353 tons of birch timber. The lumber was
shipped in 10 vessels of 8,699 tons.

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as a safe, sure, simple and cheap External
Remedy. A trial entails but the rary oo
trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one
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MANUFACTURERS OF PURE BARK TANNED

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Street, Toronto

RAILROAD TREE PLANTING.

The Railway Review states that the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, a year or more ago,
decided upon a policy of fostering tree culture,
and appointed Leonard Hodges to take charge
of the matter. The latter, with General Mana-
ger Haupt, recently passed over the entire line
investigating the needs of the sections through
which it passed for increased areas of woods.
As a result it is decided to prepare the ground
this spring for an extensive system of tree plant-
ing, soon to follow, along the Missouri and Da-
kota divisions. Primarily a row of trees will
be planted along the line some 100 feet from
the track. Inside of that will be planted yellow
cottonwood, which matures in about six y ears,
and which is intended for ties. There will also
be planting of numerous other varieties to
furnish timber for construction purposes and
fuel. Not only does the Company intend thus
to obtain an abundance of timber and fuel, but
it will have in a short time the very best kind
of a snow fence, and, moreover, its lands will
acquire a new value to settlers.

THE recent gales made sad havoc in Scotland.
On Lord Breadalbane’s Perthshire estates some
12,000 trees have been blown down in a circuit
of a few miles, and on the Dunse Castle proper-
ty in Berwickshire, it is estimated that 50,00
have fallen. Some of the oldest and finest trees
at Glamis Castle were uprooted, and timber to
the value of nearly £100,000 was floating about
in the Firth of Clyde.

THE Chippewa Herald says that E. H. Ever-
ett, who is logging on Dry Wood, is stealing a
march on the weather. He has divided his
men up into two crews, one crew skids the logs,
and snow the roads during the afternoon and
evening, and the other commences hauling at
midnight, and works until next noon. This
iay seem like logging under difficulties, but Mr,
E. says he is doing good work, and is satisfied if
the nights only remain cold.

OLEINE

(Hypratep Ou.)
An artificially digested
Cod Liver Oil.

For Consumption,
Winter Cough, Af-
fections of the Chest
and all Wasting Di-
seases.

Prescribed by the
leading physiciansof
England, the United
States and the Do-
minion of Canada.

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A WONDERFUL FACT.
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perfectly with water,
showing a complete arti-
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and just as the Hypro-
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water, so does it mix with the liquid contents of the
stomach, and enters immediately into the systemto
nourish and byuilditup, The efficacy of HypRoLEINE
is NOT CoMPINED to cases of Consumption, as fromits
valuable tonic effect on the nervous system in addi-
tion to its special stimulating action on the organs
concerned in the production of Fat in the body, it
causes marked increasein weight in persons of naturally
thin halit, who do not present any evidenceo f disease.
Unlike ordinary preparations of Cod Liver Oil, it
Produces no unpleasant eructation or sense of nausea,
and should be taken in such very much smaller doses,
according to the directions, as will ensure its complete
la j this, at the same time, renders its use
ccommmical in the highest degree.

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CASTINGS of every deseription in Brass
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All sorts of MACHINERY for Saw and Grist
Mills.

STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.

Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset
Swages, and all Saw Tools,

Send for Price List, L4

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MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

STATIONARY,
MARINE, and
LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS,
And SHEET IRON WORK.

Portable Boilers for Threshing Machines, Shingle
Mills, etc., furnished on short notice. All Boilers
tested by cold Water pressure to 150 lbs. to the square
inch before leaving the shop,

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BOUGHT, SOLD, OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR
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BRANCH SHOP,

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Burdock Healing Gintment should be
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curing Ulcers, Abscesxes, Fevers, Sores, &c. Price

MILBURN & CO.,
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25 cents + 1 box él

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Mack’s Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
at 50 cts, per box, or 12 for $5, or will be mailed

free of postage, on receipt of the money, by addressing
MACK’S MAGNETIC MEDICINE CO., Windsor, Ont.

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68

FORESTRY AND ARBORICULTURE,

The following essay by A. Eby, M.B., Sebring-
ville, Ont., appears in the report for 1881 of the
Agricultural and Arts Association, of Ontario,
and was highly commended by that body :—

It was lately asserted that in thirty years
from the present time the natural forests of this
continent would be exhausted, and that we
should be compelled to draw on Europe for our
supplies of building material. It it probable
that this assertion is a pessimist view of the
resources of this continent, yet it is an unde-
niable fact that the destruction of our forests
goes on far too rapidly for the future welfare of
our people.

Until a very recent period forests were con-
sidered an encumbrance rather than a source of
wealth in most parts, not only of this Province,
but of this continent. On account of its abun-
dance, and the want of facilities for bringing it
into the market, much valuable timber was de-
stroyed, or at best burned, for the potash it con-
tained, within the lifetime of the present genera-
tion. It is but a few years since our timber has
become valuable, and in the lifetime of many it
will yet become precious.

Even should steps be at once taken for the
restoration of our forests, our natural wood, and
consequently our home supply of timber, will
long be exhausted before we can hope to have a
supply of our own growth. ‘The time is not far
distant when we shall have to draw our supply
of building material from Europe instead of
sending it there ourselves, as is now the case.
The European nations, having long since turned
their attention to forest culture, will have abun-
dant supplies of valuable timbers when our own
will be completely exhausted. While Europe is
husbanding and restoring its supplies of timber,
we on this continent are putting forth all our
power to wipe all forests from the face of it.
This is more especially the case in this Province,
in which we have no mountain lands inaccessible
tothe plough. ‘Though arid, sandy districts,
too sterile for profitable cultivation, are not un-
common, yet, with few exceptions, they can all
be tilled, and are consequently cleared and
settled ; whereas, had we had mountainous
regions, unfit for cultivation, it is likely they
would have remained unsettled in the hands of
the Government, and could at once be utilized
for growing forests, even if the natural timber
had been removed.

It is well known that forests exercise an im-
portant influence on the climate. Forests re-
tain much more moisture than cleared lands,
and it is well known that moisture in the soil
attracts rain much quicker than parched lands.
It has also been observed that thunder-showers
are apt to follow streams and watercourses.

It is also a well established fact that the more
a country becomes cleared up and denuded of
‘its forests, the more subject it becomes to long-
continued drouths and violent storms. It is
well known that districts of Europe once de-
nuded of forest, but in which they have been
restored, support a far larger population now
than when denuded of trees. When the well-
known Black Forest Mountains of Germany
were derobed of their abundant growth of trees,
it was found that streams arising in them, that
were formerly navigable, gradually dwindled
down to shallow brooks; whereas, since the
restoration of the woods on those mountains,
the streams have also again increased in size.

Spain at one time supported a population of
thirty millions, but now that its mountains
have been shorn of their forest coverings, ¢ can
barely support half that number.

It was well known that it never rained in
Egypt. For centuries rain was unknown in
that country, but since the Government has
gone extensively into tree-growing, copious
showers are by no means uncommon.

Mr. George P. Marsh says :—‘‘ There are
parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of
Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where
causes set in action by man have brought the
surface of the earth to a desolation as complete
as that of the moon, and yet they are known to
have once been covered witna luxuriant woods,
verdant pastures and fertile meadows; and a
dense population formerly inhabited those now
lonely districts.”

““Hummel attributes the desolation of the
Karst, the high plateau lying north of Trieste—

THE CANADA

until recently one of the most parched and
barren districts of Lurope—to the felling of its
wood centuries ago to build the navies of Ven-
ice.”—Worthrop. :

Dr. Piper, in Drees of America, says :—‘‘ Near
my residence (Woburn, Massachusett) there is
a pond upon which mills have been standing
since the early settlement of the town. ‘These
have been in constant operation until within
thirty years, when the supply of water began to
fail. The pond owes its existence to a stream
which has its source in the hills stretching some
miles to the south. Within the time mentioned
these hills, which were formerly clothed with a
dense forest, have been stripped of trees, and,
what was never known before, the stream itself
has been entirely dry. Within the last ten
years a new growth of wood has sprung up on
the land formerly occupied by the old forest,
and now the water runs throughout the year.”

‘Our summers are becoming dryer and our
streams smaller. Take the Cuyahoga as an
illustration. Fifty years ago barges loaded
with goods went up and down that river. Now,
in an ordinary stage of water, a canoe or skiff
can hardly pass down the stream. And from
the same cause—the destruction of our forests—
other streams are drying up in summer.”— Wm.
Cullen Bryant.

Northrop says :—‘‘ Almost every work on
forestry abounds in evidence that extensive
forest denudation has everywhere diminished
the flow of springs. The case of the famous
springs in the Island of Ascension is often cited,
which dried up when the adjacent mountain
was cleared, but reappeared a few years after
the wood was replanted. Several lakes in
Switzerland showed a depression of their level
after a general devastation of forests.”

Siemoni says:—In a rocky nook in the
Tuscan Apennines there flowed a perennial
stream from three adjacent springs. On the
disappearance of the woods around and aboy
the springs, the stream ceased, except in rainy
weather, but when a new growth of wood again
shaded the soil, the spring began to flow.”

Marchand says:—‘!The river that, from
time immemorial, furnished ample water power
for the factory at St. Ursanne, dwindled down
so much when the surrounding woods were cut
away that the factory was obliged to stop alto-
gether.”

Captain Campbell Walker, who was long em-
ployed in the forest service in India, says :—
“He observed the drying up of springs and
decrease of the average amount of water in some
of the mountain forests of India, in which ex-
tensive clearing had taken place, and that such
clearing had unquestionably lessened the regular
supply for springs and permanent flow in the
streams and rivers.”

Foresters of note, like Captain Walker and
Dr. J. C. Brown, claim that the recent famine
in India was due to the extensive and reckless
destruction of the forests of that country by the
East India Company, thus lessening the supply
of water from the springs, the former source of
supply for artificial irrigation. The English
Government is now actively engaged in re-
storing the forests on the mountains of that
country.

Since the settlement of Utah by the Mormons,
who engaged extensively in tree-planting, Salt
Lake, instead of becoming shallower by evapor
ation year by year, as was the case before the
settlement of that territory, has actually risen
ten feet in the last twenty years, from the in-
creased amount of water received through the
streams supplying it. This increased size of the
streams is said to be due rather to a decrease of
evaporation, on account of the large groves now
covering that country, than to an increase of the
rainfall,

It is a well known fact that many water-
powers in the older settled counties of this
Province, that were considered valuable even
thirty years ago, are now that the country is fully
cleared up, almost worthless, being available
only for two or three months during the spring
freshets.

It is not proved that the total rainfall of a
country is lessened by denuding it of its forests,
‘but in a well-wooded country there is a more
eauernl distribution of the deposition of moisture
|thronghout the year. Observations in France
haye aatabliahed that the rainfall in the forests

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is six per cent. more during the year than in the
open country ; that ten per cent. of the total
rainfall in the forests is caught up by the leaves
and reaches the earth but very gradually, if at
all, and that the evaporation in the open fields
is five times greater than in the forests.

That forests exercise an important influence
on the climate and the permanent water supply,
is the almost unanimous opinion of the foresters
of Europe. This opinion is not only sustained
by theory, but is in accordance with observa-
tions made in different countries and by different
observers.

“These investigations show that the general
destruction of forests has rendered the climate
dryer, more changeable and trying, and that
forests, on the one hand, tend to lower the
general temperature of a country and promote
the fall of rain at more regular intervals, and,
on the other hand, they ward off sudden me-
teorological changes which result in heavy falls
of rain and disastrous floods,”—Worthrop.

Mr. Marsh says :—‘ One important conclu-
sion, at least, is certain and undisputed, that
within their own limits and near their borders
forests maintain a more uniform degree of hu-
midity in the atmosphere than is observed in
the cleared grounds.” Speaking of this conti-
nent, he says:—‘‘ With the disappearance of
the forests all is changed. At one season the
earth parts with its warmth by radiation to an
open sky, and at another receives heat from the
unobstructed rays of the sun ; hence the climate
becomes excessive, and the soil is alternately
parched by the fervor of summer and seared by
the rigours of winter.”

Commissioners appointed by several learned
societies of Europe to investigate this subject
reported that ‘‘ Forests exercise a beneficial in-
fluence which can hardly be estimated too
highly, in an increased humidity of the air, a
reduction of the extremes of temperature, a
diminution of evaporation, and a more regular
distribution of the rainfall, while the injurious
effects of their destruction is seen in an alterna-
tion of periods of droughts at one time with
wasting floods at another.”

Northrop says:—‘‘ The forests serve as store
houses of moisture, both from their leafy canopy,
which shuts out the sun, and the myriads or
rather millions of leaves covering the soil and
acting like a sponge, soaking up and retaining
the rain and regulating its distribution, while
the roots act as vertical drains, favoring infiltra
tion and promoting the descent of the water
into the lower strata of the earth, there to
nourish the springs.” .

In our own country it has recently been ob-
served that seasons of long-continued droughts
are much more common now than when it was
first settled ; but not only are droughts more
common, but so also are violent storms. Twenty-
five years ago the firing of a building by light-
ning was a rare occurrence, whereas, of late
years such losses are by no means uncommon ;
in fact, I have known such losses to occur with-
in a few miles of each other from the same
storm in this county (Perth). In the neighbor-
ing County of Waterloo such a thing as the firing
of a building by lightning was almost unknown
while the noble pine forests, so common there,
remained intact, but since their destruction such
disasters are as common there as in other coun-
ties.

Dr. Brown, the most voluminous writer on
this subject in the English language, has clearly
proven, from different official documents, that
fearful inundations resulted from the clearing of
the forests on the mountains of France. So
great have been the losses from this source,

that the Government has adopted vigorous

measures for replanting the denuded mountains.

That such should be the case is quite natural.
Forests not only retain moisture longer than
the open country, and thus attract rain from
passing clouds, but the trees act as conductors
of electricié: between the earth and the clouds
or the air. The positive electricity of the clouds
is constantly neutralized by a flow of negative
electricity from the earth. The foliage of the
trees act as so many distributing points, thus
preventing, by gradual neutralization, those
violent discharges with which we are so well
acquainted. The safety to farm buildings from
lightning, when surrounded by tall trees, should
alone induce farmers to surround theiy premises

with so beautiful, yet effective, lightning con-
ductors.

From what is stated above, it must be abun-
dantly evident that forests are a necessity to the
agricultural interests and welfare of a country,
not so much on account of the timber they pro-
duce as on account of their moderating influence

on the climate. But while this is the case in all

countries, it is especially the case in one so level
as Southern Ontario. Most parts of this Pro-
vince are still sufficiently wooded not to feel the
effects of a treeless country, but the time is fast
approaching when the reckless destruction of
our forests will be deplored by our people. A
country subject to the long and severe winters
we have in Canada, needs the shelter afforded
by trees against the blasts and storms with
which we all are so well acquainted. The more
a country becomes cleared up, the worse will
the wintry blasts become. Even the frightful
blizzards of the Western States and Manitoba
will reach us at no distant day if the wasteful
destruction of the forests of this Province and
of the adjoining States of Michigan and Wiscon-
sin is permitted to go on unchecked for a few
years longer.

Even now, fall wheat, the great staple of the
Province, has in many sections become an un-
certain crop, on account of the want of proper
shelter during the winter and spring. The
winds sweep uninterrupted over the fields, and
drift the snow from them to the fences and
roads, instead of leaving it as a covering to the
tender plants. On the approach of sun in the
spring, the thin covering of snow is melted off,
and the plants lie exposed to alternate frosts
and thaws. Thus, instead of a larger clearing
giving a larger yield to the farmer, as he expects,
his crops becomes more precarious and uncer-
tain as his clearing increases. This, I believe,
has been the experience of the great majority of
those who settled on a bush farm. The great
majority of our farmers would have larger re-
turns from their farms if they had only three-
fourths, instead of nine-tenths or the whole of
it, cleared and under cultivation. The same
labour put on asmaller acreage would bring a
much larger return.

In order to spread a proper knowledge of so
important a subject as Arboriculture, our Pro-
vincial Government should at once appoint a
Professor of Forestry in the Ontario College of
Agriculture atGuelph. Such a professor should
deliver lectures on this important subject, and
thus awaken onr people from their lethargy to
the importance of providing a supply of timber
for future generations, and leaving them a wealth
far greater than gold—a rich, beautiful, produc-
tive country, instead of a sterile, treeless, un-
productive desert, as this Province will become
if the present destruction of our forests, and the
exhaustive and unscientific system of agricul-

‘tural, now so extensively prevalent, is continued.

It is highly necessary that a knowledge of a
subject of so great importance to the agricultural
interests of the country should be extensively
spread while it is yet time to stop the rapid and
often wasteful destruction of our forests. This
object cannot be better attained than by the
establishment of a Professorship of Forestry in
our Provincial School of Agriculture, where the
leading agriculturalists of the future are receiv-
ing their training.

There are many tracts of land in all parts of
the country totally unfit for cultivation—barren,
sandy, or stoney hills, or low, marshy, boggy
flats, that would make splendid forests. Many
of the former are too barren to preduce even
sheep pasture, while the latter are too wet to
make it safe for cattle to venture intothem. In
fact, neither the one or the other should ever
have been cleared, but should have been retained
as woodlands; as such they would have been
valuable not only for their timber, but for the
influnce they would have had on the climate.
Encouragement should be given to the holders
of such lands to replant them with such forest
trees as promise to be of most value for the
future, or which may be especially adapted for
the soil and climate. This could be done by
exempting such lands from taxation, provided
they are properly planted and attended as
forest lands. But no land should be considered
worthy of exemption on which cattle or sheep
are allowed to pasture and destroy the young
plants as they spring up. Nor should such

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woods be exempted from which the young and
growing trees are cut, while only those that
have reached their maturity, or stunted, ill-
shaped young trees, are allowed to stand ; such
woods do not increase in value from year to
year, as is the case where saplings and small
trees are allowed to grow.

T have seen woodlands from which cattle were
shut out, literally covered by young plants of
one, two, or more years of growth, that had
sprung up from the seeds fallen from the mature
trees. This shows that our forests only need to
be preserved in order to keep them growing ; but
most of our natural forests could be made more
valuable by a little care and attention from an
experienced forester,

The first care in preserving our natural forests
is to protect them against the depredations of
cattle ; it is just as necessary to keep cattle out
of a forest to be preserved as it is to keep them
out of a grain field. Cattle, if allowed to run
in a forest, will cut off and destroy the young
plants that are constantly springing up, and
thus prevent the growth of new trees. No
forest is worth preserving in which there are no

- young and growing trees. Forests must be re-
plenished by young and growing trees, just as
in the human family the place of the old and
decayed is taken by the young and vigorous.

Fire is as dangerous to a forest at certain
zeasons of the year as to a building; a fire
running through a forest may destroy in an
hour the growth of half a century, or even a
longer time. To prevent these bush fires, now
unfortunately so common, we require, besides a
more stringent law on the subject, a more en-
lightened public opinion as to the value of our
forests—not only as sources of supply for tim-
ber, but, what is greater importance, their
moderating influence on the climate. The man
that sets fire to a forest should be punished as
severely as if he had set fire to a building ; the
latter can be restored in a short time by a little
expense, whereas it takes years to restore a
forest.

Old and decayed trees should be removed
from a forest intended for preservation; so
should all stunted and crippled trees, in order
to make room for those that are young and
growing. Care should also be taken that any
yacant space is planted with young trees. In
planting, consideration should always be taken
of future demands. If a forest is intended only
for fuel, such trees should be planted as will
yield the most and best fuel, as the beech,
maple, and oak; but as the future generation
will probably need wood for other purposes than
fuel, it will be wiser to plant such varieties as
will yield valuable timber for other purposes,
while the refuse wood can be used for fuel.
This brings us to the question of the kind of
trees to be planted. .

At the head of the list of native trees for
forest culture I would place the pine. It is
peculiarly adapted for our climate ; it isa hardy,
vigorous grower, and satisfied with the lightest
of soils. The different species of it grow either
on the most arid, sandy soil, or on the moist,
rich soil of our swamps. Pine requires some-

what more care in starting than some other’

trees do, but when they have once taken root
they become hardy, and will thrive on almost
any soil, except, perhaps, a heavy clay. Care
should also be taken in planting to select the
kind most suitable for the soil to be planted.
The white pine found in our swamps will not
grow so well on light, sandy soil as the yellow
and red varieties do ; bat while it is not suited
for uplands, it is the best kind for planting on
the rich, muggy soil of the swamps that are to
be found in all parts of the Province. For up-
lands and sandy soils, the red and yellow, and
especially the Weymouth pine, will be found
the best varieties.

For very light soils, there is probably no tree
equal to the Scotch pine (Pinus Silvestris).
Large numbers of this variety are planted on
Cape Cod, and in other parts of the state of
Massachusetts. While it will grow on almost
any soil, this variety is especially adapted for
the barren drifteands that are found in many
places along our lakes, The seeds of it are
easily obtainable from some reliable seedsman.

Vor general economical purposes there is pro-
bably no timber superior to pine. Asa building
material it has no superior, It is extensively

used in the manufacture of cabinet ware and
household furniture, as also in shipbuilding. Its
rapid growth will make it a valuable timber to
grow for railway ties, for which purpose large
supplies will soon be required, as our natural
forests are rapidly becoming exhausted, and in
a very few years will be inadequate to supply
the immense demands made on them by our
railways.

There is another reason why the pine should
be extensively planted. Its innumerable needle
shaped foliage act as so many points for the
distribution of the negative electricity of the
earth, and the neutralization of the positive
electricity of the atmosphere and clouds, thus
preventing their violent discharge in the form of
a thunder storm. Of all trees there are, per-

haps, none so valuable in this respect as the

pines and firs, to which belongs the European

larch (Larix Communis), presently to be describ-
ed.
pointed, needle-shaped foliage,

The height to which they grow, and their
make them
especially valuable in this respect; and all

isolated dwellings and outhouses would be
much safer by being surrounded by a cordon of
thrifty pines, not to speak of the shelter they
afford against the cold blasts of our long winters,
and their value in an esthetic point of view.
Fuller says :—‘‘ A belt of these surrounding a
farm, or such portions as are occupied by the

buildings, give a cheerful, comfortable appear-

ance, and ‘both: man and beast will live longer
and be more happy under such circumstances,
than when exposed to every gale, and for six
months of the twelve with nothing life-like to
look upon.”
goes into the country to buy a farm, he will sel-
dom call where he sees beautiful trees surround-
ing the house and outbuildings, for he knows
instinctively that such places are not for sale,
for the owner generally thinks more of his home
than of money ; but it is the bleak, uninviting
farms that are usually for sale.”

He goes on to say: ‘“‘ If aman

Perhaps a more valuable tree for many pur-

poses than even the pine, is the European larch,
of which large forests are planted in Scotland
and on the continent of Europe.
tensively planted in some of the Northern States
of the neighbouring Republic.
Southern Europe, but will thrive in colder
climates, even to the limit of perpetual snow.

It is also ex-

It is a native of

It is a trée very similar to our tamarack, but
much more valuable. It grows very rapdly on
almost any dry soil, but will not thrive in
damp grounds, and cannot bear stagnant water.
Its timber is used largely in shipbuilding, and
is very valuable for piles and railway ties. For
deals and planks it is inferior to pine, as it is
very apt to warp. Fuller says :—‘“‘ It will last
for ages when covered with water, or driven in
wet ground. Larch spiles have been
taken up in Europe, where it is positively
known that they were driven more than a thou-
sand years ago, and yet they were sound and
uninjured.” Northrop says :—‘‘ When raised
under right conditions, it combines the two
qualities of rapidity of growth and durability of
wood more than any other tree. Julius
Cxsar spoke strongly of its strength and
durability.” Monville says :—‘‘ In Switzerland
the larch, as the most durable of woods, is pre-
ferred for shingles, fences, and vine props.
These vine props remain fixed for years, and see
crop after crop of vines bear their fruit and
perish, without showing any symptoms of decay.
Props of silver fir would not last more than ten
years.” Evelyn says :—‘‘ It makes everlasting
spouts and pent-houses, which need neither
pitch nor painting to preserve them.” ‘‘For
out-door work it is the most durable of all
descriptions of wood, I have known larch posts
that have stood for nearly fifty years,” says
Michie ; while Professor Sargent believes that
“For posts it will equal in durability our red
cedar, while in the power to hold nails it is
greatly its superior.” ‘‘The larch, while it
holds iron as firmly as oak, unlike the latter,
does not corrode iron,” says Northrop. It is
said to have no equal for railway ties. Ties in
use for sixteen years on the Boston and Albany
Railway were found to be still sound. It has
also been largely used for this purpose in Eng-
land. Ten acres of larch, it is said, will yield
as much ship timber as seventy-five acres of oak.
Its bark can be used for tanning purposes,
though probably not equal to oak bark or our

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though its wood is not very valuable except for
basket-making. It will also make good flooring

grower, and its timber is valuable for many
manufacturing purposes, where strength and
durabillty are required.
large size, and is a most beautiful tree.
suitable not only for forest culture, but as an
ornamental tree or for wayside growing,
elm prefers a deep, rich, moist soil.
several varieties of the hickory that may be
planted. The kind most suitable for the soil to
be planted must be selected. They are rather

repeated transplanting when young, they form

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The chestnut requires a dry, sandy or gravelly
soil, upon which it grows rapidly. 1t will thrive
well in most parts of southern Ontario if it is
planted in a suitable soil, This tree is valuable
not only as a nut-bearing tree, but for its tim-
ber. Fuller says:— There are other kinds of
timber which may be more durable than chest-
nut, but I know of none that is more rapidly and
easily grown.”
the nuts from a twenty-year-old tree will more
than pay for the original cost of the land and
planting them.” While young the cheetnutmakes
good rails, stakes, hop poles, etc., or it can be
used for fuel. When the trees become large
they make valuable timber for cabinet-work
and house finishing. As an ornamental tree it
always deserves attention, and is worthy of a
a place in even small gardens, where a suitable
soil can be found. When intended for forest
plantation it should be sown rather thickly, and
thinned out when the plants become from four
to six inches in diameter.

Willow loves a rich, moist soil, but will grow
on poorer soil if not toodry. It is a fine orna-
mental tree, but is not greatly valued for its
timber in this country, though in England it is
extensively grown for that purpose. Ag it bears
beating better than any other wood, it is used
for making cricket bats, floats for paddle-wheels
in steamers, brake-blocks for cars, shoe laste,
etc. It is also used for furniture making, plank-
ing vessels, etc. Mr. Sargent says:—‘‘ As
willow timber could be produced far more
cheaply than that of any of our native trees, it
should soon come into general use here for pur-
poses requiring lightness, pliancy, elasticity and
toughness—qualities which it possesses in an
eminent degree, and for which more valuable
woods are now employed.”

For low, wet soils the white cedar (Cupressus
thyoides) will be most valuable. It grows rapid-
ly, and is valuable for many purposes even
while yet small. For swamps that it is desired
to plant with trees, a mixture of pine, cedar,
and black ash will be found desirable. The
cedar can be cut for useful purposes long before
it begins to cru. i the pine.

In districts comvenient to paper mills, the
growing of poplars for wood-pulp will be found
profitable. It is also in some places on the
prairies grown for fuel, but is worth very little
for that purpose.

Nearly all the forest trees can be grown with
ease, if the proper time for seeding is observed.
No special skill is required, nor do they demand
any greater care than is devoted to ordinary
farm crops. Nor yet is it a matter of expense.
Fuller says he has grown many thousands, and
that the expense, taking one kind with another,
does not exceed two dollars per thousand,
though the expense will vary, according to the
price of the seeds. Nearly all forest trees can
be readily grown from the seed. Except when
but a small number is required, it will be found
cheaper and more convenient to grow them at
home. Where seeds cannot be collected at
home, it is best to obtain them from some re-
liable seedsman. As a rule, the seeds of forest
trees should be sown soon after they become
ripe—this is the natural order—and many of
the seeds are spoilt by keeping. It should also
be remembered that many forest trees ripen
their seeds in the spring or early summer, and
that such should be sown at once after ripen
ing.

SrEDING.—The seeding may be done directly
on the soil to be occupied by the trees, or in @
nursery. For many kinds of trees direct seed-
ing will be found the best, but the foresters of
Europe prefer seeding the pine and the larch in
nurseries, from which they are transplanted in
the second and third years. By transplanting
they are made to form better roots, and will
consequently grow more rapidly after they are
started. Evergreens also require shading during
the first year from the heat of the sun, and some
protection against cold during the first winter.
This can be more easily provided in a nursery
than in an open field.

DriLis.—The seeding should be done in drills.
For most kinds a drill, or trench, about a foot
wide and half an inch to an inch deep, is the
best. The seeds should be sown pretty thickly
over, the trench, which is then levelled in even
with the other ground. Where a cultivator is

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hemlock. Containing a large amount of resin-
ous substance, it makes good fuel, though it is
not eqnal to our maple in this respect. As it
grows very rapidly, it is much more valuable
than oak for planting. Trees thirty years old
are said to have been sold for $15 a piece, while
oak at that age were not worth over $3. Ihave
spoken thus freely of this tree, because from the
description given of it, I believe it is one of the
most, if not the most, valuable tree available for
forest culture.

The most valuable of our native deciduous
trees for cultivation are the ash, elm, hickory,
oak, maple, beech, birch, basswood, butternut,
black walnut, chestnut, willow, etc. Of these the
white ash (Fraxinus Americana) is one of the most
valuable. Its wood is highly valued by carriage-
makers and the manufacturers of agricultural
implements. It grows very rapidly, but prefers
a moist, deep soil. As it is a very ornamental
tree, forming a splendid head, it should become
popular for wayside planting. It is also one of
the best to grow for its timber. For low, wet
soils, the black ash will be found preferable,

He also says :-—“ One crop of

and fencing. Of the elms, the white elm (U/mus
Americana) is the most valuable. It is a rapid

It grows to a very
It is

The
There are

slow growers, but yield valuable timber. By
better roots than they do when growing in a
natural state, and will consequently grow more

The oak is a very valuable tree, but a slow
grower. It takes many years before it attains
a size large enough to make it valuable. When
planting it for its timber, I would advise plant-
ing it in alternate rows with some rapidly grow-
ing tree, like the ash or the elm, which will
reach maturity long before the oak, and can be
removed, and thus permit the latter to expand
and grow to maturity.

The maple is a slow grower, but valuable for
timber and for fuel. Some varieties, like the
red or soft maple, grow more rapidly than the
better-known sugar maple, but their wood is
not nearly as valuable. The maples makes very
fine ornamental trees, and are consequently
valuable for wayside planting. The sugar
maple prefers a rich, loamy soil, while the red
maple delights in low, moist situations, though
it always grows on dry ground.

Though the beech is by no means a slow-
growing tree, yet it takes many years before it
attains a size to be of much value as fuel, for
which purpose it is principally used. It is also
to a slight extent used in manufacturing,
especially for making planes and saw-handles.
It is a fine tree, and grows in almost any dry’
soil. It should not be overlooked for wayside
planting. Its nuts are highly prized for the
young, especially in sections where the chestnut
and the walnut are not to be found.

Basswood grows very rapidly, and is valuable
for many manufacturing purposes, on account
of its toughness and the ease with which it
receives a high polish. As an ornamental tree
it has few superiors. It is highly valued by
apiarians, as the honey extracted from its
flowers is classed as equal to that made from
white clover. For wayside growing the linden
should not be overlooked.

The butternut thrives best in moist, rich soils.
It seldom grows very large, and though its tim-
ber is used by cabinet-makers, it would hardly
be advisable to plant it for that purpose. But
on account of its splendid nuts it deserves to be
found on every farm or orchard.

The black walnut will grow rapidly on a good,
rich soil. It is a larger tree than the butternut
and is much more valuable for its timber, though
its nuts are much inferior. Its wood is probably
the most valuable that grows in our climate. It
should find a place in all tree plantations in
southern Ontario, and more especially along the
shores of Lake Erie.

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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. MAR. 1, 1882,

Hemioox bark brings $6 a cord at Malone,
IN. Y., and some teams carry $15 worth at a
Joad. One man thus realizes $30 a day for
bark.

We would call the attention of manufacturers
of broom handles, clothes pins, &e., to the ad-
vertisement of Messrs. W. H. Samuel & Co., of
Liverpool, Eng., which will be found in another
column,

Tue Northern Pacific management is making
arrangements for planting trees along its track
over the prairies this spring. Yellow cotton
wood and other trees adopted to the soil and
climate will be selected. The cottonwood will
come, they assert, in play for ties. The idea is
a good one and might be improved anywhere,
Poplar wood is valuable for paper making,
‘Why should not farmers and others, who have
the opportunity, plant it as a crop? It would

pay well.
(6) S85 So. Se a

We have received from the publishers, the
Lumberman Publishing Company, of Chicago
*« The Standard Moulding Book,” an illustrated
catalogue of mouldings, brackets, architraves,
balusters, pew ends, stair railings, door and
‘window frames, &c., &c., arranged by Mr. W.
B, Judson, editor of the Northwestern Lumber-
man. It contains a great number of clear and
well executed drawings, with a price list ap
pended, and will undoubtedly be valuable to the
trade, to builders, architects, and others,

LS TT

Tur Timber Trades Journal says we have re
ceived a circular from Messrs. Holland, Mc
Connell ‘& Co., from which we learn that the
importation of doors from America to London
Jast year was no less than 125,848, while Sweden,
which is so much nearer to us, and where labour
is cheaper, sent only 37,572 to London. Allow-
ing forty doors to an average house, the quantity
above mentioned (125,848) would supply the
wants in that department of 3,146 houses, while
those from Sweden would supply only 939
houses. It would appear from this comparison
that American doors, either from material or
workmanship, find more favor among house-
builders than those from Sweden,

A WHOLE cargo of petroleum was lately ship-
ped from New York in paper casks. These
casks are made by a company at Hartford, at
Cleveland and at Toledo. They are painted
blue, and have iron hoops, and they are $1.35
apiece. ‘

A CorRESPONDENT from Lancaster, Ont.,
writes us as a matter of. information for the

LumBrrMaN from the “‘ Eastern District,” that
not more than from 40 to 50 per cent of last

season’s cut of basswood and ash will be got out
for market this season,

Messrs. THomson & BAKER are now construc-
ing three of Goldie’s Patent Solid Shaved

Shingle Machines, at the foundry of Copp Bros.
& Barry, Hamilton, Ont. These machines cut
a perfectly solid and smooth shingle, and each
one turns out a car load per day, 80 to 90 M.

The patentee, Mr. Wm. Goldie, of W. Bay

City, Mich., is superintending the work.

Shingles need not be scarce where these are

running.

EXTENSIVE repairs are being made in the
Chaudiere booms, on the Ottawa, Canada, by
A novel feature
in the construction of one of these piers is that
instead of being built of the usually heavy tim-
ber, stout planks are fastened together to give
the required thickness, and the pieces thus made
Should this
“built” timber prove of equal strength and
durability with the ordinary logs used in such
works, there seems no doubt but that good
heavy plank will supersede in many cases the
runwieldly masses of solid timber now used in

the construction of new piers.

are used in the ordinary manner.

the construction of dams and piers.

Wighly Pleased,

Messrs. J. & R. Miller, of Mount Elgin,

while remitting their subscription, say :—

“We are highly pleased with the LUMBERMAN
and consider that it has much more than paid
us. We would recommend it to all engaged in

the lumber business.”

Complimentary.

The Detroit Marine News says :—‘' We are
pleasad to put the CANADA LUMBERMAN on our
The lumber and shipping inter-
ests are most intimately connected, and among
the representatives of the mighty lumber in-
terests the CaNnapA LUMBERMAN has high

exchange list.

rank.”

UTILIZING TH WATER POWER.

About one year ago steps were taken as a
preliminary in the organization of what is now
known as the St. Louis Water Power Company,
and last month the corporation was perfected
in accordance with a plan originally devised by
Jay Cooke, and including the utilization of the
fine water power on the St. Louis River, justly

considered one of the best in the northwest. In

the distance of nine miles between Thomson

and Fond du Lac there is a fall of 600 feet in
the river mentioned, and the new company pro-
poses to use this vast power for lumbering and
manufacturing purposes—the fee of 5,000 acres
of land on the Wisconsin and Minnesota shores
of the stream now being vested in the Company.
Its capital stock has been placed at $1,000,000,
three-fourths of which has been subscribed, and
valuable boom charters in Wisconsin and Min-
nesota are held—covering all the available boom
ground on the St. Louis River.

The Company will at once proceed with the
construction of a new boom costing $12,000, and
with a capacity of 40,000,000 feet, which will be
increased to 100,000,000 next year,

The officers of the new company are as fol-
lows :—

President—James Smith, Jr., St. Paul.

Vice-President—E, L, Craw, Grand Haven,
Mich.

Secretary—G. B. Kirkbride, Minneapolis.

Treasurer—L. Mendenhall, Duluth.

General Manager—James Barden, Superior,

Offices will be opened at St. Paul, Duluth,
and Superior City, the principal being located
at the latter point. The first booming ground
will hold over 2,000,000 feet of timber, and two
extensive mills will be built by the Company this
yoar,—Lumberman’s Gazette,

FORESTRY AND ARBORICULTURE.
(Continued from page 69. )

to be used in keeping down the weeds—which
has to be done during the first two years at
least—the drills should be at least four feet
apart, but where the hoe or spade only is to be
used, the drills may be made much closer to-
gether. The smaller seeds should not be as
thickly covered as the larger. In starting a
nursery, care should be taken to have the soil
well cultivated, and free as possible from weeds;
it should also be well manured, so as to give the
young plants a good start. If the soil is heavy
it should be well under-drained, so as to make
it as loose and porous as possible.

When the trees have reached their second or
third years they should be transplanted to their
permanent locations. They should at first be
planted three or four feet apart, in drills
four feet apart. After a few years’ growth the
trees will require thinning out ; a second and a
third thinning out may be required before the
trees have room enough for full development.
When the seeding is done directly on the soil to
be occupied by the trees, much the same course
is pursued as when the seeding is done in a
nursery, but attention must sooner be paid to
the thinning out of the plants. Care must be
taken to carefully weed the field or nursery,

lest the growth of the young plants become
In very dry seasons the seeds may

stunted.
require sprinkling to get them to sprout, but
care should be taken not to drown them—in

a little watering. In transplanting, care should

be taken that the roots are not long exposed to

the sun or cold winds. If possible, a damp,
cloudy day should be taken for transplanting,
which should be done early in the spring. When

trees are to be taken some distance before re-
planting, care should be taken not to let the
roots become dry. Most deciduous trees can be
taken up in the fall, and the roots pruned, tied
in bundles, and then well covered until the
spring, when they will be ready for tranship-

ment so soon as the season is far enough ad-
vanced for planting.

While on this subject, I cannot pass without
speaking of a branch of arboriculture which,

sides.

planting them twenty-five feet apart it would
require 420 trees for each mile, to plant both

closely planted forest. This would add im-
mensely to the beauty of our country, and

climate, not to speak of the comfort it would be
to travellers on a hot summer day, as also to
the cattle grazing in the adjoining fields, or the
shelter such trees would afford in a storm.

For this purpose such varieties of trees should
be selected as not only grow rapidly, but pro-
duce valuable timber when grown up. For this
purpose pine, larch, oak, elm, ash, basswood,
maple, beech, walnut, chestnut, etc., according
to the nature of the soil to be planted and the
climate, should be selected. The planting
should be done by the owner of the adjoining
land, whose property the¢rees should be. The
planting of the trees might be done under the
superintendency of the pathmasters, under
whose care and inspection they should also be
placed. He should not only superintend the
planting, but the removal of mature trees, and
the replanting of the space occupied by the re-
moved trees. For this purpose it would be
necessary for the Legislature to pass an Act re-
lating to this matter. I think it would not be
a very difficult task to form a generally accept-
able Act on this subject. Much has already
been done in some sections in the way of plant-
ing trees along the roadsides, but to make it at
all general will require an Act making it com-
pulsory, and appointing inspectors or overséers
under whose superintendence the work should
be done. The immensely favorable influence
such general tree-planting along our roads and
highways would have on the climate would
justify the Legislature in passing an act of the
kind, and I hope some one of owr many mem-

transplanting, the young trees may also require

though not strictly forestry, is so closely allied
to it that it deserves more than a passing notice
—I refer to the planting of trees along the road-
By a little trouble both sides of our
public roads could be planted with some kind of
forest trees, valuable for their timber. By

sides of the road—equal to several acres of

would have an important influence on our

bers will find time enough to draw out a Bill of
#0 general a benefit. :

The Government should have a careful sur-
vey made of the extensive territory still in its
possession, and set aside all parts not suitable
for agricultural settlement as forest lands, and
put them in charge of thoroughly competent
inspectors, whose duty it would be to preserve
as much as possible the existing growing timber
and replant such tracts from which the timber
has been removed. In that way large tracts
that are practically worthless for agricultural
purposes would become a source of no small
revenue to the Province by the time the next
generation will have to grapple with the im-
portant question of ways and means. By time-
ly action in this matter large forests of valuable
timber might be prepared for future generations,
who will not be able to draw their supplies
from our natural forests, which will be exhaust-
ed long before such new growths would be fit
for use. By replanting such otherwise worth-
less lands with valuable trees, and putting them
in charge of thoroughly trained foresters, they
would in a few generations become more valu-
able than agricultural lands, and prove a far
greater source of wealth to the country than if
allowed to become private property or permitted
to remain barren wastes, destitute of valuable
timber and unfit for cultivation.

Finally, I would recommend the formation of
& society that would devote itself to the spread-
ing of a knowledge of arboriculture and forestry,
and the collection of information as to the state
of our natural forests, the kind of trees most
suitable for the different sections of the Pro-
vince, and the encouragement of tree planting.
Such a society should prove a great benefit to
the Province. It should meet at least once a
year, either at the time of holding the Provincial
Exhibition, or at some other convenient time
and place,

ee
A GOOD THING FROM TFE STATES.
[Montreal (Canada) Post.]

In this age of quackery it is consoling to dis-
cover that there is something solid in existence,
and that, though there are venders who lie most
cheerfully about their wares, there are others
who tell the truth and allow time to test the
merits of what they offer for sale. As year
after year rolls over, the frauds and the shams
sink away out of sight in the pools and morasses
of obscurity, while that which is really good
and true stands boldly forth all the grander for
its age and solidity. Thus while within the
present decade thousands of patent medicines,
puffed at one time to inflation, have shrunk be-
fore the test of analysis, St. Jacobs Oil has
travely borne the strain, and is to-day renowned
all over the world for its famous curative powers.
It is truly one of the phenomena of the age we
live in. The sale of this article is incredible.
It is to be found all over the civilized world,
aid in a good many places that are not civilized
—for, unfortunately, the bones of sorrowing
man are racked and ache with pain no matter
what region he inhabits—and we believe it is
yet destined to be found in every house, and to
supersede the many nostrums which still remain
abroad to defraud humanity of its money and
its health. The firm of A. Vogeler & Co., Bal-
timore, Md., spend half a million dollars yearly
in advertising St. Jacobs Oil, and hence we may
guess at the full extent of their enormous busi-
ness. It is truly marvellous, or would be, did
we not know the circulation of this inestimable
blessing. :

SHREWD AS EVER.—In an extended article in

the Washington (D. C.) Star, we notice that,

among others, Senator James G. Blaine who
has. suffered in wa pee with rheumatism now
keeps St. Jacobs Oil on hand in case of any fu-
ture attack.

CHILBLAINS.—These troublesome complaints
may be speedily cured by Hagyard’s Yellow
Oil, the great Rheumatic remedy, which, as an
external application and an internal remedy has
a wider range of usefulness than any similar
Shara in the world. All druggists sell it,

rice 25c,

A CuRE FoR Heapacur,—What hysician
has ever discovered a cure for leetdinne! ? Echo
answers none, But Burdock Blood Bitters by
their purifying, invigorating, nervine properties
afford a cure in nearly every case. The health-
giving principles of this remedy are unequalled

y any similar preparation in the world,

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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

—

Caledonian Hotel,
GRAVENHURST.

JOHN SHARPE, Proprietor. This Hotel has been
newly opened out, pleasantly situated on. Main Street,
within five minutes walk of Northern Railway station.
Bar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

Simcoe House,
CORNER FRONT and SIMCOE STS.
TORONTO, @ ys

Best accommodation in the City. TERMS $1.50
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.

The Most Convenient House to all Trains.

| 1121 GREEN & SON, Proprietor.

foe
The American Hotel,
BARRIE, ONT.
Collier Street, Adjoining the Market.

RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS.

fae Every accommodation for Commercial and

LUMBERMEN. ,
1utf W. D. McDONALD, Proprietor.

—————— eee
CHOPPING AXES

(Made to Order and on hand.)

MILL PICKS DRESSED ina first-class style.
Those shipped by rail will be returned promptly.

a@Lance Tooth Saws Gummed. AXES
WARRANTED. 3124

D
W. HERLIHEY, Lindsay.

ty YEARS’ EXPERIENCE.

HOWIE'S DETECTIVE AGENCY

Orrices, 32 Kine Srreet East,

TORONTO, ONT-

All legitimate Detective business attended to for Banks,
Fire and Life Insurance Co’s, also for private parties.
This agency does not operate for reward, lyL5

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J. K. POST & CO.
LUMBER MERCHARTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWHGO, N- Y,,,

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER.

CANADA TRUSS FACTGRY

(ESTABLISHED 1856.)

Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORTHOPCEDICAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS maiic to order.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every deseviption. 1114

and 690 Craig Street, Montreal.

LOWEST PRICES « OR

——--

PURE MANILLA ROPE

Allsizes. American Lath Yarn. Oakum.
9-16 and 5-8 inch Proved Chain. Wrouzht
Spikes. Rafting Augurs. Millwrights
Tools, &c.

GEORGE STETHEM,

Importer, Jobber, & Retail Dealer in Hardware,
PETERBOROUGH, ONT. 45

Messrs, W. H. SAMUEL & Co.,

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND,

Among the oldest established importers of American
manufactures being open to place large orders for

BROOM HANDLES,
CLOTHES PINS,
VENETIAN LATHS,

Etc., Etc.
Manufacturers of the same will please state stock on
hand, and maximum quantities deliverat'c in three

months, with lowest cash prices. Freight paid to any
in the United Kingdom.
4a at once a4 above with full particulars, 2u6

J. & F. N, TENNANT
Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Office, Union Loan Building,
Toronto Street, Toronto.

intf

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

farP.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. litt

J.G. EDWARDS

HARDWARE MERCHANT,

LINDSAY.

BELTING, FILES, BABBIT METAL,
CHAINS, ROPE, and 112

LUMBERING SUPPLIES.
WANTED.

Cherry, White Ash, Black Ash, and
Dry White Pine Lumber.

Quote Price delivered, and Carefully

Describe :—Quality, Widths, Length,

Thickness, and how long Sawed.
ROBERT C. LOWRY,

Wholesale Lumber,
4u12 55 Pine Street, New York.

J. T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

FOR SALE.
150 Mills. White Pine, 1 x 10 Stock.
TiBh ye do Syste ily ee
iC Sick do 2x10
Sores? do hes aly ‘
140. “6 do Linch Siding
20“ do 14 “
40) ** do 2x10 Joists.
“ce

AG 5S Cedar, 3x6
to ** Basswood, 1} inch.

APPLY AT THE OFFICE, lutf
WELLINGTON STREET, OTTAWA.

P. JEWELL & SONS

(Hartford, Con.) Established 1849,

Purely Oak Tanned
Leather Belting.

And LACE LEATHER

FOR SALE BY

GEORGE STETHEM,

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. Lb

GRAW'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE.

TRADE MARKTHE GREAT ENGLISHTRADE MARK
REMEDY, an unfail- ,

BZA i) cure for Semin- =
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Lassitude, Pain in

1112 Toronto, Ont.

Rubber Belting,
Rubber Hose,

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Machinery, Marine, Portable
and Stationeiy Boilers.

Pump Boilers for Stationary Mille

163 & iGS Front Strest, TORONTO,

J. PERKINS, PROPRIETOR

CURRIE BOILER WORKS

ESTABLISHED 1852

STAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery
on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

AMERICAN HEAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Packing,

| Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

A Full and Compiete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

Tw. Wichi.ROwWV. JR

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
P.0. BOX 556.

TCO CO INE Ss

BERTSON & Co.

8 @ i A ND Ts GD dS BE ew 2S =

Manufacturers of Every Variety of

Circular, Mill and Gang Saws
INSERTED TOOTH SAWS A SPECIALTY.
Emerson Pattern & Lumberman’s Clipper.

«= SAWS REPAIRED =

Every Saw Warranted.

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72

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

A POET ON FOREST FIRES. —

Tf Mr. Joaquin Miller’s poetry did not entitle
him to the fame of an original genius, a
scheme that he has for preserving the forests
of America would. Inthe New York Jnde-
pendent he proposes to run fire through the
woods every autumn by way of keeping them
safe from fire in the summer. This, it appears,
has been the practice from time immemorial of
the Western Indians, from whom in his youth
Mr. Miller obtained much of the knowledge
by which he shines before white men. As the
Tndians in question lived on great treeless
plains when the poet knew them, and long be-
fore, we may believe that their ancestors did
run fires through primeval forests in those re-
gions, perhaps with the intention of preserving
them, but not exactly with that result.

In Mr. Miller’s day the Indians of his ac
quaintance had, it appears, but small patches of
deciduous trees, bordering on the prairie,to pre
serve, and it is quite likely that their practice
of running fire through and around them every
fall wasagood one. The accumulation of easily
ignited grass, leaves, etc., was thus prevented
and the light annual fire would not injure
leafless hardwood trees.

But the poet proposes to deal with all the for
ests of the continent on the Indian plan. He
Says :— :

“An annual fire is as natural, and necessary
too, as is a rain fall at seed-time for the health
and long life of any forest. When the leaves
have fallen and all the nuts and fruit are ripen-
ed ; when the bark of the tree is hard and sap-
less, and the new bushes and new branches are
denuded and are made sound and hard, then
the dry and indolent Indian summer possesses
the land. The winds are still then, and there is
no peril at all in turning the fire loose. This is
the time the Indian takes to clear of his fields
for the grasses of the coming spring, and to pur-
ify them of the malaria, burning leaves, and
mosses that otherwise would lie rotting on the
ground, harbouring insects, reptiles, fevers,
death, and smothering out the new grasses,

~ flowers, roots, and ground fruits for the coming

year. The borer, the caterpillar, Colarado bee-
tle, grasshopper, and bull-cricket—these are
some of the beautiful fruits borne from the
white man’s management, of our plains and
forests.”

After appealing to the history of Palestine,
Assyria, Babylon, and ancient Germany, old
Gaul, Italy, and Tyre, to support his argument,
he says :—

“But to return to our own forests. T know it
might at first be dangerous and difficult to burn
out our forests now, and get them back toa
state of nature, as it were. Yet it must be
done. The old briar-bound and moss-grown
worm-fence that winds about the hill to mark
the limit of some settler’s domain must go. Bet-
ter the old fence should be burned now than the
barn, house, cattle, and perhaps babies and all,
in the end. However, these are details that
must adjust and fit in themselves.

“The one special idea is to have the forests
all burned over and burned out every autumn.
These natural annual fires are so light that eyen
the c.sallest and frailest little bush will not
perish. See how nature has ordered this,

“Of course, all this will have to be regulated,
by law ; but here again I come to detail, which
shall not touch now. I should say, however,
that every State ought to have its Forest Com-
missioners, and every part of each State be
made to keep its forests clean, as certainly and
exactly as any division of a city is made to keep
its streets clean or in repair.”

Mr. Miller hit the blot on his plan in the
second sentence of the last quoted extract. It
would at first be difficult and dangerous to run
fire through pine forests in Indian summer, but
never diffcult or dangerous or necessary again,
because there would probably be no forests left.

Though the poet’s plan would not work, the
idea that underlies it isa good one. It would
be well to keep the forests free from accumu-
lated rubbish. Every year vast quantities of in-
flammable material—pine needles, branches,
chips, etc.—are left in the woods by lumbermen
to assist in the spread of the fire. There is no
reason why all this stuff should not be burned
as soon as made in the winter, when the fire

would not run,
mission bushrangers to see this done, and thus
the great necessity which Mr, Miller perceives
for burning the forests in order to keep them
from being burned would be somewhat lessen-
ed,—Gilobe. '

tention as a striking illustration of the mischief

of Brantford to state that near where the two
railways cross, on the north edge of the city,
was a mill-pond, supplying power to a mill
some distance below.
wandered out there,
engagement with a snapping turtle that was
sunning himself on the bank.
remember getting on board a queer flat-bottom-

Buffalo.
changed boats at Dunnville, for I did not think

flagrantly violated by persons who have acquired
the title to Government timber merely for the
purpose of selling it to speculators. The new
commissioner of the Land-Office has undertaken
to stop thisabuse. He has caused the provisions
of the law in this respect to be stamped in red
ink upon the blank receipts issued to timber-
land settlers ; and has enjoined upon local agents
the duty of watching and reporting cases of
depredation and violation of the laws. These
orders may be a partial remedy. But it is evi-
dent the waste of timber cannot be stopped or
repaired until the State Governments take an
active interest in the subject. They my not
be able to prevent the destruction of forests
which have actually passed into private owner-
ship ; but they may protect such as still belong
to the State, and, by offering bonuses, encourage
new growth of timber to take the place of those
destroyed.

The Government could com-

STOPPING THE WATER SUPPLY.
Ina paper of reminiscences by the Rev. W. Wye
Smith, published in the Canadian Monthly, we
find the following paragraph, which deserves at-

that is being done by overclearing :—
‘“Tt will seem odd to the younger inhabitants

I once, when a boy,
and had an exciting

And in 1852 I
Henry Stevens & Co., of St. Helen, Ros-
common county, Mich., write that they have

ed steamer—a regular old tea pot—to go to
banked some logs this season that deserve to be

T was very glad to find that we

world to gaze at. On January 31, at their

much of the seaworthiness of ‘‘The Queen ;”
which I believe was the name of the old scow I
made the passage in. Probably the navigation
of the Grand River (Lord Dorchester, the ‘Sir
Guy Carleton’ of history, called it, in 1798, the
‘Ouse ; but the name did not appear to stick),
will never be revived. For one thing, the vol-
ume of water is immensely less than it was. I
spent three months on its banks in 1837; and
when a three days rain storm came, the river
became swollen and dark coloured, and remain-
ed so for a month. Now, with the upper forests
cleared away, it has hardly more water than
will turn a mill on adry summer. I was much
interested in seeing, in the summer of 1837,
some men who were running a pail factory in
Galt pass down the rapids above Glenmorris, on
a raft, with several hundred gaily painted pails,
bound for Brantford. This could not be done
now, except on the dangerous eddies of a great
freshet. The same may be said of other
streams ; old mills are found with not a drop of
water running past them in a dry summer.”

banked ten pine logs that scaled 6,316 feet. On
February 2, at camp No. 3, David Murdock,

scaled 8,197 feet. These logs were banked at
two hauls, partially up hill.

the Boulevard Montmartre.
be paved with good intentions

Dh

witness the intense thought, deep study and
thorough investigation of women in determin-

well, and would note their sagacity and wisdom
in selecting Hop Bitters as the best, and dem-
onstrating it by keeping their families in per-
petual health, and ata mere nominal expense,
he would be first to acknowledge that such sen-
timents are baseless and false.—Picayune.

Is rr A Humsue? Some people think all
proprietary medicines humbugs. In this they
must be mistaken. A cough medicine like N.
H. Downs’ Elixir that has stood the racket of
52 years must have some virtue, and must cure
the diseases for which it is recommended, or
people would not continue to buy and use it as
they do. It seems to us that even if we knew
nothing of its merits, the fact of its large and
continually increasing sale justifies us in re-
commending Down’s Elixir to all who may need
areliable cough medicine.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Geta ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

A Goop Fiiter.—To have pure water in the
house every family should have a filter, the
health and comfort depends largely upon the use
of properly filtered water. The liver is the true
filter for the blood, and Burdock Blood Bitters

THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OFFICES,

We are glad to announce that the Scientijie
American came out of the late fire in New York
like the fabled Phoenix, with renewed life. The
subscription lists, account books, patent records,
patent drawings, and correspondence were pre-
served in massive fire-proof safes. The print-
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was done in another building ; consequently the
types, plates, presses, paper, ete., were unharm-
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casioned. : '
The new Scientific American offices are located

at 216 Broadway, corner of Warren Street, a
very central and excellent situation. Here, in
addition to the issuing of their interesting pub-
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ed examiners and draughtsmen, prepare specifi-
cations and drawings for American and Foreign
patents. If any of our readers should happen
to make a new discovery (we hope every one of
them may do so, and gain a fortune), they have
only to drop a line to Munn & Co., 261 Broad-
way, New York,who will reply at once, without
charge, stating whether the invention is proba-
bly novel and patentable. A handbook of in-
structions, with full particulars, will also be sent,
free. Messrs. Munn & Co., have had over
thirty-five years’ experience in the business.

healthy condition. It is the grand blood purify-
ing, liver regulating tonic.

Tuer Secret or Beauty.—No Cosmetic in the
world can impart beauty to a face that is dis
figured by unsightly blotches arising from im-
pure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is the
grand purifying medicine for all humors of the
blood. It makes good blood and imparts the
bloom of health to the most sallow complexion.

“AnD fools who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to it
wonderful effects. ~

Burns AND SCALDS are promptly cured as
all flesh wounds, sprains, bruises, callous lumps,
soreness, pain, inflamation and all painful dis-
eases ; by the great Rheumatic Remedy, Hag-
yard’s Yellow i For external and internal
use. Price 25c.

THE lost arts did not include steel pen mak-
ing, an invention of the ninetheenth century,
Esterbrook’s being superior, standard and
reliable,

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened

pearls, A five cent sample settles it,

DESTRUCTION OF TIMBER.

The Chicago Z’ribune says that while the need
of legal restrictions to prevent the total destruc-
tion of our forests is so apparent, it is not often
that they are imposed by Statefauthority. The
National Government is powerless to interfere,
except for the protection of the public lands,
and the laws enacted for this purpose are
liberally interpreted and feebly enforced, if at
all. Settlers on timber lands haye not always
been informed that the regulations imposed
upon them were different from those established
for prairie settlers. The law forbids persons
who have acquired timber lands under the
Homestead or Pre-emption acts to remove more
of the timber than may be necessary for pur-
poses of cultivation. This provision has been

rolled on the skidway of fame for the lumber

camp No. 5, Leonard Coulter, foreman, were

foreman, fifteen pine logs were banked that

Land and Water says :—“It is stated that
from the forests belonging to M. Bismark are
cut the greater portion of the blocks used for
the wood pavement in London, and that an
English company is going to use it in Paris for
Query, if it will

‘‘Women Never Tuink.”—If the crabbed

old bachelor who uttered this sentiment could but

ing the best medicines to keep their families

keeps the liver and all the secretory organs in a

Chips.

Tue Northern Pacific Railway Company, in
order to encourage tree planting, will during the
season of 1882 transport, free of charge, fruit
and ornamental young trees for the actual use of
settlers along its line,

ALLEGED pinkeye has become so prevalent
in the Upper Ottawa district that lumbermen
say they will be unable to get out so much
timber as they expected on account of the sear-
city of teams. Some veterinary surgeons say
that the disease is not pinkeye at all, but only
an acute influenza.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says the export
of lumber from the States to Mexico, though
not yet an iznmense factor of their commerce, is
increasing under the late stimulus given to their
relations with that country by railroad building,
mining schemes, etc. In 1880 they exported to
Mexico lumber to the value of $130,000, and in
1881 the value increased to $183,436.

THE steamship Maas, which arrived on Feb.
6 at New York, from Rotterdam, reports, Jan.
22, lat. 50 13, long. 13 40, passed a large ship on
fire, water-logged, probably loaded with lumber.
The ship was almost totally burned out. Steam-
ed twice around the vessel, but could not per-
ceive any name on her. Held a sharp look out
for boats during the whole day, but saw none.

J. & G. K. Wentworts are new lumbermen
in Mecostacounty, Mich., but come prominently
to the front on account of having purchased the
Eldred railroad, which they removed to their
present location. Their present job is estimated
at 15,000,000 feet, which goes into the Chippewa
River over their railroad, which is about
five miles long, and is in course of construction,
and nearly completed.

Camps have been established at Little Quin-
nesec Falls, Wis., and the work of making a
cut around the falls on the Michigan side of the
river has commenced. The cut will be 488 feet
long, 40 feet deep in the deepest place, from 30
to 40 feet wide at the bottom, and 6,000 cubic
yards of rock will be taken out of it. The work
will cost in the neighbourhood of $15,000, and is
expected to be completed before the logs come
down in thespring. Logs are so badly damaged
in coming over the falls that it will take but a
few years for the cut to pay for itself.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says that
Senator Flint has introduced a bill into the
Wisconsin legislature to provide for levying a
tax of fifteen cents a thousand on all logs ship-
ped out of the State. The object is to protect
home manufa@tures on Wisconsin streams, and
possibly to check the wholesale running of logs
down the Mississippi to the Iowa, Illinois and
Missouri mills. . It would also affect the inter-
ests of Michigan lumbermen who operate in
Wisconsin. The bill, however, will have to
fight an enormous capital before it becomes a
law. °

Tue Calais Times says that an unusually large
stock of logs was held over on the St. Croix
this winter. With the exception of F. H. Tedd
& Sons, and Chas. F. Todd, all of the manufac-
turers will have an abundant supply of logs
with which tostartin the spring. Murchie & Sons
have the largest stock on hand, followed in the
order named by H. F. Eaton, Eaton Bros., and
Gates & Wentworth. Most of these logs are
separated in side booms, and in the main and
Baring logs enough are left for a month’s rafting.
Alexander Milligan says he has not seen for
thirty years so many logs left over in the side
booms.

A sIxtH of France (including Corsica) is
under wood, but, notwithstanding this, an im-
mense amount of timber is annually imported
into the country from the United States and
the north of Europe. In 1824 the Nancy School
of Forestry was instituted, and a new code of
forest laws was adopted in 1827. The fact has
of late years been recognized that the floods
which have proved so terribly disastrous to
France have been largely due to the absence of
trees on mountain sides. A forest acts both
mechanically and hydrographically; in the
former case by preventing any large body of
water from collecting, and as a sort of permanent
floodgate ; in the latter by the trees themselves
absorbing a vast deal of moisture,

A NATIONAL BLESSING.
(Philadelphia Record.)

The Nineteenth Century, above all other
ages, has been noted for its many inventions,
Tt has given us the steam power inits thousand-
fold applications, the telegraph, the telephone,
the electric light, and innumerable other dis-
coveries, all blessings to humanity ; each day
bringing us new surprises until we have become
so accustomed to the exhibitions of the genius
of our century that any new development is at
once received as a matter of natural consequence,
and most people will simply remark, “I told
you so.” Asan instance of this fact we would
only call attention to the wonderful discovery,
St. Jacobs Oil. A few years ago this Great
German Remedy had never been heard of be-
fore in this country ; to-day you can hardly find
a man, woman or child in the United States
who has not used the remedy for some pain or
ache, or at least has witnessed its use and seen
its wonderful effects on a fellow-being. St.
Jacobs Oil has become a national remedy, for it
is known in every city, town, village and ham-
let in the country. It is a cosmopolitan pre-
paration, for it is praised by the Americans,
Germans, Italians, Bohemians, Danes, Swedes,
Portuguese, Spaniards, French,—yes, even the
‘‘ Heathen Chinee.” It may be termed the
universal blessing, for it is endorsed by the rich
and poor, the clergyman and the physician, the
merchant and the laborer, in fact by all classes
of the community. St. Jacobs Oil, by its al-
most marvellous properties, can be employed
for a simple cut or sprain, or the worst case of
inflammatory rheumatism. Persons who have
been confined to their bed for years with that
terrible disease, rheumatism, have been com-
pletely cured by the use of a single bottle. Such
cases have been quoted by the leading journals
of our country ; for instance, the St. Louis
Post-Despatch says:—Under the title of Old
Probabilities, one of the most useful and valu-
able officers of the United States Government
is most widely known. But quite as well known
is Prof. J. H. Tice, the meteorologist of the
Mississippi Valley, whose contributions to his
favorite study have given him an almost na-
tional reputation. On a recent tour through
the Northwest the Professor had a narrow
escape from the serious consequences of asudden
and very dangerous illness, the particulars of
which he thus refers :—‘‘ The day after conclud-
ing my course of lectures at Burlington, Iowa,
on the 21st of December last, I was seized with
a sudden attack of neuralgia in the chest, al-
most preventing breathing. My pulse, usually
eighty, fell to thirty-five ; intense nausea of the
stomach succeeded, and a cold clammy sweat
covered my entire body. The attending physi-
cian could do nothing to relieve me; after
suffering three years, I thought, as I had been
using St. Jacobs Oil with good effect for rheu-
matic pains, I would try it. I saturated a piece
of flannel, large enough to cover my chest, with
the Oil, and applied it. The relief was almost
instantaneous. In one hour I was almost free
from pain, and would have taken the train to
fill an appointment in a neighbouring town, had
not my friends dissuaded me. Asit was, I took
the night train for my home, St. Louis, and
have not been troubled since.”

The Boston Globe says :—‘‘ Charles S. Strick-
land, Esq., builder, No. 9 Boylston street and
106 Harrison ayenue, Boston, thus speaks :—
“The pleasure which I hereby attempt to ex-
press can only be half conveyed by words.
Physicians of very high character and notoriety
have heretofore declared my rheumatism incur-
able. Specifies, almost numberless, have failed
to cure, or even alleviate the intensity of the
pain, which has frequently confined me to my
room for three months at a time. One week
ago 1 was seized with an attack of acute rheu-
matism of the knee. In a few hours the entire
knee joint became swollen to enormous propor-
tions, and walking was rendered impossible, No-
thing remained for me, and I intended to resign
tayself, as best I might, to another month’s
agonies. By chance I learned of the wonderful
curative properties of St. Jacobs Oil. I clutch-
ed it as a straw, and in afew hours was free
from pain in the knee, arm and shoulder. As
before stated, I cannot find words to convey my
praise and gratitude to the discoverer of this
king of rheumatism,”

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN,

The Chicago Times says:—‘‘ Everybody on
the South Side knows J. D. L. Harvey, Esq.,
who has been a resident of Chicago for over
twenty years. Mr. Harvey expressed himself
on the ‘Oil subject” as follows :—‘‘I have
spent over $2,000 to cure my wife of rheuma-
tism. ‘Two bottles of St. Jacobs Oil accomplish-
ed what all the medical treatment failed to
bring about. I regard it as a greater discovery
than electricity. It is a boon to the human
race, and I am very glad to have this opportuni-
ty of testifying as to its remarkable efficacy. I
cannot speak too highly of it, and I would be
recreant to my duty to those afflicted did I not
lift my voice in its praise.”

The Philadelphia Ledger says :—‘‘ Mr. George
I, Graham, 820 Nineteenth street, Philadelphia,
is a journalist of many years experience, and is
actively connected with the Philadelphia Sunday
Mirror, a leading theatrical and musical journal.
During the ‘‘late unpleasantness” Mr. Gra-

ham was Captain of Company K, One hundred

and eighty-third Pennsylvania regiment, and

through exposure in the field he contracted a

variety of ills, and he says a very troublesome
case of rheumatism in the right leg.and foot

was a war inheritance that he had in vain tried
to get rid of, until he was recommended to try
St. Jacobs Oil:
relief even on the first application of the Oil.
Before the first bottle he purchased had been
used up he had but few traces of hisrheumatism,
and at this time he says the disease has entire-
ly left him, which he attributes entirely to the
use of St. Jacobs Oil.
son need suffer with rheumatism if St. Jacobs
Oil can be obtained ; to those who are afflicted
with that complaint it is worth its weight in
gold.”

He states that he felt a slight

He remarks :—‘‘ No per-

The Chicago Inter-Ocean says :—Captain Paul

Boynton, the world-renowned swimmer, thus
speaks of the old German Remedy :
constant exposure I am somewhat subject to
rheumatic pains, and nothing would ever benefit
me until I got hold of this old German Remedy.
Why, on my travels I have met people who had
been suffering with rheumatism for years ; by
my advice they tried the Oil, and it cured them.
I would sooner do without food for days than be
without this remedy for one hour.
would not attempt a trip without St. Jacobs
Oil, as I do not see how I can get along without
it.”

“From

In fact I

St. Jacobs Oil has been endorsed by persons

of national reputation, who would not lend their
names if they were not convinced that it was a
duty they owed to suffering humanity ; they
have experienced the wonderful effect of the
Great German Remedy, and they want their
fellow creatures to know the result.
only mention in this connection the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, Ohio: ‘‘ Excel-
lent for rheumatism and kindred diseases ; it has

We would

benefitted me greatly.” Mme. Maria Salvotti,

prima donna, Wilhelmj Concert Troupe :—

““Nothing can compare with it as a prompt,
reliable cure for the ailment named.” William
H. Wareing, Esq., Assistant General Superin-
tendent, New York Post Office: ‘‘ Proved all
that is claimed for the Oil, and found efficacious
ready relief for rheumatic complaints.” Hon.
Thomas L. James, Postmaster, New York, re-
ferring to Superintendent Wareing’s report con-
cerning St. Jacobs Oil, ‘I concur.” Prof. C.
O. Duplessis, Manager Chicago Gymnasium,
Chicago, Ill. : ‘‘ Our professionals and amateurs
use it in preference to everything they have ever
tried.” George W. Walling, Esq., Superin-
tendent Police, New York City : ‘‘ Members of
this department relieved of rheumatism by its
use.” Stacy Hill, Esq., Mount Auburn Inclin-
ed Plane Railroad, Cincinnati, Ohio: ‘‘ Un-
doubtedly it is a remarkable medicine.” Cap-
tain Henry M. Holzwarth, Chief Detective
Force, Cleveland, Ohio: “Surprising re-
lief; a world of good.” Prof. Edward
Holst, pianist and composer, Chicago, IIl. : “‘Its
effects are in harmony with itsclaims.” In con-
clusion we would say that it is the imperative
duty of every family to have a bottle of St.
Jacobs Oil on hand for all emergencies ; for the
remedy is a true friend in need, and the occa-
sion for its immediate use may come when it is
least expected. Follow this advice, and it will
not be long before you will join with us in call-
ing St, Jacobs Oil “ A National Blessing.”

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N.B.—Estimates for Steam and Hot Water Heating
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EPPS $ COCOA

BREAKFAST.

“By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the fine properties of
well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our break-
fast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which
may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the
judicious use of such articles of diet that. a constitution
may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle mala-
dies are floating around us ready to attack wherever
there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal
shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure
blood and a properly nourished frame.”—Civil Service
Gazette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
packets and tins only (4-1b. and Ib.) labelled

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THE KEY T@ HEALTH.

Unlocks all the clogged avenues of the
Bowels, Kidneys and Liver. carrying
off gradually without weakening the system,
all the impurities and foul hua.orszof the
secretions ; at the same time Correcting
Acidity of the Stomach, curing Bili-
ousness, Dyspepsia, Headaches, Diz-
ziness, ~Heartburn, Constipation,
Dryness of the Skin, Dropsy, Dim-
ness of Vision, Jaundice, Salt Rheum,
Erysipelas, Scrofula, Fluttering of
the Heart, Nervousness and General
Debility ; all these and many other simi-
lar Complaints yield to the happy influence
of BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS.

Sample Botiles 10c; Regular size $1.

For sale by all dealers.
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McAPrKe.)

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MILL CASTINGS

Ship Windlasses, Capstans, and
Ship Castings of all kinds,

(MADE TO ORDER)

Power Capstans, Patent Ship Pump
With Copper Chambers. 1115

Lead Scuppers & Water Closets & all
goods in my line for Ships’ use.
Work done to Order with Quick Despatch.

IRWIN & BOYD

Commission
Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
ShippingeGeneral Agents
PORT HOPE.

FACT x

TN FOUNDRY

Wearerooms, Water Strect,

ST. JOHN, N. B.

Allan Brothers

(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

Steam Engines
MILL MACHINERY.

Ships Windlasses, Iron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS of all kinds.

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves
COOKING AND HEATING

STOVES,

Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins.

Agricultural Implements.

BRASS CASTINGS.

Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware for SHIP and
ls HOUSE uve.

74

Atavket Aeports,

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Fre. 20th.—Lumber shipments to this city
are extremely small at present, and likely to
continue so for some time to come, if the railway
companies continue to fleece shippers in the
same style as at present adopted by them. The
freight department of the G. T. R. here has a
new manager in charge, and so far as lumber-
men are concerned, at least, the change has not
The stringent measures
now in operation, in regard to the weighing of
all cars of lumber, certainly commenced under

been a happy one.

his instructions, and to make the shippers’

position still more hazardous, this model of a
freight agent has just now issued a circular noti-

fying all lumber shippers that on and after the
1st of March, all cars not unloaded within forty-
eight hours after their arrival in Toronto, will
be shunted down to the Don, and there unloaded
at the risk of the owner, and $3 collected for
shunting, as well as cost for unloading. It is
really surprising that he contents himself with
merely sending the cars only about three miles
back on the same route by which they came
here ; why not send them down, say to Port
Hope, as the lumber might be shipped by
water from there on the opening of navigation ?

In my last letter I stated that the G. T. R.
Co. only charged single rates on all excess
weight over 24,000 lbs., but this is done away
with, and the same rates are now charged as
by the N. & N. W. R. Co., that is to say, on
the first ton over 24,000 Ibs. single rates, all
over that, double. It is said, by those who pro-
fess to know, that the traffic agent of the N. &
N. W. R. has interviewed the G. T. agent, and
(to use a rather vulgar phrase) has said, ‘‘ now,
you scratch my back and I will scratch yours,”
and between them both they claw the pockets
of their customers quite lively. Now, there is
doubtless a distinction to be made between the
highwaymen who coolly orders a man to stand
and deliver, and a company that forces from
their patrons money which they have not
honestly earned, but I must confess that, so far
as I can view it, it is a distinction without a
difference ; however, to close it up, I would say
that if the lumbermen stand and merely groan
at this kind of treatment, they deserve all they
get, and more.

Since writing my last letter, sawn lath has
taken a sudden jump upward in price, and may
now be quoted at $2.50 per M., from the yards»
and few to be got at that. The yards have a
fair stock of most kinds of lumber except 2x8
and 2x4, This kind of stock is extremely
small in quantity at all the yards.

In a former letter I promised to give you a
description of the wood working and planing
factories in this city, and I will now endeavor
to redeem that promise, to the best of my
ability, in this and future letters, taking them
in the order which their importance merits :—
‘The firm of J. P. Wagner & Co., situated on
Adelaide street west, between Bay and York
‘Streets, is doubtless the most complete of its
kind in the Dominion. Their new factory has
‘only been erected two years, and is a most im-
‘posing structure, covering a space of 62 feet on
Adelaide street, by 186 feet in depth, to Boul-
‘ton street ; it is five storeys high, and the total
mumber of superficial feet in this building is
26,848, and all taken up fully by machinery and
workmen. The total number of men now em-
ployed is about 125, to be largely increased in
the coming spring. Everything new in the way
of labor saving machinery is to be found in this
building, and the quality of work turned out by
this firm cannot be surpassed on this continent,
Sashes, doors, blinds, stairs of the most
elaborate designs, all ready to be put in their
proper places, meet the eye at every turn,
Wood turning, carved work, and scroll work, in
neat designs, are here to be seen, and last, but
not least, piano key boards, of the most durable
and costly finish. This branch of their business
is fast increasing, as they have now 25 men con-
stantly employed in this department alone, and
expect shortly to double that number. Pre-
vious to the N.P. coming in force, nearly all of
this kind of work was imported, but now this
firm are turning out piano key boards, equal in

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

through their factory.
jo

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

stock of lumber this season will belarge. Pros-
pects for shipping on the opening of navigation
are fair, but the quantity may probably not
reach the figures of 1881. There is no likelihood
of higher rates of freight to South America, any
advance would enable shippers to export as
cheaply via New York. The demand for lum-
ber here for the past two weeks has been very
quiet, but no change has taken place in quota-
tions since our last report, but as stocks here
are light, holders are very firm in their views.
We continue to quote :—

Pine, 1st quality, BM vicceciewelsn, asians $35 00@40 00
Pine, 2 2nd GM aataeewetniiaeh a Mie ° 18 00@24 00

Pine, shipping culls, # M...... peteln gists cerns 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, # M ... 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, % M 5 00@ 8 00
Spruce, # M.....-.+.0 anes 8 00@10 00
Hlomlochy (3 ME .isi<is0 s!ejaleaneh icicle , 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls. out, @ M. . 16 00@18 00
Bass, ss eM 16 00@17 00
85 00@45 00
17 00@20 00
18 00@25 00
1 50@ 0 00

Hard Maple, eM.
Lath, @M.........
Shingles, Ist, YM . 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, @M....... 2 00@ 0 00

Advices just received by mail from Liverpool
state that trade during January was quiet, but
business is in a healthier state than it has been
for years. Some considerable sales of Quebec
waney board pine, averaging 20 inches, have
been made at 2s. 6d. per foot, yarded. At auc-
tion there have been sales of
St. John Spruce deals, at £7 15 9 per | standard.

Halifax, 71566
Dalhousie, M3 7 92 as
Ship Harbor, ‘ 7 89 »
Quebec waney board pine, 2 6 per ft.

The following are the wholesale quotations in
Liverpool for Canadian woods :—

Quebec Square White Pine, cub. ft.. 0 1 6@0 2 3
Quebec Waney Board Pine...... ... a ue Ceo F
St. John Pine, 18 inch av.... «..... O Uae .0F 1 I
LOWEN POXts PAU se selsueisnecisisete (Samer LO I tae
Quebec Red Pine........ ...s.seees Oeiees 0 1 9
Quebec Oak, Ist quality..... ...... 029 0 8 0
Quebec Oak; 2nd quality..........- 028 0 2 6
CASA se ie in yeinln)a(ala\al te a efates niu Stole a ohan afateinre OL 42*:0) Bind
SFULDIO sal winverale diets einleleiniern pte/aieretatefeleistaete D 1p 0,
EDL OKONYiaieikre cainteieiv viele e) leislstei e's elsieiete 02 8°90 216
Quebec Birekrs s sjsin.asiejciaieaejiviswlente sis OF Lets.001) 48
St. obi BBiaab cise, cin \eiave oo wibisieinixiaisiaie ® Laks OD
Spruce Spars. crcesecsereeseresesecs OO Lia y 2
DrALS—
1st quality Quebeo Pine, stds...... 19 0 02010 0
2nd 1310 01410 0
3rd‘ UL G f 910 0 915 0
St. John, N.B., &c., Spruce. 710 0 715 0
Lower Ports Spruce... L020) OO ao
Spruce Boards.......... 6. 16" 0 46:20" 30
Lathwood, per fathom .... 210 0 40 0
STaves—
ast quality Quebec Pine, std. mille. 99 0 095 0 0
Bde seo SO Oa RE watiee 60 0 065 0 0
. 23 0 025 0 0

Ist quality Quebec Puncheon..
2nd 19 00000

Corpwoop.—The very heavy fall of snow
which we have had the past week has rather de-
layed importations. The demand here keeps
pretty good. There is, however, no change to
note in wholesale prices, which keeps steady at
the late reduction. Wequote prices at the rail-
way depot, ex cartage :—

Long Maple, vata atied ene wy ncvnasisiduenieteiveis » 36 00
Short. S° "Qian swatereaeiein) canie eis arse siwinieciels ais sicle 5 50
Tong) Birolakwer ic ce cices ce iene vere cers ticiaietiemeiiv cis 5 50
Short Oo. eases se ese eite aie ainieieteveleelenieleuele 5 00
TON PYBSSEH cicte(ejare elaratelere sieve site hata re a/cielinie ab a’aieleve 5 00
HONE) OEE reisisrereislsluieiarcie ch efsietastasieteiie cesses oie 4 60
TONEY LAMALACK «aie ciuiuisleivislesiciesieiiuieis civtelpeinis ciQleiers 4 50
Short ASS DaaNitietnre munielelesete crore ei etavayeiars (ere eicisrenty 4 00
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OTTAWA,

From Our Own Correspondent.

Fas. .23rd.—The past few days’ snow falls
have revived the drooping spirits of the lumber-
men of the Ottawa Valley. The previous
ominous soft weather was on a fair way of proy-
ing disastrous to the carrying on of operations
for the balance of the season. Disheartened
contractors in many cases completely suspended
work, and broke up their shanties, having found
it impossible to procure supplies, the bad roads
not permitting their conyeyanc¢e to the shanties,

finish, durability and elasticity to the touch, to
any heretofore imported from the United States.
At least so say those who should know whereof
they speak ; and in fact the entire factory is
carefully conducted under trained foremen, and
the careful supervision of the members of the
firm, and should any of your readers, on a visit
to this city, desire to see for themselves, they
will find the senior member of this firm ever
ready to extend the same courtesy to them as
shown to your correspondent, by showing them

Fp. 23.—Work in the shanties is progressing
favorably, and if there is sufficient water in the
spring to float down all that has been cut, the

pelled to suspend.
again.

drawbacks, will fall short of what was antici-
pated earlier in the season. It will be short in
the average size and also in the quality and
quantity. In square timber, however, there
will be no loss.

Logs are now quoted at $1.65 to $2.00 per

standard, duty paid. As in most other seasons,
there will be a large number stuck this year in
the streams, while quantities will be left in the
woods, The following are the principal firms
taking out logs in the localities mentioned :—
On the Black River—Bronson & Weston, J. R,

300th, Grant & Miller, John Rochester, and
McAuchim & Fraser. On the Kippewa—Sher-
man, Lord & Hurdman, Booth J. Gordon,
Oliver Latour, J. & G. Bryson, and the British
Canadian Lumbering Co. On the Temiscam-
ingue—Bell & Hickey, raser & Screeney, and
G. Taggart. There are besides the foregoing
quite a number of smaller jobbers.

Pink-eye is playing havoc among the horses
in the majority of the up river shanties. It is
remarkable that thedisease doesnot effect in such
a serious degree the animals in the inland shan-
ties. It is principally those of the concerns
along the main river and larger streams that are
afflicted. A person travelling one day recently
from Fort Eddy to Mattawa, a distance of ten
miles, counted sixteen carcases of horses that
had succumbed to the disease. Some firms have
engaged the. services of competent persons in
order that they may be on hand to work when
fit. The outbreak of this disease is attributed
by some to the unbroken weather this winter,
It is known for a fact that during the cold spell
that preceded the late thaw the disease died out
considerably, but it appeared again when the
soft weather set in. Some shanties have as
many as twenty-five or thirty horses laid up
just now with the disease. This will also tend
to diminish the production of logs.

The concerns here report no sales lately, but
next month will tell a different tale, as spring
orders will then begin to be received.

J. R. Booth’s mills are undergoing extensive
repairs this season, as are also a number of the
other mills.

Baldwin & Co.’s and Almer’s mills, recently
damaged by fire, are being reconstructed rapid-
ly, and will soon be in operation again.
go

BRACEBRIDGE.
From Our Own Correspondent,

Fs. 25.—The hauling for the two weeks pre-
vious to this one has been almost at a standstill
for want of s but the recent fall has made
things more lively for the present week, but it
was impossible to get all the hired teams back
again into the woods. For this reason there
will probably not be as much got out as was an-
ticipated in the earlier part of the season.

David McLelland, a jobber for the Georgian
Bay Lumber Company, who is well known here
and has been in the business for many years,
was thrown from his cutter on Feb. 14th by his
horse running away, and was killed.

A company to be known as the Midland and
North Shore Lumber Co., some of the members
of which are Messrs. D. Ullyott, G. A. Cox and

now,

r J. Bertram, of Peterborough, has been recently

formed. They have purchased the Guelph
Lumber Co.’s property in the Parry Sound Dis-
trict. It is said that they have paid $140,000
for the mill and limits. The limits are well
timbered, and there is no doubt that itis a good

purchase.
——— ee ——

MIDLAND.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Fes. 25.—The British Canadian Lumber and
Timber Co. is erecting here another large mill
with a capacity of about 100,000 feet a day, to
be ready by the first of May. They are also
making extensive improvements in their other
two mills, and expect to cut about 36,000,000
feet in the coming season.

The other mills are all fitting up ready for a
start as soon as navigation opens.

The B. C. L. & T. Co. are also rebuilding
theip tug, the Winnie Hall,

Not only those engaged in hauling, but also the
choppers and square timber makers were com-
Yortunately sufficient snow
has fallen to allow operations to be commenced

The cut, it is thought, owing to the many

ST. JOHN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Fes. 20th.—It is quite safe to assert that that
remarkable personage ‘‘the oldest inhabitant,”
cannot call to remembrance the time during the
history of the deal trade at this port, when the
stock was so completely ‘‘cleaned out.” For
the next month or so, therefore, little can be
said in connection with the trade here that will
be of interest to your readers.

In our last report reference was made to the
probable over-supply of snow for carrying on
logging operations; a heavy thaw has since
somewhat changed the position of matters in
this respect, and from all we can learn there is
little to complain of now regarding the condi-
tions for hauling in the lumber woods. Some
localities, of course, have more snow than others,
but the presumption is that the work can now
be carried on with vigour throughout the coun-
try generally, with a fair prospect of a good
supply of water in the spring for bringing the
logs out of the streams.

FREIGHTS. —

In consequence of the exhaustion of our stock
of deals there is no demand for shipping, hence
our freight market is for the time virtually
closed. The only charter we hear of since last
report is the Buteshire, 967 tons, for Barrow,
Liverpool, Bristol Channel, Dublin or Glaegow,
at 61s. 3d.

SHIPMENTS.

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

are as follows :—

For Europe... ..scccscesnce oes nana 1,211,000 Sup. feet.
** United States... 00. cs.dseuaee 647,008 -”
$¢' Australia... <vcoccceses csteume 847,000 -

No shipments of sugar box shooks for Cuba

this term.
SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :—

Fidelia, 450, Cuba.

Buteshire, 967, United Kingdom.

Alfarin, 446, ——

Grace E. Oann, 683, E. C. Ireland.

————$ ee
BOSTON.

Fes. 18.—The Journal of Commerce says re-
ports coming in are of the most encouraging
character. Even at present there is a remark-
ably good demand, and it would probably be
larger were it not for the very uncertain weather
which prevents indulging in future operations
to any great extent. The export demand is
reported better than for many years at the same
period. From all the western trade centres the
most flattering reports continue. In Chicago,
during the last two weeks, the shipments show
an increase of 200 per cent. over the same period
of last year. On all sides it seems to be agreed
that the prospects for a good spring trade were
never better. In this market, at present, there
is a dull feeling in birch and maple. Aside
from this there seem to be no weak points.
With this state of things it seems probable that
values will increase materially before spring has
well advance. Hard woods continue firm and
Our quotations are for carload logs :—

CANADA PINE.

strong.

Selects, Dressed. ...+....+ssseseeeeu e+e e848 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, Ists........++ ..-++-- 40 00@42 00
<c * -Qptis. <.cn see Saeeronee 33 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers. .....+.+eseeeeeeeeseee 27 OO@29 00
Dressed Box : Gasnky owease cuSeeecenaane 18 fae ee

Sheathing, Ist quality. ...........esceees
. ont =). "2294 Goss 00

———__—_—_—_—_——
CHICAGO,

Fes. 15.—The Northwestern Lumberman says :
If the wholesale lumber dealers of the city are
not satisfied with the present condition of trade,
and the outlook of business, they should give
up the vain and illusory things of earth and re-
tire to the cloister, for nothing material could
satisfy them. Inquiry at the leading yards con-
vinces one that for the time of the year trade is
heavy. One familiar with the lumber district
can see by walking through it that the outward
movement of stocks is brisk and continuous,
without making any inquiry. As an evidence
of how large the shipments are, it is noted that
from one of the principal yards is daily run out
from 40 to 45 cars. The same concern will, if
trade maintains its present volume, ship 5,000,-
000 feet of lumber the present month. Other
yards are doing proportionately well. The
continuance of this remarkable spring-like
weather, and the improvement of country roads,

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will tend to still further increase the volume of
trade. The prospect is that before navigation
opens there will be a lively scrambling after
lumber to re-supply the broken stocks of com-
mon boards, piece stuff, strips, etc., such as was
never before seen at the close of the winter
season. Of course under the circumstances
prices are exceedingly unyielding.

The prospect for higher prices in the spring
has set the farmers to buying barn stocks in ad-
yance of the time of building. Many are pur-
chasing lumber that they do not intend to use
till next fall.

Two vessels arrived at the port of Chicago on
the 16th of February, one being loaded with
lumber from Muskegon, and the other with rail-
road ties. It now looks as though forest pro-
ducts would reach Chicago during each month
of 1882.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles for the week ending February 16,
1882 :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
‘ Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882..... 6,966,000 1,180,000 37,128,000 6,390,000
1881..... 2,640,000 1,040,000 15,913,000 9,492,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1 to and including
February 16 :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882...31,798,000 8,702,000 157,504,000 48,085,000
1881...27,807,000 8,831,000 95,258,000 46,572,000
Inc.. 3,991,000 62,246,000 1,513,000
Dec.. 129,000
STOCK ON HAND FEBRUARY 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber......0005 471,350,108 444,922,272 403,981,900
Shingles.... ....200,800,347 186,790,000 171,495,000
BRED... ov sceislew ve 46,691,923 47,282,560 44,710,165
Pickets...... .... 3,082,823 2,496,482 2,041,351
Cedar posts. ..... 183,469 _-—-90,700 326,731
—__g—__.
ALBANY.

Fes. 16.—Quotations at the yards are as fol-

lows :—

Pine, clear, @ M.....-...... pinta isiota aicdae $53 00@63 00
Pine, fourths........... iateey seeeeeese.-0 48 00@58 00
ISIE SCIECE NEE eiaicis ale vias cc cictee ce siseis ae» 43 00@53 00
PHTE GOGO Rie nies oce'sls's lcs escncs.e . 19 00@31 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.... i... ....... 00 38@00 44

Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... ..... 00 19@00 22

Pine boards, 10-in............ pas wtd eiarelake:« 00 26@00 28
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls..............6.. 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.......... 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft 25 00@30 00

Pine, 12-in. boards, 13 ft

. . 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.....

- 38 00@40 00

«
“
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Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... ./....... 15 00@18 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select......... Re .. 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... .......... 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, each......... piaterel su cioe oe 00 00@00 19
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each............... 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.......60. ..... 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each................. 00 11@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each .. .............. 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each................ 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 2}x4, each ........ Pega 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10
Beh, rood, BMI. Se eins Wi Mr. es sie .. 35 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, @M........ +. 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, @M......... BARS aie ain » 60 00@70 00
Cherry, common, @M... ............... 25 00@35 00
ak tack, Ao. wee...) 38 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, @M................ 20 00@25 00
Basswood, 8 M........ccce weccesceveces 22 00@25 00
PAA INN Aol aiole = nig 08 viata: x a'e'4.0:2'o,0 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @M............. . 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M : 25 00@28 00
Ligon sr M2 Sees ae ssee. 35 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, pine, @M..... Beale aisle 2 0 00@ 6 00

ee 0 00@ 4 50

2nd quality............... =e55

ge Ee ee ee 0 00%) 4 00

= 2 0 00@ 2 25
in, hemlock, # M......... 0 00@ 1 62
Bprnpe f> FFAs... 0 00@ 1 87
Petmie A Be swkhf.. clk. a 0 00@ 2 00

OSWEGO, N.Y.
Fes. 20th.—The following are the quota
tions :—

Three uppers. AGE Bole nsias »o 00S $42 00@45 00
eh A ee +++» 32 00@35 00
PMC, COMMABB 95 555556 65. ss -- 20 00@25 00
Common «es 14 00@18 00
Gulls)...

MA Fa i. doa es ede cee ses hide +». 17 00@22 00
Sidings, selected, linch.................. 30 00@33 00
Lo. eee 30 00@38 00
Mill run, 1x19, 13 to 16 feet.............. 16 00@20 00
selected. = -.. 20 00.@25 00
suippers.. .. 15 00@16 00
, selected +see- 22 00@30 00
Pilea hse ob ves vs 3 Sa Te oer 10 00@13 00
1x6 selected for clapboards..... sseneseee 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 3 75@ 3 90
XXX, 18 inch, cedar............. 3 00@ 3 25
BRMaMines sere 008 a cada r ow wte<io'e aivid «es» 140@1 50
es
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :— 2
yc: seseeesersereseseessess 946 00@48 00
Le aT ae +--+ 18 00@19 00
OS, coc vacces Siete EAA GHs.0 x Atici nine 30 - 13 00@14 00
——>—____—
TONAWANDA,
CARGO AGINAW INSPECTION,

TEC UPPETS e+ ee ees ssecsseves ovsevee +. $40 0OGA5 00
PO hrc cct tresses t¥ieysrcicsibern-> V7 O@20 00

ga, Caddy hi se dv deve s cb ves visas 11 59@12 60

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal, of February 4th,
says :—Little has been added to stock during
the first month.of the year. It is well known
that a considerable consumption is going on here
at present, but purchases, as a rule, are seldom
made freely until the spring reveals the position
of buyers more clearly.

An auction sale was held at Greenock on the
26th ult., prices realized at which are noted be-
low. There was a good attendance, and trans-
actions were to a moderate extent, about 600
logs, besides various parcels of deals, changing
hands.

The collection of the strayed timber carried
away in the late gale is being vigorously prose-
cuted, with fair success. The recovery of so
much wood, however, and especially of the
hardwood, is necessarily tedious and expensive.

This market at present has a good opening
for spruce deals, of which there are very few on
hand, and recent prices have ruled high.

Statistics of shipbuilding on the Clyde con-
tinue to be of a cheering character ; fourteen
vessels, summing up to 24,880 tons, have been
launched during the month of January, an out-
put more than double that of January, 1881;
and it is reported that a number of new con-
tracts have recently been booked.

On the 26th ult., at Greenock, Messrs. Ed-
miston & Mitchells, brokers :—

Guehee waney boardwood, 35 c. ft. av. per log, 28d,
¢c. ft.
Michigan do., 57 ft. av. per log, 293d. to 301d. c. ft.
Quebec yellow pine, 35 to 65 c. ft. ay. per log, 20d. to
2vid. c. ft.
Do., 22 & 25 c. ft. av. per log, 16d. ¢. ft.
Quebec Red Pine, 35 c. ft. av. per log, 15d. c. ft.
Quebec Ash, 40 c. ft. ay. per log, 18d. to 20d, c, ft.
Quebec Ist pine deals—
12ft. 11x38 27d. per cub.
Quebec 3rd pine deals—
16 ft. 11x3 134d. es
TSehonib at<35- 182d! os
9& 10° 6/18x3 123d. «6
Quebee 3rd pine ends—-
7&8‘ 9/22x3
Quebec unclassed pine deale—
13 ft. 11x83 123d. Se
12&13° 7/19x3 113d. ai

12d. to 1234. “

The Australian Trade.

Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett & Co.’s timber re-
port, dated Melbourne, December 20th, says
that a considerable amount of business has been
carried through, both privately and at auction.

AMERICAN LumBER.—Sales comprise parcels
ex Grace Deering, David Brown, Olustee, Wylo,
and ex Melrose, Michigan clear pine being
quitted at £18 7s. 6d. to £18 ; Canada do., £15
10s. to £17 17s. 6d. ; w. p. shelving, £14 15s. to
£15 5s.; w. p. t. and g. ceiling, £12 17s. 6d.,
to £12 15s. ; whitewood flitches, £16 5s. per M.
ft. super. ; the trade holding light stock.

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WASTE OF TIMBER.
To th? Fditor of the Canada Lumberman :

Sir,—Enclosed you will find amount of my
subscription. Ilike your paper very much, as I
am interested in the timber business, and I fully
agree with you and others concerning or refe-r-
ing to the wholesale slaughter of timber practis-
el at present all over the Dominion, In fact I
have quite a sympathetic feeling for timber,
and grieve to see it wasted, and I am afraid
timber can never be planted to make it grow as
nature plants it.

T am encouraging others to take your paper.
Yours truly,

A. BuRROWEs,
Woodstock, Feb. 16, 1882,

es

Ir is stated that Oshkosh planing-mill men
are to have a depot in Chicago to which surplus
stocks of sash, doors, blinds and mouldings will
be shipped for sale,

A

“I pon’ WAN? THAL sturs,” is what a lady
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home some medicine to cure her of sick head-
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thereafter, it was administered to her with such
good results, that she continued to use it until
cured,and was made so enthusiastic in its praise,
that she induced twenty-two of the best families
in her circle to adopt it as their regular family
medicine. That “‘stuff” is Hop Bitters,”—
Standard.

Mack’s Macnetic Mepicine—the great brain
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cine eyer sold,

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Sells all sort of Lumber on Commission.
Consignments. pli
Stocks disposed on very low Commission.

DAVIES & Co.

46 Church Street, Toronto.

Prices given on application.
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E. S. VINDIN,

Commission, Shipping, Forwarding and

General Agent.

LUMBER MERCHANT

Office, Tempest’s Bloek, Port Hope.

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Manufacturer of all Descriptions of

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LUMBERMAN.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.
Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. sa@ No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &e., &e.

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ROBIN &

Lace Leather,

Mill Supplies, dc.

1118

Wrought Iron Shanty Cook Stoves

The Best Article ever offered to the Trade.

I have much pleasure in drawing attention tomy WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
Iron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 x 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with twoovens, each 16
x 24x 26. One fire-box of suitable size for area:'to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do.

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PETERBOROUGH, May 3], 1880.

ApAM HAu1L, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stove 1 have ever
used. You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.

Yours truly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

The Stove for Lumbermen,
PETERBOROUGH, June Ist, 1880.

ApAm HALL, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find
it is very satisfactory for lumber operations, especially so on drives, We can recommend it highly.
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.
PxHTERBOROUGH, June 8rd, 1880.

A. Haun, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO. HILLIARD, M.P_

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties supplied at the Lowest Prices.

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

Has Facilities

—FOR—

DOING as GOOD WORK

—AND AS—

PROME TL.

As any Engraver in Canada

ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

ONTARIO ELECTROTYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

Having added the Latest Machinery to my
Foundry, and secured the services of a MOST
EFFICENT STAFF OF AMERICAN SKILLED
WORKMEN, I am prepared to execute all orders
with Promptness. Satisfaction guaranteed.

The Work Produced at my Foundry is ack-
nowledged to be equal to any in the United
States, and Superior to any in Canada.

far Orders from the Country Promptly attended to.
far Please address all Orders to 1123

R. SMITH, 26 & 28 Colborne Street, Toronto.

J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

Saws,of all kinds manufactured from
the BEST CAST STEEL that can be
procured in any Market.

EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
and on Short Notice.

Send Address for Price List, Terms, &c.
1117 J. F. LAWTON.

FOR “I Ee See

TURBINE WATER WHEELS

Mill Machinery,

PAXTON, TATE & Co.

Port Perry, Ont.
¥xsSend for Illustrated Catalogue.

4112

To MILLMEN!
HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

j Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and

is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is moved along the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million eet of
lumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova

Hodgson's Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

1L7 | combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other, Jointer is built in machine, s few

inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Reavers of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will gin for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

i. T, HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 77

mere

WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

Edge Tools, Axles, Springs,

&C., OF EHVERY DESCRIPTION-~

eee ee 1119

Robertson Place, Smythe Street - ST. JOHN, N.B.

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STHAM BOTDEHRS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

1115 NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ADAM McKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

Flour Making by the New Process

GRAY’S PATENT

NOISELESS ROLLER MILL

A Model of Perfection /
Every Mill a Success /

A LEARMONTH & Co.

ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS,
MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines, Rotary Pumps, of ail sizes, far Paper

and Pulp Mills, Steam Pumps, and a Variety of other

Pumps, Propeller Engines for Yachts & Tow Boats.

1119

Smooth Iron or Poreelain ROLIS.

‘SOIVIC POTD OND JO SAOTITW
OATPUPUOSIACIY OFF [LV AQ POS LV STN L9T10Y WoT

Tron Railings, Hoisting Machines for Stores, Jack Screws, Park
Mills, all kinds of Machinery for Mines, Saw Mills, Fiour Mills.

\ iy St. Paul St., QO Sere

PARKER& EVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN. 11n19

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

CORRUGATIONS of all Descriptions.

The Machine is Perfect in all its adjustments, and RUNS
WITHOUT NOISE.

It is doing Better Work than any other Machine in use.

Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.

Driven entirely by BELTS.

Differential Speed always insured.

WEYMAN’S NEW IMPROVED PATENT

Poreelaim Rells
orcelaim Rolls
WN \Y WW WW WO S \ TE Hh Oa

The BEST ROLL FOR MIDDLINGS in the world. Over 6000
in use in this country and Europe. Send for particulars.

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

MONTREAL.

ESTABLISHED 1874,

RELIEVE AND CURE

Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price. :

A. NORMAN, Esa., WATERVILLE, N. B.
Dear Sir,—Please send me a waist belt. Enclosed find price. Head band I got for my wife SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.
has almost cured her of neuralgia. Yours truly, LEY.

Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy

the attention ofall sufferers. Circulars free. No charge for consultation. Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto. and CONTRACTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL

N.&.—Trusses for Rupture, best in America, and Electric Batteries always on hand at
reasonable prices, = cane ing | WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper. 1119

/

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Northey’s Steam Pump Works “I= SUPPLIms.

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

BOILER FEED PUMPS, MINING PUMPS, RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
y]
AIR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS, |PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for pee a CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING. _
STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES, N BELTING, for Flour Mills. &e., Superior Quality.
DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.
WRECKING PUMPS. And CITY WATER WORKS. Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery

Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all
kinds. £®&Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

No. 47 King William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

SEND FOR CIRCULAR. i112

THE GOLDEN LION

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ESTABLISHED 18280.

GEORGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,

MAKER OF

Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,

CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &ec., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR 1120
“Water’s’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘Herald & Sisco’s”’ Centrifugal Pumps

ABRAMS & KERR

MANUFACTURERS OF

Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER
Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.

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CLOTHING

No Shoddy Cloths used. All Goods Manufactured on the Premises.
sar EVERY GARMENT WARRANTED.-@a
Men’s Flannel Shirts and Durable Underelothing.

ORDERS SENT WITH MONEY PROMPTLY ATTENDED To.

R. WALKER & SONS, 33-87, King & Colborne Ss, Toronto

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LUMBERMEN!

When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with a
Good Suit. Remember the address:-OAK HALL, the Great One Price Clothing
House, Toronto, opposite St. Jame’s Cathedral. 1s

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Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting. |— aE Os

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Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road, L A a a=

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We are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada. SZ = btw. = ae A ee

We carry a STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to choose from.|&O Gas | pa | = ae : H #28 BE =
We watch the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL 6f the = S| & ica) os £2<3 > 7, : 2 HE z 3

very best goods in Scotch, English and Canadian Tweeds. Qe mB@:o Stee - fe § 3. fe =

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 79

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-'Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
DETROIT

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

These Wheels are And Specially Adapted
Wire Strengthened For Saw Gumming

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. |

WE ALSO BEFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. a

80 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statislics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the whee]. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was so uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

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12x
8x 10s im =
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a \ Zin. hole. joy # in. hole. 12 2, | and 1 inch.
; 10x 12x
12x;

Probably more wheels 12xj, 12x} and 12x}are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x14, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that, you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a softsaw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly asecond time (after going all over it once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUESTION OF QUALITY.

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almost every use an
“Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made yp by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to 7
adopt our views, we make several qualitics, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish

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qualities 4o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows: 4

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD,—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world,’ Probably seven-elghths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2.
It cuts fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the “ Pocono.” .

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “PCCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both jsimer in grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Lftustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gamming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 18

ite Co, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania

CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED. q

ML. Covel's Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose. |

CIRCULAR SAW Afi. MILL MACHINERY!
5 TEAM F 5 iE i) / / Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery, for all

sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Circulars
I would also call special attention to my

for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the

SSS — Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
if eee | Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
d SN mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first

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ay } | S M ll WAM I ! \ aT | | class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gum-
Hea V cu ar ad W ] S Hl HI | MH [2 T= = mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary “
ii mn \ Vile 5 \ \2 Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam
Feed, having put inseveral which are givin? the best of sat-
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880.
Wom. HAMILTON, "SQ, Peterborough.

DEAR ~IR—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put it into my
mill, 1 have not Jost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. I can cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute.
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. I am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting long or sbort logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully, | i
WILLIAM TAIT, i :
Lumbermapn, Gravenhurst. =| i ;

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Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
| NTA ts = with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
i | l i TT | = Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large

| i i - Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel 7

| | ANH | justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish

NN hk on this Engine will be no discredit to its renown, and cer-

DEAR SiR—The Steam Heed you put in is working splen- tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.

didly. Yours, &c,, I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power

THOMPSON, SMITH & SON. SSS per hour, 1utt

WEiILITLAM HAMILTON!
PETERBOROUGH, ONT.

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ToRoNTO, August 11th, 1880.
Wom. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.

PUBLISEED
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The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada.

VOL. 2. ee

Uron splitting a white oak tree recently cut
down in Nevada county, California, there was
found imbedded in the heart of the trunk, sixty
feet above the roots, a granite bowlder weighing
about two pounds. Years ago, when the forest
giant was a sapling, some aborigine must have
placed the rock between the main shoot and one
of its small branches,

THE Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich.,
says that in order to give our readers some slight
conception of the future outlook we may simply
state that R. H. Weideman & Co. are putting
an extra quality of logs in the river at the city
by rail and have refused an offer P17 per
thousand, demanding $20 for them, with a good
prospect that their demand will be-acceded #.

THE Chatham, N.B., World says that Messrs.
Whalen & Dunn, on the South branch, are
getting out a large quantity of logs for the Hon.
Wm. Muirhead. Mr. D. McLaughlan is also
havling a large quantity for Messrs. Guy, Bevan
& Co. Messrs. Daniel Sullivan & Wm. O’Brien
are hauling for Mr. Robert Swim. Mr. B. N.T.
Underhill and Mr. J. L. Murray are lumbering
extensively on the Renous and Dungarvan for
Mr. Snowball. There are, also, several smaller
operators. Mr. McLaughlan has 180 men and
92 horses in his camps. It is estimated that the
total haul will be nineteen millions.

PINE IN THE U. 8. LAKE REGION.

There has recently been published a report by
Prof. Sargent, of Michigan, on the States’ forests
in the neighbourhood of the Great Lakes con-
taining matter of interest for Canadians as well
as their cousins. It states that, according to
the carefully digested estimates of the U. S.
Census office, the forests of Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, and Minnesota contained in the spring of
1880 some eighty-two billion (82,010,000,000) feet
of merchantable pine ; and that the pine cut in
these three states reached during the census
year a total of over seven billion (7,035,507,000)
feet. At this rate of destruction these States
would be stripped of their pine forests in less
than twelve years. Itis admitted that some
small and scattered lof$ may hereafter be dis-
covered which may prove the above stock esti-
mate to have been rather low. But there seems
to be no doubt that in any event the stock can-
not last longer than is anticipated should the
rate of consumption increase in the future as it
thas done in the past. The total production
during the last census year, including also hard-
wood, reached 7,145,969,000 feet, or an increase
of eighty-three per cent. of production in 1880
over 1870. A much smaller rate of increase
would leave no doubt of the consumption of all
the remaining stock in a much smaller period
than is enpposed. The effect of the destruction
of the forests, and with them of the lumber
trade, of these regions cannot fail to be a serious

‘it will not long do so.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., MARCH 15, 1882.

blow to their prosperity, to say nothing of the
inconvenience to which the want of a similarly
large supply must subject them. Chicago is
now the greatest lumber centre the world has
everseen. More than one billion eight hundred
milliém feet of sawed lumber entered it by rail
and lake during 1881. Its shipments reach the
Atlantic and to beyond the Rocky Mountains.
The Chicago Lumber Exchange regulates the
lumber trade of the Union ; but if these statis-
tics be correct, as there seems no doubt they are,
On the prospect to the
States generally, the N.Y. Nation writes as fol-
lows :—

‘* An increase of consumption of eighty-three
per cent. in ten years, or even of seventy per

j cent. (which is probably nearer the correct

figure), is alarming. Nevertheless, the rate at
which these forests will disappear will, we be-
lieve, be much greater in the near future. The
almost entire exhaustion of the pine supply of
Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania; the
greater facilities which the improvement of the
rivers, and the general introduction of short
logging railroads and tramways, afford for
getting out logs from regions which ten years
ago were still either entirely unknown or con-
sidered so remote as to be beyond the reach of
profitable markets, indicate that, rapid as has
been the removal of these forests, the rate of
future destruction must be much greater. It is
probable that the annual production of pine
lumber in these three States will increase con-
siderably during the next five, or perhaps eight,
years, and that it will then cease suddenly, and
almost entirely. We do not wish to be under-
stood to prophesy that at the end of eight years
no more pine lumber will be manufactured in
Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. Pine in
small quantitions will continue to grow in these
States, and pine lumber will probably be manu-
factured there always. What we intend to say
is, that at the end of eight, or perhaps ten, years
the pine forests of these States will have been so
nearly exhausted that their production will
have ceased to be of any national importance,
and will not be available for more than mere
local supply.

No steps have ever been taken to preserve or
perpetuate these forests. Their destruction has
been wanton, short-sighted, and stupid. The
goose which has laid so many golden eggs, and
has built up cities and fleets and great traffic
lines, is dying. There can be no future for much
of the immense region from which these pine
forests have been removed, and it must remain
a desert until generations of humbler plants
shall have made another crop of pine upon it
possible. Nature is slow to forgive any in-
fringement of her laws, and the great-grand-
children of the men who have destroyed these
forests will not live to see the shores of the great
lakes covered again with pine forests fit for the
axe, A wiser policy and a different manage-

ment might have secured permanent supply,
with greater, or as great, individual profit.

The north-western lumberman in his march to |

the north has made a clean sweep before him.
If any tree escaped his rapacity, the fires, which
haye everywhere followed in his wake, destroyed
it, and destroyed, too, the ability of the sojl to
produce pines again. Had he selected~only
trees of a standard size to cut, leaving all young
trees to grow up and sufficient old trees to
furnish the ground with seeds for new crops ;
had he excluded fire from the partially-cut
woods, these pine forests might have been pre-
served indefinitely, and been made to yield crop
after crop, and far greater aggregate returns
than have now been obtained from them.”

Now here is a lesson for Canada, Lumber is
our great staple, and the destruction of our
forests would leave us in a still worse position
than the destruction of the western forests will
leave the Western States. It is confessed dis-
tinetly that their destruction has been the fruit
of the policy which leaves every man to do
‘that which is right in his own eyes,” in full
confidence that the result will be to the general
good. With such an admitted failure of the sys-
tem before us, it is time that we should turn
aside from it in the case of our forests, as we
have been forced to do in the case of fish and
game. Let some system of inspection be estab-
lished whereby young timber will not be de-
stroyed, and whereby a new growth will be
secured on lands fitted for no better destiny
than forest lands; and, if it be practicable, let
some precaution against fires be taken. If we
mistake not, these things have been done in
European timber-producing countries, and if so
they can be done here, if our rulers will turn to
the work with a view to help their country, to
assist each other in discovering the truth, and to
put it in practice. The lumber trade has always
been Canada’s golden egg ; and it must grow in
value if we can only save it from the fate which
apparently awaits that of our neighbours.—
Maile.

T=
MIDLAND & NORTH SHORE LUMBERING
COMPANY.

Public notice has been given that, under the
“Ontario Joint Stock Companies’ Letters
Patent Act,” Letters Patent have been issued
under the Great Seal of the Proyince of Ontario,
bearing date the seventeenth day of February,
1882, incorporating Dalton Ullyott, of the Town
of Peterborough, in the County of Peterborough
and Province of Ontario, Lumber Manufacturer;
George Albertus Cox, of the same place, Presi-
dent of the Midland Railway of Canada; Alfred
Passmore Poussette, of the same place, Solicitor,
one of the Managers of the Peterborough Real
Estate Investment Company (Limited) ; Robert
Charles Smith, of the Town of Port Hope, in
the County of Durham, Lumber Manufacturer ;
and John Augustus Barron, of the Town of

Lindsay, in the County of Victcria, Barristes
at-Law ; for the purpose of the acquiring of pu
timber limits and lands in the Province of On-
tario, by purchase or otherwise ; the conductin:

| of the business of lumberers and timber mer-

chants, including the purchasing, preparing,
manufacturing, transporting and selling of tim-
ber, lumber, shingles, lath and pickets, bre

handles, matches, pulp, doors, sashes and blinds,
pails, tubs, and wooden ware, furniture, agri-
cultural implements, mouldings, boxes, railroad
and other cars, ties, cordwood, fence rails and
posts, telegraph poles, staves and barrels, axe
handles, waggons, carts and lumber dryers : the
building of vessels, ships and boats, docks and
piers ; the planing and dressing of lumber and
the erecting and purchasing of mill privileges,
water powers, mills, saw mills, buildings, ma-

chinery, coves, booms, booming-grounds. uten-
sils, horses, cattle, boats, vessels; the making
and working of roads, tramways, and channels
of water ; the conducting of the business of flour
and grist-milling, foundry, machine, and black-
smith’s shops, farming, stock-raising, horse-
breeding, and the purchasing of lands and
buildings necessary to carry on such business ;
the manufacturing of oat and other meals, lime-
burning, and the erecting and purchasing of
flour and grist mills ; the manufacturing of axes
and tools, and the erecting and purchasing of
shops therefor ; the conducting and carrying on
of the business of a general wholesale and retail
store ; of mining for gold, phosphate, and other
minerals ; and of the quarrying for stone and
smelting of ore; and of cotton, woollen and
carding mills; and of the right to subscribe to
and take stock in booming and river driving
companies and associations; and owning oF
leasing of railroad cars for transportation pur-
poses ; and the right to purchase and do every-
thing necessary for the conducting and carrying
on of the said business ; the borrowing on the
security of their own debentures, or otherwise,
such sum or sums of money as may be necessary
for the carrying on of said businesses, and that
with or without security ; the purchasing and
selling, making: and endorsing of bills of ex-
change and promissory notes ; the investing in
the security of mortgages on real estate in the
Province of Ontario, or upon the debentures of
any municipal corporation in the Province of
Ontario, or upon the debentures of any com-
pany incorporated by any special or general Act
of the Dominion of Canada or the Province of
Ontario, doing business within the Province of
Ontario, or any parteor portion of the profits
arising out of the said businesses, for the pur-
pose of repayment of the capital invested ;
and do all other things whatsoever incidental to
the aforesaid business, by the name-of “‘ The
Midland and North Shore Lumbering Com-
pany,” with a capital stock of one million dollars,
divided into ten thousand shares of one hundred

dollars each,

LHH UANAY A

FOREST CULTURE.

To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman :

Sir,—I am glad to see by the last issue of the
LuMBERMAN you so kindly sent me that the
subject of forest culture and the restoration of
our forests is beginning to receive a little at-
tention in the public press. But I am afraid it
will be a long time before the subject will be so
thoroughly impressed on our people that they
will force our government to take action in this
matter. As yet, the most prominent idea with
our people and our government seems to be
how to get rid of our forests the quickest and
most easily. Forests are regarded as yet rather
.in the light of an encumbrance to the develop-
ment of the country than as a blessing of a kind
Providence. While every advantage is taken
of our hitherto abundant supply of timber, no
effort is made made in the way of replanting.

Were the scarcity of timber and wood the
only injury to result from the wholesale destruc-
tion of our forests now going on from one end of
the Dominion to the other, I would quietly let
matters go on as they are, but when I consider
the injurious effect this exploitation of our
forests has on the climate and the productive
power of our soil, I think it my duty to raise
my feeble voice with others in the hope of being
able to arouse public attention to this subject.
The experience of the old world has been so sad
that every effort should be made to avoid re-
peating it on this continent.

The Government of this Province has a large
area of public lands, large tracts of which are
unfit for cultivation, still in its charge. Hvery
effort should be made to induce the government
to undertake the improvement of these tracts
by replanting them with valuable timber where
they have been bared either by the lumberman’s
axe or by fire. ‘To allow them to be grown over
with worthless or inferior timber, while valuable
timber might as easily be grown on them, would
be criminal neglect. Our Government has a
large surplus on hand, and could not invest it
better than by organizing a department of
forestry and replanting the townships that the
surveyors report as being burnt over, with valu-
able timber. If $50,000, or $100,000, were ex-
pended each year in this way it would prove of
far greater benefit to the Province than the
millions wasted on competing railways that are
now swallowed up by the trunk lines.

I hope the Lumprrman will continue its
efforts in enlightening the public on the impor-
tant subject of forestry, and that good may re-
sult in the end is the hope of

Yours truly,
A. EBY.

Sebringville, March 8rd, 1882.

—————L
MASTER AND SERVANT’S ACT.

The following petition is being circulated
among the trade for signature :—

To the Honowrable the Minister of Justice for the
Dominion of Canada.

The petition of the undersigned lumbermen
and mill-owners of the Dominion of Canada
humbly sheweth :

1. That your petitioners are largely engaged
in the manufacture of sawn lumber and square
timber in the Dominion of Canada, and in the
prosecution of their said business are obliged at
great expense to procure laborers at a distance
and bring them to the point at which the said
logs and timber are to be got out, and for that
purpose have to make advances in money to such
laborers.

2. That by an Act of Parliament of the Do-
minion of Canada, 40 Victoria, Cap. 35, passed
on the Twenty-Highth day of April, A.D. 1877,
the law theretofore existing was amended and
the sections of the Act of the Parliament of the
late Province of Upper Canada, intituled ‘* An
Act respecting Master and Servant,” having re-
ference to the neglecting of employment by
servants were with some limitations repealed.

3. That the repeal of the said sections has
worked injuriously to the lumber trade of the
Dominion of Canada in that there is no safe-
guard or security to lumbermen, who may, in
the course of their business, be called upon to
procure workmen at great expense to manufac-
ture and get out saw logs and timber, by the
advance to such workmen of the means of taking
and conveying them from their respective places
of hirlng, to the point or points at which the

service contracted for is to be performed, or by
the payment of money in advance on account of
the wages to be earned under such contract of
hiring.

4. That Your Petitioners deem it necessary
and advisable that such contracts of hiring and
service should be placed on the same footing as
contracts provided for by Sub-See, 3 of Sec. 2 of
said Chapter 35,

Your Petitioners therefore pray that a clause
such as or to the effect of that following (which
is respectfully submitted) should be added to
said Chapter 35, by way of an amendment
thereto.

“« Any person, to whom money has been paid
to place him or her in a position to work or per-
form a contract entered into by him or her, or
who may have procured, any other person or
corporation to make advances to him or her
under a contract of hiring or service, who wil-
fully refuses to perform such contract or service
or wilfully quits or neglects the employment of
such person, persons or corporation, who has
paid such money or made such advance, 80 that
such person, persons or corporation, shall be de-
prived of the services of such person, shall on
conviction,” &c. (as in said Sec, 2.)

And your Petitioners will ever pray.”

HOW TO PLANT TREES.

We take from the Canadian Horticulturist,
published by the Fruit Growers Association of
Ontario, the following essay by N. Robertson,
of the Government grounds, Ottawa :—

A great deal has been written and said about
tree planting. Some advise one way, some an-
other. I will give you my method, with which
[have been very successful, and, as it differs
somewhat from the usual mode, it may be inter-
esting to some of your readers. Igo into the
woods, select a place where it is thick with
strong, young, healthy, rapid-growing trees. I
commence by making a trench across so as I
will get as many as T want. I may have to des-
troy some until I get a right start. I then un-
dermine, taking out the trees as I advance ;
this gives me a chance not to destroy the roots.
I care nothing about the top, because I cut
them into what are called poles eight or ten feet
long. Sometimes I draw them out by hitching
a team when I can get them so far excavated
that I can turn them down enough to hitch
above where [ intend to cut them off ; by this

method TI often get almost the entire root. 1
have three particular points in this : good root,

a stem without any blemish, and a rapid grow-
ing tree, This is seldom to be got where most
people recommend trees to be taken from—isol-
ated ones on the outside of the woods ; they are
generally scraggy and stunted, and to get their
roots you would have to follow a long way to
get at the fibres on their points, without which
they will have a hard struggle to live. Another
point recommended is to plant so that the tree
will stand in the direction it was before being
moved ; that I never think about, but always
to have the longest and most roots on the side
where the wind will be the strongest, which is
generally the west, on an open exposure.

For years I was much against this system of
cutting trees into poles, and fought hard against
one of the most successful tree planters in Can-
ada about this pole business. I have trees
planted under the system described that have
many strong shoots six and eight feet long—Hard
Maple, Elm, &c.—under the most unfavorable
circumstances. In planting, be particular to
have the hole in which you plant much larger
than your roots ; and be sure you draw out all
your roots to their length before you put on
your soil ; clean away all the black, leafy soil
about them, for if that is left, and gets once
dry, you will not easily wet it again. Break
down the edges of your holes as you progress,
not to leave them as if they were confined in a
flower pot ; and when finished, put around them
a good heavy mulch, I do not care what of—
sawdust, manure, or straw. This last you can
keep by throwing a few spadefuls of. soil over ;
let it pass out over the edges of your holes at
least one foot.

T have no doubt that the best time to plant is
the fall, as, if left till spring, the trees are too
far advanced before the frost is out of the groung;
and by fall planting the soil gets settled about
the roots, and they go on with the season,

LUM DET LAIN.

Trees cut like poles have another great advan-
tage, Tor the first season they require no stakes
to guard against the wind shaking them, which
is a necessity with a top ; for depend upon it, if
your tree is allowed to sway with the wind, your
roots will take very little hold that season, and
may die, often the second year, from this very
cause.

All who try this system will find out that they
will get a much prettier headed tree, and much
sooner see a tree of beauty than by any other, as,
when your roots have plenty of fibrous roots,
and are in vigorous health, three years give you
nice trees '

A HEAVY LAW SUIT.

The Montreal Witness says that the Hon. Mr.
Church, Q.C., is at present in Ottawa as
counsel, with the Hon. Mr. Blake, Q.C., and
McCarthy, Q. C., for the respondents in the
well-known case of Caldwell vs. McLaren,
which is being argued before the Supreme Court
of Canada. It will be remembered that Mr.
Caldwell and Mr. McLaren owned certain
timber limits in Ontario, and that a certain
stream passed through, first Caldwell’s and then
McLaren’s property. McLaren’s part of the
stream, however, was not navigable for logs,
and he made the improvements necessary to
make it so. Then Caldwell took advantage of
of this to float his logs down the stream,
through MclLaren’s property, and the latter
took an injunction to stop his neighbor from
using improvements which another had made.
Mr. Caldwell contended that Mr. McLaren had
no such rights over running water’as to stop an-
other man from floating down logs on it, but
Vice-Chancellor Proudfoot at Toronto gave
judgment for McLaren.

The case was carried to the Court of Appeal,
and the judges there, by two to one, reversed
the Vice-Chancellor’s decision. The next step
was to the Supreme Court, and this step was
taken by Mr. McLaren. Whichever way the
judgment is given, it is morally certain that
the case will be taken to the Privy Council by
the loser.

The law costs in this case, which has been go-
ing on for three years, are something enormous,
amounting already to about $40,000. The evi-
dence taken in the case is also enormous, about
126 witnesses having been examined. This is
the case which gave rise to the famous bill deal-
ing with streams and rivers, which was passed
by the Ontario Legislature, but disallowed by
the Dominion Government.

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CLIMATIC INFLUENCE OF TREES,

The following valuable paper was written by
Dr. John A. Warder, of North Bend, Hamilton
Co., Ohio, and read before the Ontario Fruit
Growers’ Association, at their convention in the
city of Hamilton, Canada, on Thursday,
January 19th. Dr. Warder is a recognized
authority on forestry, and as a pomologist has
few equals, and no superiors, on the American
continent. The paper was received with much
interest.

Mr. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE
Ontario Fruir Growers’ ASSOCIATION :—
After hearing the paper on Protection to the
Orchard, read at the recent Pomological meeting
in Boston, Massachusetts (September 15th,
1881), you, Mr. President, conferred upon its
reader the honor of an invitation to prepare a
lecture for presentation at the approaching
meeting of your society at Hamilton, Ontario.

The proposition was accepted with hesitation,
partly on account of impaired health, but main-
ly because of an apprehension that yourself and
your worthy confreres, as fruit growers, would
be disappointed in the character of the topic
selected—The Climatic Influence of ‘Trees.
However, after traversing a portion of your
beautiful and productive Province in the lovely
days of October, and after beholding the won-
derful progress that has been made by your
citizens in clearing off the dense forests that
once clothed your fertile soil, while observing
and considering the changes consequent upon
converting the woodlands into the farms, the
forest into the prairie, the conviction became
stronger that the theme must be drawn from
that group of topics, which deserve so large a
share of the thoughts and consideration of the
American farmers and statesmen.

A perusal of such numbers of your valuable
transactions as have been kindly furnished by
the secretaries of the two leading societies of the
Dominion, also assure the writer that such a
theme as the one about to be presented may be
welcomed by you, and he feels encouraged by
finding that on your side, as well as on ours,
forestry is becoming an important question, and
that, to some of you, as well as to some of us,
the sprite will not down—the question must be
met ; the sooner the better! Nor should the
great interests involved in the word be ignored,
either by agriculturists or statesmen, It is high
time that our attention should be directed to a
consideration of the subject in its bearings upon
the agriculture of our continent, and its future
Maintenance and’prosperity.

The transactions of the Ontario and Montreal
societies already contain evidence of your inter-
est in Forestry, as shown in the valuable papers
relating to Canadian Forests by Mr. A. T.
Drummond, Mr. Jas. Little, Mr. H. G. Joly,
Mr. G. M. Dawson, Messrs. McAinsh, G. Pea-
cock and others, which may be read with profit,
and which show that your attention has already
been directed into this channel, all of which en-
courages me tocontinue. At the same time the
intelligence and the familiarity with the subject
thus displayed by your own members might
well cause a stranger to feel some diffiidence and
hesitation on entering an arena with which you
are supposed to be so much more familiar than
a casual visitor. It is however, but a limited
portion of the subject which it is proposed to
discuss at this time, Mr. President, and, as you

are aware, the task is undertaken only after

consulting you, and after having received your
approval of the discussion of wind breaks and
shelter belts and sheltering groves for Ontario.

Reference has already been made to the ex-
tensive clearings that have been effected by the
generation of men now occupying the inter-
lacustrine region of fertile lands in Upper
Canada. It seems almost incredible that in
half a century or less, so vast a change should
have been effected in the condition of this broad
plateau, as is evident even from the car windows
of the rolling train. Over wide areas the forests
that once encumbered them have disappeared,
leaving no traces of their former existence in the
smooth and wide savannas of smiling fields
covered with bountiful crops and beautiful
herds. In a brief period the howling wilderness
of woods and swamps which greeted and might
well have repelled the sturdy settlers, has been
transformed by man’s persevering industry
nto smiling prairie, Wonderful transformation !

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The very stumps of the sylvan monarchs have
been rooted out, the soil has been tamed of its
wildness, and brought into the highest culture
over wide tracts ; and with the evidence of high
farming that so generally prevails, there have
come also the improved animals to consume
their share of the products, and to aid in main-
taining, or even in enhancing, the natural fertili-
ty of the soil.

One of the most striking features of the coun-
try traversed, next to the apparent fertility of
land, was the broad extent of tillage, where
large fields made parts of great farms, and these
were bounded on all sides by other farms of
apparently equal dimensions; lying contiguous
to them on every side, or with small intervening
wood lots that could rarely be called forest lands,
for their limited extent, and their rifled condi-
tion would hardly entitle these bits of woodland
to be called forests ; they are but shadows of
their former selves,

Looking out of the car windows on either hand
one might behold vistas opened over these fields
that extended in many cases for miles without
interruption of a grove ora tree, oreven a stump
or a bush.

Here then, while finding so much to admire
in the results of the industry of the settlers,
who, in half a century or less, had effected so
great a change upon the earth’s surface, here a
theme was suggested to the traveller for him to
present to-day to his friends of Ontario: This
is what he now desires to impress and emphasize

—The necessity for you to protect yourselves,

your cattle, and your crops from the storms of
winter. He begs you to begin at once your
efforts to modify and to meliorate your climate
by restoring barriers against the winds you have
invited by too widely opening to them doors of
access to your homes. He also begs you, at the
same time, while beautifying your country, to
provide against the future necessities of the
people by producing, in these plantations, future
supplies of fuel and lumber, yes ! even here, and
on these fertile lands this may be done, and by
the wisest economy, by planting trees, in pro-
tective groves, but especially in wind-breaks and
shelter-belts on all your farms.

While occupying even a considerable portion
of arable land, that would then be withdrawn
from the dominion of the plough, these planta-
tions will, nevertheless, inure to the advantage
of the farmer, and of the country, by enhancing
the fertility and productiveness of the remainder
of the land thus sheltered, as has been demon-
strated on the open prairies of Iowa wherever
these shelters have been applied.

The whole of the route traversed by the
Grand Trunk Railway westward from Kingston,
is very happily situated in regard to lacustrine
influence, which must greatly modify the
climate of the region. The broad surfaces of
those great inland seas, Ontario, Erie and
Huron, cannot fail to exert the well known
effects of large bodies of water upon the atmos-
phere. It is, however, the region west of
Toronto that is most happily situated in this
respect, and here, too, the prevailing character
of the soil seems to adapt the region to high
farming. Here the lacustrine surroundings are
most fully developed, and here, while enjoying
the advantages derived from this source, the
inhabitants must beware how they expose the
country to the disadvantages that may arise
from a too open exposure to the water. The
winds must not be allowed a too free access to
the land.

To obviate the effects of the winds, it is advis-
ed to plant groves about the farm steadings to
the windward sides of barns and sheds, as well
as of the dwellings. These should by all means
be supplemented by evergreen shelter hedges
and screens about the residence and out houses.
The fields and pastures should be protected by
wind breaks on every farm.

The wind break demands a liberal space, and
the planting of numerous trees to make it effec-
tive. In a champaign country these shelters
should not be more than forty rods apart, nor
should they occupy less than four rods in width,
though.even a single or a double row of trees
between two fields will furnish a great deal of
shelter, more especially if they be of evergreen
species. ; 3

The soil should be well prepared by thorough
ploughing and harrowing, so as to produce a

good tilth ; when ready to plant, parallel fur-
rows should be drawn four feet apart, in which
to plant the little trees. This close planting is
particularly recommended where the use of
deciduous trees has been determined upon ; but
more space may be allowed for the evergreens,
and where these are planted in single or double
rows, with the trees of one row set opposite to
the interspaces of the other, six or eight feet
may be allowed. If the evergreens have been
planted three or four feet apart at the first,
alternate trees can be removed and set else-
where, when their limbs meet on either side ;
they will be saleable to your neighbours, or they
may be used in the extension of your own shel-
ters. Atany rate they will have already served
a good purpose by rendering the screen more
effective ; they have paid their way.

The planting, particularly of evergreens,
should be done in the spring, and care should be
taken to preserve the roots from exposure to the
sun and wind; if these delicate organs be once

desicated they never recover.

Planting small trees is a very simple opera-

tion, and may be thus performed on land pre-

pared as already directed : A spit of the mellow

soil of the furrow is lifted with a spade, the
little tree placed, its roots are spread out and
the earth from the spade is thrown upon them ;
this needs to be well prepared with the foot so

as to bring it in close contact with the fibrous
roots and exclude the air as thoroughly as pos-

sible; sufficient mellow soil is then thrown
about the tree so that it shall be buried rather
deeper than it had been previously.

Two men
with spades and a boy with trees may constitute
a team for this work, and carry two rows. A
favorite plan in Iowa is to employ the same
force in a single furrow that has been freshly
deepened by the plough. One man follows the
boy, setting the trees with his hands and tramp-
ing with his feet so as to make them stand to
the line, while the second follows with a hoe or
shovel and draws in the earth. A cultivator or
double hand plough is then passed along each
side of the row.

The plantation should be well cultivated and
kept clean for a few years, longer or shorter,
according to the thriftiness of the species, but
until the trees shade the ground, when they
will take care of themselves, Cattle must be
rigidly excluded.

Various combinations of species have been re-
commended for these belts, but as a rule in
forestry it should be borne in mind that ever-
greens and deciduous trees do not succeed so
well when mixed as when each class is massed
separately. To this there may be some apparent
exceptions: the European larch and Scotch
pines, or Norway spruces, are often found in
the same group doing well together—so in na-
ture we sometimes find similar admixtures.
But all the evergreens would be likely to suffer
if they were mingled in a plantation with the
rapid growing and unbrageous elms, cotton-
woods, maples and other-broad leaved trees.
Beautiful and effective for winter as are the
evergreen conifers, however, these native de-
ciduous species cannot be ignored, nor should
they be neglected nor dispensed with by the
farmers who may desire as quickly and as
cheaply as possible to produce an effect in the
shelter belt. Let such a one begin with the
poplars, willows, or with any trees or cuttings
that are at hand, always excepting the so-called
Lombardy poplar, which, as an ornamental (?)
shade (?) tree, already shows its aspiring head
in some of the western towns of the Dominion:

Indeed both classes of trees may be happily
combined without mingling them promiscu-
ously. They may be planted in the same belt
but in separate rows. putting the sturdy native
deciduous kinds in a few rows on the outside,
using the cotton woods and white willow, etc.,
which grow freely from cuttings and which
rapidly produce an effective screen. Next to
these may come the elms, the oaks, maples or
white ash, and other kinds, These thickly set
will soon rise and form a protection to the ever-
greens.

Mr. H. G. Joly, in the 6th report of the Mon-
treal society (for 1880), speaks in high terms of
his cotton woods, which in twenty-three years
had attained the height of sixty feet, with a
diameter of twenty-five inches. This is a re-
markable growth, truly, and though the timber

be not of superior value, the desired shelter is
quickly produced ; and, as he wisely suggests, it
will aid in protecting other trees. One form of
the cottonwood is a great favorite in Scotland,
where it is called the black Italian poplar, and
perhaps the same kind is planted extensively in
parts of France, where it is known as the
peuplier du Canada.

The European white willow /salix alba) is
another tree of similar characters, easily multi-
plied by cuttings, of rapid growth, and largely
employed in prairie regions for wind breaks and
shelters. When matured these soft woods will
be found to have great value for many purposes,
though inferior to hardwoods and resinous trées
éither for lumber or for fuel. The charcoal
used in the manufacture of gunpowder is almost
exclusively prepared from the white willow.

But your own native trees claim your con-
sideration, and, as appears from your transac-
tions, they have received deserved attention in
your discussions. The noble American oak—
“Canadian” !—(quercus alba) merits the care of
all planters, especially in the groves. Though

it be rather slow in its carly growth, it may be
supported by more rapidly growing species that

must be gradually removed as the oaks need the
space they have occupied. Oaks or their acorns
may be planted among the poplars and willows
of the outside rows, and they will be ready to
spring into a vigorous growth when these
pioneers are removed.

The sugar maples will make lovely groves,
that will yield their sweet tribute, as well as
lend their beauty to the landscape, while living,
and furnish valuable timber for fuel when cut
down. The invaluable white ash should be
much more largely planted in groves and by the
roadsides, as it makes a beautiful and most use-
ful tree. The American elm, too, has its uses
as timber, and is especially adapted for avenues,
where room is given for the development of its
wide-spreading and wind-resisting branches.
The wild cherry, the black, not the red (prunus
serotina), is commended for its elegance, -its
thriftiness and rapid growth, as well as for the
great beauty and usefulness of its lumber, which
is quickly produced.

In your discussions on the subject of shelter,
as reported in one of your volumes, a native tree
is named which is well to have recognized for its
beauty, as well as for the merits you very pro- -
perly attribute to it as a bee pasture. The
American linden or basswood (Zilia Americana),
may very well be made a leading component of
the home grove; its rapid growth will soon
make it effective, and its sweets will certainly
be welcomed by the bees. The timber of the
linden, too, has its uses, though very soft and
inferior to many other species, and its inner
bark has a commercial value as the material of
bast matting, while the wood is used for paper
pulp.

There are many other trees with which you
can experiment in your planting, but they need
not now be mentioned.

In the selection of evergreens for these shelter
groves and belts, the hardy natives of your own
country should first claim your attention.
Nothing can better serve your purpose than the
common white pine (pinus sfrobus), and the red
pine (P..resinosa). Both are rapid growers
when fairly started, and both are well adapted
to your soil and climate. For shelter grove or
wind break they cannot be surpassed. Next to
these and in the same genus come the foreign
kinds known as the Scotch (P. sylvestris), and
the Austria (P. Austriaca), which are rugged
and thrifty, of great value, both growing and
when felled, but not equal to our natives above
named, either for their future lumber or in the
rapidity of their growth. Neither of these can
compare with our natives as ornamental trees,
though they are often planted with that end in
view. They belong’to the forest rather than to
the lawn, for which we have lovelier species.

Of spruces you'have the natives, the beauti-
ful white spruce, (Picea alba), and the black,
which has often a blue tint, (P. nigra) and its
variety often called red spruce, trees of medium
size and beautiful, but excelled in size and
utility, whether standing or felled, by the
foreign exotic Norway spruce (P. excelsa), which >
yourselves have decided, and very correctly, to
be the very best of all evergreen trees for the
shelter belt, on account of its hardiness, its

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shaded, Exclude all cattle of every class from
the ground. This is absolute.

Finally, my friends, lest you become aweary
with too long an article, let us draw this to
conclusion, though you may rest assured the
half has not been told had the description been
intended to embrace all the trees that are
worthy of your care in general planting. A few
only have been introduced that were supposed
to be especially adapted for the object in view
—that of providing shelter groves and wind
breaks in the open country, to compensate in
some degree for the excessive removal of the
natural forests, which has already occurred in
portions of your country, just as it has happened
in our own State. In your northwestern pro-
vinces there are open prairies which must be
planted, and doubtless will be, by hardy settlers,
who will imitate the examples set them by our
fellow citizens on the broad trans-Mississippi
plains, But it is especially you, my good people
of the Province of Ontario, and you, dwellers in
this fertile, interlacustrine plateau, who are now
most earnestly entreated to begin at once the
work of providing the needed shelter for your-
selves, your cattle and your crops, by planting
homestead groves, shelter hedges, wind breaks
and shelter belts. Do it, my friends, also for
the sake of your friend and well-wisher from
over the border,

adaptability to all soils, its rapid growth, dense
spray and foliage, and its comparative cheap-
ness. The Norway spruce is also a very pliable
tree, and bears transplanting well, and in the
shelter-hedge it patiently submits to the free
use of the knife in close trimming. For the
shelter grove, and especially for the single or
grouped trees of the lawn, nothing can excel the
beautiful grace of form, nor the depth and purity
of green presented by the common American
hemlock-spruce (Abies Canadensis). This species
was common in much of your early forests and
must be familiar to you all. The hemlock has a
northerly limit, as shown by Mr. Drummond’s
map, extending from the northwest and north-
east coasts of Lake Superior, by the head waters
of the Ottawa River, crossing the St. Lawrence
below Quebec and traversing New Brunswick to
the ocean in latitude 47 degrees.

The hemlock makes such a dense growth of
foliage and slender twigs, that it is perhaps the
very best plant for the protective shelter hedges
that should be found about the dwellings and
outhouses of every farm in your broad domain
of Ontario. : :

The native balsam (abies balsamea), as you
seem to be aware, is hardy enough and very
beautiful when young, but unsatisfactory for
planting because it is apt to grow shabby when
older. =

The red cedar (juniperus virginiana) has a
wide range both north and south, east and west.
Though less extended than the other native
evergreens, this juniper is found in your part of
Ontario, and would be hardy enough, which is
not the case with the Irish juniper and some
other garden forms. ze

The red cedar has been called the poor man’s
evergreen in our Western States, because of its
abundance, its consequent cheapness, and the
ease with which it may be brought into cultiva-
tion. Its growth is sufliciently rapid ; trees set
out twenty feet apart have formed a close wall
of sheltering green, while their tops have grown
twenty feet high, with branches from the
ground, and all within twenty-five years from
the seed. This tree needs age to make its lum-
ber valuable, while young there is too large a
proportion of alburnum or sapwood.;-when the
red heart wood is developed the timber is per-
durable, and highly valued for posts, sills and
other uses where durability is required.

One of your most beautiful and mnst abun-
dant native evergreens is yet to be mentioned,
the American arbor-vite, (thuya o.zcidentalis).
This is erroneously called white cedar, which is
quite a different tree (cupressus thyoides), also
found in parts of the Province, and reported in
Mr. Dawson’s catalogue, on the faith of Mr.
Brown, on the great lakes.

The arbor-vitz abounds everywhere on low
lands, and Mr. Drummond reports it on his
map as reaching to St. James’ Bay, in latitude
52 degrees north. This plant is very abundant
along the line of the Grand Trunk Railway, and
in favorable situations immense numbers of
young plants might be obtained from the mucky

Lively Work.

A few days ago two men in the employ of
Wm. Hales, jobber for Messrs. Ullyott, Sadler
& Co., Peterborough, named respectively Thos.
Nesbit and Thos. McIlmoyle, cut 101 saw logs
in 98 minutes, averaging 144 inches. The logs
were cut with a Lance Tooth saw, and the work
was done fairly and honestly, for which the
culler of the said logs can vouch.

Or hemlock bark, for tanning purposes, which
isa large item in the Eastern Townships, one
firm at Warden is receiving 200 cords per day,
at Granby, one tanner has $30,000 worth on
hand and has 3,000 more coming in. The price
paid is at Dannville $4.50 per cord, and at War-
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The arbor-vitze and the hemlock-spruce, 3 ; ;
though admirably adapted for the construction
of wind-breaks, are also the two very best ; a

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lawn, around the gardens and about the dwell-
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introduce these screens. You are strongly urged
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Plant hemlocks and white spruces on the
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a circumference of 30 feet at four feet from the
ground,

L. J. Luoas, of Stanton, Mich., has ordered
1,000 black walnut trees from the nursery at
Tonia, which he will plant on his farm for a
future supply of logs.

Tun Kirby Carpenter Company at Menomi-
nee, Mich., has about 15,000,000 feet of pine
that was laid low by the *‘ gentle zephyr ” of last
summer at the big windfall.

We understand that the Longford Mills Co.
have sold their whole cut for the coming season
at $3 a thousand beyond the highest price that
they realized for any of their lumber last year.

Apvicres from our timber merchants now in
Europe say that most of them have met with
fair success in effecting sales, and a good num-
ber of contracts are being entered into for the
coming season.

On a recent Saturday 64 teams hauled 124
loads of lumber from Hannah, Lay & Co,’s
Long Lake mills to Traverse City, Mich., a
distance of seven miles, the total measurement
of the lumber being 291,000 feet.

Tur Lumberman’s Gazette says that a sale of
1,000,000 feet of lumber was made in Saginaw
recently at $8.50 for shipping culls, $17 for com-
mon, and $38 for uppers. This stock could
have been obtained a month ago at $8 and $16,

Tun Northwestern Lumberman says that here-
after the loggers will venerate Vennor. They
read his predictions, but trembled lest he should
turn out to be a monstrous liar. That alleged
prophet has in part redeemed himself, and if he
were now to inake a trip through the logging
districts the boys would take off their hats to
him and cheerfully set before him all the beans
and molasses he could swallow.

Tux saw mill of Mr. Kelly at Somerset, P.Q.,
is in full operation. A large number of men
are employed in the vicinity cutting ties for the
Grand Trunk Railway, and Mr. Kelly is also
having a quantity of cedar cut for shipment to
Europe.

Sir Joun Lupsooxk gave notice in the British
House of Commons to move, on the 7th of
March, for a select committee to enquire into
the state of forests and woodlands, and whether
any, and if so what, steps can be taken to render

them more productive.

A QuegxBEC correspondent says that timber
freights have opened at a slight advance over
last spring’s quotation, but it is thought that
the spring fleet will be small, owing to the de-
tention of a large number of Quebec traders, at
southern ports, awaiting cargoes.

Av Kendall, near Port Hope, Messrs. W.
Jackson & Son, of the Kendall lumber, shingle
and lath mills, run two shingle mills, and a
lumber and lath mill. They make from three
to four million of shingles, and from six to seven
hundred thousands of lumber and lath.

A sornt stock company is in course of organ-
ization in Quebec for the dressing and manufac-
ture of lumber into wooden goods, and for trad-
ing in lumber of all descriptions. The capital
is $80,000, and Messrs. A, Thompson, P. P.
Hall, J. Price, G. B. Hall and J. H. Hamilton,
jr., are the first directors.

Tur Northwestern Lumberman says the follow-
ing circumstance seems like a curiosity, happen-
ing in a locality as far north as Emmett county,
Mich., in February. On the 16th of that month,
in McMann’s camp, one team hauled snow on
the road, while another hauled 263 logs to Bear
river, three-fourths of a mile,

A party of explorers in this city are fitting
out for an expedition through the Saskatchewan
Valley and through the timber limits toward
the Rocky Mountains during the early summer.
They are engaged by a large land speculating
company just organized in the city, who. will
expend about half a million dollars in the pur-
chase of lands.

A STEAMER running on the Tennessee and
Cumberland rivers has on board a bark crusher
and compressing machine, with which it is pro-
posed to crush and compress bark bought at the
various stoppages into one-fifth its normal space,
the bales, however, holding the original weight.
Tf successful, these machines will reduce the
freight on tan-bark, and render possible its ex-
portation to Europe,

Tur Secretary of the Chicago Lumbermen’s
Exchange reported to the annual meeting, on
March 6th, that the past year has been one of
the most successful ever experienced in the
North-West. The receipts of lumber were
nearly 2,000,000,000 feet ; shingles, 866,000,000 ;
lath, 104,000,000, while coarse forest grades by
lake aggregate 2,846,000 posts, 4,200,000 ties
and a large quantity of miscellaneous stuff.

OUR WOODS AND FORESTS.

Though we are glad to see that in the Ontario
Legislature, asin the press, there are manifesta-
tions of a growing interest being felt in the
question of the preservation of our fast vanishing
forest wealth, yet it is to be regretted that no
practical steps have been taken so far this
session to preserve and foster it, and especially
that nothing has been done towards establishing
a department, or at least a separate and inde-
pendent bureau of ‘* Woods and Forests.” The
Government has taken no action in the matter,
the Opposition does not suggest it, and even the
independent members are one and all silent. It
seems as if it were the general consent that as
long as the revenue is swelled by contributions
from our forests, nothing more need be desired,
and as if the larger such contributions can be
made so much the more satisfactory. Not a
word of warning even is said as to the fact that
most of the receipts from. our woodlands are
really a converting into revenue what is in fact
a part of our capital, as in the case of the large

payments received, or still to be received, from
the recent sale of timber limits. A more com-
plete illustration of the fabled slaughter of the
goose that laid the golden eggs could not be
conceived, and the consequences must be as dis-
astrous.

The session is probably now too far advanced
for any important legislative or even adminis-
trative change in this matter. Jt is not too late,
however, to bring the subject before the House,
so as to educate alike the members and their
constituents with a view to more active proceed-
ings next session. There are many lumbermen
among the members who are well able to take
up the matter intelligently, and there are
several independent members who could handle
it without being hampered by any idea of party
advantage or disadvantage, Will not one of
these gentlemen take up this question and cause
it to be so ventilated that a more scientific and
economical system may be adopted before it is
too late?

VT
BREACHES OF CONTRACT,

In another column will be found a copy of a
petition which is now in course of signature for
presentation to the Minister of Justice in the

hope that as soon as his attention is called to the

inadequate protection afforded by the law, as it
now stands, to the employers of certain classes

of labour, the deficiency will be supplied.

So far as the proposed amendment is concern-

ed, its wisdom will be questioned by few, if any,

of our readers, and the only wonder is that so
reasonable a request has not long ago been made
and engrafted in the statute relating to such

contracts. .

In asking for this amendment the petitioners
ask for nothing more than is already the law
with regard to breaches of contracts for service
on the part of those employed by gas, water, and
proposed
amendment does not go as far as the law now
goes in the cases mentioned, because it only
asks that those who wilfully break such con-
tracts after having obtained advances on account
of services to be performed, shall be subject to
the same penalties as is now imposed upon the
employees named for a breach of contract with-
out reference to whether their wages be or be

railway companies. Indeed the

not in arrear.

It is well known that nearly everyone engaged

in the lumber trade has to make advances in

various ways to the men taken into the woods

on account of the services which they are ex-

pected to perform, and it is equally well known

that as the law now stands the men to whom,
or on whose behalf such advances are made, can

with impunity leave the person making such ad-
and without giving a

se ?

vances ‘‘in the lurch,”
single hour’s service in return, because the only

remedy provided at present for the breach of
such a contract is an action for damages—a

mode of procedure which would invariably only
add to the loss, as no damages can be recovered
in such cases.
not long ago been remedied is not only surpris-
ing but speaks volumes for the general honesty
of those to whom such advances are made.
There are always, however, black sheep in every
flock, and it is certainly not asking too much
that when such contracts are wilfully broken
the reasonable penalty of a fine not exceeding
$100, or imprisonment for a period not exceed-
ing three months, shall be provided. Such a
provision will be quite as much in the interest
of the honest employee as the employer, inas-
much as it will enable the latter to deal more
liberally with the former, by reason of its
affording him a reasonable security that his ad-
vances will be repaid.

Of course it will be noted that the proposed
amendment only applies to those to whom ad-
vances are made, and that it will in no way
alter the law with respect to those who earn
their money before they ask for it. The cases
sought to be provided for are practically cases
of obtaining money under false pretences, and
as such should be subject to the same punish-
ment.

No doubt when the matter is laid before the
Minister of Justice he will see the reasonable-
ness as well as justice of the request contained
in the petition, and take the necessary steps for
securing the desired amendment during the
present session of the Dominion Parliament,

That such a state of affairs has

PERPETUATING FORESTS.

In the United States, as in Canada, attention
is being drawn to the avisability of not opening
for settlement lands which are unfit for agricul-
ture, but rather preserying and restoring their
natural forests. The Utica Morning Herald
says :—

“The Adirondack wilderness is unconquer-
able—why should further effort be made to sub-
due it? Here is this beautiful region, located
in the very heart of our civilization. Is it not
here for a good purpose? And if so, should we
not make the most of it? Our forests are dis-
appearing ; why not preserve the one forest
which experience has proved is valuable for no
purpose except as aforest? Other nations have
learned the utility of forests, and spend their
money lavishly in reproducing them. Why not
we? As the forests disappear, the waters of
these beautiful lakes shrink in volume. We
need these waters, if we are to preserve our canal
system. They are needed to preserve the hu-
midity of our atmosphere which makes for our
comfort and health. Already vast areas of
naked rock, arid sand and grayel alone remain
to receive the bounty of the clouds, unable to
retain it. Why should not the state replant
them? It would be more profitable than the
building of gaudy new capitols, into which we
pour our taxes without stint. At any rate, why
should not the state at least take measures to
preserve what is left of the Adirondack wilder-
ness 7”

The $100,000 Suit.

The case of McLaren vs. the Canada Central
Railway Co. was advanced another stage on
Thursday. The defendants moved last term to
set aside the verdict for $100,000, recovered by
the plaintiff at the last Toronto Assizes, and to
enter judgment for them on a number of
grounds. The action was to recover damages
for the destruction of the plaintiff's lumber
yard caused by fire issuing from the smoke-
stack of one of the defendant company’s engines.
The court affirmed the verdict with costs, and
discharged the defendants’ order nisi,

Transplanting Evergreens.

The best season for transplanting evergreens
is from April to June. Spruces are very easy
to transplant, and if the roots are kept from
drying and are protected from the air, and well
spread and surrounded with the fresh soil, they
can be moved without any loss whatever.

whom the following was detailed by Mr. Henry
Kaschop, with Mr. Geo. E. Miller, 418 Main
Street, Worcester, Mass. ‘‘I suffered so badly

with rheumatism in my leg last winter that I
was unable to attend to my work, being com-
pletely helpless. I heard of St. Jacobs Oil and
bought a bottle, after using which I felt great]
relieved. With the use of the second bottle
was completely cured. In my estimation there
is nothing on earth so good for rheumatism.”

Cacoethes Scribendi. Those troubled in this
respect may find relief in using Esterbrook’s
Steel Pens. They are sold everywhere.
Wholesale dealers, leading Toronto stationers.

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, OW tT. .
NEW FOUNDRY FIRM.
McLean, Brayshaw & Co

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

CASTINGS of every description in Erass
and Iron.

Allsorts of MACHINERY for Saw and Grist
Mills.

STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.
Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset

Swages, and all Saw Tools,

Send for Price List, 14

THE CANADA LUM BERMAN.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ONTARIO WOODS AND FORESTS.

The annual report of the Commissioner of

Crown Lands for the Province of Ontario for
1881 says :—

The improvement in the sawn lumber and
hewn timber trade, noted in my Report of 1880,
continued throughout 1881, and my prediction
of the previous year, “‘that for some years to
come transactions would be remunerative to all
concerned,” seems to be in process of fulfil-
ment.

Both sawn lumber and hewn timber have
found ready markets and good prices, the former
realizing higher value than for years past.

Of square and waney timber, it is reported
that during the past shipping season prices have
ruled higher than they have ever done before
for pine of good quality and average ; and it is
stated that the stock on hand at Quebec is light,
and scarcely sufficient for spring requirements,

As expressed in my report for 1879, my
opinion, from an economic point of view, is not
in favour of the manufacture of square pine ;
nevertheless, while the business continues to be
carried on, it is gratifying to find that a good
return is obtained for the article.

The output of some of the saw mills fell short
in 1881 of the quantity estimated by the pro-
prietors.as the probable cut of the season. This
is attributed to scarcity of water in the streams,
owing to which considerable quantities of logs
failed to reach the point of manufacture. In
several instances operators in square and waney
timber have been subjected to the same draw-
back.

In the interest of the public revenue, as well
of the settlers who had taken up lands in some
unlicensed townships south of French River
and Lake Nipissing, it became necessary to deal
with the pine in the territory before it became
jeopardized by fires raised in clearing the lands,
or damaged and wasted by locatees cutting it
indiscriminately for their own purposes, in do-
ing which, timber of the finest quality is cut
down and applied to uses for which inferior
lumber would be suitable, the result being a
depreciation of the value of the timber limits
before they are brought into market, and in
consequence a loss to the revenue. Accordingly,
an inspection of the timber in the townships re-
ferred to was made in the fall, and on the 6th of
October notice was published that a sale of tim-
ber limits in the territory would take place at
the Department of Crown Lands on the 6th of
the current month.

The time selected for the sale was extremely
opportune ; parties engaged in lumbering had
just closed a successful season’s business, and
having the means wete prepared to invest in
limits. The attendance was large and the
bidding spirited, the prices obtained being be-
yond precedent, some 1,379 square miles realiz-
ing a total of $733,675.25, of which has been
paid up to date $321,354.66, making the total
collection on account of Woods and Forests for
the year, $839,716.86. ”

The following is the statement made by Mr.
T. H. Johnson, Assistant Commissioner, of
Revenue collected during the year ending 31st
December, 1881 :—

Amount of Ottawa collections,

Ald, Mussels... «te dadtars $204,652.34
Amount of Ottawa collections,
Mol. Stewart. concecanseeirs 65,338.63

$269,990.97

Amount of Belleville collec-

tions, J. F. Way...... ss... 85,407.67
Amount of Belleville collee-
tions, McL. Stewart,..... .. ~ 8,017.11
_ 88,424.78
Amount of Western Timber
District collections at Depart-
MVE telate Ualet erase sictaiatuin oeitn fists 150,380.28
Amount of Western Timber
District collection, McL. Ste- ;
WAR sealanais toate, ab eben von 9,616.17
- ————— 169,946.45
518,362.20
Amount paid in on account of Timber Limits
sold 6th Dec., 1881.....+ sescveees peevece 321,354.66

839,716.86

A USE FOR SAWDUST.
The enterprising firm of Leathern & Smith
are continually making new improvements and
putting new ideas into operation, They are

now making the necessary arrangements for us-

ing sawdust as fuel on the steambarge Thos. H.
Smith next season.

the barge lies while in port,

St. Lawrence ?”

Piles are being driven that
project just above the wharf alongside of which
Upon these piles

a substantial frame-work will be constructéd to
the height of about twelve feet. On top of this
will be placed a hopper, which will have a capa-
city for about fifty- five cords of sawdust. The
hopper is filled by means of an elevator which is
connected with the large circular saw in the
mill close by. A wire sieve will be so arranged
as to sort out all the bark and other rough ma-

terial, which will be carried into the furnace by
another elevator.

From the hopper a spout
will slant down to the scuttle in the hurricane

deck of the barge, and thence through the scut-
tle in the lower deck to the hold beneath. The
space on both sides of the engine room will also
be filled, only enough space being left on one
side to allow a passage into the engine room,
The barge has been supplied with an extra large
boiler to enable her to use this kind of fuel.
The hopper will be filled while the boat is out-
side, so that no time will be lost when she comes
into port and is ready to wood up. This new
arrangement will not only save the owners of
the boat about $40 per day in fuel, but will save
the expense of burning the material in the fur-
nace, where the intense heat caused by it is con-
tinually burning the grates and cracking the
kiln.
barge will only use sawdust on her way to Chi-
cago, where she will take on coal dust and mix
it with the former material to run the boat on
her return trip. Other barge lines will undoubt-
edly take a valuable hint from the foregoing.—
Dorr Co. Advocate.

In case freights are high next season the

PROBABLE TIMBER FREIGHTS,
The vessel men continue to be agitated about

the private circular sent out by one Mr. Norton,
of Detroit, notifying the timber merchants not
to hurry about chartering the vessels at high
rates, that the latter are as thick as bees, and
that by and by through him freights can be more
reasonably arranged.

Said a captain to us this morning, ‘‘ Vessels

are not in the first place as thick as bees, and
they will not be so easily obtained as Mr. Nor-
ton has intimated.
fair rates, and this year we only expect the
same,
and other people.”

Last year we only obtained
The Detroit man is deceiving himself

“Ts there as much timber to carry this year
as last ?”

“‘T think there’s more of it. There is per-

haps 6,000,000 of pine ready for shipment.
There would have been considerable oak had

the weather been favorable to the getting of it

out.”

““ How much of the total cut will go down the

“The greater part of it. A quantity may go
via Tonawanda and Erie Canal to New York,
I know there’s plenty of it on Lake Superior,
Lake Michigan, Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.
Norton I used to like. As a marine broker he
was well patronized; but in his attempt to

monopolize the trade he has evidently calculated

without his host.”—Kingston Whig.

RECKLESS DEFORESTATION.

Colonel Playfair, in his ‘‘ Trayels in the Foot-
steps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis,” gives the
following description of the disastrous effects of
reckless deforestation. in the North African
coast, about Susa. It is another much needed
lesson for Canada :—

“We know (he says) that at one time the
country was covered with forests. I myself
have travelled for days over plains where not
a tree exists, and yet where ruins of Roman oil-
mills were frequently met with. Ibn Khal-
doun, in his history of the Berbers, says, ‘ El
Kahina caused all the villages and farms
throughout the country to be destroyed, so that
the vast region between Tripoli and Tangiers,
which had the appearance of an immense
thicket, under the shade of which rose a multi-
tude of villages touching each other, now offerer-
ed no other aspect than than that of ruins.’
Even in modern days the same destruction of
forests has been continued, if not wantonly or
for purposes of defence, as in the time of the
early Arab conquerers, still as surely by the
carelessness of their descendants, who never
hesitate to set fire to a wood to improve the
pasturage, or to cut down a tree when timber is
required, but who never dream of planting an-
other, or even of protecting those which spring

money than it can be bought for at present, is
given by a recent purchase of pine land in the
Menominee region, where a large tract, five
miles from any stream, has been sold within a
short time at $3.00 per 1,000 feet.
would not have realized 50c. per 1,000 feet two
years ago.
at points from which Chicago and the customers
of Chicago dealers must secure their supply for
the next ten years is becoming quite a frequent
practice nowadays among capitalists, who think
they foresee a very healthy plum in such ven-
tures.
prominent citizen of Chicago received as his fee
in a noted divorce case many years ago a tract
of pine land in Michigan, then valued at $8,000.
This land has, it is said, recently sold at the
snug sum of $420,000, or $5 per 1,000 feet for
the stumpage.

up spontaneously from being destroyed by their
flocks and herds,

In Bruce’s notes, writtten 110 years ago, fre-
quent allusion is made to forests through which
he passed, where not a tree is now to be seen,
and this is a work of destruction which must go
on with ever-accelerating rapidity year after
year,”

Chips.

Messrs. McCrag & Co., of London, purpose
erecting a saw mill at Ettrick station, London
township, for the purpose of cutting 6-inch maple
deals for the European market,

From the Postmaster General’s Report, just
published, it appears that the Allan Line of
Steamships conveyed from Quebec to Liverpool,
between the 21st of April and 30th of N. ovember, |
1881, deals and staves to the number of 125,643
pieces.

It is reported at Quebec that Mesers. R. R.
Dobell & Co, have received the Grand Trunk
Railway contract for the supply of timber.
The same firm have secured the contract for
supplying the Imperial Government with what
timber they may require for the ensuing year.

THE Muskegon News and Reporter says Thos.
D, Stinson, one of the wealthiest, most liberal
and enterprising lumbermen in the Muskegon’
valley, has resolved to take down his $40,000
residence at Big Rapids and move it to Muske-
gon at a cost of upwards of $10,000. The resi-
dence, when put up in this city, will be one of
the finest in the state,and worth fully $60,000.

THE Citizen, of Dion, Herkimer county, N.Y.,
says that ‘‘some wealthy Boston tanners have
purchased the hemlock bark on 28,000 acres of
timber land in the Adirondack region, and pur-
pose soon to strip the trees, We thought the
legislature had contracted to preserve the great
northern wilderness for the purpose of promot-
ing the rainfall of the Stato, and of supplying
the Erie canal and Hudson river with water
enough to float boats.

THe Northwestern Lumberman says that
Kelly, Rathborne & Co., of Chicago, will bring
a suit against T..W. Kirby and H. C. Akeley,
of Grand Haven, owners of the tug J. W. John-
ston, for damages by the fire on Sisson & Lilley’s
dock in November last. The Chicago firm,
whose lumber was consumed, claims that sparks
from the tug caused the fire, and will try to
prove it. There is money on both sides, and
the fight promises to be a lively one.

OnE of. Cheboygan’s leading limbermen pre-
dicts that the cedar of this section will prove to
be more valuable than'the pine has been. All
the flats along the streams for miles back, in
some cases, is covered with a thick growth of
cedar. The streams have all been cleaned out
so that the cedar crop can be run down without
difficulty, and being so conveniently situated on
the banks of the several streams, it can be
cut and put in the water at a very reasonable
figure. =

THE speech of the Governor of Michigan at
the opening of the special session of the Legis-
lature gives some details of the destruction
wrought by the bush fires of last September,
which present a very fair idea of the extent of
that calamity. He says that the fire swept
over a district of some eighteen hundred square
miles, causing private-losses, so far as known,
of an aggregate of over two million dollars, and
reducing nearly fifteen thousand persons to a
state of dependence upon the public aid for their
daily bread. In addition to this nearly three
hundred lives were lost, and.an immense quanti-
ty of public property was destroyed.

Tue bill for the incorporation of the Quebec -
Timber Co. states that the objects of the Com-
pany are the acquisition of the pine and other
timber limits situated in the Province of Quebec,
in the Dominion of Canada, with the saw mills,
dwelling houses, workshops, outbuildings, lands,
standing timber and-other proj of H. At-
kinson, Esq., of Etchemin, Que.; the acquisition
by purchase or otherwise, of timber limits and
pine lands in the Dominion of Canada and the
United States of America, or elsewhere, other
than those above referred to ; the conducting of
the business or lumberers and timber merchants
throughout the Domimion of Canada and else-
where, including the preparation, manufacture,
transport and sale of timber and lumber, and the
erection and purchase of mills, saw mills, build-
ings, machinery, coves, booming grounds, uten-
sils, vessels, the making and working of roads,
railroads, tramways and channels of water, and
the purchase of additional land, and the doing
of everything necessary for conducting the
business of the company.

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SPECULATION IN TIMBER LANDS,
Says the Chicago Zribune :—Another indica-
tion tending to show that the lumber of the
future is certain to cost the consumer more

This land

Speculative purchase of pine tracts

It has already been related that a

THE SURVEY AND EXPORTATION OF
LUMBER.

Mr. Colter’s bill now before the House of
Assembly should be most carefully examined
and fully discussed before final action is taken,
in order that the country may have opportunity
to judge of its merits. For the information of
our readers, we give the text of the bill in
full :— ’

An Act to amend the Act intituled an Act of
the Survey and Exportation of Lumber.

Be it enacted by the Lieut.-Governor, Legis-
lative Council and Assembly as follows :—

That section six of the above recited act be
and the same is repealed and in lieu thereof—
That in the survey of pine and spruce logs the
following regulations shall be observed by the
Surveyors: Logs for the manufacture of deals
shall not be less than twelve feet in length and
six inches in diameter ; shall have an allowance
of from four to six inches in the length to permit
the deals when sawed to be trimmed—shall be
sound, free from bad shakes, auger or plug holes,
crooked gum seams, ring or bowel shakes, rot,
bad knots, and worm holes. All logs of twenty-
six feet long and up shall be measured in two
lengths and adequate allowance shall be made
by the Surveyor on all crooked logs. The
diameter at the small end, exclusive of bark,
shall be taken as the diameter for ascertaining
the contents, and the surveyor shall mark or
scribe on every log surveyed by him the super-
ficial contents thereof, with his private mark
and the initials of the names of the purchaser,

The table of contents is changed to correspond
to the requirements of the above section—the
change only, however, affecting logs up to 10
inches in diameter, above that the old scale
table is still preserved.

It is provided that this act shall not affect
existing contracts, or anything begun under
section six of the old act.—St. John, N.B., Sun.

SHREWDNESS AND ABrLity.—Hop Bitters so
freely advertised in all the papers, secular and
religious, are having a large sale, and are
supplanting all other medicines. There is no
denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the
proprietors of these Bitters have shown great
shrewdness and ability in compounding a
Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every
one’s observation. —Examiner and Chronicle.

A healthy man never things of his stomach,
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the Pood. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

“Anp fools who came to scoff remained to

ray.”"—We receive many letters from those
bats tried while doubting, yet were entirel
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wit
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to it
wonderful effects,

MAGIC’S WONDERS.

“While in London, England, a short time
ago,” said the professor, ‘‘our Oxford-street
waiter was made the victim of a practical joke.
One morning, as this tonsorial artist sat reading
his newsparer, he was startled by seeing a young
man enter in a yery excited manner, who throw-
ing, rather than seating, himself in the chair,
demanded a shave instanter. The barber, who
was a ready fellow, at once set about obeying
the commands of this excited and hurried guest.
With a rapidity that surprised himself, he
shaved the right side of his customer’s face, and
then immediately turned to the left. That side
he also shaved with cleanliness and despatch,
but, judge of his surprise, when his customer
demanded to know in tones anything but pleas-
ed why he did not shave the right side. The
poor bewildered barber was almost certain that
he had done so, but perceived to his surprise
that the side in question was covered with jet-
black hair. Again he shaved it, but while he
did so, to his surprise and horror, the hair was
growing on the other side. Thus it continued
for an hour. While he shaved one side, he
could actually see the hair growing on the other
side. Terrified beyond expression, he stood
motionless ; hereupon the young man leaped
from the chair, and, snatching the razor, drew it
across his throat, and fell to the floor covered
with blood. The barber flew into the street
hallooing ‘‘ Murder !” at the top of his voice. A
crowd soon gathered, and, with the affrighted
barber, beheld the supposed corpse. quietly ar-
ranging his tie before the mirror—turning very
pleasantly, he paid the barber and departed-
A theatrical gentleman among the loekers on
soon gave it out that it was Professor Hermann,
the Great American magician. 1 went to my
hotel and awoke next day to find myself the talk
of London,” concluded the Professor, *‘‘ for it
was I who did it. JI gave the poor barber fits.
Did you ever hear how I gave a friend of mine
the snakes ?” asked the Professor. On receiving
an answer in the negative, he said, ‘‘ A friend
of mine, who was as great a drunkard as an
actor, and that is saying a great deal; was one
morning seen by me entering a drinking-saloon
when he was almost on the verge of delirium
tremens, and knowing his horror of ‘ snakes,’ as
mania-a-potu is vulgarly called, I resolved to
save him. I entered just as he raised a glass of
whiskey to his lips, and rushing forward I
snatched the glass from his hand, crying at the
same time, ‘ Hold S., until I take this fly out.’
Pretending to take the fly out, I held up a ser-
pent. S. cried out, ‘My God ! that is a snake !
‘Not at all,’ said I, ‘It is a simple house-fly,
See ? you are covered with them,’ saying which
I approached, and from his sleeves, hair, etc.,
I proceeded to pull snakes, protesting all the
time that they were flies. ‘They are snakes!
cried S. again. ‘My God! that is a snake ; I
tell you, Hermann, they are snakes! ‘Non-
sense,’ said I, ‘they are but flies.’ ‘Then,’ said
he, ‘I have snakes myself !’ and he rushed from
the saloon. He was not seen for more than a
week after ; but when next seen he was sober,
and has been so since,” ‘‘ Professor,” asked the
interviewer, ‘‘ were you, who are so fond of sur-
prising others, ever surprised yourself?”
“Once,” was the answer, “then the surprise
was a very great and agreeable one, I assure you,
It came about in this way, I was for a number
of years a sufferer from cramps in my left side,
immediately under the heart. I suffered regu-
larly at the close of each performance, and very
often was compelled to cancel engagements
which I had made, owing to my inability to fill
them, being prostrated by cramps, and being in
a weak condition. I entertained very serious
thoughts of giving up my profession and spend-
ing some years in travel, and would have done
so but for an attendant of mine, whose head I
had cut off occasionally while performing my
wonderful decapitation act. The individual to
whom I complained of the pains and the cramps
in my side on one occasion said it was curious—

that I, who could decapitate another and replace
the head at will, ought certainly to be able to
cure myself. I told him how some of.the best
doctors in Europe and America had failed. He
laughed at me, and said he could cure me in a
week. That night he presented me with a
bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, the Great German
Remedy, saying that its use would produce an

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LUMBERMAN,

effect. more magical than I could readily believe.
I laughed at the idea of St. Jacobs Oil doing
what had baffled the greatest doctors, but said
that I would try it, simply to convince him that
trying it would do no good. That night, on re-
tiring, I rubbed my side with the Oil, and, sure

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better that night than I had done for a long
time before, Again in the morning I rubbed
with the Oil, and at the close of the afternoon
performance I noticed a great diminution of the
painful cramps. Was I surprised? Well, I
was very much surprised, and I told my atten-
dant so. In less than a week, and before I had
finished using my third bottle, I was entirely
and permanently cured. The effect of St.
Jacobs Oil was indeed magical, so much so that
T could scarce believe my senses. I haye never
felt a cramp since—nor is there prophet, seer,
soothsayer or magician who can perform such
wonders as St. Jacobs Oil.”—Cincinnati En-
quirer.

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THE LUMBER OUTLOOK.
The Lwmberman’s Gazette, of Bay City,

Mich., says :—There is no mistaking the ten-

Leather Belting.

And LACE LEATHER

FOR S4xE BY

dency of the lumber market. The quotations
from every direction show an upward tendency,
and in some quarters on particular stocks, the
advance is very marked. This may be, in a
measure, the result of a scarcity of the particular
class of lumber on which the advance is so
noticeable, but a very material advance on all
grades has resulted in almost every direction.
That there can be no reaction during the com-
ing season a careful consideration of the causes
which have resulted in the rise must convince
the most skeptical about the stability of the
present lumber business boom. The unexampled
building activity of last year reduced the stocks
in the yards of dealers in every direction. The
increased demand thus engendered, also reduced

GEORGE STETHEM,

PETERBOROUGH, Ont.

J. L. Goodhue & Son

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enormously the unsold lumber in the great

manufacturing centres at the close of the season.

The greatly increased expense of securing the

log crop for next season with which to replace

the depleted stock and supply the inevitable

demand, must act as an effectual bar against
any reduction in price from the figures already

attained ; and the great probabilities are that

a still further advance will result before the
new log crop reaches the market in a manufac-

tured state.
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I. J. Lucas, near Stanton, Mich., proposes to
plant 1,000 black walnut trees on his farm, for
the purpose of experimenting as to the feasibility
of growing such timber for furniture wood pur-
poses, He will set the trees 20 feet apart, cover-
ing ten acres with the plant.

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Marine News.—Hop Bitters, which are
advertised in our columns, area sure cure for
ague, biliousness and kidney complaints. Those
who use them say they cannot be too highly
recommended, ‘hose afflicted should give them
a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic
in the praise of their curative qualities, Port-
land Argus.

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soreness, pain, inflamation and all painful dis-
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use, Price 25c.

A Curr ror HrapAcuze.—What physician
has ever discovered a cure for headache? Echo
answers none. But Burdock Blood Bitters by
their purifying, invigorating, nervine properties
afford a cure in nearly every case. The health-
giving principles of this remedy are unequalled
by any similar preparation in the world.

THE SeoreEt or Braury.—No Cosmetic in the
world can impart beauty to a face that is dis
figured by unsightly blotches arising from im-
pure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is the
grand purifying medicine for all humors of the
blood, It makes good blood and imparts the
bloom of health to the most sallow complexion,

Is 1 A Humsua? Some people think all
proprietary medicines humbugs, In this they
must be mistaken. A cough medicine like N.
H. Downs’ Elixir that has stood the racket of
52 years must have some virtue, and must cure
the diseases for which it is recommended, or
people would not continue to buy and use it as
they do. It seems to us that even if we knew
nothing of its merits, the fact of its large and
continually increasing sale justifies us in re-
commending Down’s Elixir to all who may need
areliable cough medicine,

Patent Lace Leather.

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Market Aeports.

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Marcr 8th.—Prices remain the same at all
the yards as when I last wrote you, but this
cannot last long in view of the fact that manu-
facturers on the line of the N. & N. W. Rail-
ways have determined to charge $10 per M. on
cars at the mills, for all bill stuff up to 16 ft, in
length, that figure means $12.50 per M. on car
here, and say 50 cents for teaming to the yards,
and allow nothing for piling, brings it up to the
figures now being sold for at the yards. The
danger now to be apprehended is that building
operations may be largely curtailed during the
coming summer if prices go up much above
present figures. Lath still continues to tend up-
ward, and but for the stocks held by the master
masons previous to the present dearth, work
would be nearly at a stand still.

The N. & N. W. R. Company have somewhat
relaxed their stringent rules in regard ‘to the
weighing of lumber, so little lumber having
been brought over the roads since I last wrote
you that doubtless a weight settled upon the
minds of the different heads of the freight de-
partment quite as heavy as that of green lum-
ber. The G. T. R. Co. still persist in collecting
for all overweight, thereby nearly doubling their
freight earnings on lumber cars, as it is well
understood that the N. R. Co. receives no bene-
fit for the charges levied for excess weight.

T will now continue to notice, for the informa-
tion of your readers, the other woodworking
factories in this city, prominent among which is
the shop owned by Mr. George Gall, situated at
the head of John street, and whose pay roll
frequently foots up to $2,000 per week. Mr.
Gall does a large building trade, and his reputa-
tion for good work stands exceedingly high, and
the stock of lumber held by him is larger than
that held by many of the retail yards. His
shop is filled with labor saving machinery and a
large staff of experienced workmen. Mr. Gall
has also worked up considerable of a trade with
firms in Scotland, and ships large quantities of
prepared lumber annually, to be further mani-
pulated upon its arrival there.

Messrs. Withrow & Hillock’s factory, situated
on the corner of Queen and George streets, is
also well worthy of notice. This firm has ac-
quired a wide-spread reputation as manufactur-
ers of the celebrated Arctic Refrigerators, large
numbers of which are sent to all parts of the
Provinces, and may be obtained from them, got
up in any style desired, from plain pine to high-
ly polished walnut; they also manufacture all
kinds of mouldings, doors, sash, and in fact
everything required by builders in the house-
fitting line.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.
Mill cull boards and scantling.....-......s.s++5 $ 9 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 12 00
UGC tote itr oe Gk deisreiscefehety erevartey i> 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft.......eeseeeeenes 13 00
et 3 §§ MO PGi Richie nrsteicts Aleietetelstee 14 00
i eC ce DEG wartrare snare er ctecer it eisse:« 14 50
LW ss ct DOLE Te sisls oneview ue siviee 15 00
ys cr a DE. fiticcds «= Meregettinre hs ops 15 60
% 6 se 26 ft....... G06. a 38 40 16 00
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ft... . esses seeee eee 17 00
ee NS u9 OLGA csiniey siatatwistasmin sels sv) 18 00
ae OY eS BaD SP COODUG OR OOTECenG 20 00
ce a ek Qilsitzoqcoroe oaceoooas 22 60
ss ES BB pit raale ahs ofaieayeh ss alate 25 00
Us ce gs BAT. We Bee ainsi = ere 27 00
ce “q 5s 400-48 £0... Gs... tule 30 00
Cutting up planks to dry.....e sees eee eee eee eee 20 00
DOATASU ComMeabtakclersicieietejs/eierecceslgaiatale 16 00
Sound dressing stocks. .......sseeeeeeeeeneeeens 16 00
Picks Am. inspection...... sserseeeseneeaes 26 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection, ....csessseeeenes 35 00
B. M.
ir inch flooring, Aressed... cess cvereseee eeveee 30 00
YOUR... ic. cease emeeee cence 16 00
i s COL) TATERSEUA ih we Bet oe ce Netvine oe 26 00
it ss fe undressed..........ceeeveeeaen 15 00
Bs M3 Gyessed ti. .siNees. .G aide chile 20 00
aS se UNdresseds.. Pe. eee eee 15 00
q Beaded Sheeting, dressed........ ss... sevens 20 00
Clapboarding, dressed ..... 0. see esse eee ween eee 12 50
XXX sawn shingles, @M.....0....ee rece 2 50@3 00
XX sawn shingleseced..ceeeteeesee eres veeedess 2 75
Sawn Math. ove. ss cers euusmeenennescencceveeses 2 50
——_e—————_
MONTREAL.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Marcu 9th.—The weather for some time past
has not been very seasonable for operations at
the shanties, and we observe that shanty teams
are daily arriving in Ottawa, showing that
work on the Upper Ottawa is nearly at a close
for this season, while the cut this season will
fall short of what was expected. It is rather
early yet to say what the prospects are for ship-

ment of lumber from this port, but the general
feeling is that it will be fully equal to last year,
and will possibly exceed it if there is plenty of
water in the Ottawa to bring down the lumber
in the fall. In our local market there is not
much doing just now, being rather early yet for
the spring building demand. Stocks are getting
low and our quotations, although unchanged,

are firm, and likely to remainso. We continue
to quote :— :

Pine, 1st quality, uM Pan er ae seeees $35 00@40 00
Pine; 2nd * § GBM scsassvadscrsserine 18 00@24 00
Pine, shipping ee " Meshes fad ese 2 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, # M Saletetele Sostelaiais > eloxmtetale 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, @M......s0ccseeceasers 5 00@ 8 00
Sprirees GAeNOn, Ssiey -eccfsis + sia ble» Mela[e bie ale sie 8 00@10 00
Hemlock, @ Miu... ccccsste vere ssecnee 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls. out, On DVL sta, le oh let 16 00@18 00
Bass, Cs er oe Con 358 Oe RE ie 16 00@17 00
Opik, Bi MERGE Beh accra teiet tain ons wlolatas ste aint 35 00@45 00
Birch, ADIN. < toteinieinttsieaataatstare oigiaiaie)) vig cine ssi@ 17 00@20 00
Hard Maple, Bp M. ai iipniat= gs heed os Ae Rie vins's 18 60@25 00
Lat My ach te. cls s\0.0's aareie seers sho aes 1 50@ 0 00
Shingles, lst, P M ee Meee Ae ry oe 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, AD OVIG erste atsteiste rath rnesaters xia” oLate 2 00@ 0 00

Corpwoop.—Owing to bad roads and un-
reasonable weather, there has not been so much
wood got out in the upper districts, but in the
low districts there has been a fair output. The
stocks in the yards are beginning to get worked
down, and there has been a fair wholesale de-
mand at fair prices, which are likely to be main-
tained. We quote prices at the railway depot,
ex cartage :—

Long Maple.
Short ‘
Long Birch.
Short ‘
Long Beech.
Short “

Long Tamarack. ..csssseeecsees oe eeereeeeeees
Short sf

OTTAWA,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Marcu 7th.—The season just coming to a
close, as directly concerns the lumbering in-
terests of the Upper Ottawa, has been a some-
what remarkable one ; and were it not that last
summer’s operations resulted in comparative
success, and rates at present are on the in-
crease, with pretty good prospects of a more
prosperous trade the approaching year, the
present season would be seriously felt among
the establishments here carrying big stocks.
Great anticipations were formed in the early
part’of the season, but unfortunately

A VARIETY OF CAUSES
have arisen which prevented the realization of
them, A late commencement was made conse-
quent upon the open season, and little or noth-
ing was done in the shanties up to Christmas,
after which a favorable spell set in and consider-
able work was rushed, but intervals of thaw have
oceurred up to the present, and will in all likeli-
hood continue. “A considerable amount of
trouble was experienced right along throughout
the winter in securing shanty hands, and to cap
the climax that comparatively new horse
disease,
PINKEYE,

made its appearance and played havoe with the
animals in all directions, some concerns being
compelled to close up. All these things taken into
consideration, it is estimated that the cut of

| square timber will be some 15,000,000 feet short

of what was anticipated. However, if what
has been taken out in the limits, and also the
logs stuck in the streams since last season, be
safely conveyed to the mills, an average season’s
work will be the result. On the south shore of
the Ottawa operations have been almost com-
pleted for the year. Nearly all the teams and
a good many men haye been discharged. Per-

haps the
MOST FORTUNATE OPERATORS

are those having limits on the Kippewa river.
They did not experience quite as much difficulty
as others in haying supplies brought in during
the winter, and consequently had a pretty fair
season. There are forty shanties on this river.
Messrs. Booth & Gordon have two; Sherman,
Lord & Hurdman, three; O. Latour, three ;
Edwards & Co., two; Patley & Perley, two;
Grier, one ; David Moore, two ; A. Grant, twen-
ty, or thereabouts. About one-half of these
are turning out timber and the other half logs.

A few
SALES OF TIMBER

and cuts have already been made within the
past few weeks. Geo, Taggart has sold his cut
of timber on the Temiseamingue to Quebec
merchants. ‘The price received has not tran-
spired, Andrew and P. White have disposed

LUMBERMAN. .

of their cut on the Magnacippi. Messrs. R. R.
Dobell & Co. have purchased from Messrs.
Conroy & Mclean all their make of waney and
square pine timber manufactured this season,

about 800,000 feet.
CHIPS.

Mr. R. Nagle has just returned to the city,
having closed his shanty on the French river
last week for want of snow.

In Conroy’s shanties on the Madawaska and
at Fort Eddy over one hundred horses suecumb-
ed recently to the ravages of pinkeye.

The famous case of McLaren v. Caldwell,
which has been before the Supreme Court here
for some days, has been concluded. Judgment
reserved. Costs in this case are enormous,
amounting already to $40,000. 126 witnesses in
all were examined.

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LONDON, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Fes. 25.—The most difficult part of a corres-
pondent’s duty is to obtain without prejudice a
faithful and true account of what he is record-
ing; and it is becoming a popular belief that
that individual, were he put to the test, could
report verbatim, or nearly so, the proceedings of
any Municipal Council meeting taking place in
any city in Canada, were he on the Peak of
Teneriffe. He knows there is the indispensible
chronic grumbler, the philanthropic retired tin-
smith, the sanitary alderman, whois amerchant
butcher, and whose slaughter-house for years
previous to his gaining municipal favor was a
terror to the neighbourhood ; the little man who
is the people’s choice for No. — Ward, and who
never can exclude the shop from his remarks at
the Council Board ; then there is the high-toned
“linen draper,” (see Walker) who is chairman
of several committees, and tries to look more
fierce and rampant than the gilded lion over his
store ; then comes the Mayor himself, who has
asked permission to retire, and offered heavy
premiums for somebody to take his place.

All this is a hollow mockery ; the correspon-
dent, or “ daily ” reporter, knows it ; he knows,
too, that municipal humanity is the same all
the continent over, hence he finds his duties
easy to perform, and a Municipal Council meet-
ing fun to him.

Why I commenced my letter in the strain, I
will tell you. I have a duty to you to perform
which requires considerably more application,
and my letters of necessity cannot in the face of
fluctuating markets be of a stereotyped form,
and I have to exercise great precaution in ob-
taining authentic and reliable reports, so that I
cannot send you letters on supposition, but must
write the result of inay visits to parties interest-
ed, and the report I shall give you in this letter
is possibly a little more favorable regarding
prices than my last. There isa greater firmness
shown by our lumber merchants. Nearly all
our bases of supply on the L. H. B. & W. G. &
B. Railway have had a very poor season for
getting out lumber, and stock consequently is
very light, so that the inevitable result must be
high prices this coming summer. There is no
easing off in figures, if anything there is a
strengthening tendency, and prices may be
quoted very firm at my last quotations.

LATER.

Marcu 9th.—It has been my intention to
furnish you with reliable statistics of the last
year’s lumber business of this city, and 1 would
have done so sooner but for the impossibility of
obtaining the necessary information from the
legitimate dealers and merchants, they not hay-
ing figured up their stock taking results. I
think I can promise you that my next letter
will contain an authentic statement, as I have
up to now got the figures of two of the principal
merchants, and will have those of the remainder
for my next.

While we have had but three days’ sleighing
in this city during the whole of the winter, in
Wingham, about 70 miles north, they have had
about six weeks, so that there is hope that the
getting out of lumber at the places of supply
will not be so bad as our winter here would in-
dicate.

No great amount of building is going on in
the city, though a new large wholesale block is
now in course of erection on a part of the site of
the old Opera House. I say a part of the site
to signify that but tor the obstinacy or greed of

two of the store tenants, who refuse to move
under the compensation price of a farm, ‘the
whole building would have been torn down and
a greater area of new building would have been
going on. Of course in the suburbs of the city
there is always more or less of new dwellings
going up. Our new Masonic Temple was dedi-
cated on Tuesday last, and great crowds of the
craft were here from all parts of the country.
The lumber market remains very firm, and
prices are about the same as my last with per-
haps a hardening tendency, and the opinion
prevails that before many weeks there will bea

jump. In the meantime you will be safe in
quoting my last figures.
QUOTATIONS,
Mill cull boards and scantling.........-......+-- $11 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths...... 12 00
10 and 12in. stocks....... 12 50
Common boards, promiscuous by ee atte’ 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16ft..... - 160
18 ft.... 15 50
Lad oe ae 29 ft 16 50
“e “ee “ec 22 ft 17 50
“ae “ee sé 24 tt Ww 0
Common stocks .....+«+«.- - 150
Common 2 in. plank. . - 14 00
Cutting up plank and boards’ 19 60
Sound dressing stocks.... ... 18 0
Clearand picks:...25. 52, ¢3..535 . 28 00
Three uppers tiON.. +0. 35 vO
4 inch dressed and. matched — ++. 2100
t in npoeanne 21 00
ai ss a Fs eee SD 21 00
XXX sawn shingles, 9 M.S. oi oees san pe eee 3 00
Lath per 1000 feet........2.. 55 sncUeecsscse . 4 50@5 00
—————>—__

ST. JOHN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Marcu 6,—During a large part of the period
since the date of my last report the conditions
in the woods for carrying on logging operations
were all that could be desired ; latterly, how-
ever, we have had a very heavy thaw, which,
within its range, must have seriously interfered
with the work. Possibly the thaw was less
severe in the interior (from which no definite in-
formation on the subject is to hand), if so, it
might not have much influence in impeding
operations. For the remainder of the season
much will depend on the weather ; should this
month turn cold and frosty, a large amount of
work can still be accomplished, while on the
other hand, if the weather continues mild, the
hauling will soon be broken up; under any cir-
cumstances the log crop will be much below the

average quantity.
FREIGHTS.

Our fleet of vessels in port has been consider-
ably increased, and as the demand for tonnage
is very light, freights have declined. Several
charters have been effected at 62s. Gd. for an
extensive range of ports, but later Gls. 3d. was
accepted ; we quote 60s. as about the rate at
present. -
SHIPMENTS.

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber
are as follows :—

For Europe ......0:02-ssscaosvese i prod Sup. feet.
“ United States...

“ South America .. 26/000 on
No shipments of sugar fox shooks for Cuba

this term.

SHIPPING,
The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :—
Fidelia, 450, Cuba.
Alfarin, 446, Bristol Channel.
Richard Hutchinson, 738, Penarth Roads, or E. C.
Treland.
Maria Aistrup, 859, Bristol Channel, or E. C. I.
Cynthia, 886, West Coast En or E. C. 1.
Oliver Emery, 623, Bristol el, or E. C. I.
Hyperion, 306, Cuba.
Se Black, 545, ——
Kats Shnctony 677, —
erbert 1,061, discharging.
Hawthorn, 620, Bristol Channel, or E. C. I.
TT H. DeVeber, 599, W. C. England, Clyde, or Lon-
on
SaaS AE

CHICAGO.

The Northwestern Lumberman says that the
month of February was one of the most remark-
able periods in the history of the Chicago lum-
per trade by reason of the amount of stock that
was sold. Trade throughout the month was un-
precedentedly heavy for the season, and towards
the close doubled in some yards, and in others
quadrupled.

At two yards it was stated to a representa-
tive of the Zumberman that during the last
week of the month four times the amount was
sold_of any previous week of the month, and
at one yard the sales of the last week were more
than for all the other portion of the month.
Judging from the reports of other yards, several
could present as good a showing ; and February
throughout was a remarkably good month for

_ os

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

trade. At one office the statement is made that
orders are accumulating on the books so rapidly
that the lumber already called for to be deliver-
ed in March is equal in amount to that sold in
February, which also, with this company, was a
fayorable month throughout. The rapid in-
crease of trade indicated by these late features
promises well for the early spring business,
The fact is recognized that all winter the moye-
ment of lumber-has been large, and the stuff
has gone to supply an immediate demand.
Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles for the week ending March 2, 1882 :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.

Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882..... 5,003,000 1,475,000 42,492,000 9,830,000
1881..... 4,012,000 1,952,000 16,911,000 9,270,000
Receipts and shipments of lumber and

shingles from January 1, to March 2, inclusive :

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Iumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882.. .42,843,000 11,503,000 236,588,000 65,885,000
1881...35,876,000 12,378,000 127,599,000 63,642,000
Inc.. 6,967,000 108,989,000 2,243,000
Dec.. 875,000
STOCK ON HAND FEBRUARY 1.

1882. 1881. 1880.
Lumber....,.....471,350,108 444,922,272 403,981,900
Shingles.... .... 200,800,347 186,790,000 171,495,000,

TEs atsa's ateiSi0 oie 46,691,923 47,282,560 44,710,165
Pickets...... .... 3,082,823 2,496,482 2,041,351
Cedar posts....... 183,469 90,700 326,731

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BOSTON.

Marcu 4.—The Journal of Commerce says :—
The market for the present may be rated as
good. A great many stories are being circulated,
which, in many cases, would convey the idea
that the outlook had been considerably overrat-
ed. However, in view of actual reports from
the producing districts and the general indica-
tions of activity in the way of building in the
spring, it does not seem to be a mistake in judg-
ment to say that the spring trade promises to be
at least as large as for many years. At any
rate, that seems to be the general impression
among dealers in this vicinity. The stocks on
hand in many of the yards are far from what
they ought to be, both in arrangement and
amount. At most of the great western centres
there has been sufficient snow to permit of
better logging than had been experienced in the
early part of the winter. At some points orders
are being placed without difficulty at an advance
of $2 on culls and $3.50@$4 on first quality
over last spring’s prices. It is difficult to ship
lumber from many points in the south and west
owing to the lack of freight facilities. Hard-
woods are firm, with good sales reported, and at
yery stiff prices.

CANADA PINE.

“ic Bb Ae $48 00@50 00
-- 40 00@42 00
.. 33 00@35 00
.. 27 00@29 00
-« 18 00@20 00
.. 42 00@45 00
. 34 00@35 00

Ists.

Shelving, Dressed,
ES = 2nds.

ALBANY.

Makzcu 8.—Quotations at the yards are as fol.

lows :—
EHO PlSAT. MNS olay Boe wis es cas Faas st $53 00@63 00
ve -» 50 00@60 00
.. 45 00@55 00
«. 22 00@35.00
.. 00 38@00 44
.. 00 19@00 22
-. 00 26@00 28
00 18@00 19
25 00@30 00
25 00@30 00
26 00@28 00
88 00@40.00
15 00@18 00
40 00@42 00
16 09@19 00
00 00@00 16
00° 00@09 20
00 00@00 30
00 11@00 12
00 00@00 13
00 00@00 81
09 09@00 13
00 00@00 10
% 00@40 00
25 09730 00
60 00@70 60
25 00@35 00
38 00@43 00
20 00@25 00
22 00@25 00
26 00@40 00
26 00@30 00
25 00G28 00
-. 85 00@40 00
-- 9 09@ 6 00

. boards, 16 ft., @M..........

Pine, 12-in. boards, 16ft...............--
ine; 12-in. boards, 13ft.......... 6000-65
Pine, 1} in. siding, select............0...
é, 1f-in. siding, common.... .......-.
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.................
Pine, inch siding, common
MEME TCA cig Dire. ve'ciee> aici 200

, Plank, 1}-in., each.......:.......
ppm, 2-1, CAC, ..., ene 2 eve

pe OMG) loss dhe
Ge 7)
Oak

ee ee ee ed
Cesar t Oe ea eat serertbeses
ee es

ee es

sewrres

1 62
0 00@ 1 87
0 00@ 2 00

OSWEGO, N.Y.

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LEI EL ET

Marcu 8,—The followmg are the «quota-
tions :—

MME CCUPPOYB scp s.cteisie's/¢ ois <'sis/elnels\olein'e oin\eie $42 00@45 00
Pickings....... +» 32 00@35 00
Fine, common . . 20 00@25 00
14 00@18 00
11 00@13 00
17 00@22 00
30 00@33 00
. 80 0038 00
. 16 00@20 00
Jann 54 20 00@25 00
SUMPPELS yey tersisapeeaaeeci esse rt 15 00@16 00
CUUISY SCLECTEM ns istelsislaresioihies sin \¢)vie:e.ne.sie\ainie 22 00@30 00
(OURO Rano Rape ccobdeaaende pareer habe ripe 10 00@13 00
1x6 selected for clapboards........+..+.. 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...........- 3 °75@ 3 90
XXX, 18 inch, cedar.........++.. 3 00@ 3 25
IGE aERONOE ROE. Goro 11 TONBOnADHOOODANE 1 40@ 1 50

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BUFFALO.

We quote cargo lots :— f
Wi STS Elorp noc ao O.00ND 0 Ande pudecoEonaL Wr $46 00@48 00
COMMON ee ya tsieln slaplsvenaiialalaetetecleis 18 00@19 00
CU Na eretorstetes ese tele taal hebniafeahaldeciancimia mciaistoi-1o'2 13 00@14 00

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TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
MAKES UPPCLSs ois afeiois,sic.+ Mey nie o me olsins Mere $40 00@45 00 i
Common..... ---- 17 50@20 00)
Culls.... . 11 50@12 50

LEATHER

ELTIN

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

Cy

Has F'acili

DOING as GOOD WORK

—AND AS—

Hee IM EVs

As any Engraver in Canada

aE IN Ee Ea,

John McGregor & Sons,

MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

STATIONARY,
MARINE, and
LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS,
And SHEET IRON WORK.

SSOSKING ST
SF ING S

Portable Boilers for Threshing Machines, Shingle
Mills, ete., furnished on short notice. All Boilers
tested by cold water pressure to 150 Ibs. to the square
inch before leaving the shop,

SECOND-HAND MACHINERY

OHN.™:

—/f,

ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

ae Gey a. at ES a Ss

E WATER

fill Machinery,

ADDRESS =

PAXTON, TATE & Co.

Port Perry, Ont.
Wwae=Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

INE

4112

LS ETC.

McCOLL BROS. & Co.

Om ON oO;

‘MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

BOUGHT, SOLD, OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR
NEW WORK, ,

oo

; i
sax Repairs Promptly Attended to. Mt dl ch l fe

—

188 Atwater Street, Detroit, Mich.
BRANCH SHOP,

Cor. Glengarry Ave. & Stuart St.

111 WINDSOR, ONTARIO.

SIT > BOR PRiICHsS, HTC.

and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

5124

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

~ ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.
Cash advanced on Goods put in for sale. Az No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always op hand, Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &e., &e.

m7 ‘SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

R

Mill Supplies, &c.

1118

Wrought Iron Shanty Cook stoves

The Best Article ever offered ‘to the Trade.

ch pleasure in drawing attention to my WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
oarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

I have mu
for Shanty, Hotel and B
Tron, the top and lining of the fire-
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work.

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 24 X 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containing twelve 10-inch pot holes, with twojovens, each 16
x 24x26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbermen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well Known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recommendation of my own could do.
The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PRTERBOROVGH, May 3], 1880.

Apam Haut, Esq., Peterborough, Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stove 1 have ever

a ith confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.
es oN : 4 Yourstruly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

The Stove for Lumbermen,
» PETERBOROUGH, June Ist, 1880.
My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find

tions, especially so on drives, We can recommend it highly.
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,

ApAM HALL, Esq., Peterborough.
it ig very satisfactory for lumber opera

Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.
Prrersoroven, June 8rd, 1880.

A, Haut, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business. Very truly yours, GEO, HILLIARD, M.P.

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for
Shanties supplied at the Lowest Prices.

ADAM HALL, Peterborough.

17

WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

Edge Tools, Axles, Springs,

&C., OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
1119

Robertson Place, Smythe Street - ST. JOHN, N.B.

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of _

STHAM BOTLARS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ADAM McKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF “

Steam Engines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, NS.

A. LHEARMONTH & Co.

ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS,
MANUFACTURER OF
Steam Engines, Rotary Pumps, of all sizes, far Paper
and Pulp Mills, Steam Pumps, and a Variety of other
Pumps, Propeller Engines for Yachts & Tow Boats.

1119

Iron Railings, Hoisting Machines for Stores, Jack Screws, Park
Mills, all kinds of Machinery for Mines, Saw Mills, Flour Mills.

St. Paul St., QU EH BEC.

PARKER& EVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN,

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

1n16

i119

ESTABLISHED 1874. ESTABLISHED 1874.

ACME ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
ANORMaN WQUEEN ST EAS”
yORonTe

Norman’s Electro Curative Appliances
RELIEVE AND CURE

Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price.
A. NORMAN, Esa, Warervitts, N. B.

Dear Sir,—Please send me a waist belt. Enclosed find price. Head band I got for my wife

has almost cured her of neuralgia. Yours truly, Cc. L. TILLEY.

Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy
the attention ofall sufferers. Circulars free. No charge for consultation.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto.

N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best in America, and Electric Batteries always on hand at
reasonable prices, 112

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 93

Drake Brothers’ Box Mill,Flour Making by the New Process

Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, N. 8. a RE

SPRUCE, PINE? HEMLOCK SHINGLES GRAY'S PATENT
sero wrtiacew NUINELES) MULLER MUL

HODGSON’S |
Patent SawCrinder\2 2700! o Perzectzon

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and Every Mill a Su CCESS P

~

“Al is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is moved along the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just E THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
Jumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in =O z=
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia. es

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

$100. Send for circulars to
T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

& Co.

TORONTO, ONTARIO,

Manufacturers of Every Variety of

Gircular, Mill and Gang Saws

«= SAWS REPAIRED =
Emerson Pattern & Lumberman's Clipper.

INSERTED TOOTH SAWS A SPECIALTY,| me machine io Perfect in il ts adjustments, and RUNS

W WITHOUT NOISE.
livery paw arranted. It is doing Better Work than any other Machine in use.

San D HOR PRICES. “et bué Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.
Driven entirely by BELTS.

AMERICAN HHA V Y Differential Speed always insured.

Oak Tanned Leather Belting | vows sew wrrover rare
Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing, Po, aOR ER! mm OLIS
Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose, The BEST ROLL FOR MIDDLINGS in the world, Over 6000

in use in this country and Hurope. Send for particulars.
And Cotton Hose.

ae MILLER BROS. & MEPCHELL,

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand. Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET
Write for Prices and Discounts. MONTREAT,
SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.

"EP, Wick EE. ROY, Jr :

3 Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING
ad = 5)
WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East, and CONTRAOTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL

po BOX 556. TOBON ZO. WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper. 1119

4

TL24

Smooth Iron or Porcelain ROLLS.

SOIVIG PONUQ IY JO SAO
PATIVIUISOTOY OY TV AG Pos AV ST LTTOY osoy yor

CORRUGATIONS of all Descriptions.

SSE ee

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94

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Mii, SO FP a

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface
RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills, &c., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.
Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery
Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
ginia and Wool Oils, Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all
kinds. £&Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Wks CoRR en LION

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IS THE RIGHT HOUSE FOR

No Shoddy Cloths used. All Goods Manufactured on the Premises.
pearEVERY GARMENT WARRANTED.-@a
Men’s Flannel Shirts and Durable Underclothing.

ORDERS SENT WITH MONEY PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

R. WALKER & SONS, 38-87, King & Colborne Sts., Toronto

oon pay

MILLS OUR SPECIALTY,

Address, WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS C0., Brantford, Canada. |-

BROWN’S PATENT SPALT MACHINE

eles out of inch board. Cuts Shingles out of slabs and all manner of refuse.. Will s

ae

for itself around any large Mill.

PORTABLE SAW

With Interchangeable Trenton Teeth.
7 THE HOE BIT SAW.
fe FLANGE TOOTH SAWS.
72F ORDER BY THIS GAUGE. BX

Bitt, and 2-66 inch Hoe Saws—running 800 revolutions per minute on 10 to 15

inch feed. Also, E. E. Parson’s, Arnprior, running 60 on Brooke Bitt on 6
inch feed—800 revolntions per minute ; cut 500,000 feet with two sets of Bitts,

f=" Write McLachlan Bros., Arnprior, as to how they like 2-66 inch Brooke
costing less than $10.00.

THE BROOKE BITT SAW,

FOR SAWDUST CARRIERS, LIVE ROLLS,
Machinery.

Mill

HEADQUARTERS FOR INSERTED TOOTH SAWS!
pled ache gedit tl Be Bo

AUTOMATIC GANG TRIMMERS, SIX SAW EDGERS, and the most improved Saw

Cuts three perfect Shin

1110

Northey s Steam Pump Works

- BOILER FEED PUMPS,
AIR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS,

STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES,
WRECKING PUMPS. And CITY WATER WORKS.

No. 47 King William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

SEND FOF a Fee

MINING PUMPS,
PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for

ESTABLISHED 1820

RAGLE FOUNDRY!
GEORGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,
Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

Ore Pesta Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &e., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR 1120
‘‘Water’s’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s” Centrifugal Pumps

ABRAMS & KERR

MANUFACTURERS OF

Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

-'SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER

Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting. ©

Foundry and Machine ine Shop on City Road, ez
ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

OAK HALL

Nos. 115, 117, 119, 121, King St. East, Toronto.

Ye are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada.

We carry a STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to choose from.

We wateh the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the
very best goods in Scotch, English and Canadian Tweeds.

We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business
on very SMALL PROFITS.

NOTE THE PRICES

a.

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We give a Good Tweed Suit for.......... $6 00
We give a Good Tweed Pants for.....---. 1 50
We give a Good Overalls for ..+..++-s+.06. 0 35

LUMBERMEN! |

When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with a
Good Suit. Remember the address:-OAK HALL, the Great One Price Clothing
House, Toronto, opposite St, Jame’s Cathedral. 18

P

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 95

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Lreasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

EMERY and COR

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened \

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs: SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. ma

as

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

2

96 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost In universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only a single saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or tw
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express cha os
often equal the cost of the whee). There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was co uncertain, and the Seauetall
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, boweéver, Saw Gumming Wheels bavo become as stapl
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies ca afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in a
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gumming Ware's are used with the edge (or face) square round.
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of allin use are beveled. e z

Tne principal sizes are: : 4
12x};
8x} a Bt 12x8 |
8x 2 in, xe \ 2s 12x * Holes,
el "k # in. hole. 10k ¢ in. hole, 12x 3,3. and 1 inch.
cs 10x3 12x5 te
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however, of all sizes up to 24x14, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels hard he saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sha the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened,.in which condition the saw will cut about 83} per cent. more |afber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly asecond time (after going’ all over It once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-bardened scale. . ? 4

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Thirteen years of experience as makexs of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality
“Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more ieee up by the dae hacen Ae wt coma ae
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who thiok they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we a.
qualities to match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar qualls Our
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows: . vy regular

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gu ‘heels re
. mming V used “ Class
1t cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the ‘‘ Pocono.” ig od he j

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together Saw Gum ming Wheels are used
,
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CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both finer in grain and softer than either of th Ciass
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will ciegeit sonata Cae —

Illustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application 118

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GRAVENHORST, August 20th, 1880,

Wo. HAMILTON, Esq, Peterborough.

DEAR SIR—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put itinto my
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Jonging toit. I can cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. 1am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting long or short logs. I consider 1 have cut more
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| Factories of any Kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel
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THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

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PETERBOROUGH, ONT., APRIL 1, 1882.

WHAT WE OWE TO THE TREES.

In the April number of Harper's Monthly
Magazine, Mr. N. H. Egleston has a very inter-
esting and instructive article, entitled ‘‘ What
We Owe to the Trees.” As it affords valuable

lessons to Canada as well as to the United
States, we take from it the following extracts,
and will give others in our next issue :—
SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY.

So important a place have the forests come
to occupy in the estimation of European people,
on account of their value as sources of fuel and
lumber, as well as their relations to agriculture,
to climate, and to health, that the care and
management of them have become one of the
most important employments of private land-
holders, and of the many corporate bodies, in-
cluding states and kingdoms, which are the pos-
sessors of forest domains. The state forests of
France, for instance, amount to 3,000,000 acres,
it is said, and reach an annual revenue of $5,-
000,000. Many of the provinces and depart-
ments also are large forest proprietors. Ger-
many has about 35,000,000 acres in forest, nearly
one-third of which belongs to the state, one-sixth
to the communes, and somewhat less than one-
half to private individuals. Other European
countries have larger forest areas, with corres-
pondingly large revenues. The recognized im-
portance of the forest interest has led to the
establishment in most European countries of
what are known as schools of forestry—institu-
tions ranking in importance with our colleges

-end polytechnic schools. They furnish a course
of instruction from two to two and a half years
in length. During these terms the pupils are
expected to spend five hours daily in study, and
as many more in attendance upon lectures, or to
do about twice the work required in our colleges,

_Taking for illustration the school near Berlin,
the faculty embraces a director; who occupies

the chair of forest science, with two assistants
in the same department, a teacher of mathema-
ties, physics, mechanics, and meteorology, one
of chemistry, mineralogy, and geognosy, one of
botany, one of zoology, and one of jurisprudence;
and, in addition, a royal forest officer as assist-
ant teacher of construction of roads, geodesy,
and plan-drawing, and also a chemist as assist-
ant teacher of geology.

It will be seen, even from such general state-
ments, that the instruction in these schools in-
eludes not only the technical or botanical study
of forests, but embraces also a complete course
in natural science and mathematics, as well as,
to a considerable extent, political economy,
finance, and jurisprudence. Captain Campbell
Walker, chief conservator of forests in New
Zealand, giving an account of his visit to the
school at Neustadt-Eberswalde, says: ‘‘ Noth-

ing struck me as more remarkable than the ex-

tent and varied nature of the studies required
"from forest candidates or probationers in Prus-
he and the number of years theyjare contented

to spend, first in studying, and then in waiting
for an appointment.” The students at these
schools or academies are expected to spend
several years, either before or after their gradu-
ation, in practical work in the forest, under the
watch and instruction of the forest officers, and
it is only after five or six years of such employ-
ment that they can reasonably expect to receive
a fixed and permanent appointment in connec-
with the forest service. Yet so respectable and
desirable is this employment considered, that it
is stated on good authority that a few years ago
there were not less than thirty-three barons or
baronets holding appointments in the crown
forests of Prussia.

The important place which forestry holds
abroad may be seen from the fact that there are
nine of these schools in Germany, and one or
more in every European country except Great
Britain, which has hardly any forests to take
care of, while the abundant moisture from her
surrounding seas, and her exemption from
severe summer heats on account of her high
latitude, prevent her from suffering from the
absence of trees, as she otherwise would.

THE WORK OF DESTRUCTION.

In our own country we have gone to the
forests in a kind of freebooter style, cutting,
and burning more than we could cut, acting for
the most part as though all the while in a frolic
or fight, until now at length, after a century or
two of this sort of work, we are waking up to
the fact that our once boundless woods are dis-
appearing, and that we are likely to suffer no
little loss thereby. But it is only the few who
seem now to have any adequate sense of our
condition as effected by the threatened loss of
the trees. In a recent publication, issued by
authority of one of our Western States for the
express purpose of attracting settlers from
European countries, the statistics of its great
lumber production are elaborately set forth,
accompanied by the assurance that the present
enormous consumption of trees for this purpose
may be continued ten or fifteen years longer
before the forests will be destroyed. The cool
unconcern in regard to the future shown in this
is yery noticeable. ‘‘ After us, the deluge.”
A corresponding feeling, though working on a
much smaller scale, is seen in an advertisement,
and of a class often appearing in our older states.
‘*Brace up, Young Man. You have lived on
your parents long enough. Buy this farm, cut
off the wood, haul it to market, get your money
for it, and pay for the farm....The owner esti-
mates that there will be 500 cords of market
wood.” And go, all over the country, on the
large scale and on the small, the axe is laid at
the roots of the trees, and our forests are fast
disappearing. It is estimated that 8,000,000
acres of forest land are cleared every year, and
that in the ten years previous to 1876, 12,000,000
acres were burned aver egimply to clear the
land, (3

; sight of tree or shrub.

PLANTING ENCOURAGED,

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| average, of more than a century’s growth, while

The very necessities of their situation have | those we plant must grow during a century be-
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aroused the people of some of our Western |
In Kansas, Nebraska, and |
other states liberal premiums have heen offered |
for the encouragement of tree-planting, and |
already in many portions of the prairie region a |

perceptible change has taken place, and the eye |
| strikingly apparent in the Cumberland.

States to action.

no longer wanders over great spaces without

Forestry Association, and its secretary reports

that between seven and ten millions of trees |

were planted in that state during the year 1877,
of which more than half a million were planted
in a single day, ‘‘ Arbor Day,” as it is called,
or tree-planting day, the first Tuesday of May
haying been fixed upon as the day, and every
owner of land invited to devote the day especial-
ly to the planting of trees. Similar efforts have
been made in other states which are similarly
situated in respect to a supply of forest. The
great railway companies, whose roads stretch
across the treeless prairies, have become in some
instances planters of trees, feeling the need of
them both as screens from the fierce storms that
sweep down from the Rocky Mountains, and as a
source of supply for the ties which are constant-
ly needing renewal.

Tree-planters’ manuals are published and dis-
tributed freely, with a view to aid those who
would plant by giving them the experience al-
ready obtained in regard to the most profitable

trees to plant and the best methods of planting. |

Thus in some places there is already: quite a
movement in the right direction. In the re-
ports of planting the figures make an imposing
aggregate. But a liberal discount needs to be
made for the probable failure of a large percent-
age of the trees planted. And even with the
most generous estimate in regard to the work of

planting, what 1s accomplished as yet is but a}

fraction of what needs to be done. It is but
the feeble beginning of a vast work. The talk
is of millions of trees planted. This sounds
well. But a good many trees can stand upon
an acre, and the latest estimates put the annual
decrease of our forest area at seven million
acres. So that Minnesota, with all her ardor
in this work, has only planted one tree for every
acre of trees destroyed. An area equal to that
of the State of Maryland is every year swept
clean of its trees. This is a large section to be
taken yearly out of our forest resources. With
all that we are yet doing in the way of tree-
planting, the balance is largely against us.
With all the interest and energy manifested by
the young West on this subject, stimulated by

her most pressing need, we are only planting |

one acre while thirty-five are laid bare by the
axe and by fire. And we must consider also
that the work of destruction goes on at an
increasing rate from year to year as our popula-

tion and our indugtries increase, and that the |
treea which are felled are the product, on the

Minnesota has her |

fore they can fill their place.

DESTROYING FORESTS.

In an able article on the subject of forest re§
moval, the Cincinnati Commercial says that the
conditions that affect the Ohio are still more
This
great river nearly disappeared in the heats of
last summer, and a few weeks ago was so high
as to do frightful mischief. There was a time
when the water supply was hardly sufficient for
Nashville, and again a considerable portion of
the city was overwhelmed. * * * It is not
the grain, the rails, the bridges and houses that
are swept away, the loss of which inflicts in the
largest degree impoverishment upon the country,
but the yellow fioods waste the wealth of the
land. There is talk that the Jews will return to
Palestine. They can not do it. The country
would not sustain a great people. The forests

| are gone, and with them the soil ; washed off
| into the Mediterranean and Dead Sea. ~*

There are hundreds of creeks within 100 miles
of Cincinnati that 50 years ago were ample and
beautiful all the year around, and populous
with sunfish and silver sides, and that were
serviceable in turning mills, that now alternate
between dusty gullies and turbid torrents, and
the danger of water famine is constantly in-
creasing. * * * The last vestiges of timber
will be cleared from the Ohio valley in the
course of a few years if the necessity for the
abominable system of fences can not be obviated.
The thing to do is to abolish it altogether.
Then trees should be intelligently cultivated.

LAND GRABBING.

One of our exchanges says that for several
years past it has been known that a large area
of timber land in northern Minnesota, especial-
ly in the region drained by the St. Louis river
and streams emptying into Lake Superior, has
been unlawfully secured by lumber operators
for the purpose of cutting off the pine, or specu-
lating in the lands, or stumpage. This illicit
business has been stimulated by the building of
the Northern Pacific railroad from the Duluth
district westward through Minnesota and Da-
kota, which has opened up a vast demand for
lumber. The method by which the land
grabbers proceed is by taking advantage of the
pre-emption law. By a liberal application of
its provisions a single spectator is able to locate
himself repeatedly, and he becomes a permanent
homesteader, as it were, on numerous quarter
sections of land, and always where the pine
stands the thickest and best, and is handy to
streams. The way which a single individual,
afflicted with the pine craze, will multiply him-
self for the purpase of covering as much pine

land as possible, is a terror to the law, —Lumber-

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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IN THE NORTHWEST.

We take the following extracts from the
Annual Report of the Department of the In-
terior :—

TimBErR, MINERAL, AND GRAZING
Lanps BRANCH,
Ortawa, 31st Dec., 1881.

Srr,—I have the honor to submit the follow-
ing report of the timber, mineral, and grazing
lands branch of this Department.

Statements showing the revenue derived from
Crown timber for the year ending 31st October
last ; the number of saw mills in the Province of

.Manitoba, District of Keewatin, and the North-
West Territory, with other information respect-
ing the milling interests, and the report of the
Crown Timber Agent at Winnipeg, are ap-
pended.

An examination of the return from saw mills
shows the following quantities of building
material as having been manufactured during
the year ending 31st October last :—

Feet, B,M.
Sawn lumber 16,694,323
Shingles..... 9 4,082,100
Wate. cc cee 688,300

The following new mills commenced sawing
during the season of 1881 :—
McLaren & Co., Brandon.

Jonasson, Frederickson
River.

Manning, McDonald & Co., Eagle Lake.

W. J. Macaulay, Rat Portage.

During the year a new agency was establish-
ed for the Saskatchewan District, under the
charge of Mr. Thomas Anderson. Instructions
were given to the agent on the 3rd of September,
but owing to the distance to be travelled in
reaching Edmonton, his headquarters, the office
was not opened for the transaction of business
until the middle of December.

Under your instructions of the 3lst October
last, I proceeded to Winnipeg for the purpose of
allotting ground to the various applicants who
had applied for permits to cut railroad timber.
As the ground covered by these applications
was chiefly in unsuryeyed territory, it was ne-
cessary, to prevent conflict, that the limits
should be surveyed ; for this reason Mr. J. Me-
Arthur and Mr. A. L. Poudrier, both Dominion
Land Surveyors, were sent out with small
parties to lay off the locations situate between
the Brokenhead River and Darwin. The work
lasted a little over a month, and during that
time over one hundred miles of line were run.
While this work was in progress | went west
for the purpose of examining into the cutting of
timber in the Big Spruce Bush, Township 10,
Ranges 15 and 16 west. These townships were
surveyed some years ago, but after careful search
no traces of the original lines were seen ; it was,
therefore, impossible to ascertain whether licen-
sees were lumbering on the sections covered by
their licenses, or to know if the contractors for
the Canadian Pacific Railway were cutting on
Dominion, Hudson Bay, or railroad lands ; I
therefore, on my return to Winnipeg, moved
Mr. Poudrier and party from Whitemouth to
this locality, instructing him to make a re-survey
of the townships in question.

During the time of my stay in Winnipeg,
November and December, one hundred and
twelve permits were issued, the dues on which
amount to $18,912.75, on which advance pay-
ments were made amounting to $4,238.20. This
not including the permit to the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company, whose contractors at present
occupy all the land, not covered by license or
permit, along the line of the railway between
the Brokenhead River and Rat Portage, and by
whom corresponding dues will be payable.

T have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
L. A, Hamiton.

& Co., Icelandic

Crown TIMBER OFFICE,
WINNIPEG, 31st Oct., 1881.

Sir,—I have the honor to submit the follow-
ing Report of the work of the Crown Timber
Office for the year just closed

The completion of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way to Rat Portage, Lake of the Woods, has
opened to the west a very fine tract of pine
country. ‘The mills cutting on this lake are the
Keewatin Lumbering and Manufacturing Co.,
Limited, capacity 120,000; W. J. Macaulay &
Co,, capacity 60,000 (commenced to cut 12th
October, 1881), and 8S, H. Fowler, on Rainy

Lake, which is to be enlarged this winter to a when St. John, N.B., spruce deals sold as fol-

capacity of 6,000,000 per annum.

There are now seven mills operating on the
Little Saskatchewan River, which will supply
the demand in this section of the country for
some time to come,

The Bird Tail Creek has two mills in opera-
tion, and another will be built this winter about
fifteen miles north of Birtle.

As yet there are no mills erected on Shell
River, those having limits granted them should
be compelled to erect thein this winter, as this
settlement is very much in need of lumber.

The correspondence for the year stand as fol-
lows :—

Letters received......se+seeeeee
«« sent

During the year 366 permits have been issued,

Number of seizures made........ 161
Value of timber seized.... ...... $ 48,630
Number of saw mill returns ree’d. 80

Amount of lumber givenas sold.. 12,483,343 B. M,
“ manufactured, 13,608,140 “

& on hand...... 1,224,797 ‘*
Quantity of lumber manufactured .
in October and in the log .... 6,000,000

Number of new mills commenced cutting in
1881, four (4).

The following mills have been removed and
rebuilt :—

Removed—Scoble & Dennison (late Smart &
Co.), from Hawk Lake to Cross Lake, Canadian
Pacific Railway.

Rebuilt—Jarvis & Berridge, Winnipeg, new
machinery ; Bell & McKay, Morris, burnt 1879;
Clink, D. S., Boyne River, (this mill has chang-
ed hands).

The following are prices of lumber at, viz. :—

Rat Portage, pine..............%18 to 20 per M., B.M.
Winnipeg Pine .s eae sec ee one 30 to 40 Be
a BPIUCO sc secene veer ae 20 to 25 BA
Portage la Prairie, spruce......- 20 to 25 ee
a PANG verte or 30 to 40 ee
Big Spruce Bush, spruce........ 18 to 20 ci
Brandon, ST tice 20 to 30 “2
Rapid City, hie meri B ber 25 to 33 ae
Minnedosa, BON hist ecalels 20 to 30 Wy
Strathelair, Ue SAAC AIS 20 to 35 =
Birtle, Cin hnnostac 25 to 30 Ma
Turtle Mountains, poplar....... 20 to 25 *

Prince Albert, spruce, a very
GOOd quality. ...cscecessrves 20 to 40 a

T have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES ANDERSON,
Crown Timber Agent.

THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE,

Messrs. Gemmel, Tuckett & Co.’s latest re-
port, dated Melbourne, January 17th, states
that business at auction has been light, in con-
sequence of stock-taking by the principal mem-
bers of the trade.

AMERICAN LuMBER.—No sales of any note to
afford quotations.

Spruck DrEALsS.—Sales made ex Lorenzo, at
39-16d. to 3d. per foot 9x3. The market is
heavily stocked. The Priscilla has arrived
from St. John’s with 11,927 pieces, which will
further depress the market.

Messrs. C. S. Ross & Co.’s circular reports a
similar limited amount of sales, and but little
change in prices. ‘The arrivals have been the
Ispahan, Loch Tay, Rodney, Serapis, Sarah Grice,
British Ambassador, Leamington, Melanope,
Allanshaw, and Gulf of Carpentaria, from Great
Britain, with red deals, flooring, etc. ; Stavanger,
Solide, Svea, Clty of Amoy, Johannes Rod, and
Levant, from Baltic ports, with red deals ;
Lorenzo, from Miramichi, with spruce deals ;
Glengarry, from Quebec, with red pine deals,
spruce deals, flooring, t. and g. ceiling, clear
pine, shelving, laths, &c. ; Priscilla, from St.
John’s, with spruce deals and laths; Rose M.,
from Humboldt Bay, with redwood; Kate
Davenport, from Astoria, California and Excel-
sior, from Burrard Inlet, and Xemia, from Puget

Sound, with Oregon timber and laths.
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LIVERPOOL,

The Timber Trades Journal, of March 11th,
says :—There has been a slightly better business
done during the past week, although prices are
still low, and are likely to continue so as long as
sales are pressed upon the market at auction in
the persistent manner which has lately been
practised. Notwithstanding the very short
stock of spruce deals on hand now as compared
with that of last year, prices do not improye,
as will be seen from the results obtained at the
auction sales of last week as detailed below.

The auction sales during the week have been
Messrs, A, F, & D, Mackay’s, of 3rd instant,

lows :—

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21 to 26 ft. 3x11
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18 “20° 8x11
8x11
6 ** 8x11

12 & 14 * 8xll
18 * 3x11
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4th quality deals
With an average price of about

Another cargo sold as follows—

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16 to 26 ft. 3x11 8 7 6
12 15 * 8x11 Che 8
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16 ‘** 26 “ 3x9 7 15 0
12 **416 *~ 8x9 7 10 0,
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16) 4026." BK 7 v. 6.40
12 “Sb A Be 7 26
ta Naar of 6 17 6
9 “ 24 “ 3x13 to 16 / a
9 ‘* 26 ** 3x10 & 12 (eB, |)
9 26 8x8 72 6

With an average of about £7 11s. per std.
aoe spruce timber, 9 to 20 ft. 5x5 to 7x8 at 10}d. per
oot.
Spruce deals 4x5 to 9, 10 to 26 ft., at £8 5s. per std.
Spruce deal ends at £6 12s. 6d. per std.
Spruce palings 6 ft. 3x1 at 82s. 6d. per mille.
a 4 ft. 3x1 at 62s, 6d. bg?

Prime St. John, N.B., birch timber—

10 to 26 ft. 20 to 22 in. deep 2s. 73d. cub. ft.
SOMES PONT SE 2 2s. sta ae
10 ** 20 ** 18 *s 184 > 28. 1 “
10) S328 8 Ue ele ie, Tid |
10 "S98 Tt, oe Is. 10d

10 * 98.‘ Diy hts 1s.83d “
8 99 « 16h 1s. 8d “
LO any ae 1G 7am 1s. 64d s
10 ‘* 25 * 154 “ee 1s. ofa “
11) Dee «Wi it eet 1s. 64d “2
1825) "* ee at Is. 54d -
9 98 “TOR 1a ls. 43d“

GLASGOW,

The Zimber Trades Journal, of March 11th,
says the arrivals of timber at Clyde ports during
the past week comprise one cargo of Moulmein
teak, one of pitch pine from Doboy, U.S., and
sundry parcels of maple, walnut and ash per
steam liners from New York. At Grangemouth
there have been two cargoes imported, one from
Skien, consisting of spars, timber and props, and
the other from Meme! of timber, deals, sleepers,
&e.

The public sale held at Yorkhill Wharf,
Glasgow, on the 2nd inst., as undernoted, was
quiet, and the attendance not quite as large as
usual, the demand apparently being chiefly for
present requirements. Of the goods catalogued
a considerable portion was withdrawn, prices
offered not reaching broker’s limits.

This auction sale following so close upon the
last may account partly for the limited business
done. Spruce deals, being very scarce, sold at
good prices. The market stands greatly in
need of spruce deals as they are now all or near-
ly so out of first hands.

AUCTION SALE,

On 2nd inst. at Glasgow, Messrs. Singleton,
Dunn & Co., brokers :—

Quebec 8rd spruce deals—

13 ft. 9x3 lldd per cub. ft.
11“ 9x8 1llgd -
10&11 “ 9x3 114d
Miramichi, N. B., spruce deals (av. 2nds)}—
12 ft. 9x38 124d a
18&14 ‘* 9x$ Il 2
11“ 9x3 ld #4
9&10‘* 9x3 1l}d &
LISS. tt Cee ~
18&14 ‘* 7x38 10d =e
12 *§ 7x8 10ja St
Miramichi 2nd pine deals—
10 to 12 ft. 9X3 133d xs
12to2M “ 7X8 124d x
Richibucto pine ends—
83 to 8 ft. T/18xX3 10}d ac
Quebec 3rd yellow pine deals—
12 ft. 9x8 123d as
12 to16 “7/11x3 1lldd a

Quebec Ist yellow planks—
9 & 10 ft. 7/21X2 (chiefly 7/10 in.) ls. 11d. per
cub. ft.

The accidents of life are unavoidable, but
should a writer accidentally get hold of a bad
pen, the remedy is easy: procure one of Ester-
brook’s Steel Pens. The Stationers have them.
Brown Bros., Toronto, wholesale dealers.

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for coughs, colds, asthma, croup, sore throat,
and all lung complaints. If you suffer from
neglected cold, try Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam.
The cost is trifling, only 25 cents.

Quebec Timber Company.
The Mail says that another proof of the fact

d. £. 8 d.| that Canada is attracting more attention abroad

than ever before in her history, is furnished in
the fact that there is now before Parliament a
Bill entitled the Quebec Timber Company In-
corporation Bill, applied for by Scotch, capital-
ists, who propose investing a very large tum of
money in timber lands, mills, and shipping.
Though there may not be many of those “ tall
chimneys” in connection with this enterprise,
it involves an expenditure of money that must
benefit all classes of the community.

JOHN PRESQUE, a government timber thief, —

was examined at Milwaukee, Wis., March 6,
and held for trial in the United States Court, in
the sum of $500. :

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CLOG-MAKING AT BOOTLE.

On February 1st Lord Claud J. Hamilton,
M.P., paid a visit to the works of the Mersey
Wood-working Co., Bedford Place, Bootle, and
inspected the whole of the processes, the visiting
being probably suggested by the circumstance
that from time to time extensive purchases of
timber have been made by Mr. R. J. Jones, the
manager, from the Duke of Abercorn’s estate,
of Baronscourt, in the North of Ireland. Be-
sides this personal interest the unique character
of the works was itself sufficient to make their
inspection well worth a visit. From an in-
teresting report in the Bootle Times we learn
that the principal manufacture carried on at
these works is that of wooden soles for what are
called in Lancashire ‘‘ clogs,” and in France
‘‘sabots.” Familiar as are the ‘‘ wooden shoon,”
few persons would conceive how ingeniously the
manufacture of the soles are conducted and how
vast are the quantities which are issued daily,
weekly, and hourly from these works. Lord
Claud J. Hamilton first.visited the yard, where
there are usually stored from two to three thou-
gand tons of timber. The native timber is first
stripped of its bark, the foreign logs being al-
ready barked when imported. The logs are
then raised from the yard by a crane and cut up
by circular saws into segments averaging about
2 foot long. These segments are next cut into
planks of convenient size, a dozen saws working
at once, and the planking being effected with
marvellous rapidity, about 60 tons of wood being
cut up into clog soles every day. On the side of
each plank a metal gauge is laid, and a girl
with a pencil roughly outlines the size and num-
ber of soles which can be made from it. The
planks pass on to a band saw, where they are
cut up into blocks with the required curvature
for a sole. Thence they pass to the roughing
machine, which roughly shapes them. An-
other machine cuts the sides ; another shapes
the shanks ; yet another rounds the heels ; and
yet another shapes the toes. They pass next to
a revolving cutter, which roughly hollows the
upper side of the sole, and subsequently this
hollowed surface is smoothed in another ma-
chine. They pass next through the various
finishing machines, where the bottoms, sides,
shanks, heels, and toes are successively rendered
perfectly smooth by friction with swiftly revolv-
ing bands covered with a mixture containing
ground glass and other attritive materials,
which scour them in the same way as if with
gand or emery paper. ‘They next go to the
gripping machine, which bevels the edges, leav-
ing a “grip” to which the leather boot uppers
can be fastened. It will thus be seen that the
sole of each wooden shoe, from the time when
the log of wood is first cut into segments to the
time when the edges are bevelled by the gripping
machine, passes through fifteen different ma-
chines, and as the required sections are marked
by hand, and the right and left sides of toes
and heels are separately shaped, each sole passes
through the hands of eighteen different work-
people. Perhaps the advantages of the “‘division
of labor” have never been exhibited in any
manufacture with more remarkable results.
The motive power for these various processes
is supplied by a pair of 60-horse power com-
pound high and low pressure condensing engines.
"The waste wood is also manufactured at these
works into a valuable commercial product. It
is chopped up by machinery, treated with
chemicals, steeped to a condition of softness,
and all knotty pieces having been removed, the
softened woody fibre is drained and compressed
between a series of rollers until itis transformed
into sheets of pulp, or rather half-made paper,
which is supplied to paper manufacturers, and
being mixed with other materials is transformed
into the best qualities of paper. Lord Claud J.
Hamilton was shown a sample of fine rose-tinted
note paper, which was made chiefly from the
waste cuttings off wooden clog soles. The works
include a chemical laboratory and _ joiners’,
fitters’, and grinders’ shops. The extensive
cellars are stored with clog soles, which are
kept there for the time necessary to season the
wood before being finished, and vast quantities
of finished goods are passing daily from the
warerooms to English, continental, and colonial
markets. Lord Claud J. Hamilton inspected
every process with considerable interest, and we
imagino that to him and to pthers who may

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

read this description of what he saw “‘ the clang ‘dyeing, and in the manufacture of paper, ink, and kerosene were equally sound and as good as

0’ the wooden shoon ” will henceforth acquire
new significance.— Timber Prades Journal. ;
NORTHWESTERN TIMBER LIMITS.

A parliamentary return has been brought
down giving particulars of all timber limits in
Manitoba, Keewatin, and the North-West from
the time of the Scquisition of that country down
to the 15th of February last. It is as follows :

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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY.

With the majority of people wood is wood.
The possibility of making it into articles of
commerce, distinct from wood, does not enter
their minds. The Luwmberman is indebted to
Mr. J. A. Mathieu, a French chemist, who
visited this office on Saturday last, and exhibited
several of these articles. In a dozen bottles he
had as many different liquid preparations.
There was acetate of nickel, acetate of zinc,
acetate of alumina, acetate of copper, acetate of
lead, acetate of iron, acetate of soda, of man
ganese and of lime, These preparations are
used for painting, preserving wood, tanning,

colors, varnish, and in a hundred-and-one other
directions. The principal ingredient of them
all is acetic acid, which is obtained in the pro-
cess of carbonizing wood, retorts for which Mr.
Mathieu has invented and patented. The first
thing desired is charcoal, and the acid spoken of
comes naturally. It is a fact that has been
known for a good while that the demand for
charcoal has equalled the supply. Since it has
been known that charcoal iron is the best, the
demand has largely increased. Heretofore a
good result from a cord of wood was 45 bushels
of charcoal. Mr. Mathieu was of the opinion
that too much wood was wasted, and set about
to devise a remedy, and with perfect success.
From a cord of beech, maple or birch wood he
obtains from 60 to 70. bushels of charcoal, and if
we may believe Mr. W. H. H. Gere, of New
York, of the Gere Iron & Mining Company, at
Port Leyden, N.Y., it is of very superior quali-
ty. The use of it enabled him to put 41 pounds
burden to the bushel of coal, whereas before
there had been but 30 pounds to the bushel ;
and it bore an extra revolution of the blast
cylinder. If this be so, the valus that the in-
vention will be to the iron industry will repre-
sent a vast sum of money. Mr. Mathieu had
with him a piece of a beech limb, a foot and a
half long, carbonized, that was so hard and re-
sonant that when struck with a pencil it gaye
forth as much sound as though it were steel.
Charcoal from peat bog can be made in the
same retorts, and it is said that two tons of
dried peat will make nearly a ton of hard char-
coal. Mr. Mathieu also exhibited a preparation
for fuel, composed of sawdust and charcoal dust.
It weighs 30 pounds to the bushel, burns with-
out disintegrating, and will last as long as coke.
Asa fuel for locomotives it will undoubtedly be
valuable. Tanbark can be mixed with charcoal
dust and serve the same purpose. We were
much interested in Mr. Mathieu’s invention,
not only on account of its novelty, but because
it promises to add to the worth of forests that
have been considered of little value. Charcoal
made of pine, while not so valuable generally as
that made of hardwood, is better for some pur-
poses. If the slabs and sawdust that accumu-
late to such an extent at the milling points can
be turned into charcoal and fuel, and sold at a
good, round profit, it will be a stroke of busi-
ness that will make every extensive lumber
manufacturer laugh.—Northwestern Lumber-
man.

PRESERVING FENCE POSTS.

A correspondent at Benton Harbor, Mich.,
sends us the following statement by Parker
Earle (a widely known horticulturist), in the
Chicago Times, and requests our opinion of his
mode for preserving fence posts. In answer it
may be stated that no single experiment, or no
single series of experiments under like circum-
stances, can be adopted as a rule for unlike con-
ditions. Our own observations and experiments
have led uniformly to the opinion that coal tar

applied warm to dry wood) is a good preserva-
tive for timber underground, or exposed to wet
and shade, but does more harm than good if ex-
posed to the heat of the sun and weather. But
varying circumstances may vary the rule. The
character of the soil may have a controlling in-
fluence, and experiments should be repeated in
different places and on different kinds of wood.

The experiments of Mr. Earle are a valuable
contribution to such a series of trials. For
general application, we would recommend first
impregnating the whole of the post with crude
petroleum as a general preservative, and when
dry apply hot tar to the portion going under
ground, but none above. The petroleum will
penetrate the pores, and fhe tar coating will
hold it there. The following is Mr. Earle’s
statement :—

In building a fence around our young orchard,
several years ago, we tried many plans for pre-
serving the posts. Having occasion to remove
the fence this winter, we noted the condition of
the posts as follows :—Those set with no pre-
paration were decayed an inch or more in thick-
ness ; those coated with a thick wash of lime
were better preserved, but were quite seriously
atsacked by worms; those posts coated with
hot tay were perfectly sound as when first put
in the ground ; thoae painted with petroleum

new. In future we shall treat all posts in the
following manner before setting: Let the posts
get thoroughly dry, and then, with a pan of
cheap kerosene and a whitewash brush, give the
lower third of the post, the part to go into the
ground, two or three good applications of the
oil, letting it soak in well each time. Posts so
treated will not be troubled with worms or in-
sects of any kind, but will resist decay to a
remarkable degree, This we find to be the
simplest, easiest, cheapest, and best method of
preservation.—Country Gentleman.

MAPLE LOGS,

A Wexford, Mich., county paper has the
following regarding operations in hardwood on
the Manistee river:—An almost unlimited
source of wealth to the people of this country
has just commenced development in the offer of
certain parties to purchase hard maple logs de-
livered on the bank of the Manistee river.
Hitherto it has been supposed that maple logs
would not float, and consequently that all the
vast hardwood forests in this and adjoining
counties would have to be burned up before the
land could be made available for farming pur-
poses. But if this enterprise of running maple
logs to Manistee should prove success not
only will it prove a great financial benefit to the
country by the increased amount of money
which will be put in the hands of our farmers as
the price of their maple logs, but it will produce
a more rapid development of farming industry,
by making it much more easy for men of limited
means to clear up their farms. We shall await
with considerable anxiety the result of this ex-
periment of floating hardwood logs to market.

READY MADE HOUSES.

A gentleman living in Ottawa has conceived
the novel idea of constructing wooden houses in
sections, of a size admitting their transportation
on ordinary flat cars. These sections, which
are to be built in this city, are to be taken to
Winnipeg or other places in Manitoba, and
erected there, some of which are owned by the
speculator and others which are to be rented.
The project appears to be feasible enough, and
as lumber and labor are both much cheaper
here than in Manitoba, and the cost of transport
reasonable, there is no reason why the specula-
tion should not prove a paying one. The parts
are to be substantially built, and on arriving at
their destination, a few hours’ work will put
them together, and as the oak pins with which
the sections are joined are easily driven, it is
calculated that in one and a half days a dwelling
18 by 20 feet, with kitchen, 12 by 14, attached,
can be put in readiness for occupation.

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Timber Trespassers.

A New York paper is concerned about a sys-
tem of reform which will prevent, throughout
the northern states, what it terms a “‘ reckless,
criminal, and suicidal destruction of timber
which will, in the remote future, entail disaster
upon the wood-working industry and the coun-
try at large.” Referring to the facts that there
are 65,000 wood-working establishments in the
United States, employing 400,000 persons, and
using $350,000,000 worth of material yearly in
the manufacture of wooden-ware alone, as well
as 8,000,000 more workmen employed on articles
partially cons fucted of wood, the paper urges
that congress shall interest itself as to preventive
measures against the wholesale robberies of
forests. Stringent restrictions against unneces-
sary waste are advocated to govern all sales of
timber land.

**On the Hip.”

This rather inelegant expression, used popu-
larly to indicate that condition of things in
which one person holds another securely by
some circumstance, work or act, finds literal ex-
emplification in the following narrative by Mr.
John Rourk, of Ottawa, Canada’ Mr. Rourk
says: 1 have been subject to hip disease for Sor
9 years, and have tried all kinds of remedies,
but found nothing to give me any relief until a
friend advised me to try St. Jacobs Oil. I tried
it, and after using 14 bottles I am entirely re-
lieved of pain, and have not been troubled since,
now nearly six months, This is what people
Would call getting hip disease ‘' on the hip,”

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THEIR BOUNDEN DUTY.

The Montreal Journal of Commerce says, in
alluding to the lumber market, that there is no
change to report ; any estimate or opinion now
formed of the quantity of lumber to be produced
this season is largely guesswork—as there are so
many contingencies in the way, bad roads,
horse sickness, etc., etc., that would lead many
to suppose that the stock will be very light.
Should we yet have wintry weather and heavy
falls of snow, however, there can still be a good
deal of drawing done, besides there are the logs
stuck last season to come forward. If there is
a good drive there will be a good, fair quantity,
and, with present high prices, the country will
be far more benefitted than if an immense stock
were manufactured and sold at low prices. On
the whole, the hindrances and drawbacks to
overproduction are regarded as a special benefit.
The work of denudation of our forests is pro-
gressing at a tremendous rate, and anything
that tends to prolong the production will be our
gain in the future. The present proprietors of
timber lands seem to feel it their bounden duty
to strip the country of all timber for present

gain.

Forests and Rainfall.

In alluding to the connection between forest
and flood, the Providence Journal of a late date
says that ‘‘ violent floods alternating with ex-
treme and long continued low water, each
damaging to navigation and commerce, have
been noticed in the Ohio valley now for some
years, and with such regularity that they can no
longer be ascribed to exceptional conditions.
‘The river is more and more assuming the condi-
tions of the Nile, or rather of those which flow
through the treeless deserts of Arizona and
New Mexico, which are raging torrents at one
season and dry beds of sand at another. Nor is
there any doubt that it is from the same cause.
Whatever effect forests nay have on the rain-
fall iteelf, and there is no doubt that it is very
considerable, it is certain that its leaves and
roots absorb and hold it in longer solution, and
that instead of pouring down into the streams
at once, it slowly percolates and its flow extends

over days instead of hours.”
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Antagonistic Trees.

It is said that certain kinds of wood, although
of great intrinsic durability, act upon other
woods of equal durability, in such a way as to
induce mutual destruction. Experiments with
walnut and cypress, and cypress and cedar,
prove that they will rot each other while joined
together, but on separation the rot will cease,
and the timbers“remain perfectly sound for a
long period. This interesting fact suggests an
analogy to the philosopher that reaches beyond
the province of the woodworker. If some en-
during woods have an antagonism to each other,
so that a mutual rot is induced when in contact,
why may not certain individuals of a strong
nature induce a mutual rot when they come in
contact with eaeh other. Carrying the analogy
into the close relations of matrimony the possi-
bilities that it suggests are simply awful !

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The Chicago Lumbermen’s Exchange.
At the recent annual meeting of the Lumber-
men’s Exchange, at Chicago, the- Secretary re-
viewed the operations of the institution since its
organization and during the last year past.
The lumber receipts aggregated 1,906,639,000,

866,075,000 shingles, and 104,109,000 lath, while |

the coarser forest products by lake navigation
amounted to 2,846,340 posts, 4,205,560 railroad
ties, 33,055 cords of wood, 2,254 cords of slabs,
29,702 cords of bark, 86,922 telegraph poles, 25,-
118 pieces of piles. About one-sixth of the
lumber is classified as hardwood. The Exchange
commenced the year with a membership of 85,
and closed with 126 names on the rolls, includ-
ing eight firms from outside points.

SHREewpvess AND ApiLity.—Hop Bitters so
freely advertised in all the papers, secular and
religious, are having a large sale, and are
supplanting all other medicines. There is no
denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the
proprietors of these Bitters have shown great
shrewdness and ability in compounding a
Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every
one’s observation. —EHzaminer and Chronicle.

TraverRy whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls, A five cent sample settles it,

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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

The Wood-Working Industry.

The following figures compiled from the U. 8.
census returns of 1880 may prove interesting to
those engaged in any branch of the wood-work-
ing industry :—There are in the United States
more than 65,000 establishments employing
40,000 persons, and using material of the value
of over 350 millions of dollars yearly in the
manufacture of articles from wood alone. Be-
sides these there are over eight million work-
men employed on articles constructed partially
from wood, and using that material to the value
of $6,000,000 yearly.

Marine News.—Hop Bitters, which are
advertised in our columns, area sure cure for
ague, bilioushess and kidney complaints. Those
who use them say they cannot be too highly
recommended. Those afflicted should give them
a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic
in the praise of their curative qualities. Port-
land Argus.

‘AnD fools who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wit
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to it
wonderful effects.

CHILBLAINS.—These troublesome complaints
may be speedily cured by Hagyard’s Yellow
Oil, the great Rheumatic remedy, which, as an
external application and an internalremedy has
a wider range of usefulness than any similar
preparation in the world. All druggists sell it.
Price 25c.

CHEAP AND Goop.—For 50 cents you can pur-
chase from any reliable druggist a box of Mack’s
Magnetic Medicine, which contains forty-five
doses; this is cheaper than any other similar
medicine sold, and while it is cheap our drug-
gists say it is the best, and gives satisfaction in
all cases. Read the advertisement in another
column.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, Of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

Taker CARE OF THE LirTLE Ongs.—Children
are the mother’s idol, the father’s pride; they
are entrusted to your care to guide and protect,
to fill positions of honor and trust. If you truly
feel the responsibility of your trust, and want
to make the duties of your office as light and
pleasant as possible, don’t allow a slight cold
to prey upon the little ones, for even a single
day or night may reveal the dreaded destroyer,
Croup, but a few doses of Down’s Elixir, i
taken in season, will banish it,'as well as Whoop-
ing Cough, Bronchitis, and all throat and lung
affections. For sale by all dealers in medecine,

Price 25 cents and a $1 per bottle.

Burdock B LOOD:

Burdock Healing Ointment should be
used in connection with Burdock Blood Bitters for
curing Ulcers, Abscesses, Fevers, Sores, &c. Price
a5 cents 3 1 box. T. MILBURN & CO.,

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Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

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TORONTO, ONT-

at Best accommodation in the City. TERMS $1.0
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.

The Most Convenient House to all Trains.
1121 GREEN & SON, Proprietor.

The American Hotel,
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far Every accommodation for Commercial and
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Among the oldest established importers of American
manufactures being open to place large orders for

BROOM HANDLES,
CLOTHES PINS,

VENETIAN LATHS,
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Manufacturers of the same will please state stock on
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Send at once for Mlustrated Pamphlet, giving
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46 Church Street, Toronto.

Sells all sort of Lumber on Cox Advances ¢

Consignments. Prices give
Stocks disposed on very

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Commission, Shipping, Forwarding and
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LUMBER MERCHANT

Office, Tempest’s Block, Port Hope.

FRANCOIS MARCHAND,

Manufacturer of all Descriptions of

STEAM BOILERS,
SHIPS WATER TANKS, Etc,

St. Roch Street, QUEBEC, P. Q.

J. & F. N. TENNANT

Dealers in all kinds of

Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Office, Union Loan Building,
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that lead to Insanity or Consumption and a Premature
Grave. &£2°Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we
desire to send free by mail to every one. £=7 The Speci-
fic Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per package,
or six packages for $5, or will be sent free by mail on
receipt of the money by addressing
THE GRAY MEDICINE Co.,

Toronto, Ont.

N. H. DOWNS’

Vegetable Balsamic

ELIXIR!)

This valuable medicine is purely vegetable
the discovery of which wus the result of |
many years’ close study, in order to discover fra
the cause, thesymptoms and the cure—vyiz:

Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Catarrh, Croup, Asthma, In-
fluenza, Pleurisy,Hoarseness,
Spitting Blood, Bronchitis, pm
and every species of oppression ofthe Chest |“
and Lungs. In allcases where this Elixirhas
been duly administered its efficacy has been

invariably manifested, convincing the most
incredulous that

CONSUMPTION

is not incurable, if properly attended to.—
Consumption, atits commencement,is buts
slight irritation of the membrane which
covers thel ungs; then aninflammation. when
the coughis more observable, butratherdry-
then becomes! ocalfever and thepolsemore &
frequent,the cheeks flushed and chilis more
common. This Elixirin curing the abovecom-

laints, operates so asto remove allmorbid

rritations and inflammation from the
lungs to the surface, and finally expelthem
from thesystem. Itfacilitates expecioraiion,

IT HEALS THE ULCERATED SURFACES

and relieves the cough and makes the breath
ing easy. Itsupports the strengthand atthe
game time reducesthe fever. Itisireefrom
strong opiate and astringentarticles, which
areofso ing 6 nature as to be in great

of destroying the patient; whereas
this medicine never dries or stops the couch,
but,by removing the cavss, generally des
troys the hectic before the cough is entirely
gone. Consequently, when the cough is
cured the patientis well. Send address for
pamphlet giving full directions for cure of
pulmonary diseases. Price 25cts. and SL
per bottle. Sold everywhere.

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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. APRIL 1, 1882.

THE water mill of the Parry Sound Lumber
Company commenced running on March 23rd,
having been shut down for only two months,

Tar Parry Sound Lumber Company have
added another vessel to their fleet, having pur-
chased the schooner Stir C. 2. Van Straubanzee
recently,

We learn that Mr. C. H. Edwards, lumber
dealer, Yonge street, has been shipping several
carloads of dressed lumber from Toronto for
‘Winnipeg.

Durinea the year 1881 one prominent match
firm paid the United States Government $4,500, -
000. This amounts to a total manufacture of
45,500,000,000 matches, or 277,500,000 five-cent
boxes.

AN order has been issued to have the timber
booms placed in position in the Northern slips
at Toronto, Men were engaged on Saturday,
March 18, having this done. This looks as if
timber was to be brought down directly,

Cart. Wm. JoHNson’s fine fleet of lumber
vessels—the schooners Alice, Olga, Clara, and
Ida—are being fitted out at Chicago for the sea-
son’s business. A third mast has been put into
the Clara, adding greatly to her beauty, and
makes her one of the handsomest and neatest
three-masters sailing the great lakes.

In another column will be found the advertise-
ment of C. Norsworthy & Co., of St. Thomas,
offering for sale the iron work of cars for
pole roads, A diagram will also be sent, from
which the woodwork of the car can be construct-
ed. These pole roads are largely used in the
States for drawing logs, &c. They are cheaply
and speedily laid down, and make hauling easy.

—E——— EE

Tur Winnipeg Times says that the following
circular issued by the C. P, R. authorities will
show the prices to be paid for all kinds of timber
cut upon their limits :—Fence posts, 8 feet 6in.,
1cent each ; telegraph poles, each lineal foot
over 22 feet, 1 cent; railroad ties, 8 feet long,
3 cents each; rails, 12 feet, $2 per thousand ;
stakes, eight feet long, $2 per thousand;
shingles, 60 cents per thousand ; square timber
and saw logs, of oak, elm, ash and maple $3 per
thousand feet ; all other woods except poplar,
$2.50; poplar, $2; all other products of the
forest not enumerated, 10 per cent, ad, valorem.

fifteen hundred to three thousand feet of logs
securely, and that around curves, and for branch
roads, corners can be turned shorter with tram-
roads than with poleroads. In building tram-
roads hardly any grading is necessary, the
stumps only being cut low or dug out, and dirt
and wood, with dirt on top to cover the wood,
in holes, In Michigan, where trams and pole-
roads have both been tried, the tramroad is re-
tained and the poleroad discarded. I have used
both horses and an engine costing three thousand
dollars, on tramroads. If any lumberman in
Canada wants to write me you are at liberty to
give him my address,

that the great bulk of the logs and timber annu-
ally taken out is manufactured by gangs of men
who for years have been in the habit of hiring
themselves to the lumbermen at their own
homes in the Province of Quebec, in the autumn
of each year, and agreeing to go to the point at
which the work is to be done, and remain for
the full season. In almost all cases these men
have to get an advance of wages to leave with
their families or boarding-house keepers, and
have to be conveyed at expenses of railway fare,
food, and in some cases clothing, to enable them
to go into the woods to do the work for which they
are engaged, These men are generally of an
improyident class, and are totally without
means. The employer at great expense brings
these men to the point at which they are to
perform the contract, and after a time, but be-
fore the period for which they have hired ex-
pires, some offer is made, by a rival lumberman,
of a higher rate of wages, if the parties will
quit the employment of the men who brought
them from Quebec, and go into the employ of
the person making them the offer, It willbe ap-
parent that such a person, having paid nothing
to bring the men from Quebee, can afford to pay
a higher rate of wages for the remaining portion
of the season. In case the men, or any con-
siderable number of them, leave the person who
hired them in Quebec and brought them to the
point at which the work is to be performed, such
person must suffer serious loss. He loses what
he has advanced to, or paid for, the men, and
also loses, by not being able to get out the logs
and timber necessary to perform contracts he
may have entered into. If he refuses to pay
the men any arrears of wages, they go before
some country Justice of the Peace and lay a
complaint for arrears of wages, and most of
these justices side with the men, particularly as
unless they give judgment against the employer,
the chance of the justice and constable getting
their fees are remote. The lumbermen of the
Province of Quebec felt the grievance some
time ago, and petitioned *the Minister of
Justice on the subject, and he replied that the
matter was one within the jurisdiction of the
Provincial Legislature, and that the proper
place to apply was to the Premier of the Pro-
vince within which the contract was to be per-
formed. The lumbermen throughout the Do-
minion feel that they should have some protec-
tion, and it appears to me the proper place to
seek the remedy is from the Dominion Parlia.
ment. At any rate the law in the Provinces
should be uniform. The Legislature of Quebec,
Chap. 15 of 45 Vic., passed an Act to remedy
the evil complained of, and for the relief of
which the lumbermen by their petition pray.
If the Legislature of Quebec had power to pass
such ag Act, as it has done, I cannot see how the
Dominion Parliament had power to pass the Act
40 Vic. Chap, 35, It seems an absurdity that
the Dominion Parliament should pass a law re-
pealing a statute in force in two Provinces of
the Dominion, and that the Legislature of one
of the Provinces should be able and competent
immediately thereafter to pass a law re-enacting
in that Province the law repealed by the higher
Parliament. I send you a copy of the petition
and of a clause suggested to be added to the
Act now in force, and would further refer to the
“‘Seaman’s Act,” by which penalties are enforced
against seamen who break their contracts of
service. There is no reason, to my mind, why
lumbermen, who refuse and neglect to perform
such contracts, should not be under similar
penalties imposed on seamen who quit service
before the expiration of the period for which
they were hired.

TuERE are 100,000 cedar ties, and 100,000
posts banked at. Tawas, Mich., as well as large
quantities of telegraph poles. Large operating
is also done in cedar paving-block timber, which
ig hauled to the several shipping points along the
shore,

Tux following paragraph from the Chignecto
Post, of Sackville, N.B., dated March 16, will
be read with surprise in Ontario :—Lumbermen
work on, chopping the trees off somewhere
about the middle, owing to the depth of snow.
If the snow be thin next winter they may go
over the ground again and cut another log from
every stump. Large piles of timber have been
got out, however, and mills are expected soon
to boom.

Yours, ete.,
Senex.

Chicago, Ill., March 18, 1882,
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Its Work in Strathroy.

It often happens that the opinion of an ex-
perienced man, an expert, if we so call him,
conveys greater force than an aggregation of
outside, uneducated testimony. And then, too,
personal experience or observation is so much
more convincing than mere assertion. Trained
to habits of analysis and keenest accuracy, and
and from the very nature of their daily occupa-
tion, given to the most incisive criticism of any-
thing of a proprietary nature, chemists, as a
class, hesitate very long before endorsing any-
thing of a remedial nature whose virtues have
been announced through the public press. St.
Jacobs Oil, however, is so universally successful
and so unvaryingly accomplishes all that it
promises, that the able chemist, W. J. Dyas,
Esq., of Medical Hall, Strathroy, Ont., sends,
with his friendly recommendation, the following
from David Harrison, Esq., 9th Con., Town-
ship of Caradoc :—Having suffered with inflam-
matory rheumatism since last July, and hearing
of St. Jacobs Oil, I sent for a bottle of the
article on the 15th of October. At that time I
was confined to the house, and could not possib-
ly get out of bed without assistance. After four
applications of the Oil the pain ceased entirely,
and I was able to go about Strathroy in less
than a week. I cannot give too much praise to
St. Jacobs Oil for what it has done for me, and
I believe it to be the most reliable remedy in
rheumatism. Its wonderful efficacy should be
brought to the knowledge of everybody.

Tuer Timber Trades Journal says that in con-
sequence of the late storms on the Clyde coming
so close after the heavy storms of January last,
and before the timber ponds had been properly
secured, there has again been much incon-
venience experienced by timber merchants, and
there will be no sales of timber during March.
It is hoped that with fair weather the ponds
will be put all right again, and the scattered
timber properly arranged for sales coming on
early in April.

FORESTRY CONGRESS.

We learn from Dr. J. A. Warder, President
of the American Forestry Association, that the
Society over which he presides will meet in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 25-29, when papers
will be read, followed by practical discussions.

The National Forestry Congress and the
Presidential Arbor-day will also be held during
the same week, The Congress will be interna-
tional, rather than national, for a number of
Canadian gentlemen have promised to attend,
and any other visitors who are interested in the
subject of forestry will be welcomed.

OTTAWA TIMBER CUTTING.

A gigantic stick of square timber measuring
50 feet in length and 30 x 30 inches square, con-
taining 312 feet, was cut by the Rielly gang on
C. & H. Mohr’s limit, one mile back of the
famous Oiseaux Rock, so well known to ex-
cursionists,

The same gang—John Rielly, Maurice Rielly,
Robert Rielly, and John Bradley, respectively,
made ninety-eight pieces in one week, including
this large piece.

This country has not been culled by other
lumbermen, owing to the great difficulty ex-
perienced in getting timber on the ice, as it is
mountainous and rocky.

The Messrs. Mohr are getting out some
splendid logs and timber. The logs will average 18
inches, while the timber will go 80 feet, clean
and free from bad knots, stakes, or anything
that has a tendency to injure merchantable tim-
ber.

Mr. Mohr’s agent having great practical ex-
perience in lumbering operations, enables him
to overcome those difficulties that former lum-
bermen experienced here in getting timber to
market. Nosnow here of any consequence, but
at present indicates a thaw.—Frree Press.

No article ever attained such unbounded

pularity inso short a time as Burdock Blood

itters, and that too during the existence of
countless numbers of widely advertised bitters
and blood purifiers. It is evident that this
medicine begins it work at once, and leaves no
disirable effect unattained.

THe Causes oF CoLps are getting overheated
in hot rooms or crowded assemblies, sitting in a
draught, or cooling too rapidly after exercise,
muffling up warm and changing to lighter wrap-
pings, cold and damp feet. No matter what
is the cause Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam is the
cure for all throat and lung disease that induce
consu mption,

Hacyarn’s YELLow Or will be found in-
valuable for all P ofa family liniment.
Immediate relie 1 follow its use in all cases
of pain in the stomach, bowels or side;
rheumatism, colic, colds, sprains and bruises.
For internal and external use. It has no equal
in the world for what it is recommended. For
sale by all dealers at 25c. per bottle.

FOR LUMBERMEN |
Poleroad Tramway Cars

Will Carry 2,000 Feet of Hard-
wood Lumber per Load

MASTERS AND SERVANTS,
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman ;

Drar Srr,—I see by the last issue of the
CanapAa LuMBERMAN that the lumbermen of
Canada are circulating a Petition to the Minis-
ter of Justice, asking for an amendment to the
Act, 40 Vic. Chap. 35, respecting Masters and
Servants. This Act was passed for the pur-
pose of remedying the evil that it was alleged

I am your obt. servt.

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existed, whereby persons under contracts of| Peterborough, March 21, 1882. ; .
5 5 pa - Drawn with one of horses, either summer or
service were liable to a quasi criminal prosecu- ey winter, on Round Pole Roads, which are cheap and

tion for non-performance of the contract, and it
was deemed advisable that such contracts should
be placed on the same basis as other civil con-
tracts, the remedy for breach of which, except
in the cases named in the Act, should only be
such as applied to the ordinary civil contract,
on a failure to perform the same, This Act has
been found to be very injurious to persons en-
gaged in the manufacture of saw logs and square
timber throughout the Dominion in that
there is no remedy in such cases as the fol-
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HEMLOCK TO THE FORE.

Hemlock is fast attaining prominence as one
of the most valuable among the soft woods. Its
adaption to numerous uses is being more fully
recognized, and this once despised wood is
coming prominently to the fore as one of the
most useful in the catalogue. The memory of
the writer carries him back to the time, not very
many years, either, in the vista of the past,
when in the purchase of lands for lumbering
purposes in the Saginaw valley, hemlock was
left entirely out of the calculation, and thou-
sands of acres containing vast quantities of hem-
lock have been allowed to revert to the state
after the same had been denuded of the pine,
because the hemlock was considered practically
worthless except for the bark, and that could
not be utilized because of the lack of transpor-
tation. These hemlock lands loomed slightly
into prominence a few years since at the time of
the hemlock extract boom, when several extract
factories were established in the state, but the
‘‘oreat expectations” of the stockholders in
hemlock. extract bonanzas appear to have
yanished into thin air or in a fruitless search for
profits which their projectors had promised,
Up to within a few years hemlock was consider-
ed worthless, except for fencing, joists, or for
some of the purposes for which rough, coarse
lumber was demanded. But as pine has ad-
vanced in price and is growing scarcer, necessity
has demonstrated that hemlock is especially
adapted, not only for coarser work, but also for
inside finishing, and is being utilized in its
natural state—being found capable of extraor-
dinarily fine polish—for such purposes, in some
very expensive structures. As an illustration
we might cite a church in a neighbouring city,
finished principally in hemlock in oil, in which
is displayed some of the most beautiful speci-
mens of natural graining, in the panel work,
which can possibly be produced. It has been
ascertained that hemlock is adapted for almost
any of the uses to which the soft class of woods
has heretofore been applied. The popular
fayor with which it is being received has result-
ed in rapidly enhancing the price of the lumber,
as well as the lands on which the timber is
located, and hemlock stumpage has appreciated
in value to such an extent that in some sections
it is ruling higher than that received for pine
land stumpage a few years ago. This may have
been partially induced by the speculative mania
which has lately set in for the possession of
timbered lands, but not wholly so ; and because
of the utility of the lumber for almost every
conceivable purpose, it is safe to predict that
hemlock will maintain a much higher figure in
the future, and be received with much greater
favor than in the past, and those who through
foresight, or inability to dispose of them, have
retained possession of these lands, will find they
have struck a bonanza.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

CONSTITUENCY OF WOOD.

All woods heated away from the air yield
watery vapor chiefly, leaving nearly pure char-
coal, which, when burned, leaves more or less
mineral matter as ashes. Of green wood from
one-third to one-half or more of its weight is
water, the conditions partly depending upon the
time of cutting. A gentleman made experiments
ona basis of 100 pounds, and found they con-

tained water as follows :—
Cut in Jan, Cutin April.

Ash, pounds water..... . 29 38
Sycamore........ gue 40
White Pine 61

All kinds of wood cut in January contain from
15 to 25 per cent. less water than after the sap
is in motion in .April, and considerably earlier
in the Southern States. As wood seasons
naturally in the air, it loses from one-sixth to
one-third its weight of water, but still contains
from one-seventh to one-fourth its weight of
moisture. A considerable part of the latter
may be expelled by kiln-drying, and most of it
if the kiln heat be raised to 212°, Some careful
tests made showed that five cords of beech and
maple just cut weighed as much as eight cords
of the same wood when thoroughly air-seasoned.
This teaches us a practical lesson ; that is to haul
and handle green wood requires a very large
waste of strength. In handling five cords of
green beech wood, for example, we have loaded,
hauled, and unloaded three or more tons of use-
less water, which a few months’ seasoning would

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have remoyed. A cord of wood contains 128
cubic feet as it lies piled up. But allowing for
the interstices in fairly piled wood, we may
reckon a cord to actually contain about seventy-
two cubic feet of solid wood. Thoroughly dry
wood weighs about as follows, per cubic foot and
cord :—

Onec, One

‘ Soot. ord.
Hickory, pounds..... Riekich ase\et apO2) >: 44,404
WiDMGO OdNeisicieelepp a seeayieiacieis » » ele « 53s 3,816
White ash on . 49 3,528
Red oak.... AbL 3,276
White beec! ~ 45 2,240
Apple tree, -43 3,006
Black birch, AB 3,096
Black walnut. 424 3,060
Hard mapley,..tetevs «tla Laas ~.40 2,880
Soft Maple... +s sivwciacissesciosisssccss 37 = 2,664
IWildtGherrysates'cheltelelstetaTole’s s'c\elviets 37 2,664
IWiRItese lin iereveaieieiclelsiaisielslclonlerslnieleels 304 2,628
Butternut.......... Sisco Atsieta aeo...804 2,556
TEPGECGHBT. 0.5 viesclees Mie ep-ais » olalet 35 2,520
Yellow pin€...s+e...e--08 leisi«\ aisle d 34 2,447
White birch..... elo vlepee bs dave cgion 83 2,376
MOTLCSUINAL Wc aise. "Saleen Me ccide ats estat © 82 2,304
WIIITOREING etelstererereis aisles ietateialerel alate 26 1,872

If the wood is to be used for steain-generating
purposes, the relative values per cord, of various
seasoned woods, taking into account weights,
heating power, etc., and valuing hickory, as a
basis, at $5 per cord, we reach the following re-
sults :—

ETL CHON Ye nlesaterols stutelevelateistesolgtnil>telslatelsteiatslatets $5 00
White oak.. sey e056
White ash 3 86
Apple.... 3 50
Red oak.... 4 46
Wihite'b Cec hiigain's\sa:</ciaitnames /e'saeaniais same isis 3 25
Blawgs: WAINUE. de «oles lyse Ble ’s Op (oinalp sien 'e’e 3 25
IBIBC birch Wretey ic cte« a OWes sagittal ieee 315
HArdimapgles. cigs s Gs odgecchs Bees tae eoee 3 00
WIHICONSLIN 1s ciecprnigie(slnialete metre aieietaletainalaiersts 2 90
Redicadan,.stiissisintey walataatesalaelitestnains 2 08
SWING CHOLIY cterais'-)o Nelalefuisitielsibieteis’ ciateteinte sta 275
Soft Maple ssisreinls pisialuiaiesswiovaleiavere/stbisvete slesatels 270
Wellowipine -Wieiseisieis decaidias sloine > basis ewes 270
Chestpubsrictetievartetes veeme selenide chinteae 2 60
Buttergeii sxe fal nee eiege ndhonmeibelnis:o(en 2 65
VE IEMGIN clsle/ersjcis wale ale nin ainie:e'Waieinlolss « 2 40
White pine...... Shasta abit celnlaetetde-e 210

We find no record of careful experiments to
test the relative value of cottonwood and rose-
wood or linden. The hickory named above is
what is known as the shellbark hickory (Carya
alba). The pignut hickory (Carya porcina) is of
nearly equal value. The western hickory (Carya
sulcata) weighs about 25 per cent, less than the
shellbark, and its relative value per cord is esti-
mated at $4.05, or the same as white oak,—
Northwestern Lumberman.

SOUTHERN PINE FORESTS.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press learns through the
parties chiefly interested, of quite an important
transaction in Florida pine, which will be of
interest to people in the northern lumbering
regions. In 1872, A. J. Floyd, a Kentuckian,
once wealthy but impoverished by the war,
came into this country on a prospecting tour
among the pine lands, of which there were many
thousand acres that had reverted to the state
through default in the payment of taxes. He
was without means of his own, but had interest-
ed in his prospects Mr. W. H,. Polleys, of Wis-
consin, an old Black river lumberman of con-
siderable wealth, who had agreed to back him
to a reasonable extent if satisfactory opportuni-
ties for investments offered. Mr. Floyd was
well posted on pine, and after examining the
country thoroughly, located 64,000 acres in a
nearly or quite solid mass, lying on waters flow-
ing into the gulf and splendidly situated for
operations and marketing. Mr. Floyd with
his family took up his residence upon the tract,

‘and has lived there in hermit-like seclusion for

ten years, selling each year a few logs which
found their way to the navy yard at Penascola,
and furnished sufficient means for the payment
of taxes and support of his family. His confi-
dence in the value of his investment never
weakened, and his partner, Mr, Polleys, was
equally hopeful, although the financial panic of
1873, following right upon the heels of a venture
which tied up for some years considerable of his
available cash capital, seriously crippled him,
and probably caused him some regrets that he
had hampered a profitable business with uncer-
tain speculations of this character. However
that may be, his judgment has been vindicated.
The land was well selected and its value has
been recognized during the past year by capi-
talists from the north, who have been seeking
investments in the gulf states. Offers have
been made and refused. Recently an English
firm, Sanders & Rankins, made an offer of $5
per acre for the entire tract. This was refused.
They then offered $5 per acre for an undivided
one-half of the 64,000 acres, and this was accept-

ed. I understand the transfer has been made,
and the purchase money, $160,000 in cash, placed
to the credit of Messrs. Polleys & Floyd. They
expect to hold the remaining 32,000 acres, con-
sidering it the most profitable investment they
can make. Mr. Floyd, who was here last week,
left to-day for Alabama, where he will reinvest
in pine lands. This trade has opened the eyes
of northerners wintering here, and although to-
day there are tracts of pine in the gulf states
that can be had by clearing up taxes, for a
nominal sum, it seeins likely that within a year
the best located portions will have passed into
the hands of the numerous capitalists now look-
ing for investments.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

EXPORT.OFSHEMLOCK BARK.

The St. John,",\N.B., Daily News,“of March
6th, says :—The discussion or conversation that
took place last week in the Legislative Council
in connection with Mr. Jones’ motion for papers
relative to the hemlock land sale, showed that
the weight of opinion in that body;was opposed
to the course pursued by the Local Government
on that matter. In the course of that discus-
sion, two points were brought out very clearly,
of which one was that the policy of stimulating
the destruction of our hemlock forests for the
maintenance of a great export trade in hemlock
bark extract, was a most wasteful and short-
sighted one, and the other of which was, that
whether that policy was wise or no the land dis-
posed of had been sold at a price far below its
value.

There seems to be no doubt as to the sound-
ness of these conclusions, It is plain to every
intelligent observer that the tanning industry is
one which the world can never dispense with.
Its importance can never be lessened, but rather
increased age after age. But the materials
needed for use in the tanning process naturally
become scarcer and scarcer,
bark furnishes the best tanning material grow
slowly, and are destroyed quickly. The hem-
lock is one of the best of the tanning-bark bear-
ingtrees. It has been plentiful in this Province.
But it is being rapidly destroyed, and as it
grows scarcer it becomes more and more yalu-
able. _It would pay the Province well to guard
it carefully. The rapid destruction of tanning-
bark bearing trees elsewhere will surely enhance
the value of such trees in New Brunswick.
There is not the slightest probability that the
use of tanning bark will be superseded by any
discovery or device whatever. Where it cannot
be obtained in sufficient quantity, inferior tan-
ning will have to be depended upon. Where
it can be got it will always command a good
price. But anyone can understand that as the
supply of such bark is limited, the country
would profit far more in the long run from its
use in tanning factories at home, than by its
exportation in any shape for use in tanning
factories abroad.

The exportation, however, may be found
difficult to stop altogether ; but henceforward
the Government should be careful to part with
no hemlock lands in large quantities, and with
none in any quantity below their real value.
The Government should be made to understand
that the hemlock forests of the Province are
sources of wealth to be jealously gnarded and
husbanded for the general good. ar

POLEROADS IN WASHINGTON,

The lumbermen of the Puget Sound district
have adopted the poleroad system, for years so
successfully operated in Michigan. The Black-
man Brothers, of Snohomis City, have invented
an improvement on car trucks for these rail-
ways, and the invention seems to promise good
results. The renouncing of primitive methods
for advanced ones adequate for the demands of
the lumber business is a question of the times,
A wooden track with these improved cars can
be used by the lumbermen in places and upon
grades where an iron track could not be used,
for the reason that an iron track can only be
used on comparatively light grades, whereas
the wooden track has been successfully used
with these trucks where the grade was one foot
to every nine. All such improvements are
hence important, and when the idea is perfected
it will work a revolution in the methods of
hauling logs from the woods to the booms or
navigable water, —WVorthwestern Lumberman,

The trees whose

BURNING UNDERBRUSH.

Mr. Thos. Meehan, of Philadelphia, who is
an authority on matters relating to forestry,
endorses the proposition of Joaquin Miller to

burn the brushwood and rubbish in the forests _

every year, to prevent extensive conflagrations,
In the Gardeners’ Monthly he says -—
“Tf the undergrowth is kept down and dead

matter not allowed to accumulate, there will be -

no fire to hurt the living trees. We know of a
piece of wood that is burned under every year
by sparks from the Reading Railroad Com-
pany’s locomotives, but the standing timber has
never been injured. It will not cost a thou-
sandth part as much to clear out all the brush-
wood in the United States forests as we lose in
one year by forest fires, and the true way to
preserve our forests must start from just here.
At any rate this idea removes thegreat objection
to forest planting, that it may get burned. If
rank vegetation is kept down for a few years
during the growth of the forest, it will by its
own shade keep down the growth thereafter.”

The Literature of Forestry.

The large place which forestry holds in Euro-
pean countries is strikingly shown to the Ameri-
can mind by the number of publications on the
subject issued by the European press Spain,
from which we should not expect a voluminous
literature of the sort, furnishes us a catalogue
raisonne of 1,126 books, MSS., etc., in Spanish,
on subjects connected with forest science. In
Schmidt’s Catalogue, published in Prague in
1876, are given the titles of German works on
this subject published from 1870 to 1875 inclu-
sive, which amount to 650. A gentleman to
whom application was made from the Cape,
South Africa, for information in regard to suit-
able works on forestry in the German language,
reported that they might be reckoned by cart-
loads. Publications on this subject are also
abundant in the French and other languages of
Europe.—. H. Egleston.

The Question Settled.

There’s no use in arguing the question of the
potency of some substances for especial service
in emergencies. They will do all they promise,
and more, if judiciously used. The following
from Mr. P. Murphy, of No. 1 Fire Station,
Ottawa, bears upon the point stated above. Mr.
Murphy says :—I had occasion to use St. Jacobs
Oil recently, and must say that it is the best
Liniment I ever saw used. I caught cold from
getting wet at a fire, and it settled in my shoul-
der and*down my back to my hip. I suffered a
great deal from the pain. I was advised to try
St. Jacobs Oil. I did so, and after the fourth
application I was entirely free from pain. I
cannot speak too highly of it, and advise others
to use it.

Planting Trees.

Dr. J. M. Anders, in the American Naturalist,
says :—‘‘ The experiment has been tried exten-
sively in France of planting trees in belts 100
metres apart, and with marked benefit to the
climate, and there are some good reasons for be-
lieving that a similar experiment in various
places in our own country would prove equally
advantageous. It has been observed many
times that fruit grown in the city surpasses in
quality and size that grown in the country, and
this is ascribable to the more effectual shelter in
the former place.”

At Shell Lake, Minn., a boom will be put in
that will hold 40,000,000 feet of logs. One of
the mills at this point will put in a track and
employ a locomotive to bring logs to the lake to
offset the shortage in the winter’s cut. The dis-
tance is from four to six miles.

Saved from the Poorhouse.

For years David Allingsworth suffered with
rheumatism, and notwithstanding the best
medical attendance, could not find relief. He
came to the Sciota County Poorhouse, and had
to be carried into and out of bed on account of
his helpless condition. After the failure of all
the remedies which had been applied, the
directors of the Poorhouse resolved to use the
celebrated German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil,
and this wasa fortunate resolution; for, with
the trial of one bottle, the patient was alread
better, and when four bottles had been u
upon him he could again walk about without
the use of acane. The facts, as above stated,
will be verified by the editor of the Portsmouth
(Ohio) nt,

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Chips.

A PINE tree was recently cut on Beaver creek,
Peshtigo, Wis., district, that made four 16-foot
logs, 48, 46, 44, and 42 inches in diameter, and
altogether scaling 5,744 feet.

Tue Lachute Watchman says that Messrs. A.
& G. Holland, of Ottawa, are constructing a
pulp factory at Buckingham, and intend having
it completed early in the spring.

WHILE engaged in digging a well recently at
Two Rivers, Wis., some men found a piece of
hemlock wood 86 feet below the surface of the
earth, and in a good state of preservation.

On the Elk river, in Wisconsin, Ed. Butler

banked what was regarded the biggest log of
the season a few days since. It measured 20
feet long and 44 inches through at the small
end.
_ THE cordage to be used by the St. Croix,
Wis., Boom Company for the ensuing season
has been contracted for, and amounts to 100
tons, costing in the aggregate from $24,000 to
$26,000.

THE ancient temples of Egypt are believed to
contain the oldest timber in the world, in the
shape of dowel pins which are incorporated with
stone work, knewn to be not less than 4,000
years old. These dowel pins, according to the

appearance they present, are thought to have-

been made from the tamarisk, or shittim wood,
in ancient times a sacred tree in Egypt.

THE Chatham, N.B., World says that at
Barnaby River there are about 125 men engag-
ed at the lumber business, as follows :—Mr.
O’Brien has 30 men in two camps; Mr. M.
Gratton has 45 men in two camps; Mr. T. Gill
has 25 men in one camp; Mr. McSweeney has
15 men in one camp, and Mr. Murphy has ten
meninone, The total number of camps is six,
and the lumber expected to be cut is about 5,-
000,000 feet.

THis winter there are 16 camps, containing
150 men, lumbering at Bay du Vin. Mr. D.
Buckley has six camps and employs 60 men;
Mr. M. Savoy has five camps and employs 40
men ; Mr. Charles Rainsburrow has two camps
and employs 15 men ; Mr. John McDouald has
one camp, containing 15 men; Mr. J. Hanley
has a camp containing ten men ; and Mr. Lynch
has a camp containing tenmen. The estimated
lumber expected to be cut is seven or eight mil-
lion feet.—Chatham, V.B., World.

THE Quebec Chronicle says that a large quan-
tity of square birch timber is now being brought
toe town over the Lake St. John Railway. On
Saturday, March 4, two trains of thirteen cars
of this timber arrived at the Palais Depot for
different shippers, and has been unloaded at
Flood’s, Clint’s, Commissioners’ Wharf, and
other coves. The bulk of the timber comes
from St. Raymond, where there is keen compe-
tition for it, as many as six or seven Quebec
buyers having been operating there this winter.
A considerable quantity also comes from Lake
St. Joseph and St. Gabriel Stations.

A NUMBER of lumbermen of Alpena have been
or are at present, making visits to the southern
pineries. A. W. Comstock, of the firm of Be-
wick, Comstock & Co., returned to the city on
the 3rd from a southern trip, and appears so
well pleased with what he saw of the southern
pine woods that it is the intention of the firm to
purchase some 40,000 acres of pine woods in that
part of the country. There seems to be an im-
mense sale of southern pine lands, as will readily
be seen by the fact that the officials whose duty
it is to record deeds are about one month be-
hind hand with their work.—Cor. Free Press.

THe Minneapolis Lumberman says the
logging season may now be considered closed in
the northwest. The cut on the upper Missis-
sippi, Rum, Snake, St. Croix, Menominee,
Chippewa, Wisconsin and Black rivers, as well
as the railway mills taken as a whole will reach
about 66 per cent. of the intended cut. The
extreme upper Mississippi loggers haye done
the best. The Black river has done the poorest.
It is also to be kept in mind that there is a very
much larger supply of old logs on hand than
ever was known before. We think it a safe
estimate to put down the logs in booms from St.
Louis north at 500,000,000 feet, which will go
far toward making up the shortage,

THE CANADA

5 JACOB

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MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Marcu 24th.—The action of the authorities
in charging over weight of from $2 to $5 on

lumber brought by the Q. M. & O. Railway,

has for the time being put a stop to importations
by that line, and no more will likely be brought
merchants preferring now to wait

this spring,
the opening of navigation; this, however will
canse no inconvenience here, as stocks of most
kinds of lumber are ample to meet the demand,
which has been fair during the past two weeks.
Prices are firm but not quotably changed, We
continue to quote :—

Pine, 1st quality, 7 un Bd wanaacn sesvaees $35 00@40 00
Pine, 2nd ‘“ BOWE An oanoatoonaupotdes 18 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, -" NE aielorate a sketaferdialo\ ate 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull eas, aBi MM... yesh sista eases ee ei 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, Al Drea stotitp vias lerentts isons ota, 5 00@ 8 00
Syonblee. Fant 7 Snanornnscinds ents: gaceuthatie 8 00@10 00
Hemlock Manan, 02 Sec sieceie eerie eltls ers 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of, long culls. out, M NOMAD | Cot 16 00@18 00
Bass, RMD pe petciort nzajevane 16 00@17 00
COB Ruthie Apo anonaon been ron Jib asodre 1 365 00@45 00
Birch, At Larsteratela mietitete erates eeaTasttataiy tntetMaa 17 00@20 00
fardyNiaple; ABM sp avelelelsistectels etaejais © sie's\9im 18 00@25 00
Lath, @M......... Adodendracn Amore od 1 50@ 0 00
SHINGIES WUSt PUNT) muy eissicecsbiniel eisialels| sie 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd; PM.......,..:.:cecee0e8-2 2 00@ 0 00

London mail advices say that there is special
dullness in the lumber market, buyers and sellers
being wide apart in their views. Stocks are not
much behind that of last year, and during the
week ending first inst., 7 timber laden vessels
were reported either lost or disabled. From
Liverpool we learn that a better business has
been done, but prices rule low.

Corpwoop.—There has been quite an excite-
ment among cordwood dealers during the last
week owing to the new regulation which came
_ into force in the rates of freight charged on wood

by the Q. M. O. & O. Railway, which used to
be paid for at the rate of $1.50 a cord from the
Ottawa District, but isnow charged for by weight,
which will make a difference of about $7.50 per
car load from that district, and $6.25 from St.
Jerome. This has stopped the demand from
the depot, and dealers are anxiously looking for-
ward to the opening of navigation, when they
will be enabled to get their supplies by the
canal, and inthe meantime they have petitioned
the Government to restore the former rate of
$1.50. The public, or rather consumers, con-
sider they have been rather hardly dealt with
in this matter, as one of the principal reasons
for the city giving one million dollars towards
the building of the railway was that fuel could
be brought from the back woods much more
cheaply than formerly. Owing to considerable
stocks on hand no advance has yet taken place
in quotations, but on all coming under the new
tariff, it is fully expected that a rise of 50 cents
per cord will be established. There has been a
fairly active demand lately for wood, which we
still quote at the railway depot, ex cartage :—

Long Maple d6og0 cdo dndor ss. C dee cose cwewes 9600
SHOLG) heen ainesne Wvsles lo aime ud o(she Mi8ialn alu eal 6 60
TMeyeVer Le ShCe WB OOD GOURD on HOM OROR Goce ce hae 5 60
Jao. “ eoaadsoobwadodadsudoosbusodosucodenon 5 00
MONE IBECCH eave niainiaele viele venietsin’ sje e(pieisiss sis Neaeees 6 00
Sara OF Gaconmuonoo too onovosodoosdnaduocoan 4 60
MON PUTA MATACK |e x sissineieieie talvisjers wjacria\aioiaisl nines « 1. 460
Short WG > Sona neugbdon bod aounndordoUd JOOGdE 4 00
——__—__—_——.
TORONTO,

From our own Correspondent.

Marcw 22nd.—Active preparations are now
being made for the opening of navigation, and
several vessels are now loading ready for a start
as soon as the month closes. The Marquis,
John Bently and Annie Mulvey, three vessels
owned by Capt. Hall, of this city, will all take
cedar ties the first trip, and are now on the way
loading ; the total capacity of the three above
named crafts is 1,250,000 ft. Rates to Oswego
will open at $1.25 per M., and strong efforts
will be made to ship all dry lumber away as fast
as vessels can be procured to carry it, but the
want of proper dock room on which to pile
lumber pending the arrival of vessels, is serious-
ly felt, car lots in many cases having to be un-
loaded and again reloaded to shunt to the

vessel’s rail, or else the cars are kept under|

board, thereby causing a scarcity of cars during
the busiest portion of the shipping season ; the
N. & N. W. R. Co. are likely to be taxed to
their utmost to supply shippers with sufficient
cars, as the square timber will have te come here
at the same time as early shipments of sawn
lumber, whereas in former years the bulk of the

hewn timber for the-English market got in port
before the opening of navigation, and although

the company have placed their booms in position,

not a stick of timber has yet arrived, so that

when the limited water front owned by the R.
R. Co. is partly taken up by the timbermen,

it makes shipping by vessels slow and vexa-

tious.

The mild and rainy weather of the past few
weeks has operated somewhat against the brisk
sales from the yards, as the new streets, on which
most of the building operations are in progress,
have become nearly impassable for laden teams,
yet so far as my observation goes, most of the
retail yards have had all they could do to
furnish orders, and you will observe that bill
stuff has advanced $1 per M., and will, I think,
remain at that figure during the season. Good
cut up 14 in. and 2 in. dry plank is in demand,
but hard to obtain. Considerable dressed floor-
ing, sheathing, and clap-boarding is now being
shipped from here by rail to Manitoba, and no
doubt but that a large quantity of such lumber
will be shipped there during this coming sum
mer, which will tend still more to create a scar-
city of dry stuff here on the local market.

In continuing my observations anent our
woodworking establishments here, I would next
call your attention to the factory owned by J.
B. Smith, on the Esplanade west of Yonge
street. All the appliances for the cheapening of
labour are to be found in this building, and
thoroughly experienced hands in charge, and as
a large retail lumber business is run in connec-
tion with the factory, quite an extensive busi-
ness is done, prepared lumber being sent as far
east ag Montreal.

A little farther west and situated on the
corner of Lorne street and the Esplanade,
stands the extensive sawing and planing mills,
owned by Messrs. McCracken & Oliver. This
firm keeps logs of all lengths on hand, so that
any desired piece of timber can be turned from
their saw carriage at short notice, and all fancy
woods from their own extensive covered yard,
adjoining the mill, can be immediately manipu-
lated into any desired shape required by their
customers.

The next in order are the large shops and
machinery owned by Bryce Bros., situated at
the foot of Frederick street. This factory was
formerly operated by Joseph Gearing, who
skipped out between the two lights to the land
of the stars and stripes, leaving a host of credi-
tors to mourn over their losses, but the old
stand has now passed into energetic hands, and
will be doubtless run for all it is worth, and as
the firm has a large stock of lumber at all times
on hand at their retail premises near by, their
facilities for turning out good work, and plenty

of it, are unsurpassed.

In my last letter where it reads ‘‘ As it is well
understood that the N. R. Co. receives no bene-
fit for the charge levied for excess weight,” it
should read the ‘‘M. R. Co.,” as all Midland
Railway cars pass over the G, T. R. en route to
this city.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.
Mill cull boards and scantling..............e005 $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 12 00
Nt BLOCKS vviecewecusvesseeuneecueveues 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 i
ae 8
‘ “e “ 2) ft
Lr “ee “ee 92 ft
“oe “ ee 94 ft
“ ir “ 26 ft
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ot
80
oe “ “ 82 ft
oe “ “ee 84 ft
“ “ “ q
“oe “ee “a 38 ft
“ “ee “oe
Cutting up eee RO |ONYaierern'eiafelny> </els\eiy/ciniajetulnialwre’ te
oards ‘* 2

Sound dressing stocks
Picks Am. inspection......
Three uppers, Am. inspection

B. M.

bn -inch flooring, GYESSEM. occ cecssecenven eeeces 30 00
1 MOUGD. ccc ce cc eweeeveveucvennn 15 00
144“ s ALTOSSO ivi bisteniecielvis «A gteuslonien 26 00
1} ‘S 0) AUIDUORSEM cae aj... oie clare onan binds 15 00
4 iM yb Es UR Gees Bec occa xe) 20 00

a as INGMOBSEM In Aye «isle Ueletw selene «vale 16 00
A Beaded Sheeting, dressed........ 6.02. .0eeeee 20 00
Clapboarding, dressed .........0 ec eeeee ween eee 12 50
XXX sawn s Lingles, TM GUL aire, watts c.nla.oivie twie 2 ee 00
XX sown Shingles... seavveceeesesstveense 2 75
Sawn Lath. ..... eevee ee MRNcee sonis/attae ante sant 2 50

—_>—____—_-

LONDON, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Maron 24th.—The substance of my last letter
is fully borne out by the feeling which prevails
to-day throughout the lumbering interest of this

LUMBERMAN.

are confidently expected to prevail, and a good
summer is anticipated. Stocks on hand are
not very large, orders having been continually
filled during the past winter by rail shipment.
The mills here will begin as early as possible,
about the Ist of May.

city. The inevitable result of an unseasonable
winter must be higher prices, and there is
a greater firmness displayed to-day than
perhaps at any time during the last three
months, Prices, however, cannot be said to be
higher, but in no cases do we hear of any of the

merchants makiug even the slightest concessions is 26
in consideration of that tempting “‘ feeler ” cash. MIDLAND. :
Prospects for this spring are looking bright, and ' From our own Correspondent. 7

The prospects here are that a large cut of
lumber will be made this present season. The
several mill owners have made every effort to
have their mills well stocked. The only ques-
tion now will be the water supply for the drives.
Dollar’s mill be running to its full capacity ;
Chew Bros. have cut 4,000,000 feet of logs for
their mill ; the British Canadian Lumber and*
Timber Co. expect about from 33,000,000 to 36, -
000,000 feet of logs, and their new mill on Hugel
Point here will be ready for cutting early in
the season. J. A. Smith, of Port Hope, is en-
gaged in taking out oak for car stuff, and is also
dealing quite largely in ties, basswood and
maple. He has shipped from this point to
Niagara Falls sixteen carloads of poplar to be
manufactured into paper. ‘Tait’s mill is now
running daily, cutting oak for car stuff.

Property here is advancing rapidly ; quite a
boom in the market. A hotel stand sold for
$2,500 nine munths since and now $7,000 are re-
fused, and a lot sold one year since for $400,
while now $1,400 are refused. Lots are selling
rapidly, and our village is making rapid pro-
gress,

nearly all the lumber merchants have placed
their contracts for supplies; One of our largest
firms have placed their orders for about six
million feet of lumber alone.

It is feared that the great Northwest boom
will take away many of our carpenters and
builders as soon as strong evidences of spring
assert themselves, and that labor will be scarce
and consequently will cost more ; this, together
with the anticipated advance in lumber, will
add a considerable percentage to the cost of
building.

An item in the London Free Press, of Thurs-
day, says:—‘‘A deputation from Chatham,
Ont., will wait on the Minister of Finance to-
morrow to urge the imposition of an export
duty on elm logs shipped to the United States.
The deputation consists of manufacturers of elm
staves, who used to do a large business to the
United States, but a duty of 25 per cent. having
been imposed on the staves by the United States
Government, and the logs being admitted free,
the manufacture of the staves have been thrown
into the hands of American manufacturers.
The Canadian manufacturers think that by im-
posing an export duty on the logs they can re-
cover most of their trade.” I do not know how
this will result, inasmuch as logs can only be
classified as ‘‘ raw material,” and the imposition
of an export duty might recoil on the heads of
the projectors.

After the many promises I have made to
furnish you with a data of the business done
here for the past year, I cannot with consistency
‘hang fire” any longer, and I now herein give
you an authentic statement of what has been
done ; and allow me here to thank the merchants
of this city who received your correspondent so
courteously, and so willingly furnished the in-
formation desired.

STATEMENT OF BUSINESS DONE FOR YEAR 1881,

a
QUEBEC,

It is reported that Messrs. Sharples & Co.
and Messrs. Burstall & Co. have purchased ¥
this season’s cut of Montmorenci pine deals at
about $110 for firsts, $73.33 for seconds, and
$36.66 for thirds. Messrs. R. R. Dobell & Co.
are the largest holders of waney and square pine
timber in this market. They have purchased
very largely this season, and are said to have
the control of 4,000,000 feet.

a
ST. JOHN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Marcu 22nd.—There is very little to notice

in connection with our wood trade since last re-

Lumber (all grades) ft....... ....%s. 13,740,390 port. The weather continues cold, and the
Pleces LASS ..o:0:c0 ue oy be ow cbt Ow ES 6,199,190 eS es %
Shinpleisc:<oossss« Me, chvcc eee 8,753,000 roads are in a better condition for hauling than

usual at this season of the year, enabling the
lumbermen to continue their operations in some
sections, compensating in a small measure for
the disadvantages of the mild weather in the
earlier part of the season.

The quotations are at the present time about
the same as last and you will be safe in giving
them at this date. They are as follows :—

QUOTATIONS,
Mill cull boards and scantling............+++s00: $11 00

Sh x cull boards, idths...... 12 00 P %
HET “ af ad emery! re mje ie 12 50| Some of our city mills have commenced saw-
Jommon boards, promiscuous widths........... 14 00 | ing, but as the available s logs i
Scantling and joist, up WO 16Gb oe dyed dwuwtene 15 00 : rs . . upply 6 = “end
a” Se mee ack ie 15 50 | light, sawing operations will be on a limited

on S ‘i * ro deaneeececccacees 4 - scale till after the opening of the river, which

“ “ ott. |!" 1 yo Oo | Senerally takes place between the 20th and the
Common stocks ...... GaskAgtcddabebebee wes au 15 00 | last of April.
Common 2 in, plank. ....+.+....005 OSS ee 14 00 HTS
Cutting up plank and boards’**:.............. 19 00 — as §
Sound dressing stock. ,..% escncsssvepncsscnamps 18 00 The demand for tonnage continues very light.
Clear and picks. ......secscesee¥ssescelnviasvcenvn 28 00 =
Three uppers, Am. inspection...........+eeseees 35 00 In last repo abe 60s. was quoted as the market
ee dressed and matched flooring ........... 21 00] rate; since that time two vessels have been
: Pa a - BO eee en ene = “1 placed at that figure, viz., Herbert Beech, 1,061,
XXX sawn shingles, @ M.........-.2..2..eeee., 300] for Liverpool, and Kate Sancton, 677, for a
Lath per 1000 feet....... sec cscs eeeeen ene 4 50@5 00 | direct port East Coast of Ireland. Quotations

——___—————_—_—— .
as nominal, unchanged.
OTTAWA. SHIPMENTS,

Marcu 23,—Extensive preparations are now

. The shi
being made by the lumbering firms here for the © shipments of desis sae acee sears

are as follows :-—

spring drive, All the men that can be engaged | por Europe.....cceceeeeeccereeees - 2,420,000 Sup. feet.
are being sent up the river. Agents complain] ‘ United States. «++ 2,266,000
“* West Indies. . 594,000 “

of a scarcity of men, and wages are consequent-
ly high. From $25 to $30 per month are paid.
As soon as operations in the shanties, which are,

The number of sugar box shooks shipped for
Cuba is as follows —

however, being pushed on vigorously, come toa} Sitter nese wr: SeSie
stop, there will be, it is thought, lots of hands webal —_—_—
for the drive. Timber and logs will continue to Pein nan soneieeiaaet eta =a
2 il the fi k in May i i See 8 ke
be manufactured unite it nek in May in] she flowing ia lito he vl prt
PP ” | with their tonnage and destinations :— j

and on the Kippewa in particular, There are a
number of concerns already closed, . however,
for want of snow, among them Capt. Young’s
shanties on Bissett’s Creek, and Campbell Mc-
Dougall’s. Quite a number of this season’s logs
will be left in the woods, as generally happens,
owing to innumerable difficulties in having them
conveyed to the main streams. Demand for
logs at present is fair, and lumber quotations
also remain steady, with an upward tendency.
Mill culls bring $8 per thousand, and shipping
culls from $12 to $13. In regard to the ap-
proaching season’s trade, very fair quotations

: ns Hutchinson, 788, Penarth Roads, or E. C.
reland.
Maria Aistrup, 339, Bristol Channel, or E. C. I.
Oliver Emery, 623, Bristol Channel, or E. C. I.
John Black, 645, W. C. England, E. C. EL, or Glas-

gow.
Kate Sancton, 677, East Coast Ireland.
Herbert Beech, 1,061, Liverpool.
Our Annie, 364, dis ng.
Milo, 684, W.c. England or E. C. I,
Bachelors, 655, ——
Brothers, 537, ——

—
CHICAGO,
Marcu 23.—The Northwestern Lwmberman _
says that the moderate views as to values, held

this spring by Chicago dealers, is having a good
effect on trade at this point. While other
markets are bowling prices up the incline, values
here are held with a steady hand at figures pre-
yailing on January 1, with nobody favoring
advanced rates, Thisis bringing a large amount
of trade to this city that would otherwise go to
other sources of supply.

As an indication of the state of trade, it is
mentioned that one concern the past week re-
ceived orders in one day to the amount of 1,200,-
000 feet. This day’s work was, of course, ex-
ceptional, but it shows that lumber is moving on
a large scale. The average sales of the same
company have reached 4,000,000 feet a month
since January 1, and it is not reputed to be the
heaviest concern in the district either.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles for the week ending March 23, 1882 :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Inmber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882..... 5,552,000 1,048,000 39,162,000 11,075,000
1881..... 3,242,000 1,061,000 16,333,000 4,020,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1, to March 23, inclu-
sive :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882...55,350,000 13,660,000 302,704,000 91,120,000

1881...41,781,000 13,407,000 151,812,000 70,272,000
Inc..13,569,000 253,000 150,892,000 20,848,000
STOCK ON HAND MARCH 1.

1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber..........378,558,184 398,800,030 338,996,421
Shingles.... ....162,302,900 166,010,000 152,072,000
USAT FS sesc009bo 33,426,283 41,784,270 37,132,219
Pickets.......... 2,354,511 2,251,438 ‘1,467,974
Cedar posts....... 112,088 177,304 207,362

—_—___—_—____—_

ALBANY.

Marcu 23rd.—Quotations at the yards are as

ollows :—

REE, (CCRT a tN icin lwisiace ciecis sine. cais'e sole oles $53 00@63 00
sre, LOPEWAGs cic e mics sinminsise o/siase niece os - 50 00@60 00

i .. 45 00@55 00
22 00@35 00
00 38@00 44
- 00 19@00 22

Pine, good box
Pine, 10-in. plank, each... .
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each

Pine boards, 10-in....-...+.+.-seeeeeees 00 26@00 28
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls........+.....+-. 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.......... 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16ft.............++-+ 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft.........seceeers 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in-siding, select..... .- 38 00@40 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common. . -. 15 00@18 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select..... -.. 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... .........- 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, each........seeee+....+- 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each............... 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.......00. sesee 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each................. 00 11@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each...............0-. 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.... ... 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .... .. 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each. .. 00 00@00 10
Wahi) Pood, PWM ac Aedes ics tad... deat 35 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, @ M............005- 25 00@30 00
WHEIry, LOOM GME crcl dete res seus ccses 60 00@70 00
Cherry, common, @ M... ...-........-4. 25 00@35 00
Oak, good, @M..........seseeeresereeee 38 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, 2 M ... 20 00@25 00
Basswood, # M..... +. 22 00@25 00
Hickory, #@M...... ... 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @ M ... 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M.......-e+0++.05- 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, 2 M.....-++-ses-cseeeeceeeeee 35 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, pine, #@M............. 0 00@ 6 00

GO CRO 5 ee 0 00@ 4 50

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Lath, spruce, ‘ .s..0...eseeeeecseees 0 00@ 1 g0

Lath, pine, (Sega - Ae 0 00@ 2 70
SL oanestnnEREEEnIERED ceeemeeeeeeee

OSWEGO, N.Y.
Marcu 23.—The following are the quota-
tions :—

.. .$42 00@45 00
++» 32 00@36 00
... 20 00@25 00
UE OE iia dis Snot ee eccanccces 14 00@18 00
Gnlls:,.. 5 emp Epis gales adic’ el nipp\e vais boi 13 00@15 00
JO i ae ee 17 00@22 00
Sidings, oe Bg 34 00@38 00
MISE pisele ccs ccccccss sees 34 00@38 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet .-. 17 00@21 00
selec Mp saevcter et ss .. 23 00@25 00
SEINE ebay dle» 2 «se - 15 00@16 00
I OCIPECETIE DS auieis 5 5.4 0 se nieinin cope cles 22 00@30 00
ERPS UMEN So bias scare csc convoevscess 10 00@13 00
1x6 selected for clapboards.............- 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 3 75@ 4 00
XXX, 18 inch, cedar............. 3 00@ 3 26
es eee 1 40@ 1 60

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BUFFALO.

We quote cargo lots :—
aiotss as odes sess Tess sae $46 00G@48 00
“3 SESSA Ar a ees 18 00@19 00
MES DRE MM ep sAvaies oirciccccacs ence 13 00@14 00

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TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
RAO UIDOTE sce cccscscrsceescese +».--840 00@45 00
ARR se seeeee--- 17 50@20 00

Culis,,..... JPA is BS PO de Fae 11 50@12 50

THE CANADA

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER. |

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

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S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers |i
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

fa P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. inti

CANADA TRUSS FACTORY

(ESTABLISHED 1856.)

Er. GROSS,

Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORTHOPGEDICAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS made to order.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every description. 114

688 and 690 Craig Street, Montreal.

SUIUURLOCE GexsoLy

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Fon

Machinery, Marine, Portable
and Stationary Boilers.

Pump Boilers for Stationary Mills

P. PAYETT’S NEW IMPROVED

Adjustable Saw Guide !

Can be adjusted without danger. You can take your
saw off without taking the guide off the frame.

153 &i65 Front Street, TORONTO.

J. PERKINS, PROPRIETOR

- JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
89 Broadway, NHW YORK.

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

All kinds of Brass & Iron Casting

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PLAINING and TURNING done with
Despatch. For particulars address :

CRAIG & CAMERON,

PENETANCUISHENE. 1112

NEW FOUNDRY FIRM.
McLean, Brayshaw & Co

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

CASTINGS of every deseription in Brass
and fron.

All sorts of MACHINERY for Saw and Grist
Mills.

STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double U t = ° .
'swages, and all Saw fools,” |OQak Ship Plank and Timber. Pine Deck Plank and

Send for Price List, 14

LEATHER
BELTING.

Chipman, Renaud & C0.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MONTREAL!

Ship Stock Generally.

L7

MACHINE OILS, ETc.
McCOLL BROS. & Co.

Wh Oi ONE O,

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (8) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

5124

SEND FOR PRICES, ETC

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

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AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT
81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. #@ No Storage charged, All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always op and, Agent for Hazelhurst & Co's
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &c., &c., &e,
SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

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1118

Wrought iron snanty Gook Stoves Steam Engines, Mill

The Best Article ever offered to the Trade.

J have much pleasure in drawing attention to my WROUGHT IRON COOKING STOVE,
for Shanty, Hotel and Boarding House use. These Stoves are made of Heavy Sheet
Tron, the top and lining of the fire-box being of Heauy Cast Metal and all the connecting
parts of substantial Wrought Iron Work. ‘The dimensions of these Stoves are as follows :—

SINGLE OVEN STOVE

Top surface contains six 10-inch holes, with ample room between, and one oven 16 x 21 x 26,

DOUBLE OVEN STOVE

The Double Oven has a top surface containiug twelve 10-inch pot holes, with two_ovens, each 16
x 24x26. One fire-box of suitable size for area to be heated. Below will be found Testimonials
from some of the leading Lumbe:rmen, who have used my Wrought Iron Cook Stoves since I
commenced manufacturing them. They are the names of gentlemen who are well known and
reliable, and will carry more weight than any recom mebdation of my own could do.

The Best Stove I have ever Used.
PRTERBOROUGH, May 31, 1880.
ApAM HALL, Esq., Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove in our lumber-
ing operations since its introduction here, and have no hesitation in saying that I prefer it to any other. For
durability, economy and efficiency, where a large number of men are employed, it is the best stove | have ever

used, You can, with confidence, offer it to hotels, boarding houses and lumbermen.
Yours truly, THOS. GEO. HAZLITT.

The Stove for Lumbermen,
PETERBOROUGH, June Ist, 1880.

Apa HAuL, Esq., Peterborough. My Dear Sir,—We have used your Wrought Iron Cooking Stove and find
it is very satisfactory for lumber operations, especially so on drives, We can recommend it bighly.
Yours truly, IRWIN & BOYD,
Gives the Greatest Satisfaction.
PETERBOROUGH, June 3rd, 1880.

A, Haut, Peterborough. Dear Sir,—I have had the Wrought Iron Cook Stove, purchased from you, in con-
stant use ever since last fall, and it gives the greatest satisfaction in every respect. I can recommend them
highly to any one who is in the lumber business, Very truly yours, GEO. HILLIARD, M.P.

EVERY STOVE GUARANTEED

All the necessary TINWARE and CUTLERY for) We give a Good Overalls for

Shanties supplied at the Lowest Prices.

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Northey s Steam Pump Works
BOILER FEED PUMPS, = |_— MINING PUMPS,
AIR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS, | PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for
STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES,
WRECKING PUMPS. | And CITY WATER WORKS.

No. 47 King William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 1112

ESTABLISHED 1820.

EAGLE FOUNDRY!

GEORGE BRUSH
14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,
Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &e., &e.,

AND AGENT FOR 1120

‘‘Water’s’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘Herald & Sisco’s’’ Centrifugal Pumps

ABRAMS & KERR.

Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER

Latest Improved Spoal and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting.

1119

Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road,
ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

OAK HALT

Nos. 115, 117, £19, 121, King St. East, Toronto.

We are the most Extensive CLOTHIERS in Canada.

We carry a STOCK of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to choose from.

We watch the interest of our Customers. Our stock is FULL of the
very best goods in Seoteh, English and Canadian Tweeds.

We BUY and SELL for Cash, therefore it enables us to do business
on very SMALL PROFITS,

NOTE THE PRICES.

We give a Good Tweed Suit for
We give a Good Tweed Pants for.....-.--

LUMBERMEN!

When you visit Toronto, come direct to OAK HALL, and fit yourselves out with @

Good Suit. Remember the address:—OAK HALL, the Great One Price Clothing

ADAM HALL, Peterborough, sts "sse ses ose

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, 09

Flour Making by t the New Process 222+ SUPPLIES.

Eztra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
GR AY S PAT EN T COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &c., Superior Quality.

BE DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

1 Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hoge, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery
n 4 Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Sea), Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
: : ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Borsties and Rubber Goods of ll
‘ol kinds. g4@-Quotations furnished for any part of Canada 1

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

A Model of Perfection !
Every Mill a Success !

Smooth Iron or Porcelain ROLLS.

IS THE RICHT HOUSE FOR

No Shoddy Cloths used. All Goods Manufactured on the Premises.
narEVERY GARMENT WARRANTED.-@a
Men’s Flannel Shirts and Durable Underclothing.

ORDERS SENT WITH MONEY PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

R. WALKER & SONS, 33-37, King & Colborne Sts., Toronto

*SOIVIS POA OW} JO SLOT
AANVIMOSAIdeY 9y1 [Te fq PasN O4v STW ATO Isaq La

CORRUGATIONS of all Descriptions.

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The Machine is Perfect in all its adjustments, and RUNS
WITHOUT NOISE.

It is doing Better Work than any other Machine in use.

Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.

Driven entirely by BELTS.

Differential Speed always insured.

Will soon pay

h two sets of Bitts,

WEYMAN’S NEW / IMPROVED PATENT

lutions per minute on 10 to 15
g60 on Brooke Bitt on 6

to how they like 2-66 inch Brooke

Bitt, and 2-66 inch Hoe Saws—running 800 revo

The BEST ROLL FOR MIDDLINGS in the world, Over 6000
in use in this country and Europe. Send for particulars.

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

MONTREAL.
SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.

NT SPALT MACHINE

THE HOE BIT SAW.

FLANGE TOOTH SAWS.

Parson’s, Arnprior, runnin

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Mill Machinory.

Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING
and OONTRACTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL
WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper, 11,19

HEADQUARTERS FOR INSERTED TOOTH SAWS |

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
DETER Oo tT

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

These Wheels are And Specially Adapted
Wire Strengthened For Saw Gumming

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & CO.,
ST, CATHERINES. TORONTO. :

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. er:

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

M. Covel’s Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that nas ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.

CIRCULAR SAW
STEAM FEED!

I would also call special attention to my

Heavy Circular Saw Mills

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam .

Feed, having put inseveral which are givin the best of sat-
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880,
Wo. HAMILTON, I'sq,, Peterborough.

DEAR Sir—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it is admitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since [ put itinto my
mill, 1 have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. Jcan cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than tbe pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. Iam thorcughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting Jong or short Jogs. I consider I have cut more
Jumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst.

ToRONTO, August llth, 1880.

Wm. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.
DEAR S1R—Tho Steam Feed you put in is working splen-
didly. Yours, &c.,
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

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MILL MACHINERY!

Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery, for all
sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Cireulars
for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Pateut Lumber
Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gom-
mers for use in the woods, for “ross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &e.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

CORLISS

Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along

: with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
-Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large

Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine, I feel
justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish
on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power
per hour, ltt

WEIL LTA HA MILTon,

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EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

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Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each, A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was so uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of allin use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

F 12x )
10x 12x
8x4 : \
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at \ ome 10x4 ( gin. hole, = 4, 3, J and linch.
eee 10xg | 12x

12x¢ J

Probably more wheels 12xj, 12x} and 12s} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1l}, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t wanta file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUHSTION OF' QUALITY.

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality isthe best. We prefer for almost every use an
«Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel 1s more than made up by the Money saved On wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who thiok they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities to match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanife Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world,
It cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer-the ‘ Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM-—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS ‘‘POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both jiner in grain and softer than either of the above. Asa Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels usedare “Class 2.

Illustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. 148

The Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., APRIL 15, 1882.

WHAT WE OWE TO THE TREES.

We continue our extracts from Mr. N. H.
Egleston’s paper in the April number of Harper’s
Monthly Magazine :-—

DIMINISHED RAINFALL.

Humboldt is reported as saying: ‘‘ Men in
all climates seem to bring upon future genera-
tions two calamities at once—a want of fuel and
a scarcity of water.” The two come alike from
the destruction of the forests, as a little con-
sideration will show :—

The importance of water for successful agri-
cultural operations has always been understood
It is only within a comparatively recent period,
however, that the relations of the forests to the
wator aupnly and its distribution have been
ascertained, and they are not understood even
now. Enough is known, nevertheless, to warrant
some very important conclusions. It is well
established that the forest, except in winter, is
cooler than the open ground. There will natur-
ally, therefore, be more condensation and preci-
pitation of the moisture of the atmosphere in a
wooded region than in one destitute of trees. The
lower temperature of the woods will also make
itself felt for some distance above the trees, and
tend to precipitate the moisture of the higher
air. Then, also, without making anything of a
somewhat extended popular belief that the
forests, especially when situated upon hills and
mountains, draw the clouds and the rain, we
can see that elevated forests would act as an im-
pediment to passing clouds, and by their very
obstruction tend to condense their moisture and
cause its precipitation. This effect of the forests
will not be limited to their own area, but will
extend more or less to the open ground beyond
them, causing the rain to fall upon them for a
considerable distance, when but for the vicinity
of the forest they might not have been touched
by it. An eminent scientific writer states that
in a region near the Gulf of Guayaquil, which is
covered with immense forests, the rains are al-
most continual. So on the island of St, Helena
we have the double proofs of our problem in the
ascertained fact that with the cutting off, some
time ago, of the forests with which it abounded,
the rains were lessened, and certain crops greatly
diminished, and now, in later years, as the
woods have been allowed to grow again, the
rains have increased in proportion. Sir John
Herschel, speaking of this subject, says: ‘‘ This
is no doubt one of the reasons of the extreme
aridity of Spain. The hatred of a Spaniard
toward a tree is proverbial. Many districts in
France have been materially injured by denuda-
tion, and, on the other hand, rain has been more
frequent in Egypt since the more vigorous culti-
vation of the palm-tree.” The Island of Santa
Cruz, near Santa Barbara, was once heavily
timbered; and systained a dense population.
Now it is almost destitute of trees, except on
the highest summits. It has no water, and
gives no return to the hushandman, ‘‘It is

impossible,” says one, ‘‘to conceive ® more
dreary waste.”

Near the close of the last century a lake in
the valley of Araguay, in Venezuela, was ob-
served to be lessening in area as the settlements
in the valley and its cultivation increased. A
civil war broke out in that region, which led to
the neglect of agriculture, and allowed the forest
vegetation again to spring up. It was observed
a quarter of a century later that the lake was
resuming its former size. So it has been observ-
ed that since the settlement of Utah, and the
reclaiming of the land by the Mormons, and the
growth of trees, shrubs, and’ grasses, the water
in Great Salt Lake and other lakes around has
been very much increased, and the climate per-
ceptibly changed.

We have few trustworthy and exact observa-
tions on this point in our country. In Europe
they are more abundant. The river Elbe be-
tween the years 1787 and 1837 was found to
have lessened a depth of ten feet, as the result
of the cutting off of the forests where the tribu-
taries of that stream have their origin. A similar
result has been found in the case of the Danube,
the Oder, and other streams.

FLOODS AGGRAVATED.

In Europe and elsewhere in the Old World
the most fearful losses from the removal of the
forests are frequently incurred. Witness the
flood which in 1880 desolated Szegedin, in Hun-
gary, and that which last year took place in
Spain—poor Spain, which long ago sunk in
power because she had not timber enough in her
wasted forests to keep alive her navy! So in
France, and elsewhere along the Alps, in Ger-
many, Austria, and Italy, they have learned by
bitter experience that the trees are their best
friends. In southeastern France whole cantons
have been almost depopulated.

At Szegedin a population of 60,000 were over-
whelmed by the waters of the Theiss. The
Theiss district of Hungary is naturally one of
the richest agricultural regions of the world.
But it has long been known as a region of floods.
The Theiss has its source in the Carpathian
Mountains on the north. Formerly these were
densely wooded, and they sent down their
waters, whether rains or melting snows, into the
valley of the Theiss with an even, steady flow.
But the unrestrained greed and recklessness of
man ravaged the forests, and opened those vast
mountain flanks to sun and wind. The unim-
peded waters first washed the soil of the moun-
tains down into the stream below. Then wear-
ing channels for themselves, they have cut these
channels deeper and deeper from year to year,
and as they have done so, they have torn the
mountain-side with greater violence, and swept
the rocks and gravel onward with resistless
power for hundreds of miles. Thus the bed of
the Theiss has been gradually filled up with the
detritus of the upper country, until the river
flows on a higher level than the adjacent land,

and the inhabitants have been obliged to dike
the sides of the stream as the price of their own
protection from ruin. But now and then the
ruin comes, as at Szegedin, by the torrents
which have hurled the debris of the mountain
sides upon the fertile fields of the valleys below.
In one district the population “declined 5,000
in five years from this cause, the people being
driven from their former homes and obliged to
take up their residence elsewhere. But where
this has not been the result, the almost yearly
recurring floods have been attended with great
loss of property and the sacrifice of many lives.
In a recent flood in the valley of the Garonne it
was estimated that 1,000 lives were lost, and a
place of 30,000 inhabitants was almost blotted
out of existence, while property to the value of
300,000,000 francs was destroyed. ‘These de-
structive effects of floods and torrents had been
experienced in some measure for a long time.
But with the more rapid clearing away of the
forests, which dates from the time of the French
Revolution in 1789, these evil effects had become
mere frequent as well as more disastrous. So
far had this work of destruction and this real
impoverishment of the people extended, and so
threatening had become the prospect of farther
and most serious national loss, that about thirty
years ago the matter was taken in hand by the
government, and vigorous measures adopted for
the purpose of arresting the evil, if possible,
and reclaiming the injured soil. Investigating
commissions were appointed, and the most care-
ful examinations were made by competent en-
gineers and scientific experts, the result of which
was the enactment of a code for reforesting the
mountains. Under this code a large expendi-
ture was authorized to be made annually by the
government for a period of ten years, for the
purpose of replanting those districts which had
been stripped of their trees, and which had
thereby given occasion to the torrents. The
right of eminent. domain was asserted. No one
was now at liberty-to remove at his pleasure the
trees growing upon his own ground. He could
cut them only under governmental direction,
and in a way that would not be injurious to
others ; for it was seen that some peasant, living
high up in the Alps, and desirous of extending
his pasture ground by cutting off the forests
around him, might by so doing give rise to a
torrent which would carry destruction to the
fields of someone miles below, perhaps to the
fields of a whole village.

Where the fields have been laid bare, the
government offers aid to those who need it in
replanting them. If any will not, with this aid,
set about the work of replanting, the authorities
having the work of reforesting in charge take }
possession of the lands and replant them. The
owner has the right of redeeming his land at any
time within five years after the replanting by
the government has been completed, on condi-
tion of paying the cost of the labor expended,

principal and interest, or by surrendering half
of hisland. In case this is not done, the land
becomes wholly the property of the govern
ment.

THE FORESTS OF SIBERIA.

Some examinations have recently been made
by exploring parties, of the character of the
immense forests of Siberia. The most important
timber stretch begins a little south of Dudino.
and still far north of the arctic circle the pines
become tall. Here is a veritable forest, the
greatest the earth has to show, extending with
little interruption from the Ural to the sea of
Ochotsk, or about 650 miles, and four times as
much from east to west. This primeval forest
of enormous extent is nearly untouched by the
axe of the woodman or cultivator, but at many
places devastated by great forest fires. The
forest consists principally of cembro pine, valued
for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-
shaped Siberian pine, the fir, and scattered
trees of the common pine. Most of the trees
north of the arctic circle reach a colossal size,
but one is often found far isolated from all
others, grey and half dried up with age. The
ground between the trees is covered witha laby
rinth of fallen branches and stems, which are
frequently covered and almost concealed by
luxuriant beds of mosses. The pines therefore
lack the shaggy covering common in Sweden,
and the bark of the birches scattered through
the pines is distinguished by an uncommon
blinding whiteness.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

A Heavy Timber Growth.

A critical examination was recently made of
a tract of timber land, in the Samish section of
the Puget Sound, W. T., region, including 160
acres. The parties making the inspection went
entirely over the tract, counted the trees and
computed their contents, and the estimate
reached 12,000,000 feet of sawed merchantable
Tumber, or an average of 75,000 feet per acre.
The stumpage at present is worth 50 cents a
thousand, but the time will come, and that at
no distant day, when it will be worth $2 to $3.
The value of Puget Sound timber land will then
make speculators wish they had bought some of
it when it was cheap.—Worthwestern Lumber-
Man.

Big Cedar.

Messrs. T. W. Robinson and others have
been for some time-—past taking out cedars for
the Midland Railway of Canada. The principal
scene of their operations has been’the township
of Smith. They have secured some fine pieces
but a log taken out by Mr. Garner Nicholls, of
Bridgenorth, on the farm of Mr. J. C. McCon-
key, undoubtedly carries of the palm. The log
in question is 24 feet long and 27 inches at the
top end. It contains 790 cubic feet. It is the
largest of over 15,000 pieces taken out by the
firm.

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LIFE AND AGE OF A TELEGRAPH POLE.

This subject may seem of trival account to
the great mass of business people, bat when it
is proved to them that it actually affects the
cost and convenience of telegraph messages and
of dividends to stockholders, an interest may be
awakened that will make the inquiry on the
subject one of unusual interest, inasmuch as it

affects the high or low price of rates for messa-
ges. The original cost of the erection of tele-

graph lines is important, but not so important
in a series of thirty or forty years as is that of
its maintenance in working order during that
period. Some of the lines now owned and used
by the Western Union Telegraph Company

were first built more than forty years ago.
When one is told that they have been built
three or four times since that at great expense,
it would seem to lead to the conclusion that a
large amount of capital is necessary to repre-

sent the actual cost of the telegraph lines which

have been in existance for many years.

The size of a telegraph pole has much to do

with the duty which it is expected to do—that
is, the number of wires it is calculated to carry.

Many telegraph companies now owned by the
Western Union Telegraph Company of to-day
were organized and there lines built many years

ago, before the organization of the ‘‘N. Y. and

Missippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company ”
in 1851, its name being changed to that of the

“Western Union Telegraph Company” in 1856,
by an act of legislature of New York State:

The contract to build the original line requir-
ed that the posts be not less than thirty feet

long and twenty-seven inches or more in circum-
ference, four and a half feet from the butt, and
twelve inches in circumference at the top, and
set in the ground five feet. There were to be
at least thirty of these posts to the mile, and

they were to carry two lines of iron wire, one of

which should weigh not less than six hundred
pounds to the mile, and the other not less than
four hundred and fifty pounds to the mile,
These posts were to be of the best and most
durable timber obtainable along the route they
were stationed. These posts were intended for
light lines only. When it was found necessary
to increase the number of wires it was nocoss
ary to have larger and more heavy poles, not
necessarily much taller only in cities and large
towns.

When considered apart from any local catas-
trophe or universal storm, the poles which were
cut in winter were found to last as follows, ac-
cording to the wood used, without being renew-
ed :—Cedar, 16 years ; chesnut, 18 years ; these
are used in the Hastern, Middle, and Western
States. Juniper and cypress are used in the
Southern States, and redwood is used in Cal-
fornia. Spruce lasts 7 years and junipox 13
years. If poles are cut in the summer their life
will be about five years shorter than if cut in
the winter. The soil in which they are set, and
also the atmosphere and sunlight, have much
to do with their life, for if one breaks off at the
surface of the ground, or near the surface, as_ is
usually the case, it will be five feet or more
shorter than the others, and hence it is gener-
ally regarded as unfit to reset, and a new one
must take its place. In some location this is
provided for by having all the poles long enough
to reset if they are sound enough for it to be
economical to do so. The average period of
the usefulness of a pole under ordinary cireum-

stances is as above mentioned. It is seldom
that mixed woods are used ona line; they are
all of one kind of wood. ‘

The official return of the Western Union
Telegraph Company to the Superintendent of
the United States Census, in July last, shows
the following facts as to the poles used during
the year :—Average length of poles, 27 feet ;
diameter at top, 6 inches ; kind of wood used,
cedar, chestnut, juniper, cypress, and redwood.
These poles were obtained in all parts of the
United States and in Canada. The average
cost of each pole delivered without reight was
one dollar and two cents. All these poles were
round, except about one-fiftieth, which were
sawed or squared. No process was used for
preserving poles, and their average life, accord-
ing to the wood used and the location where set,
was twelve to fifteen years, and most durable
wood in fayorable situations did not exceed
twenty-five years. The woods preferred were

red cedar, white cedar, chestnut and redwood.

not used.

contrast with the crooked and unsightly larch

poles used in Mngland.
The falling of a pole generally does much

they were all put up new at once, plain wire

galvanized wire used at the present day, being
the best conductor, will last-in the most fayvor-
able atmosphere for from sixteen to twenty
years, but no longer; and where there are
strains by poles or wires falling they will not
last so long, and in cities and large towns, where
there is much gas and moisture, it will not last
more than two or three years. At all events,
when a line begins to be about ten or twelve
years old, and has plain wire, it is regarded as
unreliable, and the safest and most economical
way is to rebuild it throughout of new materials.
The cost of constant repair and isolated and fre-
quent transportation of posts and other
materials, and the labor of repairs and resetting,
are almost as much in a short time as it would
to rebuild. The gauge of wire and the number

pounds ; No. 6, 540 pounds ; No, 8, 380 pounds ;
No. 9, 320 pounds.

From these facts we can see that a telegraph
line that is thirty-six years old has been entirely
rebuilt three times at least under the usual course

times rebuilt. The trunk lines of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. were first built more than
thirty years ago, and nearly all of their lines
have been rebuilt at least once. Where a line
is built for only a few wires and it is proved
that more are required it is then necessary to
rebuild it entirely, with longer poles, and in
such cases all wires are also put up new, if they
are expected to be in constant use.

The maintenance in working order of contin-
ual expense to provide for the wear and tear
incident thereto, the same as is the case with
railroad lines, where it is always calculated that
there are to be a certain proportion of new ties,
Tails, etc., every year, and it is charged to the
maintenance account and reckoned as part of
the cost of running the road.—Journal of the

Telegraph.

a CANADA AT CHICAGO,

1A correspondent of the Montreal Witness
writes from Chicago as follows :—‘‘ Yesterday.
Tuesday, I had the opportunity of being driven
through the lumber district by Mr. Wilce,
senior partner of Thomas Wilece & Co. Mr.
Wilce is an old Montrealer, having arrived there
from Cornwall forty years ago, and engaged for
for several years in business as contractor. In
1848 he removed to Chicago, where he continued
his contracting. Having secured a competence
before the fire, he retired from business, but two
or three years after entered the conflict again,
having secured possession of a planing mill,
which now does the largest amount of work of
any in Chicago. About five years ago he added
to this a lumber yard at the corner of 22nd and
Throop streets, with a frontage of 400 feet by
250 in depth, where annually is handled about
14,000,000 feet of lumber. This is in addition
to the 5,500,000 shingles and 32,000,000 feet of
lumber consumed in the planing mill. In the
planing mill ten machines are at work, running
at the highest rate of speed. The employees
are mostly Bohemians, and a number of women
and girls of that race were engaged in gathering
the shavings from around the machines into
immense bags, so large and heavy that it was as
much as I could do to lift one. These they
attach to their shoulders by means of straps and
carry to their homes, a mile or more away.
These women are the best featured and healthiest
looking I have Seen in Chicago, with, of course,
an occasional exception. Mr. Wilce showed me
the plan for feeding the furnaces below the
boilers, which was invented by a former en-
gineer, The shavings were made to fall into
the furnace like snow in a heavy storm, and as
it fell it was consumed, the combustion being
perfect. This is a great saving of labor, the

fireman being able to regulate the fall by means
of a switch, while an automatic poker swaying
from side to side kept the fire constantly stirred.

It is to be observed that pine and hemlock are
It may be remarked here that
American telegraph poles make an agreeable

damage to the arms, insulators and wires. If

will last from twelve to fifteen years, and the

of pounds to the mile are as follows : No. 4, 750

of things, and that it may have been nearly four

In rear of the planing mill is a very large sash
and door factory, in which Mr. Wilce’s son is
an equal partner. Here are made all kinds of
articles for use in the building and finishing of
houses in the great North-West.

FOOLED ONCE MORE.
Markdale (Ont.) Standard.

Mr. Eprror,—The most of people relish a
good story, provided it be a truthful one. Tales
of adventures, daring, heroism, dangers of the
deep, battles, &c., all have their charms. Who
aiongst us could read the adventures of Robin-
son Crusoe half way through and not havea
desire to know the end of it. We confess being
of this class, Now, the first thing we do when
we receive our weekly newspaper is to hurriedly
glance through it and pick out what we consider
the most important items. These are generally
distinguished by their headings ; but you don’t
catch us trusting any longer to these glaring
impositions. We could laugh at being fooled
once or twice, but to get caught a third time is
our reason for remonstrating. Two or three
weeks since we got to reading what we consider-
ed a very nice story in one of our Toronto
weeklies, and towards the end it informed us
about St. Jacobs Oil; we only laughed, and
said humbug. The week following we noticed
another heading, ‘‘ How Mark Twain Enter-
tained a Visitor.” Well, thinking we might
learn a little etiquette, in case’ Mark should
take a fancy to send us an invitation, we read it,
but by St. Patrick, if they didn’t finish by mak-
ing Mark introduce St. Jacobs Oil. Well, con-
found it, we exclaimed, but they have got an-
other dose of that St. Jacobs Oil on us again,
and determined not to be caught so simple next
time ; but now, sir, I admit the corn ; along
comes our Toronto Mail on Thursday, down we
sat, and almost the first thing that caught our
eye was the adventures of Capt. Paul Boynton ;
it appeared quite interesting ; it told how he
bumped up against sharks, etc. At this point
we began to feel a little incredulous, because,.
from our knowledge of these gentry, they would
relish the captain alive or dead, all the same,
However, determined to learn more of his ex-
ploits, wo read a little further, when—O, woll,
it don’t matter what we said, you can’t find it
in any of the dictionaries. I’m—dashed if the
captain wasn’t oiling himself all over with St.
Jacobs Oil, it may be the more easily to evade
the sharks, for we made no further search, our
curiosity was satisfied. Now, Mr. Editor, in
order to fool us again, it will require to be
printed wrong end up. We have made up our
minds to look out for anything and everything
in the shape of St. or Saint attached to their
name,

We are sorry for the readers of any journal to
be thus “‘taken in,” so to phrase it, but what can
they expect when we editors are caught in the
same storm without any protection. Whilst
sympathizing with them, we can only admire
the ability shown in any enterprise that can
thus compel, as it were, the attenton of people.
When it is considered that only a short time
ago St. Jacobs Oil was scarcely known in Cana-
da, and now has so commended itself to the
favor of the people of the Dominion as to become
the household remedy for rheumatism, neural-
gia, pains, bruises, chilblains, etc., and all be-
cause of its surprising efficacy in these ailments,
we think it will be regarded by everybody as a
matter of congratulation that we possess, so
easily attainable, such a reliable means for the
cure of disease. Such is our view of the matter,
although we are “‘ fooled,” on an average, about
five times a week. If St. Jacob can stand it,
we've made up our mind to fight it out on that
line, if it takes all winter.”

QUEBEC PINE LANDS.

The Quebec Legislative Assembly, on April
11th, went into committee on the following im-
portant resolutions respecting public lands :—1.
That the pine timber upon public lands shall in
future be reserved in all sales, grants, location
tickets, leases, or permits of occupation. Such
timber shall belong to the Crown, and the re
serve thereof shall be mentioned in all location
tickets and letters patent, and every person now
being the holder, or who shall hereafter be the
holder, of a license to cut timber upon such
lands may, during the continuance of such

license, by conforming to the regulations now or
hereafter to be in force relating to timber on
Crown lands, enter upon the uncleared portion
of such lands, and cut aud remove such trees,
doing no unnecessary damage to the property,
and make all necessary roads to remove such
timber and hanl in supplies. Notwithstanding
the above reserve, the locatees being holders or
not of letters patent, or their assigns, may, how-
ever, cut and use such pine timber as may be
necessary for the purpose of building and fencing -
on the said lands, and by paying the same price
as the holders of licenses to cut timber or saw
logs, they may dispose at pleasure of those
which they may cut down in the clearing of the
land necessary to obtain letters patent. 2. That
when there is no license to cut timber upon such
public lands, the commissioner may, in such
case, sell at public auction the pine timbersore-
served by these resolutions by complying with
the provisions of the Act 36 Vic., cap. 9. 3.
That the Crown shall out of the consolidated -
revenue fund of the province pay to the persons
who shall in future acquire public lands by Sale,
grant, location ticket, lease, or permit of occu-
pation, or to their heirs or assigns, for the pine
cut upon such lands, and upon which the Crown
shall have collected dues, the sum of 25 per cent.
of the dues so collected for the timber cut on
such lands since their sale. Regulation shall
from time to time be made by the Lientenant-
Governor-in-Council for the purpose of ascer-
taining and determining the persons to receive
such payments, the sums to be paid, and the
date of payment.

After a brief debate the resolutiens were

adopted in committee, and a bill based on them
read a first time.

Forestry in England.
A paper on the “‘ Teaching of Forestry ” was

read before the Society of Arts recently by Col.
Pearson. The people strongly urged the neces-
sity of establishing in Great Britain a school of
forestry in connection with the State, where
young foresters could be trained, instead of
sending them to Continental schools, before
drafting them to Indta ana omer COIDnIar pos
sessions for forest service. A committee is to
formed in order to bring the matter under the
consideration of the Government.—Timber
Trades Journal.

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TRADE WITH THE NORTHWEST.

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman in an
article headed ‘‘Out of Reach,” thus describes
the prospects of the trade of the old Canadian

Provinces with the Northwest :—

There is a good sized persimmon growing
north of the British line, in Manitoba and the
northwest territories of the Dominion, that is
Reference
is made to the immense demand for manufac-
tures that is growing up in that section of the
continent, and that is bound to expand continu-
There is an in-
habitable territory in that region as large as the
northwestern states of the Union, and it is

out of reach of the American pole.

ally as settlement progresses.

destined to become occupied by populous com-
munities, and that at no distant day. Immi-
grants are arriving there in large numbers, cities
and towns are being built, railroads constructed
and projected, and speculation is rampant
enough to stimulate a rapid filling up of the
country. The demand for manufactured goods
in Manitoba is even now large, and it is being
principally supplied from the Canadas, the
tariff-on goods from the United States bemg an
embargo on trade from this side of the line.
The Dominion papers are felicitating the manu-
facturers of the provinces because they have,
for once, the advantage of their Yankee com-
petitors. They say, had our tariff remained as
it was three years ago and before, then the trade
of the Canadian northwest would have been
seized upon by American mannfacturers, and
Chicago and St. Paul would have taken the
business which Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton
are now doing. The Canadian Manufacturer
even works itself into a mood of pious thankful-
ness about this excellent state of affairs, and
says that ‘‘it seems almost providential that
the change in our policy came just in time to
keep this vast Canadian trade in Canadian
hands, and to retain, for the good of our own
country, what would otherwise have been ap-
propriated by foreigners.”
Thus our cousins across the border are delight-
ed to think that they will get even with their
great rival in the trade of the continent. The
Canadians have hitherto felt as if they were
crowded off over on the wrong side of the lakes
and the St. Lawrence, and while they warmed
their hands and toasted their knees by the sunny
border of the Union, their backs are bumped up
against the snow-drifts and icebergs of the
North, and to the westward a howling and in-
accessible wilderness fenced them back from
following the star of empire. If there had been
no trade restrictions between the Dominion and
the United States the Canadians could have
thriven in spite of their cold backs and restricted
position, but the tariff laws of both their own
and the American government hampered their
trade, checked their progress, and induced a
depleting emigration to the United States for
the sake of ampler space and opportunity. But
the opening of the Canadian Northwest to
settlement, and the projection and partial com-
pletion of the Canadian Pacific railway, has
developed enterprise and started a tide of emi-
gration to Manitoba and the prairie regions to
the westward that promises a fresh empire for
the Canadians. A new community ten times
as large and populous as the original Canadas is
a prospect to the people of the old Provinces
‘that almost bewilders them with its coming
mightiness and opportunity for getting rich,
Now the manufacturers of the Dominion, and
those who want to become such, are glad that
there is a commercial wall between them and
the United States, for the golden opportunity
that is looming up in the Northwest is all their
own, anc no Yankee despoiler, with his provok-
ing shrevdness, enterprise and capital can walk
ja and grisp the prize. There is the article of
Jumber, for instance ; the Canadians have count-
edit theirprincipal source of wealth, but they
Lave been obliged to market it over the border
at a sacrifte of $2 a thousand, which amounted
to a seriows competition with Saginaw pine in
the eastern trade. But now a brighter era
dawns. Assoon as railroad communication is
opened to Manitoba, the vast prairie regions of
‘ebhe Canadiaa northwest can be supplied without
paying any ariff, while American lumbermen

look on and bng for the commercial persimmons

{hat they camot reach.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

pect that is before them.
the tariff on lumber between the two countries,

a monopoly of the trade on this side, will act as

mand for lumber that will grow up in the Cana-
dian Northwest.
‘Michigan lumber could ever reach the valley of
the Saskatchewan.
fact. Michigan has abundant water communi-
cation half way to Manitoba, and transporta-
tion thence by railroad will be very direct. But
granting that Michigan pine would not tend in
that direction in any event; Minnesota and
northern Wisconsin lumber certainly would, if
there were no tariff laws to prevent. A heavy
demand for northwestern pine to go to Manitoba
and other countries contiguous, would become a
prodigious drain on the supply of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, which, in turn, would create an ach-
ing void in our own Northwest, beyond the
Missouri, which would inevitably have to be
supplied from Lake Michigan markets. Thus a
drain in one section of the field effects a drain
in all other sections. This will be more and
more obvious as the general supply diminishes
during the process of time.

This article is not intended as an anti-tariff
advocacy ; it is a mere reflection of the present
and prospective condition of Dominion trade and
manufactures, and of the way the development
of the new Canadian Northwest is certain to
benefit Canadian manufacturers of lumber, as
well as other goods, while Americans must to a
great extent, be deprived of its benefits through
the workings of its present tariff laws. That
the advantage already derived from these laws,
and to be derived from them, does not more than
compensate for any loss that may result from
being deprived of the profits of Canadian north-
western trade, is another phase of the question

SAVE THE HARDWOOD.

Under this head the Grand Traverse, Mich.,
Herald says :—The time for a reckless and in-
discriminate cutting and burning of hardwood
timber in this region is over. ‘The first thing a
new settler has to do, of course, is to clear land,
but when once sufticient clearing is made for im-
mediate use, the hand of destruction should be
stayed. Remember that a little land well tilled
is better than a large amount carelessly cultivat-
ed. In going a few miles in almost any direc-
tion around this county one may come upon
clearings where trees have been cut, fallows
burned, and then the ground left to grow up to
elders, blackberry bushes and noxious weeds.
This is poor farming to start with, but that is
not the main consideration at the present time.

The magnificent hardwood which covers the
uncleared portion of our county will soon be in
demand, and the demand will constantly be on
the increase as the years go by. Already on the
Lake Huron shore bird’s-eye maple commands
$6 per thousand, and the day is near when it
will bring double. There is no finer maple in
the world than ours. Hemlock and cedar will
also soon have their day. Sogoslow. Clearas
you need the land, but do not needlessly destroy.
Thin out where you must have wood and let the
best stand. Ten years from now you will be
glad you did it. The grand old trees are capital
at interest and will bring a good deal more than
10 per cent. on the investment. The fire will
not run through your hard timber, taking your
fortunes away in a day, as has been the experi-
ence of many a pine speculator. Now is the
time to look ahead. Once lost, the opportunity
can never come again.

FLOATING HARDWOOD.
The ZLumberman’s Gazette has the following

letter :—
QurBeEc, March 17, 1882.

My Dkrar Srr,—I notice in your issue of the
15th inst. an interesting article entitled ‘‘ Maple
Logs,” in which you allude to the supposed im-
possibility of floating hardwood timber, with
the hope that the difficulty may be overcome.

I saw, a few years ago, in the London Zimber
Trades Journal, the mention of a process em-
ployed in India, for floating heavy timber, even
teak, (it is called girdling). A ring of bark is
remoyed from all round the tree. The tree dies

There is no denying the fact that the Cana-
dians have reason to gloat over the good pros-
It is plain, too, that
which has served to give American lumbermen
a boomerang in reference to the immense de-

It may be said that but little

That is not positively the

very soon and begins to dry up more thoroughly
than if it was lying on the ground. After a
certain time it becomes light enough to float and

it is then cut down.

I made an experiment on some hardwood
trees, girdled them in winter and left them
standing for two summers, after which they
were cut down and floated ; there was some

birch and some elm. I now propose trying with
oak and maple, as the first experiment has proved
a SUCCESS.

If it does not injure materially the quality of

the wood, it will be a great advantage and render
accessible a large quantity of hardwood which is
now lost on account of the great expense of
hauling it any distance by land.

May I ask you for some inforination on a
subject which has lately gone the rounds of the
the papers. A farmer in Wisconsin is reported
as having sold for $23,000 the cutting of a plan-
tation of black walnuts, made by himself about
20 years ago.

Great efforts are being made to encourage the
the culture of forest trees and especially black
walnut. The example of the Wisconsin farmer
would act as a great inducement, could it be
well authenticated ; with your widespread rela-
tions it would be comparatively easy for you to
find out all about this matter and lay full in-
formation before the public.

I feel certain that you will not overlook such
an important subject, and remain,

Yours truly,
H. G. Jory.

We have no means at hand at present of giv-
ing any definite information in regard to the
sale above alluded to. The facts in regard
thereto, as stated above, were published in a
local paper published at the time and place
where the sale took place, and are undoubtedly
correct.

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
MONTH ENDED 28TH FEB., 1882.

: Quantity. Value.
Timber (Hewn). Loads. £.
RUUBRDA: th ds 0 des is nn Goo Gan eh sap pete 344 623
Sweden and Norway 21,829 34,004
Germany........ 2,411 7,639
United States...... 8,955 31,826
British Tdia.. ssi. ee ees 2,712 35,014
British North America............+. 256 878
Other Countribgg......sscwaseesevs 30,178 31,937

HOLL... .s.00buntels wetvaas Glee 66,685 142,521
Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed ).

FRISSIA.. 2s. sgedem castenebwavecss 8,601 19,057
Sweden and Norway....sesesresesee 29,954 85,395
British North America... .......... 14,563 36,604
Other Countrisg . . ..duks Sis semen 13,230 43,148

Dotal, sv5:& tase e pe hee eemae 66,348 184,204
Staves, (all sizeg)....ce...-ccseeeses 3,203 20,725
Mahogany (tong). ....ccseccesssecses 2,205 21,480
Total of Hewn and Sawn............ 133,033 326,725

TWO MONTHS ENDED 28TH FEB,, 1882.
Timber (Hewn).

UGA sega nrebe oxlewnteheees ae ne W 6,224 15,488
Sweden and Norway.........+...... 40,950 66,726
GEYMANY).i\0. 5 5c anaes eras see 6,473 18,748
Unite States: 3c. natch. ihaces twas 17,114 59,7
Brigigh InGin. wnacs cs ysvenduns coke 5,513 69,922
British North America.............. 506 1,878
Other Countries, v0. 0s cs... te cdeees 59,708 65,695

Totalo seve seowwiw Cer Ree 136,488 298,165
Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).

Russia.....-. ao cee 2 oss A 16,574 88,961
Sweden and Norway............s085 65,520 178,615
British North America ........... 6. 32,149 78,985
QOthen Countries ..sn:000 can awhieesnee 24,409 . 80,368

Total, nn» Ae ayo ie pelle’ we wee rcs 138,652 376,874
Staves (all sizes)... cc cece es eeees 8,653 55,606
Mahogany (toms)... ...+-.s.0 «se... 3,731 83,224
Total of Hewn and Sawn... ......655 275,140 675, 036

UNEXPECTED SUCCOR.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF SHIPWRECKED VOY-
AGERS.

At nine o'clock on the morning of the 30th of
last December, the steamer Moravian, of the
Allan line, bound for Liverpool via Halifax,
while on her way from Portland to the latter
place, ran ashore on the southwest point of Mud
Island, some fifteen miles from the town of
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. A stiff breeze was
blowing at the time and a heavy surf running,
and the situation was one of peril. It was found
that the forward compartments had filled with
water and orders were given to lighten cargo
while preparations were made to land the
passengers on the island, with a supply of food
and clothing. The landing was safely effected,
but the cold was intense and some of the party
were severely frostbitten, On the ship’s mani-

festo was a consignment of St. Jacobs Oil, which
the Toronto House of A. Vogeler & Co., of
Baltimore, Md., had just shipped to Francis
Newberry & Sons, London, to fill English orders.
The part it played in the catastrophe is described
in the following article, which we quote from
the Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) Tribune of J anuary
18th :—

“The passengers and crew of the wrecked
steamer Moravian, during their brief encamp-
ment at Mud Jsland, suffered severely from ex-
posure to the weather, and some of them were
severely frostbitten. Fortunately among the

lading of the ship was a package of proprietary -

medicines ; more fortunately still, the bulk of
these consisted of St. Jacobs Oil, and by the
prompt and liberal use of this invaluable remedy,
the parties were speedily relieved and all un-
pleasant after consequences averted.”

The Timber of Newfoundland .

The most valuable timber grown in New--
foundland says a recent issue of the Society of
Arts Journal, isthe white variety of pine (Pinus
strobus). It is especially prized for the manu-
facture of lumber. In the Gander country
alone Mr. Howley estimates there are 850
square miles covered with this growth,easily ac-
cessible by means of small boats on the Gand-
er River. The yellow or red pine (Pinus re-
sinosa) is another well known variety. Neither
beech, elm, oak, nor cedar is found. Around
St. George’s Bay, and in the valley of the Hum-
ber also, are fine forests of timber. The colony

derives no revenue from its forests, which are

cut at will by all comers.

Should Not Be Transplanted.

A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press,
anent the undertaking of a man in Michigan to
reset 1,000 black walnut trees for commercial
purposes, says they cannot be transplanted and
retain their vigour. They should be grown
from the nuts. He has made experiments by
both transplanting and raising from the seed,
which has convinced him that the latter is much

the preferable way. b

Tremendous Sales.

The druggists of this city are doing a big
business now in the sale of St. Jacobs Oil. One
druggist on whom we called on Saturday aftere
noon, stated that although his sales were large
at first, they have’doubled lately.

Another said that so popular has the Oil be-
come that he could hardly keep the supply up.
Not one to whom we have spoken bnt gave it a
bigh recommendation and said that it must be
effecting scores of cures, or there would not be
such a demand for it.

The people have got the St. Jacobs Oil fever
bad and no mistake, and confidence in its cur-
ing qualities is still growing stronger. Of course,
this would not be so, unless the remedy was
fully meeting its every promise.

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especially from the use of any of the thousand
nostrums that promise so largely, with long
fictitious testimoniais, have no fear. to
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will have the most robust and blooming health.

TrABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. <A five cent sample settles it. ;

‘‘Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt
with him,” but you need not wait two seconds
to find out whether the pen you have just tried is
a good one ornot. If not. try Esterbrook’s.

“AND fools who ecsme to scoff remained to
pray."—-We reeecive many letters from those:
having tried while doubting, yet were entire!
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
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wonderful effects.

From Hamitton.—A gentleman writes :—“ T
have suffered for over four years with night
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I had tried all the advertised medicines, and a
number of eminent doctors, and found no relief
or benefit. I have used twelve boxes of Mack's
Magnetic Medicine, and am entirely restored.”
See advertisement in another column.

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are entrusted to your care to guide and protect,
to fill positions of honor and trust. If you truly
feel the responsibility of your trust, and want
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day or night may reveal the dreaded destroyer,
Croup, but a few doses of Down’s Elixir, if
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affections. For sale by all dealers in medecine.
Price 25 cents and a $1 per bottle.

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

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GRAVENHURST,

JOHN SHARPE, Proprietor. This Hotel has been
newly opened out, pleasantly situated on Main Street,
within five minutes walk of Northern Railway station.
~ Bar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

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TORONTO, ONT.

Best accommodation in the City. TERMS $1.50
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.

The Most Convenient House to all Trains.
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(Made to Order and on hand.)

MILL PICKS DRESSED in a first-class style.
Those shipped by rail will be returned promptly.

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Consignments. plicati
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. APRIL 15, 1882,

Ir is thought that there will be more square
timber brought to Toronto this year than last.
In 1881 there were one million feet sent east
from here.

A. stick of white pine was cut in a lumber
shanty on the Madawaska, 47 feet in length by
36x 35 inches square. It is said to be one of the
finest pieces of timber ever cut in that region.

Mr. J.T. Lampert, lumber broker of Ottawa,
in writing to us enclosing his subscription and
an advertisement, concludes in the following
complimentary manner: ‘‘ Your paper is very
much though of here. J wish you another good
year’s business.”

A CHANGE has been made in the Port Hope
firm of Irwin & Boyd, who have been doing a
business in that town as lumber commission
dealers, forwarders, shipping and general agents.
The firm in future will transact business under
the name of Irwin & Philp.

THE firm of Messrs. White & Moir, lumber
merchants, Albany, N. Y., have dissolved
partnership, and the same business will be
continued by Mr, White of the old firm, his son,
and Mr. E. Van Zandt, late of Van Zandt &
Co,, under the name of Douglas L. White &
Co.

EK, L. Kunsty, Detroit, Mich., operates in
getting out hardwood timber and staves for
foreign markets. A few days since he purchased
at Milwaukee, Wis., some 9,000 cubic feet of
timber and a few thousand of staves. The tim-
ber is shipped to Liverpool and the staves to
West Indies, via Green Bay and Montreal.

Tue President of the Winnipeg Board of
"Trade stated at a recent meeting that it was
estimated that sixty or seventy millions of feet
of lumber would be manufactured in Winnipeg,
on Lake Winnipeg and on the Lake of the
Woods. There was six millions at present in
store, and no estimate was made of the amount
that was likely to be imported. He had inter-
viewed Mr. Van Horne, General Manager of
the C. P. R., and that officer stated that there
would be plenty of cars available for carrying
lumber this summer, and that every facility
would be afforded for bringing in supplies. The
brickmakers estimated that 50,000,000 to 60,-
000,000 of brick would be manufactured,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

J. A. Maruinu, of Port Leyden, N.Y., has | themselves in encouraging timber cultivation
than in wrangling about the appointment of a
custom-house official, the distribution of post-
offices, or the policy of the Government at Tim-
Why should not a “ Department of
Forestry ” be created which should have the
sole duty of conceiving and putting into practice
measures for the conservation and restoration of
our forests? When the people and their repres-
entatives become awakened to the importance
of the matter, we may hope to see such measures
taken as will result in a renewal of our woods,
with all their attendant advantages.—Buffalo

entered into contract with the Vulcan furnace
establishment at Newbery, in Chippewa county,
Mich., to work up 240 cords of wood per day
Seventy-two retorts are also in

into charcoal.
construction at Wyandott, Mich.

Tue largest trees known are probably the
eucalyptus amydalina, or “peppermint tree,”

growing in the Dandenong district of Victoria,

Australia; which is said to measure 370 feet to
the starting point of the crown, and 417 feet to
the top, and another specimen of the same
species, is mentioned by Baron Ferdinand von
Muller as having attained the height of 480

feet.

THE Timber Trades Journal says that a con-
siderable number of American doors has been
received at Newcastle-on-Tyne, forwarded via
During the past few months we hear
that 8,580 doors have been landed. It is stated
that this importation has had an unfavorable
effect on door-making in the district ; although
the foreign goods are scarcely so heavy as the
doors turned out from the local joinery establish-
ments, they are calculated to suit all ordinary

London.

requirements.

Tue Kingston Whig says that Mr. Peter
During last
winter he kept up thirteen shanties, and his cut
He succeeded in
getting his logs, with the exception of about
The season in Ontario
has been one of the worst known, but in Quebec
The demand for

McLaren has been in that city.
of timber is hence very large.
1,000, to the streams.

there was plenty of snow.
square timber is reported to be good. Mr. Me-

Laren will send all his to Kingston for rafting

and towing down the St. Lawrence.

Messrs. R. & G. Strickland, of Lakefield, the

purchasers of the Dominion Bank limits in the
County of Victoria, Ont., have taken out during

the last winter 6,000 pieces of timber, and logs
to the extent of ten and a half millions of lum-
ber. It is estimated that this is about a tenth
of the production of the whole limit. Messrs.

R. Dobell & Co., of Quebec, after examining

the timber, purchased the whole lot at prices
more than five cents a foot above their last

year’s sales, and they say that the quality is

equal to any timber they have examined this
season. Messrs. Strickland have been offered
$16 a thousand for their merchantable timber.
They have been shipping by Toronto, but next
season they hope to ship by the Midland Rail-
way, owing to the contemplated completion of
the Sault Ste. Marie branch.

PLANTING FOREST TREES.

The Buffalo Lumber World recently received
a letter from Mr. J. A. Hubbard, of North
Limington, Me., in which he mentions an in-
stance which is so good an illustration of both
the feasibility and the profit of timber culture,
that we give it here. It seems that sixty years
ago a certain thirty acre plot of land in Brown-
field, Oxford county, Me., was cultivated soil,
having neither tree nor bush onit. Twenty-five
years ago it was purchased by Aaron McKeney,
of Buxton, Me., for $1,600, and last fall Mr.
Joseph Hobson, of Saco, Me., paid $8,000 for it,
calculating that it contained 1,300,000 feet of
pine timber. They have already eut from it
900,000 feet, and it is estimated that there is
still standing about 600,000 feet, making in all
1,500,000 or an average of 50,000 feet per acre—

all grown within sixty years, and standing

within a quarter of a mile of the Saco river.
These are cold facts and can readily be verified
by application to any of the parties concerned.
In the face of a case like this, it would be folly
to deny that pine can be cultivated with profit,
and the same is true to a still greater extent of
hardwood timber, especially black walnut.
The great difficulty is, that the returns are
necessarily very slow, and the money invested is
locked up for a number of years, but there are
few investments which will be any safer or
yield larger returns in the end.

But it is not by private enterprise alone that
this work of raising new forests to take the
place of those removed, should be carried. It
is a matter not merely of local, but of national
importance, Our law-makers might better busy

buctoo,

Lumber World.
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HAMILTON.

r

—+—

The Spectator has the following account of the
Hamilton timber trade :—Hamilton is one of
the chief ports on this lake at which square tim-

is received from the back country and shipped
to the sea coast.

Northwestern railways.

Grand Trunk timber comes from about Wiarton.
Flatt & Bradley began rafting operations lately.

The quantity of timber that will come to Hamil-
ton this year will be less than half the quantity
handled last year. The timber will go down to

the sea in rafts, very little going by vessel.

Staves will be shipped in greater quantities than

last year. The business of last season was larger.

Thirteen rafts and twenty cargoes of square

timber, about 1,600,000 cubic feet, were sent
down, besides a raft of spars and masts for
Boston. In addition to timber shipments,
several cargees of pipe and West India staves
were shipped for the English market. The total
value of these shipments exceeded $600,000.
The railways delivering the timber received
$35,000 for freights, and the cost of making up
the timber into rafts for towing to Quebec was
between $30,000 and $40,000. The past winter
was snch an open one that but little timber was
cut, and thus the shipments fall off, but on ac-
count of the increase in the quantity of staves,
business for vessels will be better in that line.
Freights are dull, and the only charter reported
by Hamilton parties is from Lake Erie to
Garden Island at a figure lower than last sea-

son’s rates,
——EEEEE

HEMLOCK LANDS.

The Chignecto Post says :—There can be no
doubt but it is a bad policy for New Brunswick
to.sell these lands to manufacturers of tanbark
extract. There is a limit to the quantity of such
bark in the Province. It ought to be saved.
New Brunswick is placed in a position to do the
tanning for the Dominion. None of the western
Provinces have much hemlock, but the Far
West will produce great quantities of hides.
The rich pasture lands of British Columbia and
of the States further east than there are destined
to feed the herds and flocks, which will supply
meat to Europe. No doubt the exportation
will be largely in the shape of dead meat, fresh
and in barrels. The hides should be tanned in
Canada, and where so conveniently as in New
Brunswick? But it will not take long for men
like the: Millers, and all credit is due them for
their energy, to strip our forests of the hemlock
bark, and leave the trees, scattered through the
woods, a temptation to fire. Whatever may be
the motives of Mr. Sayre and his friends in re-
sisting the sale of the lands, there can be no
doubt that great care should be taken not to
allow our Province to be stripped of her wealth,
for the sake of the trifle that is gained.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HARDWOOD
FORESTS.

There is growing conviction that the hard-
woods of the country have not been estimated
at their real value by the owners of lands. _De-
ciduous timber mostly grows on high and dry
lands that are fit for agricultural purposes. In
all new districts it has been the custom from
the earliest settlement of the continent to chop
and burn the timber in order to clear the land
so that the forest land might be converted into
fields. The custom has been maintained too

Some timber has already
arrived at the booms of the Great Western and
The timber already
here belongs to Messrs. Flatt & Bradley, of
Hamilton, and Murphy, of Quebec. The Well-
ington, Grey & Bruce branch of the Great
Western, and the Georgian Bay branch of the
‘Grand Trunk bring the larger quantities, The

long in nearly every locality in the United

States and Canada, with perhaps the exception
of some of the remote sections of the south.
Since railroads and navigation have been ex-
tended, there is scarcely a section so remote

means is taken. There now seems to be no
excuse remaining for the indiscriminate slaugh-
ter that is made of hardwood timber in some
sections of the northern timber bearing states.

It is time that in nearly all the northern states,
especially in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min-
nesota, a better appreciation and economy of

the hardwoods became the rule, In Ohio, In-
diana and southern Michigan, farmers who own
a fine patch of timber know what it is worth,

value. Wherever oak, ash or walnut grows, and

railroads are near, there is no question as to |

their value. But in northern Michigan and
Wisconsin the timber, which is of a different
character, is less esteemed, and settlers who are
fighting hard with rigorous circumstances, look
upon the thick bodied and stubborn maple, the
smooth and taper beech, and the glossy birch
as to foes their progress, and with vengeful axe
strike them down, and burn them in slash and
log heaps. In doing this they little think of the
value there is in the timber that they thus ruth-
lessly sacrifice—yalue that may be latent be-
cause the settler has not the time nor the money
to utilize the timber.—Worthwestern Lumberman
—e———EE

MICHIGAN PROSPECTS,

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
says :—‘* Notwithstanding the unprecedented
high prices of lumber, and the occasional slight
elevation, which has during the winter struck
almost every grade of lumber on the market, not
only at the great manufacturing centres, but
also at the distributing points, as well as at the
outer source of supply—the retail yards of the
country—the demand seems to be as yet unabat-
ed, and the reports which reach us from every
direction are of the most encouraging character.

Phe vutlook, therefore, judging from tho preeent™

standpoint, is cheering to the manufacturer, the
wholesale dealer and the retailer ; and the indi-
cations point unmistakably to the fact that
prices must be maintained, and that there will
be no break to seriously disturb the general

trade.
—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—

Tree Planting in Ireland.

In the course of a recent letter to the Times,
advocating the above object, Mr. George Orme
Malley makes the remark that “in Ireland as
well as in Switzerland no soil is more suited for
planting than arocky one. The bogs of Ireland,
especially the deep red bog, is deprived of sur-
face water by a cheap spstem of drainage, will
nourish vigorously the spruce, larch, Scotch and

black Austrian firs, together with holly, laurel,

and magnificent rhododendrons for wunder-
growth. * * * The ‘nakedness of our land’
in respect of foliage is its most melancholy
feature, and I need not dwell on what is so well
known to every practical farmer, that nothing
nourishes the winter grasses or improyes outly-
ing stock so much as tree shelter, especially
spruce, fir, or other evergreen or non-deciduous

trees,”
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GILMotr’s new mill at Trenton will be in
operation in the beginning of May, with a capa-
city for cutting 400,000 feet in ten hours, em-
ploying 600 men and a 1,000 horse power engine
with sixteen tubular boilers. A Gahena furnace
will consume the waste material. The works
have cost $250,000, and 200 acres of sround have
been secured as piling ground. Two locomotives
will transport the lumber to and fro, there being
five miles of track on the grounds. Sixty dwell-

ing houses are to be erected for workmen.
ET

Messrs, “McMitian & MocPser, of Alexan-

dria, and Mr. Alex, McLennan, of Coteau, have .

a large number of saw logs on the river Delisle,
which is daily expected to open up, the ice being

very shaky. A lange number of men will be em- —

ployed on the drive. It is to be hoped that
these gentlemen will be more successful on the
river this year than they were a year ago, when

after many weeks’ work and the expenditure of
over $2,000, a lange proportion of the drive had
to be left “‘ hung up” in the rapids, .

from market but that the hardwood products of
theforest can be made merchantable if the proper

for the reason that it has a certain merchantable

TELESCOPING A RAFT.
An exciting scene lately amused the Sunday
strollers at Williamsport, Pa. Rafts were

plunging through the Chute, when one lodged
Efforts were made in vain to

_ on a sand bar.
. dislodge the obstruction. A large square tim,
ber raft rushed into the chute, and it was evi-
dent that extraordinary good manceuvering
would be necessary, or there would be collision
between the moving raft and the stationary one.
The onlookers at the Beaver mills became great-
ly excited, and exclaimed, ‘‘ By George, there
will be a smash up.” ‘“‘ They'll telescope, sure.”
Striking the brakers obliquely, the rapidly
descending craft plunged into the one on the
bar, hitting it amidships, and sending heavy
timber high into the air, but, fortunately, with-
out injuring a man on either raft. The sand-
bar, now apparently not satisfied with detaining
one raft, reached up and fastened upon the last
disturber of itsrest. ‘Those on the boom steam-
boat, above the dam, seeing this, blew from
their whistle an alarm of danger, for other rafts
above the chute to haul in, as they knew that

navigation in that quarter must cease until at

least one of the rafts on the bar could be pushed

out of the way. The little steamer, at the same
time, hurried to the assistance of a raft that was

a short distance from the mouth of the chute,

and which would, undoubtedly, have entered
and been wrecked but for the timely presence of
Other rafts tied up at safe
points above, thereby cutting off the interest
in a visit to the chute in the rafting season.—

this useful boat.

Northwestern Lumberman.
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SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.
Ts it not about time that our Local Govern-

ment did something for the protection of the

tamber of this Province? Itis fast disappearing.
Poles, ties, timber, logs, and lumber are cut in
millions daily, and are being carried away,
some to the front, some to the States, some no-
body knows where, but our forests are disappear-
ing. The Midland has 500 miles of railway,

more or less, and it is only along the Haliburton
Dranck thet theroicoamy timbor loft. What we

want is that Mr. Mowat should establish a-

Department and School of Forestry, to protect
the old forests, and to plant new ones. The
Foresters should make a study of forestry, and
first of all plant all the roads in the Province
with trees. The roads form three per cent. of
the whole area of Ontario, and this at once
would be an advantage. This thing should be
attended to without delay. Nearly all Euro-
pean Governments have State Foresters,—why
is Ontario without them.—Bobcaygeon Indepen-
dent.

FORESTRY CONGRESS.

it appears that the National Forestry Con-
gress, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, at the end
of this month, has been made an international
affair by the appointment by our Minister of
Agriculture of a commission consisting of Mr.
Saunders, Prof. Brown, of Guelph, and Mr. D.
Beadle, of St. Catharines. The American
Forestry Association, it will be remembered,
meets in the same city on April 25-29, to read
and diseuss papers bearing on the science.

The Presidential Arbor Day will also be ob-
served at the same time, and Dr. J. A. Warder,
the President of the Association, informs us
that a site has been selected in the Presidential
Grove for a tree to be planted on behalf of the
Queen.

A Splendid Market.

The Winnipeg Times says ; —‘‘We have had
_ experience in this land of how the National
Policy is benefiting Canadian manufacturers,
A few years ago, prior to the present tariff,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois supplied us
with carriages, cutters, wagons and farming im-
plements. Wedrew scarcely anything in these
lines from the eastern provinces. To-day,
Ontario manufactories are so crowded with
work of this description for this Province and
the North-west that in some cases, it is said, it
will take a good part of the summer to fill the
orders ; and this is in addition to the very
large supplies already coming to hand under
the tariff. The Canadian manufacturers have
secured a splendid market here, of which they
have not been slow to avail themselves,

Hk CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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LUMBER WANTED.

50,000 Feet Tough White Oak, 50,000 Ft.
White Ash, 50,000 Feet Rock Elm, all fist
quality ; quote price at Ayr station ; to be delivered by
August, 1882. Specifications furnished on application.

Ayr Agricultural ‘Works,

AYR, ONTARIO. aul

Timber Limits for Sale-

I offer Timber Limits Nos. 94, 102, 144, 145, 157, 163,
176 and 182 on the North Shore of Georgian Bay, for
sale either ‘‘en bloc” or in single Townships of 36
square miles each.
GEORGE J. THOMPSON,

6L7 Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Timber Limits with Mill,
FOR SALE.

One hundred and fifty-six square miles at Garden
River, (near Sault St, Marie, Ont.) Splendid pine

timber. One of the most compact and best limits in
Canada.

CROOKS, KINGSMILL & CATTANACH,
811 Federal Bank Building, Toronto.

FOR SALE!

SASH, DOOR & FURNI-
TURE FACTORY,

Situate on CANAL BASIN, OTTAWA.

Apply to PINHEY & CHRISTIE,

Barristers, Ottawa.

J. T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

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certain kinds and forms of trees for special
purposes—whether

A FOREST DEPARTMENT.

Our readers will be interested in the following
extract from the annual report of the Commis-
sioner of Agriculture and Arts, for the Province
of Ontario, being part of the report of Mr. Wm.
Brown, Professor of Agriculture, and Farm
Superintendent of the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege and Experimental Farm at Guelph :—

My introductory subject this year is, Our
School in relation to the cultivation of Trees in
the Province; as, although I have in previous
reports endeavored to give some idea of its im-
mense value, no definite suggestions have been
made, nor any future work made clear.

‘The general importance of the subject, and its
special application to Canada, is necessarily our
first consideration, but it is one that has been
so ably handled by evidence before the recent
Agricultural Commission, that little more is
necessary to impress its political standing upon
the Goyernment. The great points of trees or
no trées, of retained moisture or rapid evapora-
tion, of irregularly or regularly distributed rain-
fall, of unchecked storms or amelioration, of
more or less temperate temperatures, and of the
secondary but telling ones of ornament and
cropping revenue—all go to make up a chapter
of keen interest in our yet but short history asa
nation.

Were evidence needed either to convince or
stimulate us to action, the fact of what is being
done in the conservation and replanting of for-
ests in other countries should awaken both our
pride and deep interest, as such lessons are plen-
tiful in India, Austraha, and the neighbouring
Republic. There, Forestry is a profession and
a Governmental department, systematically
conducted by able officers, who are liberally
supplied, first, in the item of experiments, and
then in the establishment of extensive re-cloth-
ing of lands chosen by virtue of judgment based
upon these and other known facts acquired by
experience, or as shown by Nature herself.

When we desire to bring this matter’ right
home to the farmer and his son here, the story
takes seven distinct heads ;

1. Shelter for crops.

2. Shelter for grazing animals.

3. Shelter for dwellings.
4
5

ings, or for more extensive planting—in addi-

detail from the seed-bed, transplanting in the
nursery, preparation of land for planting, their
annual maintenance, thinnings and their value,

of replanted lands, and the ultimate realization
of the matured crop.

Thus should we be in a position to advise our
Legislatures on the great national problem of
the special and general conservation and replant-
ing, by which it would be shown that enclosing,
draining, regulation of fires, animal trespass,
and supervision stood as items of public expen-
diture of the first class, so that one of the first
of their duties is the establishment of Forest
Departments, and the appointment and duties
of a Conservator of Forests for each Province,

THE ELECTRICAL GIRL WHO LIVES
AGAIN,
(London (Can.) Advertiser.)

It is now about three years since the Adver-
tiser published the story of the Electrical Girl
in the township of Romney. ‘The tale passed
through nearly all of our exchanges, and occa-
sionally re-appears now, ‘The story in brief
was that the girl was so highly charged with
electricity that she could not handle any article
of steel. She was a veritable magnet, and
needles, knives, etc., would cling to any part of
her person. ‘The publication excited a good
deal of curiosity concerning the girl, and many
persons called upon her at herhome. Recently
she was taken ill, and the local physicians were
calledin, She described her peculiar sensations.
In her knee joints sovere pains were felt, shoot-
ing at intervals, as though a battery were at
work and giving her intermittent shocks. The
knee began to swell, and the pains spread to
other parts of her body, generally becoming
permanent in her joints. All the doctors could
do was of very little avail. Occasionally slight
relief would be obtained, but in wet or murky
weather the pains would redouble in violence.
| Finally when the doctors had given up treating
her, and regarded her simply as a physiological
wonder, a tramp called one day at the house.
While he was being given a meal he was told
about and asked permission to see the girl. He
had been a soldier in the Crimean army, and
while working in the trenches around St. Peters-
burg he contracted rheumatism in its most severe
form, and noticing that the girl’s symptoms
agreed with his, he pronounced her to be suffer-
ing with rheumatism. The parents of the girl
were overjoyed, but were again cast down as
they recalled the fact that the doctors said they
could do nothing for her. ‘‘ Why,” said the
tramp, ‘‘do you want to bother the doctors
about rheumatism? Get a bottle of St. Jacobs
Oil. It cured me, and will cure any case. I
know plenty of old soldiers who have been cured
of chronic rheumatism by the use of St. Jacobs
Oil.” The advice was taken, and the so-called
Electrical Girl is to-day prepared to add her
testimony to the thousands of others who bear
witness to the efficacy of the Great German
Remedy.

To the Editor of the London (Can.) Advertiser.

Dear Str,—As you have given me a good
deal of notoriety by writing of meas the Electri-
cal Girl, I thought I would write to tell you of
my condition. * * * (Here follows the reci-
tal which is summarized above.) My parents
obtained a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, and to its
effects I owe the fact that I am now able to
walk without pain, and the swellings in the
joints have all disappeared.

Yours very truly,
Susan J. Horrman.

. Regulation of temperature,
I Regulation of rainfall.
. Ornamental purposes ; and

7. As a cropping investment,

The area and value of the forest lands of Can-
ada are still of great magnitude ;—indeed, of
such magnitude that all the reliable information
we possess from the brief notes of surveys stands
as evidence of our ignorance of its variety,
wealth, and extent, because any survey partakes
so much of the character of straight-line testing
that whole blocks of hundreds of acres of many
kinds of our best timber lie untouched and un-
known—at least to Government. It is surely
within the scope of a reasonable outlay, and not
many years’ work, that the country should hold
one map showing the principal tree crops on
every surveyed lot, as well as on every outlined
township, district, and limit. While we know
intuitively that we are wealthier than we appear
to be, it will give us no better standing in the
world’s market to make a story about it without
actual inspection. Besides, when we talk scien-
tifically, as we must do, in respect of forest in-
fluences upon many things ere practice goes
afoot, it is most material to be thoroughly fami-
liar with the existing condition of our forests as
regards first, second, or any subsequent natural
growths, and how far they are likely to subserve
the ends in view.

The requisite proportion of tree surface to that
under agriculture is another of the studies yet
little understood by scientists, and cannot, so to
speak, be handled practically with any precise
measure of reason until further experiments
point to safe data; but, from the extreme of
oyerclearing on the one hand, to that of too
much forest on the other, there is safe ground
for no delay on the part of any Government. Of
course this would bring up the allied point of
what parts of the country should he conserved
and what parts replanted, subject to the regu-
lation of appropriate positions and adaptability
of soil and climate in each particular example.

It should be one of the particular duties of the
Professor of Aboriculture to educate the students
of this Institution in regard to the suitability of

fer

GROUND SHAVINGS,

Our New York correspondent writes regarding
the establishment of D. C. Newell & Sons, on
Nineteenth Street and Eleventh avenue, where
a mill is run for the purpose of grinding shavings
for horse bedding, packing, etc. Mr. Newell,
who runs the Hudson River Planing-mill, where
this rather novel business is carried on, is an
old lumberman of 40 years’ experience. This
gentleman, a few years ago, invented a machine
for grinding shavings, and an experimental test
produced the most gratifying results, and the

for field clumps, shelter
belts, road-side shade, neighbourhood of dwell-

tion to the management of them in all their

enemies to and diseases thereof, to the grazing

experience after four years’ use furnishes an im-
portant contrast to the facts before the plan was
employed. Instead of paying some five dollara
per day for the removal of the shavings, the mill
brings in a revenue of from $30 to $50 daily.
The capacity of the mill is 10 tons per day, and
the ground shavings find a ready market at $6
per ton, The product of the mill however, does
not average the number of tons given as the full
capacity. There are some 80,000 horses in the
city of New York, to say nothing of outside
points, and if the use of the shavings for bedding
was pushed, there is a wide field for operating,
One of the advantages claimed for shaving is the
absorption, by the wood acids, of all odors ;
hence the shayings are used to some extent as a
disinfectant, and decayed matter when coyered
by them is rendered unoffending. Ground
shavings are also used for bedding for cattle and
swine, also in stock cars, and are held to be
better than sawdust for ice~ houses.—Worth-
western Lumberman,
SS

THE FUEL PROBLEM.

If it be true that the fuel problem has been
solved for Dacota, as below affirmed, we may
consider it as solved also for the Canadian
North-west, in extensive regions of which lignite
and coal exist in quantities larger than the
public are generally aware of. The St. Paul
Pioneer Press says :—‘' General Manager Haupt,
of the Northern Pacific, is now satisfied that
the fuel problem of Dacota has at last been
solved. The feasibility of burning the lignite
coal of the Bly Mines has been amply demon-
strated. That it can be used for all heating
purposes is no longer an equivocal proposition.
Superintendent Hobart, of the Dacota division,
is testing the coal in a base burner. One day
recently, with a high wind and unusually low
temperature, the room was perfectly warmed
with the consumption of between four and five
scuttlés of coal in the twenty-four hours. The
same amount of the best Pennsylvania coal has
often been consumed under like circumstances,
showing a saving of at least 55 per cent. ; when
the difference in cost and weight is taken into
account, this is much cheaper than wood.”

en
Score Another for Cedar.

The cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis are
agitating the question of street pavements, and
naturally desire to obtain the best material for
the purpose. The Pioneer Press commissioned
a man to visit several cities and inspect differ
ent kinds of pavement with a view to ascertain
the relative durability of stone, macadam and
wood, Pains were taken by this commissioner
to obtain the opinion of experienced men in re-
gard to the different kinds of pavement, and the
result of the investigation is that cedar blocks are
considered the best wherever they have been
used. In St. Louis there are over 300 miles of
macadam pavement, and it is alleged that it
alternates between the most horrible mud in
wet weather and the most insufferable dust in
dry weather. In many places it was found
that macadam pavement was universally con-
demned.

Tue Victoria, B.C., press urges the impor-
tance of the Dominion Government immediately
reserving the lands and timber adjacent to the
southern passes of the Rocky Mountains to pre-
vent them from falling into the hands of the
Northern Pacific Railway, which could then
create a monopoly in timber, and force the

for timber.
——

THE Monetary Times says that a London

000, has purchased the Mille Vache property,
opposite Rimouski, It consists of 80,000 acres,
with a frontage of ten miles on the River St.
Lawrence, The company intends to carry on a
general lumber and pulp business, and will build
wharves, and provide facilities for loading

vessels, é
a

Ir is said that the dock labourers at Oswego
have made a rate for unloading lumber by which
vessels of 300,000 feet capacity are charged
more than vessels of smaller capacity. This
will affect only a few vessels, most of which are
in Toronto harbor, and it looks as if the dis-
crimination was ill-grounded. It is surely
better for the laborers to have a large cargo to
work at than a small one,

Notice has been given of an application for
letters patent for ‘“‘The Rainy Lake Lumber
Company, Limited, ” with a capital of $350,000,
in hundred dollar shares, and its chief place of
business at Winnipeg. The first directors of
the company are to be Messrs. Hugh Sutherland,
James Robert Sutherland, Henry Norland
Ruttan, Peter Johnson Brown, William Buck-
ingham, John Ross and Simon James Dawson.

—————_—_—_——_

THE Northwestern Lumberman says that a
New York firm has cut up 50,000 feet of oak
during the past three months for Peter Cooper's
glue factory. Frames are made of it upon which
the glue is placed for drying. If this strikes
the average’ reader as being a pretty big story,

he shonld bear in mind that the building where
the glue is manufactured occupies two acres of

ground.

Tue Kingston News says that there is a great
deal of timber to be carried this year—enough
to warrant good rates and to make vessels quite
independent as far as chartering is concerned.
All the vessels that have a stern port will find
timber to carry, and at good paying figures, too.

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SS

Mr. E, Hatt, of Detroit, Mich., is going ex-
tensively into lumber operations in the vicinity
of Farwell. His intentions are to construct a
railway and put in some 300,000,000 feet of logs
on the Tobacco river, some four miles south of
Farwell. A dam is being constructed for the
purpose of floating out the logs. Extensive ar-
rangements are likewise being made through
many parts of the Saginaw valley for summer
logging.

THE raging Ohio seems to be making an effort
to outrival the mad Mississippi in the commotion
and destruction it is creating. A large number
of rafts of logs have been swept away on the
turbid tide, at Cincinnati, and other points.
There has also been considerable damage on the
Ohio’s tributaries.

——

A DEPUTATION has visited Ottawa in the in-
terests of American manufacturers to oppose the
proposal lately made by manufacturers of
cooperage materials in the western part of tho
Province of Ontario in favor of the imposition
of an export duty on elm, basswood and red oak
bolts, bolt logs and hoop logs.

Canada Pacific syndicate to pay enormous prices —

Joint Stock Company, with a capital of £100,-

—

-where anitahlea wood is abundant. Mr.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Chips.

Tur Port Hope Zimes says that Capt. Kecles

has refused to carry 10,000,000 feet of lumber

from Cobourg to Oswego at 90c. per M. He

wants $1.
Tr is stated that Boston capitalists have pur

chased the hemlock bark on 28,000 trees in the

Adirondack region, New York, and will strip’

the trees and carry off the product.

RookrForD, Ill., has a wood feather manufac-
tory, where basswood is shaved into strips and
medicated for filling bed ticks and pillows and
other purposes, the article being really superior
for such uses.

SEVENTY-FIVE million feet of hemlock lumber
has been cut at Williamsport, Pa., this year, as
against 15,000,000 feet last year. Pennsylvania

~ Tumbermen are just beginning to see the value of

this kind of timber.

THE Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company
paid out for labor in the mill and at the Paint
Creek dam. from March 1, 1881, to the same
date this year, $140,896.14, and $100,000 for
labor on logs—a total of $240,896.14.

Popxar from the vicinity of Sault Ste. Marie
is being cut for shipping away to pulp mills.
There is a large growth of poplar in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan that will come handy for
change to the farmers who shall clear the land
in that rugged country for some time.

TuE auditor of a railroad in Wisconsin, who
has been up north through the logging country,
reports that notwithstanding the estimate that
the log crop is only a two-thirds cut, the large
number of new men who have entered the busi-
fiess will make the money receipts for lumber
greater by one-fourth than during any previous
year in the history of the State.

A tarcE mill for the manufacture of wood
pulp is about to be built upon the line of the
Quebec Central R. R., near Cookshire, Que.
The location is on the Eaton River near its

junction with the St. Francis, in a section
Wm,

Angus, late of the Canada Paper Company, is
understood to be the capitalist interested.

Tr is represented, says the Battleford Herald,
that a large lumbering establishment is to be
started at Green Lake, north of Carleton, the
lumber from which is to be run down the Shell
river to the Saskatchewan. Mr. O’Keefe is on
his way out to survey the limits, which will be
in two blocks, composing one thousand square
miles in all. The owner of the enterprise is said
to be a Toronto man.

THERE is a German colony at Jacob’s Town»
Mackinac county, consisting of 70 families.
They, a few months ago, began operations in a
dense wilderness of heavy timber, selling the
forest growth as they cut it away in the process
of clearing the land, instead of making a promis-
cuous slaughter of it, and burning it by whole-
sale, There are now 140 acres cleared, and the
colony has on hand 25,000 cedar posts, 2,000
telegraph poles and 2,000 hardwood logs.

THE Saginaw Currier says: A gentleman in
this city purchased a farm on the Cass river re-
cently, on which were several black walnut
stumps. By some means while digging he dis-
covered some buried trees and has -since taken
out considerable walnut, which, when cut up,
he has disposed of at the rate of $60 a thousand.
The reporter was shown a piece yesterday from
a tree that was taken out nine feet below the
surface. It is supposed that the river changed
its course somewhat years ago and that these
fallen trees were imbedded in the deposits that
filled up the old channel.

Messrs, R, & G. Strickland have returned
from the personal supervision of their timber
and lumbering operations on their new limits,
having straightened uptheir winters’ operations.
They have take out over six thousand pieces of
square timber and sufficient saw logs to make
over ten and a half million feet of lumber. This
is lees than a tenth of the quantity which their
limits contain. We are assured that. these ex-
cellent limite will stand such extensive opera-
tion for another ten years at least. The Messrs.
Strickland’ have been offered already 4 cents
per foot over and above last year’s price for their
aquare timber. They have as fine a quality of
timaber as wae ever taken to Quebec.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Market Aeports,

OTTAWA,
From our own Correspondent.

Aprit 7th.—People here are now anxiously
awaiting the opening of the Chaudiere and other
The numorous repairs
and improvements are about completed, and
everything is in readiness tor the arrival of the
The beginning will be made earlier
this season than last ; two or three weeks’ time
The

hiring of men has not, however, yet begun, this

mills in the vicinity.

first logs.
will witness the mills in full operation.

being generally done after the
BREAKING UP OF THE SHANTIES

and arrival home of the hands.

year will be as high, if not higher, than last,

and more difficulty will be experienced in engag-
ing the full complement of men, as many have
This will be somewhat
severely felt by our lumbermen, as a vast amount
No doubt the coming
summer will be the liveliest in this interest seen

left for the States,
of work remains ahead.

since f
THE MEMORABLE YEARS

of 69, 70 and ’71, when lumbering operations
were carried on to their fullest extent.
total cut of logs and square timber on the limits
on the, Upper Ottawa the present season, a
pretty correct estimate can now be made, It is
generally conceded by parties who are familiar,
that the cut this winter will be'as large again as
as that of last year. 1,300,000 pieces passed the
Quyon boom during the summer of 1881. This
is the point where the
LARGEST NUMBER OF LOGS

pass, coming to Ottawa and vicinity, the opera-
tions on this side of that point not amounting
to anything great. It requires seven of these
logs on an average to make a thousand feet of
lumber, so an estimate can be made by this of
the amount of lumber cut by the mills here and
neighbourhood. It is calculated that there will
be manufactured this year about two million
and a quarter pieces. Fully 750,000 pieces

were
STUCK IN THE OTTAWA RIVER

and its tributaries the past summer, and these,
together with this year’s cut, will without doubt
be safely navigated to their destination, thanks
to the many and valuable improvements lately
and continually being made by the Upper
Ottawa Improvement Co. A new firm has
been operating on the Kippewa the past winter,
that is, that of W. C. Edwards & Co., of Rock-
land.. They have also taken out timber on the
Dumoine, Blanche, Gatineau, Castor and Nation
Rivers. Their
CUT ON THE UPPER OTTAWA
limits will amount to about 50,000 logs. Shan-
ties will break up about the fifteenth of next
month, that is as soonas the lakes open. Opera-
tions are now being earried on as lively as
possible. There is plenty of snow and ice on
the Kippewa yet, and most other places. Men
are now being engaged for the drive, the wages
paid this year being from $20 to $35. No sales
of logs have been reported lately, which is some-
thing unusual,
———>
TORONTO.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Aprit 10th,—Lumber shipments by vessel to
American ports have now fairly begun, five car-
goes having already left here for Oswego, and
six more vessels on the way loading, and the
average quantity on each has been something
like a quarter of a million feet. The demand
for all kinds of pine lumber from sound common
to clear is excellent, and for desirable dry lots
during the earlier part of the season, prices are
likely to advance. Good, dry car sheathing or
flooring strips are hard to obtain, and the prices
for flooring from the yards have advanced from

$2.50 to $3.00 per M., although, owing to the

carpenter’s strike, building has for the present

come nearly to a stand, and no work in the |
No doubt this may |

architects’ offices offering.
be partially accounted for in this way, any per-

sons entering into building operations naturally |
consult with their architect, and as it was well- |

known before hand that labor strikes were likely |
judge what will be wanted, and get it down by

to be the order of the day for some time to come,
they were adyised to postpone their asking for

tenders until the labor question was settled. |

Wages this

Of the

be asked, Where are they ?

of them make a point of doing their work sub-

stantially, such men will still find plenty of

room for capital and energy.

In continuing my list of
large building on the corner of Sheppard and
Richmond streets. This factory is not controlled
by any single firm. Steam power is furnished
to a large number of various trades throughout
this large building, but there are two firms who
come prominently to the fore, 1st, the firm of
R. Philp & Co., manufacturers of coffins and
caskets, This firm does the largest business of
the kind done in the Dominion, employing from
75 to 100 men, and using up from 25 to 30 M.
of lumber weekly, employing a man especially
and constantly in getting out new designs for
mountings ; and in going through the large*shops
occupied by this firm, and viewing the large
quantities of the various sized coffins in all their
different stages of completion, we get some con-
ception of the vast numbers of poor suffering
humanity who are daily passing away to their
long home. The warerooms and offices connect-
ed with this firm are situated on Front Street
West, near the Queen’s Hotel.

The well known building firm of Moir & Me-
Call occupy shops immediately adjoining the
coffin factory, where they have all the machinery
requisite for the cheapening of labour. This
firm has done some of the best work in our city,
and they are especially well known in connection
with the building of church edifices ; and all such
work, after passing from their hands, would be a
credit to any contractor in any part of the world.
This firm employ a staff of first-class workmen,
who like all the rest at present, are out on strike,
and until this question of wages is settled, trade
from the various retail yards will be dull.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,
Mill cull boards and Scantling......-.ssseeeeeee en 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths. . . 12 00
USCIS’ « ietstuivis sietasiMinic le alow weralcie Nt sia 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft........... se nese OD
‘ LS LG ws,citieinteynrere.s op een 14 50
\ Ac t DOME unvinisiienk wstiw sive 15 00
ae 4 dy QZ TC. sain nesnencuvoers 15 50
) 43 ae DATs snpmiecterane stmie's 16 00
oe ss te MD A ACODER TOR TOO ae an 16 50
Soantling and joist, up to 28 ft..... Sashisia)s «vein inipialy 17 00
LU) IRORIg eS GUC GL, 4 18 00
a We pe BOUT aye.» niscnnieieie one seins 20 00
a Bf y ALU rie Nin'staAeiels Nalets a)0's 22 50
Wy ie We BOAGcemnnter ef wisiaie « 25 00
ce a xt BSI heme rn aici « sinracs 30 00
eh Et st BONO SS bes wnicioewicn «5 30 00
Cutting up planks to dryececce ees e ences en eeeees 22 50
TOANGS. Winch scteatlin eivictnls uiaieayelGhs sininiete 20 00
Sound dressing stocks. ....... 0.00 essences eee 16 00
Picks Am. inspection...... © srerenvereeecees 26 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection.......seeseseeeee 35 00

B. M.
1}- inch flooring, CEOSKOM css cewek Woven celine sels 30 00
lt TOUGH... .sceereeneeseseenences 16 00
ld ¥ eS dressed . 26 00
1; ~ undressed 16 00
4 ee ce dressed . . 23 00
a i undressed. . 17 00
} Beaded Sheeting, dressed » 22°60
Clapboarding, dressed .........0. ses eee ne - 12 60
XXX sawn shingles, @M.....e... ee eee ee 50@3 00
KX sawn shingles. .....ccvverevecsvsnveenanescs 2 76
Bayem TAG darian ch. clad dereenknatieivis etn ieirernivn yee 2 50
eee

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Aprit 10th.—Since the date of our last report
there has been considerable change in the state
of the ice on the river. The ice bridge has
gone and there is open water from here down to
the lake, and market steamers and ferry boats
are expected up to-day or to-morrow from winter
quarters. There is a good deal of activity going
on preparing for the opening of navigation,
Imports are expected to be large, as the stocks
in the yards are by no means heavy, and a large
number of new buildings are about to be com-
menced ; till then business will likely rule quiet,
and by that time people will be better able to

the first canal boats. The export of lumber is
expected to be fully equal that of last year,

Speculative building, such as we have had going
on here for the last two years, has received a
sudden check, the stringent Lien Act passed by
the Ontario House at the last session has caused
loan companies to be extremely cautious as to
whom they lend money to, and none but those
having a clean record will be able to obtain
advances, unless they have other real estate to
offer 1s security, and it is much better for our
city that such is the case, as large numbers of
houses have been thrown together (I think this
is about the right term) during the last three
years, and a few years hence the question will
Of course this does
not apply to all who haye been operating, some

wood-working
factories, I would next call your attention to the

while freights to South America are not expected
to be any higher than last year, although we
have not been able to hear of any engagements
as yet. The first cargoes are to be sent off early
in May. Prices in the yards here are firm and
likely to go higher ina couple of weeks. In the
meantime we continue to bp asipers ex yard :—

Pine, Ist quality, # M.. es 5 ones 00@40 00
Pine, 2nd ‘ AB Wists op oisiaimolpies>' . 18 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, # Mie Da pisses) +618 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, # M...... vide ss sas .. 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, #M....... Bp aide og 5 00@ 8 00
Spruce, qiMchieaa ciriiemiacuiraiee aa -.. 8 00@10 00
Hemlock, 4M y.16 cr ecwcclb see wsies +s.... 8 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of jong culls out, cM Te Bt Rae 16 00@18 00
Bass, @M..... ..... 16 00@17 00

Hard Maple, B Moo oe mavalpinien a's seeees 18 00@25 00
Lath, @M.......... 1 50@ 0 00
Shingles, 1 lst, @M.. 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, e M..

Corpwoop.—Owing to the advance of freights
by the Q. M. O. & O. R. there has been very
little cordwood coming in, and we do not expect
much till navigation is fairly opened by river
and canal. A brisk business is looked for all
summer, the rate of freight by water being
so much cheaper than railway. The demand
here has improved considerably lately, although
prices are much advanced and dealers here have
been obliged to advance prices fully fifty cents
allround. We now quote prices at the railway
depot, ex cartage, as follows :—

Long Maple......+++s.» vieasvensae Swbecserecves #6 50
Short: “" (ysis. cv tos isn vs bOnawee~ see aevenee sey 6 00
Long Bireh ... «c< sve» peeseweseusctsnwesetesess © 6 00
Short. “ “avscrs Vee sede uses ve nal ey ate 5 50
Long Beech s swises oe «sua viv nine a Hevwae Galkwee oes 5 60
Short. -*" Gscccseutics amiepintiewecpeah ech sale kes 6 5 00
Long Tamarack.....+..++ he oh aghe Wade tOen vin ve 6b 5 00
Short HE: Cleves vappnnvberat se sep erp ess eaee 4 60
SS

LONDON, ONT,
From Our Own Correspondent.

APprit 10th.—Since my last letter there is no
important change to report in the lumber market
of this city. It is thought, however, that the
price of material and the strike for higher wages
by the carpenters and other workmen will
seriously affect the amount of building to be
done through the summer.

All grades of lumber remain firm at last quo-
tations, and if any change is to be noted, it may
be that hard Jumber ison therise. The opinion
prevails among our merchants here relative to
the elm log export duty now being agitated,
that it should be imposed. Shingle bolts are
taxed $1 per cord, and spruce and pine logs $1
per M. feet. Elm is an important factor in our
manufacturing and productive interests, and
when our internal manufacturing privileges are
in a measure monopolized, something should be
done to protect them. 1 may in a future letter
have something more to say on this subject.

The erection of a very large brick skating
rink will shortly be commenced here. It is to
be 190 x 80, and will be a very handsome struc-
ture.

The cedar block pavement on Richmond street
will now shortly be proceeded with, and there is
also a movement gotten up by a ‘‘ local” news-
paper reporter here to have the market square
paved with the same material. The plan of the
scheme is a novel one, every donor to give so
many blocks, or the price of them.

Our yards are beginning to fill up again, i
anticipation for the spring demand.

QUOTATIONS.

Mill cull boards and scantling........-...+sss0+ $11
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths... ....
10 and 12in. stocks.......
Common Somed promiscuous widths ~
Scantling and joist, Up COME PEs ncaa stews

ES Pe SE SF. wines

ES vy * 20 ft...... 5

eS ba * Be BU WNic Se ewiticoke cows

BS ne - Be Tes. ws ave wtbitem ence
Common stocks ..... ak eid sins seis .ebicclue inp om
Common 2 in. plank... .. 20s cesses eeeeeeee sees
Cutting up plank and bones PArbigh maida
eater vestosecnnd
Clear and picksS..... 6... cee eeeeetee ene ete eeeees
Three uppers, Am. inspection. Wabeececeaeers see. 85 00
+ inch dressed and matched flooring ey ss = 00
ee: LE eres
XXX sawn Shingles, @ M.................eee0e- 3 00
Lath per 1000 feet... 2.6... ce cece eee ee - 4 50@5 00

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ST. JOMN, N. B,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Aprit 6.—The prominent feature of the period
embraced in this report is the continuation of
the cold, winter-like weather described in last
report, enabling the lumbermen to extend their
supplementary operations in an unusual degree.
Conyersing with some of the large operators
this week, they say that they are doing better
work now than at any time during the winter ;

the chief difficulty they have to encounter is to
keep their men; like the wild geese, when the
time arrives at which they usually leave camp,
they think they should ‘be off,” and become
very uneasy if longer detained.

DEALS,

There’ are no sales of deals yet reported this
spring, the views of buyers and sellers appearing -
too divergent thus far. Manufacturers are hold-
ing very firmly at $11 per M., superficial feet, ;
and shippers are unable to see their way to pay
such a price; much will depend on cireum-
stances as to which party can hold out the

longest.
FREIGHTS.

There was quite a boom in the freight market
last week; some eleven ships were chartéred for
the West Coast of England or the East Coast of
Treland at 60s., and three steamships for the
United Kingdom on private terms. :
vessels were chiefly taken by one shipper. e
market has since been quiet, with a downward
tendency ; we quote 57s. 6d. as about the market

rate.
SHIPMENTS.

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber
are as follows :—

For Europe. « sp.<2seesesshanen +--+. 3,306,000 Su;
“ United States. co seees 2,213,000 —
** Weoet Indies... 2 sasmeeeeneen 96,000 *§

The number of sale box shooks shipped for

Cuba is as follows :-—

Sept. 1 to March 22....... secereee 69,630

Since... .0ssnawee. shpas ns See - 6,432

Total ss oncentenme ovine eee exveve. 78,072
SHIPPING. °

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :—

John Black, 545, W. C. England, E, C. L, or Glas-
gow.
Herbert Beech, 1,061, Liverpool. j
Brothers, 537, W. C. E. or E. O, 1. {
Kentigern, 824, Liverpool.
Maggie Taylor, 347, —— :
Bonito, 599, W. C. E. or B. C.I.
Argyle, 1,222, W. C. England.
Alex. Campbell, 475, ——
Alma, 630, W. C. England.
Herlof Herlofsen, 766, ——
Oxo, 580, —— - —
Cedar Craft, 1,098, W. c. Hngland.
E, W. Gale, 298, ——

—_____+>- ——
ALBANY.

ApRIL Sth.—Quotations at the yards are as
follows :—

Pine, clear, @ M..........- osteo eenee $55 O0@ES. 00 _
Pine, fourths. . R 00@60

Pine, selects... 2.» s0ssnsseeseae asseeees 45 00@55 00
Pine, good DOK. ..v00s cesvae vesebenbeeenn
Pine, 10-in. plank, each...
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... «..++
Pine boards, i oewdcuane wscwet

Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft...... 2.00 mu teneaoane
Pine, 1} in. siding, select........-.
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... .......-.
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.......
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........--
Spruce, boards, each......... ahebwe owe hn
Spruce, plank, itin., each...
Spruce, plank, 2-in., ‘each...

Spruce, wall strips, each ki oe Oe eosnre
Hemlock, boards, each............... pip
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.........-.-....
Hemlock, joist, 2px4, @ACH. 2... s-eeeeeeee
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, fark aise omen ne
Ash, good, BM... eccnn ees nom 3% sees
Ash, second quality, 2 MLR wee

Cherry, M ° ;

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SRRRSRESSSESESSSSSESSSEEENELRSSSSSSSCENES

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Maple, Canada, @ M
Maple, American, per M
Chestnut, e M. waen ahs

Lath, hemlock, #@ M.
Lath, spruce, “*
Lath, pine, sy

SOcooooCCOMRES EE AUNERRSSSSSSSSSERUERRSSEEL

anemia

BOSTON,

Aprit 8.—The Journal of Commence says that
there is no change in the general situation since
our last report. Everything points to a good
future for the market. In New York there are
many large building operations in contempla-
tion or actually being prosecuted, In our own
market builders are not far behind, and there
promises to be an immense amount of lumber —
consumed. The only drawback seems to be in
the matter of values, If lumber does not in-
crease in price so as to discourage builders and

;

THE CANADA

w

upset all their calculations, there will be no
cause for complaint.
CANADA PINE.

RIENECES, ULESNCO). a nie aieinsle sss sie sininy alesis $48 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, Ists.......605 seeeees 40 00@42 00
Md BS 2G ER Ob coco DOesTo 33 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers.,.....+-.seeeeeseeeees 27 00@29 00
PAPENACK, BOK cy oivielaeldtcls « efnin'ewieln clef iso #'a'o 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, 1st quality.........-.eesseees 42 00@45 00
fF Peel gh Gd: 967 oie Gel rte et Bee 34 00@35 00
—_—__—__—_-
CHICAG®.

Aprit 8.—The Northwestern Lumberman says
that the feeling regarding values is peculiar,
and difficult to describe. There is one prominent
element in it, however, and that is firmness.
The certainty of not being able to replace stocks

at any less than was paid for the lumber now in
the yards precludes all desire to cut rates, and
prices are consequently firm as arock. At the
same time, purchasers would like to buy cargoes
at a more moderate rate than that prevalent.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles for the week ending April 6, 1882,
includes lake receipts from January 1 to April
6th :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS,

LIwmber. Shingles. Lumber: Shingles.

T8820... 38,937,000 24,915,000 39,741,000 27,120,000
1881..... 4,160,000 3,120,000 29,343,000 12,796,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1, to and including April
6th :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.

1882. .105,328,000 39,798,000 425,448,000 157,230,000
1881.. 50,851,000 20,179,000 233,349,000 84,657,000

Or Sb rer n .
Inc. 54,477,000 19;619,000 192,099,000
STOCK ON HAND MARCH 1.

72,555,000

1882. 1881. 1880.
Lumber..........378,558,184 398,800,030 338,996,421
Shingles.... .... 162,302,900 166,010,000 152,072,000
Lath 33,426,283 41,784,270 37,132,219

2,354,511 2,251,438 1,467,974

112,088 177,304 207,362

(ee cee

OSWEGO, N.Y.
The market is very firm—more perhaps in
consequence of the short supply and the poor
assortment. New stocks are, however, arriving

and we look for a very brisk trade during the
next two months. ‘he Erie and Oswego canal

will be in order on the 12th inst., boats are now
loading for Albany, canal freight opening at

$1.75@$2.50 to New York.
Three uppers... ..5......0c0.seyes ...$42 00@45 00
Pickings........ - 32 00@35 00
Fine, common . 20 00@25 00
Common...... . 14 00@17 00
ZU eS - 12 00@14 00
MU Tra GS. 5 vss ine soo . 17 00@24 00
Sidings, selected, linch...... ..+ 32 00@38 00
pNP DLO? ScCeUE RR APS eee ere 34 00@38 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet.............. 17 00@25 00
DSCLECLEMS Care icleicisialeo) ca sintnseaees «ae 22 00@30 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch millrun............ 15 00@18 00
« a SE CHllsiss..-. >... 12, 00@15,00
1x6 selected for clapboards.............. 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 3 75@ 4 25
ERR IS Neh COdar, » fs ...00cass 3 00@ 3 50
0 /EUUU: Ban ce gran See 2 00@ 2 25
—<—<—<$—$___4{
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers...... ROR tx) 6\éinih aleieie(e oe. aie $46 00@48 00
ARTI i eae? | eae 18 00@19 00
ROT or meena IS aes: =o s5:5 s ore ..- 13 00@14 00
——___4___
TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
Three uppers.. ..-$43 00@48 00
on.. --- 20 00@22 00
epee PEN Spgs e's w'teete s+... 14 00@15 00
——_—_—__@______
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal, of March 25th,
says :—At Glasgow the imports have been per
steamships of various lines, and consist of
parcels of oak billets and planks, whitewood,
maple, and staves.

The public sale held at Greenock on the 21st
inst., reported below, was rather quicter than
usual, the trade still buying sparingly for
present wants, and with little of competitive
spirit.

An extra demand is generally experienced at
this time of the year, especially if there has
been a severe winter, but the past season having
been comparatively mild, has allowed of work-
men being employed with little cessation all the
time, which apparently accounts for the want
that is felt at present of the usual increased
business activity.

Deliveries of deals from: the yards at this
port continue fairly good, being till present date
wonsiderably in advance of corresponding period

last year. The contrast is especially marked
during the first month of the year, the deliveries
in January, 1881, amounting to 63,980 pieces,
and in January, 1882, to 75,942 pieces.
AUCTION SALE.
On the 21st inst., at Greenock, Messrs. Hd-
miston & Mitchells, brokers :—
Aushee yellow pine timber, 65 c. ft. av. per log, 1s. 9d.

Do., 40 ¢. ft. av. per log, 1s. 7d. c. ft.
a 1s. 7:

Do., 60 py tee

Do., 36 ie 1s. 44d. ‘*

Quebec red pine, 30 c. ft. av. per log, 1s. 2d. c, ft.
ca elm 35 “ Lepids o*

1s. 4d. ‘‘

é

Sawn pitch pine timber, 35 “‘
ut 2 logs figured, 2s,
Quebec 3rd yellow pine deals—
16 ft. 11x8 Is. 24d. ‘
STS) WAS deed: ss
NAG bien ae ech agai ab teh os
24d

15 & 16 “* 7/@%x3 1s. 24d. ?
9 to 14 ‘* 7/22x3 1s. 13d. 5
—_—__>———__
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of March 25th,
says :—The past week has been a very quiet one,
and, had it not been for the auction sales of
mahogany and whitewoods, it would have passed
over quite uneventfully. The imports continue
light and consist principally of pitch pine timber,
most of which, however, is on contract with the
local merchants.

KITCHEN FLOORS.

To keep the kitchen floors clean is very
troublesome. Grease will spill upon it and make
a stain that requires much labor to get out.
Bare boards aresoon soiled, and a carpet, when
it is not beyond the reach of the housekeeper
collects too much dust to be desirable. Where
food is prepared, and where on the farm the
butter is churned and packed dust is very dis-
agreeable and objectionable. How to get rid
of it and the so very easy made stain is a trou-
blesome problem. A painted floor is perhaps
the most comfortable and the cheapest ; an oil-
cloth covering the whole floor is much more
costly, and does not wear any better than the
paint, and isno moreeasily cleaned. On the
whole we would suggest a good painting to the

anxious housekeeper troubled with a kitchen
floor that requires froquont corubbing tokeep It

clean and white. When a house is built the
kitchen ought to receive more consideration
than all the rest of the house. We would build
the kitchen, and then put on the rest of the
house. The floor should be of hard wood, sawn
purposely into three inch strips, and very well
seasoned, kiln dried, if possible, so that there
should be no cracks for dust. It should then
be well oiled, and then a single washing with
hot water and soap and a woollen scrub cloth
will keep it quite clean. Where this cannot be
done the floor should be painted a color as near
to the dust as possible, a sandy brownish yellow,
made of brown umber, lightened with chrome
yellow, a very little is just the right shade;
neither too light nor too dark. With lead, and
oil, and plenty of dryers a paint may be made
that will dry ina night so that a few boards
may be laid down to walk upon until the sur-
face is quite hard. A floor we know of very
well so painted five years ago is to-day in ex-
cellent condition and promises to last five years
more. The cracks around the base and in the
floor should be filled with plaster of Paris and
oil which sets as hard as a stone and closes up
all harbors for ants, roaches, croton bugs and
other bothering pests of the housekeeper.

Petre v. The Guelph Lumber Company.

Mr. Justice Ferguson gave judgment on
Saturday, April 8th, in several cases heard be-
fore him at the Fall Sittings of the Chancery
Division. Among them was a celebrated case,
which: lasted 15 days, that of Petre v. The
Guelph Lumber Co., in which Mr. Edward
Blake, Mr. Bethune, Mr. McCarthy, Mr.
Walter Cassels, and other counsel were engaged.
The defendants besides the company were
Mr. Guthrie, M. P., Mr. McLean, of Guelph,
and others. This action and others brought by
Messrs. Stewart & Inglis were brought to have
it declared that they were induced by mis-
representations to become shareholders in the
company, and for relief accordingly. Mr. Jus-
tice Ferguson dismissed the bill in each of the
three cases with costs, delivering a long judg-
ment, in which he gaye an elaborate review of
the evidence and commented on it very fully.

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10x 12x? |
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Probably more wheels 12xj, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 21x1}, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the Saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly asecond time (after going all over it once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QU wS PLOW, © Oi Seas

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality isthe best. We prefer for almost every use an
“Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved on w: ages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities 2o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a JYunile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is rox STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world. Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2.
1t cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the “ Pocono.”

CLASS 8. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as *‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS ‘“‘POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both finer in grain and softer than either of the above. As aSaw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

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GRAVENHuURST, August 20th, 1880,
Wom. HAMILTON, FsqQ., Peterborough.

DEAR SiR—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it is admitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put it into my
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longing toit. I can cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. I am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting long or short logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would bave cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully, é it | i i
WILLIAM TAIT, a i

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Lumberman, Gravenhurst.

ToRoNTO, August 11th, 1880,
WM. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont,

DEAR SIR—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen- tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.

I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power
per hour, intt

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH,

ONT., MAY 1, 1882.

NO. 9.

QUEBEC PINE LANDS,
In introducing the resolutions as to Quebec
pine lands, which we have already published,
the Hon. Commissioner of Crown Lands spoke

_ at some length in support of his measure, and

pointed out very clearly the necessity which
existed for such legislation. - During the course

_ of his remarks he presented some very impor-

tant statements, notably one indicating the
number of acres sold and free grants alienated
since Confederation up to the 3lst December,
1880, which was as follows :—Total number of
acres sold, 1,642,238 ; free grants, 346,011 ; total,
1,988,249 ; collections, $560,275.05 ; expenses,
colonization roads, $1,327,338 ; surveys, 306,996;
salaries and disbursements, $255,588 ; commis-
sion, $47,081; postage, $11,053 ; total, $1,947,857.
On collections the average price per acre was 34
cents ; on sales, $623,357, price per acre 37 cents.
This statement shows that the expenses have
been three and one half times over the amount
collected. The annual average collections on
the item of woods and forests since confederation
has been $403,668, and on account of Crown
Lands, $42,608 annually. The hon. gentleman
then compared the exports of lumber from the
province for the last twelve years, with those of
Ontario in the same time, which showed that
our export of lumber has surpassed that of On-
tario by fully 50 per cent. Mr. Flynn also

alluded to the great loss which the province

sustained through fires, and quoted from the
Canada Lumberman to show that during the
last year it was estimated that Ontario had lost

‘ from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, and the Ottawa

Valley alone in the vicinity of $5,000,000 from
this cause. He pointed out at some length the
great interest which the province had in keeping
the Crown lands always in good condition and
putting an end to the reckless waste which has
taken place for a number of years.—Montreal
Gaztte.

STAVE BOLTS AND ELM LOGS.
Dertroir, April 13.—A meeting of the Na-
tional Stave Exchange was held at Toledo yes-
terday, at which a large number of firms in the
different States were represented. In addition
to other business connected with the Association,
the following preamble and resolutions were

. unanimously adopted :

“* Whereas, on the 13th day of October, 1880,
Mr. H. F. French, then Acting Secretary of
the Treasury, on an appeal from a firm engaged
in importing large quanties of cut barrel staves
from Canada under the fraudulent name of
“sugar cask staves,” did issue an order reducing
the duty on barrel staves from 20 per cent.
(which under the tariff of 1862 has been the rate
for more than eighteen years) to 10 per cent., or
one half.

Whereas, under the stimulus given to Cana-
dian manufacturers by this large, sudden, and
entirely unexpected reduction in duties and also

by fraudulent invoices, reducing the duty actu-
ally paid to about 5 per cent. on the real value
of the staves, a large number of stave mills were
established in Canada, even some American
capitalists, with indecent haste and questionable
patriotism rushing into Canada to take advan-
tage of the aforesaid erroneous and unjust de-
cision.

Whereas, said decision threatened very serious
and permanent injury to all stave manufacturers
in the United States dependent on Canada for
the whole or a portion of their timber supply,
and those whose products came into competition
with the products of Canada.

Whereas, the Hon. C. J. Folger, Secretary of
the Treasurer, did on the 25th of February,
1882, render a decision restoring the former in-
terpretation of the Act of 1862, and thereby the
duty on barrel staves to 20 per cent.

Wheras, certain Canadian manufacturers are
making extraordinary efforts to induce the Do-
minion Government to impose an export duty on
stave bolts and heading bolts of $1 per cord,
and on elm logs of $2 per thousand feet in re-
taliation, because the import duty on staves has
been restored to the rate fixed by Act of Con-
gress twenty years ago.

Therefore resolved, if the Dominion Govern-
ment shall impose an export duty on staves,
heading, and hoop timber, it will be the duty of
the United States Congress to increase the im-
port duty on these commodities sufficiently to
more than offset the effect of said export duty,
and. fully protect the American manufacturers.

Resolved, that being engaged in an honour-
able and necessary business, having full faith
in the disposition and power of our Govern-
ment to strike blow for blow when necessary
in order to protect’ and defend its citizens
against injuries designed to be inflicted on them
by foreign Governments in any form, and hay-
ing also entire confidence in the zeal and fidelity
of our Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, we will go on with our business, having
no fears of any permanent injury from hostile
legislation without or within.

PUGET SOUND LUMBER.

The demand for Puget Sound lumber is
rapidly increasing, and the mills are all behind
their orders, When a bill is wanted for a very
large structure the stuff has to be ordered
several weeks in advance. The capital invested
in the lamber business of the Sound district 1s
over $40,000,000. The machinery used in the
mills is of the most modern make, gangs and
circulars being employed. The sawdust is
carried by machinery and emptied into the
furnace as fuel. The waste is burned in un-
quenchable fire, as it is in eastern mills. Though
the annual output of Puget Sound lumber is
300,000,000 feet, and the industry has been
prosecuted for quite a number of years, the tim-

ber already cut can hardly{be missed. Several
million acres of this timber land are accessible
to Sound waters and the rivers flowing into them,
and the building of railways will open up to
accessibility millions more. There are no
freshets about the Sound to sweep away logs or
mills. The tides of the Sound waters rise a
given height year in and year out. The mean
high tide is 14 feet, and the extreme high tide is
three feet higher. Logs are always floated on a
rising or a receding tide. The price of logs is
uniform at all the mills, being $5 a thousand for
lengths under 60 feet, and from $5 to $12
between lengths of 60 and 140 feet. The price
of lumber at the mills is also uniform, being $10
a thousand for good cargo lumber, and from $14
to $22 for cedar, dressed. Hardwood lumber is
worth about $25 a thousand. The building of
railroads that are projected will call for a large
amount of lumber, timber and ties from Puget
Sound, and this demand is to be a great stimu-
lant to production. The lumber interests of the
Sound district is largely in the hands of power-
ful monopolists, who have the notion that a dark
policy is the better one for them. | They are
averse to giving any statistics of production, and
look coldly upon the emigrant. But the time
will come when the solid shell of these monopo-
lists will be broken, and the wealth of the Puget
Sound region thrown open for the benefit of an
immigrant ‘trade. The completion of the
Northern Pacific railroad will do the business
for the monopolists.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

WORM-EATEN WOOD.

A number of worn and worm-eaten pieces of
wood were lately shown at the Public Works
Department. They were specimens of wood
which had been in use as piles and fenders on
government wharves and breakwaters on the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and had been sent to
the department as illustrative of the necessity
of the frequent renewal of timbers in these con-
structions.

One was a piece of hemlock timber from the
railway wharf at Point Duchene, N.B. This
piece, which has been in use as a fender, put on
in 1873 and removed last year, was, by the
ravages of the worms and the incessant action
of the sea, reduced to about one-half its former
circumference, excepting the knots, the hardness
of which had preserved them intact, giving them
the appearance of a decayed tree, having the
limbs lopped off about six inches from the stem.
Another, a part of a pile taken from Digby, N.
S., had in fourteen years’ exposure to the worms
become completely useless for strengthening
purposes, while a section of a pile driven at
Shediac, N.B., in 1878, had in only three years
been so perfectly honeycombed as to be seem-
ingly unable to withstand its own weight.
Other pieces of spruce hemlock were also seen

in various stages of destruction and decay,

|

| showing the incapability of these descriptions of
| wood to resist the ravages of the d
| little creatures. It is not only the weake
of the timber by the perforations of worms
renders it useless in a short time, but the w
having once become porous thereby, it is render-
ed susceptible to the continuous action of t
water, and is thus worn down with wonde
rapidity. These worms vary in size in different
waters, and the appearance of a similar wood
exposed for any length of time in the waters of
the Gulf and those of the Atlantic Ocean,
might be compared to that between the finer
and coarser varieties of sponge. Some kinds of
wood are more impervious to worms thanothers;
thus in localities where spruce and hemlock
timber would, in a short time, become thorough-
ly worm eaten, birch and elm would remain in-
tact for years, yet in all cases it is but a matter
of time, and only solid stone is of sufficient
durability and strength to withstand effectually
the ravages of these worms and the constant
wearing of the waters.—Scientijic American.

THE DISPUTED TERRITORY.

The following is a return to an address of the
House of Commons, dated Ist March, 1882 :—
For copies of all Timber Licenses and Mining
Licenses issued for cutting timber or mining
within the disputed territory west of the meri-
dian of the east end of Hunter’s Island ; also
copies of all leases or grants of mill sites or
other water privileges ; also a statement of the
number of acres granted in each year in the

same territories to date.

LEASE.
1875—Fuller & Co. .......eceeeeeseceees

1876—Stephen H. Fowler.....-++++++<« 64,000 <<
1878—W. J. Macaulay. ......seeeeereees 48,000 “
1880—W. J. Macaulay. ......--.+eecseee 16,000 “
SALE,
1881—Keewatin Lumbering and Manu-
facturing Company..-.---..--.++0 296 ‘

LICENSE OF OCCUPATION.
1881—Keewatin Lumbering and Manu- x
facturing Company.......eeee-seee 30
ST

The North American Timber Fleet.

At Greenock and Port Glasgow vessels em-
ployed in the North American timber trade are
now being fitted out, preparatory to sailing for
the St. Lawrence early in April. The prospect
this spring are as yet not very encouraging, th
rate of homeward freight offering being low,
while cargoes are said to be scarce, owing to the
absence of the usual snow fall in Canada inter-
fering with the timber being floated down from
the interior. The gales in the Atlantic last fall
worked considerable havoc among homeward
timber-laden ships, and the fleet, consequently,
is this year likely to be somewhat restricted.
The pioneer of the North American sailing fleet
the well known ship Roseneath, 734 tons, has
sailed from Glasgow for Halifax, N.S., with a
full cargo of general merchandise.—Glasgow
Herald.

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A LUMBERING DISTRICT OF THE NORTH-
WEST.—

SeLkie«, April 8.—In my last letter, writen
from Derby’s house, Lake Winnipeg, 1 men-
tioned that we expected to reach the mouth of
the Winnipeg river the next evening. In this
I intend to describe that day’s trip, with a
short description of the lumbering country, and
also of the return journey. 4 * us ey
Our direction, by compass, was north-easterly,
and for afew miles after leaving Derby’s was
over ahilly country, sparsely timbered with
young spruce trees, We soon, however, reached
a more thickly wooded tract, and for the first
time saw traces of the lumbering regions of the
North West. The road ran through a twenty-
mile limit of Messrs Walkley & Burrows.
Spruce and tamarac trees of good size, straight
but not growing to any great height, were
thick. Besides these a few birch and poplar
trees were scattered here and there amongst the
more valuable timber. About six miles from

our starting point we came to Jackfish lake.
This lake is about three-quarters of a mile wide,
a mile anda half long, and has an outlet by a
creek of the same name flowing into Lake
Winnipeg. 8 ‘a ia i a 2 w

As we moved out from the creek, we could
see the mouth of the Winnipeg river, and on
the south side Walkley & Burrows’ mill. Our
course lay east along the’shore of the lake, and
in a short time we reached our destination.
The Winnipeg River, directly about the mouth,
widens out into a deep bay on each side until
jt resembles a small lake more than a river.
The banks on each side are high, and covered
with trees. Close to the water the timber is
chiefly poplar, but further back spruce and
tamarac abound. Messrs. Walkley & Borrows
saw mill stands on a low sandy point exactly at
the mouth of the river. The mill is the pioneer
saw mill of Lake Winnipeg, and has been
running for nearly twelve years. It was former-
ly worked by Mr. Macarthur, of Winnipeg ;
but since the year 1878 has been leased to the
present proprietors. During the past winter
Messrs. Walkley & Burrows have, with com.
mendable enterprise, erected an entirely new
building on the site once occupied by the old
one. This building, built of spruce lumber, is
seventy-six feet by thirty-six feet, and will con-
tain a fifty horse power engine, running one
circular saw and an edger. The capacity will be
about 20,000 feet in ten hours. During the
winter Messrs. Walkley & Burrows have em.
ployed about fifty men in the woods and had
taken out about 3,000,000 feet of uncut lumber.
these logs are on Catfish creek waiting for that
stream to open. Sawing will be commenced
about the first of May, and will continue night
and day until the supply is exhausted.

Running some distance up stream from the
mouth the land each side is taken up in the
Indian reserve known as Fort Alexander. mS

Just above a deep bay widens the river, and
at the upper end of this

THE MANITOU RAPIDS COMMENCE.
These rapids are navigable for small steamers
and “‘ York ” boats, and owing to the swiftness
of the current are rarely entirely frozen over in
the winter time. This winter portions of them
yemained open until the very severe weather of
afew weeks ago. From this point, going up
the river the banks on both sides are high and
rocky, and covered with spruce and tamarac
trees, almost to the water’s edge. The river is
wide and deep, and in the summer time the
scenery must be exceptionally grand. Of course
but a very vague idea can be gathered of the
scenery in the winter, but even then it has a
peculiarly picturesque though bleak grandeur,
Bight miles from the mouth are the Pine falls.
The fall is perpendicular, and is only about ten
or twelve feet high. It is broken by a small
nvooded island. ‘The river is about 200 feet
‘wide, and on both sides is heavily timbered.
The fall forms a natural water power for anoth-
er saw mill, that owned and worked by Messrs.
Adams & Schneider. ~ The Pine fall, of course,
puts a stoppage to the navigation of the stream,
except in small boats and canoes, and in them
necessitates a short ‘‘ portage.” A short dis-
tance above the Pine falls the river again
widens, and the Great or Little Bear falls or
rapids oceur. Above these the river is nearly
je quarter of a mile wide, and is studded with

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THE CANADA

small, rocky islands, with a few scrubby trees
growing on them. Seven miles above the Pine

falls are
THE SILVER FALLS,

and one of the prettiest and grandest pieces of
scenery on the Winnipeg river, if not in North
America. The distance between the banks on
each side is about three hundred yards, while
the fall is nearly a quarter of a mile long. High
masses of rock, their summits snow-covered, are
piled in the course of the stream. These cause
the water to break and form several “‘chutes”
or rapids, while the foam, hurled high
in the air, glitters in the sun like burnished
silver, thus giving, I suppose, the name to the
falls. Each bank is high and rocky, while
growing in the crevices are gigantic spruce trees,
and their sombre shadows on the white snow,
the roar of the water, and the wild and dreary
grandeur of the scene, make it an impressive
and ever-to-be-remembered one. The still wat-
er near the shores is frozen over, but out in the
stream the rushing, tumbling water bids the
Frost King defiance. Logs going down the
falls are, I am told, as completely denuded of
bark as if they had been subjected to the knife.
The “trail” or road above Silver falls being
so bad and rough I did not go further, but I
have been informed that, counting the ones al-
ready mentioned, there are no less than thirty-
seven falls and rapids between Rat Portage and
the mouth of the river.

The land around the Winnipeg river above
the Pine falls is too stoney to admit of very
successful tillage, yet it has in its timber anoth-
er source of wealth. Below the falls just men-
tioned the soil is more valuable, and when clear-
ed would make excellent farming land. The
same may be said concerning the soil on the
eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg. In addition
to the comparatively inexhaustible timber supply
there is little land that, once cleared of brush,
cannot be used for purposes of husbandry. The
only drawback at present is the difficulty of
reaching these places in summer other than by
boat. This drawback may continue for years
yet, but I do not think that it will be long be-
fore this region also receives its quota of settlers.

T left Fort Alexander yesterday morning, on
my return journey to Selkirk. This time I
went further up the Catfish creek, and across to
Jackfish lake, by another road known as
Beaupre’s from a logging camp of that name
situated upon it. In travelling by this road I
passed through an even finer stretch of lumber-
ing country than on the out-ward journey. The
ground was more irregular, and hills abounded.
some parts of it would, I consider, make more
than average farming land. There is plenty of
poplar wood of a size sufficient to build log
houses. The spruce and tamarac suitable for
lumbering purposes have been pretty well thinned
out in the neighbourhood, but further to the
south there are yet some heavy growths. Join-
ing the old ‘‘trail” at Jackfish lake, we reached
old McQLean’s about sunset last evening, the
only episode on the road being a dinner from a
part of a moose just killed by an Indian near
the lake just mentioned. Making an early start
this morning, ‘we reached Selkirk about six
o'clock this evening, and thus ended my trip
with ‘‘freighters.”°—Mazl

——
AN-IMPORTANT DECISION.
_ The following is the verbatim report of the
judgment of Mr, Justice Proudfoot in the case
of Hilliard vs. Thurston, tried at the sitting of
the Chancery Division of the High Court of
Justice at Peterborough, on Friday, April 21st :

JupeMENT,—Mr, Justice Prouproor—see-
ing the doubtful facts, it would have been
better if the case had been tried by a jury.

There are two or three questions to be deter-
mined. ‘The first is whether this fire was caused
by sparks from the steamboat, the next whether
there was negligence either in construction or
management of the boat. .

Well, I think under all the various principles
that ought to guide one in arriving at a conclu-
sion from facts sworn, and circumstances that
appear in evidence, that I must necessarily con-
clude that the fire did result from the sparks
from this steamboat, It is just such evidence
that would have been made use of and have
been properly admissable to a jury in case of a

man indicted for arson in setting fire to the
.

=“
LUMBERMAN.

place. Then there is the numerous lot of
witnesses who testify to the fact of the steamer
passing there almost immediately within 5 or
10 minutes afterwards—after the fire burst out.
There is no fire shown to have been in the
neighbourhood—not to have been within 30 or
40 rods or more, except the steamboat’s fire.

There is not even shown to be a man with a
pipe going around looking at the mill, or in the
neighbourhood of the mull, and the only fire
within reasonable distance at all was that down
the river, of Green & Ellis’, some 30 or 40 rods
off. It was the nearest; I am not sure but
what it was farther. I think it was Green &
Ellis’ saw mill; not the shingle mill. It was
some 30 or 40 rods down the river. It was most
favorable to defendant’s case to show that the
stream of air crossing Green & Ellis’ smoke
stack would not come within 30 or 40 rods of
the south side of plaintiff’s mill, and of course if
it would not come within that distance, it could
not send sparks to the mill.

So that it seems to me that every circum-
stance in connection with the occurrence of the
fire would rather tend to show that it came
from the steamboat than from anything else.

There is another thing to be borne*in mind in
that connection, which I mentioned during the
argument,—the number of pounds of steam
allowed by the Inspector was 85, and it had
been up to 87 pounds, and they were blowing it
off to get down to the 85 when passing the mill.

Now it does seem to me that circumstances
rather weaken the effect of defendant's testi-
mony, for I can hardly suppose that when the
damper closed they would have been able to
raise the steam to that height. He tells us the
damper was put on when stopped at Green &
Ellis’ mill, by the obstruction in front of that
mill. It must have been consequently that they
put the steam on after leaving and coming up
the stream, and before they reached this other
mill building, with full head of steam and two
pounds more.

Then we have evidence also that when full
steam was on, and the escape pipe sending the
waste steam into the smoke stack, that it neces-
sarily caused a large draft of sparks up the
chimney, and the lower screen was open and
there was nothing but the bonnet on top of the
smokestack, and the meshes about the bonnet,
as shown in the evidence here, and as sworn to
by some of the witnesses, would have permitted
the escape of sparks quite sufficient to have set
fire to the mill, especially in that very dry
period. The defendant himself tells us it was
a period when the greatest care ought to be
taken, and when he desired his men to exercise
the greatest care.

Well, I think that under these circumstances
it would be going against my own judgment to
find anything but that the fire had been caused
by the issue of these sparks.

The next question is whether there was any
negligence on the defendant's part either in con-
struction or management of the boat. It is said
that the boat was just as he had got it, and that
it was necessary, to run the boat, that he should
employ steam, and keep a smoke stack ; but I
do not know that a man is at liberty even to
make or to buy a defective instrument, or &
dangerous instrument, and then say, oh, that is
just as I had it, and in order to make it useful I
must use it. I don’t know that there is any-
thing in the law or in common sense that would
justify defendant in doing that. I don’t think
it would justify him in carrying a dangerous in-
strument of that kind among inflammable
property, without he had done the best he could
to prevent evil consequences, and I think that
probably there will be found the distinction be-
tween the cases cited by Mr. Moss and those
cited by Mr. Blake, that in the case of railways
the Legislature has authorised them to run their
engines. If they use all skilful and scientific
precautions to prevent accidents, they are not
affected, but the same exemption does not apply
to a person using any of the other ordinary
avocations of life which he is not authorised to
do by the Legislature.

He can only then rely upon the protection
given him by the common law. Now the pro-
tection of the common law is that you must
use your own property in such a way as not to
injure your neighbors, and here the defen-
dant must show that he had used

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his own property so as not to in
jure his neighbor. I suppose if he was going te
show that he had done everything possible,
within the range of science, within the range of
caré, precaution and skill, that he ran his
steamer without injuring his neighbers, that.
he might probably be exempted, pur ¥ think.
the evidence goes to show that there were vari~ -
ous ways in which the running of the steam—
boat might have been improved.

I don’t think it is necessary for the decision:

of this case to go into the question of the im-
proper construction of the boat,
simply the improper management of the boat, —
including in that management, the mode in
which the steam was made to escape, and I
think that one circumstance alone ‘of throwing —
the escaped steam into the smokestack, when
it might have been thrown otherwise, and
when the usefulness of the boat might have —
been retained by making it otherwise when —
passing inflammable property shows the improp-
er management.

I will take

That is a thing that might have been done,

and could have been done at a very small ex-
pense, having the steam deflected instead of
throwing it into the smokestack, and would not
have involved the defendant in any great
trouble.

Then defendant in the part read from his ex-
amination, says that the lower screen should
have been shut,at least that is the way I under-
stood it—that the lower screen should have been
shut when passing the mill.

Now the evidence here seems to me to be con-

clusive that it was not so, that the screen was

open and that there was nothing but the bonnet
to protect it, and the evidence of the other
witnesses is that that damper would permit the
escape of sparks quite sufficient to set fire to
the mill.

That evidence given by Lane seems to me
most important as to the head of steam. It
shows they were running the whole head of
steam that the Inspector allowed, and that
could’nt have been done without having -a full
fire, and the full fire necessarily involved agreat
crowd of sparks. They were not visible, of
course, in the daytime, but they must have
been there, and the natural result seems to
have followed, that they caused the fire.

It is said this steamer was constructed in the
same way as other steamers are on those waters.
I don’t think evidence has been given to bring
it within the same character of those other
vessels. It is not shown that the other vessels
were constructed in the same way as this, that
the boiler and engine were of the same horse
power, in which ease it requires a greater draft
to make the machinery available.

Then with regard to the proper channel.
What would be the proper channel inan ordin-
ary wind might not be the channel when a heavy
wind was blowing from westward. ;

The evidence of the captain is merely that he
was more towards the east than towards the
west at the time of passing the mill. Well
that would be satisfied if he was simply over
in the middle of the stream. __ '

Then the other witnesses. I think all the
other witnesses say the proper channel is rather
towards the west side than towards the east,
BUT whether he was in the proper channel or in
the improper channel, whether he was on the
east or west side, he could not have been more
than 30 or 40 feet from the middle, and it seems
to me not at all impossible that the wind blow-
ing briskly from the west side of the stream
would carry sparks of that. magnitude and cause
it to escape through the wire gauge, and set
fire to inflammable property, inflammable as
gunpowder almost after a long heated spell in
July to a distance of 30 or 40 feet. !

The best conclusion I can come to is that de-
fendant is responsible for this loss, and there

will have to be a reference to the Master to as- —

certain the amount of it,
The above is the judgment as delivered herein.

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WHAT WE OWE TO THE TREES.

We continue our extracts from Mr. N. H,
Eegleston’s paper in the April number of Harper's
Monthly Magazine :—

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.

Tt is pretty well settled now that for the best
interests of most countries, their healthfulness,
the greatest productiveness of their fields, and
their general comfort and thrift, not less than a
fourth part of their area should be permanently
in forest. Wherever this proportion is not pre-
served, harmful consequences sooner or later
ensue. But in Europe the forests are cherished
and cared for not only on this account, but as
being one of the most important industrial re-
gources of a country. Science and art are em-
ployed not only to preserve a proper amount of
woodland for the best development of other
interests, sanitary and economic, but to produce
the largest pecuniary returns from the forests
themselves. The conditions for the best growth
of the forest as a direct source of incomeare studied
as carefully as are those for the growth of wheat
ercorn. By constant experiment and observa-
tion, in connection with the schools of forestry,
it is ascertained what trees are best adapted to
grow in particular soils or with particular ex-
posures, which flourish best in a moist and which
in a dry atmosphere, which in elevated and
which in low situations. It is found, also, that
trees, like human beings, are not only social in
their nature, and will grow better when planted
together in masses than when obliged to grow
singly and apart from each other, but that they
liked a varied society ; that the pine, for in-
stance, will flourish better, will develop its na-
ture more fully, attain a grander stature and a
better quality, when planted in company with
the oak or other trees different in character from
itself, than when it is limited to the companion-
ship of its own kind. ‘The same is true of other
trees, and it is only as a result of a nice and pro-
tracted study that the affinities of trees or their
preferences in this respect can be determined.
Then, also, it has been found that trees come
to their best when a rotation of crops is observed,
as in the case of the grains and grasses, and so
the officers in charge of the governmental and
other forests have it for one of their duties to
determine what class of trees shall suceeed each
other, and in what order.

Under this forestry management, now so well
established in every country of Europe, the
woodlands or forests have as constant oversight
and care as the corn field has with us. The
forest is not, as here, a hap-hazard and accidental
growth, with which man has little to do except
to notice its progress, and levy upon its resources
according as they may serve his convenience or
his greed, but the trees are regarded as one of
the staple crops of the land. They are planted
for a definite end—fuel or timber—but so plant-
ed as to conserve all other interests of the com-
munity. This planting is prepared for with
due reference to the fact that the crop is not to
to be gathered at the end of a few months, but
only at the expiration of a century or more.
From the sprouting of the pine seed or the acorn
in the seed bed until it has attained its growth
and come to its destined harvest-time, a hundred
and twenty years it may be afterward, not a
year passes—we might almost say not a day—
when it is not looked after with care, and every-
thing done that will promote its best growth.
‘What shrub or trees shall be planted near it to
protect its infant feebleness, how near it they
shall be planted, how soon one and another
shall be removed in order to give it more light
and more room in which to develop itself, what
insects are preying upon it and threatening to
check its growth, what symptoms of feebleness
are manifest, and what may be done for their
remoyal—these and many other things are taken
into consideration ; and the tree is thus watched
over, not by one person, but by many, and by
generation after generation, whom it outlives.
Then, again, if a piece of forest is planted with
a view to a yield of fuel, it will have a different
treatment from that which will be given it if it
is destined to produce timber or lumber for use
in the constructive arts. The most economical
method of cutting the trees when arrived at
maturity, and the best means of getting them to
market, whether by land of by water carriage,
will also be carefully studied. Roads will be
constructed by the most scientific engineering,

‘land have had to bear.

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and canals will be made, or river courses will be
taken advantage of, and by means of dams slack-
water navigation will be obtained for the pur-
pose of facilitating the movement of the products
of the forest.

Then, furthermore, the forests will be care-
fully guarded against any browsing animals,
which the experience of European foresters has
proved are among the most destructive agencies
against which they have to contend, It has
been well said by Sir John Sinclair, in his Code
of Agriculture, that ‘‘s landlord had better ad-
mit his cattle into his wheat field than
among his underwood, In the one case they
only injure the crop of one year, whereas in the
other, by biting and mangling one year’s shoots,
mischief is done to the amount of at least three
years’ growth.” Oftentimes the death of the
tree ensues. In some European countries the
right of pasturage, which has been entailed
upon many of the forests, has been one of the
greatest burdens which the proprietors of wood-
A similar right to
gather the fallen leaves, for litter or bedding,
the Streu-recht, which attaches to some forests,
is considered a great hindrance to the growth of
the trees by taking away their natural consti-
tuents, and the proprietors have taken great
pains to extinguish such rights, by purchase or
otherwise, whenever it has been possible to do

60,
SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY.

In one case, at least, the necessity of estab-
lishing such a school of observation in connec-
tion with any agricultural society has been
obviated by the founding of the Arnold Abore-
tum of Harvard University. This institution
is described by its director, Professor Sargent,
as being :

First, a museum of living plants, in which
every tree and shrub capable of withstanding
the climate of Massachusetts is to find its ap-
propriate place, this collection being supple-
mented by the herbarium and various special
collections illustrative of trees, their products
and uses.

Second, a scientific station for investigation
into the character, growth, and economic and
ornamental properties of trees ; into the relations
of forests to climate and the flow of rivers ; and
into the best methods of forest reproduction and
management.

Third, a school of forestry and arboriculture,
in which special students may, when the de-
mand for such instruction is felt, acquire the
knowledge and training necessary to fit them
for the care and increase of our forests.

This modest institution has already modified
legislation in favor of tree-planting in several
States, and been the direct cause of planting
many million trees. It is doing a great deal in
introducing and testing new plants in this
country, and sending those of this country to
different parts of the world. It maintains an
extensive correspondence in regard to trees and
arboriculture with every part of the United
States and Europe, and is doing much in collect
ing and disseminating information in regard to
trees and their culture.

A similar and unmistakably good work may
be done in connection with any of our colleges
or scientific schools, and there is hardly an ob-
ject which more commends itself to the liberal”
minded lover of his country than the founding
of such institutions as the Arnold Arboretum.

The national government has done something
in the right direction by the passage of an Act,
a few years ago, by which the public lands were
made an outright gift to the settler on condition
of his planting a certain portion of it with trees,
and cultivating them for a definite period. It
has been thought by some that a Bureau of
Forestry might be established in connection
with the Department of the Interior, to which
might be committed the care of the so-called
“timber lands” belonging to the government,
and of the great parks belonging to the Rocky
Mountain region, and which might do good
service in collecting facts relating to the growth
and uses of trees, and disseminating them
throughout the country. Possibly the end
desired may be attained in connection with the
Smithsonian Institution, aided as occasion may
demand by Congressional co-operation. Possib-
ly there may grow up by-and-by in this way a
central national arboretum, in addition to those

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LUMBERMAN.

established as we have suggested in the several

States, and perhaps a School of Forestry, or

something answering the purpose of such,
RECKLESS WASTE.

While in some portions of our country there
is still an ample supply of forest, the latest
statistics show that in the proportion of forest
area to the entire surface this country stands be-
low Norway, Sweden, Russia and Germany.
A great treeless belt from three hundred and
fifty to eight hundred miles in width stretches
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.
Sometimes this is absolutely destitute of trees
as far as the eye cansee. Elsewhere there are
fringes of trees along the river-courses. The
heavily timbered Black Hills stand out like an
island in the midst of the ocean. Other similar
detached forests are occasionally found. Beyond
the Rocky Mountains, again, there is another
treeless region, extending from the Columbia
River to Mexico, and Professor Brewer says it
is possible to cross the continent from the Paci-
fic to the Gulf of Mexico without passing
through a forest five miles in extent. Persons
who have traversed our newer Western States,
almost all of which are deficient in forests, re-
port the destruction of even those limited
supplies of timber by fire as being sad to behold.
The miners consume great quantities of timber
in the prosecution of their work ; but so reckless
are many of the settlers and traders in the de-
struction of the trees that self-interest has
prompted the miners in some cases to establish
a system of lynch law for the protection of the
forests. One saw mill on the Keweah cut over
two million feet of ‘‘ big tree” lumber in one
season. But in these milling operations waste
far exceeds use; for after the choice young
manageable trees on any given spot have been
felled, the woods are fired to clear the ground of
any limbs and refuse, with reference to further
operations, and of course most of the seedlings
and saplings are destroyed. In the Rocky
Mountain region hundreds of square miles are
disfigured by the trunks of trees blackened by
fire. Where one tree is cut for use, ten probab-
ly are consumed by the flames. Professor Hay-
den, in his report of I871, in speaking of this
subject, calls attention to the fact that these
burned districts are not covered again by a sub-
sequent growth of trees, but remain bare for
evermore. He intimates also that there is
reason to believe that in that mountain region,
even when undisturbed by the hand of man, the
forests are gradually disappearing under the
influence of natural causes. In the same strain
a writer in the Virginia Enterprise, Nevada,
says : ‘‘ lt will be but a very short time before
we shall be able to observe the effect that
stripping the fine forests from the sides and
summit of the Sierras will have on the climate
of this State and California. In a very few
years every accessible tree, even to such as are
only of value as firewood, will be swept from
the mountains. Even now this has been done
in some places. It is to be hoped that a new
growth of pines or timber trees of some kind
may spring up on the ground that has been
cleared, but we do not hear that any such
growth has yet started.” The President of the
State Board of Agriculture of California re-
ported ten years ago that within twenty years
at least a third of the whole native supply of
accessible timber had been cut off or destroyed,
and that, judging the future by the past, it
would require only about forty years to exhaust
the remainder. He says: ‘‘ Thousands upon
thousands of the noblest’and most valuable of
our forest trees in the Sierra Nevada districts
have been destroyed without scarcely an object
or a purpose, certainly with no adequate benefit
to the destroyer or anyone else.”

Reports like these might be multiplied to any
extent, and it is only when we bring such re-
ports together that we are able to get a proper
notion of the work of sylvan destruction that is
going on, and which is threatening us with such
danger—danger not only of a scarcity of lumber
and fire-wood, and the enhancement of the cost
of a multitude of articles of comfort and con-
venience, but danger of & deterioration of
climate, carrying with it a diminished produce-
tiveness of our fields, and influences detrimental
to health. This danger can hardly be overstated.
Nor can we be too prompt or energetic in our
efforts to avert it,

ENDURANCE OF WOODEN BRIDGES.
Some interesting literature was presented
recently before the London and Middlesex
Archeological Society concerning “Old Ful-
ham bridge,” in which the history of this
venerable structure was reviewed and particu-

larized to show its almost wonderful endurance _

and longevity, as demonstrating that the
superior character of bridges constructed of
other material than wood, over the latter, is by
no means an established fact, and that much
must be accomplished to outwear a strong and
well built bridge of wood. The bridge referred
to, which is located at London, between Putney
and Fulham, is a timber structure, and the
oldest existing bridge over the Thames in the
Metropolis, though it was erected in the year
1729, to supply an immediate and temporary
want until its place could be occupied by amore
permanent structure. Instead of being a com-
paratively ephemeral affair it has survived
and done good service all these years, while two
ponderous stone bridges over the Thames have
become ruins, and have been supplanted by
more modern structures.

Tue Grantsburg Sentinel says :—We hear that
several saw mills will be put up along the line
of the North Wisconsin railroad this year.
The Eau Claire Lumber Co. will build one
above Cable, one will be built at Hayward, and
another between Veazie and Stewart ; Walker,
Judd & Veazie, of Marine, being interested in
the latter. Other mills will probably be built.
We understand that the railroad company will
not sell timber intended to be cut and driven
down any of the streams; it’s their policy to
have mills put in to manufacture it into lumber.
The mill at Shell Lake will be completed and
in full running order by the middle of May,
when it is expected to cut 200,000 feet per day,
employing 200 men.

A MAN named L. Grunnell, operating on
Klockidy creek, Ogemaw county, Mich., had a
peculiar experience on April 5. He started a
log with a cant hook which had become lodged
on the chute over the dam. The log dragged
him over the chute under water, and shook him
up generally among the moving logs, but he
bobbed up somewhat serenely a short distance
below all right, except that he had temporarily
lost his sensibilities. He still hung to the hook,
and when rescued had it firmly gripped in his
hand. The adventurer is now convinced that
if he can’t hook a log successfully, he can, at
least, hang on to the cant hook.

A PECULIAR feat was accomplished by a
chopper named John E. Brownell, at Arlington,
Vt. He felled a huge spruce on the mountain
side, which was over sixty feet in height, and
some twenty inches in diameter, intending it
should shoot down the deep descent, which it
did with great velocity. About 40 rods from
the starting point up the mountain the novel
projectile encountered an obstacle in the shape
of a birch tree, two and a half feet through the
trunk. This the speeding spruce struck with
as much force as if it had been shot from a cata-
pult, piercing the birch trunk and protruding
six feet through it.

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A Few days since the two largest rafts of
square timber ever known to have come down
the Susquehanna river for years were brought
in at Loch Haven, Pa, on the late flood, and
taken down stream by Mr. Thomas Christie
and. crew. The larger of the two was 341} feet
in length, and was top-loaded with 25 sticks,
and contained 13,000 feet, whereas, ordinarily,
the general run of rafts contain about 6,000
feet. The second raft was over 300 feet long,
and contained some 10,000 feet. It is not be-
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The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Cook,
Gibbons & Raney have this winter been getting
out pine square timber in Franklin county, N.
Y., for the Quebec market. They cut it in
township 17, haul it to the St. Regis river at
Fort Jackson, in St. Lawrence county, and
send it down that stream to the St. Lawrence.
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from 30 to 40 feet long, at a cost of $11,500, It
will cost $2,000 more to run it to Quebec. The
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operators haye to go well into the depths of the
Adirondack woods. Anyone familiar with the
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getting timber from the vicinity of Quebec
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the long, heavy pine thus reached is the only
justification of so much expense.

A six thousand dollar fire occurred at Wood-
stock, N.B., on Friday morning, April 14th.
Between 8 and 10 o’clock James Hayden’s
steam rotary saw mill caught fire in an apart-
ment where some small lumber was being dried.
The men were engaged about the mill, Mr.
Hayden himself seeing the fire when it com-
menced, but owing to the combustible nature of
the surroundings the upper part of the mill was
quickly in a sea of flame. The fire company
were quickly at the scene. The mill could not
be saved, however, but the flames were prevent-
ed from spreading to the lumber and the houses
near. Loss on the mill, four to six thousand
dollars. As there is a great demand for build-
ing material now, the destruction of the millisa
great loss to the community.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says common
pine lumber in the Red river valley is now
worth from $22 to $28 per thousand feet. Over
1,000,000,000 feet of the pine which Mr. Wash-
burn’s mill throws into the market is on the Red
Lake reservation, within easy driving distance
of Red Lake river. It is worth, to cut for the
Manitoba market, $16 per thousand feet as it
stands on the land, or $16,000 per quarter-sec-
tion. To the settlers of the Red river valley
this pine timber is a vital necessity. They ask
that the government will put a fair valuation
upon it, put it on sale at the earliest practicable
moment, and not allow more than one quarter
section to be sold to any one individual.

Frar Not.—All kidney and urinary com-
plaints, especially Bright’s Disease, Diabetes
and liver troubles Hop Bitters will surely and
lastingly cure. Cases exactly like your own
have been cured in your own neighborhood, and
uo can find reliable proof at home of what Hop

itters has and can do.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
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who finds himself suffering will spend a few |’

cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get aten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

Hacyarp’s Yettow Ot will be found in-
valuable for al! purposes of afamily medicine.
Immediate relief will followits use. It relieves
pain, cures chilblains, frost bites, scalds, burns,
corns. rheumatism, neuralgia, &c. For internal
use itis none the less wonderful. One or two
doses frequently cure sore throat. It will cure
croup ina few minutes. A few bottles has often
cured asthma. Colic has been cured by a tea-

spoonful dose. It cures with the utmost rapidity. |

It is really a wonderful medicine.

Everyone’s writing, like everyone’s face differs
from every other, and to help these idiosyn-
crasies the Esterbrook Steel Pen Co. provide a
varied assortment of pens to suit every style of
writing, from the finest ladies’ pen to the broad
point engrossing.

Nexnyous ExHavstIon, and all diseases arising
from youthful indiscretions are speedily and
radically removed by that wonderful remedy
known as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, an ad-
vertisement of which appears in another
column.

A Kerianre Facr.—It is an established fact
that Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam is the best
cure “4 oe seer sore et asthma,
croup, bronchitis, and all troubles arising from
neglected colds, Price 25 cents. 4

Tzsverry whitens the teeth like chastened
pesrls, A five cent sample settles it,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. ‘m=,
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CHOPPING AXES

(Made to Order and on hand.)

MILL PICKS DRESSED in a first-class style.
Those shipped by rail will be returned promptly.

far Lance Tooth Saws Gummed, AXES
WARRANTED. 8124

W. HERLIHEY, Lindsay.
BARRIE SAW WORKS

JSTAMES HAGUE.
Circular, Cross-Cut & Machine Saws

Gummed and Hammered on Short Notice.

Shop in Sewrey’s Foundry, BARRIE, Ont.

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER. |

A, L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT. |

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
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fa P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
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INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every description. 1u14

688 and 690 Craig Street, Montreal.

ESTABLISHED 1574.

THOS. GRAHAM

Manufacturer of Every Description of

FILES and RASPS

HAND CUT FILES made from the Best Refined Eng-
lish Cast Steel and Warranted Equal in every respect
to the best English brands.

NEW FILES neatly put up in labelled boxes for the
trade ; to whom bottom figures will be quoted.

Old and Worn-out Files re-grownd and re-cut by
hand, and made equal to the New File for use, at prices
that will effect a great saving to all consumers of Files

N.B.—Every File Guaranteed. Price List on applica-
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Factory & Office :—Sherbrooke St.,
TORON TO.-

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MANUFACTURER OF

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(Always takes First Prize.)

Rotary Saw Mills

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Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

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and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.
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1121 GREEN & SON, Proprietor.

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BARRIE, ONT,

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RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
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far Every accommodation for Commercial and

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pleasant to the taste, and each box contains sufficient
for two week’s medication, and is the cheapest and best.
42 Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire
to mail free to any address.

Mack’s Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
at 50 cts, per box, or 12 for $5, or will be mailed
free of postage, on receipt of the money, by addressing
MACK’S MAGNETIC MEDICINE CO., Windsor, Ont ,

Sold by all Druggists in Canada.

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ST. THOMAS, Ont.

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This valuable medicine is purely vegetable, §
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Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. MAY 1, 1882.

Goyzrnor Nanor, of Nebraska, has issued a
proclamation urging that every person in that
State shall plant a tree on Nebraska Arbor Day,
the 19th April.

Tun export of white pine lumber from the
port of New York, from January 1 to April 1,
1882, was 11,277,000 feet against 12,579,000 feet
for the same time in 1881,

Ten car loads of lumber left Ludington from
Butter, Peters & Co.’s mill in one train. They
load it from the trestle works on the cars as fast
as it is sawed and it is taken away every day.

Trr Montreal Star says the whole navigation
of the St. Lawrence is once more kept back by
the Cap Rouge barrier, entailing a loss of
thousands of dollars to the shipping interest. Is
it possible that there is no mechanical or chemi-
cal agency by which this small strip of ice could
be blown up?

THERE are six million miles of fencing in the
United States, the total cost of which has been
more than two thousand millions. The census
reports show that during the census year there
were expended $78,629,000 alone. Of this
amount the largest contribution was from
Tilinois ; the second from Pennsylvania.

THE prices of northern pine lands continue to
maintain a stiffness in tone. A short time since
A. P. Brewer, John Brewer and W. C. Me-
Clure, of Saginaw, Mich., sold a tract of pine
land in Wisconsin for $40,000, which was pur-
chased some 11 years ago by them for $2,500.
In the same connection a sale of last season is
mentioned which was made by a Saginaw party
who disposed of a tract of pine land for $15,000,
which originally cost him just one-tenth that
amount,

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says the work of
eutting and banking logs is entirely suspended
in all the Wisconsin pineries. Extensive pre-
parations have been made for the drive, and
wherever circumstances are favorable nearly all
the logs will reach the mills. Reports from
Black River say that a good drive is going on
on that stream. It is reported the South Fork
never was in better condition for a clear drive
than at present. In fact good water is reported
on all the tributaries of that stream,

THE) CANADA

Tur Northern Pacific Railway Company, in
order to encourage the planting of forest trees
in the prairie districts through which their lines
run, are offering premiums to the most success-
ful planters in each township, county, etc. The
premiums consist of free passes over the road,
to be used at intervals during the year. If the
growth of trees on the prairies 1s stimulated by
this means a mutual advantage will be obtained
otherwise than in the premiums offered. The
object of the Railway Company, of course, is to
afford protection to their lines during the winter,
and prevent the troublesome snow blockades.

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Tur Montreal Gazette, of April 17, says :—
The demand continues healthy for most kinds of
hardwood at full former prices. The new cut is
nearly all sold at most of the mills from Quebec
up, as well as last year’s stock, Shipments
during the past week have been made to Platts
burg, N.Y., and enquiries from other parts of
the States have been received. There is a

5 demand for cherry and other descriptions of

hard wood on Boston account, and dealers look
forward to a good season’s trade. A consider-
able amount of building is going on, and the
requirements for local purposes alone will be ex-
tensive during the coming season.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Big
hauls seem to be the rage, and every day or two
another ‘‘ biggest haul of the season ” turns up.
The biggest claim at the present writing is that
made for a camp at St. Ignace, Mich., where
John Spence recently hauled with one team of
horses, 15 and 20 years old respectively, from
the skids to the banking ground, over a road of
smooth ice, a distance of two miles, 8,732 feet of
logs. There were 13 20-foot logs in the load and
one that was 18 feet long. The sleigh bunks
used were built, and the logs selected, for the
occasion, the attempt being made for the pur-
pose of seeing what the old plugs could do.

RIVERS AND STREAMS BILL.

In the House of Commons Mr. Cameron, of
Huron, moved a resolution condemning the
disallowance of the Rivers and Streams Bill,
which was passed by the Ontario Legislature,
was disallowed by the Dominion authorities,
and has been re-enacted by the Province. After
along debate the motion was negatived by a
large majority, and it is almost certain that the
measure will again be disallowed.

MAPLES,

The Mechanic, a paper published in Burling-
ton Co., N. J., makes the following remarks on
the use of maple for cabinet work :—‘* Almost
everyone knows something about maples, but
very few, even of experienced cabinet-makers
and carpenters, think of these woods as being
available for anything but firewood, The white
maple is one of the whitest woods growing in
America, only exceeded in that respect by one
or two. It is, however, on account of its ex-
treme softness und general lack of strength,
practically valueless. The sugar maple is one
of the most useful trees. While it is very cheap,
we cannot consider it a valueless tree, this low
price of the timber resulting from the fact that
it is not fashionable, and has not been used to
any extent for anything save mill work and
rough carpentry. Its grain its very fine, and in
hardness and general adaptability for fine cary-
ing and cabinet work stands next to boxwood.
Beech somewhat exceeds it in the fineness of
grain, but is not nearly so beautiful. The great
strength of maple renders it valuable in all kinds
of delicate work, preventing it from being
readily broken, and at the same time allowing a
slenderness of construction quite inconsistent
with any weaker material. Almost all maple
has in its structure a certain waviness, which
causes it, when polished, to reflect light and to
appear almost dappled. Other varieties are the
well known bird’s-eye maple, which, thirty or
forty years ago, was a very popular wood for
certain kinds of eabinet work. Many persons
suppose that the bird’s-eye maple is a separate
or peculiar tree, differing from other maples.
This is a mistake ; most of the rock maples have
a tendency to form little hillocks beneath the
bark, and each layer of wood during growth is
evenly covered over with these projections,

LUMBERMAN.

which do not grow larger, but retain their
original size. The result of this is that when
a slice is taken through one of these little lumps
or pits, we find that the grain of the wood is
bent up or down in a circle, and, of course,
reflects the light differently from that part
which is horizontal. In what are called bird’s-
eye maple trees, these little hillocks or pits in
the bark are disposed closely together and regu-
larly throughout the tree. In opening such a
tree, when the cut is parallel to the bark, we
have a board showing the bird’s-eye maple
markings. If, however, the cut is made radially
it passes through the hillocks vertically, and, as
they extend from the heart to the bark of the
tree, we have something which produced on the
wood the effect of a wave. When a log is sawn
so as to show the eyes, it is known as bird’s-eye
maple, and when cut radially, so as to make the
wayes most prominent, it is called waved maple,
or, in some places, curly maple. The wave
pattern will almost always be found in any
bird’s-eye board by looking at the edge, and vice
versa. Maple has one advantage which has
been improved very little by cabinet-makers,
and that is its susceptibility to staining pro-
cesses. The supply of this wood is abundant,
and, fortunately, it can be obtained in large size.
Hitherto its principal value has been for fire-
wood.”

GILMOUR’S MILLS, TRENTON, ONT.

On May the 18th, 1881, Trenton was excited
over tlre destruction of the Gilmour saw mill.
The calamity was widespread as the withdrawal
of about five thousand dollars weekly wages
would affect every branch of business. For
some time after our merchants especially were
despondent, till work on the new mill was com-
menced. The number of mechanics employed
all the year and throughout the winter has kept
trade at its normal level. The capacity of the
small mill was immediately increased by two
upright gangs and run night and day. The
shingle mill was started after New Years and
run to its utmost capacity. The small mill has
cut over two million feet of lumber this spring
as much as the old mill could cut in the same
time. The new mill is 172 feet long, 85 wide,
75x36 feet and south wing 120x36, two stories
high and covered with painted sheet iron. The
engine house is 50x26 feet having twin engines
of 1500 horse power; the boiler house is 100x35
feet, having 16 tubular boilers, smoke flumes
entering two chimneys stacks 120 feet high each.
The Gehenna is a cylinder: of iron 40 feet
diameter at base, half way up it contracts to
over half and rises 120 feet. Its inside will be
lined with fire brick and in it will be concumed
the refuse matter of the large mill. The engines
were made by Macdougal of Montreal, and the
boilers by three Toronto firms. The engine
house and boiler house are distinct from the mill
and from each other and both are destitute of a
particle of wood. The walls are of brick and the
roof of iron frame and sheet iron covering. The
mill machinery consists of two twin circular
slabbers, and one single circular slabber with a
top saw for extra large logs. The twins were
made by Wm. Hamilton, of Peterborough, and
the single by Mr. Stearns, of Erie, Pa., all three
have steam feeds. There are three immense
gangs for cutting into boards made by Stearns,
these are fastened to a foundation beam of oak
built under twelve feet of stone work and are
entirely separate from the foundation of the mill.
They will cut at one time six logs of medium
size, three wide and two high. The three cir-
culars and three gangs will cut halfa million
feet in eleven hours. To edge the boards there
are four double edgers made also by Stearns.
Four lath machines are put in position to utilize
the best part of the edgings, two heading
machines to utilize the best of the slabs. The
saws are all new and were supplied by Diston,
of Philadelphia, and the belting by Hoyt of
N. Y. The mill will be lit by six electric lamps
and will turn out in the tour of 11 hours 500,000
feet of lumber, 200,000 lath besides headings.
The refuse matter as it leaves the saws is carri-
ed to the lath room and there assorted by taking
out whatever will make lath or headings, the
rest is carried on to the Gehennaor large furnace
which burns night and day. There are two
tables for butting and assorting the lumber,
which is loaded by machinery on cars drawn by

two engines over six miles of elevated railway
and believed in every part or the yard or to the
vessels in the harbor. An average of 500 men
will be employed causing a circulation of about
$7,000 weekly. The mill will be tried this next
week and will be in full operation by the first
of May, some weeks lessthana year since the

old mill was burned down. The inexperienced -

is bewildered in the complicity of mechanism
and wonders how it all can brought into har-
monious action. Only ashort while and the
finest steam saw mill on the continent of
America will be in operation in Trenton.—
Trenton Courier.

DISPUTED TIMBER LOTS.

A correspondent of the Montreal Witness, of
April 20th, says :—Further particulars have
been learned of the trouble on Du Lievre River
which necessitated a force of provincial police to
be despatched to the scene, where they are
stationed at present. The rumors circulated
that Holland Bros’. mill, in Portland township,
had been destroyed by indignant settlers is in-
correct, but not wholly unfounded. The trouble
is not with the settlers, but between the Ross
Bros. and the Messrs. Holland, mill owners.
The difficulty originated in the cancellation,
which took place in 1878, of certain lots owned
by Holland Bros. The property had been
purchased from the Government of Canada
(prior to Confederation), paid for in full, and
the owners had been in possession of it for 15
years. The sale of this land was, some time
ago, cancelled and the purchase money confiscat-
ed, and on the endeavor of Ross Bros. to operate
on the property the trouble was caused, the men
sent by the firm having met with a stern resist-
ance by Holland’s agents. Previously on the
5th of April, Ross Bros’. managers, with thirty-
six armed men, made a descent upon the house
of Holland’s agent and demolished the strueture.
The agent immediately proceeded to Aylmer
and entered an action against those implicated,
and also against Ross Bros. themselves, as ac-
cessories before the fact. Constables are now
in Portland to execute the warrant, and there
will probably be some interesting litigation in
Aylmer before the end of the difficulty is reach-
ed. In the meantime a squad of Provincial
police has been sent to the seat of war to prevent
bloodshed.

YOUNG'S POINT, ONT.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Saw Locs.—Mr. Geo. Chalmers’ drive of saw
logs, P. Phalen, jr., foreman, is making very
good progress down Jack’s Creek ; he expects to
be in Stoney Lake in about 10 days. Mr.
Chalmers’ other drive, which started last week
from Mud Lake, under the foremanship of Mr.
A. Wynn, will not reach here for about two
months, as they have along road to travel ; still
they will be among the first drives of the sea-
son.

IMPROVEMENTS.—Mr, W. McGregor, of this
place, has purchased from Widow Young the
acre lot next to Kearney’s property, and intends
fencing and building a house on it this summer,
to reside in.

Tue Lakes.—The water on the Upper Lakes
is now clear of ice. We expect the steamer
Cruiser up here some day soon, to commence
taking down cordwood, etc., to Lakefield.

Lumser.—Mr. Chalmers is making a good
many sales of lumber to farmers and carpenters
from Lakefield and other places, for building
purposes. There is evidently a boom in the
lumber line.

Pitinec Grounp.—Mr. MeGregor is having
his men laying down the slabs from the saw
mill on a rough part next the lake, and levelling
it up, which will make a good piling ground for
lumbér, and will look very much better. The
place was an eyesore to look at before this im-
provement.

Goop HrattH.—Keep the Stomach, Liver
and Bowels in good order by the use of Baxter's
Mandrake Bitters and perfact health will be
the result.

Weak LUNGS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM STRONG.
poe with the mouth closed, weer access =
all times to pure air exercise m
nourishing but simple food, and take that best
of all cough remedies, H 's Pectoral
Balsam, it speedily cures all throat and lung
troubles of adults or children. Price 25 cents
per bottle.

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PITCH PINE FORESTS.

The Timber Trades Journal says there 1s one
export commodity from the United States, how-
‘ever, which defies competition, and may be
counted on to flow steadily towards this country
in secula seculorum, and that is the pitch pine

‘of the Southern States. From the accounts
that have at various times appeared in these
columns, and the recent statements of our
special correspondent on the spot it appears
that the forests of this timber are practically in-
exhaustible, as they are in a constant state of
vapid reproduction by the new saplings every-
where arising to replace the old trees, and the
swamps in which these forests delight to flourish
offer no temptation to the husbandman to clear
them away. Thus, unlike the forests of the
north, they may be accounted perennial from
the natural tendency of the land to reproduce
them, and the want of motive to destroy the
undergrowth for the sake of cultivating the land
-which produces it, and which civilization is not
likely to require for ages yet to come.

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Saw Logs Seized-

An Ottawa despatch says that four officers
of the Quebec Provincial Police, in charge of
Constable Burke, arrived at Buckingham by the
North Shore train from Quebec, to aid in sup-
pressing “lawlessness prevailing among timber
drivers on the Du Lievre. It appears that some
land proprietor, through whose property a
branch stream runs, has, in imitation of Mr.
Mclaren, refused to permit the passage of logs,

and has engaged a gang of men to prevent the
operations of men engaged in timber driving.
Another report says the trouble arose from the
absconding of a certain contractor or paymaster,
and the lumbermen have taken possession of
certain quantities of timber which they declare
they will hold until their wages are paid in full.

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Chatterbox.

We have received the January number of the
Original English Chatterbox from the American
publishers, Messrs. Estes & Lauriat, Boston,
Mass. This is the children’s magazine, par ex-
cellence ; containing 32 pages, and 16 full page
illustrations each month. It has more than a
million readers in England and America. For
one dollar sent by a new subscriber, directly to
the publishers, they will send, post paid, Chat-
terbox for one year and a beautiful steel engrav-
ing of a little girl puzzling over her first sum,
and entitled ‘Ought and Carrry One.” The
engraving is 18x24 inches, and sells for $3.00,
thus giving every new subscriber $4.00 worth
for $1.00.

Bridging the St. Lawrence.

The Northwestern Lumberman says a bill has
been introduced into the New York Legislature
to incorporate the St. Lawrence River Bridge
Company, for the purpose of constructing a

_ bridge across the great river from Wadington,
St. Lawrence county, New York, to a point in
Dundas county, Canada. It will be about a
mile long, resting in part on an island. It is in-
tended that the Adirondack railroad extension
into the Dominion shall cross on this bridge,
and the completion of both road and bridge
would open up a heavy lumber line between
Ottawa and Albany.

Hacyarp’s YELLOw Ot is at the head of the
list for all purposes of a family medicine. It is
used with unprecedented success, both imtern-
ally and externally. It cures core throat,burns,
sealds, frost bites; relieves, and often cures
asthma.

“Anp fools who came to scoff remained to
pray.’—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to it
wonderful effects.

Porutark Demanp.—The great superiority of
Downs’ Elixir, over all other cough remedies,
is attested by the immense” popular demand
for that old established remedy” for the cure of
Coughs, Hoarseness, Croup, Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Whooping Cough, and all diseases of the
throat, Chest and Lungs.

Wuew Doctors DISAGREE, WHO SHALL Dz-
cp 7— Nothing is more variable than the dif-
ferent opinious of medical men ; but when they
fail to agree, or to preform acurein a chronic
disease, the patients often decides for them-
selves, and take Burdock Blood Bitters, and
~ spam recover. It is the grand key to health

at unlocks all the secretions, and liberates the
slave from the captivity of disease.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 135

LUMBER WANTED.

50,000 Feet Tough White Oak, 50,000 Ft.
White Ash, 50,000 Feet Rock Elm, all first
quality ; quote price at Ayr station ; to be delivered by
August, 1882. Specifications furnished on application.

Ayr Agricultural Works,

AYR, ONTARIO. 3u7

Timber Limits for Sale-

I offer Timber Limits Nos. 94, 102, 144, 145, 157, 163,
176 and 182 on the North Shore of Georgian Bay, for
sale either ‘‘en bloe” or in single Townships of 36
square miles each.

GEORGE J. THOMPSON,
Winnipeg, Manitoba,

FOR SALE!

SASH, DOOR & FURNI-
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Situate on CANAL BASIN, OTTAWA.

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Barristers, Ottawa.

OTTAWA RIVER.

Grenville & St. Anne Canals.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned

and endorsed ‘‘Tender for Timber for Lock Gates,”
will be received at this office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western mails, on THURSDAY, the 11th
day of MAY next, for the furnishing and delivering
on or before the 3rd day of October, 1882, of Oak and
Pine Timber, sawn to the dimensions required for the
construction of Lock Gates forthe new Locks at
Greece’s Point, Grenville Canal, and the new Lock at
St. Anne, Ottawa River.

The timber must be of the qualities described, and
of the dimensions stated on a printed bill which will
be supplied on application, personally or by letter, at
this office where forms of tender can also be obtained.

No payment will be made on the timber until it
has been delivered at the place required on the respec-
tive canals, nor until it has been examined and ap-
proved by an officer detailed to that service.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that an
accepted bank cheque for the sum of $300 must ac-
company each tender, which shall be forfeited if the
party tendering declines to enter into a contract for
supplying the timber at the rates and on the terms
stated in the offer submitted. ;

The cheque thus sent in will be returned to the res-
pective parties whose tenders are not accepted,

This department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,

F. BRAUN,
Secretary-
Department of Railways and Canals, )

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THE ENGLISH TRADE,

Robert Coltart & Co.’s Liverpool wood cir-
cular, dated April 3rd, says :—There has been
a quiet feeling in the wood trade during the
past month, although the deliveries compare
favorably with the same period last year, and
the stocks, with the exception of pitch pine, are
Prices generally have been main-
tained, excepting for Norway flooring boards
and pitch pine, both of which have been offered
The fine open weather

very light.

too freely in this market.
which has so long prevailed has been very

fayorable to building operations, which have
also been assisted by the easier state of the
money market since the late reductions in the

bank rate.

Cotontat Woops.—Yellow pine—The stock

of square timber consists of only 119,000 feet,
against 725,000 feet at the same time last year,

and 362,000 in 1880 ; the consumption of 60,000
feet during the month must be considered satis-

factory at the present advanced prices, and with
such a very small stock in the yards.

retail only. For red pine the demand is dull,

and the present stock of 27,000 feet is sufficient
The stock of oak logs
consists of 264,000 feet, against 444,000 at the
same time last year ; the demand, however, con-
tinues limited, amounting to only 32,000 feet
Waggon oak scantlings,
however, continue to be enquired for, the present
stock having been reduced to 53,000 feet, and
the consumption during the month amounted to
37,000 feet ; prices of prime quality rule from

for present requirements.

during the month.

2s 7d to 2s 9d per foot, according to specification.

Elm and ash are in dull demand. The stock of
birch timber is reduced to 81,000 feet ; against
140,000 at the same time last year ; prices haye
improved, and 501 logs, ex Etta Stewart, from
St. John, N.B., realized at auction an average
The demand for Quebec pine
has been quiet during the month, and the stock
standards, against 9,151
The con-
sumption of N. B. and N.S. spruce deals con_
tinues slightly in excess of that of last year, but
although the stock is very small, and the arrivals

of 204d per foot.

consists of 5,848
standards at the same time last year.

for some time are likely to be light, prices do not
show any improvement, the latest sales being by
private of St. John at £7 12s 6d per standard,
and by auction St. John cargoes realized an
average of £7 10s and £7 14s per standard. The
present stock consists of only 10,464 standards,
against 22,895 standards at the same time last
year, and the consumption during the month
amounted to 3,659 standards, against 3,541
standards. Quebec merchantable pine and
puncheon staves continue to be enquired for.
Palings are in fair request, and have been sold
at 82s 6d per mille, for 5 feet 3x1, and 62s 6d
per mille for 4 feet 3x 1.

The arrivals since our last have been 19
vessels, 13,805 tons, against 17 vessels, 12,765
tons, during the corresponding period of last
year, and 29 vessels, 14,632 tons, in 1880 :—

FROM 26TH JANUARY TO 31ST MARCH, 1882.

Vessels, Tons.
TOD EU retnialelnrefalete(clareleisieierellerctusiesejereleieie Nil Nil
PSU OMM HINGES. pQCOh ciolsisiniuininieie's'eisjeinin's i 5,929
TUMITER STAGES) ieleecisc cinciec) viel onine sins 23 19,260
LEE Goanlandon Sonooo subuos odooa0e 15 7,097
BLLOUBItawineselretsrarstelemeitalere.slefauttele cei 45 $2,286
FROM 26TH JANUARY TO 318T MARCH, 1881.
IQUCH EC sic wicssinelsiiew vinlonieslesisieisieiusieis 1 921
Rte OMNI N s3a 5 (LO oleiainisieleioinjli airielarnis 4 3,374
AUDITS INURLOHs/cicteeisieis cuieiaeite cranes tere je 26 18,596
Baltic. ... ccc. Rivisiale elpiefeveleiein aia's iver if 2,711
MOGAL sivcils) since Dive stants tsieieies 37 25,962
FROM 26TH JANUARY TO 31ST MARCH, 1880.
Quebec........ Suita e(uale: vieveeis seis enie Nil Nil
St. John, N. B., & 9 9,815
United States... 7 5,543
Lhe ib anu soso dobdocooduarauduooBond 26 9,053
MOLE Lsie) aieleuvisiniele nivinisie(spine eeeeee 41 24,411

A WASTE IN VALUABLE TIMBER.

The people of Leelenaw county, Mich., are
becoming awakened to the demands for railroad
facilities to develop the timber lands in the
county, and are interested in the project for
establishing a road from Traverse City to Carp
Lake, Maple City, Burdick and the lake shore,
The timber wealth of the county is represented
as being enormous, and there is said to be
enough in the townships through which the
roa would pass, if made available, to pay the

Of waney
board timber the consumption has also been
good, and the stock is light ; sales have been by

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

entire expense of constructing the road, and to

pay for handsome improvements on every farm,

besides placing money in the pocket of every
The
There are large
quantities of cedar, hemlock, basswood, birds-
eye maple, cherry, beech, birch, and a dozen
Some of these woods are highly
valuable, on account of the demand and the
Immense quantities of the
choicest basswood are now destroyed in fallows
because the settler must remove it in clearing
his land for crops, and the same is true of the
elm—of which there are some very monarchs—
With regard to the
latter wood about 10 per cent. of it is said to be
of the most valuable quality, while it is instanced
regarding the cherry that, recently, six 12-foot
logs were sawed, ‘which scaled over 500 feet
These
kinds of timber the farmers of Leelenaw are
compelled to burn in log heaps while making
room for the advances of agriculture, which
action seems little less than a wasteful sacrifice.
It is hoped that the railroad contemplated will
go through, and that ample opportunities will be
opened up for utilizing these extensive and valu-

farmer and land owner along the route.
timber is largely hardwood.

other varieties.

excellent quality.

the birds-eye maple, etc.

each, and were almost entirely clear.

able forests.—Northwestern Lumberman.

TREE CULTURE ON THE PRAIRIE.

With the advent of spring there is no question
of more importance to city or country than the
cultivation of trees on our prairie domains. The
desirability of the great western prairiés for
homes, and their value as farming lands very
largely depend on the successful cultivation of
The papers should urge this matter earn-.
It is not enough that
it is the highest interest of the settlers upon
prairie lands to begin at once the cultivation of
They are
not only inexcusably careless about this matter,
but a very large population do not seem to
understand the proper method of proceeding. I
have known the same piece of land to be planted
with seeds of various kinds of timber over and
over again, and there is not to-day a solitary
shrub or twig upon the land to indicate that a
Yet the successful
cultivation of trees upon our prairies is no longer
in the hazy domain of theory or experiment, but
has long since been demonstrated beyond all
doubt, yet every season men expend large
amounts of money and labor in attempting to
start trees and fail, and become discouraged and

trees.
estly and persistently.

trees around their houses and barns.

seed had been sown there.

give it up.

I have had considerable experience in this

line, and will in a few words give directions,

which, if faithfully observed, will invariably

give results of the most satisfactory character.

Prepare your ground thoroughly ; don’t waste
your time putting in trees on ground that is not

thoroughly prepared. Do not put in seeds, nor
trust to cuttings.
year old. Plant the depth of an ordinary spade.
Don’t plow them in nor throw them in. Put in
by hand. Press the earth well around them, so
as to exclude air and sunlight. Get them in as
early in the spring as possible, Cultivate them
thoroughly during the summer and in nine cases
out of ten you have got trees so thrifty and
strong that they will stand the severest winter.
All this is so simple that the most inexperienced
man should find no difficulty in carrying it out.
In a very few years a man can have ten or
fifteen acres of timber around his house, and the
winter weather will be as changed as though he
had moved hundreds of miles further south,
Then, and not till then, can the farmers in our
northern regions raise stock successfully. If
every prairie farmer would commence this spring
and faithfully carry out the simple instructions
above given for the next five years we should see
such a revolution in the climate and conditions
of the great Northwest as no man to-day dreams
of.—St, Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press.

READY MADE DWELLINGS.

The Northwestern Lumberman says:—‘* We
know of no enterprise in which a small amount
of ready capital could be invested, by parties
having a practical knowledge of building, to
better advantage than in the preparation of
ready made houses, prepared upon improved and
acceptable plans, ready for shipment. to points

and the Baltic. The country from this must
not be accounted treeless ; the explanation is to
be found in the fact that the native timber, with
small exception, is of the hardwood class, the
imports consisting of softwoods. Bearing on
this point we find that the colony of Victoria
possesses State forests to the extent of 243,000
acres ; beyond this there is an area of forest
lands, classed as “‘ timber reserves,” estimated

where they are to be set up. The enterprise
would demand the preparation of a set of plans
and elevations reduced by the skill of the en-
graver so as to be fully illustrated by wood cuts,
or the cheap blue process, so as to enable the
purchaser to form a correct idea of what he was
ordering, and as well enabling him to suggest
such changes as his personal taste “or require-
ments might demand. J a P: od r

It is no infrequent thing for inquiries to be
addressed to the editor of the Lumberman from
parties desirous of obtaining such buildings, one
such inquiry in the fall of last year embracing a
desire to obtain no less than 100 cottages.
Recent inquiries were for cottages to be shipped
to Winnipeg, one to Dakota, and one to
Minnesota, and were it once known that parties
held themselves in readiness to prepare them,
we believe that an immense tratle could speedily
be built up. The enterprise would, of course,
require a reasonable amount of capital, but
probably not so large an amount as many might
imagine, as orders would, in a majority of cases,
be accompanied with at least a portion of the
cost. It is a project which we are aware has
been undertaken before, without resulting as
advantageously as was hoped, but we are con-
vinced that the present time is much more
auspicious, and that the venture would prove a
paying one to the wise experimenter.

down as malle scrub, unavailable mountain
ranges, lakes, lagoons, &c., in connection with
which there is a considerable growth of timber.

In 1879 we find that New South Wales im-
ported timber to the value of £318,189, and
furniture and upholstery to the value of £36,141,
and in the same time exported bark to the value
of £14,999,

River Improvements,

Messrs. Pond and Humphrey and Governor
Washburn, of Wisconsin, have been before the
committee having in charge the river and harbor
bill, pressing appropriations for the improve-
ment of the Chippewa and St. Croix rivers, and
the building of breakwaters in Lake Pepin.
The amounts desired for improvements were
$30,000 for the Chippewa, $25,000 for the St.
Croix, and $10,000 for each of the breakwaters.
The latter are designed to be 500 feet in length,
and located, one at Stockholm and the other at
Lake City on Lake Pepin. The amount desired
for the Chippewa is to be expended in applying
the revetment system to the protection of the
yellow banks, near Durand, Wis. The St.
Croix improvements are to be made between
Hudson and Osceola, as the engineer may direct.
—Northwestern Lumberman.

FOREST PLANTING.

Between 1759 and 1830 the Dukes of Athol
planted 10,000 acres with larch alone, and on
their Blair and Dunkeld property the total
number planted was 14,096,719, calculated at
the time of planting to produce at the age of 70
years £6,500,000 as timber for naval purposes.
An instance of indirectly remunerative fir plant-
ing is shown at Bournemouth, where some years
ago plants of Pinus maritima were introduced
in marshy land between Christchurch and Poole,
which, spreading in all directions, partly by its
own seed and partly by planting, soon gave the
country the appearance of an American pine
barren. The shelter and presence of these trees
has been found so beneficial to invalids that one
of the largest watering-places on the south coast
has sprung up with almost unexampled rapidity,
and sites which were formerly worthless have
recently become extremely valuable. Similar
plantations have been made elsewhere. M.
Javal has planted 80,000 acres of the barren
Landes of Gascony with seedlings of Pinus
maritima. Others have planted lesser areas.

The Timber Trade in New Zealand.

It is satisfactory to learn, says the Farmer,
that New Zealand is doing a “roaring trade” in
timber. The quantity annually supplied from
the forests of that colony is estimated to be
about 400,000,000 superficial feet, the market
value of which is about £2,000,000. The New
Zealand timber merchants, who believe that
their trade would be greatly increased if the
manufacturers in the Old World were only
acquainted with the strength and cheapness of
their woods, have petitioned the Government,
and we believe with success, to make experi-
ments between the New Zealand timber and
European oak. It is proposed to make the ex-
periments in Paris, under the supervision of
eminent foresters. The result will be looked for

at 395,600 acres. Two-fifths of the colony is set

Get cottonwood rootlets a

In Madeira the same Pinus has been introduced,

and now covers all the southern slopes above
2,000 feet, the inhabitants being almost entirely

dependent on it for fuel.

IMMIGRATION AND LUMBER.

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman has
the following, which applies as appositely to
Canada :—‘“‘ An important indication of the
prospective demand for lumber is the tide of
immigration that is setting toward our shores
and promises to exceed even the heavy volume
of last year. A large proportion of the emigrants
go forward to the new territories, and open up
new farms, and require lumber for houses and
improvements. As long as this emigration con-
tinues, lumber will be in extraordinary demand.
And, besides, as long as a rush of settlers is
developing new*improvements, so long will rail-
road extensions keep pace with such develop-
ment, causing another extraordinary demand
for lumber, besides quickening all kinds of
business. It is a volume that acquires a
momentum that a slight obstacle cannot arrest ;
and that’s what’s the matter with the lumber
trade of the present epoch,

AUSTRALIAN FORESTS.

The London Timber Trades Journal says :—
We have to hand the report of the Royal Com-
missioners for the Australian International Ex-
hibition, which largely relates to the wood trade,
and our connection with these distant colonies.
Being the work of English commissioners, it
does not enter so deeply into the subject of tim-
ber as it would if the work of Colonial commis-
sioners. It is well known that these depen-
dencies of the English Crown are not celebrated
for their natural growth of timber, and that the
colonists are importers of wood from Canada

with interest.

Preventing Bush Fires.

The Brock, Ontario, Township council have
passed a by-law for regulating the burning of
brush, stumps, etc. It provides that no stumps,
wood, logs, trees, brush, straw, shavings or re-
fuse shall be set on fire by any person or persons
in the open air within the municipality in or
during the months of July or August in any
year; nor at other time or times during the
year until after eight days’ notice has been
given to the owner or occupant of the adjoin-
ing property. Any person contravening the
provisions of this by-law shall, in addition to
any damages which may occur, be liable to a
fine of not less than $2 or more than $50 upon
conviction before a Justice of the Peace.

A wRrITER from Elizabeth, N. C., says that
there are hundreds of thousands of acres of
what are called swamp lands in the coast region
of that state, a large portion of which is thickly
set with cypress and juniper timber. The latter
1s said to be the same as northern cedar. North
Carolina cedar is used chiefly for cooperage, and
is being extensively shipped north in the log for
that purpose, Elizabeth City has a population
of 3,500 and contains four saw mills.

Tue St. John News says that McLaughlin &
Wilson have already commenced their spring
sawing at Anagance. They have sufficient logs
in their pond and vicinity for nearly two million
feet of lumber, and will soon be in a position to
fill all orders. James Mills, Esq., is placing a
large quantity of pine deals at the station, ready
for early shipment. These have to be hauled a
distance of some three miles, which can be done
more easily on snow,

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Chips.

Since the opening of navigation over 35,000, -
000 feet of lumber have been shipped from Mus-
kegon.

TuE C. N. Nelson Lumber Company, at Still-
water, Minn., has just received an immense en-
gine for its mill, the cylinder of which is 24 x 28
inches.

A WOODEN-SHOE factory at Green Bay, Wis.,
turns out a large number of sabots, at 35 cents a
pair. They are made of basswood, and are
smoked and dried.

Olive Hill and Carter Cave, Ky., are to be
\, connected by eight miles of tramway, to facili-
tate the hauling of timber and lumber, and for
other transportation.

THE Mail, of April 20th, says :—The steam
barge St. Peter was released from Peach Island
at noon yesterday, after lightering 90,000 feet
of lumber. She is in Windsor reloading her
cargo.

THE Hamilton Spectator says that Adam Inch,
of Barton, has planted out thirty-three maple
saplings, and intends to plant out one hundred
fruit trees. His brother farmers should go
and do likewise. ;

THERE has been a new lumber camp started
near the railroad at Lake station, Mich., where
logs are gotten out for shipment to Saginaw.
Godfrey Dershua is putting in a tramroad to get
in some 5,000,000 feet of logs,

Tue Muskegon River has caused trouble by
overflowing land, and the boom company will
probably have to stand the damage. There are
20,000 logs in the river below Sand creek, and
the others have not yet been let down.

THE State of Wisconsin, on March 21, sold at
Westboro, Taylor county, 85,000 feet of logs,
cut upon state lands. The logs run two and a
half to the thousand, and brought $14.25, the
highest price paid in that section this spring.

Ross & Co., of Quebec, are shipping board
timber largely from Munising, Mich., to St.
Ignace, the ultimate point of destination being
European markets. It is said they will ship
from St. Ignace about $1,000,000 worth of board
timber.

NoN-RESIDENTS who own land in the town-
ships of Grant and Otto, Oceana county, Mich.,
are making things warm for the local timber
_ thieves, through the courts, and in a style, it is

tated, that will put a quietus on the moss-back
pastime.

A L0G boom was broken at Minneapolis by a
sudden swell in the river, and several million
feet floated down past St. Paul. It is believed
that not over 4,000,000, valued at $40,000, will
be lost, and as the surplus is 100,000,000, this
loss will not affect the market. The accident is
the most serious one for years,

On the farm of Nelson Tuttle, at Iona, Mich.,
the growth of a walnut tree was closely observed.
It grew from the seed, struggling along unaided,
and in 35 years it had reached a good size. It
measured two feet in diameter at the butt. It
was cut down this winter, and it is thought it
would have grown a third larger with proper
care and cultivation.

THE Ottawa Citizen says reports from up the
river state that the agent of a big lumbering
firm, who manages its business matters general-
ly, not many days ago made the drive of 150
miles in one day and with one pair of horses.
One of the team which did such splendid work
died shortly after the end of the journey was
reached. As the driver is well known to be
most considerate to his cattle, it is evident that
nothing but serious business considerations
could have led him to force the willing brute to
an overdue exertion of its strength.

It is estimated that 100,000,000 feet of logs
were cut on the headwaters of the Kennebec
last winter, which, with the 15,000,000 feet to
old logs “‘hung up” along the tributaries, will
make a drive of 115,000,000 feet to be floated
down the river. Last year the drive was the
cleanest ever made, owing to the copious rains,
and 150,000,000 feet of timber came down the
Kennebec, Lumbering operations have this
year been pursued under difficulties, owing to
the long-delayed snowfall, but the drive will be
started about the first of May, and the advance
guard will reach Augusta in J uly or August,

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Market Heports.

MONTREAL.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Aprit 22nd.—The weather during the past
two weeks has been rather against building
operations, consequently the demand for lumber
has not been so active as was expected ; how-
ever, as a number of extensive buildings are
going up, we look for better times, more
especially as the water is to be let into the
canal next week, when stocks will be replenished

Midland here than to Liverpool or London,
England. :

Before closing up my list of factories, I would
notice two or three more as being highly deserv-
ing of mention. The firm of John Kineely &
Co., situated on McDonnell square, west of
Bathurst street, has lately refitted up this large
and commodious building, filling it with new
and costly machinery, and they are now pre-
paring large quantities of work for Manitoba.
Both members of this firm being practical
mechanics, all their work is turned out in good
shape.

Mr. John Fletcher, of Yonge street, has lately
erected a planing and sash and door factory.

broken ground for a block of stores and bank

buildings, at the foot of King street, east side ;

estimates, about $13,000. N. Courtemanche

has his plans ready, and is about to commence

a large brick building adjoining his present

premises ; cost, about $4,000. Messrs. Spotten

& Lummis, on lot 16, west of King, are com-

mencing two stores and offices, to cost $6,000.

H. S. Ruby has the frame erected for a store

and bake shop, lot 11, west of King, and J.

White will put up a store and dwelling on lot 3,

East of King. I will report sales in my next

communication.
A village report says that a company is about

to begin work immediately here on the construc-

260,000 feet of lumber. A fine new propeller
has also been built for this same gentleman.
This new boat will be launched in a few days.
It is larger than any now
- PLYING ON THIS RIVER.

She has a 90 foot keel, is 90 feet over all, 20} foot
beam, anda 9 foot hold. In Millar’s yard three
new boats have been built, besides a large num-
ber of barges.

Shantying operations are about completed,
and all the teams have returned. Men are now
being engaged for the drives, and carloads of
Indians and others from Quebec are daily pass-
ing through the city en route for the scene of
their work. While there is no marked

and better selections can be made, as stocks
here at the present moment are pretty low, and | Some of the best work in this city has been done SCARCITY OF DRIVERS, tion of houses to be shipped to Manitoba, every ,
we note an advance in some lines on our late | by Mr. Fletcher. The Grand Opera House, the | there is a want of hands for the mills about here, | part to be prepared here. The company is said 5
quotations. The present prices, ex yard, are a8} Church of the Ascension, and many others, | and good wages are of a consequence demanded. | to have purchased here three and a half millions ri
under :— -| attest to his skill as a thorough workman. The cut no doubt will be larger this season than | of dry lumber for the purpose.
Eine, pee ual, a 4 seeneveeen seeeeens We nae oe Mr. Simpson has a snug little factory on| for many years past. A larger number of logs —_——_.—_—_—_
Pine, shipping culls, @ M 14 00@16 00 | Queen street west, near Peter street, in which a] are expected to be successfully navigated to ST. JOHN, N. B. %
Pine, cull deals, @ M...... seeeeeeeeseee 8 00@12 00 7 @ re i j i i i
Be cule Me eke E on@le 00 good staff of hands are generally employed on | their destination, and higher rates prevail. The From Our Own Correspondent.
Spruce, @M vcccssecoesssuveseeeaeveeye 10 00@11 00 | custom work, but the present strike has left | stocks in the yards now are very low. Thecuts} 4 5.1, 91. During the past week the weather
Hemlock, % M.....csesesesecserreeseces 9 00@11 00} him, like most others, with scant help. of a number of firms have already been purchas- : nS ‘
Ash, run of long culls out, @ M........-- 16 00@18 00 Ae FA : ; é has been more spring like, and the snow and ice
Bass, “ comm ARNT eA ees 16 oo@17 00| 1 had almost forgotten to mention the highly | ed, but the prices paid of course are not known. | have nearly di ed from the fields, still it
Oak, B Mi... seeeceecenreens ese ec serene 35 00@45 00| respectable and pushing firm of Fox &Co. The A Be Bett ee : riy disappear bead te ine
ae eae Sahiiabhoe abana sane Brinae HE ones 0 Toties ‘of ‘thie: firm’ should Have-appeaned at an ae tani continues cold for the season; the ice is stall

ar APL, t3 Mi... .seecersccesececcecen % . ay . } ‘ —_ § rising
Lath, BUM rereinetitaie aibielalevacnialelniplalncenisial#iai0\n 1 50@ 0 00] earlier date in my letters in order to have From Our Own Correspondent. iS eee the river, but the bohcciig 4
Shingles, Ist, @M .... ...s-sereeeeteees 3 00@ 0 00 oa ah ora uh etek vate : list however, and we may expect the ice to rum out
Shingles, 2nd, #M.....0....sssseeeee ees 2 00@ 0 00 | *Signe em their deserved place 1n my Ast. Aprit 25.—A week ago to-day the lumber | some time next week. The prospects for river .

driving are good, and most of the logs are likely
to come out of the streams in good séason.
DEALS.
Deals are still held by city manufacturers

This frm is composed of three practical men,
each taking his allotted place, and filling it with
profit to themselves and pleasure to those with
whom they come into business contact. Their

merchants of this ‘city held a meeting at which
several very important business matters were
discussed, among them was the one of prices,
and it was unanimously resolved to advance the

But it is hard to say yet what future prices
may be, as all will depend upon the quantity of
lumber floated out.

EXPORTS.

Nothing is done yet in the way of exporting, shop and offices are spacious and well adapted | nates $1 per M. all around. This step was] very firmly at $11, and some are talking of even {
but we hear of a large vessel being taken up for to their business, and a large quantity of work | warranted by the advance claimed at the mills, | pj tie rhe coals sawn deals sell readily '
Montevido at $14. Small, handy vessels would | 18 turned out daily. not from any extra city demand, in fact the de- page ice at $10.50. The very low freights
bring about $2.50 more. There is a good en- The last, but not least, which I will call your | sand is not by any means brisk, and no build-| havea stimulatin effect upii'ths Saale! Gdkls,
quiry for steam tonnage to England, at 50s.@ attention to at present is the pushing and enter- | ing of any account is in operation, yet the prices | which is likel S rule high for are timeto
55s. Owners of sailing vessels from here to getic firm of Essery & Reid, situated on Lisgar | fixed upon remain firm, and it will be some] come dj
London are asking 60s., which is relatively street, at the west end of the city. This firm | time before the figures come down again. As is ; FREIGHTS. ‘

As was to be expected, after the extensive
transactions in freights so early in the season,
referred to in last report, a strong reaction has
get in, and the market is now quite “* demoraliz-
ed.” A large number of steamships have been
on the market at extremely low rates, commenc-
iug at 57s. 6d., and rapidly diminishing until
47s. 6d. has been reached, which is the lowest

usual at this season of the year, cedar posts are
in great demand for fencing, in which there is
great activity throughout our surrounding
agricultural district.

Though the present is very quiet and inactive,
a good spring demand is expected. The reason
given in some quarters for the present lull is the

has also been preparing large quantities of sash,
doors, etc., for Manitoba, One member of the
firm contemplates removing there, L understand,
in order to look after their interests personally,
and will doubtless succeed in working up a good
trade.

cheaper than from Quebec, as lumber is much
easier handled here. Quebec rates for deals to
London are 61s. 3d., and from Three Rivers 62s.
6d. Latest mail advices from Liverpool report
a good consumptive demand for the month of
March, with only moderate stocks. The follow-
ing are late quotations in Liverpool for timber :

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Quebec square white pine, per cubic foot, 1ai7d@2a'bd)| Give cscs oct] boards. promigcuous widthsye...!- 5 ity i
“< waney board pine a 2s 3d@2s 8d Pubs wenpemniyl ie nla 2 2 scarcity of new brick, and consequent stoppage ‘
“red pine ce 1s 4d@1s 9d LOOK 'oinjorsfalsinid aussie hive: are spent in building. figure that has ever been known here. Itis not

«oak, first quality oS Oa GARE) | NI oe ae cacee Wa its UST RECHIS. 1es ee oe QUOTATIONS. likel ill 1

: TB CHA dares tec ork seas ikely that rates will be any ower, and at the

“oak, second quality KM 2a 83d@2s 6d 1 ‘ ‘ F ; ‘. j i -
Deals Sigh wt geet cv See 15 00 Ul cull boards and soantng 55 o> “0S op aamne ne there sae
dst quality Quehes pine, per standard, ae fosceae 0 “ “ iconk OARE.RETNE be Gio ame 16 00 eae oon eres) Fy oand 12 in, stocks......- 13 50| for some time to come. No sailing ships are re-

“ ‘ ‘ sf ss BS I eK TAR 5 "16 50 | Common boards, promiscuous WiGhhils; p.0etae ss 15 00 .
aes ; ; £9108@£ 915} goantling and joist, up to 28 ft....- Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft... ..--..0+-s++0+- 16 00 ported as having ae extreme rates. .
CORDWOOD. me A us Es eee Prt 16 50 NTS.

Business has been exceedingly quiet during * x "3 a Ed fe ra * rN a cree Ee Ft + a The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

the past two weeks, buyers are waiting arrivals Ws WG CUTS) ae ipe 2h 00 us BS e BA Ebi es eet ban eee 20 00 | are as follows :-—
. “a “ “ « ry,
by boat, as prices are sure tobe lower than by} =u = uu 80 00 | Common stock si rorenerossrossetyi2710" 1 3 00] a eke ee noo 1 REE On, feet.
rail, the consumptive demand has also been very | Cutting up planks to dry... . 22 50 Cursing Op plank — boards... .++.s--2eeeerees = - © Weat Indies...c.sccckce 40s
; . . sh oards ‘! . . 20 00 | Sound dressing StOCKS.... ssererereeererreesees = . $
light. In the meantime our quotations at the | sound dressing stocks.......... 46 00 | Clear and picks .........- Dus inn « sue nae ==> os 00| No shipments of sugar box shooks since last-
Q. M. O. & O. Railway depot are nominally un | Picks Am. inspection... .. +72 26 00 | Three uppers, Am. inspection..+....-..-+++++s+ 35 00 | report.
changed, as under :— Three uppers, Am. ils Eu cpets wleinre sins SieeTe 35 00 t inch dressed and matched flooring etatweeslergns = : ; SHIPPING.
rou Maple Re eranerete cater cietersieriare s(lsisisiofeayai= seers $8 50 | JL-inch flooring, dressed.......+..+5 +) 8000 | BS x £ ct saeWesentne 22 00 The following is a list of the vessels in port,.
Seek BD ne anc a ae an Aan 6 00} 4, « “ TOURN. ..ssceeeee - 16 00 fra ame 0 fen txwey eens en sannens 4 7 with their tonnage and destinations :—
SHOTS eM Me hohe aah ocak eterna eae 16 00 Wi ie cc. Yo 2 eee John Black, 545, W. C. England, B.C. 1, orGlas-
eeeerne )
ree Beech SpumnasqapeoooovaNs oUAdsAS ec «dressed ....+ 23 00 3 gow. :
anos “i CORRS aeons a “ « yndressed... 17 00 MIDLAND, ONT. Argyle, 1,222, W. C. England.
Se ee cic, 4 8) Spending teeteed ge 13 60 oon, Our Gun Cores Alma, 630, W. C. England.
ee NS XXX sawn s ingles, OM... 50@3 00 Aprit 14th.—The lumbermen here report low} Herlof Herlofsen, 766, W. C. England.
TORONTO. Seas pas pe a) eee 3 = water in the streams, and without heavy rains a} Oxo, 580, W.C. England.
quantity of logs will be hung up. Tate’s mill Cedar Croft, 1,098, W. C. England.
a y Ss g up.
Harfsfjord, 495, E. C. Ireland.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Aprit 24th.—Lumber sales on our local
market, both from the cars and yards, have fallen
off fully one half during the last two weeks ;
this is owing to two causes, viz., the continuance
of the carpenters’ strike, and the partial collapse
of speculative building, and should the carpen-
ters remain out much longer, this season’s work
will be spoiled beyond redemption, and the
strikers will have themselves only to blame if
they have to deny their families many of the
comforts of life hitherto enjoyed by them.
For some time yet to come the effects of the

here has been purchased by Messrs. McLeod &
Cameron, and is now called the Midland Mill;
they have already contracted for sawing 2,000,-
000 feet, and have daily applications for more ;
we wish themsuccess. Dollar’smill willbemanag-
ed again this year by Messrs. Frazer & Spooner.
Chew Bros.’ mills, the British Canadian Co.
and Cook’s mill will be all working to their full
capacity in a few days. The British Canadian
Company’s new mill on Hugel Point will be one
of the finest on the Georgian Bay, and will be
fitted up with all the newest labor saving appli-
ances. The building and fitting up of this mill

Kate Crosby, 696, E. C. I., W. C. E. or Glasgow.
Sidon, 410, E. C. Ireland.

Chrysolite, 1,097, Liverpool.
Antwerp, 573, ——
E. W. Gale, 298, ——
Albuera, 655, W. C. England.
Cherubini, (s), 1,161, United Kingdom.

Jothington, (s), 1,290, United Kingdom. .
Lewis M. Lamb, 380, Bristol Channel.

Ophir, 813, Liverpool. ]
Serrano, 594, —— .
M. A. Palmer, 299, ——

Brooklyn City, (8), 1,122, United Kingdom.

Benledi, (s), 999, Glasgow.

OTTAWA,
From Our Own Correspondent.

Apri 24th.—A very few days more will wit-
ness the many saw mills in this locality in full
operation, a small number having already begun.
J. R. Booth’s large mill at the Chaudiere Falls
commenced running yesterday, being the first
of the mills at the Falls to begin. Perley &
‘Pattee’s will be the next, and the others will
follow in a short time afterwards.

NAVIGATION
has also opened, the first tow of the season

various strikes in Toronto will be severely felt, | }avin ing ’ By ,

ucts g commenced loading lumber at Booth’s | * i 5

and I think it must be conceded that the master | clock to-day. In this connection a wor dies terol © solely under the charge of Mr. Thompson. | St. Joseph, 233, discharging.
Navigation is expected to open here at once, | Orontes, 740, W. C. England.

——_—————_-_
CHICAGO.

yvill not be amiss concerning the work that has |
Aprit 22.—The Northwestern Lumlermar ;

been carried on during the past winter in the
shipyards around here, as it is directly connected
with the lumbering trade. The boat building
industry in this neighbourhood has increased to

very

builders at least have offered all that could be
reasonably expected of them.

Shipments by vessel to the American side
have been active during the last two weeks, and
cars have been fairly supplied to shippers, but
much annoyance has been felt by lumber dealers
in consequence of the dilatory manner in which
lumber loaded on the line of the M. R.R. has
come to hand here. In some cases as much as
two to three weeks has elapsed from date of
loading until arrival here. Shippers fail to see
why it should take a longer time to ship from

The tug Minnie Hall, rebuilt this winter, was
launched on the 12th of April. Five vessels are
now reported from Chicago for Midland, grain
laden. Mr. Peplow, of the Elevator Company,
is now here getting his men ready for a busy
summer. Garret’s new planing mill and Clark’s
are also both hard at work. Building opera-
tions are now going on briskly ; houses rise up
almost like magic. About forty new dwellings
are to be commenced at once. In business places,
Burton Bros., of Barrie, have plans ready and

says :—Orders at the yards in this city are
arriving steadily, though not in what the dealers.
call a rushing volume. On the whole there is a
fairly active trade. From every quarter comes
the assurance that building in all the thrifty
towns and cities of the west is active, and that
more will be done in this line during the present
than during the past year. The lumber business

LARGE PROPORTIONS
as compared with past years. In his yard on
the Hull side, Mr. J. R. Booth has had in repair
luis fleet, which is the largest on the Ottawa,
Hie has also had constructed two new barges,
aach haying a carrying capacity of 150 tons, or

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

is bound to be immense in any event, but how
to buy is now a greater question than how to
sell.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and shingles
for the week ending April 20 :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.

Inumber. Shingles. Lwmber. Shingles.

1882. ....32,637,000 7,697,000 42,456,000 12,545,000
agg eat 4,868,000 4,187,000 35,085,000 10,500,000
Receipts and shipments of lumber and

shingles from January 1, to and including April
20th -—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Inmber, Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882. .172,463,000 61,513,000 505,919,000 190,115,000
1881.. 60,841,000 26,018,000 298,952,000 113,500,000

Inc.111,622,000 35,495,000 206,967,000 76,615,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO APRIL 19,
ISD). Aine Ue ROR EEC ee 93,392,000 48,115,000
TEE ad of ee ee 2,235,000 7,800,000
MMICMCHACs clainiele siels niclae/ «ser e's 91,157,000 40,315,000
STOCK ON HAND APRIL 1.
= 1882. 1881. 1880.
S7mber: s =... =. 5. 279,324,096 322,491,234 263,452,581
Shingles)... > se. 115,263,625 125,648,264 113,593,000
Bath’ wvececcccens 20,518,306 33,338,899 30,126,770
Pickets...... .... 3,802,011 1,589,064 849, 238
Cedar posts....... 145,335 79,887 47,797
a
ALBANY.

Aprit 22,—Quotations at the yards are as
follows :—

une wClear as Mitarsisaice’s scisluleeisle ae cuvieles $55 00@63 00
*Pine, fourths... ..0.......cc0ecceeaes.s - 50 00@60 00
ERR RELCE LS ais cee alee Sia, cie = voni<,<:nin) olnsaince 6:2: pia 45 00@55. 00
Pine, good boX.....++.+. 0s. sees sere ee eee 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each... ws. ee eaeee 00 38@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... ..... 00 19@00 22
Pine OREUSS LOAM. sc ils- sie cleclele celles’ 00 26@00 32
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls............:.... 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, PG toe aa MES wos s ome 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16ft......... .. 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft..... -. 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.. .. 88 00@40 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common .. 15 00@19 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select... .. 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common .. 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, each...... -- 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each. .. 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., ‘each. . -- 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each... . 00 11@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each -..............-. 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each................ 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 2x4, each ...........+.. 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10
Raho ocd eae OMe epic ass sca 2020. 35 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, @ M............+05- 25 00@30 00
Ghiersye pAOMAINIE oe Sas cee ses = 60 00@70 00
Cherry, common, #@M.......:........... 25 00@35 00
Oaks Godaa MOsMe ee sh res sive ccs ce 38 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, @M................ 20 00@25 00
ARRNVOGH GAN icaisa disie/eiaisleta| ors visit rvieln(e.e s!e 22 00@25 00
CR ORY Nae ainsi cia aitte Soles ow one's 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @M..-........ee0e00000. 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M.........6++-.... 25 00@28 00
REN ee ia asco winscia sc tsciveces 35 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, PHC NL 5b. cplelieiesjas 0 00@ 6 00
2nd quality 2 ne os ASPs 0 00@ 4 50

a extra, sawed, DIC ase see 0 00@ 4 40

as Tile, 0 (A ee 0 00@ 3 40

ae cedar, aieas ENS) hae sss wiarcle 6 0 00@ 3 25

¥ BERD IRS ales wfcleitrs dareie'oieieie « 0 00@ 4 00

a GRAN ae Well «bi die cin ae)» is ai0 vie 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @ M......seeeeeesceeeeee 0 00@ 1 62
Pctaday SPSEEIC ee eines «ot gs 28 vas wr 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, SMITA LISS area css) sels: sr0°s 0 00@ 2 70

—_—_—_@—____
BOSTON.

APRIL 22.—The Journal of Commerce says :—
The market does not show any particular change
from last week. There is the same strong feel-
ing at most of the western centres. Eastern
buyers who have been looking around for some
weeks past have in many cases returned without
purchasing more than a few hundred thousand
feet. The fact is that lumber dealers have made
a good deal of money duing the past two years
and they can afford to be stiff with buyers. It
is a question, however, whether this course will
not do more injury than good to the market.
There are a number. of contracts out for large
buildings, and when supplies begin to be called
for things will be rather lively in this market.
At present, there is a large demand for the most
desirable grades. Shingles and laths continue
in small stock. Hardwoods remain in moderate
request and quite frm. Walnut is in short
supply for choice stock. The following are car-

OSWEGO, N.Y.
Apri 26,.—Receipts by lake for 1881 to date,
16,000,000, and for 1882 to date, 1,000,000.
Trade is very brisk and prices firm. Canal

rates, $1.75 to Albany ; $2.40 to New York.
Lake freights, 90c. from Port Hope, and $1 to
$1.10 from Toronto.

$42 00@46 00

. 82 00@36 00
. 20 00@25 00
-. 14 00@17 00
11 00@14 00
18 00@25 00
. 88 00@40 00
34 00@40 00
17 00@25 00
BELSCTEM elaiyitty ccctstatala'y aa ivieralsiels.bie\s) > s:0 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and Re BOCHUM WU se vice circle msi» 18 00@25 00
fe culls... . 12 00@15 00
1x6 selected for clapboards........+..+.: 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 4 00@ 4 30
XXX, 18 inch, cedar...........- 3 00@ 3 50
Dear lainisiaseisietees asta 'oveheitavatape aia atchs ley s-atevetae a 1 60@ 2 25
>)
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
(WypPErs swrateracsleicteletoiwye olive 'aleredofalofoue wlecute fun $46 00@48 00
Olyrabeeyn.. Hee anerose oondmon adn gaadrnno 18 00@19 00
LITT aieretsterctate ete salen te pater ee eestecere se 13 00@14 00
ee
LONDON.

The Zimber Trades Journal, of April 8th,
says:—At Messrs. Churchill & Sim’s sale on
Wednesday the attendance was good. With re-
gard to the Quebec goods, Ist quality bright
regulars stopped at £22, and for the various lots
of this class no advance was obtained, though
the seller tried his best to break the charm that
kept bidders to this price; still £22 is better
than a sacrifice, but for goods not over-plentiful
in the market, which ought to be, in proportion
to their scarcity now, at £26 a standard, the
value obtained at this sale is not encouraging.
There was a more moderate tone on the upset
values for reserved parcels than we have noticed
before, but with the exception of one lot we be-
lieve the goods held in this way were left un-

touched,
oe

LIVERPOOL.

The Yimber Trades Journal, of April 8th,
says :—There is no change in outward appear-
ance of business, everything appearing to be
very quiet, and were it not for the auction sales
there would be little life in thetrade. By these
means, however, a good deal of timber of one
kind and another has been forced off at low
prices, especially pitch pine, and as the quality
of the wood disposed of in this manner has been
far from good, it has no doubt been the most
judicious way to deal with it.

There has been no change in market prices,
but a much firmer tone has shown itself in
spruce deals, owing to the firm attitude of the
manufacturers in St. John, N.B., and other
deal-producing districts.

On Friday last Messrs. Farnworth & Jardine
had catalogued a cargo of spruce deals to be sold
during the luncheon hour at their mahogany
sale, but the cargo was withdrawn owing to in-
structions from abroad, and they will not now
offer any of these goods unless at a considerable
advance. The stock in Liverpool is less than
half of what it was last year at this time.

Several parcels of Quebec pine deals were sold
at auction, on March 31st, at the following

prices :—
2nd quality bright— La (Sa Gn eles. a
11 ft. 3x11 14 0 0
10 “3x11 1215 0
9 to 12 ** 3x9&10 12 0 0
3rd quality bright—
10 to 16 ff.3x12 &up, 1010 0
14 & 15 ** 3x11 915 0to917 6
10 to 16 “* 3x12 &up., 1010 0
Ws ““165" 3X11 910 0
13° 3x12 &up.. 10 0 0
12&13“3x12&up. 910 0

J.T. LAMBERT,

load quotations :— Lumber and Commission Agent.
CANADA PINE. ae
Ce LL #48 00@50 00| ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
Shelving, Dressed, Or cap oesiec Al oka sir 40 00@42 00 KINDS AND GRADES OF
UA indo Rue dala. 33 00@35 00
Dressed ise RES tastes bas oad 27 00@29 00 a
I ag io cviaeanv suites cae 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, lst quality...........00.6005. 42 00@45 00 mM if [ C d Nl u i e r
28 CHIE) SOCIO 34 00@35 00
—————$__—____. PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
TONAWANDA, ° ho
ARES OOS Timber Limits and the Square
Thee UPPEr¥. ews esses eonsesee ee 121201 SAB OOGAB 00 Timber Trade a Specialty.
ne RR eee ie nae al 14 00@15 00| Office, Wellington Street, OTTAWA, i1tf

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—

JONES

(TT
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& SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

L7

NEW FOUNDRY FIRM.
McLean, Brayshaw & Co

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

CASTINGS of every deseription in Brass
and Eron.

oe sorts of MACHINERY for Saw and Grist
Ss.

STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.

Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset
Swages, and all Saw Tools,

Send for Price List,

L4

P, PAYETT’S NEW IMPROVED

Adjustable Saw Guide |

Can be adjusted without danger. You can take your
saw off without taking the guide off the frame,

All kinds of Brass & Iron Casting

PLAINING and TURNING done with

Despatch. For particulars address :

CRAIG & CAMERON,

PENETANCUISHENE. 1112

LEATHER
BELTING,

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACE LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

IME OIUN Eh) LACE,

Eurdock Fealing @imtment should be
used in connection with Burdock Blood Bitters for
curing Ulcers, Abscesses, Fevers, Sores, &c. Price

25 cents 21 box. T. MILBURN & CO.,

SoLe AGENTS, ToronTa

140 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Mint SUPPLIHS.|STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS
Extra Stretched and 4 Patent Smooth Surface Have hea Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by
RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies. |The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING. HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &C., Superior Quality. SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President. GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.

HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres. A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer. 1-13

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.
Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery

Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of “ie
kinds. @®&Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 7
(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. San sem ves

PARKER& EVANS |Hdge Tools, Axles, Springs,

&C., OF EVERY | DESCRIPTION.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL Robertson Place, Smythe Street ~ ST. JOHN, NB.

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND. ADAM McKAY,

Patented 5th March, 1877. MANUFACTURER OF

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel. Steam Hingin es and Boilers,

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity

keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation. AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
It i fectly hi to I da t 4

In era A ees eer: pa a a emits a clear pure Steam. 119 Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radiae-

z : 504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer

Z ? . in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, NS.

ROBIN & To MILLMEN!

HODCSON’S

i Patent Saw Grinder

and _ xceedingly cheap machine and

S mapall - phe apted to grinding long and round
eat § very ppb wie el is m the len ngth, and i nthe de pe ot one h, and can be p
nat 9 nted a Biya a file. Tt i 390 ist THE mir 8 for “mils e to fiv ve million feet of
aibak: aa costs wh ae than one- fourth to one-tenth the price of little "be Pr er machines. It is patented in

Unite d Sta tes and Canada, and is made in We eisport, Pennsylvai aes and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

ines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few

he = » Sa The t steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.

ba; yer ole iage e tos it lar me e or small a ck, i munded control of operator when ay ing. Will run for days

vithou ae nee a shi Warranted os ut, vith one attendant, three thousand in a bee under forfeiture of

3100. Sen nd ta ae sar iets

7: HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

In24

Ce ee dortoy: Steam Pump Works

BOILER FEED PUMPS, MINING PUMPS,
Mill Supplies, QZTC.| are AND CIRCULATING PUMPS, {PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for

STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES,
WRECKING PUMPS. And CITY WATER WORKS.

JAS.ROBERTSUN&E ol AMI TON, ONTARIO.

SEND FOR | emer arlee

1113

Circula r Mill an d Gan g Saws EAGLE FOU DRY!
x SAWS REPAIRED=| georGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,

Emerson Pattern & Lumberman’s Clipper | MAREE OF
Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,

CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,
INSERTED TOOTH SAWS A SPECIALTY. Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and
Hivery Saw Warranted. Power Hoists for Warehouses, &e., &e.,

AND AGENT FOR
7 SEND FOR PRICHS.SU 6.6 | Water's’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s'’ Centrifugal Pumps

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 14)

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STREAM BOTDERS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctlally Attended to.

115 NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ABRAMS & KERR

Steam Engines, Mill Gearing, Rotary Mills, Shafting,
Planers, Hangers, Pulleys, Variety Moulders.

SPECIAL MACHINERY MADE TO ORDER)

Latest Improved Spool and Bobbin Machinery.
Every Variety of Heavy and Light Casting.

1119

Flour Making by the New Process

GRAYS PATENT

NUISELESS ROLLER MILL

A Model of Perfection /
Every Mill a Success /

Foundry and Machine Shop on City Road,
ST. JOHN, NHW BRUNSWICK.

ROBERTSON’S

LIGHTNING CANT-DOG

eases rt, EY TING,

Smooth Iron or Porcelain ROLLS.

‘SOIVIS DONUQ OF JO SLOT
OANIUIMOSOIGIY OFF TV AQ POS OAV STITH AOTLOY osoyy aa

The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

PETER ROBERTSON,

Chaudiere - - - Ottawa.

6124

CORRUGATIONS of all Deseriptions.

The Machine is Perfect in all its adjustments, and RUNS
WITHOUT NOISE.

It is doing Better Work than any other Machine in use.

Automatic Lubrication of Principal Bearings.

Driven entirely by BELTS.

Differential Speed always insured.

AMERICAN HHAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | J Rubber Packing, |~
Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

WEYMAN’S NEW aglake oe

E ’ \ :
= ai () : 1 ays
\ SES
ww W\ WSs

The BEST ROLL FOR MIDDLINGS in the world. Over 6000
in use in this country and Europe. Send for particulars.

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

MONTREAL.
SOLE LICENSEES FOR DOMINION.

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

". WiciZL.ROwW’. Ir.
WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street Fast,
P.O. BOX 556. TORONTO.

Manufacturers of Improved Hoisting Machinery, MINING
and CONTRACTORS’ PLANT. Importers of BEST STEEL
WIRE ROPE. Mention this Paper. 1x19

CIRCULAR SAW MILL MACHINERY!
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gum-

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam

142 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
STEA M FEED / Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery, for all
r
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Feed, having put inseveral which are giving the best of sat-

M. Covel’s I | |
Covel’s Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!
sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Circulars
I would also call special attention to my “ih l a a= Wi, << A Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &e.

isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.
Heavy Circular Gow Mills mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first
HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880.

Wm. HAMILTON, Fsq, Peterborough.

DEAR SIR—I have used your Steam /’eed for near four
months, and it bas given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Sinee I put itinto my
mill, 1 have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. I can eut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. Iam thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
cutting Jong or short logs. I consider 1 have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut bad I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst,

CORLISS

Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
= with uniformity ot speed, such as is required in Grist and
Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large
Factories of any kind, I supply the Uorliss Engine. I feel
i } justified in saying that our Style, Work manship and Finish
Wilh HM | } Mt ' on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
LN | tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
WN I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power

per hour, iutf

Toronto, August 11th, 1880.

Wm. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.
DEAR Str—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen-
didly. Yours, &c,,
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

WEELELIADMWI HAMILgron,

PHTHRBOROUGE, OWT

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING:

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from

25,000 to 30,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was 50 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,

Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth at a time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or fa@e) square, round

or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled,
Tne principal sizes are:

Sa )

10x 12x}

8x |

2 3; 10x \ . 12x4 Holes,

<I \ SS 10x z in. hole. 12x8 [ §, § and 1 inch. 9s
ons 10x8 s 12x

Probably more wheels 12x3, 12x4 and 12x3 are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, ofall sizes up to 4x1}, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second

touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUFTSTIOW OF QU ADIT S-

al users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almostevery use an
t through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the Money saved On wages. AS We cannot get every one to
We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tavite), that we can furnish
f wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanite Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actu
‘Extra Soft” wheel like the “* Pocono.” We believe that money 108
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views.
qualities 7o maich any and every other make. 1f you have got used to some special quality 0
classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world.
1t outs fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the “ Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel. .

prefer to allothers. It is both jiner in grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
h, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2.

CLASS “‘POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we }
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touc

Illustrated Cireulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. ins

The Tanite Co, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co, Pennsylvania

CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED.

——— |

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Lreasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
1 2S E= Oo xX Iz

EMERY and CORUNDUM

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened |

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. |
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESO, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, | DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. a

WHEELS

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President of the British Canadian Lumbering and Timber Co.

PUBLISHED
SEMI-MONTHLY.

The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada.

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., MAY 15, 1882.

NO. 10.

PRESERVING THE FORESTS.

At the first day’s session of the Forestry Con-
gress at Cincinnati a letter of some length was
received from Richard von Steuben, the Royal
Chief Forester of the German Empire. After
expressing his sincere regrets at not being able

_ to accept the invitation to be present, the writer
said :—“‘ There can be no doubt that every
country requires a certain quantity of well-
stocked woods, not only to supply the demands
for building material and fuel, but more es-
pecially to secure suitable meteorological condi-
tions, preserve the fertility of the soil, and out
of sanitary considerations. The ratio of the
minimum quantity and judicious local distribu-
tion of the indispensable forest to the aggregate
area cannot be expressed by a universal rule,
but the same can only be approximated by
scientific investigation. Above all things, it is
essential to prevent forest destruction where
such would injuriously affect the fertility of
the soil. It is important to preserve and to
cultivate judiciously those forests which stand
at the head-waters and on the banks of the
largest streams, because through their indis-
criminate destruction fluctuations in the stage
of water, sand-bars, and inundations of arable
lands are occasioned. In Germany, and es-
pecially in my more narrowly bounded father-
land, Prussia, it is regarded as of the greatest
importance, not only to preserve the forests
already there, but to extend them as much as
possible. In the national appropriation bill,
large sums are set apart for the purchase of such
lands as are unfit for cultivation and for utilizing
them in planting trees. In the German Empire
25.7 per centum of the aggregate area is occupied
by forests, In Prussia the per centage of wood-
ed land is 23.4 per centum of the entire area,
Of the Prussian fosests about one-third belong
to the State, which produce a gross income of
about 25,000,000 marks,

“The Government foresters,” continues the
letter, ‘‘ come within the province of the Minis-
ter of Agriculture and Forests. At the head of
this department is the chief master of the forests.
In each Governmental district is one forest-
master, who serves as a member of the Govern-
mental commission, and the entire forest area, is
divided into 680 principal forest districts, The
forest government is devised with the minutest
detail, and may well lay claim to being termed
exemplary. It strives not only to utilize the
forest as a source of income, but the Government
forests are used to continually satisfy the re-
quirements of the country. In order to obtain
a situation as Government officer of the forests,
a course of study of several years at the Forest |
Academy is required, after which follows about |
ten years’ preparatory service before a definite
engagement can be made, the qualifications for
which must be proved by several examinations, |

Even for the mincr positions in the Forestry
Department, several years’ apprenticeship and |

considerable preparatory service connected with
the military service in the hunters’ corps and
two examinations are required. Besides the
real Government forests, there are the forests
of the Faithful Royal Veterans, Community
Forests, Corporation Forests, &c.” After ex-
plaining the Prussian and German laws relative
to the clearing of timber land, the Royal
Forester says: ‘It is evident that these
Prussian regulations are not all applicable to
the United States, as circumstances are so en-
tirely different there. Unfortunately I-am not
sufficiently familiar with them to venture an
opinion as to judicious measures to be taken for
the protection of the forests, and it would have
given me great pleasure to have informed myself
on the grounds, and to have taken part in the
deliberations. I trust you will grant me the
favor to inform me of the result of your sessions,
and consider me always ready to give all desired
information concerning our forest arrange-
ments.”
“READY MADE” DWELLINGS.

A gentleman in Ottawa, Ont., has entered in-
to a speculation which might profitably be tak-
en advantage of in this region. It is nothing
else than the construction of wooden dwelling
houses in sections all ready to be put in posi-
tion in readiness for occupancy. These houses
being built at Ottawa, are intended for Winni-
peg and other places in Manitoba, where. they
are to be transported on flat cars. Some of
them are to be sold, and some of them are own-
ed by the builder, who intends when they reach
their destination to rent them as a speculation.
The buildings are to be built in a substantial
manner in sections to fit flat cars, and with a
special view to being easily put together when
they arrive at their destination. It is calculat-
ed that two or three men will be able to put
one of these buildings together in a couple of
days, which when erected, will be large enough
for an ordinary family. The size projected by
the gentleman who is entering into the specula-
tion, as being most desirable and most conyven-
ient for transportation is 18x22 feet for the
main building and a kitchen attached about
14 feet square. We can see no reason why
this could not be made a profitable business in-
vestment in this’ vicinity. Lumber could cer-
tainly be procured at first cost, and the
manufactured buildings could be loaded here
for shipment to any portion of the great west.
It is well known that buildings have and are
being erected in some of the western territories,
which are barren of native timber, from lumber
procured at Chicago, which city gets a large
proportion of its stock from the city and other
portions of Michigan. As the buildings of’ the
size alluded to could be built in sections, here,
by machinery much cheaper than they could be
constructed by hand from the rough, at the
point of destination, and as the transportation

\

of the completed building would cost much
less than the rough material from which it is
built, a project of the kind alluded to seems
quite feasible, and could be made a paying bus-
iness, from the fact that there would be no lack
of demand at the points for which they would
be intended. But the business would not be
confined simply to supplying the territories into
which lumber has to be imported, but a demand
would undoubtedly spring up for them even in
the thickly wooded countries all along the lines

of the different railroads, because of their adapt- |
ability and cheapness, especially in cases where

farmers adjacent to the lines of railroad reach a

position whereby they are enabled to supercede |

their log huts of the pioneer days with some-
thing more convenient and attractive. The
project is at least worthy of consideration by
parties who have idle capital and are seeking an
investment of the same, as it would not only

furnish the investment sought, but probably a_|
profitable source of employment.—Lumberman’s |

Gazette.
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RELATION OF FIRES TO THE WEATHER. |

A recent issue of the Chronicle discusses from
an insurance point of view the probable in-
fluence of atmospheric conditions upon fire
losses, the main factor considered being
humidity. The discussion, which is a very
suggestive, not to say important one, is not con-
fined to the generally recognized increase in
local fires during specially protracted seasons of
dry weather, but seeks rather to discover the
broader relations of general rainfall throughout
the United States, and the observed fluctua-
tions in the agregate fire losses, year by year
and month by month. “Assuming that the
human hazard is a constant, and that the differ-
ence of states in respect to architecture and in-
dustry has been reduced by the law of average
also to a constant. what is left to explain the

increased or diminished aggregate fire loss of |

one year over previous years unless it be some
meteorological pecularity ?”

Taking the statement of the precipitation,
month by month, during the year ending with
June, 1879, compared with the average for
several previous years, as given in the last pub-
lished report of the Chief Signal Officer of the
United States, and using it as a basis of com-
parison with the fire losses in the same month
of the two previous years, the Chronicle finds
that an excess of humidity is steadily followed
by a decrease in the fire loss, and a deficiency
by a corresponding increase in the fire loss.

The same relation between rainfall and fire
loss is strongly indicated in tables showing the
periods of greatest and least fire loss in Califor
nia, where the contrast between the wet and
the dry season is so sharply drawn. Notwith-
standing the fact that the wet months cover the
season— the California winter—when domestic

j

| relative fire hazard, the monthly’ mean of fire
| loss for the wet season is only about half that of
| the dry season,
| From these and other tests the Chronicle de-
duces the following conclusions :-—
| (1) That there is an interdependence bet
| the humidity and the fire loss : 2 that + E
| affects the rainfall, such as the destruction of
| forests, ete,, will affect the fire loss; (3) that
| there is a factor in the shape of an atmospheric
| hazard that should enter into the underwriter’s
calculations quite as well as the other elements
of “‘moral” hazard, etc. ; (4) that there are lo-
calities peculiarly adapted by meteorological
conditions to a high ratio of fire loss: (5) that
this natural hazard should determine, as nearly
| aS practicable, the architecture of such localities,
| their means of fire protection, and the proper
| rate of premium for risks there written.
SS
FORESTRY ASSOCIATION.
An interesting announcement comes from
| Cincinnati that the next meeting of the Ameri-
| can Forestry Association will be in Montreal in
August next. We presume this will be in con-
nection with the meeting of the Scientific Asso-
ciation. It is to be hoped, however, that the
benefit of this important gathering will not be
lost in the shadow of the larger organization
To make the event mark a new erain the regard
of Canadians for their forest wealth, an exceed-
ingly desirable result, some preparations should
be made for it. On the return of the Canadian
delegates from the present session of the Con-
| gress at Cincinnati, it will be in order to con
sider what form organized movement to this end
|should take. It might be a good plan to call a
meeting of all interested in the matter to hear
the delegates give a report of the session. By
holding the meeting in Ottawa, and inviting
members of both Houses of Parliament to attend
it, amovement might be inaugurated all over
the Dominion without very much trouble or ex-
pense.—Montreal Witness.
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WOOD UTILIZED.
| The Northwestern Lumberman says the ways
| by which wood is utilized in Maine and other
| New England States should teach the owners
| of hardwood timber in the Northwest that they
| have more wealth in their standing trees than
they can afford to burn up in log-heaps, if they
| will only wait a few years till the car of pro-
| gress comes along, and brings the capital, the
| genius and the tools. The following little men-
| tion shows one of the ways by which whit
| birch can be turned into money. Richr ond,
| Thompson & Co., at Jay, Franklin county,
| manufacture druggists’ boxes of white birch,
‘and a local report states that they now have on
| hand 1,800 cords of that wood which will be
made up into this kind of packages. The same
firm makes advertising fan-handles at the rate

fires are most employed, thereby increasing the | of 100,000 a week.

146

TARIFF OF TOLLS TO BE LEVIED ON TIM

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THE CANADA

OTTAWA RIVER T
THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT §

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BER, SAW-LOGS, &., PASSING

Per Slide or Improvement.

————

THE GEORGIAN BAY.

A special correspondent of the Toronto Mail
writes from Midland as follows :—

On the west side of the bay is P. W. McLeod’s
mill (formerly Tait’s). He will bring the lum-
yer and dimension stuff sawn at his mill across
to the railway platform in the steam scow Poca-
hontas. A new mill is being built near this
terminal platform for the British Canadian

The whole is driven by two engines, with four
steel boilers, equal to 350 horse-power, made by
Thomas Wilson, of Dundas. The work is un-
der the superintendence of Mr. J. C. Else, who
has been foreman at the mills for eleven years.
The mill will be one of the most complete and
extensive in the country, and will cost about
$90,000 when finished. After leaving Wauba-
shene, Fessiston mills are passed—next Josiah

Lumber Company. The building is 52 x 140
feet ; boiler house, 35 x 54 feet; five boilers,
two engines, 18 x 24 cylinder, 180 horse-power.
The cutting capacity of the mill is eitimated at
75,000 feet per day. No burner will be erected
at present, as the waste material will be requir-
ed for two years to fill up around the mill and
level the piling ground.

It will be finished about the middle of May,
will have two circulars—cost about $25,000.
Another mill is to be built near the same site,
also for the British Canadian Lumber Com-
pany, for cedar ties, cedar shingles, and posts.
This mill is calculated to cut 2,000 ties per day ;
cost about $6,000. Further on, past the eleva-
tor, is Chew Bros., grist and shingle mill ; next,
EL. H. Cook’s mills, rebuilt, An engineer was
taking a survey of the premises for the purpose
of making a plan to send to Scotland for the in-
gpection of the directors of the British Cana-
dian Lumber Company. John Dollar’s mills
come next, outside the city limits. Then, near
the old fort, on the river Wye, another mill be-
longing to the British Canadian Lumber Com-
pany. This firm will take out this season
about thirty eight million feet. At Victoria
harbour, still further east, are Power’s mills;
also John McDermott’s; also the mills of
Messrs. A. Cain, P. Christie, and W. Tanner
before reaching Waubashene. The Waubashene
mills, which were burned in August last, are
being rebuilt, and will, when completed, be bet-
ter than the former mills, The main building
is 126 x 70 feet, with file-room 16 x 380 feet, and
Jath-room 20x 60 additional. The engine-room
is 20x 32 fect, and the boiler-house 38 x 41—
oth the latter stone and brickwork. The
turner for waste material is combined with the
smoke stack by a smoke-box from the boiler-
house. The burner is of iron plate 28 feet in
diameter by 125 feet high, with a hood of wire-
work 15 feet high, The machinery, which is
manufactured by Mr. W. Hamilton, of Peter-
borough, consists of one circular saw, one slab-
bing gang, one large flat gang, one patent span
circular, which expands to size of log, from 7
inches to 26, worked by steam feed, a small slab
gang, two edgers, two trimmers, and lath mill,

Cain’s, stock 44 million shingles, and J, Camp-
bell, also about 44 million shingles. At Cold-
water are H. Lovening’s shingle mill, stock 5
million shingles ; J.Brown do., 3 million ; John
Green saw and shingles, on North river, 34 mil-
lion shingles and 1 million lumber ; J. Smith, on
Coldwater river, 2 million shingles ; Messrs.
Wylie & Tait, three miles east from Coldwater,
on the Midland Railway, stock 2 million shing-
les ; James Hadden, five miles from Coldwater,
gang and circular, 2 million lumber; Thos.
Overend, Uhtoff, seven miles west of Orillia, 2
million shingles; Tasker & Lakins, } miles
from Uhtoff, 1 million feet. Andrew Tait is a
large operator in Orillia in sawed lumber and
shingles ; the Oro Lumber Manufacturing Co.,
also have a new mill at Orillia. Railroad facil-
ities have developed an immense trade in lum-
ber and shingles in this section of the country,
and utilized a large amount of timber which
would otherwise have gone to waste. Mr.
Crossin’s railroad car manufactory at Cobourg
is largely supplied with car sills, and oak and
maple dimension stuff from Midland. An ex-
cellent quality of oak is obtained in that region.
The traffic over the Midland Railway in 1881
was :—Lumber, 104,461,000 feet ; timber 739,-
841 cubic feet ; shingles, 63,318,000 ; posts and
ties, 698 car-loads ; firewood, 370 cords ; wheat,
443,388 bushels ; flour, 25,351 barrels; other
goods, making a total weight of 237,845 tons.
The total earnings for the year 1881 amounted
to $404,860, being an increase of $57,925 over
those of 1880. The traffic for 1882 will show a
very much larger increase.

Leen el
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FOREST MANAGEMNT.

At the Forestry Convention held in Cin-
cinnati recently one of the papers read was sub-
mitted by Prof. Brown, of the Ontario Agricul-
tural College, Guelph, and was exceedingly
well received. A summary of it as follows ap-
pears in the Globe :—

Tn South Australia the Government, under its
Woods and Forests Board, have begun the con-
servation and replanting of the country most
vigorously. In 1878 they passed “* The Forest
Tree Act” with special reference to the encour-

LUMBERMAN.

OLS.

Rate to Clear to
foot of Chaudiere.

Privy Covuncit OFFICE,

Nene nan
for a deer forest, has been, under skill and capi-
| tal, brought to produce a clear annual revenue
| of fifteen times these amounts—by tree crops.

agement of tree planting. By its provisions the
Governor can proclaim parts of the country to
be “forest districts” for the purpose of inclosing
and planting. A bonus of ten dollars per acre
is given to owners for successful establishment
of clumps during two years, not less than five
acres, and if in strips, not less than 100 feet
wide. A Conservator of Forests has been ap-
pointed. In five years they have enclosed and
planted 2,617 acres at a cost of $100,000. The
success is most gratifying, Seeds are collected ;
a number of nurseries are kept at convenient
points ; they have an experimental department ;
the various methods of seeding broadcast and in
rows, of regular planting at various distances |
apart, and by natural reproduction. Weather |
records are kept; much of the success is |
attributed to the thorough use of the plough and |
cultivator ; plants are given to owners of lands

on certain conditions ; several arboretums are

being established ; thinning and pruning are |
systematically attended to ; ‘fire breaks” are

ploughed in proper season ; and last year the

Government distributed free to settlers a treatise

on tree cultivation, got up by the Conservator,

and their annual report is very interesting and

valuable.

I have pleasure in laying on the table a copy
of the Conservator’s latest report and his
Treatise on Tree Cultivation.

AN EXAMPLE OF REVENUE FROM SCOTCH PLAN-
TATIONS.

There is always some value to be gathered
from the experience of others, even when condi-
tions differ very much, and while Scotland will
compare favorably with it, America as regards

kinds, it can not do so with reference to rapid
growth through climatic and soil conditions.

The writer had the management for ten years
of a Highland property extending to 135,000
acres, which embraced every possible condition
of plant and animal life, from good wheat pro-
duction up, or down, to the lowest form of
lichen, four thousand feet above sea level.

T have often thought that were the Americans
aware by actual personal experience of the diffi-
culties that surround most branches of British
rural economy there would be less quarrelling
and more stay at home amongst us.

The cultivation of trees in Britain, while a
matter of mark in her history, has been, and
still is, one of expense, and the knowing how to
labor and to wait.

In Scotland, especially, the reclothing has
been very extensive and successful. Land that
fetched only 8d an acre for sheep grazing, or 1s

LIDES AND WORKS UPON THE OTTAWA AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

moisture, being propitious for the life of certain | .

Ottawa, 3rd May, 1882.

Beginning in 1855 I planted annually, on an
average, for fourteen years, one and a half
million larch and Scotch pine, among the
heather and granite of Banff and Aberdeen-
shire.

Our process was simply to enclose with wire
fence from three hundred to one thousand acres,
in districts where direct shelter, ornament, and
climatic amelioration, with the best chances of
economic results, were necessary and most likely
to be secured. Drainage was thoroughly done —
where required. Planting carried out by day
labour, never by contract, under skilled foremen,
one man, under average conditions as to soil and
size of plants, notching as many as one thousand
a day. Trees were sized according to height
and exposure of the ground, and not less than
three thousand per acre—aiming at four
apart all over. Pitting was necessary only with
the larger hard and Scotch pine, or with hard-
woods. We always had the best success with
small plants, seedlings, with conifera on the ex-
posed parts, and not more than two years trans-
planted in any case.

Thus the Highlands of Scotland are to-day in
possession of many thousands of acres, produc-
ing a handsome revenue that twenty years ago.
made a poor show on the rent rolls ; average cost, |
£3 1s. per acre. I submit a printed statement
of six years’ revenue from the older plantations
of a highland property.

The above was illustrated with a printed

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i the use of the Great German
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power to make known its merits,

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 14

J.G. EDWARDS

HARDWARE MERCHANT,

LINDSAY.

BELTING, FILES, BABBIT METAL,
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ESTABLISHED 1874.

THOS. GRAHAM

Manufacturer of Every Description of

FILES and RASPS

HAND OUT FILES made from the Best Refined Eng-
lish Cast Steel and Warranted Equal in every respect
to the best English brands.

NEW FILES neatly put up in labelled boxes for the
trade ; to whom bottom figures will be quoted.

Old and Worn-out Files re-ground and re-cut by
hand, and made equal to the New File for use, at prices
that will effect a great saving to all consumers of Files

N.B.—Every File Guaranteed. Price List on applica-
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Factory & Office :—Sherbrooke St.,
816 ‘TORONTO.

IRWIN & PHILP

Commission
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HOW TO MANAGE THE MISSISSIPPI.
The distinguished German engineer and
_ traveller, named Chevalier Ernst Von Hesse
Wartegg. has been making extraordinary sug-
gestions about the Mississippiriver inundations.
He says that levees on the Mississippi river will
be money thrown away, and that the $100,000, -
000 already spent in that way has been totally
ineffective. He says the way to make the
Mississippi behave is to help it in the effort it is
making to shorten itself toward the Gulf. In
1721 the distance from Cairo to New Orleans
was 1,215 miles, and to-day it is 240 miles less
than that, or only 974 miles. He says Red
River oughtto be drawn off from the Mississippi,
and allowed to run to the gulf through the
Caleasieu river, which would be only 80 mile,
instead of 500 miles it has to pass through to the
Mississippi. Both the Ohio and the Red river
are a barrier to the rapid current of the Missis-
sippi. The Wachita ought to be connected with
the Atchafalaya, and let off to the Gulf that
way, instead of embarrassing the Mississippi.
The Mississippi itself ought to be connected
with Lake Borgne, as proposed by Captain
Cowden, which would draw off one-tenth of the
whole body of water. He says that the River
Po, in Italy, which has magnificent levees, is
regularly inundated, and that the tendency of
these levees is to raise the bed of the river by
depositions in it ; so that the Po, the Mississippi
and many other streams with artificial banks
really run on a high ridge of land, from which
they inevitably overflow the surrounding coun-
try. He says levees from Cairo to New Orleans
would cost $100,000,000, and would meet with
the same fate as the others, and that artificial
means cannot keep the tremendous river within
bounds, and the only way to do it is to aid na-
ture to find the straightest way to the gulf,—
Northwestern Lwmberman.
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TueE Canadian supply of hemlock bids fair to
become an interesting question inthe States. The
oak forests supplying American tanneries are
principally in Tennessee, Kentucky, and in
Northern Alabama and Georgia. Large quan-
tities are also imported from Canada. Forty or
fifty years ago all the hemlock tanbark used
there was taken from the forests in central and
northern New York. The supply there has
been exhausted, and the raw material is now
sought for further west. This tree does not
perpetuate itself, as does the oak, and the de-
struction of a tree represents an absolute curtail-
ment of the available supply. If the plan to
compress and export oak tanbark proves success-
ful, it is highly probéble that the inroads which

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THE DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.

The remark is made by a Texas newspaper
that “‘one of the strongest arguments in favor
of preserving forests is to be found in Chinese
history. The terrible famine which raged in
that country several years ago, was brought
about by the destruction of the few forests left
standing, thereby rendering it impossible for
the soil to retain the little rain that fell from
time to time.”

Notwithstanding the scientific theory and
facts involved, the destruction of trees continues
in many sections where this element of protec-
tion is largely lacking, without much concerted
effort toward reforesting the land, and it is not
the manufacture of lumber that relieves the
country of timber so much as the reckless
slaughter of trees that is made in wooded regions
for the purpose of clearing lands, and where the
timber is burned up or disposed of wastefully.
Since the forests must continue to be drawn
upon for lumber supplies to answer to a necessary
want universally felt, whatever timber is wil-
fully destroyed and diverted from the channel
of lumber manufacture, with no object beyond
getting it out of the way, will produce that
much shortage in the reserve supply of timber,
and the conquest of the saw mills will simply be
hastened to an earlier consummation, While it
is a fact that trees serve one of nature’s offices
in permitting moisture to be readily retained in
the soil, and are naturally a necessity in many
ways, it is still true that so far as the question
of lumber goes, the exhaustion of the tree supply
of the world would be less felt in the latter
direction than in any other. When it comes to
a matter of absolute necessity, a substitute
could be found for lumber in nearly every line
of-its use, if not all of them, but the natural ad-
vantages to land accruing from forests, can, in
no other way, be secured. Hence the proposi-
tion of the lumber needs of a country is almost
the smallest argument in favor of forestry pro-
jects for retimbering localities. One of the
best moves that could be made would.be to in-
augurate a more practical government policy
than is now in operation to prevent a wrong use
of timber and its reckless destruction, a move
fully as important as that land pre-emptors
should be required to conform to the tree-plant-
ing law; for while in the one case much care,
effort and time is required to grow forests, in
the other case they are already grown, and it is
only necessary to properly husband the supplies:
Preventing the destruction of trees to-day is an
act performing the same service that age would
accomplish, for trees don’t grow with the same
celerity as garden vegetables. Prevention is
better in this case than raising small trees for
transplanting.—WVorthwestern Lumberman.

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A STEAMSHIP WITH A CARGO OF SQUARE
TIMBER.

The Timber Trades Journal says the most
novel feature of the present year in regard to
the wood carrying trade is probably the arrival
here of a large, well-appointed steamship from
Penascola with a complete cargo of pitch pine
timber.

The question not unnaturally suggests itself,
can vessels of this character be profitably em-
ployed in bringing timber in large logs? The
Deepdale—for so the vessel we refer to is called
—helonging to Sunderland, arrived in the
Surrey Commercial Docks on Saturday last,
after a very protracted voyage from West
Florida. Running short of fuel she had to call
at Halifax on her homeward voyage, to coal, a
proceeding which took her considerably out of
her course. It is true that this delay had
nothing to do with the description of the cargo
she had on board; but, judging from other
circumstances, it is evident that, as steamships
are at present constructed, timber in large logs
‘will not pay as a freight. Cargoes, as in this
case, of part timber and deals may be carried
when a ship of the kind finds herself at a timber
port with no other freight to load home, and it
‘becomes a question of loading ballast or taking
-what the port offers in the way of merchandise,
which was most likely the condition of affairs
with regard to the Deepdale. But that log
timber will become a recognized freight for
steamships is, we imagine,
necomplishment yet. We understand this ves-

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sel was three weeks loading at Penascola, work-
ing the fore and aft hatches ; taking the logs
aboard piece by piece, and we can hardly ima-

gine that she could accomplish her task any

quicker, for in the Surrey Commercial Docks,

where every facility is afforded for quick dis-

charge at the rate of a piece a minute, the au-
thorities expect to take quite a week to empty
this vessel’s hold.
discharging as she lay in the middle of Canada

We watched the Deepdale

Dock, and reckoned that the pieces being hoist-

ed out of the hold by a crane forward and an-

other aft did not occupy much more than the

time mentionec, and yet the process appeared

tedious. The huge logs raised out of the hold
by the cranes were lowered steadily on to the

gunwale, and let glide into the water, end first,

with a mighty splash, where they disappeared
for a short time, the impetus from such a fall
carrying them a considerable distance below the
surface, If this simple mode of getting clear of
the stuff was to take a week or more, it was evi-
dent that the task of loading and stowing logs
of the kind must have been a protracted affair.

Steamers, like horses, in idleness, eat up the
profits by their expensiveness, and on rapidity
of taking in and discharging their cargoes
depends their ability to compete with sailing
ships in carrying deals. To steamers, celerity
is almost a vital point, and it is the difficulty of
getting hewn timber, in heavy pieces, quickly in
and out, that will, we expect, keep this portion
of the wood-carrying trade for a long while to
come in the hands of sailing ships.

Of course bow and stern ports would make a
vast difference in the way of affording better
facilities for loading and discharging heavy
timber, but, as most steamers are built in water-
tight compartments, another difficulty would be
presented, though for ordinary average timber
it would not seem impracticable to get it on
board through bow or side ports. Until some-
thing is done in this respect, there will always
be the same delay in shipping large timber down
the hatchways. It is true that a crane will
raise a log of a ton weight with just the same
facility it will a ton of deals, but when the
latter is unloosed from the slings it can be
handled with ease, and distributed in the hold
quickly, while on the other hand the log is just
as much an obstacle when lowered into the
cramped space of a steamship’s hold as it was on
shore.

The Deepdale, it is stated, is the largest
steamer with a wood freight that has ever enter-
ed the Surrey Commercial Docks, and is calcul-
ated to have on board nearly 900 standards of
timber of one kind and another. The number
of logs of pitch pine are reckoned at something
like 4,000, while she has for stowage between
2,000 and 3,000 deals, &c. The bulk of her
cargo consists, however, of sawn logs of the
usual full average ; and one thing can be said of
her, that, if she has been a long time about it,
at any rate she brings a cargo equal to that of
three ordinary sailing ships. That her arrival
here with pitch pine logs will form a precedent
in the establishment of a carrying trade by
steamers of large timber we consider very un-
likely.

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BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—Those who
call to mind that at this time last year the
Baltic and Swedish ports were still shut up with
ice, and that this year many of them have been
scarcely closed at all, will not be surprised to
learn, from the Board of Trade returns, that
the timber importations for last month are
nearly double the amount of those of March in
1881. In that month the sum was 96,455 loads,
in the month just passed (March) 189,371 loads,
which looked as if, beginning so early, we were
in the way to have an overstock by the end of
the season. The excess in the first three months
of 1882 over the same period in 1881 amounts, in
fact, to 180,584 loads—rather formidable figures,
but by no means alarming or unprecedented,
for as recently as 1880 the importation up to the
end of March reached the total of 529,694 loads
—that is, 195,767 loads more than in 1881, and
65,183 loads more than the first quarter of the
present year.

From these comparisons it will be seen that

a long way from | while we are naturally surpassing the fettered

trade in foreign timber of last spring, we are,

with every advantage in favor of early importa-
tion, following at a modest distance the foot-
steps of the trade in 1880, with a palpable inter-
val between, which precludes the likelihood of
our speedily overtaking it.

that, ‘‘as far as we have got,” as Artemus
Ward would say, the importation cannot be
considered in any degree excessive, and that the
timber trade is therefore prima facie in a very
satisfactory condition.

Board of Trade :—

; Quantity. Value. | upon by the rest of the loggers just as a soldier
iin: ols OO Tore Loads, ao | is by his regiment when he has done any act of
Sweden and Norway 39,416 57,497 | bravery. ‘The man I saw cut away 4 log which
ro cigs a | ee A 127702 308, | brought down the whole jam of logs was quite
British India....... santas temas 9,962 126,270 | a young fellow, some twenty years of age. He
British North America..--...-++-*-" 99 $6 ag;oas | St7ipped everything save Mis) eieaiesae aaa

“~~ — "| rope was placed under his arms and a gang of
Bic 7 ie se ‘Sou, spe mulie oie 101,413 295,106 | smart young fellows held the end. The man

Planed or Dressed). ° shook hands with his comrades and quietly
Russia....- sevccrceeveses piesa tas 1,947 4,330 | walked out on the logs, axe in hand. Ido not
Sree a No eca STIL 8sak: ” aateps | enow how the loggy-road one felt, but T shall

Other Countrics......serseeesserees

LUMBERMAN.

experienced “stream driver” is soon on the
spot, for the news is soon carried up stream
that there is a “jam” below. Every minute is
of consequence, as logs ade coring down and
the ‘‘ jam” increasing in strength. The “key
log” being found, there is a cry for volunteers
to cut it. Now, when you consider that there
are some hundred big logs of timber forming a
dam, and the instant the key log is cut the
whole fabric comes rushing down with a crush,
you’ will see that unless the axe-man gets instant-
ly away he is crushed to death. There are
usually in a camp plenty of men ready to vol-
unteer ; for a man who cuts a key log is looked

We put these little calculations here to show

The following are the figures furnished by the

:
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MONTH ENDED 318T MARCH, 1882.

25,078 80,547 | never forget my feelings. The man was quietly
walking to what very likely might be his

death. At any moment the jam might break —

Staves, (all SizeS)....06-. see e ere enee 4,540 28,809 3 -
Hil (Co) [ak Papen, ee $743 24°59 | Of its own accord, and also, if he cut the key ~
Total of Hewn and Sawn.......-.--- 189371 539,370 | log, unless he instantly got out of the way, he —
THREE MONTHS ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1882. would be crushed by the falling timber. There —
ny lee 4 a4 7 beet eee 7,164 21,590 | Was @ dead silence while the keen axe was drop-
puedes and NOrway..seerecsseeeess aon: 124,223 | ped with force and skill upon the pine log. Now
OXMADY « -evcccscceecssessccveunecs 10,17. 31,979
Giited! Bintan). es. eee Bed 31073 113'897'| the notch was near half through the log, one or
oe Ceres ep tea eee nameeteine & ern 196,192 | two more blows, and- a crack was heard. The
ritish No SUICTION.. shu wuswienecs 72 3,237 . a
Other Countries.....e-s.csceeeeeens $9,676 102283 | Men got in all the slack of rope that held the
, axe-man. Like many others, I rushed to help
ihe eke eens weer ces 237,901 593,271 haul away the poor fellow, but to my great joy
x Planed or Dressed). re: ; I saw him safe on the bank, certainly en
NIBGIR Wc te see eee pisie ee eatin ,521 43,291 i b ing from sundry w t
Sweden and Norway......+sssseee0s 116,599 811,409 bruised and pleas, cc ppace,
British North America ......-.+++ 42,003 105,598 | Safe.—The Field.
Other CountrieS....+sceceseeeerenes 49,487 160,910
Total...... SE ey is eh 226,610 621,138 A DIFFICULTY OVERCOME.
Staves (all sizes)....... 33108 t4a15| _ The Little Quinnesec falls, on the Menomines
Mahogany (tons)..-..-- .. 6,474 57/886 | river, have for years past caused great damage to
Total of Hewn and Sawn. . 464,511 1,214,409 logs passing over them. The falls have a

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WOODWORK THAT WILL NOT BURN.

In a London paper is published a letter from
Mr. F. H. Gossage, who makes some very im-
portant statements. He says: “I find that
painting woodwork of any kind with several
coats of solution of silicate of soda, and finishing
off with a mixture of this solution and sufficient
common whiting to make it about as thick as
ordinary paint, is a most excellent protection
against fire. Wood treated in this way will not
take fire from mere contact with flame; it re-
quires to be heated till destructive distillation
begins. ‘Then, of course, gases are given out
which ignite, and the wood is gradually convert-
ed into charcoal, but until destructive distilla-
tion takes place the coated wood will not support
combustion. A few years since I had some
screens made like ordinary doors, some prepared
as I have described, and some not. They were
then placed over a fire of shavings, which was
kept constantly renewed. In ten minutes the
unprepared screens were blazing away, and so
nearly consumed that they had to be supported
by an iron bar. The flames continued to lick
the prepared screens for 30 minutes before the
distillation commenced. After 45 minutes the
coated screens were still intact, and able to
support themselves ; and in an hour, although
pierced in many places with holes, they held to-
gether, and when the fire was removed they did
not continue to burn. ‘This was a splendid
success, and I still have the remains of the
screens. The experiments were made at my
suggestion, for the managers of the Liverpool
Philharmonic Society, and the woodwork of
their splendid hall at Liverpool was treated in
this manner. I amsurea good deal might be
done with this simple and inexpensive process
to reduce the possibility of fires, especially in
public buildings, theatres, ete., for, if the wood-
work was thus treated, draperies and scenery
would burn away before the heavy timberwork
of the structure would take fire.”

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“QUTTING THE KEY LOG.”

The first thing to be done is to find out where
the jam occurred, and then to discover what is
called the ‘‘key log,” that is to say, the log
which holds the base of the “jam.” An old

descent of 75 feet—not perpendicular, but on an
angle of 45°—over a rough and ragged ledge.
The damage caused to the logs has been various-
ly estimated at from 10 to 20 per cent. The
Menominee River Manufacturing Company,
during the past five years, has expended up-
wards of $8,000 in blasting the ledge and build-
ing breakwaters to lessen, if possible, the
damage caused to thelogs. Nothing that it did,
however, seemed to obviate the difficulty.
During the past winter the Hon. I. Stephenson
conceived the idea of cutting a canal through
the solid ledge along the side of the falls. The
survey was made, the amount of rock to be ex-
cavated ascertained, and the probable cost esti-
mated. The plan seemed feasible, and the
board of directors of the above named company
authorized Mr. Stephenson to go on and com
plete the canal. Work was commenced in
February, and pushed with such vigor that the
undertaking was near completion when the rise
of the river prevented further work at present.
But the canal, or cut, was so nearly finished
that when the cofferdam at the head was re-
moved, which was on April 19, it was found to
work like a charm—all logs running in the river
passing through the cut without any damage
whatever. The cut is about 300 feet in length,
40 feet wide at the entrance, and narrowing
down to 20 feet at the terminus. The average
depth of the cut is about 10 feet. The cost
when completed will be about $15,000.—Vorth-

western Lumberman,
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THE SUPPLY OF TIMBER.

The Northwestern Lumberman says the supply
of cedar, while not exhaustless, is happily such
as to lead to no well-grounded fear of a scarcity
for many years. ast tracts of cedar lands are
to be found contiguous to the Huron shore of
Michigan, while no inconsiderable quantity
exists in the less settled upper peninsula. The

islands of Lake Huron are many of them loaded
with it, while those of the Georgian Bay, on
which this timber predominates may be number
by the score. One of these islands is estimated \
to cut no less than 50,000 telegraph poles and
500,000 railroad ties, besides innumerable posts, —
and is but one of the smallest islands of the
bay, at that. The islands and much of the

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LUMBERMAN.

SAVE YOUR HARDWOOD.

The Northwestern Lumberman says there is
still other timber now looked upon as of little
consequence, if, indeed, not as a positive
nuisance, of which time will develop a great
value. The black birch grows in many of the
northernmost regions in great profusion, and
ere many years will be as great a favorite as a
furniture wood as is cherry or black-walnut to-
day. The opening of railroads through Mexico
bids fair for a few years to revive in public
favor the use of mahogany, but as a cheap
furniture timber the birch will ere many years
successfully compete with it. It should be the
duty of all public educators to impress upon the
minds of the people that but few varieties of
timber, even among those now but little esteem-
ed, but will in a few years possess a market
value fully compensating the care and labor of
wisely preventing their destruction, and while
much small timber must necessarily be destroyed
in clearing up farms in wilderness sections, it
will prove immensely profitable to save all the
timber of reasonable size, in full assurance that
before many years it will be in demand at a
value greater than that of the soil on which it
stands.

mainland of Lake Superior are rich in their
growths of cedar, vast quantities of which are
found in the neighbourhood of Prince Arthur’s
Landing, upon the Canadian side of that lake,
and can be made available for use in the vast
treeless region west of Winnipeg, by means of
he Canadian Pacific railroad, which of itself
wi prove one of the most extensive consumers
‘of it in the building of its track for many hun-
‘dreds of miles, and until the timbered lands of
the Rocky Mountain range can be reached.
The Michigan and Wisconsin shores of Lake
Michigan may be depended upon for a wealth of
cedar supply for many years, while the interior
railways of Wisconsin are well located for trans-
porting the immense quantities which grow
luxuriantly in the northern part of that state.

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q STRAW FOR FUEL.
The Mennonites are nothing if not economi-
eal. They would have to be placed in,a deso-
late land indeed where they could not get a
living. Set a Mennonite family down on a
sage brush desert and they would contrive some
way to keep the wolf from the door, and thrive
atthat. They think it is because the good Lord
is with them, but it is probable that it is because
a stingy economy has quickened their instincts
in the direction of making something out of next
to nothing. The American Agriculturist says:
The Mennonite immigrant, when choosing a
locality, is quite unconcerned at the total ab-
sence of timber, and will settle many miles
from any wood or coal, with indifference as to
the fuel question, in localities where an Ameri-
can would never think of making a farm. He
es fuel fur a year in miles of grass about him ;
the second and succeeding years he will have
) the straw from his crops, and straw stacks are
his favorite substitutes for the wood pile and
J coal bin. We first saw straw in use for fuel in
the house of a Mennonite bishop, in the colony
of McPherson county, Can. Dinner for four of
us was prepared. A vigorous young Mennonite
girl vanished with a bushel basket, and return-
ed with it full of straw,then, placing her kettles,
etc,, on the top of the cooking range, opened the
fire door and thrust in two large handfuls of
straw, touched the match, closed the door, and
the kettle commenced to sing immediately ;
in about two minutes the door opened, and two
more handfuls of straw were thrust in and the
door closed. Our dinner consisted of ham, eggs,
potatoes, Russian waffles, and excellent coffee,
all cooked in less time than an ordinary stove
could have been made “‘hot for biscuits.” The
fire was “‘dead out” before the dinner was half
consumed, and the house none the warmer for
the fire, the surplus heat all escaping through
the broad chimney.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

A Good Selection.

The Chicago Times says:—‘‘It is wise and
well to plant forest trees in sections of country
where they do not grow naturally, but discretion
should be observed in selecting varieties and ap-
propriating land for their cultivation. If pos-
sible, trees should be selected for planting that
will serve at least two useful purposes. In ad-
dition to furnishing shade, they should supply
valuable timber, good fuel or edible nuts. It is
often practicable to plant varieties of trees that
will serve all these purposes. Ordinarily, the
safest trees to plant are those that are indigenous
to the vicinity. They furnish evidence of their
adaptability to the soil and climate, and a
supply of them can ordinarily be obtained at a
small cost. Trees that nurserymen have brought
into fashion and praised in horticultural conven-
tions are not always the most desirable ones to
plant.”

Breaking Rollways.

Dan Crowley, of Phillips, Wis., has intro-
duced a new method of breaking rollways in
that region, and accomplishes the end by the
use of dynamite or giant powder, and has found
the plan to work successfully. He succeeded,
by the aid of an expert in the use of explosives,
in throwing the logs out of the most difficult
places, just where they are wanted, and without
injuring the timber in the least. There is also
a saving in time andexpense. This method has
been adopted in Michigan for some time, with
more or less success.

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Reaching for Northern Lumber,

The Northwestern Lumberman says that the
Red River & Lake of the Woods Railroad Com-
pany has been incorporated for the purpose of
building a line from Red River, near Grand
Forks, Minn., past Red Lake River, to the
mouth of Thief River, then up that river to Lake
of the Woods. The route extends 150 miles,
and lies through unsettled country. It would
tap an extended lumber district in northern
Minnesota and about the Lake of the Woods,

——E—EE

Can’ Grr 17.—Diabetes, Bright’s Disease,
Kidney, Urinary or Liver Complaints cannot be
contracted by you or your family if Hop Bitters
are used, and if you already have any of these
diseases Hop Bitters is the only medicine that
will positively cure you. Don’t forget this, and
don’t get some puffed up stuff that will only
harm you.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. ‘Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

Macx’s Macnetic Mepicine is a positive
remedy for nervous exhaustion and all weakness
of the generative organs in both sexes, See ad-
vertisement in another column,

STEEL pens are the gauge of civilization the
world over. LEsterbrook’s are found in the
costliest mansion and lowliest log cabin,

Tapping a Natural Reservoir.

The Virginia City, Nevada, Enterprise says
that the tunnel to tap Hagle Lake is being ad-
vanced at the rate of 35 feet per week. It will
be about a mile and a half long, and it is expect-
ed that it will be completed next fall. It will
furnish water power for running several saw
mills. and finally will irrigate a great area of
barren sage-brush land in Honey lake
valley. The tapping of this lake is an experi-
ment that is being watched with great interest
everywhere on the coast. Should it prove as
successful as is anticipated, it will be followed
by 2 similar tapping of other lakes on both sides
of the Sierras, for mining, lumbering and other

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pokes.

—_—_$_—[_—
_ “The Handsomest Set He Ever Saw.”
A lumbering firm for whom this office has
pust completed a large order for a set of office
ecount books, writes:—‘‘The books came to
Hand all right and are highly satisfactory. In
finish they are the handsomest set I ever saw,
’ @ rivets in \the Russia bands being, in my
) inion, much better than the lacing.”
—E———EE

HE experience of one logging operator on the
tle Suamico, in Wisconsin, where there has
ven little snow, was that he got in during the
inter 5,000.00 feet of logs, mostly drawn on
Ware ground, and will put in 2,000,000 feet on
fucks, which will give him a two-thirds stock.

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PEREY whitens the teeth like chastened
A five cent sample settles it,

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Caledonian Hotel,

GRAVENHURST.

JOHN SHARPE, Proprietor. This Hotel has been
newly opened out, pleasantly situated on Main Street,
within five minutes walk of Northern Railway station.
Bar kept with best assorted Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Every attention paid to guests. Good Stabling. 1110

Simcoe House,
CORNER FRONT and SIMCOE STS.
OE Gi Ta) OI

TAF Best accommodation in the City. TERMS $1.50
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Rooms.
The Most Convenient House to all Trains.

1121 GREEN & SON, Proprietor.

The American Hotel,

BARRIE, ONT,

Collier Street, Adjoining the Market.

RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS,
Az Every accommodation for Commercial and
LUMBERMEN.
1utf

W. D. McDONALD, Proprietor.

J. K. POST & CO.

LUMBER MERCHANTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWHEHGO, N.Y.

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CHOPPING AXES

(Made to Order and on hand.)

MILL PICKS DRESSED in a first-class style.
Those shipped by rail will be returned promptly.

4a7Lance Tooth Saws Gummed. AXES
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. MAY 15, 1882.

Mr. E. B. Eppy expects to cut 67,000,000
feet of lumber this season.
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ON May 13th Queen Victoria will visit Epping
Forest, and with elaborate ceremonies ‘dedicate
it to the use of the people forever.”
ee SS
Wa, NewnaAnbs, JR., has recently completed
plans for a dozen houses in Winnipeg, and is
now engaged upon a number more. The resi-

dences are built at Deseronto and taken west.
EEE

Ir is very common now for enlightened
farmers in the west and northwest to plant
dense rows of trees and hedges of evergreen
along the northern line of their orchards and

grounds.

Tun steamer Hiram Easton and four barges
laden with lumber from Perley & Pattee’s docks
were lying in the canal basin at Ottawa, on May
6th, awaiting Government permits to proceed to
Kingston.

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Mussrs. R. & G. STRIOKLAND’S three drives
of square timber and logs on the Black River
have reached Longford. The timber will be
shipped to Port Hope by the Northern and
Midland Railways.

CS

A Rart of five drams of square timber be-
longing to Mr. Murphy, of Quebec, was warped
out of the head of the emigrant wharf at Hamil-
ton, on May 4th, to await the tug McArthur,
which will tow the raft to Quebec.

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Tun ‘heathen Chinee” is trying to turn the
tables on his employers in California. A large
umber of Celestials have formed a company,
bought 2,900 acres of good timber land, and are
starting a large lumber manufacturing business,
hiring the Americans to superintend matters,

|

Tun new tug, building at the yard of Rand &
Burger, at Manitowoc, will be named the George
Pankratz, after one of her owners. She is be be
supplied with the machinery formerly in the tug
Margaret, is intended to tow scows loaded with
jogs from Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay ports
to the owners’ mills at Manitowoc,

Maxine maple sugar is a “live industry ”
in the Eastern Townships. ‘The season, which
is about closed, has been a moderately good one
for the running of sap. One “ sugar-bush”
proprietor at Abbotsford, got 2,150 pounds of
sugar out of the product of his maple trees.

———

THE Monetary Times says that the Montreal
lumber trade with South America will, it is ex-
pected, be more than usually active this season.
Already close upon a dozen vessels have been
chartered to carry deals to the River Plate at
prices ranging from $14 to $15.50 per thousand,

ES

Tur maple sugar crop, throughout the Pro-
vince of Quebec, has fallen considerably short
of the average yield. ‘The general lightness of
the snow fall, together with lack of sunny days,
is supposed to account for the shortage. Besides,
last season was marked by an unusual run of
sap, and two such seasons rarely follow each

other.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says :—Owing
to the scarcity of men near Montreal, lumber
operators are offering from $35 to $40 a month
for hands on the drive. On a recent Saturday

00 | 700 French Canadians arrived at Montreal from
do Michigan, where they had been working in the

woods, for the purpose of going on the drives.
In Michigan they received $30 a month, and
when the operators threatened to cut down
their wages, the Kanucks sighed again for the

baked beans of the Wolverine pineries.
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Tue new manager of the Muskoka Boom
Company, Mr. G. W. Taylor, has regulated
matters so that passengers, mails and freight

can be delivered at Bracebridge promptly, and’

so that farmers and others from points on the
lakes can arrive and depart from Bracebridge
the same day, and have five hours in the village
in which to transact business. The difficulties
of former log driving seasons have, it is hoped,
been pretty well obviated by an arrangement
mutually come to by the navigation and lumber

interests.
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Av the Simcoe Assizes held at Barrie this
week, a case was tried which is of interest to
farmers. ‘The case was that of Bruce vs. Burns.
The defendant in this action set a fire to burn
gome brush on his farm last summer during the
very hot weather, the result being that the fire
spread to the house of the plaintiff, who lost
everything. Witnesses were called who testified
that before setting the fire the defendant had
said that it would serve the plaintiff right if he
got burned out. The defendant not putting in
an appearance, the jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff for $1,200.

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PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.

The Montreal Post, in commenting on the
annual report of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands for the Province of Quebec, writes as
follows :—

Perhaps the most interesting of all is that
relating to woods and forests. The total amount
received for sales of Crown timber limits is
$543,518.76. A large sum truly, and which is
the chief source of revenue of the department.
It is worthy of remark that up to last year the
average revenue received from this source was
less than $390,000. The following extract from
the report is explanatory of the increase, but
the Commissioner is too modest to state that
the great increase may be chiefly credited to
himself, one of the most able and hard-working
men in broad Canada :—

“The main cause of increase in revenue is
due, not only to the present prosperous state of
the Province, but also to the more strict atten-
tion on the part of the department, and the
adoption of more efficacious measures for the
protection of our woods and forests, and the
collection of the revenues derived therefrom, as
well as those arising from the sale of lands.
Competent bushrangers have been appointed in
every part of the Province where they were
most needed; and I am happy to state that
their services have been very useful from all
points of view.”

It is to be regretted that the preservation of
timber lands is not kept more distinctly in view.
When they shall have disappeared we will all

cry out and ask where they are gone, but now is
the time to take action.

revenue, but rich limits such as ours should, as

They are always,
when properly managed, a large source of

the years roll on, be made to yield vast returns.
The Hon. Mr. Flynn throws out valuable sug-
gestions in this respect, which we hope will have
effect.

—— anne
THE NORTHWEST MARKET.

The lumber manufacturers of Minnesota and
a portion of Wisconsin may, this season, call
themselves in high luck. They will enjoy
opportunities for a profitable disposal of the
products of their mills that they have never en-
joyed before, and may neveragain. High prices
as the Michigan mill men are getting, they have
reason to envy their Minnesota and Wisconsin
brethren. The latter have struck a veritable
bonanza. If they do not make more money
this summer and the coming fall than they have
ever made before in the same length of time, it
is because providence will, in some way, sit
down on them. In years to come the grand-
children of these men will relate the present
year’s business experience of their ancestors,
and stamp it as phenomenal. They will be
justified in so stamping it. It will rank as
phenomenal in the history of the lumber trade.

In the great Northwest that is now settling
up there is a sharper and larger demand for
lumber than was probably ever known before.
On an average, 1,200 immigrants reach Winni-
peg daily, who go on beyond that point to settle
farms and build homes. How to supply this
great and growing territory with lumber fast
enough is the question. These emigrants are
not experts. They hardly know a cull from a
finishing board ; and fortunately they have
money to pay their way. Under such cireum-
stances they are willing to pay a good round
price for enough boards to shelter them from the
weather. The manufacturers referred to above
stand in a position to supply this lumber, and
they would be less than human if they did so at
prices smaller than they can get simply by the
asking. Lumber is shipped from Minneapolis,
and called common, that would be placed with
culls if it went to down-river markets. The
same is true of lumber that is shipped from St.
Paul and Duluth.

Quite a portion of the lumber that has reached
Winnipeg of late has been forwarded to Portage
la Prairie and Brandon. It is claimed that in
these two towns there are building contracts
amounting to $6,000,000. Itis claimed also that
in Winnipeg building operations are upon the
tapis that will cost as much more. The heads
of the inhabitants of this new country are high
in the air just now, and it would be safe to cut
down the figures somewhat ; but after making a
liberal reduction, it is plain that it will take an
immense amount of lumber to carry out the
plans.

How long this big boom will last is past tell-
ing. There is not the slightest probability that
it will decline this season. In fact the rush
gives promise of becoming greater than it is
now. Every mile that the Canadian Pacific
road is pushed lessens the chances of the Ameri-
can lumberman. Upon the completion of this
road the Canadians will have a finger in the pie.
They are aching to do it, and look with green
eyes on the board cutters across the line, who
are reaping such a reward for their labor, and
are pretty sure to reap it for some time to come.
The American lumbermen in the territory
tributary to Manitoba are not a bit anxious for
the completion of the road. One of them re-
marked the other day, ‘‘ I wish the blamed en-
terprise would collapse.""—iVorthwestern Lumber-

man.
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FOREST CULTURE.

The national forestry convention which met
in Cincinnati last week was the commencement
of a general movement toward the reproduction
of the woodland growth which is so rapidly dis-
appearing from this continent. While in
France, England, Germany and other European
countries one of the principal bureaus of the
Government is that having charge of the forests
and rivers, the whole matter is neglected by us
except as it relates to the lumber trade. In
those countries the annual reports of the forestry
bureaus are looked forward to as haying an im-
portant bearing not only upon the sanitary con-

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dition and agricultural resources of the country,
but upon the revenue as well.

The combined effect of accidental fires, clear-

ings, and the wasteful consumption of forests in
the production of lumber, railroad ties, tanbark,

fuel and for other purposes, with a total neglect
of the means of reproduction, have depleted the
forests to a greater extent than is generally

recognized, The late convention was suggested ;

by the United States census statistics, which
show that, should the destruction of the forests
of the United States go on for the next quarter
of a century at the same rate as during the last
ten years, trees of a spontaneous growth will
begin to disappear. To guard against this
calamity by devising plans of forest culture,
suggesting necessary protective legislation and
bringing the matter to the forcible realization
of the people, was the general purpose of the
convention. During the three days of its sessions
papers were read by persons who haye made
forest culture a study upon the economic,
esthetic, scientific and hygienic aspects of tree-
planting.

Ohio is going right at this important work in
a practical way. ‘“‘Arbor Day” is to be estab-
lished, and a day on which all over the state
everyhody will plant trees by the roadside, in
the public parks and private property. Road-
side planting associations are to be organized
in all parts of the State, their purpose being to
promote the planting of trees along the high-
ways and in groves where suitable sites may be
secured. The ‘“‘arbor day” festival promises
to become a feature of the Buckeye state which
cannot be too soon adopted by every State in
the Union and every Province in the Dominion.
—Ottawa Free Press.

THE AMERICAN FORESTRY CONGRESS.

The National Forestry Congress held its first
meeting in Cincinnati on the 25th of April, and
continued in session five days, during which a
a large number of interesting papers were read
and discussed. Canada was represented by four
delegates, who were very cordially received, and
invited to take part in the deliberations.

In order that Canadians might be induced to
participate more freely in the doings of this
Congress, it was resolved that the name be
changed to the American Forestry Congress,
and that the next meeting be held in Montreal
on the 2lst and 22nd days of August next.
Governor Foster, of Ohio, the Hon. G. B.
Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, ex-Governors Anderson and Cox, the Hon.
Cassius M. Clay and other distinguished gentle-
men attended the Coneress and took an active
part in the deliberations. The Hon. Geo. B.
Loring was elected President for the ensuing
year and among the Vice-Presidents chosen
were Prof, Wm. Saunders, of London, for On-
tario and the North-West, and Mr. James
Little, of Montreal, for Quebec and the Mari-
time provinces. The Hon. Commissioner Loring
on taking the chair stated that forestry was one
of the most important questions in the United
States at present, and the Government was in
hearty sympathy with the movement. After
referring to the example of forest culture set by
England and some of the other European na-
tions, the “esthetics” of tree planting were
gone into, one of his points being that trees
should not be set in regular order like belles
and beaux standing waiting for a quadrille ; he
also stated that it was easier and better to make
a park by planting new trees than by taking
up superfluous old ones. The effect of trees
upon the powers of association and emotions of
man were well described, and the heroic and
historic stories connected with trees were told in
a most interesting style. He also showed that
the cultivation of trees had now become a most
profitable branch of agriculture.

this congress were the following written by
Canadian authors: “The Pine Woods of
Canada,” by James Little, of Montreal ; “* Dis-
tribution of Canadian Trees,” by A. T. Drum-
mond, of Montreal; “‘ Why Should We Plant
Trees ?” by Dr. A. Eby, of Sebringville, Ont. ;
“ Forest Insects,” by Prof. Wm. Saunders, of
London. The four following papers were pre-
pared by Prof. Wm. Brown, of Guelph -—
“ Forests and Rainfall in Ontario,” “* Lessons
from Australia and Scotland,” “ Suggestions

Among the papers read and discussed before :

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: THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Though the price of lumber is $2 per M. more
than it was last year, the price of logs has in-
creased still more, while labour and other items
of expense are much higher. The men who will
make the most money are the loggers who sell
their cuts. Of the total cut, all except 90,000, -
000 feet will be manufactured in Minneapolis.

LUMBER WANTED.

50,000 Feet Tough White Oak, 50,000 Ft.
White Ash, 50,000 Feet Rock Elm, all first
quality ; quote price at Ayr station ; to be delivered by
August, 1882. Specifications furnished on application.

Ayr Agricultural Works,

AYR, ONTARIO. 3u7

Respecting a Text Book on Forestry,” and
“Suggestions Regarding Government Assist-
ance,”

On one of the days during the congress at
Cincinnati trees were planted to the memory of
the illustrious soldiers, statesmen, and other
prominent individuals, deceased and living ; and

among one of the pleasantest features of the
time was the setting aside of a portion of Eden
Park to be called ‘‘the Queen’s Grove,” and
also the planting of two oaks by a number of
ladies in honor of Her Majesty the Queen and

a H, R. H. the Princess Louise.

A PREHENSILE TREE,

So many curiosities of plant life have of late
years been brought info public notice that the
report of the existefce of a tree which picks up
stones, bones, bits of wood, and other uncon-
sidered trifles from the surface of the ground,

_ retaining them, and suspending them in mid-air,
says Colonies and India, hardly excites the in-
credulity now-a-days with which such a state-
ment would have been received a generation

ago. ‘Thirty years ago stories of plants whose
flowers were furnished with the means of en-

_ closing flies, or even pieces of meat, as a spider
seizes on its prey, and quickly surrounds it with
a network of gauze and which then actually

_ proceeded to eat the prey thus secured almost as
a spider would eat a fly—such stories, thirty
years ago, would have been relegated to the
category of ‘travellers’ tales.” But we have
the authority of Mr. Darwin, and anyone may
easily have the evidence of his own eyes, to prove
that the possession of such properties by certain
flowers is no fiction, but an undoubted fact.
The same authority, who first brought promin
ently into notice the remarkable properties of
the Drosera, has also shown that other plants
have actually the power of progression, within
certain limits, from one spot to another.

With such instances it requires little effort to
believe the correctness of the report above allud-
ed to, that some plants are endowed with the
faculty of picking up loose articles from the
ground. Lieutenant Houghton, who recently
yisited New Guinea and several other islands
and groups of islands in the Pacific, was the
first, we believe, to report the existence of such
a tree, though he did not explain the means by
which it accomplished this unusual feat. It
appears to be a species of Ficus, allied to the
well known banyan tree, which throws out
from its branches air roots that eventually reach
the ground, take root there, and in their turn
become new stems which perform the same
function, so that a single tree eventually extends
so far in all directions as to form a complete
forest, in which all the stems are united by the
branches to each other. The prehensile tree in
question similarly throws out from its branches
long flexible tendrils, which, touching the
ground, do not take root there, but twine them-
selyes around any article that may lie within
reach. Eventually these quasi-branches con-
tract so that they fail to reach the ground ; but
the finger like processes continue to closely
grip the substance round which they have twin-
ed themselves, and which are consequently sus-
pended in mid-air. In this way articles of con-
siderable weight may be literally picked up
from the ground by the tree, and so held in sus-
pension.

MISSISSIPPI LOG CUT.

The Minneapolis Tribune gives an estimate of
the logs cut in the Mississippi district above
Minneapolis and to be sawed at that point.
The logs cut have not yet come down to any
great extent, hence the cut can only be estimat-

_ €d. Major Camp, who has been over the ground
; thoroughly, however, estimates the entire crop
at 337,000,000 feet in round numbers,

This cut is considered an average one and
sufficient for the needs of manufacturers. Two-
thirds of the streams in the upper Mississippi
couptry have had plenty of snow; the hauling
has been good, and the cut fully up to the aver
age. The winter weather in the latter part of
“March did much towards preserving an average

in the cut along the lower streams, and on the
whole the cut has been fully up to what could
have been reasonably expected. In spite of
this, however, the prospects for lumber manu-
Uecturers are not considered particularly rosy,

Timber Limits for Sale.

I offer Timber Limits Nos. 94, 102, 144, 145, 157, 163,
176 and 182 on the North Shore of Georgian Bay, for
sale either ‘“‘en bloc” or in single Townships of 36
square miles each.

GEORGE J. THOMPSON,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.

FOR SALE!

SASH, DOOR & FURNI-
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Situate on CANAL BASIN, OTTAWA.

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Apply to PINHEY & CHRISTIE,

Barristers, Ottawa.

VALUABLE

Mill Property

FOR SALE.

The subscriber offers for sale the

Steam Saw & Shingle Mill

known as the ‘‘Soper” Mill, now rented to James
Leishman ; situated in front of the Bracebridge Wharf,
Muskoka River, and within a short distance of the pro-
posed railway.

This Mill is in first-rate order, the machinery new,
and is capable of cutting 25,000 feet of lumber per day.
For further particulars apply to

FREDERIC HAMMET,

10L2 BRACEBRIDGE P. 0.

J.T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
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CRAIG & CAMERON,

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EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
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Send Address for Price List, Terms, &c.
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FOR LUMBERMEN |!
Poleroad Tramway Cars

Will Carry 2,000 Feet of Hard-
wood Lumber per Load

Drawn with one span of horses, either summer or
winter, on Round Pole Roads, which are cheap and
speedily built.

The woodwork of the Car can be built by any handy
man in a couple of days. The undersigned supply the
ironwork complete, including bolts and washers and a
diagram of car.

The wheels are adjustable on its axles to accommo-
date itself to any bend in the pole. The weight of
ironwork is 2,250 lbs. Price on application to

C. NORSWORTHY & Co.,
ST. THOMAS, Ont.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s

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LOG TRANSPORTATION.

Tn another column will be found an article on
the future supply of logs for the Saginaw river
mills. The following from the Green Bay Ad-
vocate may prove the solution of the practicabili-
ty of transferring logs from Georgian Bay to
the Saginaw river: ‘‘One of the greatest im-
provements made of late years in the lumbering
business is in the facility and safety of handling
logs. It is not many years ago when it was
considered a very risky thing to carry logs a
few miles on the bay. It was always done by
towing, and numerous rafts were broken up and
the logs scattered all along the beach. Improve-
ments were finally made in rafting, securing
greater safety ; and then followed the building
of scows to carry the logs. The latter seems to
be the best and safest plan, and the scow mode
of transportation, or rather the mode of getting
the logs on and off the scows, is being improved
upon. Wm. Baptist & Son, of this city, have
probably as good an arrangement of this kind as
can be built.

Now the Two Rivers Wooden Ware Manu-
facturing Company have adopted Mr. Baptist’s
plan and are carrying it into effect. They are
building a powerful tug at Wolf & Davidson’s
yard, Milwaukee, and a scow to carry 150,000
feet of pine. The scow is being built in the
best and strongest manner and hoisting appar-
atus similar to Mr, Baptist’s put in. ‘The outfit
will be complete. The design is to carry logs
from different points on the Green Bay and
Lake Michigan shore to the factory at Two
Rivers. They are now ready to handle logs at
any point where they can be landed on the beach
or in the water, and are making contracts all
along the Green Bay shore for pine, maple,
beech, oak and birch logs.

The advantages of this plan will be readily
seen. ‘The scow can run close in shore and take
small lots of logs that are too distant from the
landings of the mills to be hauled by train and
points where rafting would be difficult, if there
were logs enough to warrant it. It will enable
persons clearing up their land to utilize their
logs and make a profit on them, while otherwise
they would have to roll them in heaps and burn
them to get rid of them; so that the arrange-

ment is a mutual benefit to the owners of the
mills and the soil.

Our informant, who is a member of the Two
Rivers Company, informs us that they lost
fortunes years ago in not having an arrangement
similar to this for getting their logs. We call

he attention of mill men to this item.—ZLumober-
man’s Gazette.

GEORGIAN BAY LOGS.

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
in an article on the rapid exhaustion of their
pine timber, and the sources of their future
supply of saw logs, writes as follows :—

Present indications point to the fact that this
supply will ultimately be obtained from the
Georgian Bay country ; and when we understand
that some of our far-seeing, best informed and
practical men are investing in the timber lands
of the country, we are strengthened in the
belief that the plan is feasible, and that these
investments made by Bay City and Saginaw
operators are based solely on the object and with
the purposes indicated above.

We are also strengthened in our belief in the
feasibility of the plan of supplying the Saginaw
river mills with the logs, from a conversation a
few days since with E. H. Hazelton, of Phila-
delphia, a gentleman of extended information,
and wide experience in the lumber business,
who favored us with a friendly call. Mr. H.
was formerly interested with the Flint & Pere
Marquette railroad, and more recently with W.
S. Gerrish, in the Gerrish logging railroad, and
the extensive Clare county lumbering operations.
His health becoming impaired by a too close
application to business, about three years ago
he removed to Colorado with the purpose of
recruiting his exhausted energies. Receiving
the hoped for beneficial results, he made a visit
to the Georgian Bay country in order to obtain
information from a personal examination and
observation in regard to the quality and extent
of the timber resources of that country. So
well satisfied did he become that he made imme-
diate purchases on French river, in Muskoka,
and returned home, He ia now on the route to

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revisit the section of country where he made his
investment, with a view of a more thorough
examination, more extended information, and
further outlay of capital. He is most‘favorably
impressed with the timber resources of that
section and informed us that on the French
river in Muskoka district there is a belt of tim-
ber 100 miles wide by 300 miles long, and that
other Saginaw river men have already invested
in the timber adjacent to that and other streams
in what is understood as the Georgian Bay
country. ’

But the next question for consideration, after
it has been satisfactorily demonstrated that
there is an abundance of timber which is obtain-
able in that country, is the feasibility of the
proposition to transport it to the Saginaw river
and make it available in sufficient quantity to
supply the capacious maw of about one hundred
of the most extensive lumber and shingle
manufactories which are grouped together on
the continent. This, of course, could only be
accomplished by water transportation and the
adoption of some method by which they can be
towed or transported in large bodies. It has
been very effectually demonstrated that the
towing of large timber rafts long distances is
within the range of possibility, the only question
being the ability, to sufficiently secure them
against the storms by which they are liable to
be overtaken on*the route. That the genius of
the age, combined with the practical ability
and sound judgment engaged in the lumber in-
dustry will devise some method by which such
a desirable result shall become an accomplished
fact, is within the scope of the conception of
any person particularly interested, and that the
transportation of logs from the Georgian Bay to
the Saginaw can be accomplished under such
conditions as shall return a reasonable remunera-
tion, we believe to be within the range of
practical demonstration, and we are sustained
in this conclusion by men who have had un-
limited experience and abundant opportunities
to satisfy themselves in this respect, and by the
further and conclusive fact that some of our
shrewdest operators are taking advantage of the
opportunities offered them in the territory under
consideration,

The shores of Georgian Bay, into which many
of the streams running into the heart of the pine
timber territory empty, is lined with islands
which afford ample shelter for rafting operations,
and there are many other advantageous sur-
roundings, all of which sustain the feasibility of
the proposal to supply the extensive lumber
manufactories on the Saginaw river with stock
from the Georgian Bay territory, after that of
the lower peninsula of Michigan shall have be-
come completely exhausted.

DECAY OF SPRUCE TIMBER.

The following letter appears in the Montreal
Witness :—

Srr,—I wish to bring the subject of the fear-
ful destruction going on in our forests amongst
the spruce timber before the people, to see if
there are any person or persons who are able to
give the cause of this wholesale dying out of the
spruce in our forests, for I cannot. I also wish
te bring the subject before the minds of the
owners of timber lands so that there may be
means provided to save as much as possible out
of the timber before it is entirely spoiled, which
will take*only a few years to render it worth-
less. For the information of such parties I will
give my experience in those localities where I
have been, and before going further, I will say
I should be very glad to hear from others,
through the papers or otherwise, of the state of
the spruce timber in other sections away from
those of which I shall speak. In the course of
the last three or four years I have travelled
more or less throughout the townships of Duds-
well, Stoke, Windsor and St. Camille, and feel
safe in saying that one-half of the spruce timber
in these townships is entirely dead, and a great
number of those trees that are not dead are in
the first stages of decay, noticeable by the lower
boughs becoming dry. Now the most of this
timber to-day is sound and might be saved if
the owners would sell it, and by so doing realize
out of the stumpage. The price this lumber is
bringing in the market is such that I am sure
there are plenty of parties who would invest
sufficient capital to get it to market, provided

they could get it from the owners of the lands.
To show how little some men know about tim-
ber I will relate a talk I fad with an agent of
the British American Land Company. I said
to him, ‘‘Why do not the company sell the
spruce timber on their lands before it is entirely
spoiled?” His answer was, “‘Oh, there is
plenty more growing,” which shows how little
he knew about spruce timber in our forests.
The small trees to which he referred that grow
up amongst the large timber on the ridges where
the most of the spruce timber is found are good
for nothing, and never will be of any value.
The most of them are a scrubby second growth,
and not one to ten of them but are rotten at the
bottom, and they are also dying. It is very
singular what causes the trees to die, some say
one thing and some another, but uone of the
causes given seem reasonable tome. The trees
seem to become dead from top to bottom all at
once. J have myself this last winter, on my
own land, cut trees that two years ago were to
all appearance perfectly green and thrifty, and
when cut there was not a vestige of anything
green about them, but they were perfectly
sound. There are millions of feet of spruce
timber standing upon the British American
Land Company’s land in the townships before
mentioned, in the very same state. The com-
pany, I believe, refuse to sell the timber off
their lands, but prefer to sell their land and give
the buyer the benefit of the timber. This is
only right, but the timber being in such a state
of decay I think the company would be acting
wisely to sell it rather than let it stand and spoil
and never do anyone any good, as will certainly
be the case if it is not cut very soon. The same
is applicable to all owners of timber lands as
well as the British American Land Company
in the localities of which I speak. How it may
be in other places I do not know, but would be
glad to learn, for it is going to be a greater
damage to the country than many expect. I
hope that those for whom this information is
intended will take the trouble to enquire into
the matter and act accordingly.

FatRMAN HALL,
Dudswell Centre, April 3, 1882.

FORESTRY CONGRESS.

Cincinnati, April 25.—The Forestry Con-
gress met at the Music Hall this morning. A
large number of men who have given the subject
of Forestry attention were present. Governor
Foster is here. Ex-President Hayes will be
here. There was no business of importance in
the forenoon, and no speeches.

Hon. E. F. Noyes was chosen temporary
chairman; Alfred Springer, of. Cincinnati,
Secretary. The following committee was ap-
pointed to frame a constitution and by-laws :—
Prof. Hough, of Washington, D.C. ; Dr. John
Warder, of Ohio ; G. B. Loring, of Washington,
D. C.; Rev. John M. Walden, of Cincinnati ;
General C. C. Andrews, of St. Paul, Minn. ;
Prof. Wm. Saunders, of London, Ont. ; John |
H. McMakin, of Cincinnati; General Durbin
Ward, of Lebanon, Ohio.

Among the persons present are Hon, Casius
M. Clay, of Kentucky ; ex-Gov. Charles Ander-

son, ex-Gov. J. D. Cox, Hon. James Little, of
Montreal; N. H. Eggleston, of Williamstown,
Mass. ; G. B. Bruckett, of Iowa ; E. M. Calkins,
of Iowa; Prof. Spalding, of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
Chas. J. L. Meyer, of Fond du Lac, Wis.,
Joseph W. Starr, of Nebraska; Prof. F. L.
Harvey, of the Arkansas Industrial University.

The committee reported a constitution, which
was adopted. It provides that the name shall
be the American Forestry Congress, the object
to encourage the protection and planting of
forest and ornamental trees, and to promote
forest culture. An initiation fee of $2 shall be
required, and the annual dues shall be $L
Besides the usual officers of President, Vice-
Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurer, it is pro-
vided there shall be executive committees for
each district, a committee on annual meeting,
and local committees, all elected annually.
After this year the Presidents of State, Terri-
torial and Provincial Associations shall be Vice-
Presidents of this Congress. The United States
and Canada are divided into eleven districts,
according to climate and vegetation. George
B. Loring, of Washington, D.C., Commissioner
of Agriculture, was elected President. Each
State is represented by a Vice-President. W.
G. Beal, for Michigan.

President Loring, on taking the chair, de-
livered a well prepared address.

Sections were then formed on the uses of
forests, conservation of forests, influence of
forests and educational means. Chairmen for
each were appointed to examine the papers
offered.

THE Timber Trades Journal says the long
spell of easterly wind has told its tale on the
spring fleet, which are now coming forward to
the outports as well as to London in unusually
large numbers. Pif-props are arriving rapidly
at the north-east ports. Of the sixty carges
received this season at West Hartlepool, the
majority are wood of this description. At
Sunderland the arrivals of mining timber have
been exceptionally heavy.

THE Timber Trades Journal says the arriva

of 102 timber laden vessels at London during
the week ending the 12th of April is rather a
startling importation so early in the year ; of
these only 14 were steamers. Last year at the
same period 33 vessels all told were regarded as
a pretty fair supply, but vessels were only then
just getting out from the southern Swedish and
Norwegian ports. But now apparently the
shipping trade is well on for the season.

Tue Canadian Manufacturer says :—*‘In con-
nection with the rapid settlement of Manitoba
and the North-west, the construction of house

| timber, in parts, ready to be put together, is be-

coming a business at points in the old provinces.

| A great deal of the timber used in the North-

west is carried there from points in Ontario,and
even from as far east as the province of Que-
bec; and, while the work can be done cheaper

here, the cost of transportation isno more, It

is therefore likely that there will be a consider-
able development of this new industry.”

. LIVERPOOL STOCKS.

We take from«the Timber Trades Journal

the following Comparative Table showing Stock

of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on March 31st, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for

the month of March, 1881 and 1882 :—

| C ‘ Consumption
: Stock, March 31st.| Stock, March Sist\for the month ‘or the
| 1882. | 1881. March 1882, March, 1881.
uebec Square Pine......0s.seeewessserdons 119,000 ft. | 725,000 ft. )

ba Waney Boards ctu «cater cumkeceee 219,000 “ 238,000 ** 80,000 ft. 83,000 ft.

St. dohn ‘Bing \ fade ct aa, hee caso. the Sate 10,000 ‘ 16,000 ‘* 6,500 “ 4,000 “

Other 'PortePinemtss. Cave ec ce ewe acane. 29,000 * 56,000 “ 4,000 ** =

PibCHi ine we wren Cust cmatas Oka cs oe meen 635,000 ‘ 489,000 “ 201,000 ‘ 198, a

las BV nn wane eee yune ade bie uals wee om 440,000 ‘* 411,000 “ 189,000 “* 126, “3
“6 DIADEN hss Seen ee Ove ap os 60,000 “* 186,000 “* 60,000 ** 20,000 “*

Ried inet she GAS cabs cic doe Wms + 0 Seat cntorne 27,000 ** 48,000 ‘ — 5,000 “*

Danteipy eso.s Rannng cme meee Cone sic venenieelsinn 24,000 “* 144,000 “‘ 4,000 “* 47,000 “

Sweden and Norway Fir... ......esseeeeecees 8,000 “ 9,000 “* 2,000 *“ —

Oak MCnriatinns che stor ta divns sesh sancti Stes. 264,000 ‘* 444,000 “ 30,000 ‘* 000 “
WS Plarikwtere cece eek seth ene uttes weeia ce 53,000 ‘* 114,000 ‘‘ $7,000 ** 15,000 **
MBSR O ear cases dean Rn NNCaawrc gies 60,000 < 49,000 * = =

Hellin Fete oes cea s OF gaan oes Se 45/000 “ 37,000 “ 5,000 “ 4,000 “

ARH ER EeER saree 14,000 ‘* 7,000 “* 1,000 “« 2,000 “*

BARB Ne care'catc $1,000 “ 140,000 ‘ 37,000 “< 67,000 “*

Greenheart.... 21,000 “ 47,000 “‘ 16,000 << 5,000 **

East India Teak. 96,000 “ 14,000 “* 27,000 “ 1,000 “

oat Same 5,848 stds, 9,181 stds. 799 stds. 987 stds.

N. B. & N.S. Spruce Deal 10,464 “ 22,895 “* « «

: oy nes eC \ 8,659 3,541

Baltic Deals ...<...5.c.veenes 2,888 ‘* 6,159 “‘ 442 “* 500 “

Bist Weeds Se ame Usiniva etic UNnce See MAIRN 60 “* 502 “* so “ 80 “*
‘* Flooring Boards...... Gia wal ie cae eens 2,048 “ 2,043 “* Soa“ sis *

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Tuk new pulp mills at Riviere du Loup, en
bas, are now in successful operation. The build-
ing stands at the foot of a cliff ninety feet in
height, from the brow of which a column of
water enclosed in an almost vertical cylinder,
six feet in diameter at the top and three feet at
the bottom, acts upon a turbine, producing a
potential driving force of 850 horse power.

Tue Hau Claire Lumber Company has estab-
lished the following schedule of wages for the
season, 11 hours being considered a day’s work,
and extra time being allowed proportionately.
Filers, (per diem) $5; head sawyers, $4 ; gang
sawyers, $3.50@$3.75; edgers, $2.50; butting
sawyers, $1.75 ; slab sawyers, $1.61; foreman,
rafting, $2.10 ; rafters, $1.60 ; common rafters,
$1.50 ; common mill laborers, $1.50.

OnE of the biggest logging transactions, if not
the biggest, that ever occurred in Davenport
took place on Tuesday, between H. Brown &
Co., of Williamsport, Pa., and Page, Dixon &
Co., of this city. The firm of Brown & Co. was
represented by its senior member, H. Brown,
who has for years been one of the most exten-
sive dealers in logs in the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan regions. The completed negotiations of to-
day embraced no less than 17,000,000 feet of
logs, which are in Beef Slough and along the
Chippewa river. The true figures are private,
but it is understood among lumbermen to lay
between $175,000 and $200,000.—Davenport
Democrat.

A GRENVILLE despatch, dated May 2nd, says
some. barges and American boats are now at
Greece’s Point on the way to Ottawa for cargoes
of lumber. Navigation is now fully open here.
The steamer Carillon, with six barges whose
cargo consisted of thirteen hundred and thirty-
seven thousand feet of sawn lumber, for Bur-
lington, passed down yesterday morning. Some
of those barges are quite new, this being their
first trip, and are very much larger than the old
style of craft, so much so that instead of the
ordinary lockage of four vessels at a lockage,
only one of those could be passed through at a
time. The steamer Mink and eight barges also
passed down and two rafts have already landed
on the south shore at Grant’s Point.

Chips.

Tr has been resolved by the Harbour Board
at Cork, Ireland, to plant a number of trees, 30
feet apart, on the Marina.

LAKE Winnipeg will send in 12,000,000 feet of
lumber this season. The six mills are all work-
ing up to their capacity.

Tua mills of the Eau Claire Lumber Company
at Eau Claire, Alma and Meriden, Wis., are
slashing up half a million of lumber daily.

Wricuat & KercHam, in Midland county,
Mich., intend to put a heavy engine on their
logging road, sufficient to pull 25 loaded cars.

A Loe railroad will have to be built at Gil-
christ Creek in Alpena county, in order to get
to the river logs that are skidded at that place.

THE vestry of Paddington has resolved to

various streets, at an estimated cost of £12,072.

A Buook of creosoted pine, in use in the street
pavement at Galveston for seven years, was re-
cently examined and found to have lost but an
eighth of an inch.

In central Wisconsin it is feared that many
logs on the smaller tributaries to the main
streams will be hung up for lack of the usual
spring rise of water.

THE waters in the streams tributary to the
Saginaw river, in Michigan, are falling so rapidly
that it is feared a large amount of logs will be
hung up unless there is rain.

THE arrivals of wooden cask hoops on the
Tyne have recently been on an extensive scale.
These goods are principally imported from
Rotterdam, and are used at the cement works,
chemical factories, and other local industries.

I. K. Kerr, of Eau Claire, Wis,, has banked
5,360,000 feet of logs this winter, which was over
a quarter of a million more than he anticipated.
This isa very unusual case. Mr. Kerr estimates
that the cut of logs on the Chippewa will run 90
per cent. of the anticipated quantity.

QUARTER-SAWED sycamore is beginning to be
used to some extent for finishing purposes, and
quarter-sawed beech is also coming into favor in
the same capacity, these woods somewhat taking
the place of oak. Birch is also being employed
in house-finishing with satisfactory results.

Mr. J. S. Situ, of Jacksonville, Fla., is
making an effort to establish a pulp and paper
mill at that point. The intention is to use
palmetto wood. A factory such is as contemplat-
ed would cost from $75,000 to $80,000. Several
Washington capitalists are taking the matter
under advisement.

At Albany, N.Y., prices of hardwood have
advanced recently, good walnut going up from
$10 to $20 per thousand, and most of the other
woods being elevated more or less. Sycamore
went up $2, whitewood dropped $5, and chestnut
and oakadyvanced. The lower grades of hickory
and ash advanced also.

By the terms of the lien law passed by the
Wisconsin legislature the present winter, any
laborer shall have a lien on logs for work done
in connection with the getting them off the land
and into the market. A promissory note given
to secure the debt will not release the lien unless

“it be so nominated.”

A Prat of Caldwell township, Missaukee
county, Mich., has been made with reference to
its standing pine, by which it appears that there
is yet 197,000,000 on the stump. If such plats
could be made by townships throughout the
state, somewhat near an estimate of the standing
pine in Michigan could be reached.

A. Loe jam one and a half miles long has
formed eighty miles up the Chippewa at a point
known as Gaynor’s landing, and the water has

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The jam is composed of miscellaneous logs,
mostly belonging to the Beef Slough Company.

A NoveL enterprise will be started in Hamil-
ton shortly. Mr. C. H. Logan, of Newark, N.
J., has leased the building on the Great West-
ern railway track east of the city, for the pur-
pose of building houses and exporting them to
the North-west. All that is necessary for the
construction of wooden houses will be manufac-
tured on the premises. Mr. Logan has had a
large experience in Newark, where he is a part-
ner in « large factory of that kind,

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9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

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BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER. |

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

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JOSEPH MCAFEE,

(Late Axous McArez.)

Warehouse, Main 8t., St. John, N-B.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

MANUFACTURER OF

Cooking, Ship, Parlor & Office Stoves

MILL CASTINGS

Ship Windlasses, Capstans, and
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(MADE TO ORDER.)

Power Capstans, Patent Ship Pumps

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Lead Scuppers & Water Closets & all
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Work done to Order with Quick Despatch.

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Union Street, - - - Carleton,

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
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Warerooms, Water Street,

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(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

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Ships Windlasses, Iron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS of all kinds.

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves
COOKING AND HEATING

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Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins

Agricultural Implements.

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May save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the
judicious use of such articles of diet thata constitution
may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency to disease, Hundreds of subtle mala-
dies are floating around us ready to attack wherever
there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal
shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure
blood and a properly nourished frame.”—Civil Service
Gazette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
packets and tins only (3-Ib. and lb.) labelled

JAMES EPPS & C0., Homeopathic Chemists,
London England. il4

Portable
Mills, ete., furnished on short notice.
tested by cold water pressure to 150 lbs. to the square

Boilers for Threshing Machines, Shingle
All Boilers

inch before leaving the shop,

SECOND-HAND MACHINERY

BOUGHT, SOLD, OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR
NEW WORK,

ges Repairs Promptly Attended to.

188 Atwater Street, Detroit, Mich.

BRANCH SHOP,
Cor. Glengarry Ave. & Stuart St.
In11 WINDSOR, ONTARIO.

154

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

AMarket Heports.

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.
May 8th.—Prices at the yards remain firm at
last quotations, and trade is exceedingly flat.

T question indeed if retailers have ever experi-

enced a duller month than the one just closed.
The carpenters’ strike is now over and the men
haye returned to work, at least such as were
able to regain their places, but the masters had
the advantage, and refused to take any men but
such as suited them, and the result is that the
poorest men are left out in the cold, but the in-
evitable result of all such strikes is now being
felt by all who are in any way interested in the
building trade.

Shipping at the docks is quite active, and
shippers have little to complain of as regards
car accommodation. The average weekly ship-
ments for the last two weeks has been about
3,000,000 feet from the N. & N. W. R. Docks,
which is quite a respectable showing, but it is
extremely doubtful if shipments will continue
at this rate for any length of time, as the total
cut for the season is largely dependent on June
freshets, and the quantity of logs now at the
mills is comparatively small, and the balance of
last season’s cut will soon be all forward.

T hope that in my next letter I may be able
to give you a more hopeful statement as regards
building operations and the state of the retail
trade here.

Tn my last letter the name of the firm of John
Kennedy & Co., of McDonnell Square, was in-
correctly given as Kineely.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling............+..0+. $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 12 00
BLOCKS tateeiatctewiinteiata)steiaiaisotsiaivln raisin 14 00

Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft....ceeeeseeeeeeee 14 00
We ED Mare ak 6 COB AEDT A 14 50

£ OY We LVL olaleisveteseleiaia\efoislehs aie’ 16 00

ud OY y! SLORLUslley al efoie eecesvoene 16 50

= ee z DATES aatovaleiavers) » oleleale jee 16 00

sk ss os QBAGs sc leleeecnsevnvene 16 50
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ft. Sricg Lye (lt)
DOLL Gay siejolelele)sinvolefe(eselelsiels 18 00

“ “cr ee

32 ft
34 fi

“ oe “

“ “e “ec
“ oc “cr
“cs CG “

40 to 44 ft
Cutting up planks to ue dodud
boards ‘*
Sound dressing stocks........
Picks Am. inspection..... 0
Three uppers, Am. inspection...

B, M.
i}-inch flooring, ATCSSED Fi Tease ele eleisle clea) esol eye 80 00
uu rough. 16 00
ib oS dressed 26 00
7 OS af undresse 16 00
A vs dressed 23 00

UG uM undressed . 17 00
2 Beaded Sheeting, dressed 22 50
Clapboarding, dressed . 12 50
XXX sawn shingles, ¥ M
XX sawn shingles....... 2 75
SALAMA Nay atetsicrereharetetonereisielolersicteieisiee! svere caieictereiele 2 50

—————
OTTAWA.

Fyrom our own Correspondent.

May 8th.—All the saw mills hereabouts are
in full operation, a number of them having
already commenced running at night. This
augurs well for a busy season, which no doubt
will be the case, as the demand is very good.
Everything at present is favorable to the
lumbermen, and providing no unforseen obstacles
arise, the cut this season will surpass that for
many years past. No complaints are made of
scarcity of men. Wages are somewhat higher
than last year. In the House of Commons a
few nights since a subject was brought up which
is of vital importance to the lumbermen of the
Ottawa. Mr. Rochester, the member for Carle-
ton county, who is also a saw mill owner, urged
upon the Government the necessity of building

A DAM ACROSS THE OTTAWA

at the foot of Lake Temiscamingue, in order
that a reservoir might be made to hold back the
spring freshets and utilize the water later on in
the season, when it is actually required for
navigation. ‘There is no doubt but that the
Ottawa River yequires some more improvements
in order that the lumber trade may have more
than the present conveniences ; and the Govy-
ernment’s complying with Mr. Rochester’s re-
quest would be a big step in this direction. The
lumbermen at present are compelled to, and
have for years, built dams on smaller lakes to
regulate navigation, but it is found almost im-
possible to erect dams of sufficient strength to
withstand

THE SPRING FRESHETS.
then it begins to recede.

hard to get the timber and logs down the river,

for navigation. If a dam was built at where
Mr. Rochester suggested, in order to keep back

a certain amount of the spring freshet, there

would be navigation during the months of low
water. ‘To show the necessity for further
IMPROVEMENTS ON THE OTTAWA,
it might be said that of the logs and timber
taken out by the various firms last year not
more than one-half was navigated to the mills,
and this is a serious loss. The usual cut is
about 3,000,000 feet of lumber, but last year it
reached to only 1,500,000, or 2,000,000 at the
outside. Mr. Rochester clearly proved that the
building of this dam would not, as some sup-
posed, interfere with the land surrounding the
lake. A dam at the point indicated would
enablethe mills here torun straight along through
the summer, which they cannot at present do,
and it would, as said before,
GREATLY AID NAVIGATION.
It was shown that the average load of a barge
in July was 275,000 feet board measure, while
from the middle of July to the middle of Sep-
tember it is 107,000, or a difference of 168,000
feet. The expense of taking that barge from
this city to Montreal fully loaded would be just
as much as taking it with a half load. At low
water it costs $2 more to drive logs than it costs
in June. Notwithstanding that the dam at the
foot of Lake Temiscamingue would be of great
benefit, Mr, Currier, M.P., and also a large
lumberman, took some
OBJECTION TO THE SCHEME.
He held that a dam at the foot of the Lake
would completely ruin the farming lands around
it, and he said it would also submerge the Hud-
son Bay station. He suggested that a dam be
constructed at the foot of Seven League Lake,
about thirty miles below Temiscamingue. This
would extend the navigation upon that Lake
down to a point within thirty miles of the
Mattawa, on the line of the C. P. Railway.
It is to be hoped that the Minister of Public
Works will push this matter through at as early
a date as possible, and by so doing he would be
conferring an everlasting benefit on the great
lumbering interest of the Ottawa.
renee
MONTREAL,
From our own Correspondent.

May 9th.—Local trade has been good, and
there has been an active demand for building
lumber at full prices, but with the large receipts
coming in now and expected during the season,
it is more than likely that the present high
prices will hardly be maintained, but as yet
there is no appearance of them giving way, as
last year’s stock of seasoned lumber here is
small. We have no change to make in our price
list, and continue to quote as follows :—

Pine, 1st quality, @ M.. . $35 V0@40 00
Pine, bate Lie #M.. 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, a M. - 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, ® M.. 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, WM. . 8 00@10 00
Spruce, # M.......4 . 10 00@11 00
Hemlock, # M.. ... 9 00@11 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls out, i ut. . 16 00@18 00
MY M

Bass, 16 00@17 00
Oak,” eM 385 00@45 00
Birch, #® M 17 00@20 00
Hard Maple, 8 M 18 00@25 00
Lath, 1 50@ 0 00
Shingles, Ist, @M .... ......08 Wolasive cide 8 00@ 0 00

Shingles, 2nd, ®BM......0......seeneeees 2 00@ 0 00
SHIPPING,

Nothing has been done yet in the way of
shipping lumber, no vessels having yet arrived
in port, but shippers are receiving stock both
from below and by the canal from Ottawa, so
that as soon as ships arrive, loading will be

active for a time.
FREIGHTS.

There has not -been much transpiring in the
way of chartering vessels for South America,
some engagements, however, have been made
at $14@§$15.50. By the date of our next report
business ought to have made a fair start, as it
is, we are yet between the seasons, when very
little can be said about business.

CORDWOOD.

Some boats with cordwood have arrived both
from below and by the Lachine canal. Wood is
scarce in the country, and prices are likely to

The high water lasts only about ten days and
In some years in the

month of July the water is so low that it is very

and it is equally difficult for vessels on the
Ottawa carrying lumber to find water enough

rule high, as people are asking about $1 a cord | F or EULOpe.sesesesessesers opoecee 14,082,000 Sup. feet.

more than they did last year. Demandisim-| « United States. a te s . + BT 000 if

proving here, and railway prices are still asked] Wo shipments of sugar box hie Seen

on the wharfs, which we now quote, ex cartage : report.

Tong ataple see eeee OOOO eee e ee eeeenee steeneee % ee SHIPPING. .
Long Birch. ............sssssssscssssssesecsss. 600| The following is a list of the vessels in port,

ener eit Seerridesalcrintiesics's pio: ebioiehlps Poser tee 4 “4 with their tonnage and destinations :—

Short LLIN, 5 00| John Black, 645, W. C. England, E. C. L, or Glas-

Long, Tamarack’, sisicsisieievieeps\sine sisie rsieeneissieaollg 5 00 | gow.

BOrp eM Ni levtslenisinsee sWiintoesaspainey sees» 460] Kate Crosby, 696, E. C. I., W. C. E. or Glasgow.

Chrysolite, 1,097, Liverpool.

Antwerp, 573, ——

Albuera, 655, W. C. England.

Ophir, 813, Liverpool.

Serrano, 594, ——

M. A. Palmer, 299, ——

Orontes, 740, W. C. England.

Altamaha, 314, W. C. England.

Arklow, 740, Liverpool.

State of Alabama, (s), 1,511, United Kingdom.

Ashburne, (s), 1,613, United Kingdom,

Fitzroy, (8), 1,064, United Kingdom.

Henry, 1,095, Liverpool. _
Georgie, 646, W. C. England.
Galatea, (s), 1,330, United Kingdom.
Rurik, 881, —— 4
Minnie Swift, 1,150, discharging.
Broomhaugh, (s), 1,362, United Kingdom
Low Wood, 1,091, W. C. England.

LONDON, ONT.
From our own Correspondent.

May 10th.—The lumber business here since
my last letter has not shown any movement
towards activity, on the contrary, it is remark-
ably quiet for this season of the year. Little
building in going on, and the season continues
very backward, The only important operations
going on is the laying of the cedar block pave-
ment on Richmond street, from Dundas street
to the G. W. R. station. The contractor for
this job is Mr. Wm. Cuthro, of this city. He
is obtaining the posts from Wingham, where he
has purchased one hundred acres of cedar. The
posts are all peeled and the blocks cut in Wing-
ham, previous to shipment down here. It is

estimated that the covering with blocks of the} Endrick, 325, —
portion of Richmond street now contracted for} Crown Jewell, 716, W. C. England. :
will take about 12,000 posts. Melbourne, @21, —— ‘
Prices of lumber remain firm at my last quo- Pet a ae mm)
tations, which are as follows :— "| ae
QUOTATIONS. —
Mill cull boards and scantling................... gi200| May 10.—Quotations at the yards are as

Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths.......

10 and 12in. stocks....... follows :—

Common boards, promiscuous widths........... 15 00 | Pine, clear, @M.....-....sseeeeer screens $55 00@63 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft.....-.....es0eeee 16 00 A, fourths a oo nel iee'o s ow a vets ORNs . eo pend =
ete BBB eeesseneseesavens 16 60 | Pine’ good DOK ec
“ “ Pine, 10-in. plank, each.- «4. esses 00 38@00 44
“ “ ” Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... +++. 00 19@00 22
aoe ee _ Pine —— 10-in. 5 ee eerr rere Teter - Sone o
Cutting hans edi boards. : 20 00 Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., OM, wincnss * 25 00@30 00
Sound dressing stocks... . 19 00 | Pine! Iain, beards, 1Sft,..<.sccceccece2e OOS OD
Three uppers, Am, inspectio 35 00 | Pine, Abin siding, select....++.0.++0000. 33 00@40 00
finch creme Ra manent ogra 22 00 | Pine, 1:in, siding’ scloct....ccces02.-121 a0 OOS 60
l«“ “ “ “ a 22 00 Pine, inch siding, common.... .........- 16 00@19 00
XXX sawn shingles, @M............. .. 8 25 | Spruce, boards, each.........ss+s+-...+« 00 00@00 1)
Lath per L000 /f6e6.;, 5 .cints sich chwulcers teew ee sl me 5 00 eer a In. — ot eee = poe ~
= ee aS Spruce, wall strips, each......---...-...- 00 11@00 12
ST. JOHN, N. B, Leper ewe
From our own Correspondent. Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .......0.006-- 00 00@00 13 .
May 6th.—The weather continues cold and ey past bias 2x4, each. ....--.+. 4 aoe ~
backward for this season of the year. Theriver | Ash, eee quality, @M.-.......... IIT 25 00@30 00
became sufficiently clear of ice for the resump- che jaa 7. eee 4 pon -
tion of navigation only in the present week, the | Oak, good, @M............+s tc sseess.. 88 00@43 00
first steamer reaching Fredericton on Tuesday, ee a ality, ©: :..sesshereaes 4 conse
the 2nd May ; last year the same trip was ac- | Hickory, # M. MOREE
complished on the 11th of April ; that, however, Maple peer reli ay 8 pas Z = pores “
was exceptionally early. From alltheindications | Chestnut, ® M......... “eon Ae : 35 00@40 00
that have come under our notice, the presump- | Singles, pace) om. + 08 :
tion is that stream driving is progressing favor- fs extn sawed, pine 0 O0@ 4 40
ably, the cool, dry weather preventing excessive is os eee . pod . 4
floods, which are sometimes more embarrassing “cedar, XXX 0 00@ 4 00
than a short supply of water. Lath, hence: 4 - 3 ~
STEAMSHIPS. Lath, spruce, ‘ 0 00@ 1 87
With the return of spring we are again | th, pine, nme vin ea SiS it a eve
strongly impressed with the rapidity with which => ee
BOSTON.

the steamships are supplanting sailing vessels
in our wood trade. Since the first of April no
less than fourteen of these great steamships
have already entered our harbor for deal cargoes,
making an aggregate tonnage of 17,171 tons,
and, estimating from the quantity carried by those
already cleared, they will carry over 16,000,000
feet of lumber. The following is a list of the
steamships, with their tonnage :—

The Journal of Commerce, of May 6th, says :
Since our last report there has been a fair and
steady movement. At the same time buyers
are taking hold very cautiously, and are careful
how they order, especially in a large way.
Values remain about the same, with the excep-
tion of spruce, which is a little weak and can be
bought somewhat lower (by the cargo) than last ’

Altmore, 1,352, Crest, 1,098, week, in the New York market. Here prices .
Cherubini, 1,161, Autocrat, 996, remain about the same as before quoted, with a

Parklands, 1,133,
Ashburne, 1,618,
Fitzroy, 1,064,
Jas. Turpie, 1,140, Galatea, 1,330,
State of Alabama, 1,511, Broomhaugh, 1,362.
DEALS.

The deal market is still very firm. $11 per M.
superficial feet is now the price for good deals.
Some sales are reported of special specification
lots as high as $12, but these rates are exception-
al. There appears no prospect of prices being
lower for some time to come.

FREIGHTS,

There is no material change to note in deal
freights, the steamships continuing to monopo-
lize the market for the time being ; two of them,

Jothington, 1,290,
Brooklyn City, 1,122,
Benledi, 999,

fair demand. Pine isin good demand, as are
clapboards and shingles also. This fact is ac-
counted for by the large amount of alterations
which is going on. As regards hard woods,
there is not very much that is new to say. The
demand is fair, and pretty evenly divided.
Walnut and cherry may be said to be in good
demand, with ash, whitewood and oak called
for in about the order named. There is con-
siderable trouble at the west among the loggers
and mill hands concerning wages. Should their
demands be acceded to it would have a tendency
to further stiffen values all around. The fol-
lowing quotations are for carload lots :—
CANADA PINE.

i , 7s. 6d. Selects, Dressed........... Stakes see SMS 00@50 00

oO BE eee moosplly, janes Ss Sie sCaees Shelving, Dressed, Ist. ..--++006 ssss005 40 00@42 00
50s. respectively. SG <a ce ish eee 33 00@S5 00
SHIPMENTS. Dressed ipa Sas euwOSean vussanekacus 27 CO@2 00

x D OS eee webaee seceeesee 18 0O@20 00

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber | sy eathing, Ist quality. <0. 0... sarnyeegss 42 00@45 00
are as follows :— 2 nd. SS OARS BARR 34 00@S5 00

‘

THE CANADS [ LUMBERMAN.

CHICAGO.
May 4.—The Northwestern Lumberman says :
The past week has been a lively one in the

matter of receipts of lumber and shingles at this

port.

As to the general condition of stocks, the
daily digest of the Exchange for May 1 esti-
mates the stock of lumber on hand at that time
at only 55,000,000 feet in excess of that of the
same date last year, a very small excess when
compared with the enormous excess of the season

in receipts.

On Friday of this week an effort was made by
a yard dealer to have a price list meeting of the

Exchange called for the object of making a re-
duction in prices.

went to press.
a section of the yard trade in a manner that
cannot be mistaken.

Receipts and shipments of lumber and shingles

for the week ending May 4, as reported by the

Lumberman’s Exchange :—
RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.

1882. ....53,897,000 18,346,000 42,579,000 27,810,000
1881....- 41, 413, 000 16, 927,000 32,921,000 20,585,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1, to and including May
4th :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
LIwmber. Shingles. Tnmber. Shingles.
1882. . 267,442,000 100,932,000 592,307,000 230,010,000

1881..116,054,000 63,818,000 362,613,000 141,685,000
Inc.151,388,000 37,114,000 229, 229,694,000 88,325,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO MAY 4.
BRT ae ias ods tect oeceagntnecees 175,901,000 78,085,000
DSSI, ceciemigsiecmucceweveene ovels 38,787,000 33,000,000
Crensehjjee see ps ose 05-0 37,114,000 45,085,000
STOCK ON HAND APRIL 1.
1882. 1881. 1880.
Lumber + ee2++279,324,096 322,491,234 263,452,581
Shingles .» 115,263,625 125,648,264 113,593,000
Lath ....ccccceee 20,518,306 33,338,899 30,126,770
Pickets.......... 3,802,011 1,589,064 349,238
Cedar posts.... 145,335 79,887 47,797
eo
OSWEGO, N.Y.
ee AIPPENS so -c cieivinciccscee wesc ecccacs es 00@46 00
Pickin oe ++» 32 00@36 00
. 20 00@25 00

14 00@17 00
. 11 00@14 00
18 00@25 00
33 00@40 00
34 00@40 00
17 00@25 00
25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and ot inch, SPATE 5/08. o's oe ee 18 00@25 00

culls..

1x6 selected for clapboards...... Pe ens 25 00@40 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 4 00@ 4 30
MORK, Winch; Cedar. ....c.coceses 3 00@ 3 50
Ma eee aa eal caie aisle ain \s'0 afsistie.s adv:<\sie.0'0 1 60@ 2 25

—_—__@—__

BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—

WpPPerins occ c. csicncesccvss cecccccocecves $46 00@48 00
CONANT ado als Winicl-iv, olviele visis eye. ale aieicieinese 18 00@19 00
“oe Ar Roo oO CDICObE aor GUCOUMOOBOOOS 13 00@14 00

——__@—__“_—_

TONAWANDA.

CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

Three Save On »° Mcitatefalstele's 6 da’a\sisle ec aia $43 00@48 00
Common 20 00@22 00
Culls...... 14 00@15 00
—_—_e—___—_
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal, of April 29th,
says :—Two public sales of’ American timber
and deals have been held during the week.
At Messrs. Edmiston & Mitchells’ sale on the
20th, the goods offered comprised the usual de-
scription of Canadian woods, and a derelict
brig’s cargo of spruce deals from Buctouche,
N.B., sold without reserve. The attendance
from city and country districts was very nume-
rous, and the various lots were taken up with
spirited bidding. The sale at Glasgow on the
25th of April, by Messrs. Geo. Gillespie & Co.,
as undernoted, was confined to deals only,
chiefly first quality, and a good proportion of
the catalogue was cleared out :—

Quebec Ist quality yellow pine deals—
12 ft. 12/18x3 28 7}d & 2s 8d per c. ft.

W2 (11x3 28 2hd
Hi: es (12/13 x3 2s 6d ES
11x32 281d Ti
ii “ 9x8 1s11}d “
AD £8 11x3 1slld &
10 “ 10x32 1s 104d &
9“ 1x2 189. 2
Mee 10x32 18 94d 55
9 9x2 168d “
Te 8x3 18744 Us
eg 7%3 1874d cbs

Do, 2nd quality yellow pine deals—

12 ft. 9x2 185d és
5 ag 8x3 ls4hd 4
= Da 7x3 144d f
9" 1%% Ist Ve

This movement had not re-
sulted in anything definite when the Lwmberman
It however shows the feeling of

LIVERPOOL,

The Timber Trades Journal, of April 29th,
says :—There was a little more animation shown
in our market during the past week, and an in-
crease in the number of orders is apparent from
the busier aspect of the carriers and railway
wharves. No doubt much of this is to be at-
tributed to the recent auction sales, where
spruce deals and pitch pine timber haye been
forced off at low prices, especially the latter, as
will be seen from the details given below.

The quantity of spruce deals now remaining
in first hands is very small, and with the firm
attitude maintained abroad by shippers prices
should advance, provided the freight market
should improve from its present low condition,
to which it has fallen by the quantity of steam
tonnage driven into this trade.

On the 21st of April Messrs. A. F. & D.
Mackay offered one cargo of spruce deals and
two parcels of birch, together with other goods,
but with the exception of the spruce deals very
little changed hands, the buyers being chiefly
local dealers. 'The prices realized were :—

St. John, N.B., spruce deals—

22 to 27 ft. 3x11

PAN Dal Coley call
16 *f 3x11
15 “* 3x11
14 ‘* 38x11
13 §* 3x11
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9to 11 *§ 3x11
20 ** 3x9
16 “* 3x9
15 “ 3x9

13 “ 3x9
12 “° 3x9

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13 &14 “3x7
St. John bireh—
17 to 18 in. deep 223d per foot,
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THE WILLOW AS A TIMBER TREE.

We quote the following from a paper by Mr.
N. H. Egleston in the Popular Science Monthly
for May :—

There are some trees which are deserving of
more attention than has yet been given them in
this country. The willows, for instance, have
seldom been cultivated in a large way ; and yet
there are few trees so easily grown, or which
will pay better for cultivation. They adapt
themselves to a wide range of soil and climate.
They grow on high ground and on gravelly soils
not less than by the sides of streams, where we
most commonly find them. They are of rapid
growth and yield a large return. The osier-
willow is specially useful, we know, for the
manufacture of baskets, chairs, and other
furniture, and we import it to the extent of
$5,000,000 annually, when we might produce it
easily in almost any part of our country. We
hardly think of the willow as a timber tree or
for the production of lumber, but only as yield-
ing a cheap, poor sort of fuel. But in England
the wood is greatly prized for many purposes.
While it is light it is also tough; it does not
break into slivers. Hardly any wood is so good,
therefore, for the linings of carts and wagons
used in drawing stone or other rough and heavy
articles. It makes excellent charcoal, especially
for the manufacture of gunpowder. It bears
exposure to the weather, and boards made of it
are very serviceable for fences. Some species of
it are admirable for use as a live fence or hedge,
On account of its comparative incombustibility,
the willow is eminently useful for the floors of
buildings designed to be fire-proof. It grows
to a large size and furnishes a great amount of
lumber. There is a white willow growing in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which at four feet
from the ground measures twenty-two feet in
circumference and extends its branches 50 feet
in every direction. Tradition says it was
brought from Connecticut 1m 1807 by a traveller,
who used it as a riding switch. The Hon. Jesse
W. Fell, in giving an account of experiments in
tree-planting, on an extensive scale, in Illinois,
says: ‘‘ Were I called upon to designate one
tree which, more than all others, I would recom-
mend for general planting, I would say unhesi-
tatingly it should be the white willow.” Pro-
fessor Brewer says: ‘‘In England, where it is
often 60 or 70 feet high in 20 years, there is no

wood in greater demand than aby willow. It
is light, very tough, soft, takes a good finish,
will bear more pounding and knocking than any
other wood grown there, and hence its use for
cricket bats, for floats to paddle-wheels of
steamers, and brake-blocks on cars. It is used
extensively for turning, planking coasting
vessels, furniture, ox-yokes, wooden-legs, shoe-
lasts, etc.” Fuller says : “‘ It groweth incredibly
fast—it being a by-word that the profit by
willows will buy the owner a horse before that
by other trees will pay for the saddle.” The
basket-willow, well cultivated, will yield a net
income of $150 a year to the acre. On the
whole, therefore, it would seem that the various
kinds of willow, the economic value of whick
has been hitherto entirely overlooked in this
country, are eminently deserving of attention,
and will amply reward those who cultivate
them.

WALNUT THEN AND NOW.

A few days ago a gentleman froma Indiana
visited the office of the Northwestern Lumber-
man, and his recital regarding the early hard-
wood operations in that state were highly in-
teresting.

““The walnut business,” he said, ‘* has chang-
ed materially since I commenced operations in.
1856. I believe I was the first to ship walnut
out of the state, for I drew lumber several miles
to the terminus of the Lake Shore road that was
being pushed westward. There was no trouble
in getting walnut then. JI remember a tree
that stood not far from my mill in De Kalb
county, and it was decidedly the finest walnut
I have ever seen. The owner of it asked me $5
for it, but I thought the price too high, and
offered him $4, I afterward offered to split the
difference and give him $4,50, but he was a one
price man, and finally I gave him the $5, I
had it cut and hauled to my mill, where it lay
for a year or so before I sawed it. In the
second year of the war I filled a contract for
gun stock timber, and cut the big tree into this
material. The butt log made 1,800 feet of clear
stuff. The whole tree made 5,253 feet of lumber
with the culls out. Culls in those days didn’t
count. They were used for veneering hog pen
floors, and like purposes. I sold the lumber cut
from this tree for $17 a thousand, which I con-
sidered a good price, as up to this date $16 was
the most I had obtained. For the latter price I
have sold thousands and thousands of feet of as
fine counter tops as were ever manufactured.
Speaking of this tree, by the way, could I now
find its mate I would willingly pay $200 for it
standing, and when sawed into eames it would
bring me $500.”

“How about the standing supply of walnut
in Indiana?”

“Tt is very small. When I settled in De
Kalb county there were millions of feet of it,
but there are not now to exceed 200,000 feet in
the entire county. Walnut everywhere in the
state is fast playing out. There are some fine
trees held by eastern capitalists, but fine trees
are scarce. High prices are inducing men to
cut the trees that have been left upon the farms
for shade trees. These are not usually more
than a foot or so in diameter, but for certain
purposes they are preferred to older ones. It is
a shame, though, to cut them for they would
pay a good rate of interest if they were allowed
to grow for a few years yet. There is no such
thing as meeting the demand in Indiana for
walnut lumber. It is wanted both east and

west.”
———————————————

REMARKABLE TREE GROWTH.

A Madras paper, referring to the gardens of
the Aegr-Horticultural Society in that city, says:
“The rain-tree (Pitheco obium saman/ in the
gardens, the measurements of which were given
in the proceedings of 7th of August, 1878, and
then believed to be under six years from the
seed, continues, in spite of its having been ne-
cessary to amputate some of the largest limbs, to
grow enormously, Measured on the 30th of
July last it gave in girth 9 feet 4 inches at the
ground, 6 feet 3 inches at three feet high, and 5
feet 9 inches at five feet high ; in spread about
85 feet from north to south, and a total height
of about 46 feet. A reference to the former
measurements shows that the girth at three feet
from the ground has increased in the last three

years 2 feet 2 inches. The age of the tree is, if

anything, overestimated ; but search is being
made for traces of the receipt of the seed, which,

it is believed, came from Ceylon about 1472

A casuarina-tree standing alongside, which was

the specimen of ite order when that part of the
ground was laid out as the Botanical Garden,
and is therefore knowm to be about ten years
old, now measures at 5 feet from the ground

only 2 feet 84 inches, though it is about 82 feet

high.”

Houses for Transport.

QuxrBec, May 4.—
is being rapidly pushed by the company form-
ed for the purpose at St. Romuald, and of which
Mr. Gravel is manager. The company commen-
ced by building little wooden houses twenty-
four feet square for trans m to Panama
for the use of the cer Gk on the Isthmus can-
al. They have now entered into a contract
with Sheriff Quesnel of Arthabaska to construct
a thousand houses to be forwarded to Manitoba,
some of which are three stories high and sixty
by eighty-three feet.

The manufacture of houses

ortati

Port Hope Shipments.

The Port Hope Times says that during the
past month shipping has been very active in
Port Hope, more especially in lumber. The
figures show that it is ahead of the records of
any previous year. The following are the
amounts shipped :—

nee (OS FR BAR ree - «« «10,390,179
LATS. .. cul tise’ sc ansecessceessons 200,100
Shingles Wo ET's oo a a's oka wsBcoemose 5,065,000
Tied: a5 eRe assae > Os eaasrauaspe 14,047
Cedar posts, (cords).......sseeseeeee 31

THE steam tug Jvy and tow of six light barges
arrivecl up at the Chaudiere, at Ottawa, on May
6th, to load lumber.

$200.00 Reward!

Will be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person selling or dealing in any bogus,
counterfeit or imitation Hop Bitters, especially
Bitters or preparations with the word Hop or
Hops in their name or connected therewith,
that ‘is entended to mislead and cheat the pub-
lic, or for any preparation put in any form, pre-
tending to be the same as Hop Bitters. The
genuine have acluster of Green Hops (notice
this) printed on the white label, and are the
purest and best medicine on earth, for Kidney,
Liver and Nervous Diseases. Beware of all
other's, and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of H op Bitterf published in papers or for sales
as they are frauds andswindles. Whoeverdeals
in any but the genuine will be De a Hop
Bitters Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y.

‘WHy ARE WE Bitious?—Why do we have
Sick headache? Why do we feel weak and
tried with little or no appetite? Why that
coating of the tongue and that bad taste of the
mouth? Your liver is out of order, and does
not do its work as nature designs. Baxter
Mandrake Bitters act directly on the liver,
stomach and bowels. and will relieve you at
once. They are the best medicine known for
costiveness, which is the starting point of ninety-
nine cases out of a hundred of all the complaints
that human flesh is heir to.

“AND fools who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to it
wonderful effects.

LEATHER
BELTING.

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACE LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

NE CY INGE Ey a eo

156

STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS

Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

The Ganadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association

HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.

GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.
A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer.

SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President.
HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres.

ALL KINDS OF
Machinery, Marine, Portable
and Stationary Boilers,
ULP BOILERS for PAPER MILLS.

153 &iSS Front Street, TORONTO,

J. PERKINS, PROPRIETOR

WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

Edge Tools, Axles, Springs gf

&C, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

Robertson Place, Smythe Street -

FOR THE BEST

Mill Machinery,

ADDRESS =

PAXTON, TATE & Co.

Port Perry, Ont.
WaeSend for Illustrated Catalogue.

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ST. JOHN, N.B.|/ gel

b INE WATE R WHEELS

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANI

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. 4g7No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on hand. Agent for Hazelburst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &., &c.

C., &€.
SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Has Facilities

—FOR—

DOING as GOOD WORK

—AND AS—

RO ME

As any Engraver in Canada

ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

1117

SA OS KING STF OG
SoUN WZ

vw? A. LEARMONTH & Go.
ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS,
MANUFACTURER OF
Steam Engines, Rotary Pumps, of all sizes, fer Paper
and Pulp Mills, Steam Pumps, and a Variety of other
Pumps, Propeller Engines for Yachts & Tow Boats.
1119

hid Ni Iron Railings, Hoisting Machines for Stores, Jack Screws, Park
mpage Mills, all kinds of Machinery for Mines, Saw Mills, Flour Mills

St. Paul St., QUEHBEHC.

JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NHW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber. Pine Deck Plank and
Ship Stock Generally.

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_ ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS, BRANTFORD, CANADA,
fole Manufacturers and Owners of Canadian Patent.”

THE CANADA

ADAM MoKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL. SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

To MILLMEN!

HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and
is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is move g the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and van be placed

just were wanted as easily as a file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
lumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in

United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

$100. Send for circulars to
T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

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Northey s Steam Pump Works

BOILER FEED PUMPS, MINING PUMPS,
ATR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS, | PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for
STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and OIL PIPE LINES,
WRECKING PUMPS. And CITY WATER WORKS.

No. 47 King William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 1112

al IN| DIR
GEORGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,
Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,

CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,
Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &c., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR
“‘Water’s’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s”’

fi 4)

1120
Centrifugal Pumps

ESTABLISHED 1874, ESTABLISHED 1874.

‘Curative Appliances

RELIEVE AND CURE

Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price.
A. NORMAN, Esa.,

Dear Sir,—Please send me a waist belt. Enclosed find price.

has almost cured her of neuralgia. Yours truly,

Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy
the attention ofall sufferers. Circulars free. No charge for consultation.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto.

N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best in America, and Electric Batteries always on hana at
reasonable prices, a z 1112 .

WATERVILLE, N. B.
Head band I got for my wife
Cc. L. TILLEY.

LUMBERMAN. 157

Miva Saab las.

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.
Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Eme
Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West V
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of
kinds. Z@-Quotations furnished for any part of Canada 1171

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK

PARKHR& HVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

1119

Manufacturers

or Lace Leather,

SS Mill Supplies, &c.

1113

JAS.ROBERTSON & Go.

TORONTO, ONTARIO,

Manufacturers of Every Variety of

Circular, Mill and Gang Saws
= SAWS REPAIRED =

Emerson Pattern & Lumberman’s Clipper

INSERTED TOOTH SAWS A SPECIALTY.
Hivery Saw Warranted.

a sEND FOR PRICES.SR

158

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

D. McLACHLAN & SONS, |S0 2x GATES FT

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STHAM BOTDLERS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

1145 NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

GRAYS PATHNT

MacHiNeE OILs, Ere. Gradual Reduction Machine

McCOLL BROS. & Co.

AR @ GE EN] Soe

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Uluminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SEND FOR PRICES, HTC. 12

ROBERTSON’S

LIGHTNING CANT-DO

oe aa ey lite, WE ie INT

The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

PETER ROBERTSON,

Chaudiere - - - Ottawa.

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AMERICAN HHAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,
Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

|. WickI:. ROW. JR

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
P.0. BOX 556.

TOROWN TO. [xu

The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.

This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls
and two Reciprocating Sieves.

The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and
middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the
large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through
the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.
Each Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as
on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. s#Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET
IVECO IN TDR Bi A Ta.

serSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller

Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines. ,
Mention this Paper,

nt,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 159

M. Covel’s Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.

CIRCULAR SAW
STEAM FEED!

I would also call special attention to my

Heavy Circular Saw Mills

and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam

Feed, haying put inseveral which are givinz the best of sat- &

isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

GRAVENHURST, August 20th, 1880.
Wm. HAMILTON, FEsq., Peterborough.

DEAR SIR—I have used your Steam Feed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I put itinto my
mill, 1 have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
jJonging toit. I can cut 18 boards 13 ft. long in one minute.
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the carriages in-
stantly. 1 am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
eutting long or short logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst.

ToRoNTO, August 11th, 1880.
Ww. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont.
DEAR SIR—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen-
didly. Yours, &c.,
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

WitELIA We

Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery,
sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double
for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumb

MILL MACHINERY!

mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, mail Hand Gum
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in M

‘HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

op) | G cr t- =

SHNIDNG

Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
with uniformity ot speed, such as is required in Grist and
| = Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large
Y= Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. 1 feel
Z justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish
on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
tainlhy is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power
per hour. 1utf

WEEE. TOR!,

Pe ee Ee Ou Ow GET, .OiN'D.

LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co.,

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,’

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

160 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
> @ PD 2) Ge = a oP G4 &

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened \

' Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants.

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., JUNE 1, 1882.

At the American Forestry Congress a resolu-

e tion was adopted favoring the establishment of

_ experimental stations of forestry throughout the

United States, similar to the German plan, and

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urging that Agricultural Colleges should take
-an active part in the work.

A factory for the manufacture of furniture
yeneering from gum wood, so abundant in
almost all sections of the southwest, has been

erected at Poplar Bluff, Mo., on the line of the

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“ Tuxuriance, scarcely has an equal for shipbuild- |

St. Louis & Iron Mountain railroad. The grain
of this wood is said to be very fine, and when
polished, remarkably beautiful.

COMMENDABLE zeal for tree planting was
shown in Ohio, among other states. It took the
novel form of proclamation by the governor, in
accordance with a resolution adopted by the
legislature, advising people toturn out on April 27
to plant saplings by the roadsides, around their
houses, or, when practicable, in groves.

WILLIAMS, JEROME & BROWN are surveying
for the purpose of ascertaining the feasibility of
constructing acanal from the east branch of the
Au Gres, above the bar, to Canada Creek, in
order to facilitate the getting out of logs on the
east Branch, and also surveying with a view, if
the canal is not feasible, of building a railroad
from the east branch to the bay.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says about

100,000 rolling-pins were lately corded up on

Bear river, at the foot of Mitchell street, Petos-
key, Mich. That amount of rolling-pins means
a vast development of woman’s muscle before
the 100,000 dough mashers are worn out.
Besides, it means a utilization of northern
Michigan timber in one of the many peculiar
ways. :

Tue Thorold pulp mill have added many ad-
ditions to their mill to meet the large demand
for its commodity. Among the additions is
another water wheel 12 feet in diameter, which
will give 20 feet head additional water, and two
sets of stones have to be put in, to take the place

‘of two which were recently broken. These im-
provements are calculated to double the capacity
of the mill.

THERE are probably no more valuable forests |

in the world than those of Oregon, Washington
Territory, and British Columbia. The yellow
fir, which grows there to a great height and

ing. The supply at present is very abundant
aecessible ; but there is danger that waste will
change the present abundance into scarcity
emany years. The rule is: ‘‘ Let those
who live latest have their timber furthest,” and

and valuable is ruthlessly destroyed,

; QUEBEC FORESTS.

We find in the annual report of the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands for the Province of
Quebec the following interesting information :—

On comparing the receipts of the present year
—especially those from the Crown Lands,
Woods and Forests, Mines, etc.,—with those of
the preceding years, it will be perceived that a
very considerable increase has been derived
from the same sources. Since confederation,
the woods and forests have not yielded so
large- an income, the mean revenue having
been $393,910 (and the annual revenue since
1875 having been even below the average.) The
same may be said of the Crown Lands.

The main cause of increase in revenue is due,
not only to the present prosperous state of the
province, but also to the more strict attention
on the part of the department, and the adoption
of more efficacious measures for the protection
of our woods and forests, and the collection of
the revenues derived therefrom, as well as those
arising from the sale of lands. Competent
bushrangers have been appointed in every part
of the Province where they were most needed ;
and I am happy to state that their services have
been very useful from all points of view.

The Act for the protection of forests from fire
has received my particular attention, and with
a view to prevent the recurrence of fires such as
have at times laid our forests waste, I have
taken measures to have the provisions of the
law better known, and have instructed all timber
and land agents, all forest-rangers and game-
overseers, to see that it is strictly enforced.
The Province of Quebec has been happily pre-
served from such conflagrations as have lately
destroyed vast timber limits in the Province of
Ontario and the United States. This protec-
tion of our woods and forests is undoubtedly
one of vital importance to the Province, not
merely from economic and climatic points of
view, but also with regard to the revenue. I
have, therefore, been careful to give particular
attention to this part of the duties devolving
upon me.

Another question of importance directly con-
nected with the preceding is that of restoring
and keeping up our forests.

We have not yet, as in parts of Europe, es-
pecially France, adopted any system of treo
culture. This question was brought before the
American Government, by whom Mr, Franklin
B. Hough was commissioned to obtain all the
information that could be procured on the sub-
ject ; and in 1877 this gentleman submitted an
elaborate and very interesting report. The
United States Government has not yet, to my
knowledge, adopted any general system of
forest restoration. There have only been a few
attermpts made in that direction on the western
prairies, in accordance with laws passed in 1873

seeking the best now, much that is really | and 1874.

The Legislature of the Province of Quebec

decreed in 1875 that it should be lawful for the
Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon the re-
commendation of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands, to set aside certain portions of the forest
lands of the Crown, vacant at the time, to re-
main forest. This law further adds :—‘‘ The
territories so set apart shall be reserved for the
production and culture of timber, and shall be
worked and managed, and the timber thereon
be cut, as shall be ordered from time to time by
regulations made by the Lieutenant-Governor
in Council.

Up to the present time, the Department of
Crown Lands has not deemed it necessary to
give practical effect to the provisions of this law,
but its importance is likely to become evident
at no distant date.

There can be no doubt that the value of our
woods and forests must increase year by year ;
and I do not hesitate to say that the greatest
care and prudence should be exercised in the
sale of our timber lands. It is true that two
sales have been held since I have been in charge
of the department, but in both cases there were
strong reasons for such action, which was also
in the public interest. A comparison of the
average price obtained at these two sales with
those obtained in former years is sufficient to
convince anyone that the value of our forest
lands must increase annually.

It is proper to remark that the receipts from
woods and forests for the year embraced in this
report were not effected by the change or slight
increase of the timber dues lately made. The
effect of this change will only be felt in the fiscal
year ending 30th June next.

THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA.

The United States consulate-general, of St.
Petersburg, has prepared a report upon the
timber trade of Russia which is replete with
facts and figures. The wood trade of the
northern regions of Russia, and particularly the
basin of the White Sea and its affluents, is pro-
nounced excessively slight in comparison with
that of the neighbouring countries of Norway
and Sweden. The radius of the forests of
Vologda and Archangel has a superficial area of
197,100,000 acres, it is estimated.

The- wooded regions of Sweden cover an area
of some 40,500,000 acres, and those of Norway
16,200,000 acres. Notwithstanding the fact
that the figures show Russia to have consider-
ably over twice the estimated radius of area, the
wood exports of these countries differ to the ex-
tent that the two Russian governments export
124,000,000 cubic feet, and Sweden and Norway
export 1,200,000,000 cubic feet. Only a minor
portion of this wood is exported abroad, the
amount being :—From White Sea ports, 10,775, -
000 cubic feet ; Swedish, 200,000,000; Norwe-
gian, 82,891,000 cubic feet. The export of the
Northern ports of Russia, is accordingly 94

times less than that of the Norwegian ports,
and 88 times less than that of the Swe I
in face of the fact that the Russian govermmer
possess nearly five times as much new land as
Sweden, and 124 times as much as Norwa
The export of forest products from Swede
even superior to that of all Russia, which is but
637,000,000 cubic feet. Therevenues of Sw eden
from this source, largely increased each year
during the past decade, now amount to 229,000, -
000 francs.

The most striking fact in the Russian wood
export trade is that the largest export comes
from the less-wooded districts, for while these
districts export 122,715 cubic feet per acre, the
northern governments export but 8,451 cubic
feet per acre. With Russia there has been an
immense falling off in export during the last
seven years.

In order to increase the revenues to be deriy-
ed from wood, it is unnecessary that the raw
material should be worked up on the spot. In
Sweden, in 1871, there were only seven manu-
factories of wooden articles, but five years
thence the number was increased to 29. The
governments of Valogda and Archangel possess
but 11 saw mills, whereas in Sweden there are
1,350. The great mass of the imperial forests
of Russia are concentrated in the northern and
northeastern at the north of the Volga and
Kama, and on the right bank of the Volga, in
the Government of Limbirsk. The governments
richest in forests yield the least average income.
—Northwestern Lumberman.

FOREST PRESERVATION.

Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has introduced
into the senate a bill for the preservation of the
woods and forests of the national domain adja-
cent to the sources of the navigable rivers and
their affluents in the United States. It pro-
vides that all the public timbered lands adja
cent to the sources of the navigable rivers and
their affuents be withdrawn from public sale
and entry ; that Major-General Wright, chief
of the corps of engineers, United States army,
Major-General William B. Hazen, commanding
the signal corps, Dr. George B. Loring, com-
missioner of agriculture, and Professor Spencer
F, Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, shall form a commission for the examina-
tion of the subject of tke preservation and
cultivation of woods and forests adjoiming the
sources of the navigable rivers and their affiu-
ents, for the purpose of preserving the same and
increasing their growth by planting there, and
along the source of these rivers where land is
timberless, so that the rivers may be kept in a
nayigable condition by promoting a continuous
supply from their sources and affluents, the fact
having become universally known that the de
struction of the woods causes all countries to
become arid and unprofitable deserts,—Voriz
western Lumberman.

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ALGOMA FORESTS.

The Lhunder Bay Sentinel writes as follows :
During the past winter a number of our enter-
prising citizens formed themselves into a com-
pany or rather joined together in an informal
manner, and formed a fund for the purpose of
paying the expenses of sending out a number of
exploring parties, whose mission it was to hunt
up tracts of timber land.

Three separate parties were made up, and
spent the winter in the woods, in different
directions, returning towards spring with good
news. One of the exploring parties reported
the discovery of a pine forest, covering 4,000
acres of land, and a number of smaller tracts of
valuable timber lands. Another party made a
discovery of an immense tract of land which was
not very far from the coast, and well timbered
throughout. A survey of a portion of this has
been forwarded to the Crown Land Office to
secure it, and we understand further surveys
will be made, and larger tracts of it secured at
once.

The third party were also successful in finding
a number of small tracts of pine lands and other
tracts well wooded with tamarack, birch,
poplar, maple and cedar, all of which will come
in useful in various ways.

These discoveries have been made within a
radius of 50 or 60 miles of Prince Arthur’s
Landing, which is but a small area in a district
of over 400 miles in extent. It is of sufficient
importance to the country to prove that all who
claim to know so much of the barren wilderness
of Algoma, know but very little of it, in fact
know nothing of it whatever, and have merely
surmised from seeing a rocky and apparently
barren coast, that such is the nature of the
country inland.

The Sentinel has always refuted any statement
regarding the barren nature of the district.
Many explorers have met with tracts of excellent
land, suitable for farming purposes. In the
regions of Black Bay and Nepigon there are
large tracts of as fertile land as can be met with
in the richest portions of Ontario, while in the
neighbourhood of P. A. Landing, in the town-
ships of Oliver, McIntyre and Neebing there
are lands (Free Grant some of them) which are
unequalled for strength of soil, and also to the
west in the townships of Blake, Crooks and
Pardee, are found large tracts of pine lands,
which were mostly taken up years ago by specu-
lators, and some are now being used for the
lumber supply of this region. The inland por-
tion of Algoma is but little known, but enough
is known of the country within a radius of say
75 miles of P. A. Landing to prove that its
forest wealth is no small item of value to the
district, and with continued explorations, we
may look for further important discoveries in
this direction.

A NEW FIELD.

The importance of the immense demand for
lumber that is springing up, and will continue
to expand, in the new Northwest that lies on
both sides of the British line, stretching west-
ward from the Red River of the north 500 to
600 miles, through almost a timberless region,
cannot be overestimated. Pertinent to this
conclusion, it is well to note the progress that is
being made in the construction of the Canadian
Pacific railway. There is now under contract,
and to be completed by September 1 next, sec-

tions of the line as follows :—
Miles.

From Thunder Bay to Winnipeg...............-. 425
Pembina branch, from St. Vincent to Stone Fort. 85
Pembina mounta‘’n branch............-e0ee eee ee 100

Calgarry is at the foot of the Rocky moun-
tains, 500 miles west of Winnipeg. The country
from the Red River to the mountains is almost
unbroken prairie. As fast as the road is com-
pleted a tide of emigration will flow along its
entire length, the rich wheat lands of the prairie
region will be settled, towns and cities will
spring up, every stage of development calling
for increased supplies of lumber. Not only this,
but numerous lines of branch road have already
been projected, and others will be, until every
county between the Canadian Pacific and the
Northern Pacifie will be banded with iron,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

which will be studded with villages and cities.
It dues not require a stretch of imagination to
see how this settlement of a vast timberless
area of rich agricultural and grazing lands will
call for lumber. Is it any wonder that the
northern timber manufacturers are in such a
blissful state of satisfaction now-a-days ?—WVor'th-
western Lumberman.

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SIX MONTHS’ EXPORTS.

In February last a return was requested by
the House of Commons of the quantity and
value of the exports and imports of the Do-
minion (by Provinces) for the six months ended
31st December, 1881.

The following are the exports of forest pro-
ducts returned for the six months in ques-
tion :—

QUEBEC EXPORTS.

Quantity. Value,
Tanbark 34,327 cords. $ 174,401
Dealers 70,767 S. hun. 2,916,158
Deal ends....--ccscsvevness sessus 97,394
Planks and boards. 64,919 M. ft. 686,375
Staves and heading’ 440 “ 32,396
Standard staves 296 M. 98,325
R. R. Ties, &c 98,310 pes. 60,486
Birch timber.. 172 tons 52,972
Elin aie 15,068 ‘* 187,350
Maple 6 sevevessscieess 842 “ 11,244
Oak BO Fin craccinodonnag 38,9382 ‘‘ 681,618
‘| White Pine lumber......... 165,067 ‘* 1,896,598
Red Pine CEO ER atncacieiee eee RO meee oe 169,406
Maple sugar...... +++ +++ 272,095 Ibs. 20,368
Pot and pearl ashes ....... 7,057 bris. 194,626
ONTARIO EXPORTS,
IKE WOOK siristeisialaleteneielo elaisiels)s 78,470 cords $149,717
Hop and other poles....... «..+-. 73,947
Oak 1logs...... cosveseevece 4,603 M. ft. 64,415
Other logs) 5 aetie eee ses 173858)‘ 51,776
Laths and palings......++++ 45,500 ‘ 49,085
Planks and boards........+ 824,341 ‘ 3,859,353
Staves and stave bolts...... ...... 116,286
Shingles: ..:...ccssescseess 82,855 ‘* 75,237
R. Re Ties, ete. ....-. 500s 909,936 pes 208,958
Sugar Box Shooks.......-« 54,958 ** 19,558
NOVA SCOTIA EXPORTS,
FTO WOOd csccsins sss ns -eee» 26,972 cords $ 87,206
DCR Biieceie ne nes nusamieeinroret 95,485 s. hund. 518,790
Planks and boards...... .. 28,805 M. ft. 60,705
Birch) Timber... ss .cce-.s= 6,094 tons 28,451
NEW BRUNSWICK EXPORTS.
TaniORYE <iicisineeiciens neeesise 8,280 cords $ 43,165
DGallavicine sisielvinielelslatsieparsyeratetnrs 95,485 s. hun, 2,419,871
Dealends.....6.....s0rse%0 4,570 ‘* 78,734
Laths and pickets.......... 50,711 M. ft. 60,705
Planks and boards.....+-. 16,722 ‘ 138,107
Scantling ...-s-eecssneuses sep 51,815
R. R. Ties and sleepers..... 377,691 39,449
Sugar-box shooks......-... 49,972 27,216
Birch Timber.....+....ss08 6,217 tons 39,187
White Pine Timber........ 2,590 ‘* 20,947
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND EXPORTS.
Deals and deal ends........ 923s. hund. $14,315
BRITISH COLUMBIA EXPORTS.
Planks and boards........- 16,362 M. ft. $187,659
Laths and pickets...... -.- 1,536 M. 4,374

Recapitulation of six months’ exports of
Canadian forest products for the latter half of
1881 :—

Value.

Ontario. wees $4,812,498
Quebec........ : 7,668,715
N. Brunswick 2,958,973
Nova Scotia. 988,002
British Columbia..........++sse00- 192,983
BP, EB. Telands oc.ccceccvesseveceeess 16,095

Wotell cn veel siek wo insieninaeihnese $16,632,216

PRESERVE THE FORESTS,

In discussing the recent forestry congress at
Cincinnati, the American Engineer, after giving
the names of the officers of the association then
formed, says :—It is to be hoped and expected,
from the array of names presented above, that
something more than the mere formation of the
association will result, for it is high time that
laws were created, and means perfected for exe-
cuting them, to prevent the wholesale and ruth-
less destruction of our woods and forests, which
a profitable product in the hands of unscrupulous
individuals and corporations has hitherto in-
duced. No considerations whatever, whether
on sanitary, meteorological or esthetic grounds
have as yet hindered this persistent denudation
of our timber lands, a denudation not carried
on in the light of an economy which an ultimate
failure of supply wonld suggest, but in a care-
less wantonness, displaying an utter lack of
principle in the operations connected with the
trade. It may be partially true that lumbering
operations involve waste, it is none the less
true that care should be taken that this waste
be reduced to a minimum, a matter which the
most careless observer of our great lumber trade
will aver is far from being realized. The possi-
bility of regulating the operations of the lumber
men being a difficult one, and the industry so
extended, it would seem that the best remedy
is an effort to continue the supply, and this the
forestry congress proposes to do, among its

other worthy propositions. The lumber trade
is not the great end in view, however, for if the
efforts of scientific research foretell truth, hy-
gienic and meteorologic principles are involved
bearing largely upon the welfare of our growing
population, and while it may be well to support
a great industry, it is surely better to provide
for the good of the people generally, which we
believe will be promoted by prompt and ener-
getic attention to the forestry claims of this vast

continent.
—

QUEBEC TIMBER LANDS.

The Quebee Chronicle, in an article on the
resolutions granting land to railway companies,
has the following :—

“The public domain of this province may be
roughly classed under two heads—lands fit for
agricultural or colonization purposes, and held
for that object* and lands generally not well
adapted for colonization, but valuable for mer-
cantile purposes from the timber with which
they are clothed. Both classes, in a sense, be-
long to the Crown, which, in the former case,
holds them as absolute property, and in the
latter case, subject to the tenure or rights of the
licentiates or holders of the timber licenses.
And these rights have been carefully defined by
statue, by orders-in-council establishing regula-
tions for the Crown Land Department, and by
judicial interpretation in the courts of both pro-
vinces. Without going into detail, it may be
asserted, without fear of contradiction, that the
limit-holder, so long as he pays the ground rent
for his limits and the stumpage on the timber
cut by him, is entitled, as the law now stands,
to the yearly renewal of his license in perpetuity
with the single exception of the case of lots
included in his license, being taken up by bona
fide resident settlers, for colonization purposes,
which lots the Government are properly enough
bound to exclude on next renewing his license.
And this risk, the risk of bona fide settlement
by families taking up lots of say 200 acres each,
the limit-holder by the term of his contract
agrees and is content to run. That this is the
true view of the law on the question, no one at
all conversant with the subject can for a moment
doubt. The licentiates of timber berths in this
province, therefore, at the present moment, hold
property in these berths—valuable property, for
the security of their tenure to which the faith
of the Crown has been pledged in a hundred
different ways, and which in many instances
they have bought at large prices from the Crown
Land Department itself, at public auction sales
held in its very offices. To give one instance
out of many of Government recognition of the
licentiates property in limits, the regulations of
the Crown Land Department provide that they
may be pledged im their books for advances,
and as a matter of fact this provision is daily
made use of to a large extent. On the faith of
this tenure, not only have immense sums been
paid for limits both to the Crown at public sales
and to private individuals, but the holders have
further gone to great expense in improving
creeks and rivers, constructing slides, building
roads, opening up farms, to enable the lumber
to be got out and brought to market, and in
building mills for its manufacture when got out.
It is needless to state here what lumberers and
the lumber trade have done for the develop-
ment of this country, but we may say that,
setting apart the Dominion subsidy and confin-
ing ourselves to local revenue, derived purely
from local sources, the lumber trade, in ground
rents, stumpage, Crown dues, ete., etc., con-
tributes between one-third and one-half of the
total income of the Province.”

EVIDENCES OF A FIRMNESS,

The following cireular issued by Gardner,
Spry & Co., lumber dealers at Chicago, is a
pretty reliable index of the future of the lumber
market, and will interest lumber manufac-
turers :—

Herewith we hand you our revised price list,
based upon the recent ‘‘ bear * movement in this
market. We desire to say, in connection here-
with, that this decline is a repetition of the old
song—‘‘no stock and hence low prices.” It
will be obvious to you that a dealer with nothing
to lose has everything to gain—per se, parties
with no stock on hand or bought “‘ to arrive,”
are perfectly safe in forcing a decline, because,

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under such circumstances, they desire the bene-
fit of a falling market to buy on, if the wholesale
market declines in sympathy with the yard
movement.

That little word ‘‘if” is what breaks their
hearts. To a disinterested person, the present
situation would indicate anything but a decline.
The well known shortage of the log crop, toge-
ther with the disastrous and prolonged strike at
Muskegon (the largest lumber manufacturing
point in the world), will surely curtail the supply
40 per cent. over last year. This, in connection
with good crop prospects, and up to date, the
largest demand ever known, cannot fail to
make a firm or advancing market.

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
MONTH ENDED 30TH APRIL, 1882.

Quantity. Value.
Timber (Hewn). lone £.
RUGHIS 5/000 oe Sae.et he Gb eehe eerie 11,509
Sweden and Norway...........-...- rats aoe
Germany:5.-0--c>her" eceenph eter 52,017 170,755
United States ...cv.cccs se cavussenwen 14,874 52,
Brifish India... .ccestss Goaceeooee 7,638 95,827
British North America.............- 203 640
Other Countries. :.. 23.2... wousesee 32,252 33,452
Total |. can >> he e= eee 222,665 533,313
Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed ).
Rusgid..... -eccscccssccee ossscens 16,082
Sweden and Norway.......sss+s0e0 160,335 oe ses
British North America... .......... 9,700 22,689
Other Countries......<csseesseseuss 39, 121,498
Total... ...+...ve co0eseee eee 225,600 670,999
Staves, (all sives).sc<s0+.-cseueeenee 16,512 75,693
Mahogany (toms)... ..-...scceeee--+0 3,399 33,953
Total of Hewn and Sawn........-... 448,265 1,204,312
FOUR MONTHS ENDED 30TH APRIL, 1882.
Timber (Hewn).
RUBRIR . o 005010 <0 0p penne 18,673 43,608
Sweden and Norway.....-.-+.s-+---- 184,543 277,702
Germany. o66.5 6000005 eens suena eee 62,192 202,734
United States............-0- Aas 48,974 165,908
British India. ....!.)..scecssnee eee 108 292,019
British North America.............. 1,175
Other Conntries.,... «s+ +sisscan ene 121,928 $140,735
Total... s0ss5ss sb sieves ae 460,566 1,126,584
Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed ).
Rusia. 'c<s osas's seceses ane eee 34,603 76,750
Sweden and Norway.........«..+++: 276,934 804,572
British North America ............. 51,703 128,217
Other Countries... ...:<cesnscesenbs 88,970 282,408
Total. . «..0+.s=/ssa9)e nnn 452,210 1,292,137
Staves (all sizes).....6....ssssese0e8 29,705 160,108
Mahogany (tons)......-..+++ --.---- 9,873 91,
Total of Hewn and Sawn...........- 912,776 2,418,721
FOREST DEVASTATION.
The Sentinel, of Prince Arthur's landing,

Ont., in its issue of May 13th, says :—

The annual devastation of our forests has
commenced. The fire mentioned in the columns
of the Sentinel has assumed immense proportions
and is emitting volumes of black smoke, which
is settling like a pall over the’ north end of
Thunder Bay. Another fire is also raging on
the west side of the town, apparently on the
borders of the Townships of McIntyre and
Neebing.

In view of this annual destruction of timber,
would it not be well for the Dominion Govern-
ment to cause a searching enquiry to be made
into the cause of such conflagrations. These
fires must have an origin other than spontaneous
combustion, for the frost is hardly out of the
ground, and the weather has been anything but
warm even this spring, and until within the
past day or two there has not been what could
be called anything but cold_ weather.

A punishment ought to be meted out te those

who wilfully or carelessly cause such great de-

struction to our timber, for at the present it is
of very great value, and in the near future will
be worth to Algoma almost as much as her
mineral resources.

$200.00 Reward!

Will be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person selling or dealing in any bogus,
counterfeit or imitation Hop Bitters, especially
Bitters or preparations with the word Hop or
Hops in their name or connected therewith,
that is entended to mislead and cheat the pub-
lic, or for any preparation put in any form,
tending to be the same as Hop Bitters. The
genuine have acluster of Green Hops (notice
this) printed on the white label, and are the
purest and best medicine on earth, for Kidney,
Liver and Nervous Diseases. Beware a
others, and of all pretended formulas or —
of Hop Bitterf published in papers or for sales
as they are frauds and swindles. Whoever deals
in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. Hop
Bitters Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y.

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CHARCOAL.

Mr. J. A. Mathieu, of Detroit, reports to
the Northwestern Lumberman that the mill men
are showing some interest in the manufacture
of charcoal, a subject in which Mr. Mathieu is
interested. He will soon erect sixteen retorts
at Luther, Lake County, Mich., where the
slabs of the mill of Waterman, Paney & Co.
will be reduced to coal. A cord of pine slabs
makes sixty bushels of charcoal, that is worth
at least 6 cents per bushel at point of shipment,
and as the slabs can be put through the retorts
at as small expense as they can be consumed in
a saw-mill hell, it is plain that there is a saving

Street.

TREES FOR THE STREETS.

At the Montgomery, Ohio, Horticultural
society, a late discussion turned on the varieties
of trees most suitable for planting in the streets,
and in the monthly report was the following :-—
« The trees which were particularly recommend-
ed were the American and the European linden,
the Norway, silver and sugar maples, elms,
horse-chestnut, and the hardy catalpa. The
The silver maple and white elm had been found
to make a quick growth on strong soils. The
most common error in street planting was in
placing the trees too near together, often even
less than a rod apart, when they should never

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be nearer than three rods apart. When thus
crowded they were drawn up and distorted in
form, and could not develop their full luxurianc e
Mr. Steele quoted a letter from Charles Down-
ing, in which he said: ‘‘ This city (Newburg)
has the same fault as Dayton—trees 15 to 20
feet apart—unsightly when grown, and keeping
the street wet and muddy after each rain storm.
Maples should be 50 to 60 feet apart, and elms
70 to 80. There is one street in this city where
elms are 70 feet apart on each side of the street,
and yet the branches touch each other. Some
of our readers will remember the wide streets
In New Haven, Conn., where the long lines of
American elm meet over the centre of the street
and suggest the arch-work and tracery of a
gothic cathedral, the resemblance to the inter-
ior of which is quite striking.”

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DESTRUCTION OF TREES IN SCOTLAND.

The indignation of the people of Devonshire
when they heard that Baron Lyndon was about
to cut down the Hacton woods, was mild in
comparison with the rage and grief with which
the news of the sale of Lord Huntley’s famous
Glen Tanar woods has been received in Aber-
deenshire. There are considerably over 100,000
trees in these woods, and they are reported to
have been sold to a Glasgow firm of timber
merchants. Their destruction will considerably
interfere with the ‘‘ amenities” of Glen Tanar
deer forest, which is let to Cunliffe-Brooks, M.
P. Scotland can ill-afford to lose any more
trees at present, for several places have been
well-nigh devastat&a by last winter’s gales. At
Tyningham and Dunse Castle, the destruction
has been prodigious, and at Luss, Sir James
Colquhoun’s place on the shores of Loch Lo-
mond, some 6,000 trees fell. The Queen will
find that her “ policies” at Balmoral have lost
some of their greatest ornaments and nearly
2,000 trees have been blown down in Her Ma-
jesty’s forest at Ballochbuie. The havoc pro-
duced.in Mar forest is alinost incredible,
especially on the north side of the Dee, where
the oldest trees were; indeed, the scenery of
the river has been pretty well destroyed, and
there has been a heavy fallin Invercauld Forest.

Tue Quebee Chronicle says that the two
barges Faraud, Capt. Francois Desmarais, and
Alice, Capt. Joseph Paul, both laden with lum-
ber for the United States, while on their way
up the St. Lawrence, under sail, struck the
wreck of the steamer Ottawa near Cap la Rouge,
at2a.m.on the 11th of May.’ The captains
state that there was no light on the wreck at the
time of the accident, and they have arrived in
Quebec and made their protests. . The two
barves_have become waterlogged,

worth mentioning. The Lumberman has had a
claim on fyle for years that there is too much
needless waste of wood in this country, and it
considers it a matter of public interest when a
method or process is discovered whereby this
wood, which has been burned in order to get it
out of the way, can be utilized. The more
charcoal there is, the better iron our furnaces
will turn out, and if, in connection with this
important fact, the refuse of the mills is a
source of considerable profit to the mill men, it
takes no arguments to show the value of char-
coal manufacture. Mr. Mathieu is also erect-
ing retorts at Portland, Oregon.

Sawdust Fuel.

George F. Brott, of Louisiana, and Platt B.
Walker, of Minneapolis, have undertaken to
solve the sawdust problem by means of a pro-
cess for utilizing sawdust as a portable fuel, for
which they have secured a patent. The process
consists simply in mixing the sawdust with
peat. the latter forming a cohesive paste, which
when dry, results in a solid compound, that
cannot be easily fractured; and can be as easily
transported as wood or coal. Mr. Brott is now
superintending the construction at Philadelphia
of the necessary machinery for the purpose.

Cod Livey Oil.
For Consumption,
Winter Cough, Af-
fections of the Chest
and all Wasting Di-
seases.
Prescribed by the
leading physiciansof
England, the United
States and the Do-
minion of Canada.

——
A WONDERFUL FACT.
HYDROLEINE mixes
perfectly with water,
showing a complete arti-
ial digestion of the oil,
and just as the Hypro-
LEINE mixes with the
watery, so does it mix with the liquid contents of the
stomach, and enters immediately into the systemto
nourish and buildit up. The efficacy of HyDROLEINE
is NOT CONFINED to cases of Consumption, as from its
valuable tonic effect on the nervous system 1n addi-
tion to its special stimulating action on the organs
concerned in the production of Fat in the body, it
causes marked increase in weight im persons of naturally
thin habit, who do not present any evidence of disease. |
Unlike ordinary preparations of Cod Liver Oil, it
produces no unpleasant eructation or sense of nausea,
and should be taken in such very much smaller doses,
according to the directions, as will ensure its complete
assimilation; this, at the same time, renders 1tS use
economical in the highest degree.

For sale by all Druggists.

NEW FOUNDRY FIRM. J.

McLean, Brayshaw & Co

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

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Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset
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The woodwork of the Car can be built by any handy
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diagram of car.

The wheels are adjustable on its axles to accommo-
date itself to any bend in the pole. The weight of
ironwork is 2,250 lbs. Price on application to

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OUR PENCILS.
WHERE THN MANUFACTURERS, FABER & CO., GE
THEIR CEDAR.

Gedar Keys is altogether a very lovely group
of islands, numbering between thirty and forty
isles, often very minute, and the largest not
over a mile long. The principal ones are Atsena
Otie, Cedar, Piney Point, and Way, Snake and
Seahorse Keys, which inclose the port. Sea-
horse Key lies at the entrance; and is ninety
feet high, the loftiest land between Key West
and Pensacola. It seems placed there as a
breakwater, and a pedestal for the lighthouse
which crowns it. It is encircled by a beautiful
beach of soft, creamy sand, ayd is haunted by
various legends. Lafitte, the smuggler, is said,
with some reason, to have made this islet one of
his haunts in the days of his power.

Atsena Otie, which is an Indian name, was
originally inhabited by the Indians, and was the
first of the group occupied by the whites. The
wigwams vanished when Mr. Parsons, then a
quartermaster in the army, caused a house to be
erected there during the Seminole war. The
timbers were brought there already fitted, as he
told me. They began to erect the building in
the morning, and at night he slept in it, and on
the following day filled it with Government
stores. A charming beach, fringed with cabbage
palms and palmettoes, encircles the isle, and
some picturesque residences are grouped in the
centre. But Atsena Otie is also the site of the
cedar mills of Faber & Co., the famous pencil

p

_ manufacturer.

This firm was established in 1761, and the
present head of the house, A. W. von Faber—
he has been ennobled—is the great-grandson of
the founder. The manufactory is at Stein, in
Bavaria; agencies also exist ab Vienna, Paris
and London, and a very important branch
establishment was founded in New York over
twenty years ago, which not only manufactures
the cheaper grades of pencil, but also, more re-
cently, gold pens and pen handles of excellent
quality. Five hundred different kinds of pencils
are manufactured by the Fabers. Most of these
depend on two materials for their construction
—the lead, or graphite, which comes from the
celebrated mine of Aibert, in Siberia, and the
wood of the cedar tree. To many it will be a
surprise to learn that all the cedar employed in
pencil making comes from the State of Florida,
and is shipped at Cedar Keys. The requisites
jn wood used for this purpose are a very fine
grain, and what is rare with such wood, soft-
Red cedar of the best quality possess
There are many varieties of

ness.
these conditions.

‘cedar, of which two are common in the United

States. Of these the white cedar, mistakenly
called the cypress, is very common in Florida,
and grows to a great height. The red cedar
grows almost everywhere, North and South, but
it is only that which is found in Florida that is
available for pencil making, that which grows
elsewhere being coarser, more fibrous, and more
full of knots. In Florida the red cedar reaches
a height of twenty-five to thirty-five feet, and is
divided into the poor quality which can be made
into cigar boxes and the like, and the superior
sort adapted for pencils. The supply is obtain-
ed in the regions watered by the Withlacoochee,
the Suwanee, and several other streams empty-
ing into the Gulf of Mexico north and south of
Cedar Keys. But as they are all too shallow
for ships of large size, the cedar, after being
felled in the forests, is hewn into square logs,
somewhat larger than railroad ties, and taken
to Cedar Keys in flat-bottomed schooner-rigged
droghers, decked over, and of light draught.
At Cedar Keys the logs are made into rafts,
and floated out to ships which anchor off Sea-
horse Key when drawing too much water to
enter the port. The Fabers control over half
the supply, and ship all the pencil boards which
go to Europe, whether for their own or other
pencil factories. These boards are all sawn at
the mill of Atsena Otie by a very delicate pro-
cess. They are the exact length of the pencil,
and of two thicknesses—one for the groove into
which the graphite is laid, and the other to lay
over it and complete the pencil. The amount
shipped annually averages one million cubic
feet, trimmed and ready to be made into pencils
and boxes.

Tt is evident that this traffic gives a bustling
air of thrift to Cedar Keys, quite unusual in a

THE |CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Southern sea-board town, ‘The negroes employ-
ed in it are a shrewd, comical class. J was
particularly interested in one old fellow who
was mending his mainsail, and singing Metho-
dist hymns to himself on a pleasant spring
morning. His children played in the sand and
chatted to him the while, and his nondescript
hat near by on the beach was more picturesque
than elegant.

Besides the cedar traffic, Cedar Keys is every
year gaining in importance as a distributing
port for the turtles, the oysters, the oranges,
and the vegetables found on the west coast, or
grown at Tampa or Silver Spring. The turtles
alone are worth $10,000 annually. Asarailroad
and steamboat terminus, and the starting point
of a proposed fast mail line to Cuba, which
would meet a certain demand, it seems to have
the promise of a growing prosperity. A few
good hotels would also make it an attractive
resort in winter, as it is healthy at that season.
The Indian or shell mounds of Cedar Keys
should also be mentioned as objects of much
scientific interest. Composed entirely of oyster
shells, and containing remains of pottery, rising
to a height of from thirty to sixty feet, and over-
grown by live-oaks or vines and palmettoes, the
question of their origin will long continue a
problem to the geologist or archeologist.

SN
FINE FINISHING.

More attention is now being given throughout
the country to the artistic finishing of houses
and fine business structures, and more expert
carving is done for the purposes named, the ap-
pearances indicate, than in the manufacture of
furniture, which industry for a long time laid
claim upon the greater share of this class of
mechanical talent. The reasons for this may
not be fully self-evident or patent, but it would
seem that it islargely because the real value of
hardwood in this direction had never been fully
realized or understood in this country, and be-
cause, also, the real high art in decorative ar-
chitecture is scarcely native to American ingen-
uity and talent, which is famous in other ways,
since there are oriental splendors in building
and interior display in the palace-like habita-
tions of many a pagan, or uncivilized native,
which would never have been deemed possible
of execution by our own designers, however ar-
tistic their eye, or however deft their touch.
Processes and appliances for producing excellent
results are known to many European workmen,
in whose breasts the secret of such achievements
is firmly locked. During the past few years
many of these expert operatives in wood-cary-
ing have been forced to the shores of America,
as it were, through the unsatisfactory state of
affairs in their own countries, and their superior
abilities have begun manifesting themselves in
the wood manufacturing industry of this coun-
try, and, latterly, to a very marked extent, so
that a renaissance in wood-carving may be fairly
said to have resulted. The importation and
employment of this class of talent led to a res-
ponsive sentiment in the community, or such
channels of it as evidenced a sufficiently refined
or artistic taste to appreciate and encourage a
sensible and utilitarian form of art, which was
experiencing an important enhancement of its
excellence, and now quite a pronounced stim-
ulus has been given the industry of wood-cary-
ing, more particularly for house finishing.

The Scientefic American says regarding wood-
carving in New York, that a marked and rapid
increase has been made during the past 10 years
in the demand for fine wood-carving, and with
it a corresponding increase in the number of
skilled workmen employed. Ten years ago the
100 skilled wood-carvers in the city were almost
wholly engaged upon fine furniture. Now near-
ly 600 carvers are at work for two firms, and as
many as a 1,000 accomplished artists find em-
ployment in the city, the larger part of them
upon the interior decoration of houses.

A writer for the Hvening Post, who has lately
investigated this (for them) new industry, says
that the rapid immigration of skilled carvers
from Europe has had the effect of reducing
wages considerably, yet they are still good.
The very finest workmen, especially those in
possession of some secret processes of doing diffi -
eult work, receive wages as high as $8 a day.
The average pay of good wood-carvers is from
$4 to $5 aday. The process of ebonizing cherry

wood, for instance, used by one of the firms locomotive weighing about twelve tons, on four

visited, is a secret known only to the workman
who does it. Even the members of the firm
have’no right to ask what his secret is. The
fact that he can get a finer, more ebony-like sur-
face than any other man gives him a high value
at once. Although the use of mechanical de-
vices for carving wood are so much disliked by
the best workmen that sandpaper is forbidden,
machinery is now used to cut away the rough
parts of a bit of carving. A peculiar tool driven
by steam power eats out the wood wherever it
goes, and thus a skillful man blocks out in a
rough way as imuch work in a day as 20 men
could have done formerly.

The delicacy and lightness of wood-carving,
and the pay which good workmen receive for it,
have already attracted many American appren-
tices, who, untrammeled by union rules, are
making rapid headway, and promise to surpass
the foreigners.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

LOGGING RAILROADS.

The Northwestern Lumberman, in answer to a
correspondent, gives the following information
regarding logging railroads :—

[t is now conceded that the primitive method
of logging with sleds on snow or iced tracks is
too costly and inconvenient for modern views.
Sledding, necessarily practicable only in the
winter months, is liable to failure with the in-
creasing changeableness of the seasons, and is in-
terrupted at times by a scarcity of snow and at
others by an over-abundance. Other devices have
been used for hauling logs, and on a small scale
it is practicable to use poleroads and animal
power ; there have also been constructed for use
on wooden or iron rails various steam machines
of different degrees of badness, which, by reason
of defective design or construction, go to pieces
after one or two years of patching and tinkering,
and then give place to properly built light loco-
motives.

The best gauge of track for logging railroads
is 36 inches, unless connection is to be made
with+a main line. The standard 564 inches
gauge is entirely practicable and costs very
little more to build, except when heavier cars
and rails are needed. In the south the 60 inch
gauge is used. Old gauges are to be avoided,
as the rolling stock is almost unsalable. The
gauge is the space m -the clear between the
rails,

The best rail is T iron, of the weight demand-
ed by the amount of business to be done. Rails
from sixteen to thirty pounds weight are com-
monly used. The best pattern of rail has a wide
head. <A lighter weight of rail may be used if
laid on a stringer, in which case reversed point
spikes are used, and the stringers should be tied
across by flat pieces let in on their top faces to
prevent rolling or spreading. Wooden rails can
be used, and if the labor of keeping them renew-
ed is not objected to, are desirable because
cheap, but are only fit for a small business, or
for temporary use on branches. A locomotive
can only haul about half as much on wood as-on
iron, and snow and ice are hard to clear off a
wood rail.

The cost of track for a logging railroad de-
pends very much on the location and the char-
acter of the country traversed. The following
estimate may serve as a guide for the cost per
mile of a light road with 16-pound rail, suitable
for a six-ton locomotive on four driving wheels :
Rails, 16 Ibs per yard, 25 and one-seventh tons,

Ab SADE bisa sayektiawenareeaseitelyeeea ames $1,508.57
Cross ties, two feet between centres, 2,640 at
LO CONES iw ence Ramil Wabieice wewees wim 264.00
Spikes, four to each tie, 3x, 1,710 Ibs at 4
CONES. oc vr or eace vine nsetiotcueeucu\esba ses 68.40
Splices, allowing rails 24 feet long, 440 joints,
Ab VS COMES is sc cev ccisoedealvan ka weanenee 110.00
$1,950.97
Allow for clearing, grubbing, track-laying,
timber for cribbing, &c., $500 to $1,000 say 750.00
otal actebis sdaca wh. Mae ke iow sie, wate $2,700.97

yor a road with 24-pound rail, suitable for an
eight-ton locomotive on four drivers :—
Rails, 24 Ibs per yard, 88 and nine-fifty-sixth

GONG, Bt POG scans ve awnn veeerocccracars cee $2,098.84
Cross-ties, two feet between centre, 2,640 at
10 cents. .......06 i “panna Me Muenae 264.00
Spikes, four to each tie, 4X4, 3,520 Ibs, at 3}
GOES we wenivan sins ae cel sue em alteni eels Gale 123.20
Splices, allowing rails 28 feet long, 878 joints,
Ot SR GONCe Ce we c ene yc cnan seunebaeube 105.84
$2,591.88
Allow for clearing, grubbing, track-laying, ete. ~ $50.00
otaliivios (oa smcdieewn aes ole GS aanthinguy leis dey $3,441.88

For a road with 30-pound rail, suitable for a

drivers :—
poe 30 lbs per yard, 47 and one-seventh tons
a

Cross-ties, two feet between centres, 2,640 at
2 CONS. 6200 reese weeer eas rertenascs
Spikes, 444, 3,960 pounds at 34 cents......-
Splices, allowing rails 28 feet long, 378 joints,
at 20 cents

$3,161.
1,000.00

Allow for clearing, grubbing, track-laying, ete.

on iron rail, including interest and depreciation
and all expenses, varies from about 30 cents to
60 cents per 1,000 feet, according to the length
and general character of the road, and the
amount of business. The daily cost of operating —
one locomotive, including the wages of an
engineer and the cost of fuel, oil and repairs, is
not far from $5 per day. No fireman is requir-_
ed on most logging railroads.
may have four or eight wheels, the latter being —
preferable, and for hauling long tamber, two
four wheel truck, with an extension bar, are
used for each length of logs. There should be
enough cars for two trains, one to be loading
while the other is on the road, so that the loco-
motive need not wait for cars to be loaded.
The unloading can be done so quickly as to cause
no delay. :

A logging railroad often pays for itself in less
than a year. In case of a failure in sledding or
of windfall or fire, a logging railroad can be put
in and the logs saved. When prices are high
the output can be doubled without additional

investment by running 24 hours per day ; or

when prices are low and operations suspended,

all expenses are stopped. The entire outlay for

a steam logging railway with iron rails, is gener-

ally about 50 cents for each 1,000 feet of lumber

readily reached by it. When the tract is cut off
the road may be moved to another tract at slight.
expense. Tracts that were considered of little
value and inaccessible under the old style of

logging, are utilized and made a more profitable

investment than lands nearer streams that are
held at higher figures. Logging railroads solve
the problem also of the profitable production of
lumber where the cost of moving logs as the

haul increases in length with each seas6n’s cut,

since logs can be hauled 10 to 15 miles by loco-

motives cheaper than they can be sledded for
short distances. This low cost of transportation

enables poorer grades, which would otherwise
be left to rot in the woods, to be marketed at a

good margin.

The best locomotive for logging roads must be
of simple design ; strongly and durably made
with a liberal use of steel and wrought iron, and
of such construction as to be quickly and cheap-
ly repaired, which is attained only by a thorough
system of duplicate parts requiring a heavy out-
lay by the builder. There is no service requiring
reliable, well-constructed and properly designed
locomotives, more than is required for the severe
work of logging railroads, and no place where a
cheap locomotive is a more costly mvestment.
It needs no argument to demonstrate the folly
of saving a few hundred dollars in a motive
power, and by so doing run a constant risk of
breakdowns and of enforced idlgpess of a camp
of men, and of failure to fill contracts.

A Paper House.

In the Sydney Exhibition there is a house
built and furnished throughout from paper.
The structure is one storey high, and its skele
ton is made of wood. The exterior is moulded
in cartonpierre, Whilst the exterior is covered
with the-same material, being plain on the floor
forming splendid arabesques on the walls,
moulded in imitation of plaster on the ceilings.
The doors, cupboards, and shelves are of the
same material, whilst the entire furniture, in-
cluding chandeliers and a stove, in which a fire
can be lighted, is made of papier mache. The
carpets and curtains are of paper, and there is a
bedroom in which there is not only a large bed
made of papier mache, but there are also blan-
kets, sheets, quilts, and female underclothing,
dresses, and bonnets, in the latest styles, com-
posed solely of cartonpate. It is proposed to
give aseries of banquets in this building, in
which the plates, dishes, knives, forks, and
glasses will all be of paper.

TeABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. A five cent sample settles it.

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PROFIT OF TREE PLANTING.

Professor Sargeant, of fhe Harvard arbore-
tum, probably the best authority in this country
on the subject, estimates that the profit on a
plantation of 10 acres of larch trees, at the end
of 50 years, will average 12 per cent, per annum
for the whole time on the capital expended,
The philosophy of this is apparent. There is
little outlay upon a tree crop beyond the first
cost of planting, while day by day the silent
forces of nature go on adding to its value,
whether the owner works or idles. Enough is
positively known to furnish the strongest incen-
tive to tree planting from the practical point of
view as well as from physical and sanitary con-
siderations. The west and northwest need
more attention to this enterprise, often as its
advantages have been urged upon them. Such
a want ought not to continue, now that it is an
assured fact that no other crop is so remunera-
tive, secured with so little trouble, and subject
to so few risks from destructive agencies, as the
tree crop. The industry is scarcely yet out of
its infancy. With due care given to its develop-
ment by the state, the interest of individual
farmers will become more active and more in-
telligent. A school of forestry will educate the
people by that iteration of precept upon precept
which is necessary to the acceptance of the
:plainest truth. But when once it is thoroughly
understood that tree planting is not a matter of
‘sentimental care for the future only, but of hard
cash for the present, it will be welcomed and
recognized as one of the legitimate branches of
“husbandry. .

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT.

We have on many occasions advocated the
establishment of a Bureau of Forestry, and as
time goes on the necessity for such a Govern-
ment department becomes more apparent.
Canada is wasting her forest resources to such
an extent that in a few years they will be ex-
hausted. Living in the midst of the forest
«perations—strrounded as we are by logs, posts
and lumber—we know more of the forest re-
sources of Canada that those journals published
in localities where lumbering is extinct, and we
say deliberately that the waste now going on is
criminal. To one matter we wish to draw
particular attention. A demand has arisen in
England for Canadian hemlock bark, and efforts
are being made to supply the demand. Now it
must be noted that the present supply of hem-
lock bark is very limited, and is not more than
sufficient to supply our own purposes. It takes
about 150 years to replace a tree cut for its bark.
Up in the north country, about 45 years ago, an
insect pest passed through the woods and killed
every hemlock tree in a district extending over
a hundred townships. The only bemlock there
now has grown since that visitation, and is just
large enough for railway ties. Therefore it is
clear that any additional demand for hemlock
trees would speedily make the hemlock an ex-
tinct tree in the northern district. ‘‘ Protection”
might very properly be applied in this direction,
and a department of forestry would do im-
portant national service.—Bobcaygeon Indepen-
dent.

Nothing New Under the San.

Mr. James Bell, of Ullin, IIL, writes —In
the Northwestern Lumberman of March 27, I no-
tice that logging roads and locomotives for haul-
ing logs are put down as recent inventions. In

- the winter of 1856-7 there was built here a tram-

road on which mules and oxen were used. In
1862 a locomotive was put on which was worn
out, and the discarded machine was replaced by
another, which was nearly worn out in the
service.

A New Catechism in Drayton.

Q.—W hat is rheumatism ?

A.—Kheumatism isa humorous sensation that
causes men to rub their joints with St. Jacobs
Oil, play practical jokes, throw things around,
wear crutches and stay indoors, swathed in red
flannel.— Drayton (C.) New Era.

Q.—What is St. Jacobs Oil?

A.—A peculiar sabstance of a very penetra-
ting nature, which causes rheumatism to leave
the system astonishingly quick,—insuring even-
ness of temper thereby, and ability to do one’s
work satisfactorily. Tt banishes crutches, re?

flannels, produces happiness, and brings
us down to a serene old age without the martyr-

dom of pain.—Lzchange.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

BLACK BIRCH.

Black birch is one of the woods which is
crowding into the shoes of walnut, which are
sure to be vacated before many more years of
consumption.” It is coming rapidly into favor,
and is an excellent substitute for walnut. It is
clear grained and handsome, and can he readily
given an exact walnut stain. It is easily worked
and suitable to nearly all the purposes to which
black walnut is at present applied. Birch is
about the samecolor as cherry, butitis immensely
cheaper and far more plentiful. Besides the
fact of its staining so as to resemble walnut, it
is susceptible of a beautiful polish equal to any
wood now used in the manufacture of furniture.
In the forests throughout Ontario birch grows in
abundance, especially if the soil is not too
boggy. There is a great difference in the wood
of different sections. Where the land is high
the wood is firm and clear, but if the land is low
and wet the wood has a tendency to be soft and
of a bluish color. In all the northern regions it
can be. found in great abundance, and as the
trees grow to such great size, little trouble is ex-
perienced in procuring large quantities. —WVorth-
western Lumberman.

ARBOR DAY.

Mr. Joly has given notice in the Legis-
ative Assembly of Quebec that he will move
that, whereas the rewooding of denuded lands
is one of the questions of the day, not only in
the old countries of Europe but also in the
United States of America, and in a great por-
portion of the British and French Colonies,and
is worthy of the serious consideration of this
House. Whereas without incurring any ex-
pense whatever, there is an easy means of awak-
ening public interest, and gradually attracting
the attention of the people to the importance
of rewooding our country, a means which has
already been productive of extraordinary re-
sults in the neighboring States—that is to set
apart one day in the year fixed by proclamation
of the Governor for planting forest trees, which
day is called in the United States ‘Arbor day,”
be it resolved that it would be desirable to fol-
low this example, thereby making the rewood-
ing of our lands an undertaking of public
utility, and, being invested with the sanction of
authority,would cause it to gradually become one
of our national institutions.

E. Hatt, of Detroit, Mich., is going extensive-
ly into lumber operations in this vicinity. His
intentions are to construct a railway and put in
some 30,000,000 feet of logs on the Tobacco
River, some four miles south of Farwell. A
dam is being constructed for the purpose of
floating out the log. Extensive arrangements
are likewise being made through many parts of
the lumber woods north for summer logging.

BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DIABETES.—Beware of the
stuff that pretends to cure these diseases or
other serious Kidney, Urinry or Liver diseases,
asjthey only relieve fora time and make you
ten times worse afterwards, but rely on Hop
Bitters, the only remedy that will surely and
permanently cure you. It destroys and removes
the cause of disease so effectually that it never
returns.

A healthy man never things of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get aten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

Wuy Are we Birious?—Why do we have
sick headache? Why do we teel weak and
tried with little or no appetite? Why that
coating of the tongue and that bad taste of the
mouth? Your liver is out of order, and does
not do its work as nature designs. Bazter
Mandrake Bitters act directly on the liver,
stomach and bowels, and will relieve you at
once. They are the best medicine known for
costiveness, which is the starting point of ninety-
nine cases out of a hundred of all the complaints
that human flesh is heir to.

Tue ViTAL Forces are speedily renewed by
Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, the great brain and
nerve food, it is the best and cheapest medicine
ever discovered, See advertisement in another
column.

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for two week’s medication, and is the cheapest and best.
fay Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire
to mail free to any address.

Mack’s Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
at 50 cts, per box, or 12 for $5, or will be mailed
free of postage, on receipt of the money, by addressing
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JUNE 1, 1882.

THERE was a sale of 1,000,000 feet of lumber
made in Bay City, Mich., lately, to eastern
parties at $25 per M straight measure.

—— an

In the United States there are 1,942 establish-
ments for the manufacture of agricultural im-
plements. They use $5,791,916 worth of timber

a year.
——_— ET

Tur extensive Peterborough lumbering firm
of Irwin & Boyd has been dissolved by mutual
consent, Mr. G. Boyd retiring and Mr. J. M.
Irwin continuing the business.

Ratupun & Sons’ mill and lumber yard,
Deseronto, is now lighted by electricity. One
light, 75 feet high, is a splendid beacon for
mariners navigating the Bay of Quinte.

———

Aurx. McLaren, of Osceola, has ordered a
complete outfit of machinery, from Morrison
Bros., of Toronto, for his new stave and head-
ing factory now in course of erection at that
place.

————————— ann

A Trimcram from Sprinlake, Mich., dated
May 26th, says Sisson & Tilley’s mill yard was
burned yesterday. It contained seven million
feet of lumber, valued at $100,000, belonging to
Rathbun & Co., of Chicago. This firm lost nine
million feet here last fall. ‘

en

Tun Moniteur du Commerce gives a long de-
scription of the manufacture of hats, bonnets
and other articles from woven wood, as carried
on at Ehrenberg, in Austria, where it has ac-
quired large proportions. It strongly advocates
the introduction of this industry in Canada.

—————<—$<$————s

Two ash knots, weighing 1,150 and 1,490
pounds, were recently shipped to New York.
They are steamed, which softens them and
develops their color, and then used in exception-
ally fine veneering. Persons who are experts in
judging what knots are of value, make consider-
able by going about looking for them. These
two were from Caledonia, N.Y.

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Tur Worthwestern Lumberman, of Chicago,
appears in a new dress and generally improved
appearance, ‘The headings are especially well
designed. As if to show that there is no limit
to its enterprise, the Northwestern Lumberman
has just published a special Chicago number,
which is replete with information for the trade.
When we state that it extends to 85 pages, and
that some of the full page advertisements are
printed in three colours, it may be imagined
that this is a feat in journalism.

THE CANADA

Carr. McDovear, superintendent of the
Northern Pacific docks, writes that Duluth will
be a second Saginaw in the lumber trade. There
are now eight mills in construction, which will
cut about one hundred million feet a year. He
prophecies that this cut will be doubled next

year.
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In 1864 an Indiana man bought a black

walnut tree for $1, and in a few years sold it for
$65 to a man who let it go to a Cincinnati lum-
ber dealer for $700. A New Yorker took it off
the Cincinnatian’s hands for $2,200, and shaved
it into $27,000 worth of veneering, for which he
took the cash.

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THe value of shingles exported from Brock-
ville, Kingston and Prescott last year was $23,-
840, against $10,440 in 1880 and $8,152 in 1879.
The value of the different kinds of lumber ex-
ported from the same ports in the same period
was as follows:—In 1879, $262,517, in 1880,
$474,436, and in 1881, $722,256.

THE Eau Claire, Wis., Lumber Company, it
is stated, has contracted to furnish to Close
Brothers & Co. lumber for the building of 100
houses, an equal number of barns, and an equal
number of granaries, all to be put up in Iowa,
where the company is establishing a colony on
a large tract of land owned by it in that state.

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Tur Northwestern Lumberman says :—‘‘ It is
true that a portion of the immigration waye is
tending toward Manitoba and other parts of
the Canadian dominion, but as that section is
forced to draw mainly upon the lumber resources
of the Northwest, the result largely affects com-
merce and industry through the North and
West.”

A Company is talked of at East Saginaw,
Mich., with a capital of $50,000, for the purpose
of erecting and operating a manufactory of
patent panels, to be made of Michigan bass-
wood. The same parties run a factory of the
same kind at Defiance, Ohio, and it is proposed
to remove to Hast Saginaw. The panels are
used for carriages, cutters and cars, etc.

THE extract works at Trout Run, Lycoming
county, Pa., consume 5,000 to 6,000 cords of
hemlock bark annually, and produce nearly
5,000 barrels of extract. Much of this extract
is shipped to Europe for tanning leather. Large
orders are now being filled for Liverpool and
Glasgow. ‘The company now pay $6 a cord for
bark, an advance of $1 a cord over last year’s
price.

S. Bascock & Co. are putting in a large
Curran & Wolff dry kiln at Manistee, Mich.,
for the purpose of drying siding. It will be the
first dry kiln in the place, and will hold 110,000
feet, and turn out from 20,000 to 40,000 feet a
day. This undertaking leads to the question,
Why cannot all boards and strips be dried at
the place of manufacture? The fuel is on the
spot in the form of refuse, and is often sacrificed
in the fire that is unquenchable, to no purpose.

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BLAcK walnut can now be manufactured very
cheaply. One part of walnut peel extract is
mixed with six parts of water, and the wood is
coated with the solution. When the material
is about half dry a solution of bichromate of
potash with water is rubbed on it, and then
your walnut is ready. Furniture dealers have
been known to make excellent walnut out of
very poor pine, but the difference was slightly
perceptible ; however, this method is said to
defy detection.

SS

Tur Timber Trades Journal, of May 18th,
says :—Caution seems still to govern the import
timber trade of London, if the arrivals of wood
laden vessels are any index of the spirit of the
trade, as only 36 vessels were reported since our
last number up to the 10th inst. inclusive ; 16
were steamers, mostly from Northern Europe,
two only were from America, with general car-
goes, and only part of timber, chiefly in the
shape of staves, hoops and joinery, with some
furniture woods. Altogether the import trade
seems rather subsiding in this market for the
moment.

LUMBERMAN.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says that Duluth

is fast gaining prominence as one of the leading
lumber manufacturing towns, and several new
mills are going up. Something like 110,000,000
feet of logs will be cut into lumber at that point
the present season.
east of Duluth there are mills in course of erec-
tion or contemplated, and at no distant day the
amount of lumber cut in the Lake Superior dis-
trict will be no minor factor of the entire lumber
business of the northwest.

At several shore towns

ann

Tux Canton, N.Y., University is among the

most vigorously interested educational institute
giving attention to the subject of tree-planting.
Lately 100 trees were planted on the grounds of
the institution, and within the 12 years of its

existence, about 1,000 trees have been set out, a
fair proportion of which are yet living. In fact

the ladies of the University were so zealous and

enterprising in their laudable cause that they
stole a march on their sleepy masculine co-
workers and planted their proportion of the trees
before the male members had finished digging
out their eyes.

Rogert HENRY, a prominent lumberman,
formerly of the township of King, and latterly
of Mulmur and Manitoulin Island, lost his life
through the burning of the steamer Manitoulin,
near Manitowaning, on Thursday, 18th inst.
Deceased, who was in the forty-first year of
his age, was cut down in the prime of his man-
hood and earnest usefulness, and his death has
added another to the many victims of oft-recur-
ring steamboat disasters. He was a pioneer in
the settlement of the island, where he had ex-
tensive lumbering and milling interests. Mr.
Henry's body has been recovered, and will be
brought to his late residence, No. 99 Bloor
street, Toronto. Should it arrive, as is expected,
to-day, the funeral will take place from the
above address on Tuesday, 28rd inst., at two

o’clock in the afternoon.
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PRESERVATION OF WOOD.

Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans, has, after
an extended series of experiments, inaugurated
eighteen years ago, in 1864, succeeded in de-
veloping a method of preserving wood from de-
cay for great periods of time, and even for cen-
turies. The first series of experiments related
to the preservation of animal structures ; and in
the museum of the medical department of the
University of Louisiana are preserved in the
open air the most delicate and destructible
animal tissues, and entire animals, apparently
as fresh as at the moment of death.

The second series of experiments related to
the arrest of decomposition in diseased and
gangrenous ulcers, cancers, and gunshot wounds,
and the results were none the less striking and
satisfactory.

The third series of experiments related to the
preservation of wood from decay and the de-
structive action of marine animals.

The process, as finally developed and perfect-
ed by Prof. Jones, consists in saturating wood
with certain bituminous, resinous, and antisep-
tic substances and compounds. The sap and
moisture of the wood are transformed into
steam, and the albuminous constituents coagu-
lated by heat, and the wood thus treated is
immediately plunged into a boiling solution,
the most important ingredients of which are
asphalt or solid bitumen and carbolic acid.
The combination may be varied according to the
age and density of the wood. As the preserva-
tive liquid and wood cools the vapor is condens-
ed and the solution of'asphalt is driven into the
pores and also penetrates the wood by imbibi-
tion. The solvent of the asphalt rapidly
evaporates from the surface of the wood after it
is removed from the preservative fluid, leaving
a smooth, polished surface, impervious to
moisture and water. The antiseptic substances
are thus locked up within the fibres of the wood.
Thus, if it be desired to subject a railroad
bridge to this process, the individual portions,
after they have been completed, are first heated
in order to drive out all the moisture, and then
plunged into the solution of asphalt ; and after
remaining from two to twelve hours, are remoy-
ed, and each individual part is protected by a
complete coating of asphalt, impervious to

—

water, and itself one of the most powerful of
wood preservers.. When the bridge is erected
every portion of it presents a coated surface,
and the whole structure presents the appear-
ance of having been carefully painted by hand
with durable black varnish.

The saving of expense alone in this mode of
painting an entire bridge simply by plunging its
component parts into a preservative fiuid, it is -
claimed, will more than equal the expense of
the materials used. Wood may be subjected to
the hot solution of asphalt without preliminary
heating.

A drying room for the wood and a tank heated
by steam for the preservative liquid are the only
forms of apparatus needed. Solid bitumen or
asphalt is found in most countries of the globe ;
but it is to the West Indies that the United -
States must look for inexhaustible supplies.—
New Orleans Democrat.

ECONOMIZING OUR FORESTS.

At the meeting of the Royal Canadian
Society, in the scientific section, a paper was
read by Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London, Ont.,
on ‘‘ The Importance of Economizing and Pre-
serving our Forests,” in which he referred to
the importance of forests in providing shelter
from storms, regulating the temperature, equal-
izing violent alternations of heat and cold, and
onthe manner in which the humidity of the
atmosphere is equalized and conserved. Refer-
ence was also made to the importance of forests
in influencing the rainfall and purifying the soil
and atmosphere. He alluded also to the forest _
policy of Germany as showing the possibility of
a country, by proper forest regulations and suffi-
cient forest urea, growing a sufficient supply of
timber for the use of the people. Healso,called
attention to the needless waste of timber from
the carelessness of the lumberer and the wanton
destruction of vast quantities by forest fires. In
conclusion, he suggested that more stringent
rules were needed to remedy these evils, urging
also that more attention should be given tothe —
replanting of the denuded districts.

The President called the attention of the
meeting to the importance of the subjects, and
remarks in connection with the paper were
made by Professor Macoun and Dr. Lawson.

It was afterwards moved by Principal Daw-
son, seconded by Dr. Lawson, that at the
general session to-morrow the attention of the —
society be directed to the subject of the preser-
vation and planting of forests by public and
private means as an important object to be pro-

moted in connection with this society and with
the International Forestry Association.
LUMBERING ON THE PENOBSCOT.
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The. Portland Commercial says the Penobscot
lumbermen are anxious for rain. At some
points driving has been abandoned on account
of low water. The first Mattawamkeag drives
of 15,000,000 feet will be in the boom, it is
thought, in a few days. Mr. J. W. Palmer's
cut, made in the vicinity of the “‘Gulf,” amounts
to about 10,000,000 feet, but the two drives,
forward and rear, contain over 13,000,000 feet,
the extra three millions being other operators’
logs, which Mr. Palmer has undertaken to
drive. There are on Pleasant river four large
dams, and Mr. Palmer has so utilized the water
from their ponds that the forward drive of
7,000,000" feet of his own and other logs will
reach the Penobscot on Thursday. The rear
drive consists of about 6,000,000 feet, and the
logs are now being sluiced through the Gulf,
with a good prospect of getting them through
the main river, and almost a surety of geting
2,000,000 feet of them to market. There is a
crew of fifty men on the forward drive, while
150 red shirters are trying to get the rear
through.

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IMPROVEMENTS AT DESERONTO.

The Kingston Whig has the following from
Deseronto, formerly Mill Point :—The Bay of
Quinte R. R. Co. are extending their line at
Deseronto eastward to Unger’s Island, along
the bay shore. We understand the company
intend to start some new industries at the
terminus. The company entered into an agree-
ment with the G. T. R. Co. to furnish 200 car-
loads of freight the first year, but this contract

has been already filled. The above amount was
furnished in less than three months, a really en-
couraging fact to the stockholders of the road.
The cedar mill at Deseronto will be a gigantic
structure when completed. The building is
80x 100 feet, part of it being two storeys in
height. On the upper flat there are two saws
for the manufacture of ties and field posts. The
lower flat will be principally used for cutting
large timber and shingle bolts. Adjoining this
building is the shingle mill, which is being sup-
plied with two double and two single machines,
and has a capacity of about 75,000 per day. It
will be in operation by the first of June,

CUTTING A CANAL,

A lease has been given to Monroe, Clay &
Co., of Bainbridge, Ga., for land on Dog Island,
Flanklin county, near Carabelle, where they
propose building wharves where foreign vessels
chartered by them can unload their ballast,
This company is engaged in cutting and hewing
square timber on Flint river, in Georgia, where
they have a large force at work. This timber is
rafted down the Flint and Apalachicola rivers,
through St. George’s Sound, to the cove in
Carabelle harbor, where it goes on board the
ships. Most of it is sold on European account,
The contractors labor under great disadvantage
in bringing their rafts through the sound. This,
they think, can be avoided by a cut off from the
Apalachicola river between Iola and Bristol,
striking the headwaters of Carabelle, New river,
or Toloye creek. That a canal in that direction
will ultimately be cut is a fixed fact, and when
opened it will be of great advantage to the Cara-
belle people.

LARGE ARRIVALS OF LUMBER.

The Montreal Gazette, of May 20th, says :—
The arrivals of lumber and deals from Ottawa
during the past week have been considerable,
and from ports between here and Quebec the
receipts of spruce and common pine have been
quite liberal. The demand from the States,
referred to by us last week, continues, several
lots of hardwood having been purchased for
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, at current
prices. Among the sales were one or two lots
of ash at $20 to $25, and ai lot of cherry at $60
per M feet, f. 0. c. at Point St. Charles. Yes-
terday several carloads of thin pine were pur-
chased for Winnipeg at from $12 up to $25 per
M feet, as to grace. There is also a good local
demand. Advices from the Ottawa district
state that rain is sadly needed in order to
get out the logs in some of the small streams
tributary to the Ottawa River.

Russian Trade With Australia.

A statement has appeared in St. Petersburg
papers, speaking in jubilant terms of the fact
that the well-known mercantile firm of Carl
Graap has chartered two foreign sailing vessels
to carry sawn timber from Cronstadt to
Australia, The event is considered to be the
more important as the vessel will be the first to
sail direct from Cronstadt to Australia. The
St. Petersburg Herald regards this beginning as
of “‘enormous importance” to the commercial
world of the north of Russia. At the same
time, whilst it may not be of such great im-
portance, it is a new departure on a small scale,
—WNewcastle Chronicle.

Timber Limits for Sale-

I offer Timber Limits Nos. 94, 102, 144, 145, 157, 163,
176 and 152 on the North Shore of Georgian Bay, for
sale either ‘‘en bloc” or in single Townships of 36
square miles each.

GEORGE J, THOMPSON,
Winnipeg, Manitoba,

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WANTED,
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 614 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

6L7

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

pon Sats) BURRIE BO

SASH, DOOR & FURNI-
TURE FACTORY,

Situate on CANAL BASIN, OTTAWA.

Apply to PINHEY & CHRISTIE,

Barristers, Ottawa.

J.T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
KINDS AND GRADES OF

American Lumber

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Timber Limits and the Square
Timber Trade a Specialty.

Office, Wellington Street, OTTAWA. i1tf

PORTABLE FORGES

Send for Circulars and Prices to

H. R. IVES & Co., Montreal

FENELON FALLS, BUCKHORN RAPIDS
AND BURLEIGH CANALS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned,
and endorsed ‘‘ Tender for Trent Navigation,” will
be received at this office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western Mails on WEDNESDAY, THE
FIFTH DAY OF JULY NEXT, for the construction
of two Lift Locks, Bridge Piers und other works at
Fenelon Falls ; also, the construction of a Lock at
Buckhorn Rapids, and for the construction of three
Locks, a Dam and Bridge Piers at Burleigh Falls.

The works at each of these places will be let separ-
ately.

Maps of the respective localities, together with plans
and specifications of the works, can be seen at this
office on and after WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-
FIRST DAY OF JUNE NEXT, where printed forms
of Tender can be obtained. A like class of informa-
tion relative to the works at Fenelon Falls will be
furnished at that place, and for those at Buckhorn
and Burleigh, information may be obtained at the
resident Engineer’s office, Peterborough.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that
Tenders for the different works must be accompanied
by an accepted bank cheque, as follows :—

For the Fenelon Falls work............ $1,000
*« Buckhorn Rapids work......... 500
*¢ Burleigh Falls work............ 1,500

And that these respective amounts shall be forfeited if;

the party tendering declines entering into contract for
the works at the rates and prices submitted, subject
to the conditions and terms stated in the specifications,
The cheques thus sent in will be returned to the
different parties whose tenders are not accepted.
This Department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,
F. BRAUN,
Secretary.
Department of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, 22nd May, 1882. 127-3111

167

ILER WORKS

BESTABLISHED 1852

MANUFACTURERS OF

STHAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery
on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

BARRIE SAW WORKS

JTAMES HAGUE.
Circular, Cross-Cut & Machine Saws

Gummed and Hammered on Short Notice-
8124

VALUABLE

Mill Property

POR SA 1e

Shop in Sewrey’s Foundry, BARRIE, Ont.

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER. |

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

1utf

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers

TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

fz P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. lutf

CANADA TRUSS FACTORY

(ESTABLISHED 1856.)

ms COS sS:

Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORTHOPC:DICAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS made to order.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every description. i114

688 and 690 Craig Street, Montreal.

AY CANAL.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned,

and endorsed ‘*Tender for the MURRAY CANAL.
will be received at this office until the arrival of the
eastern and western mails on TUESDAY, THE
TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE NEXT, for the
formation of a Canal to connect the head waters of the
Bay of Quinte with Presqu’ile Harbour, Lake Ontario.

A map of the Jocality, together with the plans and
specifications of the works, can be seen at this office and
at Brighton, on and after THURSDAY, THEEIGHTH
DAY OF JUNE NEXT, where printed forms of tender
can be obtained.

Contractors aré requested to bear in mind that an
accepted bank cheque for the sum of $3,000 must ac-
company each tender, which sum shall be forfeited, if
the party tendering declines to enter into contract for
the execution of the works at the rates and prices sub-
mitted, subject to the conditions and on the terms
stated in the specification.

The cheque thus sent in will be returned to the res-
pective parties whose tenders are not accepted.

This department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,
F. BRAUN,
Secretary.
Dept. of Railways and Canals, \
Ottawa, May 22nd, 1882. d125-2aw

The subscriber offers for sale the

Steam Saw & Shingle Mill

| known as the ‘‘Soper” Mill, now rented to James
| Leishman ; situated in front of the Bracebridge Wharf
| Muskoka River, and within a short distance of the pr 0-
| posed railway.

| This Mill is in first-rate order, the machinery new,
| and is capable of cutting 25,000 feet of lumber per day.

For further particulars apply to

FREDERIC HAMMET,
BRACEBRIDGE P. 0.

ROBERT SMALLWOOD

MANUFACTURER OF

The Patent Lever Feed Shingle,
Box Board & Heading Machine

(Always takes First Prize.)

Rotary Saw Mills

IN FOUR SIZES, and other

MACHINERY for SAW and
| GRIST MILLS.

BE SEND FOR CIRCULAR. -@&

| CHARLOTTETOWN,

1129 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

EARS FOR THE MILLION

Foo Choo’s Balsam of Shark’s Oil

| Positively Restores the Hearing, and is the
only Absolute Cure for Deafness known.

This Oil is abstracted from peculiar species of small
White Shark, caught in the Yellow Sea, known as
CARCHARODON RONDELETIT. Every Chinese fisherman
knows it. Its virtuesasa restorative of hearing were
discovered by a Buddhist Priest about the year 1410.
Its cures were so numerous and many so seeming
ly miraculous. that the remedy was officially pro-
claimed over the entire Empire. Its use became so
universal that for over 300 years no Deafness
has Existed among the Chinese People.
Sent, charges prepaid, to any addressat $1.00 a bottle.

Hear What the Deaf say!

It has performed a miracle in my case.

I have no unearthly noises in my head and near
much better.

I have been greatly benefited,

My deafness helped a great deal—think another
bottle will cure me.

10L2

“Its virtues are UNQUESTIONABLE and its CURATIVE
CHARACTER ABSOLUTE, 4S THE WaITER CAN PERSONALLY
TESTIFY, BOTH FROM EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION.
Write at once to HayLock & Jenney, 7 Dey Street,
New York, enclosing $1.00, and you will receive by
return a remedy that will enable you to hear like any-
body else, and whose curative effects will be perman-
ent. You will never regret doing so.”"—Ediior of
Mercantile Review.

To avoid loss in the Mails, please send money by
REGISTERED LETTER,

Only imported by HAYLOCK & JENNEY,
(Late Hartocg & Co.)

7 Dey St., New York.
. Lll-w22-ly

SOLE AGENTS FOR AMERICA.

168

THE SPRING MOVEMENT OF LUMBER AT
CHICAGO.

A query has arisen in the minds of many as
to why the receipt of lumber at this port has
been so much greater this spring than last, while
the mills at Muskegon have been forced to re-
main idle on account of the strike. Of the total
amount of lumber received at this port from the
east shore considerably more than. one-third
comes from Muskegon. It can be plainly seen
that a cutting off of the usual supply at that
point would make a vast difference in the re-
ceipts at this market under ordinary conditions.
That the failure of the .mills there to start up
this spring has not apparently diminished
arrivals since the opening of navigation is a
circumstance that may well be enquired into.
The bears in this market are handling the
problem as if it were a matter of great signifi-
cance, somehow, though how it should affect
their interest, when the reason for the large
receipts this season is really known, it is not so
very plain to see. If the large spring receipts
meant an over supply the season through, or if
the bear element could make it appear that it
meant that, of course such a view would tend to
weaken values, and that is what the bears want
to do ; though they would hardly be willing to
have it proved that there would be a glut of
lumber in this market through the season, for
that would take the starch out of the values of
the stocks that they have in the yards, which
was bought at pretty round figures. But it can
be shown quite clearly that the supply of logs
and lumber is not greater than the demand re-
quires, unless it should unaccountably fall off
during the present season. The history of the
trade since last spring proves this plainly
enough. We have seen that while the supply
on January 1 last was 560,416,842 feet, as com-
pared to 497,840,673 in 1881, trade was so large
during the winter that the pile had been
diminished on May 1 to the tune of 557,883,000,

showing an increase of shipments during the

four months since January 1 of 219,345,000 over
the same period of the previous year. The
amount of logs put in during the last winter
certainly does not warrant the conclusion that
there is an overstock of such vast proportions
as to threaten a dangerous glut of output in the
various markets during the year. So we are
led to the conclusion that the heavy receipts at
this port thus far during the spring do not indi-
cate an enormous rush of an overburdened
supply seeking to get into the market before the
accumulating volume becomes so overwhelming
that values will be crushed to a ruinous mini-
mum. On the other hand, we can safely con-
clude that there is no more lumber at primary
points, in stick or stack, than can be devoured
by the demand, provided there is no untoward
eyent that shall intervene to stop industry and
progress, and greatly reduce the demand. Any
ery of arush of stock, and a probable accumu-
lation in excess of the demand is but a specula-
tive shout, designed to temporarily unhorse
values, so that they can be mounted again to
suit those who wish to buy in a season’s supply.

What, then, is the real cause for the extra-
ordinary receipts of lumber at this port since
March 15? On May 1 they amounted to 232,-
934,000 feet, since January, as compared to
91,508,000 the year before the same period, an
increase of 141,426,000. An explanation is
primarily indicated by the fact that sales and
shipments have shown proportionately as large
an increase, which indicates that the rapidly
depleting supply throughout the winter had
stimulated early and liberal receipts. Never in
the history of the trade at this point had the
winter out-movement of lumber been so great.
This drew down the amount on hand in the
yards, and broke up assortments. Naturally
there was an industrious looking around all
winter for new supplies. Just as soon as a
vessel could be sent out in March it was done,
and lumber began to arrive. There was almost
daily receipts by lake after March 15, and the
stream increased in steadiness and volume from
April 1 through that month.

The contrast of this year and last in regard to
receipts by lake was very striking. The first
arrival of a cargo in the spring of 1881 was on
April 15, and on that day and the day following
nine cargoes reached this port. But few came
in after that till April 26, when the total re-

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ceipts of lumber had reached 8,008,000 feet, the
arrivals the year before on that date having ag-
gregated 63,827,000.

Naturally, after having such a flourishing
trade all winter, which reduced stocks remark-
ably, and broke up assortments, wholesale yard
dealers here took the opportunity of an early
opening of navigation to bring over the lumber
they had bought during the winter for the pur-
pose of stocking up their yards for the spring
trade. The large early receipts that cut such a
figure in the totals did not go to the market, but
directly to the docks of the purchasers. ‘This is
always the case for a period after the opening of
navigation, but it was peculiarly so this spring,
because of the large amounts that had been
purchased on the east shore, transactions that
had been unwontedly stimulated by the heavy
demand. It is, noteworthy, too, that a large
proportion of such lumber arrived from Muske-
gon, the wintered-over stock there of over 100,-
000,000 feet having been largely purchased late
in the fall or early in the winter by Chicago
dealers, and of course was brought forward as
early as possible to replenish broken and deplet-
ed stocks; so that really Muskegon has con-
tributed this spring as much to Chicago receipts
as ever, and more, considering the early opening
of navigation.

Another cause for unusually heavy receipts
is the fact that the general boom in the lumber
business, and the high figures that manufactur-
ers have placed on their stocks, giving the car-
go market here a dizzy altitude at the opening,
prompted everybody on the lake who had held
over any lumber to crowd canvass for this port
as soon as possible. This has brought in early
a large amount of lumber that ordinarily would
have come alittle later. It has been noticed
that several cargoes have arrived from Saginaw,
an unusual event for so early in the season.

Some might be inclined to think that because
the stock on hand at initial points has been
rushed forward early that later receipts would
proportionately diminish. But that is an unsafe
conclusion. ‘The mills this season will be run
for all there is in them—and there is more in
them than usual, for the reason that repairing
and improving the past winter has been exten-
sive. It is said, with truth, that when a saw
mill owner has had a successful year, he is seized
with a consuming desire to overhaul and repair
his mill. Thatis what has ailed him during the
past winter, and the result is that the mill eapa-
city of 1882 is much greater than ever before,
not only on account of improvements in old
mills, but because of a large number of new
mills that have been built. We shall have to
conclude that the cut of the present year will be
pushed quite to the extent of the log supply,
and that the output will come forward more
yoluminously than ever. Of course the continu-
ance of the strike at Muskegon must be taken
into account, as well as like labor disturbances
elsewhere, which involves a vast possible differ-
ence in the results.—WVorthwestern
Lumberman.

season’s

GOVERNMENT PROTECTION.

We are glad to perceive that action is being
taken by the national legislature for the protee-
tion of timber on government land and on the
Indian reservations, and to prevent the whole-
sale and wanton destruction of the same, which
has heretofore been prevalent. Senator Cam-
eron, of Wisconsin, has been especially urgent
in this matter, and if he is successful will be
deserving of the gratitude not only of his own
constituency, but the country at large. The
proposed law provides that “every person who
unlawfully acts or aids, or is employed in un-
lawfully cutting, or wantonly destroys or pro-
cures to be destroyed, any timber standing upon
lands of the United States, which, in pursuance
of law, may be reserved or purchased for mili-
tary purposes, shall pay a fine of not more than
$500, and be imprisoned not more than twelve
months.”

Secretary Kirkwood also has taken advanced
ground in this same direction, and has been im-
portuning congress for the enactment of such
laws as will prevent depredations upon the tim-
ber lands in the Indian reservations. The com-
missioner of Indian affairs also shows his interest
in the protection of the forests, and in a later
letter says: ‘“‘I cannot too strongly urge upon

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the department the importance of early action
by congress upon this subject. In the Indian
territory, especially, spoliation of valuable wal-
nut timber has been for a long time past, and is
still being carried on, and unless some stringent
and effective measures are devised to stop it,
that whole country will be devastated of timber.
Moreover, it is apprehended by those competent
to judge, that this wholesale stripping of lumber
will result in disastrous climatic effect.”

The indications from all directions, in fact,
are of the most gratifying and reassuring char-
acter. The representatives in both branches of
the national legislature are becoming thoroughly
awakened to the importance of this question,
and are eyidently ripe for the adoption of such
a policy as shall not only protect the timber
already standing, but for the inauguration of
measures with the object in view of replacing
the timber of which our forests are being rapidly
and in many cases unnecessarily denuded, and
also for the establishment of a system of forestry
culture as shall supply the future demands of
the industries of the nation based on wood for
their chief staple.—Lumberman’s Gazette,

MONTREAL NOTES.

The Montreal Gazette, of May 13th, has the
following remarks upon the trade there :—
There are already signs of an active export
movement in lumber, as large quantities are ar-
riving by barges and rail from Ottawa. Con
siderable deals for the United Kingdom and
lumber for South America are being piled on
the wharf at Hochelaga ready for shipment as
soon as vessels arrive. The first shipment of
deals to Great Britain was made on the steam-
ship Manitoban. We have no further tharters
to report, having previously quoted all that
have been made this season at $14@16 per M.
feet by sailing vessels, according to size, to the
River Plate, and at 55s to 60s by steamer to
the direct ports in the United Kingdom. We
understand that American orders have been re-
ceived at Ottawa, and that orders are about
being filled both by rail and boat. In this
market we hear of no transactions on export
acconnt as they are generally negotiated at a
certain price at the mills, but we hear of one or
two sales of shipping culls on the basis of about
$13@13.50 laid down here. There is a good
local enquiry, consumptive wants being larger
than at this time last year. American bnyers
are looking for certain kinds of hardwood, but
we have not heard of any business yet. Ad-
vices just at hand state that owing to low water
in some of the tributary streams of the Ottawa
very few logs have been got out this season,
and that rain is much wanted to move them.
In the larger streams, however, the supply has
moved forward freely, and as the cut was gener-
ally large, there will, in no event, it is thought,
be a dearth of product.

OUR PINE FORESTS,

The first paper read at the recent Forestry
Congress at Cincinnati was that of Mr. James
Little, of Montreal, on ‘“‘The Pine Woods of
Canada.” The writer expressed regret that his
advanced age prevented his attending the Con-
gress. His paper related to the White Pine
forests of Canada and the serious commercial
loss that would arise from a total loss of the
woodlands. Laboring for years almost single-
handed to bring his own people to a proper
knowledge of the subject, he expressed gratifica-
tion that the papers of this country had so
generally taken up the question of forestry. He
claimed that the black walnut, once so abun-
dant, and oak and ash, for long a great source
of revenue to the country, were nearly all gone,
white pine, spruce, birch and tamarac were
following so fast that soon none would be left
of commercial value. He corrected the error of
considering the timberland of Canada as prac-
tically exhaustless. He thought ten thousand
millions of feet, board measure, would comprise
the merchantable pine of Canada, Ontario, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which might be ex-
hausted in less than ten years. The stock in
Newfoundland and the area adjoining Hudson's
Bay was still satisfactory in amount. He quot-
ed the remark of Mr. Charles Gibbs that ‘* our
native white pine may yet be peddled in some
parts of our country as a rare exotic, so scarce
has is become. Britain, which was supposed to

need timber only for repairs, being built up, paid
seventy-five to one hundred million dollars
yearly for her timber, paying the cheapest rates.
Mr. Little thought that if the waste of forests —
was not checked it would yet cost more than all
our exports of grain and cotton, and require
more than the combined sailing tonnage of the a
whole world to procure timber for the useof
the United States from other countries. The ~
effect of the dearth of timber now threatened _
upon the industries of the United States and of .
Canada was one which may well cause appre- ‘
hension.

PORT HOPE.

About six o’clock on Friday, May 19, apile of
lumber was discovered on fire at one of the
centre docks of the harbor. A stiff east wind
was blowing at the time and the flames spread
rapidly. The alarm was quickly given, and a
great crowd of citizens hurried to the scene.
The Midland Railway hands were ordered to
the conflagration, and they soon had all the
neighbouring piles of lumber floating in the
harbor. By that time the flames had reached
the docks, and three or four hours had to be
spent in extinguishing them, but not until near-
ly one hundred feet of dockage had been burned
or destroyed. The lumber that was burnt,
about 30,000 feet, belonged to S. C. Kanaday,
purchased from Irwin & Boyd, Peterborough,
on which there was no insurance. It will pro-
bably cost two or three thousand dollars to re
place the pier that has been destroyed. But
for the tremendous exertions of the fire brigade
and the assistance rendered by the steam pumps
on the tugs, and the steamer Worseman, the fire
would have swept the whole of the centre piers. .
None of the loss is covered by insurance. )

Weights of Timber.

Weights of logs and lumber are given as fol-
lows in a book recently issued by H. K. Porter
& Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. :—Weight of green logs
to scale 1,000 feet, board measure—Yellow pine
(southern) 8,000 to 10,000 pounds ; Norway pine
(Michigan), 7,000 to 8,000 lbs.; white pine
(Mich.) off of stump, 6,000 to 7,000 Ibs. ; white
pine (Mich.) out of water, 7,000 to 8,000 Ibs. ;
white pine (Penn.) bark off, 5,000 to 6,000 Ibs. ;
hemlock (Penn.) bark off, 6,000 to 7,000 Ibs.
Weight of 1,000 feet of lumber, board measure
—Yellow or Norway pine, dry, 3,000 Ibs. ;
green, 5,000 lbs. ; white pine, dry, 2,500 Ibs. ;
green, 4,000 lbs. Weight of one cord of season-
ed wood, 128 cubic feet per cord—Hickory or
sugar maple, 4,500 lbs. ; white oak, 3,850 Ibs. ;
poplar, chestnut or elm, 2,250 Ibs. ; pine, white,
or Norway, 2,000 Ibs. ; hemlock bark, dry, 2,200
Ibs. (One cord bark got from 1,500 feet logs.)

Adirondack Timber.

The Saginaw Courier says the sale of a large
tract of timber land in the Adirondack, N.Y.,
region is as good as made to a party of Michi
gan lumbermen and Hartford, Ct., capitalists.
The purchase price is to be about $250,000, and
on the tract there is said to be a quarter of a
billion feet of white pine timber, besides spruce
and hemlock. The timber has hitherto been
considered inaccessible, as a downeaster would
never thing of ‘constructing a railroad to haul
logs on. To reach the heatt of the tract it will
require the construction of 11 miles of road,
over an expensive route, but the timber will
well repay the undertaking. A mill and planing
mill to work the timber up are also contemplat-
ed. There is no reason why a bonanza is not
concealed in this project, since experienced
Michigan land lookers have estimated the quan-
tity of timber as I have stated. -

Keep this idea in your mind, if you have a
dam to build at all, it pays to build it well ;
and if you do not understand how to do it, get
some one who has had experience and whom
you know does understand, and pay him well —
to do a good job. ‘

THERE was lately a great jam of logs in the”
Hudson River at Palmer Falls, Corinth, which |
increased rapidly. It extended three-quarters
of a mile above the dam of the Hudson River —
Pulp and Paper Company, and it is estimated
that fully 1,500,000 pieces of timber were lodg-
ed there,

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Chips.

R. M. Wanzer & Co., of Hamilton, are about
to build a large woodwork factory.

THe Menominee River and Manufacturing
Company had, on May 1, rafted and delivered
19,000,000 feet more logs than on the same date
last year.

Tue two Napanee paper mills turn out about
9,000 lbs of paper per day. The paper mills are
importing pulp—poplar from Thorold, Quebec

‘and Niagara Falls.

_ Tue New Brunswick chair factory, at St.
John, is to commence work early next month.
Mr. D. L. Richards has gone to Boston to pur-
chase machinery for it.

Tue Kirby-Carpenter Company’s two mills,
at Menominee, Mich., turned out 329,000 feet
of lumber in one day recently. The Company’s
new mill will average 200,000 feet daily.

Merezitt BrotrHers, Williamsport, Pa., are
to build a railway, four miles long, up Anderson
Creek for the purpose of running in their logs.
They propose hereafter to be independent of
snow. t

JAMES STEWART, of Saginaw, has closed a
contract with Stockwell & Belknap, whose mill
is on the Harrison branch, for 20,000,000
shingles, the entire cut of the mill for the ensu-
ing year.

Ir has been decided to see relief for the Osh-
kosh and Fond du Lac, Wis.. water powers,
from difficulty by high water in Winnebago
Lake and Fox River, by widening the point of
overflow in the lake.

Tue statement of business at the Hrie canal
collector’s office, at Buffalo, N.Y., for the month
of April, gives the total exports in lumber, etc.,
as follows:—Lumber, 3,689,813 feet ; shingles,
1,322,000 ; staves, 4,139,542.

Tue New York Central and Erie Railroad
Companies intend to build a bridge across Tona-
wanda creek, at Tonawanda, N. Y., for the
purpose of reaching the Export Lumber Com-
pany’s docks and planing mills.

Tue firm of James Hay & Co., Woodstock,
Ont., has just received from the manufacturers,
Messrs. Haggart & Co., Brampton, a traction
engine which will be used for drawing logs from
the bush to the factory. It works nicely.

JoHN Marks and others, of Detroit, are
putting in about 12,000,000 feet of pine on a
logging railroad seven miles in length. The
logs are banked on the south branch of the
Chippewa River. They expect to have the
timber in early in September, and the road will
then be shifted to another point where the firm
own a large tract of pine.

Tue New York Sun says Chicago is the
greatest lumber market in the world. The
single item of sawed lumber received there in
1881 would lay an inch flooring 14 feet wide
round the earth, at the equator. The amount
of lumber manufactured in the three states of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota during
1881 would lay such a floor 50 feet wide.”

THE Chronicle says Messrs. McLachlin Bros.,
Arnprior, are making arrangements to have
their mills and lumber yard lighted by electricity
this season. They also intend building water-
works, with hydraggs at convenient distances,
all through their lumber yard, for the purpose
of acquiring more efficient protection against
fire. Their forethought and enterprise in this
direction is worthy of emulation.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says that of
over 700,000 square miles of timber in the
United States, the South owns 460,000, or near-
ly two-thirds of the whole. In a very few years
this will busy over 50,000 laborers in -cutting,
rafting, sawing and shipping. Already parties
are making large purchases of these lands, locat-
ing mills, opening turpentine farms, and build-
ing railroads into the timbered regions.

THE prospectus of a large carriage factory, to
be established at St. Catharines, has been issued,
It is intended to manufacture street cars, rail-
Way cars, wagons, and buggies, and the concern
will be called the St. Catharines Manufacturing
Company. It will employ between 80 and 100

_ Men at the start. Capital, $75,000, in shares of

#100 each. The stock books are opened, and a

large amount f stock has already been sub-

scribed

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

Timper and lumber to the amount of 400,-
000,000 superficial feet is annually supplied by
the forests of New Zealand, valued at about
$8,000,000.

Durine the month of April, 6,173,000 feet of
yellow pine were shipped from the port of
Jacksonville, Fla., as against 3,330,000 feet for
the same month last year, and 2,569,535 for
April of 1880, an increase of 2,843,000 feet over
1881, and of 3,603,465 over 1880. ‘The shipment
of lumber from that port increases every month,
and it is believed that the shipments in 1882 will
double those of any previous year. The figures
given do not include the shipments over one of
the roads.

Tur white pine is the most valuable tree in
Newfoundland. In the section known as the
Gaudu country it is estimated there are 850
square miles of land thus timbered, which is
easily accessible by small boats on the Gaudu
river. The yellow or red pine is also largely
found, while there is no beech, elm or cedar.
Fine forests exist about St. George’s Bay, and
in the valley of the Humber. No revenue,
however, is derived by the colony from these
forests, which are cut at will by the property
owners.

Tue Northwestern Lumberman says that in
Michigan the color that maple lumber assumes
when cut, stuck and seasoned, as it ordinarily
is, has seemed to answer every purpose, but in
the eastern markets, where the wood has been
longer in use, very white lumber has been in
demand, and at all times the whiter the better.
To secure as light shade as possible the timber
is both cut and sawed when frozen. It is then
stuck, the boards slanting to such an extent
that the sap, when thawed, will drain off as
much as possible.

Tue Lumberman’s Gazette says that while the
supply of lumber in the United States is fully
equal to present demands, it is difficult to fore-
see what may be the increased requirements,
domestic and foreign, in the early future. It is
very certain that due provision is not made for
planting, and while some states have shown
commendable care and energy in that respect,
others have been singularly negligent. What,
in the course of a few years, will become of the
lumber trade of Pensacola, Mobile and other
southern ports, with the present rate of clear-
ing?

THE Timber Trades Journal of May 6th says
three-and-twenty timber laden vessels into
London, to represent a whole week’s importa-
tion, is by no means such an alarming number as
to create a panic among the holders of any con-
siderable quantity in the docks, and thereupon
to cause them to hurry their goods into the
public sales, and let them go without reserve
for what they will fetch ; were the trade a little
brisker, this very moderate week of importation
would be very encouraging, but with such a
heavy stock already stored here prices would
hardly rise if the importation were to cease for
a month or so altogether.

AccorRDING to the Timber Trades Journal of
May 6th, the reports from Sweden are rather
more encouraging as regards the supply of logs
from the interior ; these were hung up for want
of snow, but a very heavy fall of that necessary
commodity, which prevailed throughout the
north of Sweden about Easter time, will enable
a greater portion of the timber to be floated
down to the mills, and the fears entertained
about an insufficiency of logs will be greatly re-
lieved. This will be welcome to those mill-
owners who were short of their usual quantity,
and make them easy on the score of carrying out
the contracts already entered into for later ship-
ments.

THE Monetary Times says that the manufac-
ture of wooden houses, in sections which can be
taken apart and readily transported to our
prairie lands, or to northwestern villages, is an
important and likely industry. Such houses
have been made in Chicago and St. Paul, for
Dakota and Minnesota, and we believe they are
made in Ottawa for Manitoba. We are glad
to notice the formation of a company with a
capital of $120,000 for the manufacture of
prairie houses, The principals are stated to be
Robt. Hay, M.P., Mr. Colby, M.P., Hon. Dr.
Schultz, Messrs. Dawson, E. A. Pew, of Well-
and, and Hilaire, of Montreal, The factory
will be situated at Welland,

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MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

May 23rd.—The heavy rain which this region
has been visited with during the past 24 hours
seems to have put new life into all kinds of
business, and will help the movement of logs in
some of the streams running into the Ottawa,
which it was feared would not be got out on
account of the lowness of the water. The con-
sumptive demand in our local market has been
moderately active and considerably larger than
last year at thistime. Prices are ‘well sustained,
as dry seasoned stock is not by any means in over
supply, The cut in the lumber districts this
season has been pretty large, and stocks are
expected to be fully maintained here. We
quote prices steady as follows for sound lots, ex
yard :—

Pine, Ist quality, @ M.......50. seeeeees $35 V0@40 00
Pine, 2nd ‘“ FE} began Ag neae cham obd 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, @ M.......++---++++ 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, B® M...... seeeees-seeee 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, # M.........- .. 8 00@10 00
Spruce, GME cece veces ema s . 10 00@11 00

emlock, %@ M......ceeceesseeee . 9 00@11 00
Ash, run “of jong culls out, ae M.. 16 00@18 00

ass, 16 00@17 00
pile, CWE senonnenan 35 00@45 00
Birch, ES} Es opdo-ann 17 00@20 00
Hard Maple, BM.. 18 00@25 00
Lath, @M........ 1 50@ 0 00
Shingles, Ist, @M .. 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, BM.. 2 00@ 0 00

SHIPPING.

Large quantities of lumber are arriving await-
ing shipment by the first chartered vessels.
The delay caused to shipping by so much ice in
the Gulf has kept vessels back, although not
much later than last year, when the first vessel
to the River Plate sailed on the 9th of June.
As there are a large number of vessels to load,
shippers will soon be very busy. No rafts have
as yet passed the city.

FREIGHTS.

There has been several engagements of ships
for lumber to South America since the date of
our last report, at $14, while steamships for
direct ports in the United Kingdom get from

5ds. to 60s.
CORDWOOD.

Wood is plentiful just now, but as little wood
was got out this season in Upper Canada, the
prospects are that it will be scarce and prices at
this moment are very firm, but the demand is
poor, as is usually the case at this season of the
year. We advance some of our quotations this
week for wood on the wharf, ex cartage :—

Long Maple.......
Short ‘ .
Long Birch..
Short ‘
Long Beech.
Short ‘‘
Tamarack..... 0

TORONTO.

From our own Correspondent.

May 22nd.—Sales have assumed a brisker
aspect since I last wrote you, and most of the
yards are now fairly active and prices remain
firm, with a decided scarcity of dry lumber, in
fact 14 in. dry picks and cut up cannot be got in
any quantity, factory men being the only ones
possessed of any stock of this description ; but
the quantity of building material to be used in
this city this season will be far below the two
preceding years, as speculative building has
been most effectually choked off, and is now
being carried on by only two or three individuals
whose credit remains as yet unimpaired, and
lumber dealers have now come to the conclusion
that if they undertake to deliver a bill of lumber
they have a clear right to know when and
by whom they are to be paid. Heretofore in
numerous instances the lumber has been deliver-
ed and used in the buildings, the bricklayer and
carpenter, and in fact all tradesmen whose
labour had gone into the buildings, made them-
selves secure by lien, and if the speculator failed
to complete his contracts, the mortgagee steps
in and takes possession, and the lumber dealer
may whistle for his money. This, I venture to
say, is a state of things that has no right to
exist in any country. The lumber has gone
into the buildings, and the mortgagee has value,
if not, the fault is his own, but in any case the
one who delivers any material that goes into the
construction of any building should be able to
collect from someone for that material.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Shipping over the docks is still fairly active,
but a prevalence of east winds during the last
two weeks has somewhat retarded vessels from
making speedy trips, and one noticeable feature
in present shipments is the small quantity of
good lumber going forward, which may be par-
tially accounted for by the fact that owing to
to the good prices offered last fall, nearly all the
good lumber fit for shipment went forward be-
fore the close of the season, and some by rail
during the winter months, so that we need not
look for much clear and picks to go forward
until this season’s cut is fit for removal, and
the percentage of good lumber obtained from a
season’s operations is far below that formerly
obtained from stocks cut on the frontier town-

ships.
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Mill cull boards and scantling
Shipping cull Poms, promiscuous widths.......

OCKB). caer salen iseiisiereisieo sais
Scantling Aree Here Up tO 16 ft..sseeseseereveeee 14 00
On Oo Js Sifts nyeleieivistevsttal<'o\e\elsisie 14 50
G ts i DVAG sicicia'e/pieiels sie rie isle sie 15 00
ce Bs 13 DDE vie os sice eaia(os ese 15 50
oG G A OL A canaone s00ueo Oaee 16 00
ss ce ee QB Gen amine wsteve(e ea tcna 16 50
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ft......++-++sseeseee 17 00
ps A naanannaaapaten sess 18 00
Ss ef id BQ EE. cccscccvcccvrcess 20 00
cs a es BER rerileske lesietereiae 22 50
Gs 6s OG RISh haa anODDADIOAOAIDCOr 25 00
es a6 i BBiit nea seetne srejsleciners 80 00
es Os ic A004 ft Sei cess viele 30 00
Cuttin up planks todry.....6-.1ssereeeeevenee 22 50
e Pana ds) es ai eB A 20 00
Sound dressing stocks. ........+eeseeeseeeeeeees 16 00
Picks Am. inspection...... sv sereesereeseees 26 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection......++++:s+++++ 35 00
B. M.
1 -inch flooring; Aressed....ccec--crrecee evvces 30 00
1 Fak Ns goneeaunoodeutopadvade 16 00
14,“ w CY ESSGC asta lelerielelcleisicel*\elele/sieisi= 26 00
es ne TINGTEBSED 050. screens evcec ens 16 00
Pps’ Ss CTOAGEd! oie <ssiste =o w cvewiine sine 23 00
List Ws undressed... ....sesecceresce 17 00
4 Beaded Sheeting, dressed............+.-++00++ 22 50
Clapboarding, dressed .....-..csseveees eerreee 12 50
XXX sawn shingles, ®M.....-.....+.000 2 50@E 00
XX sawn shingles........+ceseeseececeeceeeenrs 2 75
Sawn Vath. ..c.c.cccccecvecserreresseres SND Os 2 50
——$__—_>___—____.
OTTAWA.

From our own Correspondent.

May 24th.—Everything hereabouts is practi-
cally ‘‘ booming,” and the lumbering industry
presents a hopeful outlook. Already a number
of the season’s cuts have been disposed of. Very
little lumber remains on hand unsold, and there
is none of last year’s cut but what is sold and is
being shipped. Lumber is in good demand and
mills are in full operation. Mr. Huntley, the
obliging agent in this city for the New York &
Lake Champlain Transportation Company, in-
forms me that shipping just now is exceedingly
lively, but there is a scarcity of boats.

SHIPPING RATES

at present are as follows :—

To New York, stocks and sidings aelavet eveini sins siatale $3 50
To Albany, Uslat colastscale liane omen
To Whitehall, ‘‘ ECaa ctoriirateiscs nieielevaielsrs 8 25
To New Y ork, strips and shorts Lee eeeeeeeeneescns 3 75
To Albany, EE BILLS) Ga rcietcistavein ie stelataipie ole 3 60
To Whitehall, ‘ ak aierais ncie nisieies ois DKON 2 50

MILL RUNS.

For the season’s mill run, including all that
a fair average quality of logs will make (mill
culls out), are selling at from $15 to $17 per M.
1x12 good stocks, 12 to 16 feet.....06. $20@22 per. M.

POSTS TS CULT ee ae (nom iern ra 138@15

1x10 good stocks, ‘6 seeeenee 18@20 ‘
1x10s,cull ‘ WO | Shittaineterne 12@14 ‘
lin. good SHOCKS. .vceccecs coves erase 30@35 ‘
1}, ly} and 2 in. cull.... cee. e ee eeeeee 30@35 ‘
Lin, 8. cull sidings.........s..seeee eee 10@l1l ‘
14, 14 and 2 in. cull SidingS....s0.....- 12@18 ‘‘
14, 14 and 2 in. good strips............ 19@23 ‘“
Cull strips Te isiotlcraltuieicunteene he sisfelujeinin teva mete 7@9 *
Good strips, 6 to 11 feet Jong Untatareteiere 16@1s_ “
Culled strips COB pe METS Goud odd 7™@9 “

The above mentioned prices vary as regards
the quality and width.
DIMENSION LUMBER.

Size. Length. Price.
12, in Sogo ceNoR bono 12 to 15 feot Goin efeiey ceteisis $13 per M:

Mioraininieteiateretete inte 16 ‘S19 Riviacelciehcnvetiss Cie aes

WO Godda aoepos BO RE ceca 1G aes

RS Vetereiaieitisielsieiaters BO) US. Tinie eis cisinieiale le bY a

ee eva) Wate eck siete ialete is 80 “834 So ue ween eeeee 19) S*

ec ealarelnisieleversieTeiuniy BOO | SE recess le eiwnrers 1 = SF

LUG OO0000 60d 40 Sead NO oenizeueinieinis Ey

Se andnin doobo uk AG EEAG Sete alee wienis so: <S

In larger sizes the prices increase in propor-

tion.
RUNNING THE SLIDES.

Square timber rafts have already commenced
running the slides at this city. Mr. O. Latour’s
is now being brought down. It isasplendidlook-
ing raft, some of the timber haying a prime
appearance. Considerable improvements have
been made to the slides, which will be a great
saving to the lumbermen in preventing acci-
dents, which in the past were numerous,

A NEW ADVENTURE.
Heretofore the idea of navigating the lakes

above the Ottawa was not even thought of, but
the remarkable progress of the day has brought
a wonderful change, and this summer witnesses
steamboats plying on Lakes Temiscamingue and
Kippewa. This gratifying innovation is due
the enterprising spirit of Mr. Oliver Latour,
who has constructed two crafts to navigate
those large bodies of water. These boats will
prove a great boon to the limit owners in that
part of the country, who will save three week's
time in bringing the timber to the mills and
markets. One remarkable incident connected
with this enterprise is worthy of notice. The
two engines and boilers and other machinery
of one of these boats had to be transported a
distance of seventy miles over a very mountain-
ous country. The task was considered as almost
impossible, but the energy of Mr. Latour over-
came all obstacles, and the work was completed
satisfactorily.
SEASON OF LOW WATER.

Local millowners again this year fear a repe-
tition of last spring’s low water, and consequent
impossibility of navigating the logs cut the past
winter on the limits, and also those stuck last
year, down to the mills. It some cases it is re-
ported that certain jobbers had to drag the logs
over the ground a considerable distance, the
creeks having dried up. This will entail an
extra expense. If heavy rains do not soon fall,
things generally will have a rather blue outlook.
The timber that has reached the main stream
will reach its destination all right. Nearly
every bay on the Temiscamingue from the
Kippewa up to the Fort is full of logs or timber,
sometimes both. Mr. Latour, Captain Young,
and Mr. Sireeney occupy the east shore, and
Mr. Hickey the west.

CANADA’S PINE WOODS.

Mr. James Little, of Montreal, well known
as having devoted many years’ services in regard
to forestry, was in the city a few days ago on
business with the government. Mr. Little was
one of the invited delegates to the American
Forestry Congress, which was held some time
ago at Cincinnati, O., and the next session of
which will be held in Montreal in August next,
about the same time as the meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science. During a conversation with Mr.
Little, that gentleman expressed gratification
that the papers of this country had so generally
taken up the question of forestry, and dwelt
upon the rapid consumption of our supply of

pine timber.
——————

LONDON, ONT.
From our own Correspondent.

May 28rd.—There is nothing of great interest
to report in the lumber business of this city
since my last letter. You will remember that
some weeks ago the merchants held a meeting
and entered into a compact to sell only at uni-
form figures. This would appear to have been
the most equitable and reasonable method of
self-protection and protection to the lumber
business of the city generally, but it has been
elicited that parties to the compact made have
broken their obligations, and have succumbed
to the tempting tenders of cash down. These
cases, however, mostly apply to small lots pur-
chased by farmers and carried out to their farms
in their own wagons. The principle, however,
is a dead letter, so far as any agreement in
prices is concerned, and some of the honorable
dealers who have striven hard to maintain the
integrity of this agreement, have resolved to
pay little or no attention in the future to these
explosive consolidations.

Stock boards which were firm at $16 are
known to have been sold at $15 and $15.50.

Shingles also show an easier tendency, though
at the mills prices are actually hardening.

The block pavement is progressing satisfac-
torily. There is no waiting for blocks, they are
coming in by the train about twice each day,
and are discharged into the very hands of the
workmen. Mr. Cathro, the contractor, seems
to understand his business.

Building here is very dull, there being nothing
of importance going forward with the exception
of Birrell’s new wholesale warehouse; other
properties will, however, be proceeded with as
soon as ever brick begins to come in.

Though prices may be said to be somewhat
easier, I could not, with any certainty of being

correct, make any change from those last giv.
QUOTATIONS,

Mill cull boards and
Shipping cull boards,

ee ee ee

widths,
10 and 12in. stocks..

Saaicaiecants promiscuous widths...
Scantling and joist, up to BY... isscsccece
ee IONE toe cory ecetareer

“es “oe ae 20 ft. ~

Oe ee
Common stocks ..... pe sewicon dnt nae sve coeey
Common 2 in. PIANC. 22 0.0500 0+ cncses ese pne een
Cutting up plank and boards...................
Sound dressing stocks.... ....--...04- woos 19 00
Clear and PICKS. osrepnccecUsaresscice ee tess BOO
Three uppers, Am. in zs
gy ressed and matched flooring +03 soe eee

5 “ “o PP

XXX sawn shingles, # M
Lath per 1000 feet

ST. JOHN, N. B.
From our own Correspondent.

May 20th.—Since last report very little ¢
special interest has occurred in connection with —
the wood trade. The continued cold,
weather keeps the freshets in the rivers ai
streams at a moderate pitch, and the dri
and rafting of logs are in steady progress.

DEALS,

There is no change in the deal market. The
demand shows no signs of abatement, and price
are firm at our last quotations, There is nc
accumulation of stock, shipmens keeping
with the production.

STEAMSHIPS, ,

With regard to steamships, the cry is, “ still
they come.” The following-steamers have ar-
rived since the date of last report, and several -
others are chartered to arrive :—

Victoria, 2,081, Rhiwindda, 1,329,

Panama, 1,357, Stanmore, 1,369,

Juliet, 1,364, Italia, 1,451,

Cid, 976, Coronella, 875.
FREIGHTS.

The freight market is still controlled by steam.
Rates have fluctuated between 47s. 6d. and 50s.;
we quote 49s, as about the market rate to-day.
We hear of no exclusively deal charters by sail-
ing ships.

SHIPMENTS, 2

The shipments of deals and other sawnlumber _
are as follows :—

For Europe...sscscssssecudl osthoee 554,000 Sup. fi
** United States... <...sssssee0n Tone 000 ao
“ Went Indiew......cass casual 164,000“
SHIPPING,

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage and destinations :—

Antwerp, 573, E. C. Ireland or W. C. England.

Serrano, 594, Waterford.

Orontes, 740, W. C. England.

Henry, 1,064, Liverpool.

Rurik, 881, United Kingdom.

Minnie Swift, 1,150, Liverpool.

Low Wood, 1,091, W. C. England.

Crown Jewel, 716, W. C. England.

Melbourne, 621, Limerick.

Maori, 656, discharging.

Bertie Biglow, 1,142, Liverpool.

Syringa, 605, Galway.

Nordcap, 475, United Kingdom.

Panama, (s), 1,357, France.

Juliet, (s), 1,364, Liverpool.

Cid, (s), 976, United Kingdom.

Frisk, 619, United Kingdom.

Rhiwindda, (s), 1,329, Brisfol Channel.

Anna P. Odell, 379, ——

Deveti Dubrovacki, 640, Liverpool.

Stanmore, (s), 1,369, Bristol Channel.

Italia, (s), 1,451, Glasgow.

Coronella, (s), 875, United Kingdom.

Kate Barrie, 691, W.C. id.

——_
ALBANY.

The Argus says dealers in pine lumber report
a steady trade throughout the week at unchang-
ed prices. New York dealers, with whom
stocks of all kinds of lumber are very light, are
not as yet free buyers in our market, yet they
cannot go to the mills in Michigan or Canada
and buy stock at the price they can obtain it
here. The moderate receipts by canal are to be
ascribed to the advanced freights at. Buffalo
and Tonawanda to $2.50 per M, feet to Albany ;
but few boats are to be had at that figure, and
a still further advance is looked for by some
houses here.

Very little, if any, dry lumber is to be had
in Michigan or Canada ; large sales of new cut
are being made.

Hardwoods are firm in price and in steady
demand.

Coarse lumber receivers report no change in

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

Sa
prices with a good demand ; the receipts have] The state of the shingle market is one of firm-
been fair, giving the trade a well assorted stock. } ness, prices as previously quoted being still un-
Any increase in stock would lead to the piling | changed, with a good demand and sales.
up thereof instead of accepting lower prices. It | Standards hold at $2.70 to $2.80, and “A* at

-is now ascertained that the logs which were | $2.85@2. 95. Clears are not in the market,
floated over the Miller dam will not furnish } while much wanted, as are all the better and
_ a supply to exceed three weeks, even should the | more favorite brands of other grades.
mills resume full work, which has to some ex- The total receipts of lumber have now reach-
tent been suspended by a strike thereat. The | ed 367,440,000 feet, and of shingles, 146,267,000.
present prospect is that owing to lack of water | An excess over last season to the same date of
and bad management the number of logs “jam-] 154,218,000 feet of lumber and 42,164,000
med” at Miller’s will be largely increased. shingles, while the excess of shipments represent-

Freights are $1.50 per M. feet from Bay City |ing the increased trade of the season have

to. Tonawanda,, and $1.75 from Saginaw to reached 261,870,000 feet of lumber and 152,150, -
Tonawanda ; from Tonawanda to Albany, $2.50. 000 shingles.

Lake Ontario freights, $1.20 from Toronto, and ! iE ean toA

from Bay Quinte to Oswego; 90c. from Port Short dimension, green

.. $11 50@12 00

ae Diyeedautanesisrane eos 12 00@12 50
to Oswego, From Ottawa to Albany, | Long dimension..........- 4 12 50@17 00
ae ; 8 ’ | Boards and strips, No. 2 stock 11 60@17 00
$3.25 to $3.50. NOL INSHOR IEAM foo. EN 17 00@22 00

Receipts of lumber at Chicago from January } No. 1 log run, culls out 18 ooa22 Wp
Ist to May 20th were 371,015,000 feet, against | Syundard shingles-----vss-serrrserees Bee eee
220,000,000 feet for a corresponding period in 2 40

Receipts and shipments of lumber and shingles
for the week ending May 17, as reported by the
Lumberman’s Exchange :—

1881.
The receipts of lumber at Buffalo for the
week reported are 10,250,000 ; at Oswego, 9,352, -

000 feet. RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Quotations at the yards are as follows =~ | se iaeo0 20,470,000. 96,872,000 33,50,000
e5F 882..... : 4 36,373, ,500,
Bine, cleags @ Movs--------r- 200-277-7758) oa 00 | 1881: «56,962,000 25,755,000. 22,870,000 14,495,000
Pine, SelectS..... ce ceecee eee e ee reteeeees a 00@55 00 Receipts and shipments of lumber and
ee ee ae Saks. ec eie ait aA soca i shingles from January 1, to and including May
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each....... +++ 80 poe aa 17th :—
Pine boards, 10-in........+eeeeeeer eee 2 RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.......++-.-.++-- 00 18@00 19 é ie Ms
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.......... 25 00@30 00 Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16ft...........+..++- 25 00@30 00 | 1882. .367,440,000 146,267,000 661,695,000 278,470,000
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft.......s.sseeeees 26 00@28 00 | 1881. .213,222,000 104,103,000 399,825,000 166,320,000
i in. sidi: HOCH... secre ce teens 38 00@40 00 ye ERIS, ERE mole aan cane
pee oeeae common: ss Ts oowi9 00 | Inc.154,218,000 42,164,000 261,870,000 132,150,000
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.........+-+.-.-- Ea ee na LAKE RECEIPTS TO MAY 18.
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........-- 0@1
Spruce, boards, cach ...-c.0+esscccse+s 00 oo@oo 16 | er. 9279279720 ap"7sa000 707600000
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each..........++... 00 tou ah eee as Sek Ce Papa Piso 8
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.......ee0 eeeee 0 00 3
ede er = 00 11@00 12 [STORMECwoodoo0e sbooooasde 136,517,000 50,351,000
Hemlock, boards, each ..............5.+ 00 00@00 13 STOCK ON HAND MAY 1.
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each...........+0.4. 00 00@00 31 1882. 1881. 1880.
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .......+.+++-- 00 00@00 13} Lumber.......... 294,244,311 228,256,644 238,483,874
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10] Shingles.... .... 104,027,305 73,698,575 115,116,000
ManWeticd AMS Clee atacacch op acne ue one 35 00@40 00 1. 10,611,535 21,038,756 23,736,360
‘Ash, second quality, @M...-........++++ 25 00@30 00 1,827,993 2,693,844 670,259
Cherry, good, # M. 2 ARES a aaa B noe ve 159,937 550,027 75,728
erry, common, @M... .........-.---- 5
iti prtod UME ie aclcietlain «i5,0'6 35.0 38 00@43 00 Tite Peas OG
Oak, second quality, # M.. - 20 00625 00 BOSTON.
Bassw IMI, wiasinie 3 7 2 @25 0
Hickory, a 52 pee ’ 36 00@40 00) May 20.—The Journal of Commerce says the
zee peoaa eal oe ze rueee Ms market during the week has shown no special
Chestnut, e ao cenacdnan *. 35 00@40 00 | change since our last. As far as can be learned,
Shingles, sleet, pine, 8 M g ue . ue the demand is very fair for most grades of stock.
“ 0 00@ 4 40 | Everything is running smoothly in this market.
22 GREG 55) SaPRHeeR ape 5 ae g oo In New York and some of the other large cities,
“ “7 9 oom 4 00 | it is reported that trade has fallen off somewhat,
. Belesie onan niin seieeiciceie 0 00@ 2 25) owing to the opposing views of capital and
Lath, hemlock, @ M....eeceeseeeeeseeeee 0 00@ 1 62], - : Rie he : ;
MATE TEO MY OU oN Mcioes vate eaee 0 00@ 187| labor. Of course, if this dissatisfaction con-
y oY “ @ 2
Lath, pine, — veeeeeeeesseereeeeees 0 00@ 2 70} tinues, the feeling will spread and we will be
—— : .
just as badly off as the worst. It is to be hoped,
CHICAGO.

however, that the trouble will be settled ere
long. Until then the future of the market
must of necessity be very uncertain. It is re-
ported that concessions have been made on
some large lots in New York, but this is not
substantiated by any real change in quotations.
Most of the yards hereabouts have a very fair
assortment on hand, and are really better pre-
pared to meet the wants of customers than was
anticipated. At present buyers in all the
principal markets are taking hold very cautious-
ly. Regarding hardwoods, it is sufficient to say
that the better grades are in fair demand, while
culls and the like are slow. We give quotations

for car load lots :—
CANADA PINE.

Selects, Dressed..........
Shelving, Dressed, Ists.
iia “ce 2nds

May 20.—The Northwestern Lumberman says
the receipts of lumber at Chicago during the
past week show a material reduction from those
of the corresponding week of last season, and
nearly as great a falling off from those of the
previous week of the current season, the propor-
tionate decrease following the item of shingles.
The falling off may be attributed to two or three
causes, each of which have exercised a consider-
able influence. The labor strikes, and conse-
quent shutting off of the manufacture at so im-
portant a point as Muskegon, could have but
the natural effect of reducing the receipts of
Chicago, which looks upon Muskegon as its
most important and extensive source of supply.

The Monday offerings were large, aggregating
32 vessels, while Tuesday brought but a light
fleet. Wednesday found not a single vessel at
the docks, and Thursday’s offerings consisted of
but one cargo—a load of shingles. The
bulk of the week’s receipts arrived at this port
in the three or four days following the
date of our last report, and the tendency of the :
market during those days was towards a weak-

_ ness, especially on coarser grades of lumber and
dimension stuff, which were but in light demand
at a positive concession.

$48 00@50 00
40 00@42 00
33 00@35 00
27 00@29 00
18 00@20 00
. 42 00@45 00
34 00@35 00

Dressed Shippers....

Dressed Box.........

Sheathing, 1st quality
“cc 2nd “ec

—————————
OSWEGO, N.Y.

We change quotations on some grades. Prices
are still firm, though the market is filling up
rapidly. Assortments are good, and trade has
been only fair during the past two weeks.

Three Uppers... .-..seseseeeeeeneeeneees $42 00@46 00

. PICKINGS celajeis nia cisioiells/e(ole elerainiv «'e's,0is\s a0 32 00@36 00

Short lengths of green piece stuff sold BOILOME | ters countnOnl <..!octs.cssee+ss obo. "., 20 00@25 00
$11 to $11.50, and coarse boards and strips were | Common,.........-+sssereeveverer eens -. 14 00@17 00
F Cullsieeer errs Repiiseiasosmmtslausieietessiatasie 11 00@14 00

sold at the same figures. Better quality and) sin yun iots....---c--+steesssveceeees 18 00@25 00
grade were firm at higher figures, ranging from | Sidings, es Linch........ . 33 00@40 00
K 6 * ‘ 18 SN OCe ne dor 4 OL DconTOCODOU GOUPIROC 34 00@40 00
$11.50 to $12.50, according to quality, length | yin run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet. | 17 00@25 00

and condition of seasoning. The better grades
of lumber were, and at this writing are, firm at
former quotations, good No. 2 log run of boards
and strips ranging from $14 to $17, with No. 1
log run bringing from $17,50 to $22,

SCLCCLEC civ ats nveivis'elstelclosrae . 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch mill run.
“e “ee “ culls

1x6 selected for clapboards...
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine.
XXX, 18 inch, cedar.

171

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2 in

BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
(OPEL atatejelereicteds elelelolelstel/s/al(ella\e\sini+ie'n/eels)a(e $46 00@48 00
COMMON........25.2 vensercsssecverccce 18 00@19 00
OWiSsocdancsoooc00oodnUOannovnopUbAD ASS 13 00@14 00
_——————
TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

4 ohooooaoE $43 00@48 00
----- 20 00@22 00
14 00@15 00

Three uppers..
Common....
(CNS; e SehoosconuA

LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of May 18th,
says :—There does not appear to be any signs of
a more lively tone of business setting in, as,
with the exception of a few good orders, there
has been very little done during the past week.
The feeling of uncertainty as to the future
course of trade during the approaching import
season, which for some time past has been pre-
dominant in the minds of those engaged in the
timber trade, has been intensified by the
lamentable occurrences in Ireland, and the un-
settled position of politics.

On Friday last, the 5th May, Messrs. Farn-
worth & Jardine offered at their sale sheds,
Regent Road, one cargo of spruce deals in store
and several parcels of Quebec pine deals. The
attendance, like at most of the recent sales of
whitewood, was composed chiefly of the local
merchants, the country buyers being very
scantily represented. There did not seem to be

much spirit of competition shown, but the |

sellers, though willing to meet the market in
some degree, were yet moderately firm, and
withdrew several lots rather than take the bids
offered. The Quebec pine deals were apparent-
ly not wanted, as there was scarcely a bid for
any of the lots, and all were withdrawn unsold.
eee
GLASGOW.

The Zimber Trades Journal, of May 18th,
says :—Wood imports to Clyde during the past
week show about 4,000 loads in all, consisting of
one cargo of pitch pine, two cargoes of St. John,
N. B., deals, and miscellaneous parcels of
American and Austrian oak planks and billets,
also staves, etc. There is a marked increase in
the number of staves (New York, etc.) imported
this year so far compared with last, and a new
feature in connection with this is the parcels of
American dressed staves that have been arriving
within the past few months. A large consump-
tion has evidently been going ‘on, the stock of
staves at present in first hands here being quite
moderate.

Of New Brunswick deals the quantity im-
ported is considerably under the number for
corresponding period last year. One of the
arrivals from St. John, N.B., above referred to
was persteamer, The bulk of the wood import-

ed to Clyde since the beginning of the year has
consisted of pitch pine, the arrivals of which
have been sufficiently large considering stock
held, although under last year’s import at cor-
responding date to the extent of about 9,000
logs.

At the auction sale noted below the demand
was quiet, consumers apparently buying only
for immediate wants, but prices are being
pretty well maintained, and as trade generally
is not seriously depressed at present, and stocks
comparatively moderate, a hopeful view of the
timber trade here may reasonably be entertain-
ed.

On the 4th of May, at Greenock, Messrs,
Wright & Breakenridge, brokers :—

Quebec Waney boardwood—

50 c. ft. average-per logs 2s, per c. ft
Do, elm—
5 oo ss me 1s. 94d ae
Quebec 4th pine deals— %
13 ft. uxs 1144. ‘
13 &14 ** 8/24x3 1144, es
13 * 7/10x3 11d. =
10 & 11 “ 7/16 x3 lid. —
Quebec 3rd pine deals—
12 ft. 11x3 1s, 21d, “

Ty Nearty Drab after taking some highly
puffed up stuff, with long testimonials, turn to
Hop Bitters, and have no fear of any Kidney or
Urinary Troubles, Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or
Liver Complaint. These diseases cannot resist
the curative power of Hop Bitters ; besides it is
the best family medicine on earth.

““Anp fools who came to scoff remained to
| pray.’—We receive many letters from those
| having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly to its
wonderful effects.

LEATHER
BELTING,

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACE LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MONTREAL

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LUMBERMAN.

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(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

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1119

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J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

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117

JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
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And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and ‘Timber.

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Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

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inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
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“Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and

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ROBERT W. LOWE, PARKER &z EVA NS
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANI SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE
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1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. ; : > s -
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It eradicates scale, and vshen the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
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Gradual Reduction Machine

The

This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER

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above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.

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The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as
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These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
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PETERBOROUGH, ONT., JUNE 15, 1882.

A PECULIAR LAND CASE.

MonTrEAL, May 27.—The case of the Do-
minion Land and Colonization Co., of which
Lord Dunmore is president, against G. B. Hall
et al., was decided to-day by Chief Justice
Dorion, in the Court of Appeals. The history
of the suit is rather strange. The company is
composed of English capitalists, and was formed
with the object of bringing out farmers to settle
and to cultivate some of the wild lands of the
Eastern Townships. An application was made
to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for 300,000
acres, to which an answer was received from the
Executive Council to the effect that if an in-
corporation was procured and proof furnished
thereof, the Government, by an_ order-in-
Council, would sell to the Company 100,000
acres of land at 60 cents per acre. The condi-
tions were fulfilled, and in 1881 the company
paid the first instalment of $12,000. The con-
tract was duly ratified by the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor-in-Council. Almost immediately after-
wards the company entered into possession of
the lands with the knowledge and sanction of
the Crown Lands Department, and on the 9th
of May concluded a contract for clearing a large
area of the land, upwards of 800 acres, in Whit-
ton, and for the erection of 40 houses for settlers,
as well as for a number of saw mills. One of
the conditions upon which the land was sold to
the company was that two hundred families
should be brought out and settled on the land
within three years, but to make way for the
Old Country settlers it was discovered that up-
wards of eighty families would have to be evict-
ed from the land unless they were willing to
pay the company $5 an acre, for which the com-
pany had only paid three shillings. The de-
partment finding out that in the transaction
they had been actually depriving hundreds of
Canadians of homes in order to make way for
Old Country folk, set to work to endeavor to
rectify the result of their error. They offered a
different tract of land, so as to prevent the
ejectment of the families already settled. The
company, however, refused to give in an account
of their improvements. In the meantime, how-
ever, (in December, 1881,) the respondents, J.
B. Hall & Co., commenced lumbering operations
and began cutting timber on certain portions of
the estate owned by the company, who imme-
diately applied for an injunction to restrain
Mesers. Hall, which was granted by Mr. Justice
Doherty, of Sherbrooke. It appears that pre-
vious to the purchase by the company of the
land Messrs. Hall had a timber license extend-
ing over 20,000 of the 100,000 acres sold to the

‘company in Whitton, under which they acquired
the exclusive right to all timber thereon, with.a |
right of renewing such timber license every

twenty years. The license terminated on the
Mth of May, and strange to say, although the
order-in-Council authorizing the sale to the com-
pany was passed on the 7th of April, 1881, the

|deputy of the department telegraphed to the
local agent, Mr. Patton, to renew the license.
The respondents, in answer to the petition for
the injunction, plead that the Executive Council
had no power to make the grant, and that the
order of the Council of the 7th of April, 1881, is
ultra vires, and is neither a sale or a location,
but merely an act of authorization which the
Commissioner of Crown Lands could afterwards
act upon or not at his own discretion.

In rendering judgment the Chief Justice said
that the case hinged upon the question whether
the Executive Council had the right to authorize
the sale of the land to a company, and if so,
had the sale been legally effected by the order-
in-Council? The bench was of opinion that the
order-in-Council was a thoroughly binding loca-
tion ticket, and that therefore under it the com-
pany’s land was exempt from the operations of
timber licenses. The judgment of the Lower
Court dismissing the application for an injunc-
tion was therefore reversed, and the respondents
ordered to cease cutting timber from the land.
The court intimated that Messrs. Hall had their
remedy against the Local Government.

WHITEWOOD AND ITS USES.

In the early days of New York and Philadel-
phia this wood was extensively used in the con-
struction of houses. It was used for rafters
and joists in the upper stories, and was much
esteemed for its lightness and strength. Asthe
wood became scarce in the vicinity, pine very
naturally took its place. In the Middle,
Southern, and Western States, where the tree
grows abundantly, it has been, and still is, ex-
tensively used, and is considered a good substi-
tute for pine, red cedar, and cypress, and serves
well for the interior work of houses as well as
for external covering. The panels of doors,
wainscots, and mouldings of chimneys are made
of the wood, and shingles have been made in
some States. These shingles are preferred by
some to pine, because they are more durable
and not likely to crack from the effects of intense
frost and sunshine. Lumber sawed from this
tree is used in all the principal cities for the
panels of carriages. When perfectly dry they
take paint well, and admit of a brilliant polish.
It enters largely into coach manufacturing, and
is used in cars, waggon-boxes, sleighs, etc. It
is particularly applicable to any work requiring
soft wood easily worked, and not requiring
great strength, especially if wide work is desir-
able. It was used years ago in large quantities
in the manufacture of trunks, which were cover-
ed with cloth or skins. Large quantities of
| tables and bedsteads have been made from this
wood. They are usually stained to imitate ma-
hogany. It often enters into the construction
of bureaus and general cabinet work, particular-
ly where it is the base for covering with veneer.
It has been used also in the interior work of
canal boats and steamboats, Ags it is easily

wrought in the lathe, it is often used for bowls,
brush and broom handles, and numerous other
articles of turned wares. Farmers construct
eating and drinking troughs for their animals of
the wood, as it stands long exposure to the
weather better than chestnut and butternut.
Tt is used also in bridges in some places.

trees, and some of them had room for twenty or
more persons. In some parts of the country
long lines of fences may be seen that are made
of rails of this tree. One-third of the lumber
used in making coffins in New York city is
whitewood, it being used for the sides and
tops.

the backs and legs of pianos. Furniture manu-

facturers use it for ebonizing, and in parts where |

great strength is not required. A manufacturer
of bungs in New York uses 500,000 feet annually,
and it is also used largely in making toys and
pumps. It has been used to some extent for
flooring, and quite extensively for mouldings
and trimmings.

TREE PLANTING.

The following extracts from an appeal to the
people to the people of Manitoba by Mr. H. P.
Bonney, now of Hamilton, Ont., are well
worthy of attention by the farmers of Ontario.
We are fast making our country a treeless
prairie, and already need to take up the subject
of tree-planting in good earnest :—

It is now over two years since I first devoted
my attention to the subject of tree-planting,
and the more I learn of it the more I become
convinced of the necessity of some means being
taken to get our farmers to take a like interest
in arboriculture, and I am sure that as soon as
we all lay the matter to heart it will not belong
before quite a change for the better in the ap-
pearance and climate of our country will take
place, and our prairies will be more beautiful
both to the eye and feelings than they are at
present. Our timber, in fact all the timber of
the North American continent, is rapidly being
used up. It is not 400 years yet since Columbus
first landed at San Salvador; yet in that com-
paratively short space of time the forests of
America have dwindled down to one-fourth
their original size, and as our population in-
creases the consumption becomes more rapid,
and unless we set to work energetically, and at
once, to plant trees, it will not be many years

before our forests will be things of the past, and |
We want shelter |

how shall we manage then ?
from such storms as the one that caused such
loss of life in the Northwestern States in Janu-
ary, 1873. (Remember that storm passed over
Manitoba, too.) We want to see our grain
stand up instead of lying down, as it only too
often does now-a-days. We want to get rid of
our hail storms and check the progress of the
insatiable ‘“‘ hopper,” and tree-planting is the
only remedy for all these evils.

Very large quantities are consumed in |

The |
Indians were wont to make canoes from the big |

| a starting point, we pass a strong built edifix

|

| by massive stone walls, sending

| day meal.

| from 3,000 to 4,000 hands, with a capital inves

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~ a ‘we
To surround ourselves with trees wi

us happier, richer and better—for man g A

feels a better man when living in the midst

oa
in a

beauty than he does when living
| monotonous plain.
*

A HIVE OF INDUSTRY.
A correspondent writes as follows t

| Ottawa Free Press :—Taking Poole

containing the gigantic water works surrour
f rt h from
8,000,000 to 10,000,000 gallons of w
pure water to all parts of the city
Approaching towards the Chaudiere
tween the hours of 12 and 1 p.m., wen
large number of workmen returning t
labor, smoking the proverbial tobacco pi
whiling away the kour allowed for rest
The various mills are now in z
operation ; those for the manufacture of lumber
belonging to the enterprising firms of Messrs.
Perley & Pattee, Bronsons, Baldwins, Booths,
and Young, and the flour mills of Messrs. Thos.
McKay & Co., and Thompson & Son. Ths
lumber mills, including Eddy’s, turning out
from 180,000,000 to 200,000,000 feet of lumber
annually, with all their surroundings of tram-
platforms, substantial vehicles, teams, &c., con-
veying the wooden goods to the piling places
ready for shipments, carts drawing away the
unmerchantable wood for fuel; altogether pre-
senting a lively, busy scene. Crossing the sus-
pension bridge, where a fine view is obtaine:
the Chaudiere Falls, the river, and the city of
Ottawa in the distance, we enter the town of
Hull, where Eddy’s extensive lumber mills,
match and woodenware factories are situated,
with all their surroundings of machine, work-
Shops, etc. This establishment was the first to
adopt the electric light system to illuminate
facilitate the night work operations, which
been followed by the proprietors of severa
other mills in this vicinity. These various mills,
factories, foundaries, etc., give employment t

2%

and
has
1

therein of several million dollars. The a
gives but a brief and faint idea of the manufac-
turing industry of the city ; many other mills,
etc., being located at different points around the
city, but time and space precludes further de-
scriptive details for the present.

THE Belleville Intelligencer says that on the
night of Thursday, June Ist, about five o'clock
the boom above Baker’s Island, containing 10,-
000 of Gilmour's logs, was broken by the wind,
and the logs were scattered in all directions.
Five thousand of them were secured during the
night, and the remainder drifted down the bay.
The water in the vicinity of the city next after-
noon was covered with floating timber, which

interfered with the navigation of the ferry
steamer.

- Hamilton, Thomas Workman, J. K. Ward,—

178
TIMBER LIMITS HOLDERS’ ASSOCIATION.
The Montreal Guzette, of June 8th, says :—A
special meeting of limit holders, bankers and
others interested in the tenure of timber limits
in this Province, convened by the Timber Limits
Holders’ Association of the Province of Quebec,
was held in the hall of the Corn Exchange yes-
terday at 1.30 p.m.

The following gentlemen were present :—
Messrs. W. G. Perley, J. R. Booth, E. B. Eddy,
E. H. Bronson, James Gordon, Oliver Latour,
Allan Grant, Chas. Smith, Alex. Fraser, Allan
Gilmour, Ottawa; Andrew Thompson,—Kir-
key, J. Price, Jas. Ross, G. B. Hall, P. IP,
Hall, H. Atkinson, J. Breakey, John Breakey,
BE. Benson, T, Girouard, Peter McNaughton,
John Welsh, John Gilmour, Quebec ; F. Wol-
ferstan Thomas, Geo. Hague, Hon. John

about it.

injured the title to the licenses.

lation on the title.

that there was a power conferred upon the Do.

Grendy, J. Macdougall, G. Giroux, J. Macni-| allowance of acts passed by the Provincial

der, Montreal ; A. Baptist, Three Rivers.

Mr. W. G. Perley, of Ottawa, having been
ealled to the chair, said that the object of the
meeting was to take into consideration the late
act passed by the Quebec Legislature.

The Secretary having read the notice conven
ing the meeting,

Mr. Andrew Thomson moved the following
resolution, seconded by the Hon. John Hamil-
ton :—

That the Association be composed of limit-
holders, bankers, corporations, and others inter-
ested in the security of the tenure of limits.

That the object of this association is to secure
the united action of all interested in the tenure
of limits, for the protection of their rights gener-
ally, and for mutual assistance in promoting
the interests of each individual member thereof.

That there shall be elected a President, Vice-
Presidents and a council of seven, who shall
employ a secretary and be empowered to admin-
ister the business of the Association.

That at all meetings of said Council three
members thereof shall constitute a quorum.

That the annual subscription shall be $10 for
each member.

That the Council, should the emergency arise,
have the right of levying a contribution per
square mile on limits at the rate of and not ex-
ceeding : On pine limits valued at $200 or up-
wards per square mile—$1 per mile. Pine
limits valued at less that $200 per mile—50 cents

reasons for such, that he emphasized the fact

the rights of property, though probably, as they
had heard, there might not be much practical

ber business for some time to come. But with

were very seriously involved. It was a matter
for serious consideration whether the Dominion
Government should not be approached and an
endeavor made to induce them to exercise their
power of disallowance.

The resolution was then put to the meeting
and agreed to, clause by clause.

On the suggestion of Hon. John Hamilton the
following clause was added :—

That not exceeding one member of any firm,
corporation or banking institute shall be eligible
to election as a member or officer of the
Council.

Mr. E. H. Bronson, of Ottawa, also moved

per mile. Mixed pine and spruce limits, 50
cents per mile. Spruce limits only, 25 cents per | the addition of the following clause :—
mile. That it is desirable that the President to be

elected shall be a resident of Quebec, and the
Vice-President a resident of Ottawa ; and the
Council shall be constituted of four memberS
from the Quebec and Three Rivers District, and
of three members from the Ottawa District.

At Mr. Thomson’s suggestion the following
clause was also added :—

That the President, Vice-President and
Council shall have power to fill any vacancies
that may occur in their board from time to

time,
It was moved by the Hon. John Hamilton,

seconded by Mr. P. McNaughton, ‘‘ That the
sincere thanks of this association are due and
are hereby tendered to the Legislative Council of
Quebec for their prompt and energetic action
in protecting the vested rights of property.”—
—Carried.

A vote of thanks to the editor of the Quebec
Morning Chronicle, for his able advocacy of the
rights of the limit holders, in the columns of his
paper was unanimously passed,

The election of officers by ballot was then
proceeded with, Messrs. McNaughton and
Eddy acting as scrutineers. The result was as
follows :—President, Mr. Andrew Thompson ;
Vice-President, Mr. W. G. Perley. Members
of Council—Messrs. T. Girouard, A. Baptist, J.
King, P. McNaughton, Quebec ; Peter White,
Pembroke ; E. H. Bronson, Ottawa ; Hon. John
Hamilton, Hawksbury.

A vote of thanks to the Corn Exchange having
been passéd for the loan of the room in which
the meeting was held,

Mr. E. H. Bronson was desirous that it should
go forth to the public that they were not oppos
ed to bona fide, legitimate settlers, and that in
advocating what they felt to be their own inter-
ests in the matter, they were really advocating
what were actually in the interests of the
public,

That the valuation of limits for the purpose
of assessment be established by the council.

That the annual meeting be held on the first
week in August of each year alternately in the
cities of Quebec and Ottawa, when the Presi-
dent, Council and officers shall be elected by
ballot, and that reports of the Council of the
preceding year be submitted.

That any firm, corporation or banking institu-
tion having an interest in licenses may be re-
presented by not exceeding five members of
such firm, corporation or banking institution,
who shall be entitled to vote, having paid their
annual fee.

That the President or Vice-President and any
two members of the council shall be empowered
at any time to call a special meeting of the As-
sociation, should the occasion in their opinion
require it.

Mr. Thomson, at the request of the Chair-
man, rose to explain to the meeting the objects
of the movement, and also as to what had al-
ready been done. He thought the resolutions
were very explicit. The real matter now before
them was the appointment of a suitable com-
mittee to work at and endeavor to accomplish
all that the limit holders at present desired,
more especially to give their licenses a title,
which had recently been seriously injured by
the action of the Legislature. He thought such
could be accomplished, though were he to give
them his view as to by what means, he was
afraid he might defeat the very object they had
in view. It was one of those things that would
have to be done by a few men and not by a
great number or by an individual. He felt con-
fident from what he had learned from some of
the leading members of the Dominion and local
cabinets that something of the kind would be
done—something of the nature of a statute that
would give their licenses a title. It was impor-

tant that they should appoint the best men they
could select to set about petitioning the Legisla-
ture in the matter of the act as it stood. He
thought there were some mistaken views afloat
He did not himself think that in its
present form it would occasion any serious loss
to lumbermen, or that it would seriously inter-
fere with their operations, but it certainly had
If, for in-
stance, a man wanted to sell his licenses or to
pledge them as security the title had decidedly
suffered by the action of the Government. He
believed they might be satisfied to let it rest as
it stood, provided that they could get some legis-

Mr. Geo. Hague asked whether it had occur-
ed to those who were initiating the movement

minion Government by the constitution, of dis-

Legislature, and whether they would consider
the advisabily of asking that that power be ex-
ercised. ‘There had been such an exercise during
the past year, and he noticed in a statement of
Sir John Macdonald’s made recently, giving the

that the bill in question passed by the Legisla-
ture of Ontario would seriously affect the rights
of property, that the rights of property were
sacred, and that no legislation should ever be
suffered to interfere with them. In the present
case there was very plainly an interference with

interference with the actual working of the lum-
respect to the value of property, the power of

disposing of property or of giving security for
money bonds on property, all those questions

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

The speaker alluded at length to the unde-
sirability of ceding timbered territory to rail-
road companies, and thought it would be well
if the Council were to press on the Government
the desirahility of isolating all sections of coun-
try that were purely timbered sections, for the
purpose of harvesting the timber, so that revenue
to be derived from the proper use of that timber
There were
agricultural lands within the bounds of the
province that were not pine lands, that were
amply sufficient for the wants of the average
settlers, and by keeping settlers absolutely out
of the timbered sections, the timber might be
preserved until it was harvested in the proper

might not be lost to the province.

manner.

A. vote of thanks to the chairman terminated

the proceedings.

DIACHROMATISED WOOD.
The Timber Trades Journal says we had an

opportunity this week of examining, at the
Cannon Street Hotel, some specimens of a new

process of wood decoration, styled ‘‘ diachroma-
tised wood,” the patentee of which, Mr. Henry

Chalk Webb, of Worcester, is about to transfer
his useful invention to a limited company, the
prospectus of which appears this week in our

advertising columns. The invention consists in

producing patterns on wood and other materials

by injecting colours, which has the effect of in-

laying or painting, and for flooring, dados, and

other decorative purposes, it appears to be highly
applicable. One great merit of the invention,
apart from its beauty and inexpensiveness, is

the fact that the colour being forced into the

wood, under pressure, is not likely to be obliter-
ated by any amount of wear which it might be

subjected to ; indeed, some specimens of flooring

blocks of pitch pine, about one inch in thickness,
which we examined,

the colour in about one-sixteenth of an inch. It
appears to us that the process is most successful
in using the darker colours, such as those which
are employed for producing on a piece of com-
mon fir the effects of inlaying in walnut, dark
oak, mahogany, &c., while the treatment of the
lighter coloured woods, such as sycamore, satin-
wood, &c., with such colours as pink and blue,
does not produce such a real or artistic effect.
This remark, however, does not apply to a re-
markably handsome piece of wall dado, prettily
made of American walnut, satinwood, and bird
eye maple, ‘‘ diachromatised” in mauve, black,
and other colours, in a florid, artistic pattern,
and having all the appearance of a good speci-
men of inlaid work.

For public halls, churches, libraries, and also
private houses, we should say that this inven-
tion only requires to be known to acquire great
favor with the public. We may add that
amongst the directors we notice the names of
several gentlemen well known in the timber
trade.

A FORESTERS’ JOURNAL.

Notwithstanding the vast importance to the
people of the United States of the question of
forestry, it has hitherto, or until very recently,
received an inconsiderable amount of attention,
particularly from the daily press and publica-
tions not specially devoted to such industries as
have wood for a basis. Of late, however, and
especially since the late forestry congress in
Cincinnati, both the press and people have
evinced a much deeper interest in the subject.
In every section of the country the danger is
evidently becoming apparent, that the reckless
destruction of timber which has hitherto char-
acterized our history, if persisted in further,
will utterly denude our forests and be the source
of incalculable and irreparable loss. So apparent
has this become, and so great is the desire for
information on the subject of forestry, that the
necessity for a periodical devoted specially
thereto has presented itself, and we are glad to
chronicle the fact that Dr. Franklin B. Hough,
chief of the forestry department of agriculture
at Washington, has undertaken to supply the
deficiency. An exchange says, in reference to
this subject, that a journal devoted to the

dissemination of such information will have a

wide field before it and may do a good work.
The education of the people {on this question,

were completely soaked
through, although we understand that for dado
and wall purposes it is found sufficient to force

just begun by the agitation of those interested
in forestry, ought to be carried forward; and
the periodical is now one of the most successful
of educating influences. The efforts of a few
enthusiastic advocates of a forestry system have
awakened the country from its past apathy, and
there is scope for the talent which will be at-
tracted to this new phase of the subject, in form-
ing and directing public opinion as to the future
course of a work of national importance and di-
mensions. Dr. Hough’s general information
on the subject of forestry, acquired by years of
research and study, especially adapt him for the
work he has undertaken. His qualification for
the self-imposed duty are not surpassed by any
writer on forestry on the continent. His name
will be a tower uf strength and influence in the
outset, which will give the publication a boom
which will carry with it an insurance of suOCEES.
—Lumberman’s Gazette.

THE FRENCH TIMBER TRADE.

In Gironde (Bordeaux) of 22nd May, makes
the following observations with regard to the
different descriptions of wood goods :—

HOovsEBUILDING.—The principal feature in
this branch which at present has attracted the
greatest attention i is the chartering, and several
more vessels have been chartered, some easily,
others with difficulty, amongst which we may
mention several steamers from the Bothnian
Gulf at current rates and usual conditions. The
treaty of commerce with Sweden and Norway
has now come into force, and flooring boards
have to pay duty in consequence, from which
circumstance the consumer must pay a higher
price on the square metre.

Canadian news received this week reports that
the spruce stocks are very firmly held.

The arrivals of late have been very few ; one
from Gothenburg, one from Fredrikstadt, and
two from Dantzic.

The French steamer Panama has been char-
tered from St. John for Havre, St. Nazaire, or
Bordeaux, with deals, at the low rate of 53s.

SrAves.—The usual market of St. Fort, al-
though not having the same importance as before

‘the ravages of the phylloxera, has been larger

this year than during any of the latter ones.
The business done has been on the whole satis-
factory, and a very good tone seems to pervade
the market. This improvement was much
needed, as the market went down every year
since 1876, when stocks were large and the con-
sumption small. At the present stocks are very
small, and with a restricted importation one has
every hope to look forward to an improvement,
provided the vine harvest proves good this year,

The Austrian shipments to this place have
been very few during the last two months, and
will be the same during May. At present there
are no arrivals to announce. Freights, 6 to 6.50
fs. per hundred per sailing vessel, and 20 to 22
fs. per ton by steamer.

DECAY OF THE SPRUCE. -

The following letter appears in the Montreal
Witness :—

Srr,—I have read carefully the letters of
Messrs. Hall and Rose in your valuable paper
regarding the decay in spruce trees. Thespruce
in this part of the townships are also suffering
from the same seemingly unknown disease, and
the letter of Mr. Rose explains exactly what is
taking place here. When the trees show the
first symptoms of decay a small worm is noticed
between the bark and the sapwood, and where
these worms are found the bark in peeling time
adheres firmly to the tree. Whether these
worms are the cause of the trees dying I cannot
say. It is certain, however, that fully one-third
of our best spruce timber is already dead and
useless, and the disease is still spreading. This
will be a great loss fo owners of wild lands in
the Dominion, as spruce is now becoming as
valuable as pine was some twenty years ago.
The same disease seems also to be attacking the
hemlock, theugh as yet to a less extent.

Ww.

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their facilities that they are now able to turn
out two first-class passenger cars a month and
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wheels, a saw gummer, an automatic planer
knife grinder, and a new planer and matcher.
In another part of the works was seen a shaving
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regular moulder; a planer, (that will plane a
stick 16 in. square by 40 ft. long,) the only one
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To turn out such a large number of cars as
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class passenger cars for the Grand Suthern
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The mills of the Canada Paper Company at
Windsor add to the old process of producing
paper from rags and ropes the extensive pro-
duction of paper pulp from wood by a chemical
process. The wood iscut by a powerful rotary
machine into chips, which are shovelled into im-
mense revolving boilers, where they are boiled
with 2 mixture of soda ash and water, previous-
ly prepared. The boiled mass comes out thor-

oughly reduced to soft pulp, the rosins and |

_other ingredients of the wood, except the fibre,
having passed into the liquor. This black
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finally with water again, the product of which
is drained away. The pulp then goes througha
complicated process of straining, and bleaching
with chlorine, when it is ready to mix, in proper
" proportion, with other stock. The pulp made
froma wood by this chemical process is much
better than what is merely ground. Mr. Angus
Of the Canada Paper Company, is erecting pulp

mills at Angus on the Quebec Central, where

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he expects to prepare that article for the paper
mills of the Dominion. It seems strange that
Canada should not long ago have become an ex-
porting country for what now is a large article
of commerce and one she is so peculiarly well

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Chloride of Lime for Trees.

Le Cultivateur, a French journal, says that if
chloride of lime be spread on the soil or near
plants, insects and vermin will not be found
near them, and adds :—‘‘By its means plants
will easily be protected from insect plagues by
simply brushing over the stems with a solution
of it. It has often been noticed that a patch of
land which has been treated in this way remains
religiously respected by grubs, while the un-
protected beds all round it are liberally de-
vested. Wruit-trees may be guarded from the
attacks of grubs by attaching to their trunks
pieces of tow smeared with a mixture of hogs’
lard, and ants and grubs already in possession
will rapidly vacate their position. Butterflies,
again, will avoid all plants whose leaves have
been sprinkled with lime-water.”

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‘THE UTILITY AND BEAUTY OF TREES.

The following address of the Hon. George B.
Loring, United States Commissioner of Agri-
culture, was delivered before the American
Forestry Congress, at their recent meeting in
Cincinnati, Ohio :—

GENTLEMEN,—I have accepted your invitation
to be present on this occasion and to preside
over your deliberations, not because IT feel com-
petent to instruct in the art of forestry, but in
order that I might assure you of the sympathy
of the Agricultural Department of the Govern-
ment, and of my own estimate of the value of
your work. The question of forestry is one of
the most intricate and difficult of all the agricul-
tural problems which come before us.

That our forests are wasted by reckless ex-
travagance and by uncontrollable conflagrations;
that they are diminishing before the immense
demands upon their products, we all know.
Their importance as a climatic influence is con-
ceded. The profit of tree-growing on wisely
selected lands is acknowledged. But the
methods by which our forests can be restored
and preserved still puzzle the statesmen and the
cultivator alike. The nature of property in tim-
ber lands as adjusted for the State and the indi-
vidual, in all those countries where the forests
have attracted the special attention of the
Government, particularly in the Old World, has
so much of exclusiveness and reservation for
the gratification of personal desires, that we can
derive but little benefit from its study. The

weep.”
thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
TASTE IN TREE PLANTING.

man has applied his skill and taste to the crea-

natural beauties themselves.
antiquity, the monstrous towering pleasure
which advancing civilization has not failed to
follow. The cultivation of parks and gardens
constitutes one of the most interesting and im-
portant duties of modern art—a duty in the
faithful performance of which England has set
an admirable example. Leaving, in the early
part of the eighteenth century, the formal and
heavy style then in vogue, through the influence
of some of her most illustrious poets—Addison
at Bilton, and Pope at Twickenham—the Eng-
lish people revolutionized the whole system,

eye surveys the swelling landscape, the emotions
which belong to him as a child of the Creator of
all, inspire and elevate him above the earth on
which he treads, and distinguish him from that
other order of animal existence, to which all
scenery is alike, whose sensibilities no ugliness
of nature or art offends, which no starry heavens
delight, and no homely surroundings disturb ;
whose vision is blind both to the graces and
deformities of even its own kind, which nibbles
the daisy and the June grass with equal satis-
faction, and whose soul ‘‘ cannot rejoice with
those who rejoice, nor weep with those who
It is man alone who knows that “a

It is in accordance with this sentiment that

tion of all the charming scenery of groves and
bowers and gardens, and to the enhancement of
Great gardens of

grounds of Rome and Babylon, set an example

rights and powers and duties of State and
Federal legislation, as regards our forests, re-

quire the most careful and ingenious considera-
We learn from the statistical returns the

tion.
vast value of forest products to our commerce,
to our domestic manufactures, to our internal
trade. And by constant investigation we are
ascertaining the best systems of tree-planting,
and of cultivating specific wood crops in favor-
able localities. You will parden me, therefore,
while I leave all these difficult, practical
problems for the consideration of those who
have brought here the result of long study and
experience, and turn my attention to the value

and
IMPORTANCE OF TREE CULTURE

as one of those arts by which man beautifies his
abode, and manifests that taste which especially
distinguishes him in the scale of animate being,
and which he labors to gratify as soon as he
has laid the hard and substantial foundations of
State and Society. Men build first, and then
plant. The primary work of erecting an empire,
in which all the sturdy virtues are called into
operation, and where courage fixes the national
power, and wisdom establishes the national
education, is not a field for the exercise of man’s
love for the beautiful. With the wars and the
felling of the forests, and the log cabin and
primitive school house of a newly-settled coun-
try and a newlyfounded empire, taste has but
little to do. But when safety and property are
made secure, and the highways are well worn,
and the skill and strength of the cultivator
have stripped the landscape of its natural
beauty, and the foot of man has trampled out
the graceful lines in which nature always works,
then there uprises man’s demand for the beauti-
ful, and he endeavors to restore by art what he
was obliged to destroy for his subsistence. For
whatever may be his outward circumstance,
however hardening and depressing may be the
incidents of his life, man has an instinctive love
of beauty, which insists on being gratified. He
knows that this is his distinguishing character-
istic which separates him from the beasts that
perish—an element of his mind and heart which
leads him ‘‘ from nature up to nature’s God.”
‘To him the sunrise means glory as well as day-
light. The lone and lofty mountains elevate
him to the contemplation of the Almighty
power, even while they are ‘“‘a shelter to the
wild goats ;’ and the dewy pastures where the
cattle graze and recline in the long shadows,
lull him to the sweets of evening repose ; the
sparkling stream, ‘‘ where the wild asses quench
their thirst,” will soothe and sing him to happi-

ness and rest. The majestic and com-
amanding tree, whose widespread branches

shelter the panting animals from the blaze of
the noon-day sun, is a picture of power and
strength and varying loveliness, which is to him
a source of never-ending delight. When his

and established that classical style of planting
which has since been so much admired and imi-
tated throughout the most refined parts of
Europe.

The science of landscape gardening, which
advanced so slowly in the Old World, and the
proper system of constructing a city with light
and water, and parks and shaded streets, which
was so shamefully neglected until a compara-
tively recent period, have until within a few
years been entirely overlooked in our own
country.

When more than seventy years ago the city of
Cincinnati was founded and the spot was chosen
on which has been erected such asplendid array
of public buildings, private dwellings, music
halls, art galleries, churches and libraries, the
application of art to the arrangement of gardens,
parks, streets and highways, was hardly thought
of. It was enough to clear the land and till it,
without converting it into a pleasing picture.
It was all the early settlers in our country could
do to blaze a path in the forest without con-
sidering how best to crown and drain a highway,
and it was not until after the Revolutionary
war that the planting of trees and shrubs was
made a necessary part of the laying out of
gardens and grounds. I remember well the
only garden in the State of Massachusetts, laid
out early in this century by an English gardener,
and kept in good order until within a dozen
years, an object of delight to all who were
allowed to enter its sacred inclosure and peram-
bulate its well-visited walks. Such a scene as
this was rare. Public spirited citizens planted
avenues of trees in highways, and were con-
sidered benefactors. Here and there a ‘‘ door-
yard” was ornamented with a clump of lilacs
and syringas, but nowhere, that I am aware of,
were there associations of enterprising and
tasteful citizens organized for the purpose of
adorning their towns and of providing for the
health and comfort of themselves and of the
community of which they forma part. It re-
mained for our own generation to unite for so
laudable a purpose; and I congratulate this
beautiful city that its natural comeliness has
been enhanced and its suburbs made delightful
by the combined efforts of those who believe
that a love of beauty is a human attribute, and
that we are under asacred obligation to preserve
that health which is given us for a high and use-
ful purpose. The practical service of an associa-
tion like this, as I have said, it is not necessary
for me to discuss here, in the presence of those
who know by experience how trees and shrubs
should be grouped ; who have learned that an
evergreen should be transplanted in August,

and that a little lime and muck applied to the

roots when it is planted will give it a wonder-
ful stimulus ; who understand that a plantation

of trees should be made to suit the building it is

which earth, sea, and sky form a part. With
all this you have long been familiar, as the
practical part of a most agreeable labor ; but for
the trees themselves, these living monuments
of nature’s bounty, or of man’s skill; those
landinarks which we love to contemplate ; those
sentinels and armies along the landscape ; those
silent friends who somehow connect themselves
with so many of the dearest scenes and events
of our lives, and watch over the graves of the
departed day and night, and through all the
changing seasons—for the trees themselves let

us say a word,
TREES FOR PROFIT.

And now, to him who, in a spirit of thrift
and economy worthy of that people to whom as
an American he belongs, would ask what is all
this worth ? let me say that the judicious selec-
tion and planting of trees may be made one of
the most profitable branches of agriculture.
Not for the beauty of the town alone, but for
a thrifty use of remote and deserted acres also
may the culture of trees be made a part of the
business of life. A venerable clergyman in
Massachusetts, the father of one of the most
distinguished bankers in Boston, left at his
death a large territory of woodland in the town
which was blessed with his ministry for more
than fifty years, and the protits on this land,
which he had purchased at a very low rate at
the beginning of his professional service, and
which had been devoted to the growth of wood,
principally pine, were greater than those realiz-
ed on lands purchased and sold at the same
periods in the most prosperous parts of Boston.
““We have heard of a gentleman,” says the
author of Practical Economy, ‘‘ whose lands
were more extensive than fertile, whose practice
was to plant fifteen hundred trees, on the birth
of every daughter, upon his waste grounds,
which were on an average worth one pound
each on her becoming of age, thus enabling him
to give her a fortune of £1,500 without any
extraordinary economy on his part, the regular
thinning of the trees at proper seasons, with
barking, etc., paying off all the current expenses,
besides yielding him a small rent for the land.”
The profits derived from the growing of the
pine, the locust, and the birch, all capable of
flourishing greatly in light and somewhat worth-
less lands, have been in many instances very
remarkable. Perhaps I would not recommend
the cultivation of wood and timber as a univer-
sal branch of agriculture in these days when the
secret of the business lies in quick returns and
devotion to local markets ; but I can find in the
experience of those who have tried it an en-
couragement to those who, by the possession
of large tracts of waste lands, may be compelled
to follow their example in the business of tree-
planting ; and I read with profound interest the
statement addressed to Governor Foster by an
enterprising citizen of this State, with regard to
his success in tree-planting, and the groves of
walnuts, maples and chestnut which he is culti-
vating with pleasure and profit.

Tn conclusion let me urge upon this Associa-
tion the most careful consideration of the topics
before it—the use of forests; the conservation
of forests ; the influences, injurious and benefti-
cialof forests ; the educational means by which we
may become acquainted with Forestry work.
To what extent can the land-owner enter pro-
fitably upon the business of tree-planting and
forest culture? What legislation can the States
best adopt for the increase and preservation of

to surround and the landscape it is to occupy ;
that trees should not be planted too near a
building, or too near each other ; that the plants
nearest the house should be low in stature
and of a beautiful sort; that the shades of
green should be properly blended, and the foli-
age selected accordingly ; that trees should be
protected by each other against those winds
which are obnoxious to them ; that the Norway
will not bear the rough gales from the sea, and
that the Scotch pine rejoices in them ; that trees
and plants should not be ‘‘ marshalled in regu-
lar order and at equal distances,” like beaux
and belles standing up for a quadrille or country
dance ; that it is easier,” as Downing says, ‘‘ to
make a tasteful park by planting new trees
than by thinning ont an old forest, and that
nature herself is full of hints and suggestions,”
an observance of which constitutes the highest
art of which man is capable in all that work of

their forests? How shall the General Govern-
ment provide for the planting of forests on its
public lands? What is the precise extent of

forest waste? What is the comparative value
of various timber trees? How shall we secure
wind-breaks on the prairies? By what chemi-

cal processes can we preserve our timber used in

building and fencing? What forest trees are
best adapted to various localities?—these are
questions which should be answered as definite-

ly as possible. They are questions which the
American people are anxious to have answered,

and before which all discussion of foreign legis-
lation, all consideration of the value of wood”
products, all statistics of trade, all study of
land tenure, sink into insignificance. I trust
the deliberations of this convention will point
the way by which these problems can be solved,

and by which our vast forest wealth can be
economically preserved and profitably used.

NEW JERSEY SUNKEN FORESTS.

There are in New Jersey, in the township of
Dennisville, immense swamps partly covered by
thick water weeds and white cedar, and partly
by stumps and fallen logs of immense size, which
are merely surface indications of wealth below,
which consists of sunken forests, of which an
exchange gives the following account: These
huge trees which lie under swamps to unknown
depths are of the white cedar variety, an ever-
green known scientifically as the Cypressus
Thyoides. They grew years ago in the fresh
water, which is necessary for their sustenance,
and when, either by a subsidence of the land
or a rise of the seas, the salt water reached them
they died in great numbers. But many of them,
ere they died, fell over as living treeyand were
covered slowly by the desposits of muck and
peat which fill the swamps. These trees that
fell over by the roots are known as windfalls to
distinguish them from the breakdowns. The
trees which broke off are the ones most sought
for commercial uses, and they are found and
worked as follows: The log digger enters the
swamp with a sharpened iron red. He probes
the soft soil until he strikes a tree, probably
two or three feet below the surface. Ina few |
minutes he finds the length of the trunk, how
much still remains firm wood, and at what place
the first knot, which will stop the straight split
necessary for singles, begins. Still using his prod,
like the divining-rod of a magician, he manages |
to secure a chip, and by the smell knows
whether the tree isa wind-fall or breakdown. ;
Then he inserts inthe mud asaw, like that
used by ice-cutters, and saws through the roots ,
and muck until the log is reached. The top
and roots are thus sawn off, a ditch dug over
the trees, the trunk loosened, and soon the great
stock, sometimes five or six feet thick, rises and
floats on the water, which quickly fills the ditch
almost to the surface. The log is next sawn in-
to lengths two feet long, which are split by
hand and worded into shingles, as well as into
the staves used for pails andtubs. The wood
has a course grain,and splits straight as
an arrow. The shingles made from it last
from sixty to seventy years, and are now
eagerly sought for by builders in Southern New
Jersey, and command in the market a much
higher price than the ordinary shingles made of
pine or chestnut. In color the wood of the
white cedar is a delicate pink, and it has a strong
flavor, resembling that of the red cedar used
in making lead pencils. The trees once fairly
buried under the swamp never become water-
logged, as is shown by their floating in the
ditches as soon as they are pried up, and what
is more singular, as soon’as they rise they turn
underside uppermost. These two facts are 7
mysteries which science has thus far left so. :
The number of trees which lie below the surface 7
of the ten square miles of swamp is almost
numberless. In many places the probe will not
be sunk many times before it fails to strike a
log. As the workmen only dig for those near
the surface, and none but the best trees are
selected, it is certain that only a small fraction
of the logs have been exhumed since 1812, when
the industry first sprang up. The sunken
forests lie in all shapes. Sometimes the trees
are found parallel, as though a wind blowing
from one quarter had felled them, but usually
they lie pointing in every direction, and when

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as occasionally happens, the wet soil sinks or
dries, the mighty trunks are seen piled upon
each other as in a Maine log jam. It would be
impossible to make even an approximate estim-
ate of the vast amount of timber contained in
these veritable’“‘ timber mines,” suffice it is to

‘say, there is as yet hardly a perceptible sign of

any diminution of the supply.—Buffalo Lumber
World.

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LUBRICATING BEARINGS.

Lewis F. Lyne, in the American Machinist
says: ‘‘ I remember, some years ago in a mill
there was a wall-box supporting a five-inch
shaft which would get hot and remain so in
spite of all efforts made to cool it. Oil, sulphur
and tallow, water, were each used in great abun-
dance, but still the journal refused to surrender.
Finally, one night I raised the shaft and remov-
ed the composition box, and had it carefullyclean-
ed. The shaft having also been cleaned, a very
light film of lamp black was gently rubbed over
it. This test revealed the fact that the bearing
was all right so far as fitting was concerned, but
the surface of both the shaft and box were
rough, and the skin ef the metal disturbed.
The load upon the bearing being heavy, it was
sure to heat. I obtained some pure flake
graphite, and having melted a pot of pure tal-
low, I stirred in a liberal dose of the graphite.
The box having been replaced, both bearing
surfaces were covered with the mixture of gra-
phite and tallow, and the shaft lowered to its
place. Inthe morning, when the machinery
was started, the box warmed up about to blood
heat and remained so for several hours, after
which it cooled down and gave no more trouble.
In a few days it was examined, when the surf-
ace was found polished like a looking glass.
The graphite had become imbedded in the pores
of the metal and formed a very fine wearing
surface, which ran with every little friction. I
haye since made use of this mixture for cooling
heavy journals and have always found it suc-
cessful.”

ROADSIDE TREES,
The Country Gentleman says :—Objections are

- sometimes raised against tree planting on the

roadside, preventing, as is claimed, any drying
of the road bed. This would be a small ob-
jection ona welldrained road. The planting
of shade trees on the roadside is very generally
conceded to be an improvement to both the road
and adjoining property. Particular avenues of
well-grown trees often gain world-wide reput-
ation. There are many kinds of trees suitable
for roadside planting, but for a select list the
following are reliable, given in succession ac-
cording to their merits :

_White elm, tulip, scarlet maple, Norway
maple, hard maple, horse chestnut, catalpa
(speciosa), chestnut, white oak and English elm.
The tulip, hard maple, and chestnut require a
naturally deep, well drained soil in order to
thrive, The best effects are obtained by plant-
ing one kind. for long distance, and neighbors
should club together and decide on atree, and
have no other planted in a section of road,
Apple trees are very objectionable for this
purpose, being naturally low and spreading.
The continued trimming up required to keep
the branches out of the way soon ruins them.
Fruit trees are out of place on the roadside.
The proper distance for planting is eight to ten
feet from the line and thirty feet apart. Trees
should be well protected by stakes or boxes for
a few years. Nursery-grown trees are the
cheapest in the end.

An Important Sale.

The Mackinaw Lumber Company has sold
the cut of its mills at St. Ignace and at Black
River for the season of 1882 to the Bogue-
Badenoch Company, and another party on
private terms, the sale covering every stick of
lumber manufactured in both mills, or 25,000,000
feet—one of the largest sales thus far reported.
A man will be sent to St. Ignace in the interest
of the purchasers to look after the local trade.
The sale does not cover the lumber on the dock
of last year’s cut.

Tueee requisites—pens, pins and needles.
The latter you can get of any makes, but when
you want a good pen get one of Esterbrook’s,

A BIG 8MOKE STACK.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says the new smoke
stack recently erected by the Dubuque lumber
company to make asuitable draft for the furnace
was fully tested yesterday. It starts horizon-
tally from the boilers, runs along the bluff and
terminates on top of the bluff, a distance of 430
feet, the longest and largest smoke stack in this
state without doubt. Sheet iron five feet in
diameter is used from the boilers to the bluff,
where brick masonry commences up the incline
until the brow of the bluff is reached, where a
tall sheet iron stack tops out the structure,
making a draft of 480 feet. The suction is
enough to haul up a small man, and the fireman
has to be weighted down when venturing near
the furnace door, to save himself from going up
the spout. Sawdust burns fiercely, and sparks
and cinders are carried to the sky. The im-
provement fully meets expectations, and will
prove to be a paying investment in the matter
of fuel alone.

Pulp Paper Process.

The methods of manufacturing paper from
wood are being revolutionized. One Stephen
M. Allen has invented a machine which dis
penses with the beater and other apparatus
heretofore in use, so that wood, sizing and other
necessary material is by one operation ground,
beaten and delivered to the paper machines
requiring, as is claimed, but five minutes to con-
vert the wood in its stick form, with the other
essentials, into a sheet of dried white paper
Commonly wood-grinding has been a separate
enterprise, pulp-mills being established to make
the material for the paper men, who bought it
already prepared, mixing it with rags and other
material, and after proper manipulation run-
ning it off on to paper machines, which shows
the greater economy and increased efficiency of
the new device.—Worth Western Lumberman.

Disappearance of Forests.

In some cantons of Switzerland, says the
Lumber World, there is a law forbidding the
destruction of a tree without planting another
to take its place. The law is an outgrowth of
necessity. It has been scientifically demonstrat-
ed that the increase in violent storms, inunda-
tions, and landslips in Switzerland, scattering
death and destruction on all sides, is due to
detoresting the mountains. Gradually the tim-
ber has disappeared, until little remains except
on the high slopes of the mountains, and that
little is of inferior size and quality. Unless the
process is arrested the mountains of Switzerland
will present as bald an appearance as those
Alps that divide France and Italy, and nothing
more desolate and drear outside of the steppes
of Asia or the desert of Africa presents itself to
the eye of the traveller.

A TELEGRAM from Ottawa says :—The limit
of fifty square miles on the Kippewa, owned by
the Messrs. McMaster, of Toronto, was recently
purchased by Mr. Oliver Latour, the price paid
being $20,000. The same gentleman also pur-
chased two limits of ninety-six square miles on
the same river from Mr. James Ross. $40,000
was the amount paid. Mr. Latour has sold his
Deep river limit of sixty square miles to Messrs.
Bronson & Weston.

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of any person selling or dealing in any bogus,
counterfeit or imitation Hop Bitters, especially
Bitters or preparations with the word Hop or
Hops in their name or connected therewith,
that is entended to mislead and cheat the pub-
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tending to be the sane as Hop Bitters. The
genuine have acluster of Green Hops (notice
this) printed on the white label, and are the
purest and best medicine on earth, for Kidney,
Liver and Nervous Diseases, Beware of all
others, and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of Hop Bitterf published in papers or for sales
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in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. Hop
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Youne MEN suffering from early indiscretions
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JUNE 15, 1582,

THERE were recently delivered in Sau Iran-
cisco acollection of Japanese Maples, numbering
51 species,

Tur Thunder Bay Sentinel, of June 2nd, says
the first shipment of lumber for Winnipeg is
being landed on the Lake Superior Co.’s wharf
by W. H, Carpenter.

Tur lumber regions of Lake Superior give
employment and support to about 50,000 persons
in the winter months, the force, of course, being
materially less during the balance of the year.

THERE are said to be some 30 schooners engag
ed in the lumber trade of Lake Charles, Texas.
The four mills operated by Moore, Perkins &
Co. cut 3,000,000 feet during the month of

April.

Avameeting of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, Mr. Tolhurst moved ‘‘ that the applica-
tion of the vestry of Paddington for permission
to borrow £12,000 for wood paving works be
granted.”

Tur hardwood mills of Evansville, Indiana,
number 11, 6 of them with a capacity of 10,000, -
000 feet yearly, and five with a capacity of
5,000,000 feet, making an annual total of 15,-
000,000 feet.

Tan Northwestern Lumberman says that on
the Mississippi the feeling is buoyant under the
stimulus of the Manitoba and Dakota boom.
Tt is reported from the St. Paul district that the
mills are all far behind their orders, and the
railroads are overtaxed to carry the lumber to
its destination.

THe Lumberman’s Gazette says :—The next
forestry congress having been appointed to be
held in Montreal, a Canadian writer to the
Quebee Chronicle, who was a delegate to the
late forestry congress in Cincinnati, says :—‘‘ It
is to be hoped that the citizens of Montreal will
treat the American delegates to the congress as
kindly as the Canadian delegates were treated
in Cincinnati, and that the Quebec Government
will take such action in regard to the meeting
as the importance of the subject demands,”

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

Mk. StincHrixLp put into the flat river and
has driven out 35,000,000 feet of logs.. The logs

were put in on a five and one half mile haul,

and the work consumed twenty-seven weeks’
This is a good business, considering the

time,
length of the haul.

A SHIP is on its way from Boston to Seattle,

W.T., to load with spars and choice lumber for
The Seattle Lumber Com-
pany will furnish part of the cargo, consisting

the return voyage.

of 100,000 feet of plank, at $20 a thousand, and
50,000 feet of clear cedar, at $25 a thousand.

THE Vimber Trades Journal says the Irish
ports show much irregularity. Dublin

largely increased, but Cork and the southern

ports seem to have fallen off, some of them more
than half in comparison of their importation up

to date of last year.

A New pulpit, almost completed, for St.

Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, will cost about

£300. The whole of the structure is of old

English oak, the pillar shafts in the pulpit being
made of oak which originally formed part of the

oakwood in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral,
and therefore now upwards of 700 years old.

hang there. The place is 15 miles from Merrill,

where the river is crooked and narrow.

many of them are hung up—water all run out.

Tur American Forestry Association will hold

a meeting on Tuesday, June 20th, at Rochester,

N.Y., for the dircussion of forestal topics, for

reorganizing by the election of officers, and for
in

other business. All who are interested

forestry are invited to attend.

meeting of the American Nurserymen’s Associa-
tion will take place on the following day in the

same city.

Tuk Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says :

Mr. Robert Dollar, of Bracebridge, Ont., called
on the Lwmberman when in the city on Monday
last.
operators in Canada, and hereafter will conduct

business on a large scale on the upper peninsula
He will soon make his

of Michigan, as well,
home at Marquette, Mich., and look after the
American end of the affairs of his company.

Tur Dubuque Herald insinuates that in the
Duluth land district of Minnesota 40,000 acres
of land, worth at least $40 per acre, have been

fraudulently pre-empted for the purpose of

obtaining the valuable timber. The land has
been entered for $1.25 an acre, and it is claimed
the parties entering the same have no intention
of improving it for farms. The investigation
begun by Governor Marshall, of that State, will

be carried on by the land department, and after

all the facts are gathered, a recommendation
will be made. From this large area of land

there has undoubtedly been a large quantity of

timber taken, and it would be an excellent
thing if damages could be obtained for the
amount already removed.—Lumberman’s Ga-

zette.

PUGET SOUND LUMBERING.

A Puget Sound paper in alluding to the camp
of Geo. W. Foster, on the Deschutes river, says
that their annual product will reach nearly
seven million feet, and they give constant em-
ployment to about fifty men. Teamsters re-
ceive from $80 to $90 per month ; choppers, $65
to $70, and boys $1 per day—board and lodging
in all cases included. Prices paid for logs vary
with the season and quality. The demand now
being brisk, rates have advanced from 20 to 25
per cent. over the prices of last year. Good logs
now readily command from $5 to $6 per M.,
while those of special length bring a cash value
much in excess of the rates estimated by board
measure, One dollar per lineal foot is sometimes
paid for logs of unusual length, and a corres-
ponding rate for those which will square given
dimensions in excess of the ysual scale, As
much as $180 has been paid for a single stick

has
nearly doubled its importation, and Belfast has

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says that a log jam
of 60,000,000 logs is reported at Grand Father’s
Bull on the Wisconsin river, and is likely to

Drives
on the Chippewa are not very encouraging ;

The annual

Mr. Dollar is one of the most extensive

SS eee
measuring an equal number of feet in length, | crop is almost sure to be all secured. The
and in furnishing such choice logs Mr. Foster | American demand for hard woods continues for
seems to have enjoyed unusual facilities. Fre-| ports on Lake Champlain, sales of ash havin
quently orders for special logs are received by transpired at $20 to $25 per M. feet, and pie:
him from all parts of the Sound. The supply | has changed hands at $60 ee M. ft. f.0.¢. at
in the district now occupied by Mr. Foster is} Point St, Charles. We also notice s shi & t
practically unlimited. He owns several thou-| of cherry to Portland, Me., and have re?
sand acres, and has bought enough timber on | pine deals to report ap Whitehall the goods be-
adjoining tracts to keep him busy the next ten ing shipped from Ottawa direct pas price bein
years, without materially extending his line of | on the basis of $12 here. There is an nie
railroad. In a few weeks the rails will be enquiry for first and second sidings for the
changed to a new location, crossing the Des-| American market and owing to en havin
chutes at the camp, and penetrating a fine tim-| been pretty well cleared, prices are very aan
ber district several miles in extent. The trestle | As regards shipping calls and deals, there me
and bridge is now nearly completed, and it is] no lots offering on this market of a conse-
to be built with as much regard to stability as | quence, most of the supply having been bought
if on an established route of travel. In fact, up. The mills are busy filling orders. In this
the track is laid with the same care for solidity | market prices are steady.
as on the main line, even if it be on a branch ————
which is to be used only a few weeks. Theland A MAMMOTH CIRCULAR SAW
covered by this timber is said to be of an excel- Messrs. Drabble & Sande tee] finers
lent agricultural quality, and when it has served Ebenezer Works, Sheffield eee aut
its present use will be valuable for farming pur- circular saw of sitieal pie te eae
poses, large timber, which they have recently complet-
ed... If is 7 ‘f..3 ans an diameter, and will be
one of the largest in use in this country. There
have been big saws turned out before at the
Ebenezer Works, but none of them exceeded 6
ft. in diameter. But the mammoth saw just
sent to its destination in Lancashire is a remark-
able specimen of Sheffield manufacture, not
merely on account of its dimensions, but, per-
haps, even more so for the beauty of material
and workmanship. There is not a speck or the
minutest flaw to be detected anywhere on the
plate. In fact, no finer piece of steel could be
seen, and what is more to the point, it stood the
severe tests which Messrs. Drabble & Sander-
son put it to. The thickness of the plate is
five gauge, or a quarter of an inch, andthe makers
reckon upon the substance of the plate itself
holding it steady when revolving, so that a guide
will not be required on the saw bench. It will
run on a spindle, There are sixty teeth to the
saw, the space between each being 44 in. Every
part of this magnificent piece of steel machinery
is beautifully finished, and whoever happens to
see it cannot but be impressed by the perfection
to which the Sheffield steel manufacture has
been carried.—Timber Trades Journal,

————EE———EE
THE LUMBER TRADE,

The condition of the lumber trade from all
points of the compass shows greatly increased
activity, notwithstanding the unsettled condi
tion of the labor question throughout the
country. This may possibly be the natural re-
sult of this very unsettled condition of things.
Capital in times of strife will naturally turn to
safe investment even though it may not be so
remunerative as in other branches of trade or
industry. Real estate is generally looked upon
as a certain investment, and the investment of
capital therein naturally demands improvements
to make it remunerative ; hence the erection of
new buildings and the remodelling of those al-
ready in existence results. Be this as it may,
or whatever may be the cause, the almost unani-
mous report reaches us that the lumber trade
is picking up. Unless there shall be a complete
financial revulsion, because of the contest which
has been inaugurated between labor and capital,
the demand for lumber must continue in order
to supply the imperative call for it in the erec-
tion of homes for the new settlers which are so
rapidly peopling the prairies of the great west.
Any country which is increasing in population
to the enormous extent that is the United
States, and especially the western portion there-
of, must have lumber to supply homes for its
new comers. Therefore, unless a season of com-
plete financial prostration should result from
the causes heretofore named, there must be con-
tinued activity in the lumber business. —Lumber-

man’s Gazette.
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PARRY SOUND.

The North Star, of June 2nd, says :—The cut
of lumber at the Parry Sound Lumber Com-
pany’s mills for the month of May was as fol-
lows: At the water mill, 2,050,000 feet, and at
the steam mill the cut was 710,000 feet, making
the total amount cut by the two mills for the
month 2,760,000 feet.

Workmen are busily engaged in laying the
stone foundation for the Parry Sound Lumber
Company’s new stable on Seguin street.

One day this week a number of the employees
of the Parry Sound Lumber Company presented
Mr. F. R. Hogg, a late employee of the Com-
pany, with a gold watch chain and locket. On
one side was engraved the monogram letters,
““F.R.H.” and on the other the words, “‘ Pre-
sented to F. R. Hogg, by his friends in the P.
S. L. Company’s employ.” Mr. Hogg wishes
us to return his thanks to those kind friends
who have made him the recipient of such a hand-
some present,

U. 8. TIMBER LANDS,

The Secretary of the Interior has reversed
the decision of his predecessors relative to the
cutting of timber on public lands, The depart-
ment has hitherto construed the words “ for
domestic purposes ” to mean cutting timber by
individuals for their own use and not for sale,
Secretary Teller holds this to defeat the very
intent of the act, which was to provide a way
by which needed timber for mines, mills and
pioneer towns can be legally obtained. Any
such use within the State territory, whether by
the individual cutting the timber or by the mill
or miillman to whom it has been sold, is consump-
tion ‘‘ for domestic purposes,” protected by the
act ; timber cut, however, must be of the size
required by the department. The decision
affects a large number of suits now pending,

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RURAL BEAUTY.

Strange to say, one thing a person from the
city misses in the country is trees. There are
ragged bits of bush on the backs of farms and
consumptive groves on stony places from which
wood is ruthlessly cut whenever wanted, Some
of the newer houses have saplings about them,
and the more tasteful old homesteads are shad-
ed by ancestral trees, but the ordinary farm

row of lilacs may be planted in a garden be-
tween the currant bushes and the onions, but
spirea and fox-gloves are shorn every year from
the sides of neighboring rocks which they would
so gratefully clothe, or at least the impression is
conveyed that if this is not done it is only be-
cause no one has time to do it. The more
rural cemeteries are square patches of ground
with close rows of expensive marble slabs and
obelisks unsoftened by a shrub or tree, where,
for the tenth part of the cost of a stone, trim
cedars and dark firs might be made to speak of
love and eternal life, and divide between mound
and mound, The people thinkthat it would be
profitable, in view of another generation, to

MONTREAL NOTES.

The Gazette, of June 10th, says :—Local busi-
ness has not been quite as lively during the past
week or ten days for the reason that stocks have
been run down considerably, leaving limited
supplies to work upon. The usual summer
trade is still-on, but there is not the rush
formerly noticed. The business of the month of
May was exceptionally good, some dealers hav-
ing made the heaviest sales of the season in that
period. Although stocks have lately been run
down, there is a good prospect of replenishing
them, as owing to the late copious rains, the log

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house has little about it to make it cheerful, A _

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

plant ten sugar maples along each farm front, a
work which would be well done in half a day,
but the half day never comes, perhaps because
the roadside isnot made up, perhaps because
the planting season is busy time. As the
prospect is the roadside will not be made up for
a century, it would probably be better to make
the best of it as it is. Experience may not
prove that the roadside is the best place for
tress, even though such a use of it enables a
thrifty people to take sweetness from the strong
but all acknowledge that trees by the roadside
once in sixty feet, would be better for the
country than no trees, and, judging from the
disrespect shown to our planted trees, any pro-
cess that would add to the love of trees would
do.good. One is sometimes pleased to find trees
growing in pasture lots, and is cheered with the
thought that these at least are preserved out of
respect, until the illusion is rudely dispelled by
seeing some of the finest trees girdled with the
hatchet of some vandal who has not even the
conscience to give a condemned tree the honor
of decent execution.— Montreal Witness.
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WOODMAN SPARE THE TREE.

Within a bow shot of the great town gate of
Morat, in Switzerland, stands a venerable oak
more than 500 years old. It was a full-grown
tree on the eve of the famous battle of Morat,
when Charles the Bold held conference with his
Generals under the shade of its wide-spreading
branches. Twenty-four hours later the leaders
of the Swiss gathered round this self-same tree,
and there offered thanks up to Heaven for their
signal victory. They despatched a messenger
to Freilburg with the tidings, and,in conformity
witha foregone arrangement, confided to him a
token by which the Federalists of that city
might recognize him as accredited envoy. This
token was a leafy branch, ¢ut from the oak in
question. Its bearer put forth such speed in
executing his mission that when he reached
Freilburg he had just strength enough left to
gasp out his message, and then dropped dead on
the ground, grasping his oak branch to the last.
He was buried where he fell, and the branch,
planted on his graye, is at the present moment
one of the largest and staunchest trees in Europe,
haying completed its 405th year.

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The Adirondack Purchase.

The Malone, N. Y., Palladium gives a little
clearer statement of the recent purchase of
Adirondack region timber lands, before men-
tioned in the LuMBERMAN. The tract lies in the
southern part of Brandon township, and in
Waverly, Franklin county. The original owners
were Thomas O’Neill, Gilbert Harris, 8. F.
Vilas, and perhaps others. As before stated,
the purchasersare capitalists of Hartford, Conn.,
and Michigan pine operators. The considera-
tion was $250,000. One or two large steam saw
mills will be built near St. Regis Falls, and a
railroad from Moira, on the Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain railroad to that point. The opera-
tions of the company will aggregate 500,000 logs
a year,

A New Kind of Veneers.

A Boston genius has invented glass veneers.
Underneath a plate of glass is a substance made
in exact imitation of the grain of wood—oak,
mahogany, rosewood, maple, etc.,—and the
whole attached to the article of furniture, either
as apaneltop or otherwise. The effect thus
produced is said to be beautiful in the extreme,
surpassing any polish of the natural wood that
it is possible to produce. One of the most im-
portant features attending these glass veneers is
the great variety of uses to which they are
applicable. They are adapted for paneling, dado
work, top of center or side tables, mantels,

office furniture and even doors.
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Tue following ominous *‘ Notis” is posted in
a Texas saw mill: “ Doant munky with the buz
saw when in moshun.”

Iv Nearty Dean after taking some highly
ae up stofi, with long testimonials, turn to

op Bitters, and have no fear of any Kidney or
Urinry Troubles, Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or
liverComplaint. These diseases cannot resist
the curative power of Hop Bitters ; besides it
is the best farsily medicine on earth,

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Timber Limits for Sale-

I offer Timber Limits Nos. 94, 102, 144, 145, 157, 163, ( I} y a [ v 0 | F p ial R K 8

176 and 182 on the North Shore of Georgian Bay, for
sale either “‘en bloc” or in single Townships of 36
square miles each.

GEORGE J, THOMPSON,

6L7 Winnipeg, Manitoba.

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WAN TED,
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.
LiL

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

Agr P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. litt

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MURRAY CANAL.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned,
and endorsed ‘Tender for the MURRAY CANAL.
will be received at this office until the arrival of the
eastern and western mails on TUESDAY, THE
TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE NEXT, for the
formation of a Canal to connect the head waters of the
Bay of Quinte with Presqu’ile Harbour, Lake Ontario.

A map of the locality, together with the plans and
specifications of the works, can be seen at this office and
at Brighton, on and after THURSDAY, THE EIGHTH
DAY OF JUNE NEXT, where printed forms of tender
can be obtained.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that an
accepted bank cheque for the sum of $3,000 must ac-
company each tender, which sum shall be forfeited, if
the party tendering declines to enter into contract for
the execution of the works at the rates and prices sub-
mitted, subject to the conditions and on the terms
stated in the specification.

The cheque thus sent in will be returned to the res-
pective parties whose tenders are not accepted.

This department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,
F. BRAUN,
Secretary.
Dept. of Railways and Canals, \
Ottawa, May 22nd, 1882. d125-2aw

ATION.

FENELON FALLS, BUCKHORN RAPIDS
AND BURLEIGH CANALS.

NOTICH TO CONTRACTORS.

re TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned,
and endorsed ‘‘ Tender for Trent Navigation,” will
be received at this office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western Mails on WEDNESDAY, THE
FIFTH DAY OF JULY NEXT, for the construction
of two Lift Locks, Bridge Piers und other works at
Fenelon Falls ; also, the construction of a Lock at
Buckhorn Rapids, and for the construction of three
Locks, a Dam and Bridge Piers at Burleigh Falls.

abe works at each of these places will be let separ-
ately.

Maps of the respective localities, together with plans
and specifications of the works, can be seen at this
office on and after WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-
FIRST DAY OF JUNE NEXT, where printed forms
of Tender can be obtained. A like class of informa-
tion relative to the works at Fenelon Falls will be
furnished at that place, and for those at Buckhorn
and Burleigh, information may be obtained at the
resident Engineer’s office, Peterborough.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that
Tenders for the different works must be accompanied
by an accepted bank cheque, as follows :—

For the Fenelon Falls work............ $1,000
«Buckhorn Rapids work .
‘* Burleigh Falls work............ 1,500
And that these respective amounts shall be forfeited if
the party tendering declines entering into contract for
the works at the rates and prices submitted, subject
to the conditions and terms stated in the specifications.

The cheques thus sent in will be returned to the
different parties whose tenders are not accepted.

This Department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

: By order,

F, BRAUN,
Secretary.
Department of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, 22nd May, 1882, 4127-3111

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DECAY OF THE SPRUCE.
The following letter appears in the Montreal
Witness, of May 30 :—

Srr,—In your issue of May 17th I read a
communication from Fairman Hall, on the sub-
ject of “The Decay of Spruce Timber.” I am
pleased to read in your valuable paper a few
lines from an experienced person on such an im-
portant subject. I was not aware until I read
Mr. Hall’s letter that the spruce timber in Que-
bee was dying. I was in hopes the trouble was
confined to our own Province alone, It must
be a universal decay all over the Dominion. I
am a man of considerable experience in the
spruce timber woods of this part of the country,
being engaged for the last sixteen years each
winter cutting and hewing spruce roots and
other timber for ship-building purposes. In the
winter of 1872 and ’73 I first noticed the spruce
timber dying. My attention was drawn to it
by observing wookpeckers at work on green,
healthy-looking trees. On examining these
trees [ found the bark in the first stage of decay.
On cutting such trees I closely watched for
signs of rot about the roots, but found none,
and as J had to remove the boughs and hew the
timber up to nearly the extreme top, I had a
good opportunity of observing all that was to be
then seen; but, strange to say, the bark for
nearly the whole length of the tree and the lower
branches was all that showed any infection—the
timber itself appeared to be perfectly sound.
From that time up to the present I have, each
winter, taken notice of the gradual decay of our
spruce trees. The first year they will show a
decaying of the bark; the second year those
trees will be quite dead to the extreme top, but
the timber inside seems to be perfectly sound,
and will make lumber for house building pur-
poses, but totally unfit for ship-building use ;
the third year those trees are unfit for any pur-
pose, and others alongside seem to be in the first
stage, and so each year the decay goes on.
When I first observed it in 1872 I conceived the
idea that it was occasioned by a succession of
heavy gales we had in August, September and
October of 1871, which shook the forests and
disturbed the roots, and consequently broke off
the small fibrous roots which gave life to the
tree, and the decay began in the bark and
boughs, although the great secret was the dis-
turbing of the roots by heavy winds, and our
forests being rapidly cut away and thinned out,
exposed the remainder to other gales, but since
that time I have observed the timber in small
valleys, where it was completely sheltered from
all winds, to be affected, in some cases nearly
every tree, some in the first stage, and others in
an advanced stage of decay, so that my theory
of it being caused by gales of wind would seem
to be wrong. Iam now at a loss to account for
it. It certainly looks like a blight or distemper»
and I would like to hear from others on the

subject. f
Ropgrick Rosr,

Cheverie, Hant’s County, Nova Scotia.

FORESTRY.

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
says :—The forestry convention recently held
at Cincinnati, although it could not be viewed
in the light of a grand success, yet was not void
of excellent results. It at least aroused an
interest, which had not formerly come to the
surface, in the protection and preservation of
our forests. Senator Sherman has lately intro-
duced a bill in the Senate which provides that
all the public timbered lands adjacent to the
sources of navigable rivers or their affluents be
withdrawn from public sale and entry; it
further provides for the creation of a commission
whose business apparently will be an examina-
tion into the practicability of increasing the
growth of the class of forests mentioned, that
the water supply in the rivers may be kept up
and the quantity of the available timber not
run short. The bill names Major-General H.
G. Wright, Chief of the the corps of engineers,
U.S.A, ; Major-General W. B. Hazen, chief of
the signal corps; George B. Loring, commis-
sioner of agriculture, and Professor Spencer F,
Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute,
as such commission, It will be observed, there-
fore, that our forests are not to be entirely
neglected, and although the convention may not
haye presented any perfectly tangible method

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
oo emmmeeSS

for the successful accomplishment of the desired
result, yet many new thoughts and suggestions
were presented in the able papers read at the
convention which cannot fail to be productive
of the most satisfactory results when properly
considered as a whole ; and doubtless after such
consideration and careful and studied condensa-
tion of the ideas set forth therein, some solution
of the difficulties constantly presenting them-
selves as obstacles in the way of the end sought,
may finally be evolved. One good result at
least has been accomplished by the Cincinnati
convention ; the attention of the press of the
country not specially devoted to the lumbering
and manufacturing interests has been secured,
and the subject of forest culture and protection
has thereby received more publicity and con-
sideration within a few weeks than could have
been secured in any other manner by years of
patient industry and effort on the part of those
specially interested through individual effort.
The importance of this question cannot possibly
be overestimated, and the able and very eare-
fully prepared papers read at the Cincinnati
forestry convention, should be given as wide
publicity as their importance demands, and the
pamphlets containing these papers should be
given profuse gratuitous circulation. Educating
the public mind to the proper standard, on that
question, is as imperative, and will be found
equally as effective so far as actual results are
concerned, as legislation. .

THE BIGGEST WHISTLE.

New Brunswick, N.J., has a steam whistle
whose deep bass notes are as familiar as sunrise
to farmers within a radius of thirty miles of the
town. The people of Bay Ridge, L.I., regulate
their clocks and watches by its accurate blasts.
On calm, pleasant days it has been heard at the
Battery. The ocean and sound steamers have
whistles, from 8 to 12 inches in diameter, that
can be heard from 10 to 20 miles. There is a
heavy toned whistle at Sandy Hook, about
fifteen inches in diameter. Many of the coal
mines of the country have big whistles to warn
miners of impending dangers, and to indicate
the time for beginning and quitting work.

But the largest whistle in the world may be
seen at the store of the Eaton, Cole & Burnham
Company, 58 John street. It was made at their
factory in Bridgport, Conn., and ordered from
them by Manning, Maxwell & More, of Liberty
street, fora Montreal firm. It will be used by
the largest saw mill in Canada, Experts in
brass work and steam whistles pronounced it
one of the best proportioned and the largest of
all the steam whistles they had ever seen.

It is about the size of a flour barrel, being 27
inches long and 20 inches in diameter. The
average diameter of saw mill whistles is four
inches. Its extreme length, from the bowl to
the ornament on top, is four feet nine inches.
Its spindle is 34 inches in diameter, or as large
as an ordinary steam whistle. It is made of
cast brass, and cost $500. It will be blown by
means of a spring valve connected with a steam
pipe four inches in diameter. A long blast upon
it would almost empty a 100-horse power boiler,
The Canadian mill that will use it has a boiler
of 150-horse power.

The mill has been totally destroyed by fire
several times. The proprietors, in order to
guard against future destruction of property,
ordered the whistle. In case a fire breaks out
all employees of the mill and the various fire de-
partments in neighbouring towns will be sum-
moned by the big whistle. It is also to be used,
by a system of signals, to give orders to wood
choppers and employees at a distance.

[The mills referred to above are those of
Messrs. Gilmour, on the Ottawa.]—WV. Y. Sun.

QUEBEC TIMBER LIMITS.

In commenting on the Railway Land grants,
the Quebec Chronicle says:—No one can pre-
tend,-or has ever pretended, that the lumber-
man’s tenure of his limits confers upon him any
vested right whatever in the soil. The lands
comprised in his license, and over which his
right of cutting extends, belong and have never
ceased to belong to the Crown, or, in other
words, to the people. And no one, as far as we
know, has ever questioned the ‘right of the
Goyernment to dispose of such lands, either by

free grant or by sale, to bona fide settlers, that

is to individuals or families, who desire to take
them up for agricultural purposes, and not mere-
ly for speculating in the timber which may be
on them. This power, in the form of a reserva-
tion, invariably enters into the written agree-
ment between the Government and the limit-
holder. But while this is the case, it is equally
true, that subject to this reservation, and to the
fulfillment on his part of the conditions of his
license, the lumberman’s right to the renewal of
his license is indisputable, and has hitherto
always been regarded as property, and in many
instances as valuable property. How, indeed,
could it be otherwise. It is well known that
for years past, limits as such have been bought
and sold in open market, that banks and capi-
talists have advanced largely on their security,
and to-day hold them for very large sums of
money pledged in their favor in the books of
the Crown Lands Department, and that even
the present Administration, and the present
Commissioner of Crown Lands have repeatedly
obtained large prices at public auction by their
sale,—prices, be it observed, entirely apart from
the yearly rental and other Crown dues upon
them. To pretend to asssimilate the license-
holder’s tenure to a mere yearly hiring, is simply
to ignore facts patent to all. Wehave said that
under the terms of the act as it ultimately
passed, after the conference between the two
Houses, the license-holders have no serious cause
of complaint. And this is true. For while the
Government is empowered to set apart in aid of
the various railways, a large extent of Crown
Lands, whether held under license or entirely
unconceded, it is expressly provided that the
limit holders shall be entitled to the yearly re-
newal of their licenses upon such lands, until
such time as the roads are fully completed, and
until the companies have established upon them
bona fide settlers in accordance with the regula-
tions of the Department. If this provision is
carried out in good faith, as we trust we are
warranted in believing, the limit-holders have,
in our judgment, all the protection to which
they are reasonably entitled. The resolutions as
introduced and the bill as passed are obviously
two very different things.

BUFFALO NOTES.

The Lumber World, of June Ist, says the de-
mand for lumber at this market has not been so
brisk during the month just closing as previous-
ly. While there has been at no time an actual
stagnation in the trade, the dullness has been
quite marked. Prices remain nominally un-
changed, though it is reported that concessions
have been made in some instances to secure
sales. Still, as long as prices are firmly sustain-
ed by the manufacturers of the Saginaw Valley,
there can be no decided drop here. The fact is
that farmers, and consequently country deaftrs,
think lumber is too high, while manufacturers
believe that, in view of the raised cost of obtain-
ing logs, the elevated value of timber lands, and
the steady decrease in the available supply of
standing timber, present rates are fully justified.
There is certainly as yet no sign of yielding on
their part. In Chicago prices have declined
somewhat during the month, but at the last
meeting of the dealers, some grades were marked
up again. Should harvest results prove favor-
able, there would undoubtedly be a very large
amount of building done throughout the Wes-
tern States, and in that case an advance rather
than a decline might be looked for. At present
building operations have been to a considerable
extent suspended. In the east this is due largely
to a suspicion that building has been rather
overdone for a year past ; in the west to the un-
certainty with respect to the crops. At any
rate, another month will probably clear up most
of the uncertainty with reference to the future
course of the lumber market.

OTTAWA NOTES.

An Ottawa correspondent of the Monetary
Times says :—As to the lumber trade, that is in
an improved conditions as compared with some
former seasons ; prices are strong and the de-
mand good. Workingmen employed in the
lumbering business who last year were earning

from $1 to $1.10 are this year getting as high as”

$1.50. The lively condition of the lumber
market and the similar supply of the demand

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have produced an advance to a large class of the
hands of from 5 to 10 per cent, since the opening
of the season, . Last fall many of the mills were
comparatively idle for a large part of the time
when they have usually been busiest. The
water of the Ottawa was very low, and it was
therefore impossible to keep the supply of logs.
Even the power necessary to drive the mill
machinery finally failed. The millmen were
therefore eagerly looking for the disappearance
of winter, and at the very first opportunity
active operations were begun in all the mills,
which are now run to their fullcapacity. Alto-
gether that branch of local business is in a very
promising condition, It is quite true, as has
been represented, that the price of labor is al-
most double since 1878, and it is also true that
supplies are a good deal dearer. Both

were no doubt contemplated by those who
framed the tariff, and if so, at least as far as
Ottawa is concerned, the desired object has been
attained. But the increase in the price of lum-
ber, which, of course, has not been brought
about in any degree by the operations of the N.
P., has been probably all along sufficient to
counterbalance the advance in wages and the
price of supplies.

THE SAWN LUMBER TRADE,

The Monetary Times, of June 2nd, says :—It
will be seen from our Ottawa correspondence
and the accounts of the European and Western
American markets given in this issue, that the
conditions of the wood trade beyond the Atlan-
tic and west of the lakes are somewhat discrep-
ant. We learn that stocks in the Eastern
American markets are full; Oswego, for ex-
ample, where the condition harmonizes with
Albany and New York. Dealers in these cities
aro not buying readily from such Canadian mill-
men as had not contracted for their out-put, but
are holding off till mid-June, when they expect
the demand to become active, which it is not at
present. A good authority writes thus of the
markets of Illinois and Michigan :—~* For a few
weeks past there has been a halt in building
operations that has been rather widespread. In
many sections of the country, acccording to the
letters received from numerous retail dealers,
there has been a holding off on account of the
high prices of lumber. In several cities, notably
Chicago, the main reason for ‘going slow,’ or
rather an inability to ‘go’ at all, has been the
high price and scarcity of brick.”

In the Toronto market prices keep up. Cer-
tain kinds of stock, bill stuff particularly, are
scarce, not to be had, indeed, and builders
are seriously hampered in their operations by
the scarcity of these lines.

Ir is stated that Walkup, Fisher & Co., of
Chicago, have sold 4,000 acres of pine lands,
at and near Walkup City, Newaygo county,
Mich., estimated to cut 80,000,000 feet of lum-
ber, to the Troy Lumber Company, for $210,000
cash. The Troy Company is to proceed at once
to manutacture the lumber. It is alleged that
Walkup, Fisher & Co. own large tracts of
Michigan pine, probably 300,000,000 feet in all.

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Chips.

THE Manistee, Mich., Lumber Company, a

new organization, is erecting a refuse burner 26

feet in diameter and 94 feet high.

Four vessels, aggregating over 4.000 tons
‘burden, were chartered in one week lately to
load deals at Montreal for the River Plate.

THE Duluth Boom Co. have cut a canal from
St. Louis river to Spirit Lake. This boom com-
pany, as its name implies, is composed of Duluth
lumbermen.

A Woop dealer advises farmers to pile the
split article with the bark up. By so doing the
bark adheres to the wood, and becomes an item

of some importance when) the farmer cords it up

for the market.
THE Minneapolis Lumberman says :—A very

firm feeling is noted in the lumber trade at

Minneapolis. The complaint is not want of
customers at full prices, but want of lumber to
fill orders as fast as received.

Forest fires have been raging to an alarming
extent in southern Arizona and western New
Mexico, the territory burned over being esti-
mated at 40 miles square, and the damage is
immense. The fires are attributed to the In-
dians.

Woop enclosed in a cluse chamber and sub
mitted to the action of steam for a limited time
will be rendered so pliant that it may be bent
in almost any direction. The same process will
also eliminate the sap from the wood and pro-
mote rapid seasoning.

A JAM consisting of 1,500,000 logs in the
Upper Hudson tumbled over Palmer’s Falls
recently, with a tremendous uproar. It was
feared that the pulp and paper mills there would
be carried away, but the logs took the right
course down stream, and the building escaped
injury.

From Russia they complain of want of water.
A letter from there says, ‘‘ A good many rivers
are totally dry from want of snow and water in
the Novgorodsch Government, and the logs
which were intended to have been floated down
these rivers will have to remain where they are
for this year.”

Ir is said that Prussia has the best system of
timber culture in the world. In this branch of
her service she has several thousand officials,
and while the cost of sustaining this staff is
large, the revenue arising from the sale of timber
meets all expenses and returns annually a large
surplus to the state.

ADvices from Sweden state that it is now
apparent that the fall of snow which took place
at the beginning of the spring has enabled the
millmen to get out a larger number of logs than
was anticipated, and competent authorities are
of opinion that the quantity will be very little,
if anything, less than an average crop,

A Huee pile of sawdust in the rear of the
old Blacker mill, at Manistee, Mich., has been
burning for some time, and nothing can extin-
guish it. The pile covers several acres, and the
fire occasionally bursts out of it like a volcano,
and necessitates a vigilant watch to prevent the
fire extending to more valuable property.

A Carco of square timber for the English
market was recently loaded at Traverse City,
Mich., and one at Petoskey, the latter amount-
ing to 48,000 eubie feet. They will be towed
down the lake by the steam barge Albiun,
through the canal and into the St. Lawrence.
At Quebee the timber will be re-shipped to
England.

Tue Lumberman’s Gazette says the great cause
of the unwonted demand for lumber in the
northwest at present is the enormous emigration
floating to that territory. This, of course, will
create a demand which must be satisfied at all
hazards and at whatever expense, and so long
as this emigration continues the demand will be
unabated.

Between Newaygo and Muskegon, Mich.,
nothing can be seen on the river but a solid jam
of logs. At Newaygo they are piled so high as
to dam the river, making it flow outside its
natural channel, and flooding all the low land
along the stream. Many farmers between
Newaygo and Muskegon, along the river, have
been driven to seek higher ground, and their
farme are partially submerged,

THE Northwestern Lumberman, of June 3rd,
says forest fires have been raging in the pine
forests of Claire county and farther north in
Michigan, there having been no rain of any con-
sequence in that region for several weeks.
Several hundred acres were burned over, and
some valuable timber destroyed. In Roscom-

mon county fires have done a great deal of injury

to timber. In Iasco county 300,000 feet of logs,

owned by the Keystone Lumber Company, of

West Bay City, Mich., was destroyed.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says that during
the month of April, 6,173,000 feet of yellow

pine were shipped from the port of Jacksonville,

Fla., as against 3,330,000 feet for the same

month last year, and 2,569,535 for April of 1880,

an increase of 2,843,000 feet over 1881, and of
The shipment of lumber
from that port increases every month, and it is
believed that the shipments in 1882 will double
The figures given
do not include the shipments over one of the

3,603,465 over 1880.

those of any previous year,

roads.
Iv made the eyes of a Lumberman representa-

tive blink to look upon a cargo of some 300,000
feet of lumber that was received last week from

the Lake Superior country by A. R. Gray &
Co., at their yard on Paulina street.
was one plank in particular, 16 feet long, 4
inches thick, 33 inches wide, without sap, knot
or blemish.
eastern dealers must have it, and this plank,
with others, was shipped to New York.

was good enough to have green.

ONE of the most energetic and promising
lumbermen and jobbers in this section, says the
Jersey Shore Herald, is Samuel Carson, at

Waterville. At present he has in his employ

about 50 men and is operating a large job for

Messrs. Finley, Young & Co., Williamsport.
He will get in about 2,000,000 feet of lumber
and 1,500 cords of bark this season. Besides
this large job he is conducting one on his own
lands which takes up a great deal of his atten-
tion. Mr. Carson is as busy as it is possible for
aman to be, but he is thoroughly energetic and
is capable of mastering all he undertakes.

THERE is a prospect of a lively tussle between
the Duluth lumbermen, and the St. Louis River
Water Power Company, who have established
booms during the past winter at Fond du Lac,
The Water Power Company stopped recently a
quantity of logs at Yond du Lac, until the toll,
which they claimed, should be paid, and the
Duluth parties interested replevined the logs,
giving bonds to pay the tolls if the courts decid-
ed against them. The Duluth people say the
booms are not located so as to accommodate
them, and the whole question will be thoroughly
ventilated before the courts.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says it is not
unfair to assume that each family of emigrants
who come to the shores of the new world will
demand an ayerage of 1,000 feet of lumber for
each member of it, for the purpose of house-
building, fencing farms, building of barns,
etc. very new settler needs a house, barn and
fences. Every little knot of settlers leads to the
establishment of a village, town'or city, each of
which, in greater or less degree, increases the
demand for lumber in house-building, road-
making, for sidewalks, fences, and last, but not
least, packing boxes. Each new farm demands
an increase in the railroad or waggon road facili-
ties, in the manufacturing or mercantile depart-
ments, and to none of these is any one thing
more requisite than lumber,

THE Northwestern Lumberman, of Chicago,
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that at present is complained of in some direc-
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upon as very disastrous a few months hence.
We expect the time will come within eight
months when it will hardly be referred to or
thought of,”

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MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

June 9th.—Our local market has been un-
doubtedly active during the past fortnight, but
owing to the very heavy rains, building has not
been so brisk as was expected, but better times
are now looked for, the high prices which are
ruling just now prevent people from buying be-

yond their immediate actual requirements.

Stocks are now pretty full and dealers are pre-

pared to meet whatever demand turns up.

Prices tend upward and in some lines we advance
We

quotations, while laths are a little easier.
now quote as under, ex yard :—

Pine, Ist quality, 7 M.....-..6. see .«. $35 00@40 00
Pine, 2nd ** GAPIV ie crmtrevereteralers) sl ciarelnis\a'ipts 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, ? M...... no oonenneg 14 00@15 00
Pine, cull deals, @ M...... vere eree eens 8 00@12 00
Pine, mill Gulls, PIM. oe eee cece eee 8 00@10 00
Spruce, Mite cee es ee cere ese eee 10 00@11 00

9 00@11 00

Hemlock, @ M......-scecessr seer eenenee
Ash, run of long culls out, He WARE eee Near

Hard Maple, ®M......20. cceeeesseees 2
Bath, PM. teem ee cee ne oer ne cine 1 30@ 1 40
Shingles, Ist, @M~.. .....seseeeeeeeee 3 00@ 0 00

Shingles; 2nd, @M.....s.....-ceeeeee eee 2 00@ 0 00
SHIPMENTS.

There has been no ships cleared so far for
South America, although several have arrived
and are busy discharging their cargoes. A large
quantity of lumber is lying here waiting to be
loaded. The shipments to ports in the United
Kingdom from the opening of navigation to date
are as under: To Liverpool, 22,952 pes. deals ;
to London, 35,000 ft. lunber ; Glasgow, 50,000
ft. lumber ; Bristol, 20,000 ft. lumber; to St.
John, Nfid., 8 mille staves.

PREIGHTS.

There has not been much done in the way of
chartering ships, so many having been engaged
some time ago. Latest engagements were for
sailing vessels to the River Plate at $14@15,

CORDWOOD.

Prices are about steady, but there is very
little doing ; arrivals have been large, but the
wood has generally been of a very poor quality.
People in the country seem to have gone more
into turning out railroad ties for shipment to
the United States than into cordwood. The
high prices ruling cordwood compared with the
price of coal seems to prevent dealers taking
hold of the article, unless at lower figures than
it can be bought at here. We quote on the
wharf, ex cartage :—

pong Mane ADE SRUO Mitacietecre mits ists iniavelelviocersielastonien it 100)
(Sean) US. oo pan oaanbeduinn opoudaBooooodoONDO hei ODO)
Long Birch......:...:csseueewen ce ceneees Bere, ~ 12) th)
SHGEL IN. |S RUN, Ses Wal ne teletelgiut siecle 6 00
Long Beech. vices as terre ee eee versa teense 5 50
SLO SE aie rayele eine sfelsyalels(eveleuie/biofureisitiafsjeleinjlerait}s\e 5 00
IPNATACKS cinieinreteisis eibieterereldlete(b sie/ereronyere seses 4 50@5 00
——»>—_—__--——
OTTAWA.

From our own Correspondent.

June 8th.—Mills hereabouts are all in full
blast, and eyerything is progressing most satis-
factorily. Logs are arriving in large quantities
and water is keeping sufficiently high. It can
be fairly estimated, taking present affairs as a
basis, that the cut of the season of 1882 will be
fully one-quarter more than any previous season
in the history of the Ottawa Valley. Thestock
books of the different firms in this locality at
the close will no doubt show that the total cut
has reached 235,000,000 feet.

LARGE SHIPMENTS.

During May nearly 2,000,000 feet were
shipped by boats to the United States by the
New York and Lake Champlain Transportation
Company.

SQUARE TIMBER.

This year has been unusually favorable to the
square timber owners. The majority, or at
least a very large number of the rafts are now
well on the way for Quebec. Not much difticul-
ty has been experienced in passing the numerous
slides, ete. Since May 26th the following rafts

left this city for the Quebec market :—

Cribs. Pes.

Rafts. Owners.

J. a. David Moore vanes vcecwens 140 3,295
1....Hilliard & Dickson...... lil 2,836
eRe EL LOCK re nena simavert eis 175 4,742
1....Thistle, Carswell & Co..... 124 8,030
5 Be Ah Gn ch ai Obey 103 2,561
HUE chal Ol 21 Cfo hs ee WOR CIICIDICES 111 2,692
Abert ee ayaa race ihep Mick ecu ea Tous 102 2,612

866 21,568

Not a great many sales have been reported at

17 00@20 00
17 00@20 00
35 00@45 00

. 18 00@25 00

THE CANADA

Quebec, and when the foregoing rafts have
reached their destination, together with what is
continually passing here, the Quebec market for
square timber will be well stocked.

LIMIT OWNERS ORGANIZING,

The action of the Quebec Legislature at its
last session in attempting to interfere with the
tenure of limits has brought the large body of
limit owners and other parties interested to a
sense of duty. A large number of the lumber-
men of this city returned to-day from Montreal,
where they had been attending a large meeting
of the Provincial limit owners, who assembled
to organize an association for the better security
of the tenure of limits. In conversation with
some of the delegates, it was learned that the
real point aimed at in the organization of the
association was the appointment of a committee
to accomplish what the limit holders at present
desire, viz., to give a value to their licenses. A
constitution was drafted and adopted, and
officers elected as follows :—

President—Andrew Thompson, Quebec.

Vice-President—W. G. Perley, Ottawa,

Council—Messrs. Girouard, McNaughton,
King, Baptist, Peter White, H. E. Bronson,
and Hon. John Hamilton.

It was decided that the places of meeting
should be alternately at Ottawa and Quebec.

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TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

June 9th.—Lumber sales and shipments are
now extremely quiet. The last year’s cut is
now all forward, and the new cut not being
quite ready to ship, has had the effect of making
the docks present quite a forlorn aspect, but in
the course of three or four weeks hence ship-
ments will boom again, and prices are likely to
be fully maintained for the rest of the season.
Stocks at the various retail yards are much be-
low the average at this period of the year, and
in consequence of the small demand dealers do
not seem over anxious to stock up, even if lum-
ber could be easily obtained to do so, which is
not the case, especially as regards dimenSion
stuff, that class of lumber being hard to obtain.
As predicted in one of my former letters, it
was quite easy to determine a scarcity of bill
stuff, when manufacturers could command one
to two dollars per M. more for other kinds of
lumber cut from the same class of logs, formerly
cut into dimension stuff ; then again the demand
created by the large influx of emigrants into
Manitoba will make itself felt during the re-
mainder of the present year at least, so that
taking all things into consideration, the outlook
for the balance of this year is promising.

Quotations previously furnished you as to re-
tail yards remain firm, except in lath, which I
quote some lower, none but newly cut being now
obtainable.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,
Mill cull boards and scantling.............++++- $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promibcoeny widths. . 12 00
SOCKS 6... 6 esse seen eeeneeeeneer ees 14 00

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Sound dressing stocks...
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Three uppers, Am. inspection
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LONDON, ONT.
From our own Correspondent.

Junk 10th.—No important change has taken
place in this market since my last letter. Lum-
ber remains firra at last quotations, but the de-
mand is very light, though if a heavy call for
raw material was to spring up our yards would
soon be emptied, and it isa matter of doubt if
they could be replenished, as all the supply
centres for this market are low in stocks,

LUMBERMAN.

A slight concession from list prices continues
to be made in some cases where cash down is
paid, and shingles are perhaps a trifle easier.
The general feeling is that the price of lumber
at its present stage acts as a deterent to small
builders, this, and the strikes together, no doubt
have this tendency.

The city is advertising for tenders for more
cedar block paving, and before the summer is
over our city streets will be as level as a lawn.
That portion of Richmond street from the
station to Dundas is nearly completed, and if
the contractor has made it profitable he will
probably be a candidate for more work of the
same sort.

The brick wholesale block is now assuming
very large and handsome proportions, and
will be roofed in about a couple of weeks.

(Quotations for this date are as follows :—

QUOTATIONS.

Mill cull boards and scantling............ $12 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous width 13 00
10 and 12in. stocks 13 50
Common boards, promiscuous widths. . 15 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft....... 16 00
18 ft.. 16 50
ae is 4 20 ft.. 17 50
Es 2 o DE Sia’ eWnscintaiuteisles ates ate 18 50
Bt a: BE PANG sn turees ne stt adele: 20 00
Common stocks ...... sin tints leis pin ye'ee we ea = bitolla 16 00
Common 2'in. plaak, os esoscincennse cies ses vu vecise 15 00
Cutting up plank and boards............++..++- 20 00
Sound dressing stocksS.... wesecesererecerseenee 19 00
Clear and picks .........-sccssessesnsccuseccace 28 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection..........-+0ee0e0s 35 00
4 inch dressed and matched flooring ........... 22 00
pT ae ae 3 OF Ad ate Wie ck Sia 22 00
ip ee % Bh Made senna 6 22 00
XXX sawn shingles, #@ M.........-.----e+eeee-- 3 25
Lath per 1000 feet... ....0crceevecvcccosecveccres 5 00
——___3—___——_-

ST. JOIN, N. B,
From our own Correspondent.

JUNE 8th.—Since our last report we have had
heavy rains, the water in the stream has risen
considerably, and there is very little doubt but
that most of the logs cut last winter will be got
out, and prices continuing very high (owing to
the low rates of freight that steamers from the
United States are still accepting), the lumbering
interest throughout this Province must be in a
flourishing condition.

DEALS.

Deals are arriving very freely both from the
River St. John and the Bay of Fundy, and
what are not contracted for are still being bought
up freely at the same high prices that have been
ruling all spring, the merchants being anxious
to take advantage of the low rates of freight to
get them sent forward.

FREIGHTS,

There is a slight improvement in freight,
owing no doubt to the large quantity of deals,
etc,, arriving. We quote steam for W. C. Eng-
land at 50s, c. d., and sail for the same place at
52s. 6d. ce. d.

SHIPMENTS.

The shipments of deals and other sawn lumber

for the past fortnight are as follows :—

For Europe....ceseessccess bss Became 14,517,000 Sup. feet.
“© United States.........sseeves 1,901,000 4

SHIPPING.
The following is a list of the gessels in port,
with their tonnage and ceetinahel

Asdrubal, (s), 1,194, Avonmouth.
Nebo, (s), 1,237, W. C. England.
Buteshire, (s), 872, W. C, England.
Gladiolus, (s), 1,258, W. C. England,
Earl of Lonsdale, (s), 980, Bristol Channel,
La Gaule, (s), 1,194, W. C. England.
Minnie Swift, 1,150, Liverpool.
Bertie Biglow, 1,142, Liverpool.
Aphrodite, 740, Liverpool.
Anna P, Odell, 379, Tralee.
Kate Burrill, 691, E. C. Ireland.
Twilight, 755, Londonderry.
C, E. Robinson, 530, St. Nozaire.
Huron, 774, Londonderry.
Guiana, (new), 1,265, Liverpool or Cardiff.
Keswick, (new), 924, E. C. I. or W. C. England.
Annie Barker, 355, Carnarvon.
Giacomo Nortolo, 499, Bristol Channel.
Souvenir, 828, W. C. England.
Prudhoe, 580, W. C. England.
Gler, 497, W. C. England.
Lizzie Wright, 498, ——
Ragna, 525, ——
Mindet, 438, ——

——_—___—_—___—_—

ALBANY.

The attendance of buyers in the district since
our last report, says the Argus, has been better
than during any week of the season, and the
sales have been free. The demand for lumber
has been from the river towns, from New York,
Brooklyn, New Jersey, and the East, Stocks

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trade is the large sales made in the Saginaw
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manufacture. In Canada, as well as Michigan, ¥
the sales are of lots sold far ahead of their man- 4
ufacture ; some houses in Canada report having
already sold full seventy-five per cent. of their
season’s cut, and at prices that forbid their re-
placing aught held here at present quotations.
Hardwood continues inflteady demand at un-
changed prices. Coarse lumber is in continued
good demand at quotations ; the receipts are less
free ; the Northern mills have a good supply of

water. The river craft is busily employed
taking away lumber, and boats are getting
scarce,
Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine, clear, oe M 00@65
Pine, fourths.. 7 00@60 4
Pine, selects...... : 00@55 00
Pine, good box 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.. 00 38@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. . «es «eee 00 19@00 22
Pine boards, 10-in........+0s-s.s0s8 «+++. 00 26@00 32
Pine, 10-in. boards, onlls .....-<iseokeeenne 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., # M.. ane domi 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 1696... 2... 2 Seueeee 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13 ft........... «esse. 26 0O@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select...... sseeeeese. 383 00@40 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... ......--. 15 00@19 00 ;
Pine, 1-in. siding, select........s..+,.--s- 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... .....-.... 16 00@19 00 q
Spruce, boards, each.......... oébeeeavne 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each....... seeeeee» 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.......... -- 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each................. 00 11@00 12
emlock, boards, each .. .-.ssceseccees 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.....-.---.-+..- 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .............. 00 OO@00 13 4
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10
Ash, good, @ 2M, .. ..--nsieuneeenneaee sees 40 O0O@43 00
Ash, second quality, @ M............. ++. 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, # M........ err erry 60 00@85 00
Cherry, common, @ M... . .... 25 00@35 00
Oak, good, @ M...........e00 seseeeeee. 38 OO@MS 00
Oak, second eee OM... 55 .sccneecee 20 00@25 00
Basswood, @ M.sss.ssee vixtet emtihee - 25 00@30 00
Hickory, 2M «J mabye rete oopet'n -. 36 00@40 00
Maple, “Canada, DM verincivins 26 00@30 00
Maple, sy ae per Bh, ....csheF . 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, BM. ..s.:cxesecchupeveueneeee 35 00@40 00
Shingles, ‘shaved, pine, BM... >» ssn 0 00@ 6 50
2nd quality ones hus species «+s. © 00@ 5 00
" extra, sawed, pine... 0 00@ 5 00
«« clear, . 0 00@ 3 75 }
“ cedar, saizead er ae 0 00@ 3 25 "
ae cedar, XXX.....:i. chen mune 0 00p 4 00
s i eee . 0 00@ 2 50
Lath, hemlock, # M........ - 000@175
Lath, sprace, “© .csdwees . 0 00@ 2 00
Lath, pine, s¢ Lncuewhves eae 0 00@ 2 25
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BOSTON. 3

The Journal of Commerce, of June 10th, says
business is moving along in a quiet way, with
no decided change in values. Eastern lumber
is in fair request, but prices are easier on spruce
and hemlock. Coarse pine boards, dry, are
wanted. Laths and sawed cedar shingles are
scarce and high. Western lumber is in reduced
demand, as dealers do not like to stock up
largely at present prices. Hardwoods are a
little quiet and easy, but a better demand and
firmer prices are looked for later on. Southern
pine is quiet and lower. Flooring and step
plank of best grades continue in fair request, and
prices are about the same. Our quotations are
for car-load lots.

CANADA PINE.
Selects, Dressed ....sv0i0ss sank enenened

Sheathing, Ist quality
% 2nd

22838328

BUFFALO,
We quote cones lots -—

Uppers Letnekh tases
Common.

CHICAGO,

The Northwestern Lumberman says the general
features of the lumber trade have not materially
changed since our last report. Holders at ini-
tial points, such as Saginaw, Lake Michigan
ports and Eau Claire, are still firm in their
views, and but little concession anywhere has

been made to dealers, This has acted as a drag
on trade, buyers taking hold of stock sparingly,
preferring to await the season’s developments.
Generally there has been a steady demand for
lumber for building purposes, though not nearly
as heavy as it would have been had the condi-

tions been favorable, such as tranquility in
labor matters, assured crops, an encouraging
outlook, and a little less stiffness in the back of

manufacturers of lumber.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.
dimension, green....02 sesevveees $1L 00@11 50
— Ree a ie 11 50@12 00
- Long dimension........ ...+. 12 50@14 00
iesis and strips, No. 2 stock. 11 60@15 00
NGael. BLOCK .,d% sicieriasivies « mad 16 00@20 00
No.1 log run, culls out. 18 00@22 00
Standard shingles.... 2 65@ 2 75
2 2 75@ 2 95
Lath...... Baisiele a on

2 35@ 2 40

Receipts and shipments of lumber and shingles
for the week ending June 8, as reported by the
Lumberman’s Exchange :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.
1882.....56,951,000 33,221,000 26,662,000 9,145,000

1S88I. oe 55,502,000 18,062,000 53,348,000 19,994,000

Receipts and shipments of lumber and
shingles from January 1, to and including June
8th :—

RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shingles. Lumber. Shingles.

1882. .526,687,000 246,118,000 769,446,000 401,795,000
1881. .384,467,000 168,085,000 554,305,000 226,689,000

Inc.142,220,000 78,033,000 214,141,000 175,106,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO JUNE 1.

DE Gee a CSApee Oconee 414,105,000 230,731,000

PEM iea'=ls cio ale seis ss ss: 283,596,009 127,062,000

ARNIS c)o.ajm oie fv\0\0)s.«- ols, 0's 130,509,000 103,669,000
STOCK ON HAND MAY 1.

1882. 1881. 1880.

Lumber +++. 294,244,311 228,256,644 238,483,874

Shingles ..., 104,027,305 73,698,575 115,116,000

Lath .. -- 10,611,535 21,038,756 23,736,360

Pickets..... ve 1,827;993 2,693,844 670,259

Cedar posts. ...... 159,937 550,027 75,728
ss _S_ >

OSWEGO, N.Y.

We advance quotations on some grades. The
market is still well supplied with seasoned
stocks. The demand is not quite so firm as last
month. The prospect of a very large produc-
tion this year has induced many of the large
buyers to purchase sparingly, trusting for a
lower market when shipments of the new cut
begin to come forward.

EDGE CETTE oo ..08 orp oD BU DBOBEOE COC eae $42 00@46 00
PICU OR eT ac NI SING Si sceees 32 00@36 00
Fine, common ..............- Betas y- -- 20 00@25 00
OTE eer cciesncce cesses ess... s+00 14 00@17 00
RE ee CEES Ie oe ciscas oe cess 11 00@14 00
PATER INITIO LHe ea acces <ichie esis. esas 18 00@25 00
Sidings, selected, 1 inch.................. 33 00@40 00
1} inch...... 22050005 - OSS eEEE ABE 34 00@40 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet.............. 17 00@25 00
REICRICU ERs eA cine cts cscs cs. 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch millrun............ 14 00@20 00
BS bs % culls......, .... 11 00@14 00

1x6 selected for clapboards.............. 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 4 0U@ 4 35
XXX, 18 inch, cedar............. 3 25@ 3 55

BaD Soc) nc nok cbUagse ECan 1 80@ 1 85

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TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
Three Uppers..........-.00e00+ veeee-+. 943 00@49 00
PHONE eric atta seals facts seme = 20 00@22 00
eee Ge Mepauieieiedeins cles ka sities. 14 00@15 00
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LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of May 27th,
says:—The arrivals of timber-laden vessels
have not been numerous during the past week,
the chief item of the importation being spruce
deals, pf which several cargoes have come to
hand by steamers; some of them had already
been contracted for ‘to arrive” and some are
npon the open market. The state of trade con-
tinues in a very unsatisfactory condition, but it
is hoped that a better state of things is im-
Mminent. Should the general improvement be
continued, it ought to influence the timber trade
at no distant date, and lead to a rise in prices.

On Tuesday Messrs. Farnworth & Jardine
offered by sale by auction a cargo of St. John,
N.B., spruce deals, just arrived per steamer,
There was a fair attendance of country pur-
chasers, but, as usual, the chief buyers were
found in the ranks of the local merchants.
About one-third of the cargo was withdrawn,
but was all sold subsequently at the auctioneers’
limits. The prices realized were as follows :-—
Spruce deals, St. John, N.B.—
ad, £ 8.
16 to 28 ft. 3x11 5
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

GLASGOW, ’

The Pimber Trades Journal, of May 27th,
says :—The timber fleet which sailed from the
Clyde this year is now expected to be much
later than usual in returning with spring
cargoes, in consequence of the tremendous fields
of ice reported off the banks of Newfoundland
and extending far into the Atlantic. This
occasions some anxiety, and up till Tuesday
only one shipment is reported as having arrived
out, viz., the Abbotsford, of Greenock, which
sailed from the Tail of the Bank on the 8th ult.
A number of Clyde owned ships sailed several
days before that date, and, with the exception
of the ill-fated Western Belle, none of them have
since been reported.

Advices received from the St. Lawrence
speak of the reports of vessels coming westward
reading like the accounts of arctic expeditions,

Arrivals of wood goods at Clyde ports during
the past week have been comparatively moder-
ate, and consist mainly of greenheart timber and
pitch pine.

Messrs. Edmiston & Mitchells, held an auc-
tion sales at Greenock, on the 18th inst., when
the following rates were obtained :—

Pitch pine timber hewn, 90 c. ft. av. per log, 1s. 6d. per
c. ft.

Do. sawn (100 logs) 174 ec. ft. av. per log, 1s. 13d,

Do. planks, 3 to 5 in. thick, 1s. 0d.

Quebee ordinary yellow pine, 85 ec. ft. ay. per log, 1s.
33d.

Rafts Arrived.

The Quebee Chronicle gives the following list
of rafts arrived :—~

June 2—Ross & Co,, deals, Montreal or King-
ston.

June 6—Ross & Co,, deals, Montreal or King-
ston.

Jas. Davies, staves, sundry coves.

John Roche, deals, Wolf’s cove.

Perley & Pattee, deals, Bridgewater cove.

June 7—A. H. White, birch, J. H. Clint’s
wharf.

Jas. Davis, staves, Union cove.

J. Rae & Co., ete., staves, Indian cove.

Thistle, Carswell & Co., white and red pine,
Cap Rouge,

Collins Bay Co., pine, oak, ash, &c., Indian

Cove East.
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Cones Always Closed.

A remarkable statement was made recently
before a scientific body in London—the state-
ment given as on the authority of Mr. Veitch,
the well-known author on ‘“ Conifers ”—that
the cones of many of the species on the Pacific
Coast never open and permit the seed to escape
unless opened by a forest fire, when they fall
out and replenish the burned waste. ‘‘ They
hang on the trees for many generations, even
for thirty years.” The cedar of Lebanon is
known to be of this character, but it is news as

to any of the American forms of this order.
a

Some of the finest walnut trees in the moun-
tains of North Carolina have been sold for $40
each as they stand in the woods, the purchasers
reserving the right to remove them within a
certain number of years.

———_—_———EE

Iy 1881 the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf
Railroad Company planted 250,000 catalpa trees,
which went to make up a total of 850,000 trees
of all kinds planted. Thus far the catalpas
have grown well and rapidly, and are very little
affected by cold.

———

The ** Tin King ” Talkss
From Maine to Manitoba,—from St. John’s
to British Colnmbia, Mr. Thomas W. McDon-
ald, the Tin King of the Dominion, whose large
works extend from 153 to 157 Queen street,
Toronto, and cover a solid block, is recognized
and respected. Mr. McDonald’s experience

with the Great German Remedy is thus an-
nounced by him: ‘‘It is very gratifying to me
to be able to give a written testimonial respect-
ing the unequalled merits of the world renowned
remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, as an alleviator of pain.
I was for years sorely troubled with a swollen
leg. In vain I tried all the prescriptions of
medical men. At last in deep despair I resolv-
ed to test the virtues of St. Jacobs Oil, the
Great German Remedy, and to my great joy
before one bottle had been exhausted I found
myself completely cured. Trusting that St.
Jacobs Oil may meet with the success it deser-
ves, I close this statement, by reiterating my
indorsement of its efficacy,

“

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JONES

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
NHW YORK.

39 Broadway,

& SON,

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally. :

A Twenty-eight Thousand Dollar Shingle.

An exchange says that it isn’t often that one
finds a shingle worth $28,000, yet Joseph C.
Palmer, a Calfornia pioneer, who recently died,
once gave one that value. It happened in this
way. He was a banker, and had trust funds in
his hands amounting to $28,000. It became
necessary to draw the money at once, and Mr.
Palmer’s consent was necessary, but he had
been called away to attend to some duty in a
lumber yard, some mile or more from the bank.
Thither the depositor hastened and made known
his wants, and the necessity of having them at-
tended to immediately. Mr. Palmer could find
neither pen, pencil, ink, nor paper. But with-
out a moment’s hesitation, he picked up a shingle
borrowed a piece of red chalk, and with it
wrote a check on the shingle in large, distinct
letters for $28,000. This was good when fre-
sented for all the money the depositor had in
the bank, and it proved an exceedingly good
advertisement for Palmer.—Worthwestern Lum-

berman.
ees

Australian Trade.

Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett & Co.’s timber re-
port, dated Melbourne, April 12th, says the
drought referred to in our last report has since
broken up, and we anticipate, in consequence,
that great benefit will accrue to our staple in-
dustries, which must react favorably upon
building operations. The demand for wood
goods has been fairly active ; but prices for some

Pine Deck Plank and

Li

lines are slightly easier, the trade not being in-
clined to increase stocks. American lumber—
We report sales ex Dirigo, S. RB. Bearce and
Evéline, the latter being transhipped from Ade-
laide. Clear pine realized £17 to £16 17s. 6d. :

3
w. p. Shelving, £13 15s. to £16 5s, per M. ac-

cording to quality, white pine ceiling, £14 2s,
6d. do. ; the trade holding moderate stocks.

LEATHER
ELTING,

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER. &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

188

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Drake Brothers Box Mill

Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, N. 8.

SPRUCE, PINE? HEMLOCK SHINGLES

WN. HE. DRAKE.

rH. DRAKE. 1117

WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

Edge Tools, Axles, Spring's,

&C, OF HVERY DESCRIPTION.

— es 1119

Robertson Place, Smythe Street - ST. JOHN, N.B.

J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

Saws of all kinds manufactured from
the BEST CAST STEEL that can be
procured in any Market.

EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
and on Short Notice.

Send Address for Price List, Terms, &c.
W17 J. F. LAWTON.

EO Wei eS eS.

BINE WATER WHEELS

Mill Machinery,

ADDRESS =

PAXTON, TATE & Co.

Port Perry, Ont.
WeaeSend for Illustrated Catalogue. 4u12

Wa

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RELIEVE AND CURE
Spinal Complaints, General and NERVOUS DEBILITY, Rheumatism,
Gout, Nervousness, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Throat and Chest Complaints,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Incipient Paralysis, Asthma, Sciatica, Sprains,
Consumption, Sleeplessness, Colds, Indigestion.

Ask for Norman’s Electric Belts and you will be safe against imposition, for they will do their
work well and are cheap at any price,

A. NORMAN, Ksa., WATERVILLE, N, B.
Dear Sir,—Please send me a waist belt, Enclosed find price. Head band I got for my wife

has almost cured her of neuralgia, Yours truly, C. L. TILLEY.

Numerous of such testimonials can be seen at my office, proving that they are doing a good work and worthy
the attention of all sufferers. Circulars free. No charge for consultation.

A. NORMAN, 4, Queen Street East, Toronto.

N.B.—Trusses for Rupture, best In America, and Electric Batterles always on hand at
rensonable prices, 12

ADAM McoKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Engines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. 4a@7No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co's
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &e., &e.

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Has Facilities

et

DOING as GOOD WORK

—AND AS—

PROM Pa

As any Engraver in Canada

ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

PFS nn Wngais

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SOFKING SI7O.F
SJoUN. WZ

A. LEARMONTH & Co.

ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS,
MANUFACTURER OF
Steam Engines, Rotary Pumps, of all sizes, far Paper
and Pulp Mills, Steam Pumps, and a Variety of other
Pumps, Propeller Engines for Yachts & Tow Boats.
1119

Iron Railings, Hoisting Machines for Stores, Jack Screws, Park
Mills, all kinds of Machinery for Mines, Saw Mills, Flour Mills

St. Paul St., QU HBEHC.

PARKER& EVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation. 1

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

To MILLMEN!

HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and
is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
Wheel is moved along the Jeagth, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
jumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other, Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

$100. Send for circulars to 7: HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.

1119

saws of every description.

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8 billie

eee amulet! LUMBERMAN. 189

D. McLACHLAN & SONS,

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STEAM BOLLE RS.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.

su NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. |

STEAM SAW MILL OWNERS

Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association

HEAD OFFICE, 9 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO.

GEORGE C. ROBB, Chief Engineer.
A. F. JONES. Secretary-Treasurer. 1-13

SIR ALEX. CAMPBELL, President.
HON. JNO. McMURRICH, Vice-Pres.

meee Se RT HS.

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT'S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills, &c., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery
Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all

kinds. £&Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ESTABLISHED 1820.

EAGLE
GEORGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTRISAL,

MAKER OF

Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &c., &e.,
AND AGENT FOR 120
“Water’s’’ Perfect pam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s’’ Centrifugal ows

ROBERTSON’S

LIGHTNING CANT-D0G

po es Sy pepe GIN Cp,
The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

BERT SON,

Ottawa.

6124

Chaudiere -

Northey : Steam Pump Works

MINING PUMPS,
PUMPS SPECIALLY ADAPTED for
OIL PIPE LINES,
And CITY WATER WORKS.

BOILER FEED PUMPS,
AIR AND CIRCULATING PUMPS,
STEAM FIRE PUMPS, and
WRECKING PUMPS.

No. 47 King - William Street.

HAMILTON, ONTARIO.

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D. McLEOD, Local Agent at PETERBOROUGH. ~

190 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Macuine Olcs, Etc /=2=* =43Tiss3

wav For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.
McCOLL BROS. & Co.
HP OE, ONL O; GRAYS PATENT

a ne ion Machine

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion,

SHIN LOR PRiGh Sse. BL2

AMHRICAN HEAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,
Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

T, WickE.ROW,. JR

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
P.0. BOX 556, TORONTO,

The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls
and two Reciprocating Sieves.
The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper

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sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and

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, Diploma & Medal for Best Square Piano

middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the
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large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through

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the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.

Each Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as

on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and

Ist Prize and Diploma
Ist Prize and Diploma
Ist Prize and Diploma

lumphant

CARRIES OFF THE HONORS OF 1880 AS FOLLOWS:

At Toronto Industrial Exhibition, Ist Prize
At Hamilton Provincial Exhibition -

At Brantford Southern Fair
~ At Guelph Central Exhibition

the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

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PETERBOROUGH, ONT., JULY 1, 1882.

DESPISED TREES.

The Western catalpa, formerly little known
beyond the region of the lower Ohio, except as
a few specimens have been grown for the sake
of their beautiful flowers, which resemble some-
what those of the horse chestnut, has lately been
found to be one of our most valuable trees.
What chiefly commends it, in addition to its
yery rapid growth, is its remarkable durability.
No tree is known to be equal to it in this re-
spect. It seems to be almost imperishable
when exposed to moisture, and was formerly
much used by the Indians for canoes. It has
been a favorite material for fence and gate posts,
and posts are now to be seen which have been
in the ground from 50 to 100 years and show
hardly any signs of decay. It promises to be a
very valuable tree for railway ties, and some of
our railway companies, especially in the west,
are planting it extensively on this account.
Hundreds of acres of prairie land, with not less
than 2,700 trees to the acre, are now being set
with catalpa and ailanthus trees. The Iron
Mountain Railroad Company, whose road runs
for hundreds of miles through a heavily timber-
ed country, have made a similar contract for
planting near Charleston, Missouri, one hundred
acres of the catalpa as an experiment. This
they do because, while they own some of the
finest white oak timber on the continent, catalpa
ties have stood on their road for 12 years en-
tirely unaffected by decay, and the demand for
ties and for posts of this wood far exceeds the
present supply. It is estimated that the new
railroads built in the treeless states in 1879 re-
quire over 10,000,000 ties.

RAIDS ON U, 8. TIMBER BY CANADIANS,

A special from the Red River reservation to
the St. Paul Pioneer Press says:—A party of
Red Lake Chippewa hunters have returned
from their spring hunt on the Rainy River, and
report that a party of Canadians, with a number
of British Chippewas, were and have been lum-
bering on the American side, on land belonging
to the Red Lake reserve. These hunters, who
are reliable Indians, state that no less than one
thousand logs are on the bank of Rainy River,
and that a tug had been busily at work hauling
them over to the Canadian side. Large quanti-
ties of cedar posts have been cut and are now
awaiting a speedy transfer over the river. The
lumbering camp seems to be in an isolated place,
and would have never been discovered had it
not been a choice place for muskrats, where
these Indians repair every spring for their hunt
They have utterly riddled one cedar swamp,
converting it into ties and posts. Parties here

who were there at the time of the former trouble |

with lombermen and their whiskey, during
Maj. Runee’s time, state that the pine is of the
first quality, accessible to the river, and that

| lumberman’s axe.

these Indians busy in watching the manceuver-
ing of greedy lumbermen. In the vicinity of
Red Lake falls hardwood and pine are said to
have been cut during the winter by hordes of
Swedes and carried off to their homesteads.
There is no doubt that large quantities of timber
are cut every winter on this reservation. A
person need only go to the very margin of the
reserve at any point of its boundary to hear the
These Indians did hope that
the government would do something for them
last -winter. The majority, especially the
younger class, are desirous of a change to a good
agricultural spot. The Red Lake Indians have
always had the name of being the most peace-
ful and industrious of all the bands. It has been
conceded to them by the government inspec-
tors, and it is strange to them how the govern-
ment can leave them so helpless, especially since
their treaty, which ran out three years ago.
All that the 1,500 here have to depend upon is
their husbandry, pushing the majority thereby
into the hunt for their sustenance. Their an-
nuity, which is a gratuity, consists chiefly in
three-feet blankets, and these never arrive until
a time when they are of little use to them.

OLD OAK.

A writer in the American Architect, of a re-
cent date, in an article styled ‘“ A Chat on Old
Oak,” says :—In the good old time long ago,
when knights and barons, and abbots and
monks, built their castles and towers, and
cathedrals and monasteries, they made their
furniture in the same'spirit that they did the
building, rightly, sternly, thoroughly, and well,
and so it comes to pass that for centuries it has
remained firm and strong, and endured the
vicissitudes of ages with a fortitude that true
principles alone can give. Sometimes in the old
world one stumbles upon such an old relic, old
and brown, staunch and firm, a venerable pro-
test against the rubbish which in the name of
furniture is made in this enlightened age.
Furniture which chiefly seems only put together
that it may fall to pieces at the earliest con
yenient season, and even so long as it exists,
taxes the patience of its unhappy possessor in
gathering up the fragments of it, and paying
frequent bills for the regluing and adjusting of
its scattered particles.

In the early days of the medieval ages domes-
tic architecture was in a very crude state. Few
except the knights or barons were able to build,
and the buildings were half fortress, half house,
a great hall in which the baron and his retainers

| ate, and caroused, and slept, flanked by towers
| nic ‘
containing a few ‘‘ bowers” or apartments for

the use of the ladies. Such places were rudely
furnished, a few rough oaken tables, and benches
and beds, that was all; but as property became
more secure by the establishment of good govern-

there ie no better cedar in Minnesota, Itkeeps! ments and the making of wise laws, chivalry

began to destroy barbarism. Knights built
stately castles, less of the fortress, more of the
home, and being less occupied in fighting with
their next-door neighbors, domestic life flourish-
ed and made advances and property accumulat-
ed. The ladies spun fine linens and wools,
which were woven and made into fine garments
and dresses, and ¢offers had to be made to store
these away. The knights must have drinking

cups of silver and flagons for their ale, and |

dishes for their venison, and so they must needs
make them dressers to display these upon when
not in use, and thus article after article was
added to the household store, and the study of
the history of furniture from this age till it
reached its culmination in the glorious examples
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is at once
most interesting and delightful, and necessary
to every art student of the present day. There
are few examples remaining of these early ages
of furniture, but we have abundant records of
their shape and character from the missals and
illuminations prior to the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and from that time to the present
there are in various museums and collections
numerous examples that may be thoroughly
studied. The most impressive features of this
early furniture are the truthfulness and
thoroughness of its construction, its simplicity,
its fitness, the severity of its lines, and the per-
fection of its decoration. At first simple slabs
of smoothed wood were used, well pegged to-
gether with wooden pegs, and then decorated
with diapers or geometrical rosettes in very low
relief ; occasionally the corners were protected
with corner-pieces of exquisitely wrought iron,
and the hinges of the same character almost
covered the door or the lid. Everything was
solid, stern and severe ; by and by greater pro-
gress was made ; instead of using solid slabs of
wood, first was made a strong framing honestly
tenoned together, and the spaces between the
framing filled up with panels or doors ; scratch-
ings on the framing took the shape of mouldings
in the simple form of beads and hollows, and
the carving grew more vigorous and less geome-
tric ; conventional flowers and foliage appeared ;
then, as the workman became more skilled in his
craft, turning was introduced, greater refinement
of design, richer ornamentation, and so from
stage to stage furniture developed from bar-
barism to beauty, and in castle and cathedral
were erected choir stalls and screens, buffets
and coffers, and presses and chairs, which have
never been surpassed, and are still the wonder
and the glory of this age. It isremarkable that
in the whole of northern Europe as far south as
Italy the favorite wood in these ages was oak ;
it is a rare thing to find any other wood employ-
ed. Rigidly and sternly did these old medizval-
ists refuse any other wood ; it was the most
fitting in qualities of strength and endurance,
and thus we learn with what serious intention
they built their furniture that it might last ; it

| passed down from father to son, from geueration
to generation ; it was the pride of the household,
well cared for and beloved, and often upon it
| was carved the pictured story of some famous
| deed of valor, or some history connected with
its possessor, or the family arms, or some wise
motto or saying ; such old oak was indeed furni-
ture, in the highest sense of the word. Like the
|men who built strong and true, what remains
stands calmly to-day as an everlasting rebuke to
lan age of shams,
It is a delightful thing to possess a few pieces
| of this old work. As I sit in my studio the old
buffet stands opposite to me; it has become
quite a familiar friend, and I often speculate as
to what manner of man made it, and through
what strange scenes it had passed. It came out
of an old manor house near Lancashire. It is a
fine example of seventeenth century work, of
fine English oak of that deep rich colour age only
can give. It is well and truthfully constructed,
numerous honestly pegged pegs very visible.
Its proportions are fine, its decoration is ex_
quisite and quite a study, the carvings possess
considerable delicacy, and the ornament is ad-
mirably placed. The scratched moulds and
beads are sharp and clean, and it has a remark-
able feature in the shape of a marquetry panel,
which is exceedingly good in colour and very
decorative, and I consider it a perfect specimen
of what a piece of furniture should be in con-
struction, utility, proportion, and decorative
effect.

Of late it has become quite the fashion to
collect old oak; the revival of decorative art
during the last few years has again turned at-
tention to old work, and its value is now fully
recognized ; it is becoming ‘rare. Some years
ago Belgium was an excellent field ; last year I
went without finding one desirable antique,
although I found lots of imitations were to be
had, and were being sold as antique. There is
an old man in Ghent who imitates them very
cleverly ; in fact so successfully that it is really
difficult to tell the spurious from the genuine.
|One day I went to see him; he showed me
| several specimens which I pronounced shams;
he was very indignant, and assured me they
were ‘‘his ancient veritable antiques.” I went
away, and next day I found his yard door open,
and got a view through it of the old sinner very
busy with a pot of ammonia anda brush staining
up a new cabinet into a “‘ veritable antique.” I
| went into the yard and found the old fellow had
quite a collection of old panels, moulds, and
| carvings, which he manufactured into tables and
cabinets, and sold as genuine.

A SHIPMENT of lumber from Shreveport, La.,
was made on the 30th ult. for the state of Chi-
huahua, Mexico, 170 miles south of El Paso.
The cars were loaded in the saw mill grounds,
and will not be unloaded until their destination
is reached,

194 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

THE N. B, COASTING TRADE.

The following letter appears in the Sun, of
St. John, N.B. :—

Mr, Eprror,—I wish to call the attention of
the readers of your paper to one of the results
that will arise from the legislation which has
been brought before Congress—to make subject
to full import duties all lumber, cut in the State
of Maine, now manufactured by American
citizens at St. John and shipped to the Ameri-
can markets.

T refer to the coasting and carrying trade of
St. John, which is largely supported and em-
ployed by that branch of lumber industry.
Upon enquiry it is ascertained that 100,000,000

_ (one hundred million) feet or upwards is annual-
ly shipped here to the United States of this
class of lumber, requiring the work of eighty
coasting schooners of an average of one hundred
and twenty-five tons. These vessels make
about ten trips a year and earn on an average
$600 each trip, an annual earning of $6,000 for
each yessel, being in the aggregate $480,000 for
the schooners employed,

Of the $600 so earned each trip, about $100
is used in the American ports to disburse the
vessel and $500 is returned to St. John, the
home port of the vessel. Of the $500 so returned
about $300 is required for wages and provisions
of the crew, harbor dues, towages, and the ex-
pense of loadIng the cargo. The balance of $200
then goes to the owner for profit and to enable
him to keep in repair and reproduce these
vessels as they are worn out or lost. So that
out of the aggregate sum of $480,000 earned,
$80,000 goes abroad, while $400,000 belongs and
is strictly retained in St. John, or the immediate
neighborhood of St. John, as these vessels are
built by and manned invariably with St. John

good pottery.

startling.

hundreds more.

procured,
limits building operations.
present is well nigh impossible.
rented before a jile is driven in the foundation.
Business stands command prohibitory rents.

a building about one hundred yards from the
main street, and on a side street.

Yonge streets in your city. Rents, freights, the
dearness of money, and the scarcity of material

value in Toronto,

THE ENGLISH TRADE.

The Timber Trades Journal says the trade in
prosperous condition at the present time. From
no part of the country can we hear of a brisk
demand. In the districts round Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire oak is very low in price, in
the eastern counties the market is said to be
overstocked, whilst in Yorkshire it is reported
to be quite a drug. At the Lancashire bobbin
mills trade is dull and has been for months past,

is machinery at work with a capacity of over a
million a day. The clay, I understand, is of
very fine quality, being good near the city and
really excellent out at Selkirk. At this latter
place there is clay which if washed would make
Despite all these drawbacks
building is progressing with a rapidity which is
The other day I am sure I saw over
five hundred dwelling houses well advanced to-
wards completion, and plans are prepared for
Large brick business blocks
will be erected just as fast as material can be
Indeed, the lack of material alone
To rent a place at
Houses are

The other day I had occasion to attempt to rent
The rent de-
manded was higher than what would have heen

asked for the same accommodation within one-
hundred yards of the intersection of King and

combine to make everything about double its

home-grown timber cannot be said to be in a

and St. John River men, are provisioned, out-
fitted and supplied by St. John supply and
material men, and are owned by persons near
the home port.

The result of the legislation that is now sought
for will be to turn from the St. John River,
which is the natural highway to the sea for all
lumber grown on the Aroostook and the tribu-
taries of the St. John that extend into the State
of Maine, and compel the transportation of all
such lumber to be made over the artificial high-
way (of railroad) to the port of Calais, where
the British coaster is prohibited from carrying
or being engaged in the American coastwise
business, thereby ensuring to St. John the com-
plete loss of the $400,000 a year which now goes
largely to her laborers, and the balance to the
benefit of her trade.

And while we cannot prevent any legislation
that our American neighbours may deem expe-
dient to enact in this behalf, still as we look on
with unavailing sorrow at the destruction of
this branch of our industry, we are reminded
that it is our duty to file our protest against the
enemy of our city’s interests, who to build up a
railway monopoly threatens us at one swoop
with an annual loss of $400,000 in this one branch

of our industries.
Gro. F. Barrp.

St. John, June 17.

BUILDING OPERATIONS,

The Winnipeg correspondent of the Toronto
Globe says :—The demand for lumber is greater
ten times than the supply. It is being brought
up and down the Red River by steamer and
barge, whole train loads are being brought in
from the South, and yet operations haye to be
suspended for hours at a time for lack of
material. The supply of stone is about as de-
fective as that of lumber. On Friday last I
was talking with Mr. Baxter, formerly a cele-
brated contractor of Dundee, who is here trying
to repair his fortunes. He had got the greater
part of a stone foundation put in for a massive
brick block when the architect came up and
told him there would be no more material until
Tuesday. Baxter turned to me and said, ‘‘ Kh,
man, isn’t it heart breakin’? The loss o’ time
is bad enough, but the loss 0’ men is far waur.”
The imposibility of procuring material thus pre-
vents contractors from giving constant employ-
ment, and entails the necessity of hiring and re-
hiring workmeu to complete a job. Bricks are
very searce at present, and will be so all the
year through. I believe that by this time there

and the raw material is fetching low prices.
The great and prolonged
general trade of the country of a few years back.
and especially the depression in the coal and

lowest ebb. The hopes cherished that the re-
vival of trade which set in last year, would

in values have been dissipated by the fearful
havoe wrought in our woodlands and forests by
the late October and April gales, which have
thrust an enormous quantity of wood on an al-
ready overstocked market,

Whilst building timber continues to be sent

forward so freely from the north of Europe and
Canada, home-grown timber cannot be said to
stand in any great competition with it for con-
structive purposes. We hear now and again of
the growing scarcity of supply in those coun-
tries which supply our market with building
woods, and of the increasing cost of transport
to the places of shipment ; but a glance at the
total importations each year shows that any
scarcity is made up by the energy with which
the available stock is pushed forward, and there
is little fear that the supply will fail to keep
pace with the demand for some considerable
time to come. It is in hardwoods that home-
grown timber comes into competition with
foreign wood, but for special purposes and in
our local industries, native timber of good quali-
ty and dimensions will always command a good
price.

GIGANTIC TREES.

We often refer to our ‘‘ big trees ” of Califor-
nia, and no one who has seen them ever doubts
that they are big trees in earnest, but truly
they seem almost like dwarfs in comparison
with some of the gum trees of Australia. No
authentic statement gives any one of them a
greater height than 325 feet. But Baron F. von
Mueller, director for many years of the botanical
garden of Melbourne, than whom no better
authority can be found, measured one tree of
Eucalyptus colossea (the karri of the natives)
which was 400 feet in height, one of the Zucatl-
yptus amygdalina, which was 421, and another
of the same species which was 476. And not
far off was still another, which was not measured,
but as it was certainly larger than even the last,
it was believed to be at least 500 feet in height.
These statements seem incredible, but their ac-
curacy can scarcely be questioned.

During their younger years the eucalypti are
slender, and it is believed that for about seventy
to eighty years their growth is chiefly in height,

stagnation in the

iron industries, brought prices down to the

stimulate the demand and lead to improvement

VENEERS are active and command good prices”
in most markets, especially in the Hast, and
fancy burls are eagerly snapped up, as a usual
thing.

but after that time they increase enormously in
bulk. Mueller measured one which was 304 feet
in diameter at the base, and at the height of
230 feet, where the first branch was given off,
the trunk had still a diameter of 12 feet. In
the London exhibition of 1862 was shown a
eucalyptus plank 754 feet long by 114 feet wide,
and of proportionate thickness. Another plank
was also ready to be sent from Australia to the
same exhibition, but no ship could be found to
bring it ; we need scarcely be surprised at this,
for the plank was 167 feet long. These are not
random statements, they are simply verities, and
they are only incidental expositions of the
wonders of that strange land.— Boston Journal
of Commerce.

THE lumber trade around Puget Sound has
been so exceedingly brisk that the lumber is
nearly all used up. The demand for British
Columbian lumber, therefore, is rapidly inereas-
ing, and its value rising in proportion.

Tue Crown Timber Office records show that
during the month of May 159 cribs of timber
passed through the Government slide at Portage
du Fort, 6,260 cribs and 3,000 saw logs through
the Arnprior slide, and 43,688 saw logs, 103
pieces of. flat timber and 2,729 railway ties
through the Gatineau boom.

Lumber on Fire.

TRENTON.June 21.—About 2.30 this afternoon

a fire was discovered in a pile of lumber in Gil-
mour & Co,’s mill-yard. An alarm was given,
but before the fre brigade got to the yard, or
the company’s own appliances could be got to
play on it, fanned by the high winds the fire
spread with fearful rapidity until the whole of
the lumber in the north-east part of the yard |
was in one blazing mass. Fortunately the wind |
was blowing away from the mill or nothing) | 3 = ; aa
could have saved the splendid new mill now | SINCE the 17th June 5 rafts, composed of 584
completed, and it looked as if they would go at cribs and 14,708 pieces of timber, have left
one time, and assistance was telegraphed for Ottawa ; aie the 19th June 56 double cribs,
from Belleville and Cobourg. The fire, after containing 2,800 agree of square, flat and round
leaping through the yard, fired four of the timber, left the Gatineau boom, also 24,323 aged
houses belonging to the Company and occupied logs ; since the 21st. 1,360 pieces of timber left
| the Madawaska, 197 cribs and 4,002 pieces of

by their men, also a couple of other small ~ t , ‘
houses, The fire brigade with the mill hands timber passed through the Des Joachims slide ‘
for the week ending June 17th.

were enabled to keep the flames from working
up against the wind toward the mill and other | —

buildings, the whole of which are saved. The a Ter “
fire was got under control about five this after-_ week it will be noted SHS Git Si iam
5 4 cing Pain-Killer appers in costlier apparel
noon, after destroying about 5,000,000 feet of | than it has worn for some time past. This
lumber, four large dwelling houses and two | splendid advertisement is well calculated to
small ones. The loss will exceed $100,000, | both catch the eye and convince the mind. We
af 2 = know of no better evidence in favor of an article ;
covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to | than the written testimony of so many well
have been caused by some one smoking and | known citizens, especially the testimony of men
leaving his pipe in the lumber pile, as a pipe | Who speak from long years off experience, as
an Connd where the ieemtacked these do, in favor of the Pain-Killer. Messrs.
; | Parry Davis & Son & Lawkence inform us
| that they are compelled to renew their advertis- |
ing, not because the Pain-Killer is losing one
whit of its popularity, but to caution the public
against the already numerous and constantly in-
creasing number of base imitations, and other
trashy mixtures, which are being sold in this
market ; many of them without merit and only
intended to sell on the reputation of the genuine

THE Canada Lumber Company, that got out
a fine lot of timber in the Adirondack region,
N.Y., last winter, and put it into St. Regis
river at Fort Jackson, is having discouraging
work in running the sticks to the St. Lawrence.
A gang of St. Regis Indians had. at a late date,
succeeded in getting the drive but seven miles
from the starting point.

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A CooreraGe establishment at Green Bay,
Wis., is having a boom. It manufactures, for
the most part, tripe, fish, pickle and syrup
barrels, and is not only selling all it can turn
out, but is so far behind orders that it recently
refused an order for 10,000 barrels. A Buffalo Pain-Killor.

contract calls for 13,000 syrup barrels, another! [t has become a common practice in Canada
for 19 car loads of pickle barrels, and a third | of late, among a,“ certain class” of dealers, to
large order is for white ash tripe barrels. Bolts | keep in stock “ everything,” if its © only cheap <°
5 : particularly in the medicine line ; and in a little

come in freely from up the bay, down the river, | \ hile they of course have a lange collection of
and by team. | these imitation articles which they substitute
a for the genuine, whenever a customer happens
THE Pensacola, Fla., Commercial, of a late - ound ee oa enough’ oe it. An
date, says:—‘‘ One cargo of lumber for Aus- erie ad ok Gar pote: flor pots! sce pai
tralia, direct, is now loading in this port, and | article to a fellow-being, or influence him in any
we have the best authority for stating that a| way in buying an article he knows nothing
line of sailing vessels will soon be engaged ex- | #bout, except that it pays a good profit. Care-
Lrieie é : | lessness in this way may cost a life, and no man
clusively in this trade. " Heretofore, we under-} paca right to so trifle with matters of such great
stand, all lumber shipped from here to Australia | importance. Perry Davis’ Pary-Kiier has
has gone via the English ports, when, after | been — the public etapa: Seal and
ori ceiravete < = | has steadily grown in public favor, we are
bang TACEEYS EEE peaked eens = to that | satisfied there is no better cure for our thousand
market. This certainly marks an important ‘little ills than Perry Davis’ Parn- and

era in our affairs.” | we heartily recommend it.

LIVERPOOL STOCKS.
We take from the Timber Trades Journal the following Comparative Table showing Stock _
of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on May 81st, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for
the month of May, 1881 and 1882 :—

| } Consumption ; Consumption
Stock, May 3ist.| Stock, May 31st.\for the month ‘or the month of
S82. 1881. | May 1882. May, 1881.

Quebec Square Pine.........0.scesescessuee 58,000 ft 536,000 ft. )

e > SWaney BOA cs secraseeet eae: ae 150,000 * 186,000 “* j rr 107,000 ft.
Sé. JOB PIN Ss conn choker seetosersatum 3,000 ‘* 5,000 “| = 3,000 “*
Other (Ports Pine inks un. obs eh vcwkwterece ears 25,000 ‘* 48,000 ‘* 3,000 “ 8,000 ,
Pitch Pine, MeWN ess. vascasccusctccuete cc 707,000 ‘* 569,000 ‘* 240,000 “ 214,000 **

rc BOWHL 6.0%. cs Cai thin teeiee Baek ace 347,000 “ 340,000 “* te x 197,000 “*
et Uplanks -ajtceemereeeeeeon eee 67,000 “* 97,000 | ,000 * 49,000 “*

Reg Pine essere Cee heen 14,000 “ 32,000 | 3,000 “ 27000 “«

Dantes, WG Uib nce kd menicenic Coe mece nen 108,000 “© | 176,000 ‘* | 51,000 “ 51,000 “*

Sweden and Norway Fir. .....e..e.eeec scence 4,000 ** 9,000 © | 4,000 ** —

ORE Canadian tos cosine carer checien coe eek 214,000“ | 366,000 | 29,000 34,000 “
1 PHANKS. 0s eeeeeeeeee seeeseeee nen anes 63,000 “© | 147,000 ** | 80,000 «* 26,000 **
TSTBRIEIG Semmes ss SaLigubeh otek MAaNam were 53,000 ‘ 92,000 | 7,000 9,000

EDTA RG or 8 RRR eee en Se 33’000 “« 97,000 | 4,000 <* 5,000 «

Ss “ “ce ec

Begs icy eee gorooo «| ogee | 21,000" | ant

Greenheart .. 61,000 ** 56,000 “ ) 24,000 «x | 8,000 *

East India Teak.. 63,000 “* 8,000 “* | 20,000 “* 11,000

Dy <
Tine eS. \ 3,10 stds} 7,981 stds.) 1,509 stds.) 1,181 stds.
SS ws 7,220 “ ; =

N. B. & N.S. Ce Dea = ‘4 ae - \ 4,975 6,309

Baltic Deals Hae tee 2,220 “ 5,080 204 « 574
RUS BORTasY oc ccv eet Bc 100 ** 400 | — 61 *
“ Flooring Boards........... os Usaieset « 3,080 “ 3,760 “ | 1,000 [ 1,968 “

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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THE Timber Trades Journal, of June 10th,
says :—The timber trade must be admitted to
be at the present time, as far as relates to Lon-
don, very quiescent. If you meet aman, whom
you are accustomed to find very busy at this
time of year, with bills of lading, invoices, and
foreign correspondence, the chances are that he
will tell you that he is ‘“‘ buying nothing, and as
for selling he doesn’t know where to look for a
customer.” This, of course, is not to be taken
literally, nor intended to be so, but it indicates
the spirit of the trade just now, or rather its
want of spirit ; and if we look at what is doing
on the coast, east, west, north, or south, no
animation is discoverable anywhere. Prices at
the public sales are everywhere a little easier,
and, though there is not much retrogression,
something is perceptible in that way, and goods
that are not too plentiful, and ought to fetch
remunerating prices, excite no competition, and
go sometimes miserably low in comparison of
what they ought to bring.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says it is an-
nounced that F. Weyerhauser, of Eau Claire,
Wis., a gentleman already having connection
with numerous logging and lumber companies,
has secured the refusal, until August 1, of the
Cornell University’s pine lands in Wisconsin,
aggregating 200,000 acres, which are more or
less heavily timbered, and scattered in sections
through the western and northwestern parts of
the state. The statement receives some sub-
-stantiation from the fact of the withdrawal from
the market of the lands in question.

THE steam barge Arawes struck a rock at
' Prentis Bay and sank. Part of her cargo of
lumber was taken off, after which she slid into
deep water and is now about decks too. The tug
Kate Williams left with a submarine diver and
a 14-inch Worthington pump to raise the steam-

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196 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. ;

1 LOGGING—STEAM vs. HORSES.

i] The following letter appears in the Worth-
i} western Lumberman :—

i We find a general impression that steam
logging is profitable for very large contracts,
but that sledding is cheaper for small operations.
This is a question which will interest your
readers, and we give below figures for compari-
son.

We first state the cost of getting in 12,500,000
feet of logs on a five mile haul by sledding on
snow or iced tracks. Allowing an average for
each two-horse team of 250,000 feet for a season
of 90 good sledding days, the investment will be
about as follows :—

price of spruce at the public sales in London
and Liverpool will seldom, on an average, leave
A per standard to the shipper; yet for white-
wood of same dimensions the price is £6 10s, f.o.
b. in Sweden, and the charges of getting the
goods forward to the shipping ports are under-
stood,to be greater in America than in Sweden.
Spruce has given way a little in Liverpool at
the last sales, but it is a wood that on the west
coast is generally in good demand. On that
side it is not to be driven off by the whitewood
of Northern Europe, but on the east coast it
gets no secure footing.

being in negotiation for a piece of ground at the
mouth of the Dal River suitable for a saw mill
site has been confirmed, and it is understood
that the transaction is now closed. The piece
of ground obtained is situated at Harnas, close
to Skutskar, where the Siderfors company have
their shipments. This step is supposed to be
preparatory to the remoyal of the saw mill to
the coast, and has been taken to avoid the heavy
railway freight from Korsnas to Gefle.

Several extensive new saw milling concerns
are reported as having got lately into full work
in different parts of the country ; one of these is
a new mill, with a capacity of about 5,000
standards annually, erected by the Hellefors
Bruks Aktie Bolag on their property near to

in waiting for the snow, which after all may fail,
than it would cost to haul in the logs by steam ;
the output can be doubled by hauling nights ;
the haul may be doubled at but slight extra
cost ; from 20 to 25 per cent more logs can be
got in from the same land, as the low cost of
hauling makes poorer grades profitable to mar-
ket ; timber hurt by windfall or fire can be got
in at once and marketed, instead of being left
to worms and rot.

H. K. Porrrr & Co.

HEMLOCK OR PINE?

Hemlock is well adapted for any of the coarser
uses in building, where small timber is required.

Queer Geography.
The following item which appears in the

50 two-horse teams, at $400 each team.....+.. .$20,000 Tt k Hes al bett eine

I ‘ FCEEL Phy NO agcecaodtaasantee 3,500 makes a better joist and a better scanthng|— 3 ; : :
l Grading five ae pireed cay aq nde Hedonar oot 4,000 | than pine, for the reason that it is stiffer timber, Filipstad ! They own a large quantity of grow- Stillwater Lumber: man, published in the town of
ing wood intersected by the Bergslagernas rail-| Stillwater, Minnesota, will be read with some

e

and holds a nail so firmly that it is difficult to
In sand it is

ammusement ;—
‘On the line of the Northern Pacific, between Rat
Portage and Winnipeg, large quantities of lumber and

$27,500

way, and will presumably ship their produce
Another mill is the under

draw one after it has been driven.

! * OPERATING EXPENSES.
more durable than pine, but in clay soil it is not

‘60 drivers at $40 per month, cost of board in-_

from Gothenburg.

! cluded, for four months..... - MEMO d ven OTD $ 8,000 - id ; taking noticed before in my letters as having
Oats and hay for 50 teams, at $1 per day for each so good. It is fully the equal of pine for dura- b = ted in Gefle B ee h ee f ae ties have been destroyed by recent forest fires.”
team, for six months.,...--+.+s+++-++eeees 9,000 | bility in positions where it is exposed both to een erected in Gefle Bay by the owners of the Some of our friends to the south of the line
’

775 Ockelbo Works; this concern has also com-

Expense of pasturing, six months......-.-.+.+. : ca

Binevenith, harness and waggon mender and wet and dry, but while as good, is no better ‘ed : di 4 ee seem determined to annex us, whether on no.
stable man, ie? anh agaodagdnouessn oom tebe when always under water. It is cheaper, selling menced operations, and is estimated as being ates pie

Repairing road. .....c00seree ee tec eee envenes ; on the market by the cargo, at about $2 less able to produce 4,000 to 5,000 standards annual- Minsopi iyo eae ee

Yearly expense of replacing horses, harness and

sleds, say 20 per cent, on $23,500.....+-++-+ ly. The firm is the owner of extensive forests

in the Gefle district, and able to supply the mill
in question with logs for a long period. A third
mill is that lately erected by the Jemtlelands
Sangbruks Bolag along the new line between
Sundswall and Drontheim, near Morsill station,
west of Ostersund. This concern will ship at
Drontheim, in Norway, and their production
will be 5,000 to 6,000 standards annually, The
company is said to consist principally of share-
holders from Bergen, in Norway.

I should not be surprised to hear of a lively
speculation in growing wood taking place in the
district whence the Norwegian company referred
to obtains logs. The Sundswall people have no
doubt done well in the surrounding district, but

4,875

than dimension sizes of pine. It is not adapted
to so many uses as pine, and while better for
graneries, for the reason that rats and mice
avoid it, being unable to gnaw through it, is not
in thin lumber so well adapted for use. It is
not more in favor, because in the past pine has
been cheap and plentiful, and while better
known is easier worked. It is in good repute in
the eastern states, where it largely fills the place
of pine for coarse uses, and is to some extent
used for finishing purposes, but we must confess
to prejudice against it in this connection. As
pine becomes scarcer hemlock is coming more
into favor, as may be seen from the fact that
stumpage which was held a year ago at 25 cents

any other western state north of Arkansas.
One-fourth of its area is covered with trees, and
in some districts, particularly the river bottoms,
the swamp lands of the southeast, and the Ozark
mountain regions, these trees are of the most
valuable character.

$25,000
Or, in round numbers, the cost of sledding
may be reckoned to $2 per 1,000, provided there
i is neither too much nor too little snow, that
work is not interrupted by storms or thaws, and
that the season is as perfect as if made to order.
The actual average cost of sledding from year
to year, taking the seasons as they come, is
probably from $3 to $4 on hauls of three to five
miles,
i) The investment required for putting in 12,-
500,000 feet of logs over a five mile track in one

winter is about as follows :—
Jvon rail, 16 Ibs per yard, spikes and splices for

TuE Belleville Intelligencer says we have re-
ceived a specimen of an artificial material which
is intended to take the place of wood for all
purposes for which wood is now used. Tt is
made of straw ground to a fine pulp and sub-
jected to a tremendous pressure—the result be-
ing a material closely resembling wood, though
harder. It is manufactured by the Straw Lum-

MAINES nogauocaoanoeal Hansouparepa ono $ 8,700 ° . .
: : ; ; er thousand is now selling for $1. The main }
Cross-ties, and grading and laying.... +... s+.» 6,500 pe ae ‘ elie a ay: ae = yer Co., of Lawrence, Kan.
One locomotive and 20 cars .....+6ee sense ees 8,300 | disadvantages of hemlock consist in a disposi- ae a ek " at a the ashe cs of 23
Tools and incidentals. ...cssseeeeereeee oe eens 1,500 | 4; hs ice-free harbor will ere long cause considerable = Sa
tion to shake and unsoundness, and it is then A Bostox trade circular says eee

competition for growing wood reachable by the
new line of railway. This railway is to be open-
ed in its entirety by the king about the 20th of

is in fair request, but prices are easier on spruce
and hemlock. Coarse pine boards, dry, are

comparatively worthless, its culls being the
meanest lumber known. We have knowledge

$25,000

OPERATING EXPENSES.

10 loaders at $40 per month, cost of board in-
cluded, for 4 Months... 2.11 seeeecuesseees $

2 unloaders at $40 per month, cost of board in-
cluded, for 4 months ..-...ee6++ vevseeeees

1 engineer and 1 fireman, $115 per month, cost

1,600
320

of board included, 4 months...... .6.. eeu 460
1 carpenter, at $60 per month, board included,
AGMONE Sia ielefeinisy olsteyeal sletsisiay nlsteltlolelsiejelelelalsie 240
5 trackmen at $40 per month, board included, 4
iMG Duncoobo, HAovNHOo NoHn BOSHERDAO on 800
1 brakeman at $40 per month, board included, 4
ANVOMIDHIS te, aiehu efefajeleios stele iatelivisle s)iin)siaigiaiple sisni aisle 160
Fuel, 1 cord per day, at $1, for 90 days........ 90

Oil and repairs for locomotive and cars, $15 per
day, for 90 days ....
Depreciation for year on rails, cars and locomo-
tive, allow LO per cent 01) $17,000... seee0

1,700

36,880

Or 55 cents per 1,000 feet to get in 12,500,000
feet of logs by steam in four months’ time. The
locomotive can do this work easily in three
months, which would reduce the cost to about
44 cents per 1,000 feet. These figures must be
moderated by each operator to suit the length
of haul, and the quantity of logs to be used, but
in practice the advantage of steam power is even
greater, as shown by the following examples of
roads each operated by alocomotive built by our
firm at Pittsburgh :—

A road eight miles long was built, and 18,000, -
000 feet got in over it in one year. The largest
day’s haul was 247,000 feet, which cost 25 cents
per 1,000 to haul. The average cost was less
than 50 cents.

Another road eight miles long, operated 10
months in the year, got in 60,000,000 feet in one
year, at an average cost of 54 cents per 1,000
feet, equivalent to about 40 cents per 1,000 feet
for a five-mile haul.

Another road three and one-half miles long,
got in 22,000,000 feet in five months, during
which the road was shifted to reach another
tract.

Another road, eight and one-half miles long,
got in 38,000,000 feet in nine months, running

of hemlock shingles put upon a barn roof 40
years ago and in as good condition to-day as
pine shingles put on some years later. The
shingles curl enough after a rain to permit of
their drying out readily so that they do not de-
cay as speedily as pine, while flattening to their
place at once under a shower. For actual value
as studding joist and granery uses, hemlock is
worth more money than pine, for stiffness, dura-
bility and freedom from the encroachments of
vermin, and the prejudice against it because of
its stiff slivers, gives way rapidly under ex-
perience in its use.—WVorthwestern Lumberman.

TIMBER NEWS,

The Ottawa Citizen, of June 13thgsays :—The
following is a statement of the timber which
passed through the undermentioned slides and
works since the 2nd inst. :—

PORTAGE-DU-FORT SLIDE.
1 raft belonging to David Moore, composed of 159 cribs.

ARNPRIOR SLIDE,
Saw

Rafts. Owners. Cribs. Logs.
1. Yeilliard & Dickson... sans 28 = 785 ae
1..Jonathan Francis & Co........ 145 3,500
1... Wm. McK@y is... cece enews 70 1,975 Gane

Perley & Patitee.............5- sees 2,000
Je TRE RBOOCD ie ciieelieemrusleneoces 1,000
443 6,260 3,000
THROUGH GATINEAU BOOM.
Saw Flat
Owners. Logs. Timber.
Gilmour & Co

G. B, Hall & Co...

Hamilton Bros...... 3,082 255
W. C. Edwards & Co 4,135 103
J. McLaren & Co ..... 6,841

43,688 103

And H. B. Rathbun & Son 2,729 railway ties.

EFFECTS OF EMIGRATION.
The Zimber Trades Journal says :—Another

July, in connection with which an exhibition of
the products and industries of Norrland is to be
held at Sundswall. As forest products and
manufactures are more important than anything
else in Norrland, it may be taken for granted
that they will play an important role in the ex-
hibition, thus rendering the same extremely in-
teresting to the trade.

THE TIMBER TRADE OF BORDEAUX.

The Zimber Trades Journal says the principal
feature of this week’s timber trade is the arrival
of some German hewn timber and balks, which
have been eagerly looked forward to for several
months. From the German ports they write
that there are still many contracts to carry out,
owing to the high rate of freight on account of
the scarcity of vessels, for which reason, and
also owing to the upward tendency of prices, it
will be almost impossible to obtain any shipping
orders for some time to come.

The scarcity of long lengths and heavy aver-
age from the German ports leads buyers to
direct their attention to the American supplies,
where they will find all kinds of dimensions,
even the largest ones, at, as we think, more
suitable prices.

SWEDISH PROSPECTS.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—Speaking
of the present state of the saw mill interests in
Sweden, we learn that it is likely to expand
considerably this present season, as the letter
referred to mentions no less than three new
establishments of the kind just got into full
work, which are estimated to add altogether
about 15,000 standards to the customary annual
production. On the other hand, the plentiful-
ness of money has again given life to forest

wanted ; lath and sawed cedar shingles are
scarce and high. The scarcity of small vessels
adapted for this market, and the fact that hard-
ly any of this class have been built the last
few years, promises to keep freights firm dur-
ing the season. There has been considerable
delay already in shipping the orders, owing to
a lack of suitable vessels.
—— SS

THE St. Louis Republican says the people of
the United States little dream when they skim
the cream from the virgin soil of the west and
send it to Europe in the shape of wheat and fell
the monarch trees of their forests by the millions
every year, that they are making wanton drafts
on the sources of their wealth which it will take
generations of careful effort to repair. They,
and perhaps their children, may not suffer any
great inconvenience from the loss of the riches
they are so profligately dissipating ; but their
children’s children will hardly pass away without
suffering by the great mistake.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Montreal Gazette,
writing from St. John, N. B., says :;—The lum-
ber business is good. Stream driving is excellent,
on account of the floods, and few logs will re-
main on the banks and bars this summer. Our
harbor and the North Shore ports are full of
ships after deal cargoes, and it is noticeable
that the percentage of steamers is steadily in-
creasing. We have a dozen of them at a time
here, and there are nine or ten in the Miramichi
also, this being their first year in that river.
Many of them came here immediately on re-
turning to England from Indian voyages, and
some of them are to return there after carrying
the cargoes they are now loading. They are all
English, while most of the sailing vessels that
came for deals are Norwegian barques.

question which bids fair to influence somewhat
the price of wood goods in the near future is the
extremely large proportions to which the emi-
gration movement from Sweden to America has
attained of late. The numbers of the working
classes that are leaving must, within a short
time, raise the price of timber considerably, As
soon as the saw mill industry gets busy we shall
probably hear of a deficiency of workmen and
attempts to obtain higher wages,

The report of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslag

night and day.

Tt can be claimed fairly that for hauls of from
three to fiye miles, for getting in from 5,000,000
to 10,000,000 feet in one season, steam logging,
provided good locomotives and cars are used, is
cheaper than sledding, both in original invest-
ment and in operating expense. Other inci-
dental advantages of steam are certainty of
operation, as no snow, too much snow, mud,
winter and summer need not be considered. In
sledding operations, more money may be spent

speculation in Sweden, which had been very
quiet since 1874 ; and when capitalists begin to
bid against each other for that kind of property
it looks like an enhancement of the value of
everything connected with it, and they still
appear to believe that prices will not give way.
There is always this point in their favor, that
Swedish shippers can always get a profit in our
markets when most other shipping countries are
losing on the current prices of their wood, The

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to — perform
their duties in assimilating the f Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you,

WHAT BECOMES OF THE LUMBER?

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
census figures for the decade ending 1870, in-
cluding a period covering the war of the re-
bellion, showed that a population of 35,000,000,
alarge population, in fact, probably one-half

- of whom were withdrawn from peaceful pursuits
and were engaged in the work of destruction
rather than of upbuilding, required an average
of not far from 400 feet of lumber per capita
annually. It is safe to assume that the era of
peace and rebuilding, which marked the sub-
sequent decade, added largely to the demand
for consumption, and it is no stretch of the
imagination to assume that, with the revival of
business industry which followed upon the great
and prolonged panic of 1873 to 1879, setting
again in motion the wheels of industry and the
checked current of immigration, an average
consumption of 600 feet of lumber per capita
has not only been reached but exceeded.

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CEDAR vs. PINE.

Recent repairs uponthe Kangaroo lake bridge
at Baileys Harbor, Wis., have demonstrated
the relative value of pine and cedar as to
strength and durability. The bridge had been
built some 12 years, and had become insecure
and dangerous. The difficulty was found to rest
mainly in the fact that pine timbers had been
used whenever possible, in place of cedar, which
was the other element in the construction of the
bridgd. In many instances the pine timbers
were broken and rotten, while cedar timbers
half the size were perfectly intact, sound and
secure. At one point a pine log 15 inches in
diameter had broken square off and furnished
no support whatever, and two long cedar string-
ers 10} and 11 inches throught, respectively,
withstood the strain brought to bear upon that
portion of the bridge. heavy loads crossing fre-
quently.—Worthweseteru Lumberman.

PRESERVATION OF WOOD.

A new wood preserving process has been in-
vented in France by M. Jacques. He first im-
pregnates the timber thoroughly with a simple
solution of soap, mixed with an acid—preferra-
bly phenic acid. This causes the fermentation,
in a few days, within the wood, of a fatty acid,
which is insoluble in water, and enters the remo-
test fibres. The reaction of the acid on the soap
does not take place until a portion of the water
has evaporated. It is claimed that more perfect
impregnation can be had in this way than with
creosote, and there is no danger of the washing
out of the preservative from the exposed sur-
faces, as when sulphate of copper is used. The
government commission on technical railroad
operation in France is said to favor this process.
—The Metal Worker.

Tue Kirby-Carpenter Company, at Men-
ominee, Mich., is running its mills to their out-
side capacity, having, during a recent week, cut
2,334,364 feet of lumber. The company has
piled 7,000,000 feet, and proposes to pile more.
This fact is supposed to be a straw, showing a
tendency of manufacturers to throttle the sup-
ply and prevent it from streaming out any
faster than it is needed. They intend thus to
get the “ bulge” on the market.

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A Meerrxe of lumnbermen was recently held
at Bay City, Mich., for consultation in regard
to the feasibility of the formation of a booming
company there for the picking up of stray logs
at the mouth of Saginaw river. It was stated
that on an average 125 logs are floating loose at
the mouth of that river every day, and it was
desirable that somebody have authority to pick
them up, assort and deliver them to the owners.
A committee was appointed to make legal inves-
tigations and report.

THE manufacture of shingles in eastern and
northern Maine is reported to have been visited
_with increased prosperity. As an instance in
this direction, Cutler & Eddy’s mill, at Bradley,
Me., runs night and day, and the firm has an-
other mill in brisk operation at Van Buren,
200,000 shingles being manufactured daily, and
the demand is ahead of the production of both
mills. At Van Buren the logs are got from the
New Brunswick side, and are adinitted free of
duty, being sawed by Americans on this side,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Tun Aroostook and Tobique drives, says the
Fredericton Herald, are all in. There is now
about 80,000,000 feet of lumber in the Douglas
booms and about 20,000,000 feet in the booms
below the city. When Connors’ and Cunliffe &
Stevens’ drives are in, the total amount of lum-
ber to be taken care of by the Boom Company
will reach 130,000,000 feet, or about the same as
last year.

Ir Nearty Dead after taking some highly
puffed up stuff, with long testimonials, turn to
Hop Bitters, and have no fear of any Kidney or
Urinry Troubles, Bright’s Disease, Diabetes or
Liver Complaint. These diseases cannot resist
the curative power of Hop Bitters ; besides ,it
is the best family medicine on earth.

Mippie Acrp MEN often lack vigor, this can
be restored by that great brain and nerve food,
known as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine. Read
the advertisement in another column of to-day’s
paper.

“The secret of three is all the world’s,” but
it is no secret that the demand in Canada for
pens of the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company’s
make is steadily increasing. No stationer’s
stock is complete without them,

J. Werts & Son, Freedomville, Ohio, write :—
“This informs you that we have sold all those
Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters you sent us. We
sold the last three bottles to-day. Two of our
customers disputed about which should have the
last bottle, and we decided the matter by
promising to send for more at once. The
Bitters give universal satisfaction to all who
have tried them. We want you to send us
twelve dozen forthwith.” Baxter’s Mandrake
Bitters never fail to cure all diseases of the
Stomach, Liver and Bowels. 25 cents per
bottle.

Sold by all dealers in medicine.

TRENT NAVIGATION.

FENELON FALLS, BUCKHORN RAPIDS
AND BURLEIGH CANALS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned,
and endorsed ‘‘ Tender for Trent Navigation,” will
be received at this office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western Mails on WEDNESDAY, THE
FIFTH DAY OF JULY NEXT, for the construction
of two Lift Locks, Bridge Piers und other works at
Fenelon Falls; also, the construction of a Lock at
Buckhorn Rapids, and for the construction of three
Locks, a Dam and Bridge Piers at Burleigh Falls.

The works at each of these places will be let separ-
ately.

Maps of the respective localities, together with plans
and specifications of the works, can be seen at this
office on and after WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-
FIRST DAY OF JUNE NEXT, where printed forms
of Tender can be obtained. A like class of informa-
tion relative to the works at Fenelon Falls will be
furnished at that place, and for those at Buckhorn
and Burleigh, information may be obtained at the
resident Engineer’s office, Peterborough.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that
Tenders for the different works must be accompanied
by an accepted bank cheque, as follows :—

For the Fenelon Falls work...... ......$1,000

*« Buckhorn Rapids work. - 500

“« Burleigh Falls work.....-...... 1,500
And that these respective amounts shall be forfeited if
the party tendering declines entering into contract for
the works at the rates and prices submitted, subject
to the conditions and terms stated in the specifications.

The cheques thus sent in will be returned to the
different parties whose tenders are not accepted.

This Department does not, however, bind itself to
accept the lowest or any tender.

By order,
F. BRAUN,
Secretary.
Department of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, 22nd May, 1882. d127-3111

CENTRAL IRON WORKS.
Law, McLean 2 Brayshaw

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

CASTINGS of every deseription in Brass
and Iron.

Sata sorts of MACHINERY for Saw and Grist
Se

STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.

Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset
Swages, and all Saw Tools,

Send for Price List, 14

Simcoe House,
CORNER FRONT and SIMCOE STS.
TORONTO, ONT.

“Best accommodation in the City. TERMS 1.50
and $1.00 per day, according to Location of Koome.

The Most Convenient House to all Trains.
1121 GREEN & SON, Proprietor.

The American Hotel,
BARRIE, ONT,

Collier Street, Adjoining the Market.

RATES REASONABLE, CENTRAL LOCATION,
FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS.
har Every accommodation for Commercial and
LUMBERMEN.
1itf

W. D. McDONALD, Proprietor.

J. K. POST & CO.

LUMBER MERCHANTS
And Shipping Agents.
OSWHGO, N.Y

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FOR LUMBERMEN !
Poleroad Tramway Cars

Will Carry 2,000 Feet of Hard-
wood Lumber per Load

Drawn with one span of horses, either summer or
winter, on Round Pole Roads, which are cheap and
speedily built.

The woodwork of the Car can be built by any handy
man in a couple of days. The undersigned supply the
ironwork complete, including bolts and washers and a
diagram of car.

The wheels are adjustable on its axles to accommo-
date itself to any bend in the pole. The weight of
ironwork is 2,250 lbs. Price on application to _

C. NORSWORTHY & Co.,
ST. THOMAS, Ont.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s

Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mills.
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UNIUN FOUNDRY

Union Street, - - - Carleton,

Warerooms, Water Street,

Sit JOHN, N. B.
Allan Brothers

(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

Steam Engines
MILL MACHINERY.

Ships Windlasses, lron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS of all kinds.

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves
COOKING AND HEATING

SON AA sles

Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins

Agricultural Implements. |

BRASS CASTINGS.

Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware for SHIP and
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197

EK. 8. VINDIN,

Commission, Shipping, Porwarding and
General Agent.

LUMBER MERCHANT

Office, Tempest’s Block, Port Hope. id

J. & F. N. TENNANT

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Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Office, Union Loan Building,
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CHOPPING AXES

(Made to Order and on h
MILL PICKS DRESSED in a first- s style
Those shipped by rail will be returned promptly.

4a Lance Tooth Saws Gummed. AXES
WARRANTED. 3124

W. HERLIHEY, Lindsay.

MACK’S MAGNETIC MEDICINE.

and
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Brain and

Pood CAsenN

Is a Sure, Prompt and Effectual Remedy for Nervous-
ness in ALL its stages, Weak Memory, Loss of Brain
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pleasant to the taste, and each box contains sufficient
for two week’s medication, and is the cheapest and best
4 Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire
to mail free to any address.

Mack's Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
at 50 cts, per box, or 12 for $5, or will be mailed
free of postage, on receipt of the money, by addressing
MACK’S MAGNETIC MEDICINE CO., Windsor, Ont ,

Sold by all Druggists in Canada. L23

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Vegetable Balsamic

ELIXIR!|

This valuable medicine is purely vegetable
the discovery of which was the result o
many years’ close study,in order to discover
the cause, thesymptoms and the cure—yiz:

Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Catarrh, Croup, Asthma, In-
fluenza, Pleurisy,Hoarseness,
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gone. Consequently, when the cough is
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pulmonery diseases. Price 25cts. and SL
per bottle. Sold everywhere.

HENRY, JOHNSONS & LORD, Props,
MONTREAL, P. Q.

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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JULY 1, 1882.

Ratusun & Son are shipping about 18,000

ties weekly from Kingston.
——————_—_

Tren large spars, each 70 feet in length, have
been delivered by the Grimes Bros., Aylmer
road, on the Chaudiere flats, for electric light
purposes.

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Tur Lindsay Post says a large quantity of
maple logs are passing up the river, being floated
on scows. At Port Perry they will be cut up
for Paxton, Tate & Co.

Tux lumber and timber that reached Pitts-
burgh, Penn., by a recent rise in the Alleghany,
amounted to 20,000,000 feet. The drive realized
—for pine boards, $16 to $22 a thousand ; hem-
lock boards, $9.50 to $11 a thousand.

THE Quebec correspondent of the Moniteur
du Oommerce says that the English Company
which has bought the mills and limits of Mont-
morency for $1,500,000, has obtained an exten-
sion of time till December next to close the

bargain.
—————————

THE Detroit Marine News says twelve miles
about Duluth will cut about 100,000,000 feet of
lumber this season, all of which goes west from
the point of manufacture over the Northern
Pacific road. A considerable portion of the
product of the mills is shipped to Winnipeg.

——————__————————

Tr is announced that R. 8S. & G. W. Henry
and the South Branch Lumber Company have
withdrawn from the Lumberman’s Exchange in
Chicago and intend to fix their own prices for
lumber. ‘The result will probably be to run
down the prices of lumber, and may possibly

break up the Exchange.
——————_

Tu Lindsay Warder says Mr. T. Burtrow is
filling a contract made with Mr. Boyd and
Messrs. Strickland Bros., to supply them each
with about eight thousand feet of heavy timber,
to be cut into lumber. The timber is brought
from Haliburton, Minden, and other places in
the back country. It is just being placed on cars
in this town for shipment by the Midland Rail-
way to Port Hope.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

POLE ROADS.
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman :

Sir,—Admitting that iron tramways are best
adapted for large lumbering operations, there
are hundreds of places in Canada where pole
roads can be built and operated to great adyan-
tage, where the expense of an iron road would
be beyond the means of a large majority of
lumbermen that require them. If one-half the
pains were taken to select good, hardwood poles
and laying them properly thatis necessary to lay
iron tramways, no objection could be raised
against them ; whereas, the sp@ed with which
they can be built, and the expense are so trifling,
compared with the cost of iron roads, that men
of limited capital can construct them for their
use, if not in conjunction with neighbouring
mills. Again, the broad, concave wheels, fitting
the logs with the large amount of play on the
axles, make it difficult for a car to leave the
track, and enables the cars to turn a shorter
curve than is possible to do with a flat track.
Owing to the past winter being such an open
one, the majority of mill men have not been
able to stock their mills, and believing that the
construction of this class of roads is of vast im-
portance to the country, and financially of great
advantage to those operating them, I would call
their attention to these facts,—that a good road
can be built for $120 per mile, and planked
with slabs and covered with saw dust will cost
$50 more ; that one team of horses will draw a
car with 2,000 feet of logs, and make two trips
a day over a road of eight miles; that they
have switches and branch roads the same as
street railways ; that when the track is laid 64
feet apart it makes a good waggon or sleigh
road,

Woop well saturated with oil will not shrink
in the driest weather. Boiled linseed is the
best for general use, but even crude petroleum
is of great advantage.

At Blackshear, Ga., J. M. Lee has discover-
ed a new method of extracting spirits of turpen-
tine from saw dust and the refuse of the mills,
employing a sweating process. By this means
each cord of material operated upon yields 14
gallons of spirits, three to four gallons of resin,
and a quantity of tar. The spirits produced
are characterized by a different odor than when
they are the result of distillation.

Tuk collecting of laurel and other roots is an
important industry in the mountains of North
Carolina and East Tennessee, from whence
they are shipped to Philadelphia and Boston
for the most part. They are employed in the
manufacture of door knobs and pipe bowls. A
single root will often weigh from 75 to 150 Ibs.
There is a never silent demand, and a ton of the
roots will bring a good round figure.

THe Ottawa River boom company, which,
it is said, has not been doing much in the way
of profit for three or four years past, will, to
judge from the number of breakages to booms,
and the consequently large number of escaped
logs, probably be in a position to compensate
for previous losses. It is said that an unprece-
dented number of drift logs have passed down
the river during the past two or three weeks.

In excavating the clay on Lord Normanton’s
estate near Crowland the workmen have ex-
posed about three acres of a subterranean forest,
ten feet below the surface. Some of the trees
are in an admirable state of preservation, one
gigantic oak measuring 18 yards in length.
The trees are in such a condition that the oak
can be distinguished from the elm, while a kind
of fir tree seems to be the most abundant, the
wood of which is so hard that the trees can be
drawn out of the clay in their entirety of root
and branch,

THOS. MOORE.

FOREST FIRES.

The recent destructive forest fires on Long
Island have caused the New York Herald to
descant on the carelessness of the American
farmer. It says the “forests” that burn are
generally small tracts of wooded land which are
parts of farms, but as they are utterly left alone
except when the farmer wants firewood, they
are full of undergrowth, brush-heaps and dead
leaves. Forest fires are scarcely ever heard of
in Europe, for the poorest and busiest peasant
who owns a bit of land finds time enough to cut
away the undergrowth, remove dead trees and
fallen boughs, and even to cart away some of
the leaves to his compost heap. German and
English farmers who come here begin preserving
their wooded lands, but too often they fall into
the shiftless American way, and frequently pay
the penalty. Any farmer can prevent fire on
his own forest land ; he can clear away under-
growth and leaves, the work being easiest done
in winter, when he has little to do on any other
part of the farm, or he can fence this ground
and turn his cattle into it to eat or break down
small growth and trample leaves to pieces and
into the ground. Both plans have been tried
with great success, and not found costly. Of
course in great wooded tracts of hundreds and
thousands of acres, such preventives would be
impracticable, but these are not the lands most
frequently burned over.—Worthwestern Lumber-
man,

Tue Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says
the conviction is general that the prices asked
are too high to enable the yards to handle with
profit, and purchases are generally made by
those who, having large gangs to keep at work,
buy what is necessary for that purpose. There
is no appearance of buying because the stock
has a profit in it, and consequently no buoyancy
to the market. The situation is, in fact, anom-
alous in the extreme, those who offer claim that
they cannot afford to take less, while those who
buy do not do it for the profit they can see in it,
and yet the one purchases and the other gets
his price, or pretty near it.

Tur Timber Trades Journal says :—In the
case of beech timber a striking illustration of
the effect of local consumption is seen in Buck-
inghamshire and district, where this wood is
extensively used for chairmaking, and other
local industries. 1st quality wood sold at 2s.
3d., 2nd quality at 1s. 6d., and 3rd quality at
8d. per foot cube, whilst in most other parts of
the country it averages, lst quality, say lld.,
2nd quality 8$d., 8rd quality 6d. In some parts
of Ireland, as in county Louth, 1st quality is
only worth 4d. per foot, and in Lanarkshire it
is at the present time said to be unsaleable ; 6d.
per cubic foot is all that is offered for trees 23
inches on the side, and the market is completely
glutted.,

STAINING WHITEWOOD.

An English firm proposes the following
decorative process for staining whitewoods:
The surface to be decorated is made as smooth
as possible, and is then covered with one or two
coatings of size, prepared by adding to glue size,
of just sufficient strength to form a jelly, a little
egg albumen and a small quantity of alum.
When this is dry and thoroughly hardened, the
design must be traced or pounced uponit. The
outline and those lines separating the different
parts of the design, and all other parts that are
to retain the natural color of the wood, are then
carefully painted in with Brunswick black or
Canada balsam, laying on the black with a
good body. This should remain until it gets
thoroughly hard, which will be in about six or
seven hours. The surface is then washed with
a sponge and luke-warm water until all the size
is removed from the exposed parts, the pattern
drawn in the Brunswick black, which is imper-
vious to water, remaining intact, and serying to

A DespartcH from Marquette, dated June 24,
says on Thursday night the propeller Aincar-
dine, bound for Chatham, with a cargo of lum-
ber, broke her rudder chains and struck one of
the cribs near the new lighthouse. When sHe
was put on her course up Lake St. Clair, it was
found she was leaking to such an extent that
the captain decided to run her ashore near
Wingall Point lighthouse. She now lies with
her stern in twenty-four feet of water, and her
bow on the bank. She will be raised with
screws. The Kincardine belongs to J. M.
Jones, of this city, and is insured in the United
States Company, of New York, for $6,000.
She rates Bl, and is valued in the Inland
Lloyd’s Hull Register at $7,000,

prevent the stains running together when being
applied. This washing must thoroughly remove
all the size preparation, and after the wood hae
been allowed to dry it will be ready for the ap-
plication of the colored stains. If the painting
has been properly done, the design will appear
as a clear black outline inclosing the white
spaces, which are to be filled in with various
colors, after which the black outline is to be re-
moved, as will be explained. The black lines
should be fully a sixteenth of aninch wide, and
wider if required. Having decided upon
woods to be imitated, and the colors to be used, ,
the stains, which may be either spirit stains
water stains, or both, may be laid in.
lightest stains must be put in first, and

not be confined to the exact outline of that par-
ticular part, but it is well that*they should be.
The stain may be freely used, and laid as level
as it will allow, but a little shadiness is not at
all objectionable. The next darkest stain must
now be proceeded with, and so on for as many
stains as are desired. When all are dry and
hard the black outline may be washed clean off
the wood with a brush and turpentine, which
may be freely used until the whole of the
Brunswick black is removed. The various
colored stains will then appear enclosed in a
white outline, which, if properly done, will be ©
sharp and clean, and clear as an inlay of the
real woods. What grain the whitewood has
will be more or less seen through the stains, as
they may be light or dark.— Northwestern Lum-

berman.

A WALNUT STEAL.

A good-sized timber steal, as the appearances
show, has come to light in the Indian Territory,
in a section richly timbered with walnut, upon
which extensive operations have been prosecuted
this season. During the past two weeks an
immense amount of logs have been gotten out in
various localities in Cherokee Nation, and
2,000,000 feet of the finest walnut was seized by
Chief D. W. Bushyhead, on the ground that
the operators had violated the laws concerning
timber on Indian lands. The timber had al-
ready been sold, readily commanding $30 per
thousand. The Cherokee Nation is described
as being thickly timbered in sections with the
choicest walnut, the best growing on the banks
of streams and upon large areas of bottom land,
where it thrives luxuriously. If these resources
were properly developed, they would yield a
large annual revenue.—Worthwestern Lumber-

man,

A LOCAL paper states that a large mill will
soon be built by Chicago capitalists in the
Houghton Lake, Upper Peninsula, Mich., dis-
trict, for the sawing of hemlock lumber.

THE tornado that lately visited the Saginaw
Valley, Mich., and other localities in that state,
cut a swath through Gladwin county, destroying
considerable valuable timber.

THE Ottawa Herald says boats having heavy
tows upwards have adopted a new course during
the high water when passing Kettle Island, by
hugging the north shore of which a strong cur-
rent is avoided in the South Channel. That on
the north side has so far changed its direction
that many boats take this in preference to the
other, and some idea of the rise in the river may
be had from the fact that in this north channel
the water is so low during the dry season that
children frequently wade across barefooted.
Last summer the water was exceptionally low.

THE Timber Trades Journal says :—Oak tim-
ber has not improved in value. The best quali-
ty wood in Hertz, Surrey, and Hereford realized
only 2s. 6d. to 3s., and in Suffolk Ist quality,
for shipment to London, but 2s. 3d. In most
parts of Scotland and Ireland prices are given
at much lower figures. English oak suffers
more than any other home grown wood from
foreign competition, and this competition in-
creases rather than otherwise. We have now
oak scantling for waggon work and other pur-
poses imported direct from the Austrian forests,
and manufactured wheelwright stuff, such as
spokes, felloes, &c., is sent us from the United

States and Canada in large quantities,

————————E—

Durinc May, nine vessels took cargoes of
Puget Sound, W. T., lumber to foreign ports,
which amounted in the aggregate to 7,000,000

feet.

Tur two scows of Leathem & Smith, at Stur-
-geon Bay, Wis., have been chartered to carry
lumber from Oconto pier to Chicago at $2 per
thousand. The capacity of the scows is 600,000
feet.

————_————

Tr is estimated that 3,000,000 feet of lumber

nesota railroad this season.
arranged to extend its transportation facilities
by establishmg a barge line to convey the
freights from Hastmoor, opposite Winona,
Minn., to the markets down the river.
———_————————

Tua Lindsay Warder says an immense
amount of lumber is being shipped by Mr. M.
M. Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, to Albany, N. Y.
The lumber is brought to Lindsay on scows, and
then transferred to the Midland railway cars
for shipment. This gives employment to a
large number of men in this town.

a

SpvERAL hundred men and over one hundred
teams are engaged in cutting and hauling timber
at the present time on the Ocklockonee and
Sopchoppy rivers, in Wakulla county, Fla., the
logging business having received quite a stimu-
lus. The logs are rafted to Carabella and
Apalachicola, and sold at $5 to $6 per thousand
feet.

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gratitude at my marvelous recovery impresses
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much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years [ have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. Itis an article that
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200 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

THE CORK OAK,

In the “‘ cork tree,” that species of oak whose
elastic bark is of so much practical value in the
manufacture of the familiar stoppers to the
millions of bottles and jars in which it is be-
coming more and more the custom to preserve
all kinds of eatibles and drinkables, many of
our colonies might find a profitable object of
agriculture. The cork harvest in Spain, which,
with France, Portugal and Italy, is the princi-
pal source from whence we derive our supplies,
is becoming every year more scanty, owing, to
the greed of growers. who have injured the
stock of trees by stripping them of their bark
too frequently. The tree which produces the
most valuable cork does not come to maturity
for a quarter of a century,and can only be bark-
ed to advantage every eight or ten years : but
the temptation to make rapid profits has been
too great to withstand, and the result has been
the injury and ruin of many plantations. Some
of the quick-growing varieties produce an infer-
ior, porous kind of corks, but the best are the
slowest of growth. England alone imports some
10,000 tons of cork per annum, and the quanti-
ty is yearly increasing, notwithstanding the in-
troduction of many substitutes for cork, such as
plugs of wood, whose fibres have been specially
softened for the purpose, indiarubber and other
contrivances. The French Government, seeing
the desirability of securing as large a share of
this trade as possible, have for several years
past given special encouragement to the forma-
tion of plantations of the cork-oak in Algéria,
and the same thing will, no doubt, be done in
Tunis; but the tree will grow equally well in
India, Central America, the West Indies, many
parts of Africa and Australia and in the South
Sea Islands, the planters in our possessions
there might lay the foundation of a profitable
industry by introducing some of these trees and
starting their systematic cultivation. The tree
besides being a most valuable one and easily
cultivated, is of magnificent growth, and would
form an ornament in any landscape.—Colonies
and India.

blemish, and much of this can be cut into planks
six inches and under thick, and from 24 to 60
inches wide. It is well adapted for brackets,
ornaments and mouldings of all kinds. While
much of the grain runs straight, curley redwood
can be selected, which when polished and
varnished, rivals rosewood in its beauty.

To the extensive use of redwood in our build-
ings is due, in a large measure, our immunity
from large fires in San Francisco and neighbor-
ing cities. There being little or no resin in the
wood, a fire is easily put out, and when once ex-
tinguished it is with difficulty ignited again.

REDWOOD IN CALIFORNIA.

A correspondent of a Chicago paper in des-
cribing the California redwood timber standing
on the western slope of the coast range, and
some of which grow to enormous proportions,
says :—

A careful estimate of standing redwood places
the amount at about 26,000,000,000 feet, certain-
ly not a large supply when it is considered that
the present yearly consumption is not far from
200,000,000 feet, and the demand each year is
increasing.

The size of the redwood tree varies greatly
with the locality. In the southern portion of
the timber belt, where the rains and logs are
lighter, the timber will not average more than
two or three feet in diameter, and the lumber
manufactured is generally hard and flinty, but
further north the trees increase in size. ‘The
character of the wood changes, until in Hum-
boldt county is found probably the finest belt
of timber in the world; trees 12 to 18 feet in
diameter, and from 150 to 250 feet high being no
rare occurrence. In this section there are large
tracts that have been estimated to have 250,000
feet to the acre, and single acres could be select-
ed that would double or treble that amount, and
the lumber is of the finest and softest quality,
equal to the best eastern white pine. I speak
of these large trees, but would not give the idea
that that is the prevailing size. While such
trees are not rare, the average size of saw logs is
from six to eight feet in diameter, and most of
the mills on Humboldt Bay are being built with
reference to handling logs of that size. Through-
out the redwood belt there is little other timber.
Seme pine, fir and spruce is cut, but no great
amount of either.

As but few of your readers are familiar with
redwood lumber it may not be out of place to
give here some of its characteristics and qualities
that make it one of the most valuable of the
forest productions. As the name indicates, it
is of a dark reddish color. It is soft, coarse
grained, and very brittle. The grain usually
runs very straight, and it splits readily, it being

SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says :
A little more weakness characterizes the sash,
door and blind market, and a decrease is mani-
fest in the volume of trade. This condition of
affairs is mainly due to the same agencies which
have tended to stagnate general commerce—
uncertainty about crops, strikes all over the
country, the high price of provisions and com-
modities, and other potent causes being at the
bottom of dull trade everywhere; while the
strike among brickmakers has directly affected
the building industry, and curtailed the sales of
sash, doors and blinds as well as lumber. Not
only is there less building, and hence less de-
mand in the city, but the building boom through
the country has lost much of its vim, and in this
business as in all others, the dealers are waiting
for fair or abundant crops to restore the vigour
of trade, and they are sure that a revival must
result in proper season, which they deem will be
a spirited one. These conditions of the market
and a slight bear movement brought about-
something of a change in discounts to the benefit
of the purchaser, as has been recorded, but every-
thing in connection with the trade bespeaks a
stability in prices from this on. There isa firm-
ness in the upper grades of lumber which go
into sash, doors and blinds, while dry lumber of
the proper quality is scarce. A combination of
the glass factory owners has agreed to go out of
blast for 90 days, and the aggregate stocks on

no difficult matter to split out a board one inch
thick, 8 to 10 inches wide, and ten to fifteen
feet long. When dry it is much lighter than
pine, spruce or fir, but of the logs cut from a
newly fallen tree, the butt log thrown into
water will often go to the bottom like a stone,
while the the top logs will float like cork. It is
of slow growth. Of the timber now being cut,
the circles indicate that many of the trees have
been standing thousands of years. The bark of
the tree is very thick, soft and fibrous in charac-
ter, and contains no resin of pitch, hence fires
that frequently run through the underbrush of
redwood forests have no effect on the standing
timber.

Perhaps I can better illustrate some of the
peculiar qualities of redwood by mentioning
some of the uses for which it is peculiarly
adapted. Its durability above and under
ground causes it to be well adaj:ted for railroad
ties and posts. These were formerly split, and
that readily, to any dimensions required, but on
account of the waste of timber, sawed ties are
now coming more into use. Shingles and
shakes for roof covering are all made from red-
wood, When aman has covered his house with
redwood shingles he considers that matter settled
for life. For railroad ties and fence posts there
was consumed in the year 1881 not far from 60,-
000,000 feet, and for shingles and shakes about
13,000,000 feet, board measure.

For tannery tanks it is peculiarly adapted, as
the wood resists the action of the tanning solu-
tion. A tannery in this city has been using the
same tanks for 10 years, and they are apparent-
ly as good as ever they were. Our wine mer-
chants now use redwood vats entirely, because
a certain insect found in the new juice of the
grape, which destroys the pine vats by boring
through them, dislikes the taste of redwood, and
lets it alone. As redwood much resembles
Spanish cedar in color, and imparts no odor to
effect the taste of tobacco, it is now being
shipped quite extensively to New York to be
used in the manufacture of cigar boxes.

But the principal use to which redwood lum-
ber is put on this coast is the outside and inside
finish of houses, as from 40 to 50 per cent of the
‘umber sawed is perfectly clear, without knot or

hand with the glass manufacturers is stated to
be 250,000 boxes short of the supply last year.
Scarcity and firmness in the prices of materials
used brings expense to the manufacturer, and
naturally tends to stiffen values. Nothing but
a weakness in demand could result in reducing
prices, even slightly, under such circumstances,
and it would not require a very great revival in
business to give them an upward impetus.

Lumber Libel.

At Milwaukee, Wis., on June 13, Oliver Oberg
et al, owner of the schooner Burt Barnes, filed a
libel against a cargo of lumber and wood deliy-
ered the latter part of May on the docks of the
Northwestern Sleigh Company, at Milwaukee.
It is claimed by the owners of the Barnes that
a charter was secured by the'Barnes from the
owners of the sleigh company to carry a fulj
cargo of hardwood lumber from Pine Lake to
Milwaukee at $2.50 per thousand. On the ar-
rival of the vessel at Pine Lake the cargo was
not ready, and she loaded but 130,022 feet of it,
and took on four and one-half cords of wood,
both of which she delivered on the company’s
dock. A freight of $325 on the lumber, and
$18.50 on the wood was demanded, but the com-
pany would only pay $300. The amount of the
libel is $51, of which $25 is for the lumber cargo
$13.50 for tho wood, and $12.50 for demurrage,
—Northwestern Lumberman.

To Prevent Wood Cracking.

The Boston Journal of Commerce says a pro-
cess to prevent wood from cracking is to place
the wood in a bath of fused paraftin heated to
212° Fah., and allow it to remain as long as
bubbles of air are given off. Then allow the
paraffin to cool down to its point of congelation,
remove the wood, and wipe off the adhering
wax. Wood treated in this way is not likely to

crack,

Box making is one of the leading industries of
East Boston, where a larger number are daily
produced than at any other place in the state.
The four manufacturers in this line cut up 100,-
000 feet of lumber each day into all kinds of
box material, using pine and spruce almost en-
tirely,

reaches-into the peninsula of Michigan.
despatch also modifies the statements of damage

FOREST FIRES,

The Northwestern Lumberman, of June 17th,
says :—‘‘ Wisconsin has been visited, during the
past few days, with forest fires which have des-
troyed large tracts of timber, and caused a large
amount of damage and loss. One of the fires
has swept the southwest part of Clark county,
and another ravaged property through the cen-
tral section of Marinette county. Reports of
the ruin wrought have been coming in for sevy-
eral days, and in the early stages of the calam-
ity it was feared that many towns would be in-
compassed by the flames. The efforts of hun-
dreds of men in Clark county in fighting the
fire were of little avail, and it swept onward,
destroying millions of feet of timber. In that
county, Renwick, Shaw & Crossett, of Daven-
port, Iowa; Cable, Gile & Holway, of La Cros-
se ; Coburn of Maine, and Washburn, of Esta,
are among the many losers on standing pine.
A despatch from Neillsville, June, 12, announ-
ced spread of the fire, and the burning of the
entire logging camp of F. D. Lindsay, of that
place, the timber and logs being destroyed, and
at that time the village of Hewettsville, with
Hewett’s mill and yards, were threatened with
destruction. The loss on camp and log fixtures
at Lindsay’s was $1,000; but the full loss is not
stated. One man barely escaped with his life
by mounting a draught-horse and fleeing before
the flames. The fire sped rapidly onward, bid-
ding fair to sweep everything clear to the Eau
Claire river. Paulus’ camp was only saved by
heroic efforts, though one man was severely
burned, as well as several head of cattle. The
last reports from this section was decidedly
cheering, a heavy rain having extinguished the
fires in the main, and averted further danger.
The number of million feet of pine burned can-
not yet be ascertained. The Martinette county
fires, about the Pike river region, have done
much damage, and at last advices were still rag-
ing, only partial estimates of the loss being
possible. It has been ascertained that at least
30,000,000 feet of standing pine has been ruined,
and when the whole loss is known it must reach
into the hundreds of thousands. The fire
A late

in Clark county, stating that it was much light
er than the frenzied fears of the people had
made it appear. The most of the fire is located
about Wedges creek, and a portion of the east
fork, and largely in a section previously cut
over. Lindsay’s was the only camp burned.

HOUSES BUILT FOR ALL TIME.

The houses that are built now in Paris are not
such as the coming generation will find “* stuffy,”
“too small,” ‘‘old-fashioned” and so on, criti-
cisms which with us are commonly passed on the
creation of the last twenty-five years; th
houses intended to last practically for all
Built of solid stone and iron throughout,
foundations that resemble Roman work, on t
traditions of which, by the way, they are b
by the sturdy Southern workmen.
ly, also, these investments prove successful,
household property, so far from being a di
the maket, is ata premium. By the judicious
division into “‘ flats,” not only is every inch of
space utilized—the amount of rent for unoceu-
pied room in England it would be curious to cal-
culate—but all pockets are accommodated,
from the prince who occupies the first floor above -
the thrifty concierge on the rez-de-chausse—
whose charge it is to open the door at night and
keep, not only his or her own neat loge bright
and clean, but the porte-cochere and the yard,
with its pretty green plants and bright brass
water-cock—through the intermediate etages to
the fifth or cinquieme, with its healthy balcony,
where the large family of the modest lodger
enjoy the air and view as a compensation for
the sensible distence from earth. But all own
in common, from the prince to the fifth floor
employee, bank clerk or civil servant, the porte-
cochere; through which rolls from the compact
stables and coach house in the yard at the back
the carriages of the “ first floor”—and for all
alike the entrances are kept clean, the lamps
bright, the oak stair case well waxed; each in
his respective and well-proportioned degree
making up the very comfortable rental which
Monsieur le proprietaire, though his agent, the
concierge, receive quarterly from his tenants.—
London Builder.

A Corronwoop logging camp is running
across the river at Carson’s, near Tacoma, W.
T., and the logs are floated from there to
Seattle. One boom of logs has already been
taken down. By the new process the logs are
cut the right length for barrels, dried, shaved
into sheets, and the barrel, except heads, are of
one piece. This process has been successfully
adopted for some time with elm and other tough
wood ; but it is yet a question whether cotton-
wood and timber of like nature can be worked
to advantage on this plan.

TuE firm of Davison & Co., of Bear Lake,
who have beeh for some time past building a —
circular saw mill for the manufacture of hard-
wood lumber, have so far completed the same
that they are abofit ready to commence opera-
tion. The mill cost-about $7,000, will have a
capacity of 30,000 feet per day, and receives its
supply of logs over the Bear Lake & Eastern
railway, which was recently constructed by the
Hopkins Manufacturing company. The supply
of logs in the country around Bear Lake is very
abundant, and the market for hardwood lumber
is never fully supplied, and prices are constantly —
advancing. This is the second mill erected at
Bear Lake for the manufacture of hardwood
lumber, the profitableness of the industry haying
previously been demonstrated by Charles Bun- —
tin, and the future outlook of the place is decid-
edly bright.

$200.00 Reward!
Will be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person selling or dealing in any bogus,
counterfeit or imitation Hop Bitters, —
Bitters or preparations with the word Hop or
Hops in their name or conn therewith,
that is entended to mislead and cheat the pub-
lic, or for any preparation putin any form, .
tending to be the same as Hop Bitters. Phe
genuine have acluster of Green Hops (notice
this) printed on the white label, are the
urest and best medicine on earth, for Kidney,
iver and Nervous Diseases. Beware of all
others, and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of Hop Bitterf published in papers or for J
as as — sand ee Whoever deals
in any but the genuine wi ted. Hi
Bitters Mfg. Co., Rochester, x. i. =

Chips.

A LarcE number of vessels on Lake Michi-
gan lost their dock loads of lumber in the gale

of June 3.

' THE lumber dealers of Fargo find it difficult
to supply the demand, so great is the amount of
building going on.

Stabs and edgings are being shipped from
Wausau, Wis., to the Appleton pulp mills. A
pulp mill at Wausau would save the distance to
the slabs and edgings.

In Germany sawdust is combined with glue, or
other intensely adhesive material, to form a
plastic mass, from which are wrought door-
knobs, piano-keys, and a variety of objects.

The schooner Roekaway lately made the round
trip between Chicago and Muskegon in 35
hours, loading and returning with 216,000 feet
oflumber. Her master thinks that he is entitled
to the biscuit.

A NEw Congregational church at Quadrant,
Highbury, England, has its interior timber-
work entirely of pitch pine, the outside left with
saw-cut face, without varnish, and covered with
Stockholm tar.

STEAMERS have been chartered for the con-
veyance of the 14,000,000 feet of spruce deals
which haye been sold for the English market.
This is a new step in the trans-Atlantic lumber
trade. Formerly sailing vessels were employ-
ed.

Last fall a raft of logs belonging to A. M,
Otis was lost by the tug Leviathian in Sturgeon
Bay river, Wis., and about half of them have
been picked up by Spear’s crew and placed in
his boom. The tug owner received $950 for his

services,
A Tract of pine land in Presque Isle county,

Mich,, which was offered for sale two years ago

‘for $19,000, is now in the market at $70,000
cash. Of this land 1,600 acres are in the town-
ship of Metz, and 2,800 in Belknap. The land
is offered at the rate of between $15 and $16 an
acre,

THE Decatur Lumber Company, Decatur,
Tnd., has a sash, blind and door factory attached
to its establishment, 40x80 feet in area, and
two stories high, with an engine room in the
rear 20x36 feet in size. It is supplied by
machinery of the latest improvement, and cost
$14,000.

THE establishment of mills for turning out
hardwood lumber is being advocated for the
neck ’o woods about Manistique, Mich. There
is any quantity of maple, birch and other hard-
wood throughout that section that ought to be
converted into lumber, whereas it is burned in
heaps.

Iy the vicinity of Quincy, Plumas county,
Cal., a section of an oak tree was discovered the
other day, five or six inches in thickness, which
had a deer’s horn running directly through it,
the wood having grown around and neatly in-
caged the queer relic. It was about 12 feet high
in the tree.

James Travis, of Greenville, Ala., is erecting
a saw mill two miles below Georgiana, and will
utilize the timber blown down by the recent cy-
clone, which levelled thousands of fine trees in
4 magnificent pine forest. There is sufficient
timber on the ground to keep the mill running
for several years,

Ir is proposed to dam the lakes at the head-
waters of the Cloquet river, Minn., in order to
store the water for the purpose of helping logs
over tough places in the St. Louis below the
mouth of the Cloquet. It will take a high and
tight dam to hold water enough to smooth down
the wrinkles in the St. Louis. .

THe new door and blind factory owned by
O. G. Howes, at Tonawanda, N.Y., is 65x 100
feet in area. Two sets of machinery are run its
' entire length, one side being for doors and the
other for blinds. The mill has a capacity of
100 doors a day, and 40 pairs of blinds, The
dry kiln will hold 2,000 doors,

THERE was hauled at Blackman Brothers’
camp, near Suohomish City, W.T., recently, a
fine fir log which contained over 5,000 feet of
lumber. It was a butt log 24 feet long, and
scaled 70 inches at the small end. At eight feet
from the ground the stump from which the log
wae cut measured eight feet in diameter.

. THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN,

Durie the past six months over 40 buildings
were constructed at Niagara Falls, N.Y., main-
ly dwellings, costing $1,000 and upwards. A
wood-pulp mill, 50x 100 feet, four stories high,
and having a capacity of eight tons of pulp
every 24 hours, is among the improvements.

Tu authorities of the village of Fort Hd-
wards, N. Y., propose to take measures to stop
the deposit of sawdust by the mill owners there
in the east branch of the Hudson river. If the
suits which they intend to bring fail to produce
the desired result, they will appeal to the Goy-
ernor, it is stated.

Tue Tacoma mill on Puget Sound, in Wash
ington Territory, outdid itself a few days since.
During 11 hours and 30 minutes 170,750 feet of
merchantable lumber was cut, which was the
biggest day’s work ever done at the mill. The
capacity at this mill is being constantly increas-
ed, and it is expected that it will shortly turn
out on an average 200,000 feet of lumber per
ME ae 90 pieces of the largest hewed tim-
ber ever transported over the Louisville & Nash-
ville road were brought to Pensacola, Fla. The
sticks averaged 65 feet in length, while some of
them reached more than the length of two cars.
The wood was kept near Upton, Fla., and be-
longed to D. F. Sullivan, the cargo being con-
sidered the most valuable ever brought to Pen-

sacola. ‘
Tue log lifting and carrying device of Wm.

Baptist & Sons, of Green Bay, Wis., for loading
and unloading scows, has proved a reasonable
success. The apparatus grips the logs on the
shore and hoists them upon the scow at the rate
of one a minute. The only defect of the appli-
ance is that the clamp does not unclasp readily
in dropping the log, but this can be easily re-
medied.

A GENTLEMAN in Teeterville writes to the
Sentinel asking if there is not a good opening for
a lumber yard and saw mills in Thunder Bay,
as in looking over the columns of the Sentinel he
does not see that anyone advertises lumber for
sale. To which the Sentinel would reply that
there is quite a demand for lumber, and no one
in Prince Arthur’s Landing dealing in it.

A NARROW-GAUGE logging railroad has been
located by J. C. Abbott, civil engineer, for
Colonel Stewart Ives, at Hungerford, Newaygo
county, Mich. The main track is three miles
long, and running northerly, traverses Mr. Ives
pine section, while there are several branches
east and west of the track. Six cars and an en-
gine now haul 12,000 to 15,000 feet at a load,
making 15 trips daily.

Tue piers along the lake shore, where they
oceur in Wisconsin and Michigan, are pronounc-
eda great blessing to agricultural and timber
interests, and in consequence of the facilities
they afford, farmers are enabled to sell the tim-
ber cleared away from their lands, which would
be otherwise consigned to the fire heap, and the
returns realized from such disposal are ample to
meet the expense of clearing lands.

R. H. Werpman & Co., are building another
dam one mile west of the one already built by
them on the West Branch, Mich. The new dam
is for the purpose of floating 1,500,000 feet of
coarse logs that are banked on the stream, and
running them down the West Branch. The
company has about 10,000,000 feet of coarse
pine standing near the upper dam, all of which
it intends running to its mill pond here to be
sawed,

THERE are in Maine about a dozen thread-
spool manufactories. The Belgrade mills of D.
& H. W. Golder, give employment to 35 opera-
tives, and annually turn out about 235,000 gross
of spools. When this firm began operations, 27
years ago, there were but ten spool factories in
the country, while now there are some 300, The
establishment does a business of $35,000 a year,
and annually consumes 1,500 cords of white
birch timber.

THERE was an immense log jam at Grand-
father Bull Falls, on the Wisconsin river,
which was such a wonderful combination that
it was truly an extraordinary sight. It was of
such interest that it was to be photographed.
The logs were piled up 30 feet high at the head
of the jam, the barrier extending back four
miles, and the jam was of an immense height
the entire distance, the logs working themselves
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TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

June 21st.—Lumber sales and shipments con-
tinue extremely dull. Some of the largest lum-
ber crafts trading from this port to Oswego are
now tied up to the docks for want of cargoes.
I think I have never noticed lumber matters in
the dullest times any quieter than at the present
time, and even if the new cut was ready to come
forward, the demand for the local market, at
least, is almost nil, and dealers are inclined to
cut prices somewhat in order to obtain bills ; and
should the same quantity of the coarser grades
of lumber be placed on this market this season
as that brought here last year, prices will un-
doubtedly tumble. There is no work in pro-
gress at present that could possibly absorb one-
third of the quantity used here during the sum-
mer of 1881. Two of our retail dealers have
closed their yards, and one wholesale house is
presumed to have gone where the woodbine
twineth. All this tends to prove that the local
trade is not in a good shape yet; the fact is,
there is more dwellings waiting occupation than
there are tenants to fillthem. Speculative build-
ing has been overdone, and a large proportion
of the houses erected during the past two years
are no credit to om® city, and it is well that
such buildings are no longer appreciated. Prices
at the various yards remain at previous quota-
tions, with a slight tendency, as before stated,
to accept lower rates for good orders.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Mill cull boards and scantling........+...e++s++ $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths....... 12 00
BUOCKR niet eneinitatelstelercteivveletessjerela(=rennials 4 00

Scantling and joist, up to 16f
es ae us 18 ft..
. ce “ae
ce “ee “e
oe ae “ec
“e “cs ce

6c “e OG
“cc “ ce
“ «e “
oe «ce “ec
“ce “ec GG

Cutting up planks to dry Sristevisseiesiavnerentaccre veeee 22 50

boards “9 s.).. fonancdanoncnedoond 20 00

Sound dressing stocks. ......esee eee eeter eens 18 00

Picks Am. inspection Ac aoe dogaoooonsnoonoc 7A 0)

Three uppers, Am. inspection...... veseceeeeees 30 00
B, M.

ewe flooring, dressed. .

1 rough. .
aS fs dressed ...
mm ss if undressed...
ges Es dressed .......
veg uo undressed
4 Beaded Sheeting, dressed
Clapboarding, dressed .......++++ ano OGow OO
XXX sawn shingles, ®M......... ee eeee
KK sawn Shingles.......ceeeeeevseeeesseeenence 2 00
Sawn Lath. .cueccc cece eves eeee sere eneeecees toe 2) 20
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MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

JuNE 23rd.—In the lumber market, as well as
jn all other branches of trade, the elections
have caused a lack of demand both for building
and other purposes, and the high prices ruling
keep parties buying from hand to mouth, and
cause things generally to hang fire. New build-
ings which were expected to be put up this
gummer are not so numerous as was looked for.
Stocks are ample for all demands, and although
prices are not materially changed, the ten-
dency is upward. We pete ex yard as under :

Pine, 1st quality, # a seeeee B35 VO@40 00
Pine, 2nd )* eM ae eters 22 00@24 00
. 14 00@15 00

Pine, shipping culls, FA M. ears

Pine, 4th quality deals, @M ..... «. .. 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, PM... ..ceewen scene eee 8 00@10 00
Spruce, @M....ssseceeseevsceeeeee canes 10 00@11 00
Hemlock,.@8 M..... esse eeeenee SPateinietarets 9 00@11 00
Ash, run ‘of long culls OUGa ae Wire ctateysete ste 17 00@20 00

ass, eM... . 17 00@20 00
Oak, ® Mi... cc esse ce ee serene eee eeeees 35 00@45 00
STCCH ARE sinlerercisie cieineine)s vislelerelele ery sees 18 00@20 00
Hard Maple, AAU rere winters Sangoomane dd veeee 18 00@25 00
Lath, Mee. ene ce rene scree enue 1 80@ 1 40
Shingles, Ist, @M .... ........ ce coododes 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, @M....sse.ssecsseeeee oes 2 00@ 0 00

SHIPMENTS.
The barque Cupid, the first vessel loading
here for the River Plate, will be finished to-
night, and will in all likelihood clear to-morrow.
The shipments since the 9th inst. to date were :
—To Liverpool, 10,687 pes. deals ; to London,
10,000 ft. lumber ; to Glasgow, 20,000 ft. lumber
and 5,144 pes. deals ; to Bristol, 10,000 ft. lum-
ber and 19,522 pes. deals, also 268 deal ends ; to
Barrow, 28,243 pes. deals and 754 ends; to
Hartlepool, 20,000 ft. lumber; to St. John,
Nfld., 73,227 ft. lumber and 3 mille staves,

FREIGHTS.

We have heard of no engagements for lumber
since the date of our last report. So far there
have been about 20 vessels chartered to carry
lumber to South America, many of which are in
port, but not ready yet to take in cargo. Rates
are steady at $14@$15.

LIVERPOOL MARKET.

Latest advices from Liverpool State that
stocks are now light except of pitch pine and
flooring boards, and arrivals from Quebec have
been limited to pine deals by steamer. Prices
are as follows :—Quebec square white pine, ls.
7d.@2s. 5d. per ft. ; Quebec waney board pine,
2s, 8d.@2s. 8d. per ft. ; Quebec red pine, 1s. 4d.
@1s. 9d. per ft. Deals—lst quality Quebec
pine, £19@£20 1s. per standard ; do. 2nd quality
£13 10s.@£14 10s. ; do. 3rd, quality, £9 10s.@

£10 15s.
CORDWOOD,

Demand is poor and confined to what is
wanted for immediate consumption. Dealers
are not yet laying in stocks, but are waiting to
see how low prices will go. The Court House
has advertised for tenders for a large quantity
which were'to be given in to-day, but so far no
tenders have been asked for by the Corporation
for the large quantity which they require.
Prices remain steady on the wharf and at the
railway station, as under :—

Long Maple.......+.+++ sisteraiaie sec eneeceeseseeees $7 00
Gyan MEE Eingannuannenod cangececourDOMON OOOO 6 50
Long Birch....:....cccccereveevcssesrscsevsers 6 50
SHOMG) § oo Sitaisteienejere vlvisinie cisieineineye aie 6 00
Long Beech.....+.-.sseseceeee seeccesers 5 50
Short “ ...... slevacelaleipislerareleir w\e)ace| siacsie\ecoipiate alates 5 00
Ma maya ChGatseaa viet eta nels tatty is aiatisialecauieia’e tage . 4 60@5 00

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LONDON, ONT.
From our own Correspondent.

Junr 24th.—At no season of the lumbering
interests in this city has business been quieter,
and it can only be accounted for by perhaps the
elections or the attention necessary for agricul-
tural pursuits at this time, or a combination of
both,

London, I may say, has been totally void of
business in any branch for the past ten days,
owing to the elections excitement, and now that
the Hon. John Carling has made good his posi-
tion as Postmaster-General in a fair and square
encounter, we shall settle down again to our
regular routine of commerce.

QUOTATIONS.

Mill cull boards and scantling......-.... . $12 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widt .. 1300
10 and 12in, stocks......- 13 50
Common boards, promiscuous widths......-..-- 15 00
Scantling and joist, Up to 16 ft 16 00
18 ft 5

ss ay Ls 20 ft....

tS es se 22 fh...

“ee “ce oe 24 ft
Common stocks ..... ajaleielevele’sisia/syeceiejelererete e Wietnlies
Common 2 in. plank. sees ee cess eect eter eee eens 15 00
Cutting up plank and boards
Sound dressing stocks.... s+++++++s
Clear and picks Rnieatais ae )8(a IR
Three uppers, Am. inspection. ..........4eseeeee 35 00
4 inch dressed and matched flooring viatictrsie sin arco ee

99
at * So gk ih pen ecage Mico Renan 00
XXX sawn shingles, # M.,
Lath per 1000 feet........
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OTTAWA,

From our own Correspondent.

Jung 26th.—In the lumbering industry,
all others, there is a certain time, when every-
thing being in an active state of progress, going
along smoothly, nothing very unusual tran-
spires, and that period is the present, around
this locality, at least.

The saw mills are making as much of the
time as it is porsible; working night and day.
No sales of the season’s cuts have been reported,
although it is surmised that some have occurr-
ed. Such transactions are invariably kept a
secret.

In square timber local dealers say the Quebec
market is unusually dull just now, being rather
overcrowded, and sales are not so numerous as
was anticipated. This is considered strange by
dealers, as it is well known that there is less
stock on the English market than usual. Mr.
Dobell, who had the contract for supplying the
Imperial Government, has now four million
feet on hand. This affects the market consider-
ably.

as in

SERIOUS BREAK.
The improvements recently completed on
tordon Creek, on the Upper Ottawa, and which
were a great benefit to lumbermen, have been to
a great extent destroyed. The sheeting of the
dam is very thin, while the river rushes past

with great velocity, so that logs and square tim-
ber rush right through the sheeting. The dam-
age is estimated at about $30,000.

—_—_—_@—___“_——_-
ALBANY.

Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine, clear, #M.........-- aeaae . $55 00@65 00
ine yfO Mite sets sels erie eps asain k teceeeeere DO 00G60 00
Pine; Selecta acc le ce cresv runs veces. 45 00@55 00
Pine, ZOOd DOX.++64++0eeeee eres eeeeeeee 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each... sess eevee 00 38@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. ses +se++ 00 19@00 22
Pine boards, 10-in........+++++-2+reeeeee 00 26@00 32
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.....++++...000++ 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.........- 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft........++++++++- 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13 ft......+++seeeeee- 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select......... eer 38 00@40 00
Pine, 14-in. siding, common.... ....-++-- 15 00@19 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select......++++++.--+. 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........++ 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, cach.....-.-++++0+.-++++ 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, ‘Lyi Nits (CACD srcleiisiss oe estas 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each ap Succ ot cece 00 00@00 30

00 11@00 12
oe s 00 00@00 13
’ 00 00@00 31

Spruce, wall strips, GAGS nce tien eee
Hemlock, boards, each ri
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each...

Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each ..... . 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each... ... 00 00@00 10
Ash, good, AB UM Peis iaasteleobtinlele’e ie oir «eee 40 00@43 00
Ash, second quality, # M...+......ss000+ 25 00@30 00
Cherry, GOOd, BM... 200. serccccecee 60 00@85 00
Cherry, common, @M... sse-c.sseeeeree 25 00@35 00
Oak, good, GUMMY. tere racesaisiaige sya silane Puidiecaina 38 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, @ M........++.+...- 20 00@25 00
Bassw 000; BM sc ccccccuse svcees coceces 25 00@30 00
Hickory, 2 MD apdictolarate'ainipin ale seals pata! 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @ M.........ssseeeereeee 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M....4.. seecscvers 25 00@28 00
Chestnut, @ M...c.cccrncnssscecesece ... 85 00@40 00
Shingles, ’shav ed, pine, @M..... «.+..-. 0 00@ 6 50
“ 2nd quality fa pnas te west avieewels 0 00@ 5 00
% extra, saw ed, pinels.- «een ene 0 00@ 5 00
ae clear ss PE © city autos inate 0 00@ 3 75
uy cedar, soca cena mene er ee 0 00@ 3 25
be cedar, TRIMIRG. .sicisiateiate asain eine 0 00) 4 00
oe GMOs, ws ven pe voices senaieer's 0 00@ 2 50
Lath, hemlock, # M. 0 00@ 1 75
Lath, spruce, ‘ 0 00@ 2 00
Lath, pine, DR ates gn aisiep eo Mead ote 0 00@ 2 25
—_______-
BOSTON.

JuNE 24,—The Journal of Commerce says the
general market is quiet, and keeps along with a
moderate demand such as has been noted for
weeks past. There is considerable new work
being undertaken all the time, although not up
to expectations nor hardly sufficient to make
values very firm. The western trade centres
show an easier tendency to prices. Southern
pine is giving way a little, with light calls,
Hardwoods are pretty well sustained.

CANADA PINE.

Selecta, Dressed. » soos «2ss0s000enessepers $48 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, 1sts. 0” asisls ats 40 00@42 00
SNUG isin dh vn cabo 33 00@35 00
Dressed ShippersS......ceeeseseeeeeseeee 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box.....-..sseecesssecceccseces 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, 1st quality yonitans ae <0 Saag 42 00@45 00
Ond Wienges sp seeremaene 34 00@35 00
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BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers. vcssascnncevenvscscnce seveseese S46 00@49 00
COMMON.........0005 covovsecusncrccsess 18 00@20 00
Cull Bia vc vcs cccnnvcosncsviccvestnocceenet 13 00@14 00
—_——_—_——
CHICAGO.
JUNE 24th.—The Northwestern Lumberman

says the past week has been one of large re-
ceipts at this port, aggregating 65,778,000 feet
of lumber and 38,227,000 shingles, while yet the
receipts of the corresponding week of last year
were nearly 3,000,000 feet of lumber more and
3,000,000 shingles less. The total receipts from
all sources now aggregate 656,801,000 feet of
lumber and 313,285,000 shingles, as compared
with 519,145,000 feet of lumber and 228,550,000
shingles to the corresponding date in 1881, an
excess for the current season of 137,656,000 feet
of lumber and 84,735,000 shingles. The market
has been fairly supplied with lumber at nearly
all times since the date of our last report, the
three closing days of last week being compara-
tively light. The vessels have got around so
during this season that it has come to be looked
for with certainty that each recurring Monday
morning will bring a large fleet to the market,
and Monday of this week was no exception, a
count revealing the presence of no less than 43
cargoes of lumber and shingles. During the
day these were increased by quite a number,
the close of the day finding 19 vessels still await-
ing purchasers of their cargoes. Tuesday gave
a fleet of 22 vessels, and Wednesday 12, which
was on Thursday morning reduced to 9, of
which all but one cargo of lumber and two
cargoes of shingles had been cleared away by
Thursday noon. With these large offerings it
was thought by nearly everyone that prices
must yield, but such did not prove to be the
case, concessions from former prices being grant-
ed only under the considerations of quality or

undesirableness of the offered stock. Whilethe
quotations of piece stuff must therefore remain
at the former figures of $11@11.50 ; one or two
cargoes sold at $10.75, but these were by com-—
mon consent adjudged well sold, when the

character was considered, one buyer remarking
that at $10.75 for one of these cargoes he should
consider average piece stuff good for $11.50.

CARGO QUOTATIONS,

Short dimension, green...... .. See htece #11 00@11 50
DIV ac vtee rae aciols Sax ees hee ee tae seveee 11 BQ@UNG
ie GiMENBION. .; coss scree whemoree 12 00@14 00
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock
ae S BIOCK cepensonlen cs sc Bee aa

0.1 log run, culls out..... erence Seen 17 00@21
Standard shingles Jove sina baaee eee eS j
for the week ending June 22, as reported by the

Lumberman’s Exchange :—
RECEIPTS.
Luinber. Shingles.
IB82. 2 <0. 65,778,000 38,227,000 49,655,000 23, (
1881..... 68,174,000 35,380,000 50,545,000 24,405
Receipts and shipments of lumber '
shingles from January 1, to and including June
22nd:—

SHIPMENTS.
Lumber. Shing

RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.

1882. . 656,801,000 313,285,000
1881. .519,145,000 228,550,000

SHIPMENTS.
Luinber. Shingles.
854,285,000 430,410,000
655,748,000 268,659,000
Inc.137,656,000 84,735,000 198,537,000 161,751,000

LAKE RECEIPTS TO JUNE 22.

eee eS 534,849,000 289,441,000
TEBD. «15 cco seen ame +. 410,621,009 173,172,000

INCTEAHE....c0ce oseee «+++ +124, 228,000 116,269,000

STOCK ON HAND MAY 1.
1882. 1881. 1880.

Lumber........+- 372,711,591 270,317,046 292,467,878
Shingles 167 "598,300 91,607,700 130,315,000
Lath ...+eeeeeeee 21,902,726 20,658,679 31,195,311
Pickets.....+ « +. 1,093,328 2,193,415 836,021
Cedar posts. .. 38,823 77,042 80,708

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OSWEGO, N.Y.

We advance quotations on shingles and lath,
the supply of both being short in the market.
The stock of lumber is about the usual amount
carried here. Prices are not quite so firm as
last month, but demand continues good and the
stock of last year’s cut is likely to be worked off
by the time new lumber is for market.

Three uppers........+0.- Jaws tone $42 00@46 00
Pickings.......<-«-«0 —seneeee nee «.-. 32 00@36 00
Fine, common ...........++: RS re 00@25 00
Common... i......<ss shane 4 00@17 00
Culls....+..- ooseseceaneteene 00@14 00
Mill run lots.........--<s 00@25 00
oie a 1 inch... ........-5+..220 33 OO@40 00
ncanastecccecceeaeuep naan 34 00@40 00
Mint ng bas 13 to 16 feet...... 17 00@25 00
selected...» «cc. <.deueeeramane 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and ui inch mill run. 14 00@20 00
culls... 11 00@14 00
1x6 selected for clapbenines SA 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... 4 25@ 4 50
XXX, 18 inch, cedar pan ae 3 50@ 3 60
7.) ry 1 80@ 2 00
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TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
Three Uppers..seee..s-eee ee = 00@49 00
GCommomtt,...2:<555 sanonan dese eesesee=-- 20 OO@22 00
Gols. Shi ake se Re re 14 00@15 00
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LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal, of June 10, says :
The state of inactivity presented by the dock
deliveries published with this number may be
partly attributed to its having been holiday
week, but there must have been other depressing
influences operating to have caused such a mark-
ed difference between the quantity of stuff that
left the dock the previous week and that of the
one to which we refer. At the docks we may
take it that holidays are not observed with the
same exactitude that they are in other mercan-
tile establishments, from the fact of the traffic
in shipping necessitating constant labor of one
kind and another ; thus we hardly look to see
on a public holiday the almost total cessation of
work there that we count upon in other import-
ant concerns. ‘

It is remarkable how the deliveries at the
docks sympathize with the proceedings at the
“Baltic,” and when large sales are frequent
there is a corresponding activity Deptford way,
while to the large unreserved sales held during
the spring of 1881 are due the heavy deliveries”
from the docks at that time, which we have yet —

to make up by some 7,000 standards or so te
bring the consumption up to the present time
on a par with that of the year before.

Amongst the arrivals into London this week
we may notice the New York liner Zgyptian
Monarch, which brings her usual assortment of

THE CANADA

ready-made joinery, supplemented with walnut,
mahogany, &c., and seems to have been entirely
wood laden this trip, and represents the only
American arrival in the week’s list. ‘The week’s
interval with nearly seventy vessels to record,
and not a single cargo of spruce or pitch pine
amongst them, and June too, is something un-
ususual to witness. It is said freights are going
begging at New York, and vessels out there are
ready load up anything they can get, but we do
not see any indications of it here yet.
nes
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of June 10, says :
The effect of the recent holidays being now over
has shown itself by putting a few orders into
the market, yet there is by no means an animat-
ed feeling. The continued importations of
spruce, which are pressed upon the market as
fast as the vessels arrive, have weakened the
market, and this is likely to continue so long as
the pressure to sell is maintained. A cargo just
arrived by sailing vessel was offered for sale by
auction on Thursday last, but there was an
entire absence of buyers from the country, and
the local dealers present did not seem anxious
for the goods ; in fact only one bid was made for
the best dimensions in the cargo, and this was
so low that the brokers, Messrs. Farnworth &
Jardine, withdrew it, and it has since been sold
on private terms to a house in the trade here at
a price the lowest that has been done this import
season.

The first imports from Quebec have arrived
per steamers, and consist entirely of deals, upon
timber merchants’ account. The almost un-
precedented severity of the weather in the St.
Lawrence River will greatly retard the importa-
tion of log timber and shorten the season.
Higher freights have been paid for sailing
vessels than had been expected, and charters
are said to have been effected at 26s. to 27s. 6d.
for timber, and at 55s. to 57s. 6d. per standard
for deals, by steamer.

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BRISTOL.

Messrs. King Brothers, in their June circular,
makes the following remarks :—Our trade during
the past month has assumed a quiet character,
the demand being easily satisfied. We do not
however, look with any anxiety on the excess of
this year’s imports over those of last, as the
timber imported for special railway contracts,
outside the regular trade, accounts for this sur-
plus. Quebec goods.—Yellow Pine Timber—
Waney board pine is wanted ; no inquiries for
common, Red Pine—No transactions, Oak
in slightly better request. Ash and Walnut—
Stocks nominal ; fresh wood will have a ready
sale. Pine Deals—Very little business has been
doing, and prices are unchanged. New Bruns-
wick goods.—Spruce deals have not experienced
a large demand, and prices placing a drag on
the consumption. Stocks are, however, light.
Pine Deals—No stocks. Birch—A fresh parcel
of good St. John’s wood has arrived, and has
gone freely into consumption.

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. GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journat, of June 10, says :
During the past week there has been no public
sales of timber held by brokers at any of our
Clyde ports, and some feeling of dullness in the
market has been experienced. At this time of
the year, when efforts are made to clear off old
stocks of Canadian goods in prospect of new
arrivals, it is a matter of more than ordinary
difficulty for buyer and seller to come to terms,
and for the purpose of closing accounts, goods
may be parted with occasionally at prices which
are not a fair criterion of market rates.

The season’s importation of Quebec deals has
already begun, several parcels having arrived
lately per steam liners. An auction sale about
to take place, in which some of these are includ-
ed, will indicate the existing demand,

Although the stock of yellow pine timber is
by no means heavy, sales are not easily effected ;
the market, therefore, will not suffer by the
long outward passage of the Quebec fleet.

Imports for the week at Greenock and Glas-
gow comprise three cargoes of pitch pine,
several large parcels of Cananian pine and
spruce deals, and various lots of oak billets and
planks,

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
MONTH ENDED 83187 MAY, 1882.

Quantity. Value.
Timber (Hewn). Louwds. Ly
RUSS1G eaten ie utp oraloterate’y ve tviplelsin igi MB 84,442 74,675
Sweden and Norway......ssesevsses 43,464 65,659
GOYrMANYevesevessccves saclesoresiays 28,252 89,693
TWMIbeGe Statens aisleletslietsls sles oie's)-1e tity 23,081 76,887
FSUALANIADUILGLEL shale’ aiateisitiatela al'elpiale\sisin\e asd 3,194 42,715
British North America,......0+++0++ 55 211
Other’ COWUNUTICS iors cianes «de's s\s\9r 210/00 86,061 48,439
Motel ery tevetelotslstereWe eisteisisteyeretone asd 168,499 398,280
Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed).
RWI Gig ahd HOUDO 60000 DEO g HON 88,363 217,115
Sweden and Norway....cecssseveves 134,271 332,159
British North America... ......66+. 34,721 77,921
Other Countries......cesesssess-ss 41,082 135,687
MOU rereietetaca atete el teralsle aieye's ets’ taal 298,437 762,882
SLAVES (AMIUSIZES) ria sels a 'cttieie fp siaie, claiece 9,305 49,988
Mahogany (tons).....ecsssececeesece 3,413 31,513
Total of Hewn and Sawn............ 466,936 1,161,102

FIVE MONTHS ENDED 31ST MAY, 1882.
Timber (Hewn).

USGI als Seto viare all ala ceo cuap eves) dletaates 63,115 118,284
Sweden and Norway.....s..s....00s 228,007 343,361
Glerrmamypererstectereyielstorsteedsrars) tisie/siefivetstays 90,444 292,427
United States.............0.+5 sono. idles; 242,795
Lymph, WNGhEh aocoG pov ondoooONOHAdooe 26,302 334,784
British North America............-+ 1,280 4,089
Other Countries,..........000.cc00r 157,989 189,174

TP Otalemtindertiat mites aisaraes 629,065 1,524,864
Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).

INDE ada oboon GdeoOObD GOnUOUC CR. 122,966 293,865
Sweden and Norway.......seessven 411,205 1,136,921
British North America ............. 86,424 206,138
Other Countries.......cceeesesseons 130,052 418,095

OVA sonsotdng Govan cagandaTopo 750,647 2,055,019
Staves (all sizes)............0eee00s 39,010 210,096
Mahogany (tons)............ .....-- 13,286 123,302
Total of Hewn and Sawn........... 1,359,712 3,579,883

TIMBER NEWS.

The Ottawa Citizen, of June 24th, says :—The
following is a statement of the timber which
passed through the undermentioned slides and
works during the week ending 28rd June, 1882:

DES JOACHIMS SLIDE.
(Week ending 17th June.)

Rafts. Owners. Cribs. Pes.
Mee Bellrdaselitekeyreniarcrela\slsieie)-1s/e sisisieieiei=i2 59 =: 1,597
Pee DAMES BD: DICKSOMs\avies) vale eleine tee 138 2,405

2 179 4,002

LEFT MADAWASKA SLIDE.
(June 21st.)
1 raft owned by Alex. Fraser, comprised of 59 cribs,
containing 1,360 pieces of square timber,
LEFT OTTAWA SLIDES.
(Since 19th June.)

Rafts. Owners. Cribs. Pcs.
MLV R INEGONE 250: che, ola. einiait ois) srare cya wiere's 154 3,367
tlogdiga brea CalCOhooncuonenecsoo loose 147 4,630
1. Hilliard & Dickson................. 110 2,958
git, WAC emaacn doce neanapaauan 0 (AY) 2,175
1..W. McClyment & Co............... 103-2668
5 584 14,798

THROUGH GATINEAU BOOM.
(Since the 19th June.)
Pierre Charetite’s raft, composed of 56 double cribs,
containing 2,800 pieces of square, flat and round tim-
ber.

Owners, Sawlogs,
Gap B PEALE LC OF ratsisiniavolers. cine afelrte exvioiere/oie sieisiove ee 17,153
ETAT UILOMNESLOS ate steisisle mists se) leisi siclelaieieieisieicisie </zivin 7,170

24,323
And 1,825 railroad ties owned by H. B. Rathbun & Son.
————
Rafts Arrived.

The Quebec Chronicle reports as follows :—

June 17—Hiilliard & Dickson, white pine and
ash, St. Lawrence docks.

June 22—John Latimer, white pine masts,
Spencer cove. ‘

D. D. Calvin & Co., oak, &c., sundry coves.

Collins Bay Co., oak, pine, &c., sundry coves.

P. Larkin, elm, oak, pine, etc., Bridgewater.

W. H. Kennedy, deals, Prince’s pier.

Kelly & McAllister, black walnut, Ottawa
cove,

J. Burstall & Co., oak, pine, etc., Woodfield
cove,

Sundry lots, staves, Indian Cove West.
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A LARGE raft of pine logs came from North
Bay, via the ship canal, to Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,
the other day, and belonged to Geo. O. Spear.
The raft was 90 feet wide aud fully an eighth of
amilein length. It is regarded as the biggest
ever brought into that port,

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Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

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THe Parry Sound Worth Star, of June 23rd,
says the schooners Niagara and Tecumseth are
loading lumber at the P. S. L. Co.’s dock, and
the Lothair, Corisande, Sir C. T. yan Strauben-
zee and two of the May barges are expected
here to-day or to-morrow. The schooners N.
H,. Dudley, Pandora, Trade Winds, and Annie
Foster took cargoes of lumber from here during
the past week.

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THE English Timber Trades Journal says elm
has depreciated in price more than any other
kind of wood, owing to the enormous quantity
blown down in the October and April gales.
The trees were in full leaf in October, and there-
fore suffered severely. From every part of the
country comes the same report that the market
is overstocked, and landowners have entirely
stopped felling till the present heavy stocks are

cleared off.
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THE Massachusetts Legislature at its recent
session passed a Forestry Bill. It gives towns
and cities the right to take land to be devoted
to forestry on the same terms as for roads or
streets. The title of such lands is then to vest
in the commonwealth. They are to be under
the care of the State Board of Agriculture as a
Board of Forestry, who will appoint skilful,
practical foresters to be paid out of the produce,

nd all surplus is to go to the municipalities
ceding the lands,

THE Northwestern Lumberman has a communi-
cation on ‘‘ Logging in California,” with an en-
graving from a photograph taken on the Hum-
bolt Logging Railway of a train of cars loaded
with redwood logs. Some of them are of truly
gigantic dimensions, as shown by comparison
with the heights of the men standing near them.

LEATHER
ELTING,

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MANUFACTURERS OF

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ADAM MoKAY,

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AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-

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A ROYAL WOODCUTTER.

A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris,
in an interesting account of the Czar’s daily life
at Gatschina, says the nervous agitation from
which His Majesty has suffered since he was
first called to the throne appears to be gaining
a stronger hold on his mind every day. In the
midst of his semi-incarceration the Czar finds it
difficult to take the amount of exercise ordered
by his medical advisers, and only obtained a
solution of the difficulty by bethinking of Mr.
Gladstone’s example at Hawarden. The corres-
pondent does not state whether His Majesty
so closely follows the example of his friend in
England as to fell trees himself, but he displays

CABINET WOOD.

A large amount of fine cabinet wood is re-
ceived at the New York market, one firm
handling by far the largest per cent. of the im-
portations, which are in great variety, and much
of the woods of very fine quality, especially in
veneers. At the establishment alluded to, oak
head linings and panel stocks, for cars, are in
stock, some of which measure 18 inches in width,
forming most desirable material. The firm has
an improved board-cutting machine, which slices
off boards of a maximum thickness of five-
sixteenths of an inch, and 83 feet long, as fast as
two men can handle them, the knife leaving the
surface of the board perfectly smooth, no planing

in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 119
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Has Facilities

beng required, and the fibres remaining as solid the utmost vigour in chopping the fallen timber —FoR—
and undisturbed as when sawed. Previous to into logs. A short time ago a member of the
the cutting, the logs to be used are steamed for Imperial family was shocked to find Alexander DOING as GOOD WORK
the purpose of softening the fibre to make it Ii. ie his shirt sleeves in the middle of an open
space in the wood, perspiring freely, and busily
—AND AS—

more yielding, and when cut, the boards are
thoroughly dried by a single process, requiring
but a few minutes, which combines steam-heat-

ing and hydraulic pressure.
—

engaged in sawing an enormous pine tree into
logs of equal length, whilst his eldest son, the
Grand Duke Nicholas, was stacking the results
of his father’s labours.”

Yamin sO, As any Engraver in Canada

A MICHIGAN CAMP INCIDENT.

The Bay City Zribune gives the following
camp story :—‘’ Francis F, Gamnel, connected
with Anderson & Buchanan’s camp, near
Churchill, Ogemew county, in a letter to a
gentleman in this city, writes as follows regard”
ing an encounter with a bear on May 14th:
As I was in the camp just at dusk, I heard a
noise at the corner of the camp, and as I opened
the door a cub bear ran past me. My dog ran
out of the men’s camp just then and pounced
upon the cub. He had no sooner got hold of it
than its mother, a monster big black bear,
pitched upon him to save her baby. I caught
an axe and as I went to strike the old bear my
weapon hit the top of the door, the bear caught
it, and wrenched it from my grasp with tre-
mendous strength. I shut the door and went
out of the window to the office where I got a
pole with a four inch spike in the end, With
this I stabbed the old bear in the body, but she
would not let up on the dog until I stabbed her
back of the ear. Then she caught the pole with
her mouth and jerked it away from me, moving
off and letting the dog go. When using this
pole I was on top of the cook’s camp. The dog

was badly injured.”
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The Removal Of Snow in St. Petersburg.

The snow is thrown into pits, which are lo-
cated at convenient points of the city. It is
melted in these by steam, and runs off into the
river by suitable channels,

SF KING ST 7 = ©
Joun.S ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

THERE is annually manufactured on the Miss-
issippi River and its tributaries about 1,500,-
000,000 feet of white pine lumber, with its pro-
portionate accompaniment of shingles, lath, and
pickets.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says that C.
M. and C. Cook, of Lansing, Mich., have been
prospecting in Presque Isle county, Mich., with
the view of purchasing a tract of pine and hard-
wood land. Their idea is that the pine business
in Michigan will soon be a thing of the past,
and they desire to have a quantity of hardwood
to fall back on. They intend to erect a mill.

|5,000 IN USE!

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Tur Otter Lake Zelegram says the switch at
the dam in Goodwin creek is 1,050 feet long, is
graded, and will be tied and railed within a
week or ten days. At the dam a slip will be
made, and a platform or rollway be built be-
tween the slip and the track for loading the logs
on the cars. The power to be used will be
furnished by a portable engine. For a mile
up from the dam the creek is one solid jam of
logs.

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Tue editor of the Omaha Herald, desirous of
doing something in the way of tree planting on
the vast, bald prairies of the west, accepted
Governor Seymour's suggestion that he put in
black cherries. To the Governor’s enquiry as
to how he prospered with his planting, the editor
is in position to say that of 25,000 of these trees
planted three years ago on land seven miles
from the city, he finds by actual count that
22,000 are flourishing. The timber, it is
thought, will be highly useful in time, commer-
cially, and during the progress of its growth
can not but be beneficial to the salubrity of the
region in which it flourishes. It is admitted
everywhere that when the western farmer plants
a tree he is serving himself and his country.—
Lumberman’s Gazette.

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on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the

roller system at a comparatively slight cost. «Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

VE ©) IN) {bse BA. Ti.

saSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller
Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.

1119 Mention this Paper.

206 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

PARKER&EVANS) D. McLACHLAN & SONS,
FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL OQ PHAM BOTLERS.

B O | | E R i i. U | D GC O M PO U N D . SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to.
Patented ath March, 1877- 1s NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK,

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.
It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity

ee ee Se ee ee ee

keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam. | O N = R S
In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN. 1119

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL. Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

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. HEAD ey VICTORIA STREET, bition
(ak Tanned Leather Beltin Qs samiartn. enact
Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing, MACHINE O} LS, ETe

Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose, =e
And Cotton Hose. McCOLL BROS. & Co.
5 TOROMN Pee
A Full and Complete Stock always on hand. MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East, | in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

~ LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY.

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties.and
Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.
BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.
Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co.,

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, 207

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

lava ECON, CAka NADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. “ Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
SO 2 Gp = 2 So 4G

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened \

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. oi

208 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each, A one-8aw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was so uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, bowever, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth at a time. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:
oe ) bad
oh iond \ oak | ee
é 2; x . xh | oles,
ai \ # in. hole. 10x} f # in. hole. 12x8 ( 3, Zand Linch.
4 10x 12x |
12x¢ )

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}. The most frequent com plaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sbarpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a4 softsaw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second

touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QOS ft he was ss QUA Bit ee

Thirteen years of experience a8 makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us toa decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almostevery use an
«Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of tbe wheel is more than made up by the money saved On wages. As we cannot get every one to
adoyt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet thelr views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities to match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gum ming Wheel all over the world. Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2.

lt cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too bard, some too soft. We prefer the “ Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as “ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both jiner In grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat. 2

Illustrated Cireulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. lytl3

Tanite Co. Stroudsbure, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED.

ML. Covel's Latest Improved Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.

CIRCULAR SAW MILL MACHINERY!
STEAM FEED | fon un mimncins me

sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Circulars
I would also call special attention to my

Heavy Circular Saw Mills

ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
and for STEAM MILLS, would recommend the Steam

Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my P: t Lumber
Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
Feed, having put in several which are giving the best of sat-
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

aml
i

i)
i

i

i
| mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gum-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

GRAVENHUuRST, August 20th, 1880,
Wa. HAMILTON, I'sq,., Peterborough.

DEAR SIR—I have used your Steam (eed for near four
months, and it has given me perfect satisfaction in every
way; it isadmitted by every person who has seen it work
to be the best feed ever invented. Since I putitinto my.
will, | have not lost ten minutes time fixing anything be-
longing toit. Ican cut 18 boards 18 ft. long in one minute,
It can do much smoother and better work than the pinion
feed. It is easily governed and reverses the earriages In-
stantly. I am thoroughly satisfied with it and can recom-
mend it to any person who has a Circular Saw Mill for
eutting long or short logs. I consider I have cut more
lumber than will pay for the Steam Feed since I got it
than I would have cut had I not put it in.

Yours respectfully,

WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurst.

CORLISS

ee : = Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along

NN = with uniformity ot speed, such as is required in Grist and

i Tm y— MN = Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large

Mh Mi i AA : we Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. I feel

ToRoNTo, August Lith, 1880. | HAA y——_— justified in saying that ourStyle, Workmanship and Finish

Wu. HAmitton, Peterborough, Ont. = a | | | | = on this Engine wiil be no discredit to its renown, and cer-

DEAR StR—The Steam Feed you put in is working splen- SS = i i Il | tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.

didly. Yours, &c,, = = = — 2 I have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power
THOMPSON, SMITH & SON. per hour, litt

WILELITAM HMAMIt Ton,
PHETHRBOROUGH, ONT:

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PUBLISHED }
PB sewt-MonTHLy a4

The ony Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada.

VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., JULY 15, 1882.

On June 22, the steamer Astrubal, of London,
1,194 tons burden, with a cargo of cedar from
St. John, N. B., collided with an iceberg and
went down off Point wee The" crew was

saved.

Forty thousand dollars worth of spruce chew-
ing gum is gathered in Maine every year. The
clear, pure lumps are worth $1 a pound. In
the large mill cities of Massachusetts the girls
consume enormous quantities, one dealer selling
$1,400 worth in a year.

—————_—

Tue new kindling-wood factory at Lock
Haven, Pa., is 37x76 feet in size, and has a
kiln that holds 100 cords of wood, which is cut
in pieces 1} x3 inches, and thoroughly dried be-
fore it is packed. There are 30 improved pack-
ing machines employed, operated by boys, who
are thus enabled to pack 16,000 bundles of wood
per day.

Se

Tur Stockholm correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says that several large ships are
now in coarse of loading between Gefle and
Sundswall for Australia, with deals, while plan-
ed goods have also been shipped thither to some
extent. The consumption in Australia must be

increasing rapidly to judge by the quantity of |

goods now going there.
ees ee

THE Northwestern Lumberman says Mr. T. W.
Harvey, of this city, has just purchased 35,000
acres of timber limits in the Georgian Bay
country, from which he will draw heavy supplies
in the near future, Not content with handling
more lumber than any other individual operator
on American soil, Mr. Harvey, in reaching out
for more worlds to conquer, has stumbled
against Canada. We shall expect to hear any
day that he holds in his capacious pocket title
deeds to what little yellow pine there may be
left standing down in Louisiana and Texas,
with an eye out for the timber Putman is “‘ dis-
covering” in the neighbourhood of Puget
Sound.

a a ee ot ee

Tue Green Bay (Wis.) Advocote says : Rafting
on Lake Michigan is considered extremely risky
even for short distances, and to raft 425,000 feet
of logs in one lot, for a pull of 40 miles, takes as
much sand as a glass factory ; yet the Messrs.
Spear, of this place, took this big risk recently.
Under the careful management of Capt. Wm.
Anger, two days was spent in making the raft
at North Bay, when the Gregory hitched on and
in 14 hours had the raft safe within the canal,

without losing a log. The raft was 90 feet wide

and about 1,200 feet long, and valued at over
$20,000. Then the Gregory took the same boom
sticks to Europe Bay, where another still larger
raft is to be made andit will be towed here. It

| there.

/to the old docks with timber basin, will give

| not be kept longer than necessary in the log, be-

is expected that half a million feet will be put |

im this, the second great raft,

all log timber, but we name the circumstance in
}

THE PORT OF GRANGEMOUTH.

Grangemouth is situated at the junction of |
the River Carron with the Clyde and Forth
Canal, opened in 1790, and through which so
much of the traffic to Glasgow passes as almost
to justify the styling of Grangemouth the
eastern port of Glasgow.

As a timber port Grangemouth holds a lead-
ing position, in proof of which it may be men-
tioned that in the year 1881 no less than 87,670
loads of hewn and sawn timber were discharged
There are several firms of timber mer-
chants in the port doing a considerable business,
whilst the extensive saw mills of Messrs. Alex-
andere Thompson & Nephews, Macpherson &
McLaren, W. Kerr & Co., and others, afford
ample facilities for dealing with the large im-
portation.

The ground acquired for the construction of
the new docks extends to nearly 60 acres, and
while 193 acres of this is the water area of the
new docks and timber basins, the actual dock-
age area is about 103 acres. This, in addition

about 28 acres, a large portion of the old area
being available for graving dock purposes should
the trade of the port so increase as to render it
necessary for it being required for such a pur-
pose.

THE SEASONING OF WOOD.

Wood requires time in which to season very
much in proportion to the density of the fibre.
But this rule is not without an exception, for
pitch pine, which is not at all a densely fibered
wood, requires a long time in which to season,
even when the process is conducted under favor-
able circumstances.

Whis occurs probably in consequence of the
resinous character of pitch pine, the resin clog-
ging the pores of the wood and thus stopping up
the channels through which the moisture would
otherwise exude. There are some woods—and
mahogany, ebony, and some other of the tropi-
cal woods are of the number—that even in their
living state contain very little moisture.

Plants that are of slow growth contain less
moisture when in a living state than do these
whose growths are rapid. A mahogany tree re-
quires 500 years in which to mature, and, as a
consequence, its texture is exceedingly dense.
Being dense in texture, it requires a long time
to properly season, and during that lengthened
period it shrinks very little. Mahogany should

cause insomuch as the outside portion of a log

contains the greatest amount of moisture, and it |\

being the exposed part, it will, as the wood dries,
shrink more than the inner wood, and so, to
allow for the outside shrinking, outside shakes
will and must occur.

The same remark applies with equal force to

eoamention with re eine for the
|reason that it is a general practice for some to

keep their mahogany logs in an unsawn state,
under the misapprehension that the logs will
not deteriorate. When it is required to keep
the logs in comparative bulk, it will be found to

| be a convenient method to have one cut put
| down the centre of them, which, as a rule. will

be sufficient to obviate any tendency to outside
shake that may arise in consequence of their
shrinking on the outside. When cut, mahogany
boards should always be laid aside to season in
the same order as they left the saw. Strips of
accurately sawn wood should be placed at inter-
vals of a not greater distance than 12 inches
from each other, and we are inclined to advise
that the strips of wood be placed even closer
together than that.

It is advisable that some woods should be
seasoned quickly, and others should dry slowly.
Mahogany must be seasoned slowly. To season it
thoroughly and well, periods should be allowed
in something like conformity with the following
table :—

TIME TO BE ALLOWED FOR SEASONING IN THN

OPEN,

Thickness

of boards. Months.

Pine boards should be seasoned on very much |
the same plan as that we have recommended for
the seasoning of mahogany boards. We suggest: |
only this alteration, that they should be placed
where the wind can reach them, for they should
be dried quickly. The reason for this is that |
pine is a wood which is prone to rapid decay,
and therefore the quicker it can be placed in an
absolutely dry position—such, for instance, as
being made up into internal joinery work—the |
better.

Whitewood cannot be satisfactorily dried by
artificial means, for it twists under the action of
heat. Whitewood hardens very much by being
exposed to the weather.. The reason of this is
that from its sponge like texture the pores of
the wood rapidly close when evaporation ensues.

The system of stacking flooring boards to dry
in triangular fashion is much to be condemned
for several sufficient reasons. The first is that,
when so piled, boards will hold no inconsider-
able quantity of snow or rain water.

The second is that they do not dry in those
places where the boards must necessarily touch |
each other in the crossing.

The third reason is that when the boards are |
in long lengths they have a natural tendency to |
‘‘swag” in their centers, and so to dry in a|
twisted or crooked form. |

| a barrel, without heads, the whole being
| by
| provement over the stave barrel in cost of man-

| owing to the then low prices of lumber.

It is to be
the grain of which is of a ty
a natural tendency
can, by
straight.

This fact suggests to us that ev straight-
grained wood will dry in a crooked form hen
left to season it be allowed to assume a bent
form, and that this being so it is imperative
that the piling of wood into position for season-
ing should be directed by care and intelli

—The Builder.

borne in mind that although
d character ha
to dry crooked, yet that it

ghte l, be kept

wiste
being judiciously wei

en

Fence,

STAVELESS BARRELS.

camp of the Mattulath Manu-
facturing Company is located at Carson, a half
mile from Puyallup. They are getting out 20,-
000 feet of cottonwood logs per day, using the
labor of seventeen men and four yoke of cattle.
These logs are made into rafts and towed to the
factory at Seattle.

The logging

The campany think they
have a great improvement in the sheet barrel,
which is made by cutting a log into barrel
lengths, softening them by a steam process and
then shaving each piece into a long
rolled like a carpet.

sheet, un-
Each sheet is then crosscut

| into such a length that when the two ends are

brought together it is given the size and form of
done
machinery. This has proved a great im-

The

ufacturing as well as in merits for use.

| only drawback, if drawback it may be called,
| is that clear timber is required in this

all
the knotty timber being rejected, whereas for

case,

| staves knotty timber may be used. Consequent-

ly the best of the cottonwood is now being culled

| out, and unless the supply of virgin forests of
| this kind proves illimitable, they will after a

while be compelled to return to the manufacture

| of staves exclusively.—Ledger. °

Puget Sound Business.

Lumber is reported higher in the Puget Sound
district than ever before, while stone and brick
have declined to the lowest notch. This cur-
tails the lumber demand for building purposes,
which some time ago was quite considerable,
Not-
withstanding this decrease in a branch of the
demand, there has been an extra good volume
of trade in lumber on the Sound all the season,
which goes to show that the uses of lumber are
so many and extensive that one item of con-

| sumption is a small matter in the general result,
| even though it be the important one of building,
| The Puget Sound product goes largely to supply

the coast trade, particularly for shipbuilding.
—Northwestern Lumberman.

A LarGE portion of the Kippewa district is
flooded owing to defective dams. Considerable
damags has ensued,

210

THE FORESTRY SOCIETIES.
Nori Benn, Hamilton Co., O., July 4.
Messrs. Toker & Co., Peterborough, Ontario :

GENTLEMEN,—Allow me to acknowledge with,
my sincere thanks the receipt of your excellent
The number for
July 1st is before me with its reference to the
I send by this mail a pamphlet mono-
graph of this tree which you may not have seen.

The Montreal papers of June 15 are a little
mixed in regard to the two forestry societies,
both of which have adjourned to meet in Mon-
treal, August 21, of which you should be ad-

and very interesting paper.

Catalpa.

vised.

The American Forestry Association was organ-
ized at Chicago, IIl.,in 1875, and thus designated
This
(June
20) and anjourned to Montreal with the hope of

so as to gain the talent of the Dominion.
society recently met at Rochester, N.Y.,

combining the talent present there.

The American Forestry Congress organized at
Cincinnati, Ohio, as you have already noted,

April 25-29.

Anxious to aid in the success of the undertak-
ing, circulars were issued to those interested in
the A. F. A., asking their attendance and
papers, and they contributed largely, but had
no time for discussion, hence the necessity for
the Rochester meeting on June 20, when an
election was held, and the President of the Con-
gress was elected in prospect of a consolidation
of the two bodies, toward which result a com-
mittee of conference was raised to effect such a
The Association adjourned to

desideratum.
meet at Montreal on August 21.

I write this to enable you to understand that,
though two societies exist, there is no disagree-
both are anxious for the success of

ment ;
forestry.

IT am waiting to hear of Dr. Loring’s accept-

ance of the office, not yet received.
Yours respectfully,
JNO, A. WARDER, M. D.
Ex-Pres. & now Ist V.-Pres. A.F.A,

MONTREAL NOTES.

The Gazette, of July 7th, says:—During the
past week or ten days quite a fleet has left port
with deals for the United Kingdom, and lumber
The barques Vyham, Shel-
don and Reindeer have sailed with deals for
West Hartlepool, the barques Cupid and Sucz
with lumber for Montevideo, the barque Wim-
mera with part cargo of deals for London, the
the brig Hace! with deals for Cardiff, and the
brigantine Zeno with lumber for Rosario, Buenos
A number of other yessels are being

for South America,

Ayres.
loaded, and we hear of charters to South Ameri-

can ports at $15 to $17, a small vessel having
The lumber

been engaged at the outside figure.
trade in this city during the past week has been

fair for the season, and the month of June

closed much better than was expected, the sales
footing up a good aggregate. The receipts of
both hard and soft woods during the week have
been pretty full, andthe yards are being rapidly
replenished with new stock. Arrivals have
been liberal from the Ottawa, as well as from
ports between here and Quebec. We hear of
great complaints regarding the slow traffic over
the Q. M. O. & O. Railway, shipments of lum-
ber in some instances having taken as long as a
week in coming from Ottawa to this city, which
s causing great annoyance to dealers here who
sell to customers for delivery within a certain
reasonable time. The prospects for building up
an extensive lumber trade with Manitoba are
increasing. During the week a number of cars
of red and white pine have been shipped from
this city to Winnipeg, white costing from $20 to
$25 per M. feet delivered on cars, a choice lot
having commanded as high as $30, and red at
$16, average quality. Besides pine we notice a
demand for hard woods is springing up in the
Northwest, and sample lots of cherry, ash and
walnut have already been shipped to Winnipeg
on the basis of $60 for cherry, $100 for walnut,
and $20 for ash. ‘There is still a demand for
hardwood on American account, the sale being
reported of a boat load of ash at $20. Ship-
ments are being made to Lake Champlain ports
and through to Boston. We also notice ship-
ments of eight cars, chiefly white pine, to Port-
land, Me., last week. We quote prices at the
city yards as follows :—Hardwood—Black wal-
nut, per M. feet, $80 to $100 ; oak, $45 to $60 ;

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

$40; cherry, $60.

wood, $15 to $18 ; pine, 1st quality, $35 to 540 ;

for large quantities.
SN

QUININE TREES.

cinchona bark from all other countries.

commerce under the name of Cuprea Cinchona,

tracing it out, and has stated, in the Pharma-

ine. Several species of Remijia have leaves re-

ana, Wedd., and R. pedunculata, Karsten, cer-

mine, recently discovered by M. Arnaud.
appears probable that other species also yield

the cuprea cinchona of commerce, but definite
The

information on this point is still wanting.
value of this bark has led, according to M.
Triana, to a great devastation of the forests in

which the trees grow, and has produced a finan-
cial stagnation, business being neglected in order

to follow the more profitable occupation of col-

lecting the bark. Fortunately seeds of the tree

have been received and are now in cultivation
at Malvern House, Sydenham. The tree is
likely to prove valuable for cultivation in coun-

tries where malarial fever abounds, since it

grows at an elevation of 200-1000 meters above
the sea, at which even red cinchona bark will
not flourish.

READY MADE HOUSES,

The Winnipeg Zimes says:—‘‘ The great de-
mand for building and sleeping accommodation
experienced by everybody coming to this coun-
try—caused by the immense influx of people—
has set inventive minds to work, and many
plans in the way of tents, portable houses and
impromptu erections, etc., etc., have been
brought into service, but the most practical ar-
rangement yet offered is a portable house of
large dimensions, which has just arrived and
has been placed in our midst, within, ?t might
be said, a few hours. lL. Forrest, of Belleville,
Ontario, is the inventor of a plan, which has
been pronounced, by some of the best architects
and builders to be the most practical and at the
same time best adapted for our North-west cli-
wate yet offered. It being not only warmer
and stronger than the ordinary plan of build-
ings, but cheaper, and, what is still better, is in
the true sense about the only portable house of
any great dimensions, that has been offered, can
be erected and taken down at will, 1t is just the
thing for those wishing to follow up the advance
of the boom westward, or a farmer wishing a
house put on his farm, can take it with him, and
without the aid of a gang of carpenters, can put
up his 6wn house in a few hours, all complete,
and if desirious can change his locality in the
same length of time. A model house of over
100 feet long and two stories high, fitted out
with rooms and furnished with beds, bedding,
carpets and everything, has just been put up on
the corner of Logan and Mary streets, near
Main, complete, sufficient for the accommoda-
tion of 250 guests, and all done in an almost in-
credibly short space of time. The foundation
was not all on the ground until Tuesday fore-
noon, when the work of erection was started,
and the last piece of rooffing was placed on
Thursday forenoon about the same hour, show-
ing what can be done on thisplan. <A detailed
descriptoin of this modern edifice would, per-
haps, take more space than we can_afford, but

maple, $25 to $35 ; birch, $20 to $35 ; rock elm,
$30 to $35; ash, $20 to $25; butternut, $35 to
Soft wood—Hemlock, per
M. fect, $9 to $10; spruee, $10 to $12; bass-

pine, 2nd quality,. $20 to $30 ; pine, mill culls,
$10.50 to $12; shipping culls, $15 to $16 ; pick-
ings, $20 to $25 ; first and second qualities, $30
to $40. These prices of course would be shaded

During the last two or three years a bark
containing quinine and quinidine has been im-
ported into England from Columbia in such
enormous quantities as to equal or even some-
times exceed the whole of the importations of
The

botanical source of this bark, which is known in

on account of its peculiar coppery tint, has
hitherto been a mystery. M. Triana, the well
known quinologist, has recently succeeded in

ceutical Journal for April 22, that it is derived
in great measure from two species of the nearly
allied genus Remijia, none of the members of
which were previously known to contain quin-

sembling those of the true cinchonas, and of
these M. Triana has determined that 2?, purdie-

tainly yield cuprea bark, the former being the
species which contains the alkaloid cinchona-
It

The Orono corres I

date :—The drives have eee the bos
except the drives from the West branch
Sebois. and these will be in by the last of J
The West branch drive contains abou
000 feet, and the Sebois 5,000,000 fee
are 40,000,000 feet of logs in the boom at thi
time, and 45,000,000 have been rafted out th
season. Reckoning 20,000,000 feet as
amount of logs wintered in the boom, —
9,000,000 feet from the Passadumkeag,
not go into the boom, gives us 150,0
of logs as the supply for this river, i
those wintered at the mills.

suflice it to say that it is all put up in three feet
sections on the principlé of dovetailing and
grooves, which is the most substantial way of
putting wooden structures together. A com-
pany has been formed at Belleville for the pur-
pose of manufacturing these houses. Mr. For-
rest, although a Canadian by birth, is somewhat
an American in his movements, and is prepared
to push his enterprise to its utmost.

RAFTS AT QUEBEC. _

The Quebec Cnronicle, of July 7, has the fol-
lowing lists of rafts arrived :—

June 30—D. C. Thompson, staves, sundry
coves.

Sundry lots, oak, elm, ash, &c., Indian cove
west.

McLean Stinson, pine, oak, &c., Dobell’s
(Sillery).

Hilliard & Dickson, white pine, St. Law-
rence docks,

Thos. Buch, pine, oak, &c., New Liverpool.

W. Hunt & Son, walnut and oak plank,
Drum’s wharf.

Sundry lots, deals, &c., sundry places.

J. Francis & Co., white and red pine, Cap
Rouge.

July 3—R. & G.
Dobell’s cove.

Wm. Mackey, white pine, Hadlow cove.

Alex. McEwen, white pine, etc., Hadlow
cove.

David Moore, white pine, etc., Cap Rouge.

E. L. Kelsey, staves, New Liverpool,

Jno. Burstall & Co., masts, Woodfield cove.

July 6—J. Burstall & Co., masts, Woodfield
cove,

Thos. Buch, white pine, New Liverpool.

W. McClymont, white and red pine, Cap
Rouge.

W. Henry Row, white pine, &c., Bridgewater
cove,

Jas. Gibson, jr., birch and ash, Hadlow cove.

,
Forest Fire.

The Astorian, (Astorin, Oregon
describes a recent fire in the vicinity of
as follows:- “‘ During the last week
out across Young’s Bay, that, starting
as a little smouldering mass, was fanned
fierce flame by the dry winds from the es
Friday last, the scene, as described by an ey
witness, was grand. Great trees were c! ;
smoke by day and pillars of fire by night.
son sheets of flame streamed out from
pines and great heaps of burning moss 1
through the air lodged in the tops of adja
trees, instantly converting them into a mass of
flames that encircled the trunk and rose high i
the air above. The roar of flames was di
ly heard in town. Fortunately no eae 2
done, though woodmen in the immediate rn ;
borhood had great difficulty in saving that which
was cut and piled.”

Strickland, white pine,

SWEDEN.

A correspondent of the Timber Trades Journal
writes as follows from Stockholm, on June
17th :—According to intelligence received from
Norrland, the flood, caused by the melting of
the snow on the mountains, has this year been
more sudden and violent than usual. The float-
ing has, therefore, had to be done with care, so
as not to allow the logs to be taken by the
torrent on to low-lying ground, with the risk of
having the timber lying high and dry when the
waters recede. This is one of the costliest acci
dents which can happen to the floating contrac-
tor, and he is therefore on his guard against it
as much as possible. Everything, however,
points to the conclusion that the “‘ drives” from
the small streams this year will be pretty clean,
and consequently that a large number of the
logs will reach the saw mills before autumn.

FOREST TREES OF CANADA.

Prof. Bell, assistant director of the Geological
Survey of Canada, has compiled a neat little
work, showing the geographical distribution of
the forest trees of Canada. The book is aceom-
panied by a map on which the general northern
limits of the principal forest trees are marked.
This is the first work of the kind that has been
issued in Canada, The tree-lines have been
laid down chiefly from observations made by
Prof, Bell during the last twenty-five years, ex-
tending from Newfoundland nearly to the

Ra Ace ps ‘ NORWAY.
ie ft ares an ea ine sa ern A correspondent of the Timber Trades Jo 7
nited States to the eastern and western shores writes aa olla cece Sumas 17th

of Hudson’s Bay. The continent of North Ameri-
ca possesses a great variety of forest trees.
About 340 different species occur within the
United States. All the kinds which we have
in Canada, amounting to about 90, including
those on the Pacific slope, are also met with in
that country. Prof. Bell points out that in the
western peninsula of Ontario the forests present
a remarkable richness in the number of species
to be found growing together. In some localities
as many as fifty different kinds may be counted
growing together on a single farm lot. A more
varied mixture is probably not to be met with
in any other part of the continent, or perhaps‘in
the world. One of the principal uses of Prof.
Bell’s map is to indicate the area within the
Dominion throughout which each kind of timber
exists. A knowledge of the limits of our differ-
ent trees is also valuable as indicative of climate.
Certain trees cease to exist when they come to
regions subject to severe spriug or summer
frosts, or where early autumn frosts prevent
them from maturing their fruits.—Toronto Tele-
gram.

There is little or nothing of interest to the wood
trade to report just now. This time of year is
always pretty dull as regards shipments, for
nearly all our vessels go into the Baltic or
American trade after their spring voyage from
home, so that tonnage remains scarce, and con-
sequently rates of freight high during the sum-
mer months. Although this state of things is
repeated every year quite regularly, importers
on your side seldom seem to -realize the fact
that such regular increase of freight tends to
enhance the c. i. f. prices, if the cost value re-
mains stationary, and to check any actual de-
crease in the general market price for delivery. ;

” australian Trade. ,
Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett & Co.’s timbér re-
port, dated Melbourne, April 8th, says:—We
have to report a fair trade demand during the ~
month for most descriptions of wood goods, and
considerable sales have been carried through at —
auction, at prices nearly supporting last month's
rates. American lumber—We report sales ex
Warwick Castle and Somersetshire. 12 in. w. p.
shelving brought £14 12s. 6d. to £14 10s. ; 4 M.
clear do., £16 10s. ; 2 in, Canada clear, 7 to 11
in. wide (an English shipment), only ize
£11 to £12 per M. super Arrivals during
month—14,197 ft. w. p. ceiling, 198,633 ft. w.
shelving, 192,397 ft. clear pine. These will
fully supply the market until fresh arrivals, an
prices are not likely to advance above prese
rates. The trade hold moderate stocks.

SE
MAINE LOGS.

The Bangor, Me., correspondent of the
Northwestern Lumberman writes as follows —
The cut of logs on this river the past winter is
from 130,000,000 to 140,000,000 feet, principally
spruce, which, with about 60,000,000 feet which
remained over in the booms from last year,
makes about 200,000,000 as our supply for this
season, All the drives are now secure, except-
ing 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 feet, and all in the
boom, excepting the East and West branch
drives, the former of which will be ia in about
two weeks and the latter in about five weeks,

Savare timber to the value of $14,500 h :
been shipped thus far this season from E
Rapids, Mich.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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Can Trees Stop Tornadoes!

The time will come, because human necessity
will compel it, when the unnaturally deforested
plains of the West will be grand in their growth
of noble trees. When they are, tornadoes will
be broke in their force by some belt of timber,
chevaux de friese, which meets and breaks the
force of the storm. It is folly to say that the
plains will not grow trees. In riding across
them any common observer can see where mag-
nificent oaks have survived as a testimonial to
the worth of the soil. They stand stately in
their silence on solitary knolls, above and be-
yond the prairie fire. Given the trees, the for-
est in fact, we have the essentials, the break
against the winds, the timber for building, and
the firewood, the three crops of which the plains
are most in want, but all can be summed up in
the words ‘‘timber shelter.” Trees can stop
tornadoes.

Peterborough.

THE Drives.—The saw log drives are coming
along very slowly this season ; none have pass-
ed through here since those of Messrs. Rathbun
& Son, and Messrs. Ulyott & Saddler, consist-
ing of 200,000 logs ; all under the foremanship
of Mr. James Lynch, one of the best foremen
in the business that runs these waters. The
logs were all to be assorted at Harwood on Rice
Lake. 4

Tue Suincte Mitu.—The new raceway is
now completed, and when the driving wheel is
put into proper order, which will take a few
more days, then Mr. Kearns will be making
the shingles fly out of the slabs and logs ina
hurry, and will keep the packers busy from now
until winter.

Lindsay.

Fixe Trser.—Messrs R. & G. Strickland of
Lakefield, have just finished shipping from
Lindsay, a large drive of square and board pine
timber of 2,472 pieces or 140,000 cubic feet,
which they have sold to a firm in Quebec at
$3,50, per foot delivered. This is undoubtedly
the finest lot of timber that has been shipped
over the Midland Railway this season.

Bic Loapinc.—On Monday the 10th July,
Mr.John Buller, of the Midland Railway, load-
ed at Lindsay, 21 cars with timber,10,136 cubic
feet,in four hours. Average number of feet per
car 482%. Average time per car 11.3-7 minutes.

Durine the past three weeks there has been
great activity along the river at Lindsay, owing
to the fact that Mr. Irwin and Messrs, R. & G.
Strickland were shipping large quantities of
timber over the Midland Railway to Port Hope,
where it is being rapidly rafted for Quebec.
They have just completed shipping two large
drives of square and board timber of 4,472
pieces, or 225,000 feet, and Mr. Irwin expects
another large drive of 2,300 pieces shortly.

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drake Bitters in all cages of Jaundice, Bilious-
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they have given universal satisfaction, and I
have eold more of them the past season than
any other one patent medicine,”

Frauds by a Lumber Firm.

Derroir, July 7.—The well-known lumber
firm of King, Quick & King, doing a heavy
business at the village of Lowell, were arrested
by the sheriff charged with the larceny of logs
from Flat River. The complainants are the
Michigan Barrel Company, of Grand Rapids,
White & Freant, of Grand Haven, and others.
It is alleged that during the past three years no
less than $20,000 worth of logs have been stolen
from Flat river. Detectives have for some time
past been engaged on the case.

AN Ottawa correspondent, dating July 7th,
says :—Since the first of July there passed
through the Madawaska slides 247 cribs, con-
taining 5,769 pieces of timber. Since the 3rd
instant, there has left Ottawa 765 cribs contain-
ing 14,620 pieces of white pine and 4,859 pieces
of red pine. Since the 8rd instant, there has
left Gatineau boom 17,892 saw logs, 1,557 pieces
of cedar, and 6,632 railway ties.

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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of prominent men from different
parts of the country was held in the Common
Council Chamber, Rochester, on June 20th, to

reorganize the American Forestry Association.
Dr. John A, Warder, of North Bend, Ohio,
oceupied the chair. The Association has for its

object the planting and protection of forest
An interesting discussion of the subject

trees.
was entered into by the members present. A
committee consisting of C. A. Greene, H.
Moody, William Little, A. W. Weber, and J.
W. Manning, was appointed to prepare a form
of constitution for the society.

The Association re-convened next morning in
the Common Council Chamber. The committee
appointed to draft a constitution reported the
following, which was unanimously adopted :—

§ I. This body shall be called the American
Forestry Association, and shall seek to promote
the- interests of forestry and to disseminate in-
formation connected therewith.

§ II. The officers shall be a President, First
Vice-President, Secretary, Corresponding Sec-
retary, and Treasurer—who shall constitute an
executive committee with power to act on behalf
of the association. There may also be one Vice-
President for each state, territory and province
in North America. The term of office shall be
one year or until their successors are appointed.

§ III. Meetings shall be held annually, or at
such times and places as the Executive Commit-
tee may direct, for presentation of papers, dis-
cussions, and practical matters relating to
forestry.

§ IV. Any person recommended by a member
of the Executive Committee, may be elected to
membership on payment of $2. The annual
dues shall be $1.

§ V. The Executive Committee shall have
full authority to act for the Society in any
emergency.

§ VI. This constitution may be altered or
amended at any regular meeting by a majority
vote of the members present,

The committee appointed to nominate officers
reported the following named persons who were
unanimously elected :—

President—George B. Loring,
D. C.

Secretary—J. Jenkins, Winona, Ohio.

Corresponding Secretary—Prof. R. 8S. War-
den, Cincinnati.

WwW ashington,

Treasurer—D. W. Beadle, St. Catharines,
Ontario.
Vice-Presidents.—Maine, George Sawyer,

‘Wiscassett ; New Hampshire, Ex-Gov. Fred.
Smith ; Massachusetts, N. H. Egleston, Wil-
liamstown ; Rhode Island, H. G. Russell, Hast
_ Greenwich; New York, H. Seymour, Utica ;
New Jersey, George H. Cook, Rutgers College ;
Pennsylvania, Thomas Meehan, Germantown ;
Maryland, Gov. Hamilton ; District of Colum-
bia, John Saul; West Virginia, Hon. H. G.
Davis, Piedmont ; Ohio, Geo. Weltz, Wilming-
ton ; Indiana, J. Ingersoll, Lafayette ; Michi-
gan, W. J. Beal, Lansing ; Kentucky, Cassius
M. Clay; Tennessee, John W. Lee; North
Carolina, S. D. Kelsey, Highlands; South
Oarolina, D. Wyatt, Aiken ; Alabama, Charles
Mohr, Mobile ; Florida, J. G. Knapp, Lanona ;
‘Wisconsin, Hon. W. E. Smith, Madison;
Minnesota, George L. Becker, St. Paul ; Dakota,
H. M. Thompson, Preston Lake ; Wyoming,
Hon. John W. Hoyt, Cheyenne; Illinois, Arthur
Bryant, Jr., Princeton ; Missouri, 8. M. Gray,
Columbia ; Towa, Chas. E. Whiting, Whiting ;
Nebraska; Hon. R. W. Furnas, Brownville‘
Kansas, George C. Brackett, Lawrence ; Louisi-
ana, ——; Arkansas, F. L. Harvey, Fayette-
ville ; Texas, G. C. Georgeson, College Station ;
Colorado, D. S. Grimes, Denver; Utah, J. E.
Johnston, St. George ; California, Robert KE. C.
Stearns, Rerkeley ; Nevada, ——; Oregon, J.
B. Dufur ; Idaho, ——; Quebec, Jas. Little,
Montreal ; Ontario, Wm. Brown, Guelph, Ont.

The following preamble and resolution was
adopted :—

Whereas, The American Forestry Congress
has recently been organized with the same
objects and field as the American Forestry As-
sociation.

Resolved, That a committee of three be
muthorized to negotiate a union of these two
bodies.

Resolyed, That if this union be effected at

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN

once, the first meeting of the united association

be held at Montreal, August 21 and 22, 1882.

A motion was then passed to the effect that
when the Association adjourned it should ad-

journ to meet again in Montreal on August 21.

The Chair was instructed to appoint three

gentlemen as a committee to make the desired
negotiations with the American Forestry Con-
gress.

Norman J. Coleman, editor of the Coleman

Rural World, of St. Louis, Mo., made some re-
marks in regard to the efforts of Dr. John A.
Warder, the retiring President of the Associa-
tion, for the good of the cause, and, on motion
of the speaker, a vote of thanks was tendered
to Dr. Warder.

Remarks were then made by Dr. Warder,
Wm. Little and N. J. Coleman upon the ques-
tion of preserving forests, and the best ineans of
preventing the wholesale destruction of trees.
E. C. Selover, of Geneva, followed with brief
remarks, He advocated running the state ex-
perimental station in the interests of forestry.
The convention then adjourned.

THE USES OF HARD WOODS.

The amount of hard woods, or ‘‘ white woods”
asthey are called in the trade, in contradistinction
to the resinous and gums, which are used in one
form or another in the mechanical arts, in agri-
culture and domestic life, is simply astounding
to one who has never considered the matter.
You have only to think how many handles of
one sort and another—axe, pick, spade, plow,
hatchet, hammer, etc.—are used on every farin,
and apply that scale to the agricultural pro-
prietors of the world, to see the amount of these
woods that are in constant demand. Consider
the vast number of mechanical pursuits in which
these are indispensible. Think of the number
of sledge and hammer handles that must be
worn out in making cars, boilers and engines,
of the pick handles that must be had to build
railroads, grade and pave streets, dig tunnels,
sink shafts, mine iron and coal, gold and silver,
and some idea of the vastness of the demand for
even handles alone may be had. But this is
only one of the various forms in which this pro-
duct of nature is daily consumed by the insati-
able demands of civilization. Cogs, pulleys and
mallets, spokes and hubs, shuttles and bobbins,
and a thousand specific devices for saving time
and labor, must be made out of these woods.

Think now of the innumerable vehicles, all of
which are to be supplied with spokes and hubs,
rims and felloes, shafts, axles, spring bars,
coupling poles and other essential parts. There
is no present likelihood of there being any sub-
stitute found for such woods in these uses.
There will never be a metallic handle for the
axe or pick of practical utility. The elasticity
and lightness of wood are essential in all these
uses. In others still other qualities, as lack of
friction or imperfect conduction, are necessary.
Shuttles must be made of a closely knit wood
which may be worked very thin, yet remain
firm and light, and take a very high polish.
Mallets, as for the use of stone-cutters, must be
made of a heavy, close-grained, elastic wood,
which will not splinter nor become indented
from a long succession of hard blows upon the
chisel head. There are but few kinds of wood
which are adapted to any of these uses. Fore-
most among them all, as the great mechanical
wood, is the hickory. Its whiteness, hardness,
toughness, elasticity and durability, together
with its capacity to assume a reasonable finish,
and almost absolute freedom from splinters and
checks, give it easily the supremacy over all
other hardwoods. It is true that in some of
the uses to which these woods are devoted, the
hickory is not as good as some others. It would
not make as good a shuttle as the persimmon,
as good a plane stock as the apple, as good a
stamp or roller as the maple, as good an engray-
ing material or as fine rings or croquet balls as
the box or dogwood; but while these woods
excel it in these peculiar uses, they are useless
in a thousand others where hickory is unap-
proachable. As a material for all classes of
handles, light spokes, rims and shafts—in short
whenever both stiffness and lateral elasticity
are required together, it is without a rival. It
is among woods what steel is among metals.
Two kinds of oak, the white and post, are some-
times used for the grosser purposes in which the

qualities of hickory are required, as large
spokes, felloes, etc., as well as many other pur-
poses to which it is peculiarly adapted. The
ash is the only other elastic handle wood, and
‘its tendency to split between the grains, as well
as its unreliability and its variableness in quali-

ty, make it undesirable except for a few pur-

poses—as the spade, pitchfork, and the like—
Where solidity

where lightness is requisite.
only is required, the beech, maple, holly, apple,

and a few other woods may be used. Among

the best of these inelastic woods, however, are
the persimmon and dogwood.— Wood Worker.

AN ACROBATIC LOGGER.

There is an acrobatic and gymnastic talent
outside the circus ring, and when some impor-
tant emergency calls it into play, it will develop
in the most unlooked-for places some times,
The logging business is fraught with dangers
and hardships, and many of the adventures of
the sturdy logger might creditably grace the
pages of romance, and would put to shame the
extravagancies of Munchausen. One of the most
thrilling feats was that of an acrobatic logger
who had been peeling bark for some days in the
Moosic mountains near Carbondale, Pa. He
was likewise engaged in removing the logs to a
mountain skidway near Herrick Centre, 250 feet
below. While Harkness was at the skidway
handling a log his canthook lost its grip and he
his balance, so that he was thrown down the
embankment in advance of the rolling logs.
The logger was between two tires—behind rush-
ed the freed timber, in front was the river
covered with a tangle of logs. It was a terrific
race between man andlog. But the endangered
logger thought and acted quickly. He shot
down the mountain side to a certain point,
where he gathered himself and made a tremen-
dous leap out into the water. He struck a nar-
row space between the logs, coming under the
pole in good order, and the plunge carried him
beneath the surface just as the pursuing log
dashed to the water’s edge, and broke badly,
coming in decidedly blown. The man kept his
wind well and was rescued by his companions
only a few feet from where the losing log struck
the water. It was little short of a neck and
neck contest. The logger kept his grip on the
cant hook, and had it when pulled out of the
water.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

ENCOURAGING TREE PLANTING,

A few years ago Congress passed a law to en-
courage the growth of timber. Under its pro-
visions and with a view of availing themselves
of its advantages, the farmers in the far west
are planting thousands of acres with young
shoots and saplings, which in a few years will
undoubtedly make climatic changes fraught
with untold beneficial results. The wisdom of
the law, says the Boston Advertiser, becomes
more and more apparent as time goes on. They
promise to counterbalance the wholesale des-
truction of forests in the older section of the
country by creating new tracts of woodland up-
on the vast bare plains of the trans-Mississippi
region. They appeal directly to the individual
self-interest of settlers and to the desire for
landownership which appears to be a stronger
passion in new communities, where the soil is
almost the only visible property, than in places
where an old society has created many other
forms of wealth. The western farmer who has
homesteaded a quarter section of 190 acres can
secure an additional quarter section by planting
and caring for the growth of ten acres of trees.
If he selects his homestead tract upon an unoc-
cupied section he can get 320 acres in a body,
and if this is not feasible he can usually find a
chance for a ‘‘ timber entry ” within a short dis-
tance of his home and thus obtain a second farm
to give to his sons or to sell when the denser
settlement of the region has made it worth a
a good price. Nor are the benefits of the tree
culture laws limited to actual settlers. Many
claims are taken up purely for speculative pur-
poses by non-residents. Considerable areas of
land are thus kept out of the hands of men who
would homestead and cultivate them, but the
object of securing the rearing of numerous pat-
ches of forest in regions naturally bare of trees
is greatly advanced,

It is still to soon to tell whether or not any

noticeable climatic changes will result from the
creation of timber tracts now going on in —
western Minnesota, Dakota, rl
Kansas, but is not probable that great b
may accrue to those regions. When the recs

attain a fair size the new forests may prey * 5
excessive droughts and destructive freshets, and
break the force of high winds and tornadoes, as
well as promote a supply of fuel and lumbe
for future generations. The timber-culture
laws afford a striking example of how much ean
be done to improve natural conditions by
legislation, and are a lesson to the advocates «
the let-alone theory of government. Their
cessful working suggests the inquiry, if the

ited States can, by two simple a 1
forests to spring up upon hundreds of thor
of bare acres in the new west, cannot the «
do something by legislation to regulate and
it the destruction of timber in the older sect
of the country ?—Lumberman’s Gazette.

THE WHITE SEA TRADE.

The wood trade of the northern regions of
Russia, and particularly the basin of the White
Sea and its affluents, is pronounced excessively
slight in comparison with that of the native
countries of Norway and Sweden. The radius
of the forests of Vologda and Archangel has a

superticial area of 197,100,000 acres, it is esti-

mated. The wooded regions of Sweden cover
an area of some 40,500,000 acres, and those of
Norway 16,200,000 acres. Notwithstanding the
fact that the figures show Russia to have con

siderably over twice the estimated radius of
area, the wood exports of these countries differ
to the extent that the two Russian Governments
export 124,000,000 cubic feet, and Sweden and
Norway export 1,200,000,000 cubic feet. Only
a minor portion of this wood is exported abroad,
the amount being:—From White Sea ports,
10,775,000 cubic feet ; Swedish ports, 200,000,000
cubic feet ; Norwegian, 82,891,000 cubic feet.
The most striking fact in the Russian wood ex-
port trade is that the largest export comes from
the less-wooded districts. The Governments of
Vologda and Archangel possess but eleven saw-
mills, whereas in Sweden there are 1,350. The
great mass of the Imperial forests of Russia are
concentrated in the north and northeast, at the
north of the Volga and Kama, and on the right
bank of the Volga, in the Government of Lim-
birsk.—Glasgow Herald.

WOODEN PIPING 250 YEARS OLD. |

Some recent excavations in Berkeley square,
London, England, brought to light one of those
curious relics of old London, which are every
now and then being exposed in its streets. In
the sixteenth century London was supplied
with water from the Thames by means of wood-
en pipes invented by one Peter Morris, or
Maurice, a Dutchman, who, in 1580, obtained a
right from the corporation to erect machinery to
supply what many housholders had been com-
pelled to purchase, a tankard at a time, from
water-bearers. Maurice's works were erected
at Old London bridge, and his water pipes were
hollowed out of the stems of trees, tightly fit-
ted into each other, much after the manner of
the common sewer pipe of to-day. Some wood-
en piping of the kind devised by this ingenious
Dutchman has recently been dug up in Berker-
ley square, but it was probably part of the
works of the New River Company, which so far
adopted Maurice's plan that it originally sup-
plied water through pipes formed of the stems

of small elm trees, denuded of bark, drilled

through the center, and cut to lengths of about 6
feet. Some 10 years ago a considerable length
of this wooden piping was exhumed in Pall
Mall.

Watuince (formerly known as Teeters), in
White county, Tennessee, near the line of the
extension of the Manchester and McMinnville
railroad, is doing a lively lumber business. The

lumber business commenced in White county

about three years ago, and in that time about
twelve million feet of walnut and three million

feet of poplar have been sawed and shipped —

from the county. About one hundred wagons

are now engaged in hauling lumber from the

mills in the county to the railroad depot at Reck
Island,

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OIL FROM PINE.

Within the last few years an important in-
dustry has sprung up in the French department
of Landes. It consists in the extraction and
application of oils from pine. These oils are of
two sorts, the heavy (pinoleum) obtained by
distilling the resinous wood at a low tempera-
ture, and used for painting and wood preserving ;
and the light oil for illumination, got by distill-
ing in special apparatus, and purified with
chemical agents. This light oil has the same
chemical composition as oil of turpentine and
distils at the same temperature (150 to 160 de-
grees), but has the advantage of not turning
into resin. It contains neither pinic nor sy] vic
acid. Asit does not emit vapour except at a
high temperature, its use for lighting purposes
is quite safe. Its luminous intensity 1s said to
be greater than that of petroleum ; it contains
88 per cent. of carbon, while petroleum has 82
per cent. Two similar burners showed the pine
oil to have an advantage of 33 per cent. in
luminous intensity ; the consumption is also
less. In the department of Landes, roots and
old stumps of pine, formerly unutilized, are
now made to yield considerable quantities of oil.

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CHARCOAL.

We have before spoken of the process that
has now passed beyond the stage of experiment,
for making charcoal from wood and saving dur-
ing the operation more in value of various
chemical constituents than itcosts to make the
charcoal. The Chicago Zribune in speaking of
it says that the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Wes-
tern Railway Company has sold about 5,000
acres of land near Birnamwood, Shawano coun-
ty, Wisconsin, to a number of New York capi-
talists. The hardwood therein will be utilized
in the manufacture of charcoal, acetic acid and
alcohol, and a plant costing $25,000 is to be
established at once for this purpose. The capi-
talists have secured the right of a French
patent, which, by the use of retorts, is made to
condense smoke from burning wood. By a
peculiar process six gallons of 85 per cent.
alcohol and 50 lbs. of acetite of lime, the base of
acetic acid, are extracted from one cord of wood,
leaving sixty bushels of charcoal. It is the in-
tention to invest a large amount of money in
addition to the first cost of the plant.

DRIVING DIFFICULTIES.

The Northwestern Lumberman says the owners
of logs above the Gerrish dam, in the Tittaba-
wassee and its branches, met at Saginaw, Mich.,
the other day, to settle upon some means of
controlling the driving of the stock of logs now
in the stream, which, for want of harmony
among owners, was in a fair way to be left till
late in the season. The meeting represented
about 73,000,000 feet of logs, and about all the
action taken was to draw up an agreement fixing
the prices to be paid for driving from different
points to the boom limits, which ranged from
124 to 20 cents per thousand feet. This compact
was signed by the representatives of 63,000,000
feet of logs, though it could not have any bind-
ing effect till 75,000,000 feet was represented, so
the interested parties began scratching around
to secure enough signatures to close the matter
up, a skirmishing committee being appointed
for that purpose.

Suddenly Seized.

Mr. Arthur Fisher, of the Toronto Globe ob-
serves: ‘On my last trip to the States, I
caught a very bad cold from a severe wetting §I
received one night in the city of Philadelphia,
which settled into a very bad case of rheuma-
tism, and made me most miserable. I did not
know what to do for it, and could not think for
a long time, until I bethought me, that on pre-
vious visits to that side, I had always bought
for Mr. Gay, of our paper, a couple of bottles
of St. Jacobs Oil. I remembered also, fortun-
ately, that the last two bottles had cured that
gentleman of the rheumatismn,and so I resolved
to purchase St. Jacobs Oil for my own use. I
went at once to a drug store and made the pur-
chase; that very night I began applying the
Oil, and in two weeks time [ was as well as
ever.

“ Anp Foois who came to scoff remained to

y.”"—We receive many letters from those

ving tried while doubting, yet were entirel
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wit

men write us earnestly as to its
wonderful effecte, z

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

HOW TO PRESERVE A SUGAR BUSH.

The Cultivator and Country Gentleman says :
“An old farmer who is the owner of a fine
‘sugar bush’ that has been tapped many year,
in succession, but is yet in a good state of preser-
vation, says that trees will be little injured by
tapping if the holes are tightly plugged when
the spiles are removed ; that instead of finding
a large decayed spot the next year surrounding
the hole made by the bit, the wood will be sound
and green clear up to the hole, and that the
tree can be tapped within one-fourth of an inch
of the old hole and a good flow of sap obtained,
He uses pine for plugs, and to have them fit
nicely he makes them from long sticks which
have been driven through the right sized hole
made in a piece of iron.”

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THERE is an elm in the south of England,
sixty-one feet in circumference, whose trunk is
hollow, having a door fastened by a lock and
key. Festal parties have sometimes gathered
in this tree, and it is said that a child was once
born there. Another great elm has a winding
staircase cut within it‘and a turret at the top
which will accommodate twenty persons at
once.

Tur Ottawa Citizen says that a house on the
new patent which Mr. Logan has taken out for
the construction of portable houses for the
North-West has been ordered for one of the road
companies in Ottawa to be used as a toll-house.
These houses are composed entirely of wood,
and one of the peculiarities of their construction
is that they are all pegged together, no bolts or
nails being required for their erection.

A Nove method of taking lumber from the
river has been put into practical operation by
the Hannibal (Mo.) Transfer Company. The
scheme is to run flat cars down to the river
bank and out on the bed of the river for a dis-
tance of 200 feet, and cribs of lumber are then
floated on top of the flat cars and drawn out by
two engines upon the bank. The cribs are 32
feet long and 16 feet wide, and contain 10,000
feet of lumber. They are then removed to the
yards of the company and taken apart, the
boards being washed by hydrant water clear of
the sediment dirt which attaches as they come
down the river. The method will have the
effect of making it possible to handle several
times the amount of lumber shipped in former
years. =

But few people comparatively have any idea
of the amount of timber used in the contruction
of a single railroad. It yearly takes 200,000
acres of forest to supply cross-ties for the rail-
roads of the United States. It takes 15,000,000
ties to supply the demand on their railroads, for
which on an average the contractors get 35 cents
a piece, making in the aggregate $5,250,000.
In building a new road the contractors figure
on 2,700 ties to the mile, while it takes 300 ties
to the mile to keep a constructed road in repair.
Contractors, of course, buy pieces of timber-
land as near to the proposed line of road as pos-
sible, paying for the timber an average of about
$20 per acre, or giving the proprietor 10 centd
for every tie got out. The average of a good
piece of timber land is 200 ties to the acre and
twelve ties to the tree.

Brieutr’s Disease of the Kidneys, Diabetes
and other diseases of the Kidneys and Liver,
which you are being frightened about, Hop Bit-
ters is the only thing that will surely and per-
manently prevent and cure. All other pretend-
ed cures only relieve for a time and then make
many times worse.

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. A five cent sample settles it.

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the Booksellers, Stationers and Newsdealers.

Tue Worst Caszs of weakness, exhaustion,
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the generative organs can be cured by Mack’s
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THE Rev. Charles E. Piper, formerly of Pitt-
field, N. H., but now of Wakefield, R. L.,
writes :—‘‘ I have used Baxter’s Mandrake Bit-
ters in my family for over two years, and as a
result have not called a physician in the whole
time. My wife had been an invalid for two
years, but these bitters have cured her,”

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Hintrarp & DicKson’s raft, one of those re-
cently wrecked in St. Croix Bay, has been all
saved, and the last piece of timber has arrived.

| HWresno County, Cal., has an apricot tree
measuring 60 inches around the trunk three
feet from the ground, which has about a ton of
fruit.

THE new mill of the Ontonagon, Mich., Lum-
ber Company is making a good early record.
During a recent week it turned out 519,949 feet
of lumber.

Mr. Witson, recently from St. Thomas, is
erecting a large saw mill on lot 30, 8th con., of
the township of Dawn, about three miles from
Oil Springs. Mr. Wilson will go into business
pretty extensively, and will find a market for
the major portion of his production in Ger-
many.

A LOGGING railroad has been opened on Hood’s
canal, at or near Olympia, W. T., by McLeary
Bros., which has cost $10,000, and the locomo-
tives $5,000 additional. The road taps a 4,000-
acre tract of fine timber, from which 30,000 to
50,000 feet can be cut daily for 10 years, accord-
ing to the estimates.

A RAFT ran aground on Hog Island, near the
foot of the Cedar Rapids on Saturday, July 8th,
and a portion of it broke to pieces, some of the
raftsmen being precipitated into the river, and
with difficulty rescued from drowning by their
comrades. Mr, Jackson, the well known pilot,
left Montreal on the train with a party of twenty
Caughnawaga Indians to assist in getting it off.

Tue Montreal Gazette says an unusually
Jarge amount of timber has arrived at Lachine
this season, so much so that the booms were
completely filled; and what timber remained
outside of them wasin great danger of being
wrecked. This fact being represented to Mr.
Conway, the efficient canal superintendent, he
immediately provided the extra room required
at a small cost to the Government, who will get
large returns from the boom dues on the extra
room. The thanks of the trade are due to Mr,
Conway for his action in the matter,

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Tue Buffalo Lumber World says :—While the
white pine districts of Michigan and the North-
west are being rapidly stripped of their timber,
and many are confident that the child is already
born who shall see these regions denuded of the
last stick of pine, there are in the South millions
of acres of yellow pine, which is esteemed by
many quite as good as the white for most pur-
poses, on which the woodman’s axe has never
yet been heard.

A Quesxc correspondent says on July 7th :—
The timber market has been dull up to the
present time. The half of Mr. Peter McLaren’s
last year’s lot of lumber, about 165,000 feet of
white pine of about 57} feet average, has been
sold at 34¢, per foot; also a dram containing
about 35,000 feet of white pine, of 50 feet aver-
age, at 26c. per foot. A lot of red pine of about
38 feet average has been sold at 14 and 16c. per
foot according to age.

Tun Lumberman’s Gazette says the season has
now come when our people should beware of
forest fires. Let those clearing land see to it
that their fires cover no ground other than that
intended. By these forest fires an incalculable
injury may be done. First, the country will be
lost in smoke and ashes ; second, a great loss of
valuable timber will be sustained ; third, fences,
farms, and maybe towns will be destroyed ;
fourth, the country through which the fires
rage is temporarily blockaded, and fifth, its
beauty is permanently lessened by the burning.

Tur Hamilton correspondent of the Globe
says :—Mr. F, W. Fearman, of this city, a short
time ago sent a bag of soft maple seed to a friend
in Manitoba, which has been received and
planted. From this seed in a_ short
time it is expected a small grove will spring up,
which will not only be useful for wood in the
Prairie Province, but will be ornamental and a
protection against the wind. Mr. Fearman
advised the planting of the seed in rows one
inch deep in the soil. The tree from which the
seed was taken is about twenty years old, and if
cut down would make over a cord of good fire-
wood,

Tuer township health officers in Edwards
township, Ogemaw county, Mich., propose to
hoist two dams in that township, and have given
notice to that effect. As about 100,000,000 feet
of logs depend upon these dams for water to
carry them into boom limits, the owners of the
same are naturally considerably exercised re-
garding the matter. The action of the town-
ship officers is said to be on the ground of
health, but it is asserted that no one resides
within a mile and a half of the dams. The log
owners interested have taken legal advice to get
an injunction to restrain che hoisting of the
flood-gates,

THE Timber Trades Journal, of London, Eng-
land, says :—The improving value of timber
lands in Canada appears to be attracting the
attention of capitalists in this country, and es-
pecially in Scotland. Two of the Scotch Cana-
dian companies, viz., ‘‘The Quebec Timber
Company,” and the ‘‘ British Canadian Lumber
and Timber Company,” are at present requiring
increased capital, the former company for the
purpose of purchasing about 315 square miles
of valuable pine limits in the Ottawa district;
and the latter are offering 5 per cent. debentures,
secured on their valuable timber limits, stated
to be worth £300,000.

THe Ottawa Herald, of July 8th, says :—By
actual measurement this morning the Ottawa
River is 5 feet 4 inches higher than ever before
at this date, within the memory of the oldest
raftsmen on these waters. Other years at this
season the numerous sand bars between this and
Greenville were impassable for boats, but up to
the present pilots have experienced no trouble
from these obstructions. The same unusual
height of water is experienced on the Upper
Ottawa, and its principal tributaries, so that in
view of the large quantities of timber that have
already been floated down, it is confidently ex-
pected that the drive this year will be complete,
The only drawback may be the possible over-
stocking of the market at Quebec, which will
have the effect of reducing prices,

LUMBERMAN.

Tue Timber Trades Journal says it has fre-
quently been discussed whether Quebec pine or
best redwood boards are the more suitable for
mould-making. The matter is not one which is
capable of being decided ‘‘ off-hand.” On the
score of quality alone, we are of opinion that
pine must rank first. Pine mouldings are
capable of receiving a higher finish, and take
coatings of paint better than do redwood mould-
ings. Redwood mouldings must, on the other
hand, be awarded the preference on the score of
economy. The wood costs less than does pine,
and the redwood being longer in its lengths, the
waste necessitated by the use of the short lengths
of pine is avoided,

FOREST FIRES.

OwING to the frequent showers and the cool
weather with which we have been favoured
thus far this season, our forests have suffered
little or no damage by fire as ‘yet, although we
fear that unless more than the usual precau-
tions are observed during the next two or three
months, we shall yet have to record a consider-

able depletion of our timber reserves, by the

fire fiend. With a little extra care, and ata
moderate expense, however, we cannot help
thinking that if ‘‘ trees had votes” much might,
and would be done to render the year 1882 a red
letter one in this respect. The expense of put-
ting forth some extra exertion to protect our
forests during the few weeks of the dan-
gerous season which now remain, certainly
could not be great, and ought to be easily un-
dertaken by those already in the employ of the
Woodland Forest Departments of our Local
Governments, That the people of Canada are
destined to pay, at no distant day, for their
carelessness in this respect, cannot be disputed
by any one who has their eyes open to what is
transpiring around them. The rapidity with
which our home demand is developing, and the
constantly increasing difficulty with which it
can be supplied at what one is inclined to look
upon as a reasonable figure, should make every
one realize that it is of importance to them that
our timber resources should be husbanded with
the greatest care, and that a judicious expendi-
ture of the public funds for such a purpose
would be money well spent in more ways than
one. Were it not that we are aware that the
continual dropping of water will wear a hole in
the hardest stone, we should feel disposed, in
shear despair of anything to this end being done,
to remain silent on the subject, but hoping that
our little droppings, combined with that which
falls from other sources, may yet have some ef-
fect and lead to some practical action on the
part of those to whom these important interests
are entrusted, we once more utter a word in be-
half of the protection of our forest wealth, and
of the important interests dependent thereon,
from the annual depredations which it suffers by
fire.

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.,
meagured and culled to date :—

1880. 1881, 1882.
Waney White Pine..... 720,526 469,252 484,464
White Pine...........%. 916,647. 1,317,680 1,137,928

RSG PINGiviacec cesses 245,764 230,348 176,391
OS ol Cone) dis aueke 615, 504 974,404 542,929
LO aS Aeteegmeaee ici 445,430 587,009 260,769
ASD Sian cian vie rcss ieee 102,605 209,862 103,467
BasSwOod wv cces seacts. 3,069 120
Butternut.......e..0 285 297 1,442
TAINEKAGiN «caismmcattetas 9,316 4,331 727
Birch and Maple....... 621,887 117,381 188,754
MOAB wielcnm i stcmick enna eexe ain 32 pes
Spars. ..ssecees oo voee ee a uses
Std. IStAVES cs cow cesiexs's 0.6.0.2.6 59.6.25 126.8.0.20
WTS (Staveay. swanieeces 123.9.1.16 116.2.2.20 225.4.0.19
Byl. (SEAVESs cca wnieninis oi awe 1.7.3.29

Deputy Supervisor.
Quebec, 7th July, 1882.

Sawdust Utilized.

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says:
** Sawdust from Leathem & Smith’s mill Stur-
geon bay, Wis., supplies fuel to the steam barge
Smith for her trips between that port and Chica-
go. The dust is taken from the cireular to the bin,
which is located at the edge of the wharf, and
run into the hold of the craft by means of a
spout, thus saving handling, ete. If this new
venture proves successful, as there is no doubt,
a great saying in time and expense is expected.

market.
and a lot loading at St. John and Miramichi.
These arrivals are indeed welcome, as there are
scarcely any stacks of whitewood at our place.
The news received from various Swedish and
Finnish ports announces that several steamers

THE FRENCH TRADE.

Borpeavux, June 12th.—The weather con-
tinues unsettled, to the great detriment of the
wine harvest, but in some parts of the interior,
and also in Spain, complaints are heard of the
drought. Cargoes continue to come in gradually.
Some arrivals of Dram flooring, and the Nor-
wegian goods generally, have not met with
satisfaction, the wood being considered to have
too many knots, spoiling its appearance. It re-
mains to be ascertained whether the brack for
the French is the same as for the English mar-
ket, which I have no doubt it is. There is an-
other steamer chartered for wood to the Medi- —
terranean, from St. John to Barcelona. The

French steamer Panama, with wood goods

from that place, has now arrived at St. Na-

zaire.

The Gironde of June 19th says :—We are ex-
pecting the arrivals of spruce shortly in the
Several vessels are already en route,

and sailing vessels are on the way to our port,
and others loading.

BUNDLING LATHS.
The Timber Trades Journal says :—Objections
have been raised to the practise of binding
bundles of foreign-made plasterer’s laths by

means of wire ; string, or better still, unwoven
rope, is considered to be far preferable by those

who have experience of the trade. The wire is

admitted to be temporarily stronger than either
string or the unwoven rope, but the action of
the weather, it is said, quickly corrodes the

metal wire, and when this has once occurred

the bundles nearly always burst. It will be

readily enough understood that laths, immedi-
ately on their arrival on this side,-are required
to endure some rough handling, and with-
out question it is most necessary that the
bundles in nine cases out of ten become value-
less. The laths get strewed about, broken, un
cared for, and lost, for the importer is rarely
able, unless he be actually present, to prevail
upon his men to break off at their work for the
purpose of rebinding them. Most importers of
laths will doubtless give evidence of this being
the case.

CANADIAN FORESTRY.

Considering the immense importance of her
timber resources to Canada, it is a matter of
surprise that our forest literature is extremely
meagre. We are glad to see in a pamphlet on
our table, entitled ‘‘ The Geographical Distribu-
tion of the Forest Trees of Canada,” by Dr.
Robert Bell, of the Dominion Geographical
Survey, the first attempt to give a comprehen-
sive and systematic account of the occurrence of
the different species of trees in Canada. This
work is extracted from Dr. Bell’s report of the
survey for 1880, and its publication in pamphlet
form at a cheap figure will doubtless have the
desired effect of creating a greater interest in
Canadian forestry than has hitherto existed.
The pamphlet is accompanied with a large and
accurate map, on which are represented by
different lines the northern limits of thinty of
the most valuable species of trees which occur
in this country. The pamphlet will be welcom-
ed by all interested in the timber resources of
Canada.—Toronto World.

BLACK WALNUT.

The following letter appears in the Timber
Trades Journal, of London, England :—

Srr,—Some few weeks since there was an
article on the American black walnut, stating
that it could only be propagated by seed ; could
any correspondent mention where seeds can be
purchased in this country (the local nursery-
men know nothing of them), as the writer is
desirous of planting a few as an experiment ?

Va

Ir is almost impossible for vessels entering
Port Hope harbor to discharge a cargo, owing
to the large quantity of timber that is daily ar-—
riving by the Midland Railway from Lindsay,
there being an average of about 16,000 feet per
day,

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

TRENT NAVIGATION.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

HE LETTING of the works for the FENELON
‘yy FALLS, BUCKHORN and BURLEIGH CANALS
advertised to take place on the fifth of July next, is
unayoidably postponed to the following dates :—

Tenders will be received until WEDNESDAY, THE
SECOND DAY OF AUGUST NEXT. :
Plans, specifications, &c., will be ready for examina-
tion (at the places previously mentioned) on SATUR-
DAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JULY NEXT.
By order,
A, P. BRADLEY,
Secretary.
Dept. of Railways and Canals, \
Ottawa, 20th June, 1882.

NOTICH.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :

d150-law-2L13

Ss Notice is hereby given that the au-
thority of M. W. FORWARD as agent at
Oswego for ROSS & CO., of Quebec, is re-
voked, and his authority as such has
ceased. By their Attorney,

SAMUEL P. WIGG.

Dated June 27, 1882. 1w27-11L14

D. S. BRIGGS,
9 TORONTO STREET, TORONTO.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
Clear, Pickings, Common and Hardwood
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c.

BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER.

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

ZTOLBONTO, ONT.

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

&£ZP.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. 1itf

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WANTED,

STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SEO & DAVIS,

atead Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

CENTRAL IRON WORKS.
Law, McLean? Brayshaw

Simcoe Street,

PETERBOROUGH.

CASTINGS of every description in Brass
Iron.

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STEAM FEED for Circular Saws.
Also Saw Gummers, Cutters, Double Upset
Swages, and all Saw Tools, ” ‘i

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CANADA TRUSS FACTORY

(ESTABLISHED 1856.)

Ee GwOmre,

Manufacturer of SURGICAL and ORTHOPGDICAL
INSTRUMENTS. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS made to order.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS of every description. 1u14

688 and 690 Craig Street, Montreal.

ESTABLISHED 1574.

THOS. GRAHAM

Manufacturer of Every Description of

FILES and RASPS

HAND CUT FILES made from the Best Refined Eng-
lish Cast Steel and Warranted Equal in every respect
to the best English brands.

NEW FILES neatly put up in labelled boxes for the
trade ; to whom bottom figures will be quoted.

Old and Worn-out Files re-ground and re-cut by
hand, and made equal to the New File for use, at prices
that will effect a great saving to all consumers of Files

N.B.—Bvery File Guaranteed. Price List on applica-
tion, and a Sample Order Solicited.

Factory & Office :—Sherbrooke St.,
TORONTO.

816

J.T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
KINDS AND GRADES OF

American Lumber

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Timber Limits and the Square
Timber Trade a Specialty.
Office, Wellington Street, OTTAWA. Ii1tf

IRWIN & PHILP

Commission

‘Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
Shipping»General Agents
PORT HOPE.

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PORTLAND FOUNDRY.
JOSEPH McAFEE,

(Late ANGUs MCAFEE.)

Warehouse, Main St., St. John, N-B.

AGRIGULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

MANUFACTURER OF

Cooking, Ship, Parlor & Office Stoves

MILL CASTINGS

Ship Windlasses, Capstans, and
Ship Castings of all kinds,
(MADE TO ORDER.)

Power Capstans, Patent Ship Pumps

With Copper Chambers.

Lead Scuppers & Water Closets & all
goods in my line for Ships’ use.

Work done to Order with Quick Despatch.

1n15

Drake Brothers’ Box Mil
rake Brothers BOX Mill,
Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, N. 8.

HEMLOCK SHINGLES

Ww. 2. DRAXKE.

SPRUCE, PINK?

BB Ee. DRAKE.

“WILLIAM CAMPBELL

(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLEBR.)

MANUFACTURER OF

Edge Tools, Axles, Springs,

&C, OF HVEHRY DESCRIPTION -

¥

." ST. JOHN, SEs.

Robertson Place, Smythe Street

CURRIE BOILER WORKS

ESTABLISHED 1852

STEAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery
on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

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Mill Machinery,

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Port Perry, Ont.
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SAW MILLS!

Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run
the year round.

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves
to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without -permis-
sion to BE. WATT, Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
running respectively 10, 8,5 and 3 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

C. NORSWORTHY .& CO.,,

.ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mills.
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Sees eee eee ee
This TREE PLANTATIONS.

PROPER TIME TO CUT TIMBER.

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman,
writing to that paper, says :—When to cut tim-
ber, especially hickory, is a question that has
frequently been asked, and will continue to be
as long as there is timber to cut. That there
are seasons of the year when timber intended
for use ought not to be cut, is very manifest to
my mind from personal observation and ex-
perience of others. A few years ago I cut a
number of white oak trees, and made them into
rails in December. They were put into a fence
on high, open ground, where they had the full
benefit of air and sunshine. At this time there
is not a single sound rail in the lot, and a great
majority of them are entirely rotted, and others
put in their place. I have had rails made at
nearly all other seasons of the year, and have
neyer had them rot as these did. I haye peeled
a great deal of chestnut and oak timber for tan-
bark, and made most of the trunks into rails. I
have noticed that some of these rails have lasted
better than others, which causes some to think
that there is something as to the time they are
cut, and I am led to believe that timber cut in
the light of the moon will last better when ex-
posed to the weather than that cut when the
moon is on the decline.

I have also noticed that from some oak rails
made during the latter part of the winter from
green timber and put into the fence, the bark
will drop off in a year or two, while on others it
will remain tight for years. I have moved
fences that were built for 30 years, the bark on
many of the rails was sticking fast. Hickory
timber cut in the light of the moon in February
will never become powder posted or worm
eaten, no matter whether the bark is taken off
or not, while that cut in the dark of the moon
will be worm eaten and posted; of this I am
satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt. I had an
uncle who engaged to make a lot of ramrods for
agunsmith. Without taking thought he cut
the timber during the dark of the moon in Feb-
ruary, shaved the rods out and put them up in
the garret to dry. For some cause or other he
left them there over the summer. The next
winter, when he went to examine them, they
were literally eaten up. To look at them a per-
son would suppose they were sound, but take
them in hand and break them, they were noth-
ing but a shell. I examined them myself, and
know whereof I affirm.

A few years ago I engaged to furnish a
wagon-maker a lot of hickory for wagon-axles,
and cut all of the trees in the light of the
moon except one. J hauled the tops and limbs
of the trees off the ground for wood. That
which belonged to the single tree I piled by
itself, and I never moved it. During the follow-
ing summer it was completely honey-combed,
and in a very few years had rotted entirely
away. I have also cut hickory in June and
peeled it, which was never touched by worms,
I can find some hickory rails on an adjoining
farm that were made over 60 years ago, but
know nothing about what time of the year they
were made. ‘Timber girdled in the light of the
moon in June will stand for years and season
and dry out, while at other times they rot and
tumble down in a very few years.

Commenting on the above, the Blacksmith
and Wheelwright says :—We-agree with this
writer that there is a proper as well as an im-
~proper season for cutting timber. We know
from experience that two pieces of timber of
the same kind, growing with the same exposure,
and as nearly alike, in all particulars, as it is
possible for two things to be alike, but cut at
different times, will behave very unlike. One
will remain sound for a long time, while the
other will manifest some of the symptoms de-
scribed by the writer of the above. We have
never thought of going to the moon, however,
for an explanation of the difficulty. We know
the moon is accused of a great many offences ;
that it has in special charge the tides and other
terrestrial phenomena, but we are disposed to
defend it in this matter of the durability of
timber. We believe the reason is to be found
nearer at home, and that if investigators will
study the habits of certain insects which prey
upon timber, the condition of the timber itself
with respect to its sap at the time it was cut,
and the character of the soil upon which it grows,
they will be much more likely to solve the ques-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

pense of loading and unloading the logs.

has been partially if not wholly overcome by a
device now being utilized in some of the Wis-
consin districts. The Green Bay Advocate ina
late issue says :—‘‘ The new log lifting and car-
rying device of Wm. Baptist & Sons proves a
success and is now in practical use. It consists
of engine, boiler and hoisting apparatus on a
scow. The hoisting concern picks up a log from
the water or shore and deposits it in the scow in
one minute. The trouble experienced thus far
is in letting go of the log after it is on the scow.
The clamp is similar to ice tongs, and when a
log is lying with others it is hard to unclasp it.
This, however is a trifling defect, which will be
easily overcome. It proves much safer and
more expeditious to bring logs in a scow than
to tow them in a raft. The ditticulty alluded to
is of such trifling magnitude that it is unworthy
of consideration in this connection. If the
scheme of log transportation, as above, proves
practicable on a small scale, it will undoubtedly
be enlarged and improved upon, and thereby
settle the long discussed problem of the future
log supply for the mills on the Saginaw river
in which so many millions of dollars are inyest-
ed, and thus obviate removal or demolition.

tion than by turning tothe moon. This problem
is one which has not been sufficiently studied.
There is not enough information on the subject.
The prevailing ignorance makes it possible for
a writer to attribute all the phenomena observ-
ed to the occult influence of the moon, and in
so doing to appear plausible. This question of
the proper season for felling timber is one to
which experienced, practical men can well
devote attention.

SAGINAW SAW MILL IN AUSTRIA.

Wickes Brothers, of Saginaw, Mich., manu-
facturers of saw mill machinery, are about ship-
ping a complete mill outfit to Stettin, Germany,
from whence it is to be conveyed into the heart
of an immense pine forest in northern Austria,
This is the first complete American saw mill
ever sent to that section of Europe. It was
purchased by Count Chambour, a French noble-
man, who is largely engaged in lumber manu-
facture, owning several mills and large tracts of
valuable pine in northern Austria. Mr, H. D.
Wickes effected the sale while travelling in
Europe last March. The machinery to be
shipped, including an engine, will weigh about
40 tons, and will make an entire train load for
the small cars that are employed in Germany.
The mill outfit will include a 38-inch patent
gang, a full complement of all auxiliary saws,
all the shaftings, belting, pulleys, saw-gummers,
filers, and everything down to files. Every-
thing will be American, except the boilers for
the engine. It is thought that the transporta-
tion expenses will add 50 per cent. to the cost of
the outfit laid down in the pine woods of Aus-
tria. But it will pay where it is to be put up,
inasmuch as the mills now in use are of the
kind that have saws that go up one day and
come down the next, or words to that effect.—
Northwestern Lumberman.

KENTUCKY TIMBER.

A correspondent of the Northwestern Lumber-
man from Southern Kentucky complains be-
cause so much of the timber is shipped away to
be consumed in manufacture, whereas the woods
might as well be made up into commodities at
home. At many of the railroad points some of
the most magnificient walnut is seen, some of
the logs measuring over four feet at the butt. It
is shipped to Cincinnati, Ohio, and other north-
ern furniture-making markets. The correspon-
dent says :—‘‘It seems a little strange that out-
side cities clamp down upon and utilize our state
products, convert them into furniture, and real-
ize vast profits, while our citizens stand idly by,
dreaming, with listless gaze, at the absorption
of our wealth. Walnut trees are bought stand-
ing in the forest, and the title conveyed away

DUTY ON A HARBOR CRIB.

Our readers will remember that Messrs.
Rathbun & Co., recently had a monster harbor
crib built in Deseronto and towed across the
lake and put into position at Oswego, where
their extensive docks are. They are horrified
now by a heavy duty being put upon their im-
portation, The Hamilton Spectator says that
the Treasury decision is as follows, sent to the
Collector of Customs at Oswego: “ Sir,—The
department is in receipt of your letter of the
19th inst. reporting upon the appeal of E. W.
Rathbun & Co, from your decision assessing
duty at the rate of thirty-five per cent. ad
valorem on a certain wooden crib imported into
your port from Canada, which they claim to be
dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent. ad valorem.
It appears that the crib in question is a large
wooden receptacle for stone, which is intended
to be sunk and used in building a pier in the
harbor at your port. It is made of ‘ flatted’
logs, timber, and planking fastened together
with iron bolts and wooden pins, and in this
condition was towed into your harbor. Such
being the case, the article is clearly a manufac-
ture of wood, which is dutiable at the rate of
thirty-five per cent. ad valorem.—Kingston
News. a

rich valleys has been sold, leaving but a small
balance for future dealers.
and roots are sold and used for veneering purpos-
ornamental and decorative lumber. Not only

in oak, ash, hickory and other fine timber.”

An Iron Tree.

greatest work of art in the State House yard.
Thisis a casting wholly of iron, commemorat

favorite tree of South Carolina. We had heard

been able to believe the stories of the flexible
leaves bending in the breeze, supposing this
phenomenon an optical illusion, but such is
really the case. The long thin leaves of iron,
life-like even to the hair like fibres of the twigs
and branches, wave tremulously in every zeph-
yr, and the whole tree, painted artistically, has
so close a resemblance to the real tree as to
deceive the acutest observer at the distance of
five rods,

TRANSPORTING LOGS.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—‘‘ We have
before alluded to the possibility of transporting
logs from the Georgian Bay and other points to
supply the mills on the Saginaw river with
stock, after the same shall have been exhausted
hereabouts. We have always had faith in the
feasibility of the proposition, and expressed our
belief that the ingenuity of man would over-
come the difficulities presented, when the neces-
sity should arise. The possibility of towing
long rafts of logs any considerable distance has
been found hazardous business as at present
conducted, although practical lumbermen have
expressed implicit faith in the possibility of con-
structing cribs so as to insure practical safety in
transporting logs by this method. A new plan,
however, has lately sprung into prominence,
which may possibly be extended and improved
upon, and thereby overcome the obstacles which
have hitherto seemed so insurmountable. The
new plan is nothing more or less than the trans-
portation of logs in peculiarly constructed
scows. The great objection to this plan has
hitherto been embraced in the difficulty and ex-

Scorched Pine.

The losers of timber by the late fire in the
Menominee, Mich., region were as follows :—
The Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Com-
pany, 7,000,000; the H. Whitbeck Company,
15,000,000, and the N. Ludington Company,
8,000,000 feet. The fire was in a heavily tim-
bered district near the Brule, and as much as
possible will have to be logged during the
coming winter in order to save the burned trees.
Fires have also run through the great wind-fall
that resulted from the tornado last year, and
logging on this tract will go forward all summer,
the Kirby-Carpenter Company is putting in
several millions of feet, while the Ludington,
Wells & Van Schaick Company will cut and
skid 10,000,000. It is thought that if early
driving is begun on the upper Pike there will
be little difficulty in running the logs down to
the mills,—Worthwestern Lumberman.

ture. He began a plantation of trees on two

as real estate, to be gathered in as they are
wanted. Almost every respectable tree in these

Even the stump
es, affording the most beautiful specimens of

does this section abound in valuable walnut, but

The iron palmetto at Columbia, S. C., is the

ing the death of many of Carolina’s slain, whose
names are found in raised letters on brass tablets
at the base. The success of this casting consists
in its perfect imitation. of living palmetto—the

of this statute in other places, but had never

cent sample of Zo

Mr. B. F. Peck, of Bethany, N. Y., affords
an example of what can be done in forest cul-

fields six and eight years ago. He now has ten
acres of trees on rather poor soil, which consists
of aclay loam resting on shelf-rock near the
surface. He grew European larches and Scotch _
pines. At two years from the seed these young
larch and pine trees were transplanted to places
where they are to remain, four feet apart each
Way, an acre thus containing 2,640. Those that

have been set six years are now 10 or 12 feet
high, vigorous in growth and branching so exten-
sively as to make it difficult for one to pass
through the woods, These are from two to
three inches in diameter at the ground. G
set eight years ago are from 18 to 24 feet high,
and from four to six inches through, The pines
are planted out 16 feet each way. Ina year or
two Mr. Peck will begin to thin out the

using them for poles and small fence posts. The

land is thought to pay as well in these trees as

if planted to ordinary farm crops, while the ad-
vantages they afford in protection to other crops
and to the farm buildings is inestimable. Mr.
Peck believes if 20 per cent. of our older and
rough cleared land was planted to forest trees,
it would render the remaining 80 per cent. more —
productive and valuable than the whole now is,
_—_—_—_—_—_———
FORESTS RUINED BY WATER.

THE Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says
the proposition is advanced that water rather
than fire is the most destructive element in
obliterating our forests. As an instance it is
stated that in a new valley among the moun-
tains a beaver dam obstructed the flow of a
stream and made a large swamp of a meadow,
which was surrounded by a dense growth of
pine and hemlock. When the same creek was
again dammed back by coal dirt it ruined quite
a large area heavily timbered, and the same
thing has occurred on a large number of streams.
It has been found that where the fires destroy
our forests we soon have a new growth of a
different species of trees, but none where water
destroys them. An investigator following this
theory inquires if the treeless plains may not be
accounted for upon this basis, which opens a
question of cosmography which would require
the deepest consideration and the most careful
research to determine, if, indeed, it could be
satisfactorily settled.

Pine Pipe,

At Lycoming, Pa., a factory has been estab-
lished by Bower & Wyckoff for the mannfac-
ture of wooden pipe, to be used in tanneries, in
mines and by farmers, Two buildings are oc-
cupied, one as a factory and another for the
storage of manufactured stock. The pipe is
made of white pime, and is of four inch bore.
The sections are eight feet in length, and of all
thicknesses, as may be required. The small
pipe used by the farmers is rendered durable
and preserved from decay through being coated
with asphaltum and rolled in sawdust. The
factory averages from 1,200 to 1,800 feet of
piping per day.

$200.00 Reward !

Will be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person selling or dealing in any bogus,
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A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
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who finds himself suffering will spend a few
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Ohips.

Drives to the extent of 100,000,000 feet have
been safely floated in Aroostook county, Me.

Some malicious person cut the boom at Chas,
Mears’ sorting ground, Lincoln lake, Mich.,
and let 3,000,000 feet of logs go their wayward
way.

Tue Lindsay Post says a large quantity of the
finest hardwood ever shipped from Lindsay is
being delivered at the Midland yard near the
river,

LUMBERMEN are becoming afraid that the
water in the Ottawa will fall and that they will
be unable to bring their timber to market this
season.

Tur Lake Superior News, of Duluth, says :—
Quite a number of Michigan lumbermen are in
the city looking around with the intention of
locating if they see a good opening.

THE Cheboygan Lumber Company, of Che-
boygan, Mich., recently received a raft of
1,000,000 feet of logs from Waiskai bay, Lake
Superior, the first raft to pass through St.
Mary’s river.

THE Montreal correspondent of the Canadian
Manufacturer, writing on June 28th, says :—
Several car loads of white pine have been ship-
ped to Manitoba during the week, costing $20
to $25 per M. feet.

AN adobe building at San Antonio, Texas,
150 years old, has been torn down. It is an old
relic, and built in 1730 by settlers from the
Canary Islands. Some of the cedar timbers
were still good and sound.

Ir is thought that over 50,000,000 feet of logs
will be sawed in Minneapolis during the month
of June, which will make it the banner month
in the history of milling in that city. Very few
of the mills are running at night.

A GREAT linden tree in Wurtemburg covered
four hundred feet with its branches, which were
supported by numerous columns, set by kings
and others of high degree. A linden at Zurich
forms a bower capable of holding five hundred
persons,

WALNUT has become scarce enough and dear
enough in Canada te suit almost anybody’s
ideas; but England can beat us a trifle in
walnut expensiveness. Two walnut trees blew
down in England recently, and the timber was
sold for over $500,

ENGLAND intports some 10,000 tons of cork per
annum, and the quantity is yearly increasing,
notwithstanding the introduction of many
stoppers and substitutes for corks, such as plugs
of wood, whose fibres have been specially soften-
ed for the purpose, india-rubber, and other
materials.

Tue Milwaukee Exchange says :—There ap-
pears no longer to be any use in publishing rates
of freight on lumber and coarse stuffs, such as
wood, ties, &c. Vesselmen take anything they
» can get, and express themselves satisfied when-
ever they succeed in making a trip that pays ex-
penses,

THE people of Kansas, under the forestry
laws of the state, have planted 93,000 acres in
trees, the cottonwood being most abundant, and
growing most rapidly. Some 6,000 acres have
been planted in black walnut, which it is ex-
pected will give handsome returns in eight or
nine years.

PROBABLY the longest poleroad for logging in
the state has been built in Midland county,
Mich. It is eight and one-half miles long.
Rockwell, Stokes & Co. are building a saw and
shingle mill on this road and will haul all their
product over it, four miles, to the Flint & Pere
Marquette road. It will be a circular mill with
two Hall machines for cutting shingles,

Tue Linden, or Lime-tree, is a rapid growing
tree, and often attains a great size. One in
Norfolk is 90 feet high and 48 feet in circumfer-
ence. Another at Moor Park, England, is 120
feet high, 23 feet in circumference at the ground,
while its crown is 122 feet in diameter. Another
in Kent covers a quarter of an acre of ground
The lower branches of the last named tree have
grown out to a great length until they drooped
to the ground by their own weight, when they
took root, sending out young trees. These in
turn put forth branches which again took root,
thus forming a second circle of trees,

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN,

THE Detroit Marine News says a steamer last
week carried out 15 car loads of Michigan oak
lumber, sawed to dimensions and billed through
to Glasgow, to be used in constructing railway
cars. It is believed that this order will be fol-
lowed by others, because our northern oak
possesses qualities much sought after by
builders, but not found in British lumber, save
that which commands a very high price.

AN Ottawa correspondent says that during
the .week ending July 1st, 551 cribs containing
15,790 pieces of timber passed through the
Calumet slide, through Chats slide 952 cribs,
through the Chaudiere slide 296 cribs, represent-
ing 6,764 pieces of white pine and 1,102 of red
pine ; through the Carillon slide, 112 cribs of
square timber and 25 cribs of deals. Through
the Gatineau boom slide there passed since the
26th of June 30,807 saw logs and 7,500 railway

ties.
THE Northwestern Lumberman says the ever-

increasing demand for shingles has been en-
hanced to a very important degree by the recent
destruction of several large mills, which has cut
off the supply to a serious extent. As a result
most of the mills now running haye no
trouble to dispose of their product, and in many
cases have large contracts ahead. Nerreter &
Melcher, of Saginaw, Mich., have contracts
ahead for cutting 3,000,000 shingles at the Crow
Island mill,

THE ash frequently attains a considerable
size. During the last century there was a hollow
trunk of an ash tree, forty-two feet in circum-
ference, at Donirey, Ireland. The village
school was kept in this tree for a time. An ash
in Lochaber churchyard, Scotland, is said to
have been fifty-eight feet in circumference,
measured five feet from the ground. At
Carnock, Scotland, is one planted in 1598, which
is 90 feet high and 19 feet in circumference, five
feet from the ground.

THE Dexterville, Wis., woodenware factory
is owned and operated by Ged. Hiles & Son.
The stave department occupies a building 50 x
100 feet, and over 6,000 staves are manufactured
daily. Fifteen acres are occupied as stave-piling
ground, and 4,000,000 are now on hand. The
syrup keg department is 40x70 feet, and there
are six double dry houses. There is a pail and
tub factory being erected, 65 x 100 fect, and two
stories high. The total cost of the establish-
ment was $70,000. The company has 40,000,000
feet of timber.

A FARMER in the township of Brantford, Ont.,
writes to the Aail as follows :—‘‘T have maple
trees I set out in 1842, one of which measures
57 inches in circumference three feet above the
ground, and I have white oaks that are now
between 60 and 70 years old, which measure
over 9 feet in circumference. This being the
case, we and the generations to follow need not
dread a want of timber and wood for fuel if we
only begin to plant trees about our farms, and if
those of us who have bush lands, when taking
out the large trees, will only be sure and leave
the saplings.”

A Boat to be used for the purpose of a float-
ing saw mill has been built on the river at
Nashville, Tenn., by Messrs. Green & Wallace,
for operation on the Upper Cumberland. The
design of its projectors is to buy pine, cedar and
walnut timber on the banks of the river, and to
convert it into lumber for market on the vessel,
at the rate of several thousand feet per day.
Captain (xreen has announced it as his
intention to buy all the logs from Walnut Bend
down to the city. The vessel is a novel struc-
ture, 100 feet in length and 22 feet wide, and has
2 full saw mill equipment,

Tue Northwestern Lumberman says the lumber
manufacturing points are now exhibiting great
activity, Muskegon, Saginaw and Minneapolis
being particularly on the boom. At the latter
point, taking the estimate of 392,000,000 feet of
logs as the sawing supply for the mills for the
season, they have more logs than they can cut,
notwithstanding the briskness which character-
izes operations. The amount of logs cut shows
a large increase over those cut last year. The
surveyor general has recently given some en-
couraging figures showing the increased opera-
tions, which are about double. Since every
mill owner has prepared for an exceptional sea-
son, it is regarded that Minneapolis will see the
biggest boom this season it has ever had,

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MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

Jury 10th.—Since the date of our last report
there has been quite a number of holidays and
church festivals, which always interfere more or
less with business. Lumber dealers here state
that the amount of business done so far this
year is quite equal to the same period last year,
and a brisk and healthy demand is expected for
some time to come. Stocks are full and a good
deal constantly arriving. A large number of
rafts have been passing here for Quebec with
deals for the English market. Prices are well
maintained and firm. We quote ex yard as

follows :—
Pine, 1st quality, ® M...+..ses. seveeees $35 V0@40 00
Pine, 2nd “‘ 48 M ... 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, ce) IMM SIE Sie eleia 14 00@15 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, Y M o netona 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, # M 8 00@10 00
Spruce, #@M....... 10 00@11 00
Hemlock, # M.. 9 00@11 00
Ash, run of, long culls out, aie Macortecasde 17 00@20 00
Bass, Pineits ualtiniess 17 00@20 00
Oak, BM. ..c ccc secscetesceseenee cence 35 00@45 00
Birch, PM. ...cc.gsncreeecccesnnes - 18 00@20 00
Hard Maple, BM... scceesersesrccserces 18 00@25 00
ibaa GEV sh a oenddooubddogoedonRoDdsO000 1 30@ 1 40
Shingles, Ist, BM 1... wsceeceseevereese 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, GMs cislasisios sees vc tieene res 2 00@ 0 00
FREIGHTS.
A number of vessels are in port, chartered

some time ago for lumber to the river Platte.
The rates to-day for large vessels is $13@$14,
“and for small vessels $15. Freight market

easier.
SHIPMENTS.

The shipments from this port from the 23rd
of June to date were as follows:—To Hartle-
pool, 874,426 feet of lumber and 25,545 deal
ends; to London, 277,200 feet of lumber and
31,003 pes deal ends ; to St. John, Nfid., 3 mille
W. I. staves and 273 pipe staves, The ship-
ments to the River Plate since the opening of
navigation to date are 4 vessels, carrying 1,696, -
347 “feet, against 5 vessels, carrying 2,454,888
feet for the same period of 1881, showing a de-

crease of 758,541 feet.
CORDWOOD.

The corporation contract for maple was given
out ‘some days ago at $7.40 delivered, the cor-
poration to pay the expense of loading. The
Court House contract has not been given out
yet. The general demand has been dull and
not likely to be much better till September.
Prices are firm as quoted on the wharf and rail-

way’ station, but not much coming in. We
quote :—

Long Maple.........++5 eiatateheraor oysveralererats eie/e/arwreveini $7 00
SHOKG MEG iiisisaicesenmen, wea Pesahsl Ya /aiais (wlelp eparest 6 50
Long Birch...........cceeeedeen seers eeseeneers 6 50
Sra 9) opp nakooseoubau000 cn OnouodUGoUGHOoD 6 00
Long Beech. ......:..ssee evens caveceeenreeenes 5 60
Sli@)qne 4 Sli nerig coat pp OODONCOUBTCOOmE Ono 6 00
IUARECH cheintelelsioicinlalatetesielectelervie)hieye] inialeleierele 4 50@5 00

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TORONTO.

From our own Correspondent.

Juty 10th.—Since last writing you the local
trade has assumed a somewhat healthier tone ;
still there is not nearly the same amount of
trade being done as at the same period last year,
but I have no doubt it is now being carried on
more carefully and with a determination on the
part of dealers to make as few bad debts as
possible, and it is better for all interested that
such should be the case, and will prevent a cer-
tain class of men who have hitherto lived and
traded on the credulity of the lumberman and
hardware dealer, from pursuing their dishonest
practises any longer. There has been far more
of this kind of trade done than has been agree-
able to the retailer, and a comfortable living has
been made by such men, at their expense, and
the present unhealthy state of the building
trade is due solely to this cause, in this city at
least, and any man, or number of men, who take
such steps as may effectually check such dis-
honest practices confers a benefit on the com-
munity at large, and hereafter we may expect
to see a more reputable class of buildings erected,
and the competent and honest builder receive a
fair remuneration for his work, and the writer,
for one, earnestly exclaims, so may it be.

Shipping over the docks is nearly at a stand-
still, very little lumber of the present season’s
cut being as yet fit to ship, and as a result of
this state of affairs, freights have had a tumble,
Plenty of vessels can now be had at $1 per M.
to Oswego, but even at that figure vessel owners

THE CANADA

cannot find freights for their crafts, so they
have to wait and hope for better times, indica-
tions of which are not far off, and I have no
hesitation in predicting a busy fall trade. A
bountiful harvest over the borders, and fair
prospects for the same here, will all tend to
stimulate the lumber trade, and all that will be
required to ensure prosperity to this fair Do-
minion of our will be a careful administration
of its affairs, combined with prudence and econ-
omy on the part of its people.

Prices at the yards remain the same, with no
surplus of stock on hand.
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling
Shipping cull board promiscuous awd ‘
oc

OCKB sic 01ss\elelebeinioe 14 00

Scantling and folat, up to a8 ft... pe liereietele vole 14 00

Sikticteteisletete sls) e-oleh viciainle 14 50

‘ ef af 35 AD ira cstoletervis'e.sie\e 1m) wie)aie 15 00

fy. Es ng, 22 ft. csccaccccecsscers 15 50

ae sf oe DALE: ieecas ce ceccsesee 16 00

M2 ae a 26 ft... .ceecsesevreees 16 50

Scantling and joist, up 0 28 ft....++ssesereeeee 17 00

ao ff ‘2 BO ft. vccvecrssereenee 18 00

Sf bid ce BZ fb. ccccrasccesesecce 20 00

ps He us BAG ateicis sie = mnie seirls el 22 50

sé BS sf BO! Lilessials sleisiv ios biereiviainis 26 00

us fe Af 38 ft.. Nppoarice ance oA) (YU

au Bs oe 40 to 44 tt. wetelecatovetele wistd 30 00

Cuttin up planks todry.....+-.ssceseereenenes 22 50

fe Mnaxd as ** ii MN as 20 00

Sound dressing stocks........+sseseeeeeerer eres 18 00

Picks Am, inspection...... sv tsseessrerrenes 26 00

Three uppers, Am. inspection.....+++++ss+++s++ 35 00

B. M.

-inch flooring, Aregsed...sesseccececees seveee 30 00

i TOUBN.....ececeeeeeceneeereeee 16 00

1,“ (4 CVESHEG cate sine eietleins decisis aiaiaie 26 00

it a ae undressed .... ...eeeeeeeeeeees 16 00

as ne Aressed ......cseeesseeeeereees 23 00

td fs undressed.........+eeeeeeereee 17 00

H Beaded Sheeting, dressed.........0.-.-+08 secs 22 BO

Ciapboarding Gressed .....ccssrseseeessiesarers 12 50

sawn shingles, # M...+.....+.0++e+s 2 Bee 00

XX sawn shingles. ....5..seeeeeeeececseceeeence 2 00

Sawn Tath.wsscs.,ecssecucceccscccsensvesnsanes 2 25
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LONDON, ONT.
From our own Correspondent.

Juty 10th.—Since writing my last letter no
new feature can be reported of this market of a
favorable character. The demand for lumber
of all or any grade is almost nil, and there is no
accounting for the lull, for it is quite unusual at
this seagon of the year, when building opera-
tions should be active.

There is not much building going forward in
the city or suburbs, and house property does
not seem to be a favorite investment in London
just now. It is, however, just to the merchants
to say that they retain their prices firmly, and
they say that if any change takes place it must
be upwards,

The quotations here for common stock is $16,
and at the mills they are asking and firmly hold-
ing at $14. his, with freight and other inci-
dentals, does not leave sufficient margin.

The universal impression among the lum-
ber merchants here is that lumber will ‘* jump
up” to much higher figures than at present, and
that, too, before long.

The block pavement contracts haye been let
to Mr. Cathro and his partners, these are from
Richmond along Dundas street to Wellington,

and from Dundas along Richmond to Fullerton

street.
QUOTATIONS.
Mill cull boards and scantling....-.-..-.-+s0s++: $12 00
Shipping eull boards, promiscuous widths... ... 13 00
10 and 12in. stocks....... 13 50
Common Pavia promiscuous widths......-.... 15 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft... ..-........00es 16 00
st et LIEU sates «eibinty sisin)Speiatera 16 50
WU « Be WO RG ss s.ctx s nratwers vieibversiesce 17 50
ee ss ee Q2Th.. dasawueesenceves 18 50
= cs Se DATE cak ww erie Netein ania 20 00
Common stocks .....seceeseceeeeeeeneesenee oe 16 00
Common 2 in. plank....essc esse cece teeter eee eee 15 00
Cutting up plank and IDOANAS «ci cietenicleiaienistsen ate 20 00
Sound dressing stOcks.... cseeescsceeeeeeeeenes 19 00
Clear and picks....... 2.0: seee ete cence tenets 28 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection...........++eeeeee 35 00
ym inch dressed and matched flooring Releiunfeinie’s 22 00
ete he Aieis sce eT 22 00
Last MY Us BS Giereis ctevetereib ciate 22 00
XXX sawn shingles, BM. .... 60s... e eee ee ees 3 25
Lath per 1000 feet... 0. ecee ee ee entree este eee 5 00
ee
OTTAWA.

From our own Correspondent.

Juny 10th.—No sales of the ‘‘season’s cut”
have been made, or large orders received by
millowners hereabouts this year asyet. Atthis
period last season almost every one of the lum-
bermen had their cut sold, and were extremely
busy filling their orders, having very little stock
for the general demand. This fact is consider-
ed somewhat remarkable. A number of Ameri-
can buyers are at present at the Russell House,
It is probable that some large orders will be
made known within a few days.

Quotations remain unchanged, Shipping by

LUMBERMAN.

boat is unusually dull just now, the docks at the
Chaudiere being lined with American boats
awaiting loads. Several firms, among them J.
R. Booth, are shipping by rail to Quebec large
quantities of deals. In previous years these
deals were altogether shipped by boat. Mr.
Booth, although shipping by rail, is the owner
of the largest fleet of boats among the Chaudiere
lumber kings.

No change on the Quebec square timber mar-
ket is reported. No sales have taken place as
yet. Nearly all the rafts destined for the
ancient capital have passed the slides at this
place. :

There is a diversity of opinion among limit
owners on the Upper Ottawa as to the propriety
or wisdom of rebuilding the Gordon Creek im-
provements which were destroyed by the high
water a few weeks ago. The cost of these im-
provements was in the neighbourhood of $1,000, -
000, and this sum is almost a total loss. By
the Gordon Creek route a considerable saving
of distance is effected in the bringing down of
logs and square timber from the Kippewa. The
old route known as the Smith will now have to
be resorted to, and will, it is thought, be gener-
ally used in future, as it is hardly probable that
the Gordon Creek dams will be reconstructed.

A new steamer, called the Argo, has been
placed on Lake Temiscamingue for towing pur-
poses. She cost $20,000 and is owned by the
Lake Temiscamingue Steamboat Co.

A petition has been in circulation and freely
signed by the lumbermen to the Government
praying the latter to do away with the charges
on the Carillon slide. Their request will likely
be granted, as the revenue derived does not
amount to a great deal.

————__—___—_—-
ST. JOHN, N. B,
From our own Correspondent.

Juty 7.—Since my last report the lumber
market here has been considerably depressed,
owing no doubt to the low prices ruling in
Great Britain, the last sales of spruce deals in
Liverpool by auction having averaged only
about £7 5s. per standard, which would be sure
to leave a loss at the late high prices. Freights
are also a great deal firmer, on account of the
slight advance in the United States, and
steamers are accepting the current rates there
sooner than come here for deals. I quote freights
as follows :—

Liverpool ...ses sees 66s. 3d. c. d.
Bristol Channel ....- 56s. 3d. c. d.
Treland astubisensses 57s. 6d. to 67s. 6d. c. d.

SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of
freight :—

Asteriana, (s), 1,129, Liverpool, 52s. 6d. c. d.

Galligo, (s), 1,515, W. C. England, 52s. 6d. c. d.

Belle O’Brien, 1,847, Liverpool, 52s. 6d. ¢. d.

E. W. Gale, 298, Drogheda, 60s, c. d.

Kiamashatka, 513, Ireland.

Nellie T, Guest, 88%, W. C. England, 63s, 9d. c. d.

Endrick, 324, Cork, 57s. 6d. c. d.

Belle, 480, Dublin or Dundalk, 60s, ¢, d.

Viator, 375, Port Rush, 58s. ¢, d.

Clarence, 1,032, Bristol Channel, 55s. ¢. d.

Arizona, (new), 1,100, Cardiff, 55s. c. d.

Aldytha, 231, Ballina, 64s. c. d.

Hawthorne, 620, Warrenpoint, 56s. Sd.c¢ d.

Assyria, 728, Warrenpoint, 56s. 3d. ¢, d.

Lottie Stewart, 742, Unchartered.

Lepreaux, 769, Unchartered.

COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 18ST. JANUARY TO DATE.

1881. 1882.
Deals. Pine. Birch. Deals. Pine. Birch.
M.S. ft. Tons. Tons. M.S. ft. Tons. Tons,
87,803 26 1,793 99,238 359 3,890
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATR.
1880, 1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons.
23-22, 044 36 28,897 16:12, 5911
———__—_—_-

OSWEGO, N.Y.
Jury 10th.—There is no change in quotations.
The demand is very light.

Three UPPeNS. eee eee cere teen eee eees S42 OO@IE 00
Pickings........ceeee cece eee ce eeeeee 82 00@36 00
Fine, COMMON ..... 6.50. ee ee eee wane VA 20 00@25 00
COMMON nce ccs vies c os een eteewssswcee 14 00@17 00
Culls....... DORIC RE NiSSis Nit DNAi< AMEND SIC EON 11 00@14 00
Mill run lots Re de cies Wak s SCENIC Cen eee RIM 18 00@25 00
eidiy , Nay linch.. .. 33 0O@40 00
MS Sou pocortosne . 34 00@40 00

Mills ins <x10, 18 to 16 feet... 17 00@25 00
selected. . oi scees sees os 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and ne; inch. millrun.. 14 00@20 00
culls. 11 OO@14 00

1x6 selected a Diaaieanla.. 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, S inch, pine 4 25@ 4 50
XXX, is inch, cedar. . . 3 60@ 8 60

Lath cvecsccyece eenenemeneeens . 180@ 190

ALBANY.

Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine; clear, @ Mo osce-.2> cease cesrsussug 00@63
Pine, fourths, ...0cccrccoccsverssces <+- a +4
Pine, SECCHE So. coc cercrcncarssesereense 45 00@55 00
Pine, £000 DOK sco. 02 220060 22 00@35 00

Pine, 10-in. plank, each.. - -
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each

Pine boards, 10-in........+ 00 26@00 22
Pine, 10-in. 00 18@00 19
Pine, 10-in. 25 00@30 00
Pine, 12-in. 25 00@30 00

Pine, 12-in. 26 00@28 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select 38 00@40 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common --. 15 00@19 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.......+++++.--.- 40 00@42 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ...-.....- 16 00@19 00
Spruce, boards, each........+eeesss--s0% 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, le IN... CACR. 6s 00cccosaccas 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., po ee ei 00 00@00
Spruce, wall strips, Pore ae aS * 00 11@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each .. ........++--+ 00 00@00 13 —t
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each..........-..... 00 00@00 31
Hemlock, joist, 2x4, PA ccbecsevennen 00 00@00 13
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each.......... 00 00@00 10
Ash, good, | ee Res .. 85 00@40 00
Ash, second quality, ee 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, BM... :ascoetsusevav ens 60 00@70 00
Cherry, common, # M... ...« Gen Seen 25 00@35 00
Oak, 00d, 0. «0 cocccssedwhes wre ee 33 00@43 00
Oak, second quality, # M.......--.-...-. 20 00@25 00
Basswood, @ M....2scccece socescesccces 22 00@25 00
Hickory, GM. sos scswvcesees-s¢asaceeeem 36 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, OM: 2... ..5.-ccauneeue 26 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M.......-sscessese 25 00@ 200
Chestnut/® M. occs<02200>-sscee-s seen 35 00@40 00
Shingles, ‘shaved, pine, @ M..... --++..-- 0 00@ 6 50
2nd quality ab ab vane ene 0 00@ 4 50
‘s. extra, sawed, pine. ....s.oneeee 0 O0@ 4 40
“3 clear, "i veeweeeeeene 0 00@ 3 40
“cedar, ten pe armine) aR ee 0 00@ 3 25
“< eedar, XXX... ..3< sss bee 0 00D 4 00
as hemlock. c00s s:sceeenssanee 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, hemlock, @ M...apeccssecssuceuess 0 00@ 1 62
Lath, spruce, ‘ wsccessesesencncuasee 0 00@ 1 87
Lath, pine, (S - . sess capes se eee 0 00@ 2 25
—___—_—-
BOSTON.

Jury 8th.—The Journal of Commerce says
trade is not active, but there is a fair, steady
demand, and values keep along on a pretty
steady basis. The outlook is uncertain, and
there is little disposition to order very far ahead.
Dry and select grades of almost all kinds of soft
and hard woods are comparatively firm.

CANADA PINE.

Selects, Dressed... oss .ssc0sseugueeeeenee $48 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, pec +e-e6es ose; sseneee 40 00@42 00
acene duce 33 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers... ....-c+esseeeeweeeees 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box... ...-.. oeses sesosccueswen 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Ist quality owcead ual e vate 42 00@45 00
Qnd 6 | nascce uuu neeenneene 34 00@35 00
—_—_—_—_

CHICAGO,

JvuLy 8th.—The Worthwestern Lumberman

says :—The holiday fleet on the cargo market
was much smaller than had been anticipated,
the morning of July 4 bringing a fleet of but 17
vessels, while that of the following day was but
23, the heaviest of the week. Of the dozen
vessels on the market July 6, all but one cargo
of shingles had disappeared by noon. Asking
any of the habitues of the cargo market the
conditions as regards prices, one will almost in-
variably receive such responses as “good,”
‘+ firm,” “remarkably steady,” ete., while the
same query addressed to buyers will, according
to the hopefulness of the one questioned, receive
such answers as “‘ remarkably firm,” “‘ going all
to smash,” and the like. The facts are that
while taking all things into consideration, prices
have been sustained in a remarkable manner,
there has been a little letting down upon all
grades of stock offered. Piece stuff, as the
standard of the market, may still be quoted at
$11, while sales have been made of Muskegon
and White Lake stock at $10.50 and $10.75, and
a fair quotation would be at those prices for
lumber from those points, and $11 to $12.25 for
Manistee and Ludington ordinary stock. A
good proportion of long lengths would modify
the figures by 25 to 50 cents in each case. No.
1 log run, selected, would bring as much as at
any previous time, while log run not closely
selected for culls should be quoted from 50 cents
to $l weaker. No. 2 short has sold from $11 to
$13.50 for boards and strips, as to quality, coarse
stock being dull and neglected. Shingles are
decidedly weak and lower. Standards are sell-
ing all the way from $2.37} to $2.50, according
to the popularity of the brand, while *A* have
sold for $2.50, and the most favorite brands at
$2.75. Clears are held at $3.15, at which the
make of one leading manufacturer has been con
tracted to August 20.

The falling off in volume of receipt for a
couple of weeks past would indicate that manu
facturers on the Michigan shore have adopted
the policy of withholding shipments, and we >
learn that more piling at the mills than is cus-
tomary has been undertaken, The absence of

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

large offerings during the holiday period was
considered by the conservative element of the
trade a mark of a wise policy, and while the
influence of members of the bear element, in
inaugurating a lower price list has so far failed
of the expected results at the cargo market, the
latest move may be more potent should large
offerings continue. As it is, the market appears
anomalous and a puzzle to the oldest dealers
who haye been in the habit of frequenting the

dock.
CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green,..... ss.s.+.+-s $10 50@11 00
EMU TCCRTRsiecojalaicieiel alejesb\xjeles'vleo eis viaaie ois 10 75@11 25
Long dimension........ scees seecssees 11 75@13 50
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock.........- 11 25@14 00
SSPE eaiemclccs vce -cncic encores 16 00@20 00
Wortsoe Tun, Cullyi0ut. ..cccrcceerscees 17 00@21 00
DtANGATE SHINPIES. 0.200 ceceveceseseves 2 875@ 2 50
Sere ee eeielaiel (nic ninie'sisiesle(eleibiare onic 2 50@ 2 75

3 15
CARS OCCUR DOE 2 25

Receipts and shipments of lumber and shingles
for the week ending July 6, as reported by the

Lumberman’s Exchange :—
RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.
[Reed aati eee ale ole a is s)a(s,2.0 aieiei+)» 64,965,000 18,575,000
Gy Scoso (Cc Jan Cape DEeOGOE 68,930,000 31,134,000
FROM JANUARY | To JULY 6 INCLUSIVE.
RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
TS82. wecice eon ee neers ceues 776,405,000 357,662,000
MAB eeisaciciavicmeicevevetaccs 646,145,000 285,054,000
iirek aa 5a eee 130,260,000 72,608,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO JULY 5.
Beets leeieiicievel-sjaisise/s. e\s/eiais's 643,086,000 332,524,000
BPN ite ieicdavasislolsalklele o\6\t/o'e'e-) «10.010 518,956,000 217,048,000
ACKER ciel orale eselo scissie 124,130,000 115,476,000
STOCK ON HAND JULY 1.
1882. 1881. 1880.
Tmmber, .6..s200- 372,711,591 270,317,046 292,467,878
Shingles . . 167,598,300 91,607,700 130,315,000
Lath .. . 21,902,726 20,658,679 31,195,310
Pickets 1,093,328 2,193,415 836,021
Cedar posts....... 238,823 77,042 80,708
* e
TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
IGG THY TS 80 AS COCOONS OEE $43 90@48 00
REIIHISTNT ET Pei ielotalela sivc'e 0 els osc sve esea'ses= 20 00@22 00
DER sone of Joc 552 COBDS SCE D Doo OEE 14 00@15 00
————
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
LIVES 65¢7 Sone oo A0grCESOD DOpROOODOCUOEE $46 00@48 00
(SUDO doe, Space ced OOPOUTEUO OCOD 18 00@20 00
Sta Serenata min siaiaceinte vislere,r'sieiaivaise 13 00@14 00
So ee
LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal, of June 24th,
says :—There was one transaction we ought to
notice at the sale of Wednesday, at the Baltic,
by Messrs. Simpson & Mason, because it deter-
mines the value in this market of Montreal best
pine. The small parcel of 201 pieces (about five
standards) of 12 ft. 3x12 to 18 in., sold without
reserve, brought the very satisfactory price of
£26 per Petersburg standard. We say satifac-
tory because at no public sale has this price been
reached in London for many months past, and
when things are not very brisk we are glad to
see that best pine is still appreciated in our
market.

The arrival of forty wood-laden vessels, of
which twenty-four were steamers. in the week
ending the 21st, may be considered to have
brought a very fair supply, as times go, to this
market. Among them, however, we do not see
a single cargo of flooring, and the stock of that
commodity may be expected to diminish for the
rest of the season instead of increasing.

The general dulness now noticeable at the
docks is becoming almost a normal condition of
affairs there. One day last week we believe
there was actually not a single vessel discharg-
ing, meantime a lot of stuff is still being deliver-
ed, a state of things not so agreeable to the
company, who like to see the piles well kept up.
Sooner or later things will be greatly altered,
and a rush of vessels might happen all together,
making business at the quays as active as ever,
causing porters to be requisitioned from all
parts to aid in the task of keeping the quays
clear, as ship after ship arrives. We have seen
4 dull time followed by a season of bustle such
_ as described, that, looking at the placid scene
the docks now present, is hard to realize. The
ship-owners are asking some slight advance of
freight, which the merchants will not yield to,
and are in no hurry, while trade continues
qniet, to transfer their purchases from the mills
t this side, which causes the present stagnation
in the freight market.
ships look to the outports for charters rather

The bulk of the sailing |

than to London, and steamers necessarily bring
such a dose at a time that to charter one of
these monsters is not such an offhand affair as
might be supposed, though when trade is brisk
500 or 700 standards for that matter are a baga-
telle to a London house.
Ao ee ee
LIVERPOOL,

The Timber Trades Jownal, of June 24th,

says :—We have again had a slow and dragging
week of business, and with a languid market
and continued pressure to sell, especially by
shippers of pitch pine. Prices have been a shade
weaker; the reduced rates, however, seem to
stimulate the consumption, and there has con-
sequently been a fair quantity of orders in the
market, and the deliveries have been more
prominent in quantity than has been the case
recently. Of course much of this is attributable
to the frequent and extensive auction sales which
have been so rife of late, and, as they have all
practically been without reserve, a considerable
quantity of timber has been taken direct oyt of
the new arrivals; which probably would ‘not
have been done to such a large extent had the
trade been left to follow its natural course ; at
the same time, prices have now fallen so much
from the figures most people were expecting and
holding out for, that perhaps a spirit of specula-
tion may have taken hold of the minds of many,
and led them to buy now, when the market is
depressed, rather than wait longer and run the
chance of its rising before they can make their
purchases.
_ On Friday, the 16th of June, Messrs. A. F. &
D. Mackay offered one cargo of St. John, N.B.,
deals and birch timber, one cargo of Bridgwater,
N.S., spruce deals, and one cargo of Margaret’s
Bay, N.S., together with sundry other parcels
of goods in store.

A good company of buyers, composed of con-
sumers and dealers from the country as well as
the local trade, was in attendance, but in order
to get through the various consignments reduced
prices had to be accepted, as there was an evi-
dent disposition to meet the market. The St,
John, N.B., spruce deals, of which there were
only about 120 standards in the cargo, sold as
follows :—

Spruce deals, St. John, N.B.—

65 Gb Uh 2B. GG
16 to 26 ft. 3x11 712 6
PSUS ty 3x11 7 12) 6
9 - 11 ce 3x11 fw
WG Pe 3x9 ¢ i @
ETDs Se 3x9 “PB Crow ih
ee Ge 3x9 “ wo
16: "25. ** 3x7 eos 0!
30) CO aN 3x7 617 6
Ores: Tay 3x7 612 6
cs CA 24x7 Co @
SEV S12 tole Ten ZanG!
2) CO Diy be beiheeg all) ue ew)
Deal ends 6 5 0
Do. Bridgewater, N.B.—
16 to 27 ft. 3x11 715 0
up) Ss 3x11 i 2G
9 8 i i ot ff WONG
oe
Leb ie 3x9 ts @
16 285%" 3x7 Oe 2enG
By ay CE 3x7 Ome 0)
paces tae 3X7 615570
a ak 2x7 (CU @ aa
9 26 “© 3x14to019 ae OO)
gi © 26 <6 3x13 ieee O
ORS Dine 3x12 UW
9 to 26 ft 3x10 C10 ©
16 * 27 = ae 615 O0to617 6
O15 x8 Gils <0
9 “26 * 4xI2t017 Culiiero:
Oe 26 * 4x11 Salo OM Ose 9
§ : 4x9
935 4x6t010 810 0
Deal ends 3 in @ fy ©
i 4“ 612 6
Do. Margaret’s Bay—
9 to 28 ft. 3x11 i if
A 28 A 3x9 i ® W
‘
(ae M ee) eo ty On
LG S598) fF 3x7 615 0
Ae 3x7 Cut 6
Puget bs a 3x7 2G
OO T Ss 24x7 UP Gy Beri) xo)
DET. *s 3x8 617 6
9 “28 © 28&3x8 7 2 6
Scantling GA2S6
Boards G10) G66" 0.
Deal ends 6 0 0
Birch timber, St. John, N.B.—
204 in. deep 223d per ft
20 thi 21d =
x 19 & 19} ee 20d to 203d £s
18 “18h « 184d to 19}d oe
17“ 17} 17 «
16 “164 * 16}d to 17d “
to ee
to)
Under 14 ‘6 14d ss
Maple 16d ee
Ash 213d se
—__—__—<_— 6
BRISTOL.

sale on Wednesday, 21st June, at their yard,

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JONES

& SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers

39 Broadway,

NEW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

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Canon’s Marsh, Bristol. There was a fair at-
tendence. Annexed are the prices realized :—

PINE DEALS.
(At per Petersburg standard.)

Ls a.

Quebec 1st bright 16 to 14 ft. 3x11 22 5 0
a a 3x10 to 7 £20 5s. to 2010 0

eS 2nd 3X11 £15 15s. to 16 17- 6

SS Kee 3x11 1415 0
‘3rd 3X11 10 0 0

s* Ast dry 16 to 13 ft. 3x11 20 0 0
aes 12 ft. 3x11 £19 12s, 6d. to 19 15 0

AMERICAN WHITEWOOD.
(At per foot.)

Baltimore 421 x 403 in. 2 3
New York 39 x 34} “ ral

WAINSCOT OAK.
(At per foot.)
163 to9in. deep 2

————————
GLASGOW.

The Zimber Trades Journal, of June 24th,
says :—No auction sales to report have taken
place here or at Greenock within the past week.
Imports haye been on a moderate scale, amount-
ing in all to about 2,300 loads. The regular
traders from Quebec had not, according to latest
advices, cleared for Greenock with the usual
supplies of log timber, and it is evident they are
going to be several weeks later than last year,
arrivals having begun before the end of June in
1881. Of Quebec deals, per steam liners, the
import of the last four weeks (since the season
commenced) amounts to over 80,000 pieces, a
larger quantity than was imported the same

New York

~

Messrs. King Bros, held their monthly timber | time last year.

The arriyals of New Brunswick deals are on

much the same level as last year so far, and the
stock at present in first hands is small. The
contrasted imports are as follows :—1882—196, -
821 pieces ; torfhage employed in conveyance,
6,478 ; 1881—172,551 pieces ; tonnage employed,
5,933.

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WOOD TO WEAR.

One of the peculiar industries is that of man-
ufacturing clog soles and wooden shoes. The
timber is first cut into planks, and on the side
of each plank a metal guage is laid, an opera-
tive then roughly outlining the size and number
of soles which can be cut from it, the planks
pass on to a band saw, where they are cut up
into blocks with the required curvature for a
sole, thence passing to the roughening machine
which crudely shapes them. Another machine
cuts the sides, another shapes the shanks, and a
third round the heels, and the toes are shaped
by a fourth. From these they go to a revolving
cutter, which roughly hollows the upper side of
the sole, and subsequently this hollowed sur-

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DOING GOOD WORK es pass next through various finishing machines,
as the bottoms, sides, shanks, heels and toes being
thus successfully rendered perfectly smooth by
—AND AS—

friction with swiftly revolving bands—the latter
covered with a mixture containing ground glass
and some other attritive materials—which scour
them in the same way as if with sand or emery
paper, Finally, a gripping machine bevels the
edges, leaving a ‘‘grip” to which the leather
uppers can be fastened. The sole of each
wooden shoe, from the time that the log of wood
is first ,cut into segments to the time when the
edges are beveled by the gripping machine, pass-
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Tur’ Saw Mitts.—The British Canadian
Company’s new mill at Hugel Point is now run-
ning. The lumber mills here are all hard at
work. Cameron & McLeod’s mill is engaged in
cutting cedar. The British Canadian new mill
and the large mill, formerly H. H. Cook’s mill,
Chew Bros., and Dollar’s Wye mills, are all
cutting pine lumber. The lumbermen report
the logs all down and in safe water and a full
supply for all the mills. This season’s cut will
far exceed any heretofore in Midland.

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WAR AMONG SQUATTERS.

The Fort Totten special report to the Grand
Forks, Dakota, Herald: Considerable trouble
and some fighting is going on overonthe north
side of the lake. There are several hundred
squatters over there, and some it is claimed are
holding more land than the law allows. The
new settlers coming into the country try to
squat on the land which the other parties claim
anda fight ensues in which knives and revol-
vers afe freely used. As yet no one has been
killed, though one named Hance was struck
with aclub andbadly hurt. A party of 20is
trying to hold a tract of fine timber of over 3,-
600 acres. Whenever any one attempts to
squat on it they are driven off at the point of re-
volvers. They will not state where their stakes
are, or where or how much they claim. They
are thus able to cover a great deal more terri-
tory than the law allows. Trouble is anticipat-
ed, and the fort commandant threatens to in-
terfere to prevent bloodshed.

Parties just in from Devil’s lake corroborate
the above statement, and give additional facts,
which the Herald correspondent who is at the
fort, would not care to divulge. It is rumored,
though there is no proof of the fact. that Lieut.
Creel of the fort has employed the 20 men above
mentioned to hold nearly four thousand acres of
timber until such time as it shall come into
the market. The men, of course, will not state
who is employing them. They are well drilled
and have a code of signals by which they com-
municate with each other. When a squatter
attempts to settle as stated, they gather to the
number of ten or a dozen and tear down his
shanty, driving him off by threats of killing:
The leader of the gang is an ex-Mountana cow-
boy, who is slightly known in this section.
About a week ago a poor man came to the fort
with a story to the effect that his shanty had
been torn to peices, and that he had been order-
ed to leave the country. He had a wife and
several small childern, who were exposed all
night without shelter.

The Stinging Tree.

Among the luxuriant and beautiful shrubs of

Queensland is one known as the “ stinging tree,’
which is exceedingly dangerous, and often fatal
to life. It grows from two or three inches to 10
or 15 feet in height, and emits a very disagree-
able smell. It is also easily distinguished by
the peculiar shape of its leaves.” ‘‘ Sometimes,”
says a traveler, “‘ while shooting turkeys in the
scrubs, I have entirely forgotten the stinging
tree till warned of its close proximity by its
smell, and have often found myself in a little
forest of them. I was only once stung and that
very lightly. Its effect was curious ; it leaves
no mark, but the pain is maddening; and for
months afterwards the part when touched is
tender in rainy weather, or when it gets wet
in washing, ete. I have seen a man who treats
an ordinary pain lightly, roll on the ground in
agony after being stung, and I have known 8
horse so completely mad after getting into a
grove of the trees that he rushed open-mouthed
at every one who approached him, and had to
be shot. Dogs, when stung, will rush about
whining piteously, biting pieces from the affect-
ed part.”

From a crevice in the stone front of the state
library building at Albany, N.Y., a vigorous
young elm, now five feet in height, has pushed
its way into the world. A large elm, doubtless
its mother, stands almost opposite the entrance
to the library, and the offspring is as green and
hardy as the parent. Nature evidently deter-
mined that such an ambitious sprout shall not
perish, but in what manner she supplies it with
sustenance it is impossible tosay. The building
is soon to be demolished, and then perhaps the
mystery will be solved.

a

Tur Lindsay Post says a large quantity of

.| square timber is being loaded on the cars at the

Midland Railway. It rather contradicts the
theory that there are no sizeable timber trees in
the country north of us to look at the sticks, In
girth they are all on the large size, and in length
a very fair average. It generally calls for two
flat cars to each tier of timber. The hauling
powers of the engines are severely tested under
the immediate loads,

.

CC

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. faNo Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always op band, Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &e., &e., &e.

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Pees SP Pit HS.

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &e., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS. ‘
Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth, Emery

Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindle, West Vir-

ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all
kinds. £®& Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

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1112

Farmers se Mechanics,

| Provide yourselves with a bottle of PA7N-KILLER at this season
of the year, when summer complaints are so prevalent ; it is a prompt,
safe, and sure cure. It may save you days of sickness, and you will
find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine
PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KIELER, and take no other mixture.

Cozovre, Ont., March 3, 1880.

I have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years I have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. It is an article that
seems to have combined in it all that goes to make a Jirst-class family medicine, and
as long as I have a house and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both,

J. E, KENNEDY

Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations.
Price 20c., 25¢., and 50c, per bottle.

Yours, &c.,

/

For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

GRAYS PATENT

Gradual Reduction Machine

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The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolis
and two Reciprocating Sieves.

The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the four and
middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the
large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through
the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.
Each Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as
on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. s©Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116-KING STREET

MON TREAT.

sa=Sole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller

Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.
i Mention this Paper,

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222 THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

PARKER& EVANS

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

AMERICAN HHAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,

Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

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Write for Prices and Discounts.

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Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

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Have your Boilers thoroughly Inspected and Insured against Explosion by

The Canadian Steam Users’ Insurance Association

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Machine OILs, ETc.
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MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
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SEND FOR PRICES, BTC-

Automatic Saw Sharpener!

Is the Most Perfect Machine that has ever been Introduced into Mills for that purpose.

(MCOVELIS

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CIRCULAR SAW
STEAM FEED!

J would also call special attention to my

Heavy Circular Saw Mills

end for STEAM MILLS, would recom mend the Steam
Heed, having put inseveral which are giving the best of sat- ¢
isfaction, as will be seen by the following testimonials :—

ame)

GRAVENHUuRST, August 20th, 1880.

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MILL MACHINERY!

Iam also manufacturing Saw Mill Machinery, for all
sizes of Gang or Circular Mills, Span or Double Circulars
for Slabbing Small Logs. My Patent Jack Chain for draw-
ing logs into Saw Mills, acknowledged by all to be the
Cheapest and best ever got up; also, my Patent Lumber
Markers, different sizes of Edgers, Gang Lath Mills, Trim-
mers, Power Gummers, and all Machinery used in a first
class Gang or Circular Saw Mill; also, small Hand Gum-
mers for use in the woods, for Cross-cut Saws. Rotary
Pumps of different sizes, for Fire Protection in Mills, &c.

HORIZONTAL ENGINES and BOILERS

AD = \\

CORLISS

cutting

Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM TAIT,
Lumberman, Gravenhurs

ToRONTO, August 11th, 1880,
Wm. HAMILTON, Peterborough, Ont. =
DEAR SIR—The Steam Keed you put in is working splen-
a Yours,

Where economy of fuel is the great consideration, along
with uniformity of speed, such as is required in Grist and
Flouring Mills, Woollen and Cotton Factories, or large
Factories of any kind, I supply the Corliss Engine. 1 feel
- justified in saying that our Style, Workmanship and Finish
on this Engine will be no discredit to its renown, and cer-
tainly is not equalled in this country for economy of fuel.
[ have them working at 2} pounds of coal per horse-power

didly

per hour, litt

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THOMPSON, SMITH & SON.

Wit. tLItA Wet

LTron',

PEHETHRBOROCUGH, ONT.

NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. ~

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, 223

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
De TE Ox tT

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

*

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO.,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERSTON & C0.
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

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Manufacturer of the Covell Saw piieeners. Lumber Merchants.

224 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

as : ——

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of guliletting and gummiing saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only a single saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small miljs order single Emery W beels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the whee). There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was 60 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them instock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry 4 few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $900 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gummipg Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

12x} )
10 12x}
| He ae 10x4 | a. iork |. Holes,
| FAs if d in. hole. 10x45 ( # in. hole. 12x8 { 3,% and 1 inch.
| aie 10x8 J 12x}
12x4 J

Probably more: wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24xlj. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won't touch it.
to touch it. An expert workman will sbape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
dition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a sofisaw will. Those
to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second

The answer is that, you don’t want a file
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which cor
who want to use the file, however, have only
touch will cut through the case-bardened scale.

| ee A QUESTION OF QUALITY.

Is, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almostevery use an
lost through the rapid wear of tbe wheel is more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
of wheel, let us know what it is, aud we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Whee

Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views.
qualities to match any and every otber make. If you have got used to some special quality
classification of Saw Gumming W heels is as follows:

|
l CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDA!
| Jt cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft.

2p Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world, Probably seven-elghths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used are “Class 2.

We prefer the “* Pocono.”

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as “ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

i CLASS ‘‘POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—Tbis Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both finer in grain and softer than either of the above. As a Saw Gum ming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
il @pecially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. lytls

Illustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes,

Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN TRADE SPHCIALLY SOLICITED.

LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

g in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

We will supply anythin
| Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.
| BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

| Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

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| For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

| TOKER & Co.,

| “THR CANADA LUMBERMAN,’

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

PUBLISHED \
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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., AUGUST 1, 1882.

NO. 15.

RESERVING THE STREAMS.

A letter by Mr. T. B. Pardee, the Ontario
Commissioner of Crown Lands, has been pub-
lished, in which appears the following para-
graph :—

“As to the reservation contained in the
patents giving the right to float timber, &c.,
dewn streams, I send you one of the patents in
order that you may see for yourself what this
reservation it. It gives all parties the right to
use streams for the purpose of floating down all
kinds of timber, and it will be seen that this
provision is as much in the interest. of the
settler as that of the lumberman, because many
settlers now (and the time will come when this
will be much more the case) require to use these
streams for the purpose of getting to market
ties, poles, and other timber of a like kind,
growing upon their lands, The reason that
this clause has been inserted in the patents was
on account of the disallowance by the Dominion
Government of the Bill which provided for
such passage of streams. Had it not been for
this disallowance it would have been the statute
law, and there would have been no necessity
for inserting such a reservation in the patents.
In fact, the Court of Appeal has held that this
is the law of the land now, by virtue of an Act
_ passed over 30 years ago. I have heard it
stated since the election that our opponents
have alleged that this reservation gives parties
the right to enter upon the land and take tim-
ber for the purpose of making improvements
upon streams. This you will see is not the case,
and there is not the slightest foundation for the
statement. Instead of this provision being
against the interests of the settler it is entirely
in his favour, because there are very few
streams in the whole of Muskoka which some
one individual could not absolutely control by
making some trifling improvements upon them
and prevent anybody using them but himself.
If there is one thing more than another that is
on the side of the people and against what
might be called monoply, it is this reservation.
Of course if the law, which we re-enacted last
session, is not again disallowed, then this pro-
vision will disappear from the patents.”

The following is 4 clause in the patents re-
ferred to above :—

“To have and to hold the said parcel or
tract of land, hereby granted, conveyed and
assured unto the said Heirs and
Assigns forever; saving, excepting, and reserv-
ing, nevertheless, unto Us, Our Heirs and Suc-
cessors the free uses, passage and
enjoyment of, in, over and upon all navigable
waters that shall or may be hereafter found on
or under, or be flowing through or upon any
part of the said parcel, or tract of Land hereby
granted as aforesaid ; and also excepting and
reserving unto Us, our Heirs and Successors,
for the benefit and use of all persons requiring

to use the same the free use and navigation of
all creeks and streams running through or upon
any part of the said parcel or tract of land
hereby granted and not embraced in the reser-
vation hereinbefore contained, for the purpose
of running and floating down saw lows and
other timber, lumber, rafts, and crafts, at all
times and seasons, and excepting and reserving
also for the use and benefit of all persons requir-
ing to use the same, for the purpose of running
and floating down or upon any creek, stream or
navigable water upon the said parcel or tract of
land, the right to enter in ‘and upon the same
parcel or tract of land, and to occupy and use
s0 much of the banks of the said creeks or
streams and of the said navigable waters as may
be necessary for the purpose of such running
and floating, and for the further purpose of
erecting, constructing and repairing such dams,
slides, and works as may be required for the
purposes aforesaid, doing no unnecessary dam-
age thereby.

‘And it is hereby declared that the grant
aforesaid is made on the express condition that
the said Grantee, for himself, his Heirs- and
Assigns, consents and agrees that all persons
desiring to use the same shall have the right to
enjoy the easements hereinbefore reserved.”

FOSSIL TREES.

The Smithonian Institution has received from
Fort Wingate, New Mexico, a car load of
curiosities, including portions of two. stone
trees, one from the neighborhood of the Fort,
the other from the banks of the Lithodendron,
20 miles from Navajoe Springs, Arizona.

For these massive specimens the museum is
indebted to the thoughtfulness of General
Sherman, who, while crossing the continent in
1878, suggested to Colonel Swain, then in com-
mand at For Wingate, the expediency of secur-
ing them.

Acting upon his suggestion, an expedition
was organized early in the spring of 1879 to pro-
ceed to the Lithodendron (stone trees) in
Arizona. Thomas V. Kearns, a gentleman of
long residence in that part of the country, and
familiar with the locality to be explored, kindly
volunteered his services, and success was, in a
great measure, due to his efforts in carrying out
the wishes of the General. The military detail
consisted of Second Lieut. J. T, C. Hegewald,
one seargent, and twelve soldiers, all of the
Fifteenth United States Infantry, and the party
was well supplied with army waggon running
gears specially arranged for hauling stone, and
with tools and appliances complete.

In his report of the expedition Lieutenant
Hegewald says that the Navajoes, who were
pasturing their sheep about the head waters of
the Lithodendron, thought it was very strange
that the “‘Great Father in Washington ”
should want some of the bones of the

“Great Giant” their forefathers had killed
years ago when taking possession of the country,
the lava beds being the remains of the blood
that ran from his wounds, Specimens by
thousands were found on each side of the
valley of the Lithodendron, there about half a
mile wide. Along the slopes, which were per-
haps 50 feet high, no vegetation whatever was
to be seen ; wood being very scarce, the soil was
composed of clay and sand mostly, and the
petrifactions, broken into millions of pieces, lay
scattered adown the slopes. Some of the large
fossil trees were well preserved, though the
action of the heat and cold had broken most of
them in sections from 2 to 10 feet long, Many
of them must have been immense trees ; several
which Lieutenant Hegewald measured were
from 150 to 200 feet in length, and from 2 to 43
feet in diameter, the centers often containing
beautiful quartz crystals.

Only one of the two specimens obtained from
the Lithodendron by Mr. Kearns and Lieu-
tenant Hegewald was forwarded to Washington.
In the place of the second one brought in from
the locality of the Lithodendron, a better speci-
men was found on the Mesa, to the north of
and adjacent to Fort Wingate. The specimens
had to be hauled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to
be shipped by rail.

FOREST FIRES.

During the next few months we may expect
to see the usual accounts of forest fires having
spread over large areas, destroyed much valu-
able property and imperiled many lives ; with
these will be complaints of criminal carelessness
on the part of exploring parties, trappers and
fishermen, and we shall be told of the lament-
able destruction of valuable timber with the
consequent losses to the lumbermen and the
government, and the poor innocent lumbermen
will call upon the government for protection
against the criminal carelessness of the people
who visit the backwoods in the summer time, as
these are the stereotyped accounts of proceed-
ings of which we read from year to year, and
which will continue to occur so long as
lumbering continues and valuable timber re-
mains to be destroyed. Already forest fires in
the interior of Wisconsin have destroyed several
logging camps with all the cut of logs and an
immense amount of standing timber. It is re-
ported several lives have been lost and many
cattle burned to death. It is stated that at
least 30,000,000 feet of standing pine has been
destroyed in Pike river pinery.

It does not seem to have occurred to the
minds of the average journalist or legislator
that the lumbermen themselves, by their own
deliberate criminal carelessness are responsible
for nearly every one of these fires, and that few,
if any, of them proceed from causes other than
those deliberately prepared by the lumbermen ;

but, if any one will take the trouble to think
| for a few minutes of the processes of taking out
| saw logs or squared timber, he will at once per-
ceive how assuredly the occurrence of these fires
is provided for year after year by those who
most complain of loss by them. During the
whole of the winter months choppers are cut-
ting down pine trees, trimming off tops and
branches, and if for saw logs, cutting them in
lengths, or if for squared timber, cutting off the
sides of the trees ; by these means the ground is
covered.with chips, branches, limbs and blocks
all full of and covered with resin ; but in addi-
tion to these, the lumbermen leave behind them
the light brushwood which they haye cut from
lines of roads which they have made as ayenues
from the trees to the sideways and the water:

so that a mass of inflammable matter with
trains and avenues of communication is left
covering an immense area, to he kindled into
an appalling conflagration by the spark from a
shantyman’s pipe, the rubbing of two trees or a
stroke of lightning. The hollow, dead, worm-
eaten, or decayed trees are left standing ; some-
times one tree is left lodged in the branch of
another, so that every breath of wind causes a
rubbing which finally causes ignition, a process
which taught the Indians their mode of procur-
ing fire ; the old dry pines left standing alone
are often struck by lightning which sets them
on fire, and so quite natural causes communicate
fire to the resinous masses left by the lumber-
men, in which it spreads with fearful rapidity,
and sweeps with resistless force over immense
areas, as the heated atmosphere prepares its
way and the wind drives it forward.

What remedy, then, remains for this annual
imperilment and destruction of property? Only
one, and that is the proper clearing of the lands
which have been cut over by the lumbermen
every season. To this we hear the objection
that it must cause such an increase of the cost
of procuring timber as to preclude profit from
the business, but we think we heard the same
objection when it was proposed that these same
lumbermen should no longer be allowed to
dump their sawdust and slabs’ into the rivers
and streams, to the destruction of fisheries and
interference with navigation. As to this it
would appear from the general reports that the
preservation of our forests is one of our most
important duties, and that no outlay we can
make is so likely to be remunerative as that
which will prevent the destruction of our
timber ; therefore we hope to see the question
properly considered, and put a stop to the
lumbermen’s cry of ‘‘ Wolf !”—Montreal Jour-
nal of Commerce.

A Youne Man writes: ‘‘I have used Mack’s
Magnetic Medicine and am much pleased with
the result. It has cured me after doctors and
other medicines had failed.” See advertisement
in another column,

226 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

than they were during the early part of the
month. The consumption has continued on é
very fair scale, and stocks, with the exception
of pitch pine, are still very light. :
CoLontaL Woops.—The stock of Quebec _
square and waney pine is very light, consisting
of only 158,000 feet, against 564,000 feet at the
same time last year; sales have been by retail y
only, with the exception of a small parcel of
square pine (wrecked wood) brought coastwise,
which realized an average of about 204d per —
foot. The demand for Réd Pine is dull, the
consumption during the month amounting to
only 5,000 feet. Oak is in fair demand, and the
stock of prime wood is small. Of elm and ash —
there are no sales to report. Birch is in better —

being invaded by fire, asked aid from Long-
veuile in default of having the apparatus neces-
sary for arresting a’ fire at its commencement.
Other villages would only have to make a trench
to construct an aqueduct for some acres and all
danger from fire would disappear for ever; the
harvest, the cattle, and the granaries, would
thus become an assured fortune that the des-
tructive element could not. annihilate, and
nevertheless they do nothing ; they forget, in
the absence of a disastrous precedent, that the
danger is so much the greater because so far
they have escaped it.

‘One can understand, to a certain point, how
in thé scattered villages, of which agriculture is

of timber which is still going on in all parts of
the country. It has been truly said that growth
is slow and restorations tedious, while destruc-
tion is rapid and injury instantaneous. Pales-
tine and Syria, Egypt and Italy, France and
Spain have seen some of their most fertile lands
turned int6é deserts by the destruction of the
forests. There are parts of Asia Minor, of
Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine
Europe, once covered with luxuriant woods,
verdant pastures and fertile meadows, which
have now become so completely desolate as to
be rendered an unfit abode for man. We are
really in danger here of such a result in some
sections of the country, unless intelligent and

OUR FORESTS, rf

The N. Y. Shipping List truly remarks that
“¢the question of timber preservation and tim-
ber culture, not only on the public, but on the
private lands of the United States, is one of the
most difficult, and also one of the most interest-
ing problems that are attracting attention.”
If, says the Globe, it is this to the States, it
is all that and a good deal more to Canada, from
the fact that timber is our great stample export,
whereby we pay for the most of our imports,
and that a great part of the land off which it
has in time past been raised is not likely ever to
yield a better crop. Yet we probably find des-

truction going on here quite as fast as there,
though to us it is doubly pernicious. Everything
that our contemporary says in regard to the
States applies much more strongly to Canada,
and in the hope that the troubles already exper-
jnced across the line may operate as a warning
on this side of it, we go on to copy its article as
follows :—

“ The evils of past destruction have been a
great increase in the cost of fuel, in the price of
lumber and timber, hindering the erection of
dwellings, and rendering furniture very expen-
sive, and the high rates of fares and freight
charges on our lines of travel and transportation
from the increased cost of building and equip-
ping steamboats and railroads. Cheap bread,
cheap houses, cheap fuel, and cheap transporta-
tion of passengers and freight are fundamental
to the material growth and prosperity of a na-
tion. All these are hindered by the havoc now
making in our forests. The consumption by
building railroads, for railroad fuel, the general
consumption of wood for fuel in the country,
the consumption by mechanical industry, the
destruction by war, by improvident waste, and
the destruction by farmers, who, when wood
commands a high price, cut down the choicest
trees, are among the causes which threaten the
noble forest growth of America with extinetion,
Woodland brings in, without ploughing or sow-
ing or fertilizing, that of which the average
owner never has too much—ready money. The
tree economists, therefore, have a powerful and
wide-spread influence to contend against, and
can hardly hope to arrest the tree slaughter on
private lands. If they can awaken any enthus-
jasm for tree culture among the agricultural
classes it will be about as much as we can ex-
pect them to accomplish. No private efforts
can meet the emergency. Congress and the
State Legislatures should afford every facility
for the proper understanding of the subject,
and for the adoption of the most thorough
means to prevent what threatens to become
eventually a national calamity.

The present commisioner of the general land
office, who appears to have a just appreciation
of the subject, has taken such measures as he
has authority to take to more fully preserve our
public timber lands in the North-west, which
have been so ruthlessly destroyed in the past.
The commissioner has acted upon the assump-
tion that most of the timber depredations have
been committed by ignorant and illeterate set-
tlers, who not unnaturally imagined that settle-
ment under homestead or pre-emption laws gave
them the right to cut and sell timber at plea
sure, and in many instances they have been in-
duced by speculators to enter land for the very
purpose of selling the timber from Lie Lhe
blanks furnished to settlers to be filled np hith-
erto have had no warning covering this point,
but the commissioner has now supplied the omis-
sion in these emphatic terms :—‘' Timber land
embraced in a homestead or other entry—not
consummated—may be cleared in order to culti-
vate the land and improve the premises, but for
no other purposes.” It is thought that this pre-
caution will lessen timber depredations on the
public lands about one-third, which, if not an
over-estimate, will be a marked and gratifying
reduction of the evil, while at the same time it
will give the prosecutions that may take place,
the prestige of better understood law than they
have before enjoyed. But something more than
this is needed.

Europe, in its forest laws, is far ahead of the

United States, and is in less danger, at this mo-

ment, of becoming a desert than is the United
States, unless something prompt and effective

shall be done to arrest the wholesale destruction

the only industry, they slumber in the monot-
any of their labours and do not always keep in
mind the importance of the means of protection
against fire. But what can we say of @ town
that already possesses one of the most impor-
tant cotton factories in the country, which has
a trade great enough for 70 merchants to have
establishments there, which comprises 688
dwelling houses, at least 600 of which are wood,
which has property in real estate and stocks
amounting to more than $1,500,000, and which
hesitates about the construction of an aqueduct
bringing to its centre the most complete security
against all danger from fire? It is thus that the
municipality of Valleytield understands the in-
terest of the town ; it is thus that house proper-
ty, the cotton industry and trade of every kind,
remains exposed to the risk of a conflagration
which would sweep away in an instant the for-
tunes of the whole population, because tbe
apathy of some of the municipal councillors is
sutficient to paralyse the intelligent and en-
lightened opinion of the other members of the
council. Already industries in search af a suit-
able locality, which they hoped to find at
Valleyfield, have recoiled from the danger which
they would have run there, and we cannot blame
them. An industry which lives by progress
and activity cannot lige in contact with torpid
apathy which repulses all improvement.”

immediate measures of remedy are adopted.
re re

FROM QUEBEC TO LONDON.

The Timber Prades Journal, of July 8th,
gays :—The Ocean King; though not reported in
the river as soon as the Hovding, mentioned in
our last, was actually docked first, and may
hence claim to have brought the first pine cargo
of the season.. The first named, a large steamer»
left Quebec two days later than the Hovding,
and, in addition, had to coal some way down
the St. Lawrence, which caused a further delay;
otherwise she would have mad@& the passage
much quicker, and no doubt passed the sailing
vessel before making the land. On her part,
the Hovding, always a fast vessel, made on this
occasion one of the quickest runs on record, ViZ.,
21 days, being an average of 150 miles a day
from port to port, a rate of speed that we think
has seldom been exceeded by a sailing ship with
a wood cargo.

The Ocean King has discharged her cargo,
amounting to over 650 standards, and is by this
time probably clear of the Channel on her way to
fetch another from the same port. The Hovding
does not appear to need such despatch as the
steamer, and is still in the process of discharg-
ing. The cargoes brought by these vessels con-
sisted almost entirely of bright pine deals, ex-
cept in respect to the steamer, from which we
observed a number of cases were being being
delivered into lighters alongside.

These cargoes are both imported by Messrs.
Bryant, Powis & Bryant, and appear to be in a
very fine condition. This firm may claim to
be the recipients of the first three spring arri-
vals, for since the two mentioned were docked

SWEDISH EXPORTS OF WOOD.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—The ex-
ports of wood goods from Sweden in each of the
last five years, during the period from January
to May, have been, according to statistical re-
turns, as follows :—

the Harl King, another steamer from Quebec, Sawn & planed. Hewn.
loaded by them, arrived in the Surrey Commer- / Pt. sida. Cub. ft.
ST Duce eed hee d ‘ck ee eee 147,601 ‘1,878,811
cial Docks on tho third, having made a quic TES «teins alae 33,497 881,841
passage from Quebec to London, being reported 1880... ce essere ee eee 141,265 2,355,577
= ees h 71 W i rh, eR Sade sae 43,878 674,535
in e river aS soon as she was cue. 6 may ISTE... con ceehicipasene 126,925 2,363,425

look now for more activity in the vicinity of
Albion Yard, as the bulk of the pine vessels
discharge in the dock of that name, and,
though the recently-landed cargoes will speedi-
ly be stowed away, others of the Quebec fleet
may be expected to be shortly dropping in to
keep the dock officials busy at this spot for
some time to come; pine deals are not stacked
so easily as other descriptions, from the pecu-
liar style they are piled ; thus, if many steam-
ers compose the Quebec fleet, it will be difficult,
we expect, to keep a clear space on the quays
there.

The figures are stated in cubic metres, which
are reduced into Petersburg standards for the
sawn and planed by taking every standard at
4.67204 cubic metres, and with regard to hewn
into English cubic feet, of which the number of
35.316 corresponds to every cubic metre. These
are, no doubt, the best descriptions of measures
comprehensible to the trade in this country.
Deducting the figures lately quoted by the
Swedish correspondent for the exports in J anu-
ary to April during the last two years, it will
then be seen they are in May this and last year
as follows :—

ee
Sawn & planed. Hewn.

SHORT SIGHTED ECONOMY. Pt. stds. Cub. ft.

THE Moniteur du Commerce, the admirable Ser ci eee eos Bre

commercial journal published in French at
Montreal, has an article on the neglect of the
means of protection against fire, and as it will
be both interesting and instructive to our
readers, we translate it as follows :—

“The numerous disasters caused by fires in

showing the enormous quantities exported this
May, inspite of the diminution of the import to
London.

The exports of wood pulp and matches are

during the last five years :—
Wood Pulp. Matches.

. , hie Ae, 5 +e Tons. Tons.

the country, and of which every day the jour- HabBiick, holal eben ences 2,905 3,860
nals record some new examples, call attention to BET ahh caes)) | OU NND AMER 1,457 3,405
PAE: rh ictars Sar Mr rere aaa AO ws ccon anne sete enenn 3,346 3,592
the means of protection which im this country BPO. cack eaktadhn eee 2608 3°520
apa.t sa 9 A rwstuckls, She kis nieie wiRiwa 1,190 2,687

would be at the disposal of each municipality,
but of which the carelessness and apathy of the
municipal councils makes no use.

‘Tf there is any country in which water courses
are numerous and in proximity to every village,
it is Canada, nevertheless how few municipal-
ities, outside the larger towns, utilize the
neighbouring water-courses, so as to make of
them reservoirs, where in cases of fire they
would immediately find a valuable resource,
sufficient to avert all danger.

“ Haye we not had anew example of this care-
lessness in the last few days? A village close
to Montreal and actually situated on the river,

the figures being statedin kilogrammes, reduced
to 1.016 per each ton.

THE ENGLISH MARKET.

Messrs. Robert Coltart & Co.’s wood circular
of July 4th says :—‘‘ There was a very dull feel-
ing in the wood market during the early part of
the past month, the shipments of pitch pine and
spruce deals by steamers, which were sold on
arrival at the best prices obtainable, having
somewhat depressed the market, but as steamers
are not now offering for wood freights, the tone
has' latterly improved, and prices are firmer

consisting of 42,000 feet, against 23,000 at the

demand, the consumption during the month

same time last year; by auction, 830 logs, ex
Arklow, from St. John, were sold at prices rang-
ing from 14d to 224d, averaging 174d per foot,
and 944 logs, ex Endymion, from Halifax, at 143
to 224d, averaging 164d per foot; the present
stock consists of 22,000 feet. The import of N.
B. and N.S. spruce deals has been rather heavy
during the month, several cargoes having arrived
by steamers, which has caused prices to decline; —
by auction St. John averaged £7 7s 4d per stan-
dard, Bridgewater £7 7s 6d per standard, and St.
Margaret’s Bay £7 2s 3d per standard, and by
private St. John has been sold at £7 to £7 5s per
standard, and Bay Verte at £6 15s 6d per stan-
dard, c.i.f. Quebec pine deals have come for-
ward to the extent of 2,627 standards, against
1,042 standards during the corresponding period
last year, the bulk of which has been yarded,
but sales are reported at £14 10s to £15 per
standard for 2nd quality, and £8 17s 6d to £9 5s
per standard for 3rd quality. Of merchantable
pipe and puncheon staves there are no sales to
report. :

The arrivals since our last have been 53 ves-
sels, 40,811 tons, against 45 vessels, 33,840 tons
in corresponding period last year, and 46 vessels,
33,521 tons in 1880, ~

From 26th January to 30th June, 1882 :—

Vessels. Tons.
Quebec. .... op seeeeecensencsncesse 7 5,050
St. John, N.B., &C. 0.000, -- see eene MM 33,086
United States......-++0+.----e8eees 68 54,206
Baltic... «00 0.4 kh ems 0hees aire 75 32,698
Ll) ee er 184 125,040
From 26th January to 30th June, 1881 :—
4,027
25,259
42,199
24,817
u 96,302
Frém 26th January to 30th June, 1880 :—
obec... ..... isd ésbulcvedvuneeanee 2 2,517
St. John, N.B., &0..5..5.ssseenens 42 41,661
United States..o.. cccocss=sccusns 42 34,114
Baltic. $s ..sccces svshunse ques OEkE SS 33,241
Motel. «;...carecsea ae .. 1 111,533
SUPPLYING MANITOBA. - %

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—A note-
worthy feature of Chicago trade latterly is the
shipment of 75 cars—perhaps more—of lumber
to Manitoba. Mr. Getchell, of _ Getchell,
Armour & Co., is entitled to the credit of work-
ing up this little Manitoba boom, having visited
the new Canadian province and put in some
personal endeavor to effect the result. The
lumber forwarded was all dry stuff, and the re=
sources of the yards all over the district were
vigorously drawn upon to make up a shipment
of 60 cars, which is evidence that dry stock is
not very plenty here.e Round prices were paid
for the lumber picked up to fill this order, and/
yet it is said the venture was a profitable one.
This spurt of Manitoba businéss should not be
taken as a premonitor for anything extensive in
that direction, for coals cannot always be carried
to Newcastle, neither can lumber be shipped
through the producing regions of the upper
Mississippi to Manitoba at a profit, unless it be
to satisfy some special demand. In this in-
stance Minneapolis did not have the dry lum-
ber that Manitoba wanted, but Chicago did
have it.

, Tur Rev. Charles E. Piper, formerly of Pitt-
field, N. H., but now of Wakefield, R. IL,
writes :—'' I have used Baxter's Mandrake Bit-

ters in my family for over two years, and as a
result have not called a physician in the whole

time. My wife had been an invalid for two —
years, but these bitters have cured her,”

y

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PINE BARK MEDICINAL.

We are of opinion that there is a greater
malarial influence in green pine, within a short
time after it has been fallen, than in the slabs
and saw mill refuse which go to make land in
the vicinity of a saw mill, or to fill up a stream
into which it may have fallen, The writer has
for many years found it impossible to chew the
soft inside strata of pine bark without being
afflicted with difficulties akin to chills and fever
and fever and ague. Lumbermen are familiar
with and fond of chewing the inside growth or
skin next to the sap of a green pine, but in the
case we allude to the practice had to be wholly
given up for the reasons given. At no other
time than when occasionally indulging in the
habit referred to were the symptoms manifest,
and the only conclusion that could legitimately
be reached attributed the disease to that cause.
We have never heard of the bark being utilized
for medicinal purposes, but if the doctrines of
the Homeopathic school of medicine are univer-
sal in their application, there can be no doubt
that in this inner bark may be found medicinal
properties ; but that its decay in the water or
under the usual conditions surrounding its waste
in a stream, or as a filling for low ground, is
sufficiently miasmatic in its influence to give rise
to a charge of unhealthfulness, we cannot for a
moment believe after thirty years of careful
observation.— Northwestern Lumberman.

——<— es

THE Canadian Manufacturer says :—Among
the industries that are ‘‘ booming” just now
may be mentioned the construction of ready-
made houses for the North- West. Such houses
are being got up at Quebec, Ottawa, Belleville,
Hamilton, and other points, and competition
for the best and most convenient plan is lively.
Tents are also in great demand, and it is said
that in and about Winnipeg there are to-day
more than three thousand people living in tents.

YDROLEINE

(Hyvpratep Oi.)
An artificially digested
Cod Livey Oil.

For Consumption,
Winter Cough, Af-
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and all Wasting Di-
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Prescribed by the
leading physiciansof
England, the United
States and the Do-
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an
A WONDERFUL FACT.
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showing a complete arti-
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= andjust as the Hypro-
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stomach, and enters immediately into the system to
nourish and builditup. The efficacy of HYDROLEINE
is NOT CONFINED to cases of Consumption, asfromits
valuable tonic effect on the nervous system in addi-
tion to its special stimulating action on the organs
concerned in the production of Fat in the body, it
causes marked increasein weight in personsof naturally
thin haint, who do not present any evidence of disease, —
Unlike ordinary preparations of Cod Liver Oil, it
produces xo unpleasant eructation or sense of nausea,
and should be taken in such very much smaller doses,
according to the directions, as will ensure its complete
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(Late CAMPBELL & FOWLER.)
MANUFACTURER OF

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. FOR THE BEST

TURBINE WATER WHEELS

it Dae letting of the works for the FENELON
FALLS, BUCKHORN and BURLEIGH CANALS,
advertised to take place on the second day of August
next, is unavoidably further postponed to the follow-
ing dates :—

Tenders will be received until Thursday, the
Twenty-fourth day of August next.

Plans, Specifications, &c., will be ready for examina-
tion,(at the places previously mentioned) on Thurs-
day the Tenth day of August next.

AND
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Dept. of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, 15th July, 1882. 6d17 216

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The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
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Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mills
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned,

and endorsed ‘‘Tender for the Welland Canal,”
will be received at this Office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western Mails on FRIDAY, the 1st day of
SEPTEMBER next, for the deepening and comple-
tion of that part of the Welland Canal, between
Ramey’s Bend and Port Colborne,known as Section 34,
eubracitig the greater part of what is called ‘‘ Rock

ut.”

Plans showing the position of the work, and specifi-
cations for what remains to be done,can be seen at this
Office, and at the Resident Engineer’s Office, Welland,
on and after FRIDAY, the 18th day of AUGUST next,
where printed forms of tender can be obtained.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that ten-
ders will not be considered unless made strictly in ac-
cordance with the printed forms, and, in the case of
firms, except there are attached the actual signatures,
the nature of the occupation and place of residence of
each member of the same; and further, an accepted
bank cheque for the sum of four thousand dollars
must accompany the respective tenders, which sum
shall be forfeited if the party tendering declines en-
tering into contract for the works, at the rates stated
in the offer submitted,

The cheque or money thus sent in will be returned
to the respective contractors whose tenders are not
accepted.

This Department does not, however, bind itsclf to ac-
cept the lowest or any tender,

By order,
A, P. BRADLEY,
Secretary.

i i 6d15-law 2u15

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Department of Railways and Canals
Ottawa, 15th July, 1882,

THE CATALPA SPECIOSA.
We have before us an interesting monograph
on the Western Catalpa, by Dr. John, A.
Warder, of Ohio, Vice-President of the Ameri-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

logs, that the accessible stock of stan
is well nigh exhausted. In that low tract of
humid soil, sections of Catalpa logs are used to
support the corners of the buildings erected

ding trees | form and some sports, with colored foliage, may
also be multiplied by grafting and budding.

these trees by sowing the seeds, which is, indeed,

phyllotaxy, in the Catalpa, which is in whorls
of three, hence the tendency to throw out from
the group of terminal buds as many shoots, that
cause the tree to be low branched, and to require
some attention in pruning; the higher the

But it is always best to increase our stock of

the only practicable method of producing the

can Forestry Association, and an enthusiastic
forester. Ele clearly proves that the hardy
Western Catalpa Speciosa is a different species
from the tender Southern Catalpa Bignonioides,
and points out the greater merits of his favorite

tree.
We extract from his pamphlet the following

particulars :—

The wood of the Catalpa is light, and yet it is
sufficiently strong, and it is hard enough for
most purposes of construction. It has been
highly approved for bridge timbers where it is
exposed to the weather ; it has been the favorite
material for fence posts in a large tract of coun-
try ; it works easily in making shingles, which
have been found to last longer than the houses
they covered, and in one case we are told that
they were really taken off and used in another
building.

On the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Rail-
way, near Charlestown, Missouri, there is a
portion of the track laid eleven years ago on
Catalpa sleepers, which are yet sound, while
many of the oak fence posts inclosing the road,
though planted since it was built, have need to
be replaced. The oak ties last scarcely five
years on the same soil and exposure. Mr.
David Axtel, the intelligent engineer in charge
of this part of the road, reports that Catalpa
holds the spikes well enough, and that when
the ties become mashed they are no longer re-
jected, but simply turned over, so as to present
anew bearing. Some that had been thrown
out by the track-men have been used as fence

’ posts, and bid fair to last for many years,

In his letter to Mr. Barney the same gentle-
man writes: ‘‘ There is nothing to indicate that
the Catalpa ties in our track do not hold spikes
sufficiently well. Nearly all the spikes are in
the same holes originally made when driving
them. There has been no spreading of the
track. I have examined the few ties the rails
have settled into, and find none that will not
Jast a number of years by turning them over.
These ties are six and eight inches face ; if they
were wider, as you suggest, there would be more
resistance to crushing.”

Before passing from this branch of the sub-
ject, the peculiar ligneous structure of this tree
should be more particularly noted. The albur-
num or sapwood is very limited, and consists of
but one or two of the concentric layers, general-
ly, indeed, that of the last year’s growth only ;
so that, in the preparation of cross-ties, a stick,

twelve inches or more in diameter, needs only
to be split, or sawed, so as to make two sleepers,
instead of the more expensive hewing required
to make but one from the same material. The
timber, in this shape, with the maximum extent
of bearing for the rail, and having only the bark
and a thin layer subject to decay, may be laid
with its convex side next the road bed, in the
best position for tamping the tie when placed in
the track.

Little need be added to the mass of facts col-
lected by Mr. Barney, going to show that the
wood of the Catalpa is strong and hard enough
for most economic purposes; that it works
smoothly and takes a beautiful surface, and is
sufficiently varied in its tints to make it highly
ornamental for inside finish. At the same time,
though light, it is perdurable for all purposes
where it is exposed to the elements.

Dr. Schneck, of Mt. Carmel, Illinois, states
that the lumber, on account of these qualities,
has been in great repute near the mouth of the
Wabash, “‘ for the building of skiffs, and that it
is being rapidly exhausted in other localities by
the constant demand upon the trees for fence-
posts ; these are taken to a great distance, and
the trees ase often cut at night and stolen.”
Similar testimony is borne by James Bell, an
extensive dealer and manufacturer of lumber at
Ullin, Minois. J. T. Mills, Esq., of the Evans-
ville & Terre Haute Railroad, is purchasing
many thousands of these posts to fence the road;
and has also planted largely on the White River
for future use.

Tn all the Delta region of four or five States
surrounding Cairo, Illinois, particularly on the
west bank of the great River, Catalpa has been
in such demand for fence posts and foundation

there, and they make the most permanent foun-
dations—‘‘ corner stones.”

Near New Madrid, there are many fence-
posts which have stood and remained perfectly
sound for long periods, 20, 30, and even 40 years.
The story of the standing Catalpa trees that
were killed by the disturbances and submergence
of land, caused by the earthquake of 1811, which
we have all been disposed to doubt, is to this
day fully confirmed by occular demonstration.
In the lagoons there stand the broken shafts of
noble trees ; all other species, submerged by the
same catastrophe, have crumbled and fallen
into the water long ago, but these silent monu—
ments of that convulsion still remain, not as liv-
ing witnesses, but as dead memorials of the dis-
turbance of level, which caused their death, and
their now approaching dissolution ; but there
they have stood for seventy years, under condi-
tions most favorable to decay, and thence are
they brought, when cut, and are used for fenc-
ing.

ADAPTION TO SOIL AND OLIMATE.

With wonderful powers of accommodation,
however, this tree has been found to adopt
itself to almost every kind of soil. It thrives,
and even becomes naturalized, reproducing
itself in situations very different from those of
its native homes. This it has done upon the

hungry gravels about Baltimore and Washing-
ton, and upon the mica-schists of Eastern

Pennsylvania, as well as in the lime-stone
valleys of that state. It thrives on the tertiary
sands and gravels of New Jersey, near the
Atlantic coast, and on the red sandstone of that
state. It is found on the clay and gravel drifts
of Southern New York, as well as on the Hud-
son, where Downing used it to retain the river
banks. It may be seen on the hard conglom-
erate of the drift-scored rocks of Dorchester
heights, and it thrives on the sands of Cape
Cod.

So, also, in its Western migrations, it seems
to thrive everywhere ; at Cincinnati upon the
tenacious clays, the resultant debris of the old
silurian limestones, on the modified drift of the
river terraces, and on the rich alluvium of the
bottom lands, it seems equally at home. About
Dayton it thrives on the terraces and bottom
lands of the Miami, and at Columbus upon the
rich walnut lands that rest upon the boulder
drift which has ploughed through the Devonian
shales and the upper silurian limestones. At
Chilicothe on the Scioto it appears to be satisfied
with the hills of the Waverly sandstone, and at
Marietta, where it was planted at an early day,
it has become naturalized upon the debris of the
coal measures there cut through by the Mus-
kingum.

And in the States west of Ohio to which this
tree has been taken, it thrives upon all soils and
everywhere, if not too cold. Among the stumps
of the heavily timbered lands of Indiana, and
out in the open prairies of Illinois, it does
equally well, but it is especially thrifty upon
the great deposits of the Loess or Bluff forma-
tion of Missouri, Lowa and Nebraska, and parts
of Kansas.

In this respect the Catalpa seems to have the
advantage over some other trees in its wonder-
ful power of adaptation, and hence its great
promise as an element of success in the up-
building of American forestry.

Mr. Robert Douglas, of Illinois, who has pro-
pagated the Speciosa Catalpa more largely than
anyone else, and who has planted some hundreds
of thousands of them on the plains of Kansas,
pronounces this Western species, which he has
thoroughly studied in its native forest and arti-
ficial plantation, ‘‘ one of the best, if not the
very best tree, that has yet been introduced for
timber plantations in the Middle States.

PROPAGATION.

The propagation of the Catalpa is very simple
and easy. The plants may be multiplied by
cuttings where that method is desired ; it has
been practised to a limited extent. In the
Western forests limbs of fallen trees take root
in the humid soil, and produce new trees,
natural layers, giving us a hint that is put in
practice when we desire to increase our stock of
the dwarf kind that never blossomed. This

millions of plants that will be needed, so s00n
as the merits of this tree are appreciated. The
seeds germinate readily, the plants grow rapidly
and are ready to set out after one summer’s
growth. The seed should be kept dry during
the winter, safe from the mice, and need not be
planted until the soil is warmed. The soil
being well prepared, a shallow drill is made.
This can be done with a small plough. In this
the seed is strewn rather thickly, so as to lie
one or two inches apart and four or five inches
wide.
fine soil, from one quarter to half an inch deep,
according to the condition of the ground as to
humidity, and the prospects for showers. If the
conditions be favorable they soon vegetate,
when the young plants should be well cultivated
and kept clear of weeds, especially during the
first part of the season.

They should be at once covered with

The leaves fall with the first frost, and, after

standing a few days to harden up their tissues,
the young plants may be taken up with the
spade, or by using the small tree-digger plow, or
even a common one-horse plow, when they
should be assorted for size, aud put into cellars
or heeled-in deeply out of doors, unless indeed
they be at once planted in their permanent sta-
tions,

PLANTATIONS.
With a proper selection of the kind—that is,

of course, the favorite Catalpa Speciosa—no one
need hesitate to undertake a plantation.
trees are sure to grow, are easily cultivated, and
speedily yield satisfactory returns for the most
valuable material.

The

If in the prairie regions, where the railroads

are most in need of cultivated forests, to furnish
the future supplies of ties, posts and other lum-
ber, land should be selected that has already

been in cultivation for one or more years. This

should be well ploughed in the fall, and may

then at once be planted, or left to lie fallow
over winter. ‘

The planting is a very simple affair when once
a gang of hands has been organized ; and each
man will set from one thousand to fifteen hun-
dred in a day. After the surface has been
marked out, with furrows four feet apart, the
little trees are dropped at abaqut the same dis-
tance, and at once planted with the spade, and
the soil is closely tramped by the feet. As the
rows are set, or soon after, a one-horse plow
follows, to bank them up slightly. In fall
planting this furrow may be made rather heavy,
to protect the little plants and lead the surface
water from them. This ridge will have to be
worked down with harrow or cultivator in the
spring, before the buds have started, and such
cultivation will destroy the first crop of weeds.
Cultivation should be continued at intervals
during the summer, so as to keep the ground
clear of weeds, and to encourage the growth of
the young trees, which will have made sturdy
shoots of from one to four feet high, and will be
well established in the soil.

If some of the little trees be crooked or
branched, no matter, for during the winter or
in early spring they may all be cut off near the
surface of the ground, to secure a strong, thrifty
and even growth the next summer, when, if
sufficiently cultivated up to July, the result
will be most satisfactory and encouraging, in an
even stand of sturdy trees, averaging not more
than four feet apart, and reaching a height of
five, six, or more feet, and so completely shad-
ing the ground that no further cultivation will
be needed beyond cutting out a weed here and
there during the next season.

If the growth have not been very strong the
first season, it may be advisable to defer the
cutting back for another year, by which time
the roots will have become so much more fully
established that the shoots’ will be proportion-
ately robust ; so that, with proper cultivation
and removing superfluous shoots, leaving only
one to each plant, the result will be a stronger
growth of taller trees, and at the end of the
third summer from planting they will average
six feet in height.

This treatment is especially recommended
because of the peculiar leaf arrangement, or

stocks, therefore, the better. The close planting
here advised is also recommended with a view
to obviating this difficulty, as the surplus shoots
will be smothered and die where thus crowded,
and little or no pruning will be required to re-
move them. e

Thinning may become necessary after a few

years, but an experience of seven or eight years
in my own limited plantations induces the belief
that natural causes will very near suffice to thin
out the surplus trees with very little interference
by human agency.
necessary to use the axe in thinning out the
trees to enable them to develop themselves ; but
we should not count too confidently upon the
profits to be derived from this source. Some
poles may be had for fencing and other economi-
cal purposes, for garden and vineyard stakes,
and even for hop-poles, to all which uses the
lightness and durability of the material well
adapts it.
further insight into the details of trimming and
of thinning the plantations.

Further on it may become

Time and experience will give us

CONCLUSION. ,
In drawing this monograph to a conclusion, it

may be well to impress upon the reader the ex-
ceedingly important fact that we have in the
United States two very distinct species of
Catalpa, one of which is especially western in
its native habitat.
@ superior tree for our uses, and promises to be
a most important factor in ‘our future forest
plantations. It is superior in its habit and in
its hardiness. What has been said of the value
of Catalpa lumber may be equally true of either
kind, except that our tree alone will be able to

This species is in every way

produce dimension timbers ; hence, so far as at
present advised and informed, you are begged
to plant no other than the Catalpa Speciosa as an
economical tree. The others may do on a lawn
or in the park, but this alone should constitute
our groves and plantations planted for utility.

Think not, however, that we who have mani-
fested so great an interest in this tree which we
have so highly recommended to you, think not
that we would have you restrict yourselves to
any one tree. We have indeed a noble sylva, a
rich inberitance of trees, from which to make
our selections. These have various excellencies
and are severally adapted to diverse uses, and
to different situations as to soil, aspect and ele-
vation above the sea-level. Some are peculiarly
adapted to almost every portion of our extend-
ed country, where others would not succeed.
Let each planter use his own good judgment in
the selection of the various kinds best adapted
to his own particular local conditions.

To the great railroad corporations, who should
be the first to improve their vast estates on our
Western plains by timber planting, the Catalpa
Speciosa is confidently presented as invaluable

JoHN A. WARDER.

A WORD OF CAUTION.

The season for forest fires is approaching.
The rainy period that lasted through May and
June may be succeeded by asix months’ drouth.
The possibilities of devastating conflagrations
over wide areas are before the residents in
timbered regions ; they are before lumbermen,
whose operations last winter added a vast
amount of hell-fuel to the accumulation of other
years. We wonder if either residents or lumber-
men have once this year thought of these possi-
bilities. Sometime between now and October
there is almost sure to be sweeping fires in the
lumber districts of Michigan and Wisconsin
that may rival in horror and destruction Peshti-
go and “Thumb.” What measures have been
taken to avert such disaster ? Actually nothing.
Experience is said to be a good schoolmaster,
though his wages are enormously high. There
is one class, though this paper is loth to name it,
that seems to learn nothing of a prudential
character by experience, and it includéS~pine
land owners and loggers. They go on year
after year and allow brush piles to accumulate
on their lands—tinder for devouring flames to
feed upon—and complain of the hazardous char-
acter of standing pine as property. Not the
slightest attempt is made to obviate the danger.

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would therefore commit the defendants for
trial at the next term of the Court of Queen’s
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Since stumpage has reached its present figure, it
would seem that common prudence would cause
pine land owners to require jobbers to pile their
brush and take care of their tree-tops. Early
in the spring, before the ground is dry enough
to make a running fire possible, the stuff could
be burned, and thus put out of all danger of
sometime feeding a mid-summer conflagration.
Northern lumbermen could learn something of
their southern contemporaries in regard to
treatment of timber lands. It is stated by one
who has recently been in Mississippi that the
.pine forests there are, in many instances, kept
clean of underbrush, and debris is not allowed
to accumulate to any great extent, Tires are
thus avoided, and movement among the trees
is easier and pleasanter. We know that there
is. great labor and considerable expense involved
in cleaning up the down stuff on timber lands,
and that is the reason why itis not done. But
the cost would be no more, relatively, than men
pay for insurance on other property. It is time
that a movement to effect this desirable object
of safety to property and life were inaugurated,
Who among the lumbermen will put the ball in
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Manister has shipped this season 2,970,000
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products.

Tur Belleville Ontario says:—The last of
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Tue Lindsay Post of July 2ist says :—The
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banks, is expected at the mouth of the river
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Tur Timber Trades Journal says:—The in-
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carrying trade has this season been more mark-
ed than any preceeding year. At one of the
leading east coast ports there were a fortnight
ago seven full steamer loads of sawn wood in
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supplied this year.

RE RT

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—‘‘ The

“woman who took in stairs to wash finds her an.

titype in the man who goes around the country
with a saw mill cutting up logs by the job, the
the same as farmers thrash grain. The indica-
tions are that sometime this will be an impor-
tant industry. There has been so much ad-
vance already that saw-mills are towed on rafts
from one town to another. A few days ago the
tug Badger came into Winneconne, Wis., with
a saw-mill from Omro, and the occasion was
celebrated like the ‘‘ Declaration of Independ-
ence,” with brass bands and booming cannon,’,

THe Emerson International of July 13th
says :—Carney & Watson have sold an im-
mense quantity of lumber during the past two
weeks to Mennonites, who have recently come
from near Fargo, Dakota, and settled in the re-
serve west of Emerson. They are putting up
good houses, and paying for their lumber in
gold, of which they seem to have a good supply.

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The Parry Sound Worth Star of July 21st
says:—The machinery for the manufacture
of shingles is now in running order in the Parry
Sound Lumber Company’s steam mill, and
shingles are being turned out at a rapid rate.
We understand that the shingle and planing
mill of the Midland North Shore Lumber Com-
pany is being fitted up and will soon be run-
ning.

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Tun Northwestern Lumberman says :—They
do things on the jump in northern towns. At
Duluth, Minn., the Ohio Central Barge and
Coal Company is building a huge dock, and in
order to have the work go through on the rush,
the orders for timber have been divided among
several mills. It is proposed to finish the first
section of 300 feet in 60 days, if the thing is
possible. The total water-front length of the
dock is 2,000 feet.

Tur Lindsay Post says :—The $5,000 cut to
shorten the water route between here and Stur-
geon Lake is getting along speedily, The ad-
vantage to the boats towing timber will be very
great. As it now is the water stretch around
the bend is the worst on the river and during a
breeze of any strength both vessel and timber
generally go aground. Then when the winds
go down much work with rising barometer and
bad language over that region.

Tuk Glasgow report of the Timber Trades
Journal says :—With regard to Quebec deals,
taking into account the importation since the
stocktaking of 3lst March, the consumption
during the last three months is shown to be
about 2,300 St. Petersburg standards, and Lower
Port deals, 3,200 standards. The quarter’s con-
sumption of pitch pine appears to be over 8,000
logs, showing a considerable falling off compared
with the previous quarter, The stock, it will be
observed, is ample.

The Timber Trades Journal of July 8 says :—
The arrivals of cargoes of wood goods to the
port of Bordeaux the last fortnight have been—
one steamer from Miramichi, one sailing vessel
from Bathurst, one do. from Bridgewater, N.S.,
two do. from Dantzic, one do. from Skein, one
steamer from do., one do, from Soderhamn
(Bergvik), one do. from do, (Ljusne), one do.
from Sundswall (Ahlafors and Tunadal), one
sailing vessel from Dranimen, one do, from
Skutskar, one steamer from Christiana,

The Muskegon Wews says :—*‘* The operations
of the White River Log and Booming company
have been progressing nicely thus far this year.
The total amount of logs sorted, rafted and de-
livered from time of commencing work, March
20, including last week, was 75,000,000. To do
this work the company employs about seventy
men and thirty boys and one tug, the Peter
Dalton. Recently it has required the assistance
of another tug to do the delivering. One day
the boom rafted 131 rafts of logs, in all making
13,100. This is the largest days work ever per-
formed, 101 being the maximum heretofore.”

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THe Timber Trades Journal says :—Will
Manchester ever develop into a timber port ?
Such an occurrence need not be regarded as
being at all an unlikely one. The Manchester
Ship Canal scheme has now assumed a definite
shape. A provisional promotion committee has
been formed, and asum of money has already

“been subscribed for preliminary expenses. It

is estimated that within a few years of the open-
ing of the navigation 5,000,000 tons of goods
will pass through the canal. It is said that of
the £84,000,000 estimated value of the Liverpool
exports, £43,000,000 are represented by Man-
chester cotton goods. The effect which the
canal is likely to have upon the timber trade of
Liverpool is of a serious character,

FORESTRY CONGRESS,

WE beg to call the especial attention of our
readers to the invitations issued for a meeting
of the American Forestry Congress, to be held
in Montreal on August 21st and 22nd, It will
be remembered that a meeting of the National
Forestry Congress was held this year in Cincin-
nati, but a number of gentlemen from Canada
who are interested in Forestry having attended,
the title of the association was changed to the
‘American Forestry Association,” so as to in-
clude the whole continent, and steps were taken
to elect officers to represent the various provin-
ces of the Dominion. Mr. William Little, of
Montreal, was appointed Vice-President for the
Province of Quebec, and it is by him that the
invitations for the present meeting are being
issued, it having been determined to hold it in
Montreal, ,

To show the standing of the society we may
mention that the Hon. Geo. B. Loring, Com-
missioner of Agriculture, Washington, is the
President, the other officers are gentlemen of
high position and repute, and the present meet-
ing is under the patronage of his Honor Lieu-
tenant Governor Robitaille.

It is expected that interesting and instructive
papers will be read, and that there will be dis-
cussion of subjects connected with the objects of
the Congress, which are chiefly the conservation
and perpetuation of existing forests, the replac?
ing by new plantations those that have been
and are being destroyed, and the clothing of
our prairie regions with a due proportion of
trees.

Though the lumbermen from the very nature
of their business are great destroyers of our
forests, there isperhaps no class that is more im-
pressed with the necessity for steps being taken
to remedy the rapid destruction that is now
taking place, or is more anxious to see im-
provements made in our present regulations in
regard to our wild lands. The general public
too is being aroused to the necessity of a
change in this respect, as is evidenced by the
greater attention paid to it by the press of both
countries,

We hope that the Congress at Montreal will
be well attended, and that its deliberations will
be productive of much good.

TREE PLANTING.

The Ottawa Citizen says :—The comfort and
beauty of trees in the streets of a city will be
fully appreciated by our citizens at the present
time, as they go up Daly street and other public
thoroughfares, where there is a wealth of foliage
to screen one from the hot sun of summer days.
No feature of a city is more attractive than a
sufficiency of trees, and we hope to see the taste
encouraged far and wide in Canada until we
can compare favourably in this respect with our
American neighbours. Anyone who has visited
any charming American city must have come
back with pleasant reminiscenses of their em-
bowered streets. The subject is deserving of
agition, and we are therefore glad to notice that
Mr. J G. Bourinet will contribute a paper on
“Tree Planting in Canadian Cities and Towns,”
to the meeting of the American Forestry Con-
gress, which is to be held at Montreal during
the latter part of August. The President is the
Hon. G. B. Loring, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture at Washington ; the Canadian Vice-Presi-
dent is Mr. Jas. Little, of Montreal. At the
spring session held at Cincinnati, valuable pa-
pers was read by many promineut public men
and scientists, among others by the Hon, Hora-
tio Seymour, of the State of New Yerk. The
approaching meeting promises to be equally in-
teresting and profitable. The objects of the
Congress are deserving of every encouragement.
The rapid destruction of the forests in America
by commercial enterprise, but more especially
by the agency of fire, renders it necessary to
look to the future and take material measures
to keep up the supvly. Anyone who has visited
the timber districts of the Ottawa and its trib-
utary rivers will remember the dreary and piti-
able spectacle which constantly presents itself
of blackened stumps and tall gaunt remains of
what once comprised a noble pine forest. It is
not the lumberman after all that is playing sad
hayoe with the timber of America ; it is his in-
terest to preserve the young trees and keep the

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fire fiend away from his limit. It is the careless
settler, or the fisherman, or the sportsman, who
is the dangerous enemy of the woods of this
continent. Another subject well worthy of the
consideration of the Congress is the necessity of
planting forests in our North-West. Already
in the prairie lands of the Western States and
Territories large plantations have been success-
fully set out, and the authorities offer valuable
inducements to settlers to encourage them in
the prosecution of so useful a branch of in-
dustry. Tree planting in Manitoba must sooner
or later be taken up seriously by the settler,
Many of our hardiest and most valuable trees
will no doubt succeed on the rich prairie lands
of the province.

A BIG CUT. .

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—There
are no indications that the lumber trade that is
assuming such proportions in northern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota will become less right away.
The new Northwest promises to keep right along
‘and induce settlers without number into its
territory, and so long as that continues, so long
the demand for lumber will keep up. The
argument was used by many lumbermen in the
fore part of the season, that so much lumber
would go to the new country that the markes of
the Mississippi valley would remain firm
throughout the season. They said, *‘ How can
it be otherwise? There will be less lumber to
distribute over the country adjacent to those
markets.” The result has proved that before a
man bets his money he should look over the
ground thoroughly. Last winter and spring a
representative of the Lumberman travelled over
great portions of the three great pine-producing
states, and he announced that the mills every-
where were being put in a first-class shape—in
short, in better shape than they were ever
before—and to look out for an immense produc-
tion of lumber the present season, It was no
prediction but a plain statement of facts, and a
statement that some have profited by. The
stock on hand in the spring was unusually
stnall, yet to-day there is more lumber on hand
than was ever known at this time of year before.
The mills, with their increased capacity, have
been driven for all they were worth, and have
turned out lumber almost without end. Should
they keep up this gait until the close of the sea-
son, with no material increase in the demand
for lumber, the country will be well prepared to
stand a poor logging season for 1882-83.

The Soft Maple.

In a recent number of your paper is a notice
of seed of this species, Acer dary carpuna, being
sent from Hamilton, Ont., to Manitoba, and
calculations are based thereon as to a future
grove in that far-off land, Well, the tree is
hardy enough, but the seed is one of the most
impatient ; it must not become dry or it will not
vegetate, hence the difficulty in transportation.
The seeds of this species, like those of the Red
Maple, are almost sprouting plants when they
part from the mother tree, and need to be plant-
ed at once. The close relationship or analogy
between the seed and the bud, pointed out by
Dr. Harvey, is no where better shown, and it is
worthy of observation.—J. A. Warder.

Saw-Dast.

This material is used for bedding in the sta-
bles of all our cities, and has quite taken the
place of straw. which is reserved for feeding and
other purposes in the arts, The refuse from our
mills, planing machines and turning shops is
eagerly sought and purchased for stable use, nor
does there seem to be any prejudice against
these materials. The waste of such matter in
the streams is very injurious to the fish, and
should be forbidden by statute.—J. A. Warder.

Kind to the Trees.

Before the removal of the old town of Cullen,
a good many trees were planted in the peoples”
gardens. This was sometimes resented, but not
openly. One day the forester called around to
see how they were all thriving. The trees all
looked well except the one man’s garden. He
was asked how his trees were not thriving like
the rest. He replied: ‘‘ I canna understan’ it,
for I have been very kind to them, and ta’en
them in every nicht.”

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_ Trade with Australia.

The Montreal correspondent of the Mail
writing on July 24th says :—Mr. G. W. Sharp,
of Sharp & Sons, Lumber Merchants, _ Mel-
burne, Australia, is in3town. Hitherto they
have imported from{the United States and from

- Canada indirectly, inasmuch as New England

lumber merchants purchase Canadian lumber to
resell in the Australian markets. They were
not satisfied, and the object of Mr. Sharp’s
yisit is to establish a direct trade if possible.
The Hon. Mr. Skead has shown all that is to be
seen in his locality. and Messrs Gilmour, Eddy,
and other lumber kings of the Ottawa have done
likewise. Mr. Sharp states he was greaty
pleased with all he saw, and he was most un-
favourably impressed with what he saw of the
United States trade. He has already made ar-
rangements for direct business being done in
lumber, as also in other staples, particularly in
dried fish and petroleum, which are now almost
entirely supplied by the United States in very
larze quantities, Petroleum could be very pro-
fitably shipped to a very large extent.

A Wear’s.Tree Planting.

Those who regard with dismay the cutting
down of trees, and believe that the area of
woodland in Britain is gradually disappearing,
may take comfort from some of the figures stat-
ed in the return as to the prices for British tim-
ber realized during the season 1881-82. From
those figures it will be seen that throughout
England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, there
were planted on various estates, during the
period under review, no less than 3,156,826 trees !
Of these, 2,175,826 were planted in Scotland,
646,200 in England, 294,800 in Ireland, and 40,-
000 in Wales. It is, of course, not easy to get
absolutely complete returns, but those we give
are well within the mark, and prove that there
is at least some set off against tree felling and
the gradual increase of bricks and mortar in
these islands. :

Agour a Srump.—Alex Bulley and Joseph
Gamanchee own land near Anoka, Minn., which
lies along the Missisippiriver. On this land, at
the water’s edge, isastump. The Rum River
Boom Company tied to this stump a raft, con-
taining 300,000 feet of logs. Prompted by some
meanness, the owner of the land cut the raft
loose, and let it go wild down stream. The
company sued for damages, and the plaintiff’s
attorney held that, inasmuch as the stump be-
longed to the defendant, they had a right to cut
the raft loose, and moved the dismissal of the
case. The court failed to see the matter in that
light, and the defendants were held to the court
above in their own recognizances.—Northwestern
Lumberman.

C. Britton, Lindsay, Ont., writes :—‘‘ I have
much pleasure i in recommending Baxter’s Man-
drake Bitters in all cases of Jaundice, Bilious-
ness, Sich Headache and Liver Complaint, for
they have given universal satisfaction, and I
have sold more of them the past season than
eny other one patent medicine.”

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CEDAR PAVEMENTS.

Says the Northwestern Lumberman :— Cedar
pavements seem to grow in popularity, and are
being adopted in many cities where they have
been heretofore unused, and yet they are not al-
together in favor. The following remarks are
made concerning wood pavements in London :

“The character of the wooden pavements
may be known by the occupants of carriages in
driving over them, Where the blocks are laid
upon sand and boards, the vibrating and drum-
ming effects on nerves and ears are most dis-
tressing. When laid with open joints the sur-
Face becomes rapidly worn and uneven ; and
when laid upon an imperfectly formed or weak
foundation, the surface also becomes uneven, ale
ternating hills and holes, retaining dirt and wet,
and so tending more and more to the destruc:
tion of the road. Blocks of wood unexceptional
in character, form and dimensions of material,
laid hard on an exceptionally good cement con-
crete foundation, close-jointed, but without the
felt bedding and jointing, have a disagreeable
jarring effect, though in a less degree than the
examples previously described. Some of the
wood-paving companies must have been very
stupid, and also very difficult to teach, or they
would have learned, by their failures, sooner
than they appear to have done, and we should
not then have seen most important main
thoroughfares blocked for weeks at a time by
the pulling up of the entire wood construction
to begin again as from the beginning, and this
process more than once over.”

In response to a question raised at Toronto,
as to the relative value of old and young cedar,
for street paving blocks, a lumberman addres-
sed the following to the Globe :

“Tf you will kindly grant me a little more
latitude I would like to make a few observations
with respect to your views expressed as to the
merits of old cedar vs. young cedar for road-
ways. If I am right, I take it that you assume
that the young cedar is closer grained than the
older wood, and therefore calculated to wear
longer, and may therefore make the best road-
way. If your theory is correct, then those
whose duty it was to decide as to the most suit:
able blocks for our roadway are still wrong, in-
asmuch as the older cedar would not wear even-
ly with the saplings, and therefore the pave-
ment would soon present the same aspect as
that on King street ; namely, full of holes and
ruts ; and if my theory is correct—that the sap-
lings will decay before the older wood — then
they are equally at fault, as the decay will un-
doubtedly commence at the point where the
block comes into contact with the sand used in
the construction of the road bed. Any one hay-
ing had experience with cedar posts knows quite
avell how quickly destructive sand is to cedar,
and it requires but little time to determine that
where small cedar, composed of fully one-third
sap-wood, is firmly pressed down into sharp
sand, and assisted by moisture, the process of
decay will soon commence, and then the surface
of the roadway, under heavy traffic, will be-
come uneven.. I am willing to stake more
than my reputation that the larger the block
the longer the life of the roadway, and it will
amply repay our citizens to look well into this
matter before committing themselves to large
undertakings in this direction, and at all events,
as you remark, experiments can be made which
will be ultimately productive of good.”

SSS
OUR FORESTS.

It is a pleasure to see that the long-continued
and persistent efforts of our townsman, Mr.
James Littlo, in the advocacy of using all pos-
sible means to preserve from waste, and use
with economy the commercial woods of the
country are at last bearing fruit. To his publi-
cations through the press, with regard to the
timber resources both of Canada and the United
States, and his forecasts of the time of its total
exhaustion, under the reckless and wasteful
process going on, is to be attributed the wide-
spread interest now manifesting itself in both
countries. We find a National Forestry Asso-
ciation, as the outcome of his oft-repeated warn-
ings, has been inaugurated by our neighbours
across the line, for the preservation of the forests
and, as far as possible, keeping up the supply by
tree planting. The first meeting of the associa-
tion was recently held at Cincinnati, Ohio,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

when its name was changed to the American
Forestry Congress so as to include Canada in its
organization and deliberations, and’ its next
meeting was ordered to be held on the 21st and
22nd of August next, in this city. Several of
the States have also founded separate organiza-
tions with the same object in view, and in addi-

tion to his having thus aroused general attention

to the subject, it must be gratifying to Mr.
Little to find that the lumber papers of the

West, which all along ridiculed both editorially

and in contributions his pretensions as a timber
statistician, have at last been forced by the

current of events to acknowledge the correct-
ness of his warnings on the subject.
torial of last week’s issue of the Bay City,
Michigan, Lumberman’s Gazette, one of the lead-
ing lumber papers of the Union, we notice the
following highly complimentary remarks, admit-
ing the superior judgment and the acknowledg-
ed leadership of Mr. Little in the present

In an edi-

forestry movement. The editor says :—
“Probably no name in the country is more
familiar to those who are at all conversant or

interested in the subject of forestry than is that
of Mr. James Little, of Montreal, who has

made the timber resources of this country almost
a life study. For years his fluent pen has been
sending forth constant warning against the
wanton and unnecessary destruction of the
timber resources of the country. As a timber
statistician he probably stands to-day without a
peer. At the opening of his crusade against the
‘‘wood butchering,” which his sound judgment
and discernment discovered was becoming
alarmingly prevalent, his cautionary signals,
gown broadcast, were viewed as wildly fallacious
and were looked upon by many who had imbib-
ed the impression that the timber supply was
inexhaustible, as the effusions of a crank whose
idiosyncracies had made him a monomaniac on
the subject. But the future revealed the fact
that his judgment was far in advance of public
sentiment, and we are now brought face to face
with the fact that the progressive steps of this
same public sentiment have just at present ad-
vanced sufficiently to obtain faint glimpses in
the book which had been continually open to
his more advanced and mature judgment, ahd
he is recognized to-day as an acknowledged
leader in a movement which is destined to be-
come one of the most important to the country’s
interests.”

The foregoing flattering testimonials of our
townsman’s discernment, ability and exertions
in forestry matters by our Bay City contempo-
rary is fully endorsed by us, and the editor of
that valuable lumber periodical—his hitherto

credit in thus openly giving currency to his own
admission of error, a change of view on the sub-
ject in question, and honor to whom honor is
due.

We have written on this subject frequently,
and shall continue to do so until the public
mind is fully awakened to its importance. The
depletion of our forests by reckless lumbering
and ruthless fires is one of the worst evils the
country has been cursed with. Chopping and

burning have destroyed millions of our national

wealth, with no return to anybody. For every

‘tree that has been felled and utilized there have

been half a dozen wasted. Let anyone go over
a timber limit and he will see that we do not
exaggerate.—Montreal Herald.

WEALTH IN WALNUT TREES.

Mr. C. B. Wilson, of Jacksonville, IIl.,
drove me out to his farm some time ago to see
some black walnut trees. ‘‘These trees,” He
said, ‘‘ were planted from the seed twenty years
ago. Isaw them planted.” I measured these
trees and they were sixteen inches through.
They would saw into a timber a foot of clear
black walnut boards, and then have the top,
limbs and stump left.
sell to-day for five dollars to be sawed into
veneers. The boards would be worth $30.
“© What could you sell those trees for to timber
men as they stand?” I asked. ‘‘I could sell
them for twenty-five dollars per tree, and ten
years from now they will be worth $50.” From
these facts I came to this conclusion :—A _ black
walnut tree will pay $1.25 per year for 20 years,
A thousand of them will pay $1,200 per year,

opponent in lumber statistics—does himself

Now every Illinois farmer has had it in his
power to make more money off a row of black
walnut trees around his farm than he can make
off his farm if sowed in wheat. How can he do
it? This way: A farm of 160 acres would be
10,500 feet in circumference. Now plant walnut

trees four feet apart all around it and you will
have 2,625 trees, which will be worth $25 apiece
in 20 years.
sloughs, low places and all hog pastures into
black walnuts.
nut trees growing on a farm would be worth
$50,000 in 20 years, and would net, interfere
with the farm at all.

Again, a farmer can set all his

Two thousand handsome wal-

Orange raising in Floridawwill not pay- half so

well as as black walnut raising in Mlinois,

“How should black walnut be planted?’ I

asked Mr. Bates, a nurseryman at Whitehall,

Ill. ‘The easiest way,” he said, ‘‘is to strike

the ground with a common hammer in the fall,
make a round hole two inches deep and drop the

walnut in. It will cover itself with leaves and
dirt. The debris over the kernel will be so
light that the sprout will have no trouble in
finding its way out.” ‘“What would you do after
they come up in the spring?” ‘“‘I’d go around

and put a shovelful of saw-dust, tan-bark, grain-

chaff, or straw around each sprout. This will
keep the roots damp and kill the grass or weeds
around the roots. A boy could plant 1,000
trees ina day inthis manner. Id plant them
twice as thick as I need them and thin them
out.—Chicago Tribune.
——— ES
Canadian and U. 8. Duties.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—‘‘Ameri-
can lumbermen who are seeking investments in
Canadian timber limits, located with special
reference to bringing the logs to this country to
be sawed, will do well to bear in mind the fact
that the Canadian Government imposes an ex-
port duty of $1 per thousand put upon all pine
and spruce logs taken out of its domain, which
is equivalent, of course, to an addition of that
figure to the cost of stumpage. This fact does
not seem to be very well or generally understood
on this side of the line. As matters now stand,
Canadian pine must pay a duty anyhow before

THE TANITE CO.

The Jeffersonian, of Stroudsburg, Pa., says:
Some months ago the Tanite Company received
an order from one of the foreign governments
for a solid emery wheel 36 inches in diameter
and 8 inches in thickness. A wheel of this size
weighs about 800 lbs., and its price is $500. A few
weeks since the company received a cable order
from their Liverpool House for aspecial machine ~
on which to run this immense wheel. They are
now constructing this machine, which is the
largest they have yet built. It is from an en-
tirely new design and will weigh when complete
2,200 pounds. When finished, illustrations of
this machine will appear in some of the scientific —
papers. :

The Company received last week an addition-—
al order from the same government for nearly
$3,000 worth of solid emery wheels. Notwith-
standing the recent enlargement of their works
and increase of hands, they are kept busier
than ever.

RAFTS AT QUEBEC. -

The Quebec Chronicle has the following list
of rafts arrived :— a

July 10—Lattimer & MacNamara, staves,
Woodfield.

Flatt & Bradley, staves, Point-au-Pizean.

A. McLean, white and red pine, Dobell’s
(Sillery) cove.

Ross Bros., deals, New Liverpool cove.

Gordon & Co., board pine, New Liverpool
cove.

Flatt & Bradley, oak, elm, ash, etc., St.
Michael’s cove.

McLachlin Bros., white and red pine, Cap
Rouge.

July 11—Ferd. Fortier, deals, St. Appoli
naire.

D. & J. Maguire, deals and boards, Cap
Rouge.

Collins Bay Rafting Co., pine, etc., New
Liverpool.

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.

The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.,

it can be used on American soil. If sawed in measured and culled to July 14 :—

Canada, our protective tariff imposes a fine of be wigs ng dois Parr
as . ‘ : vaney ite Pine..... 776, i

$2. per thousand upon the importer; or if| white Pine........--.- 1,145'993 1,626,058 1,444,348
brought in the log the other government gets $1; | Red Pine...-.-..+-++++ 289,446 391,542 178,784
the speculator taking either horn of the dilemma Lat cee a rar oT es ans Sa 888
he may choose. There is no Canadian export | Ash..........0++0++--+ 153,330 231,251 143,685
duty on sawed lumber, and no American import Sarit en pe = P 5 +
duty on the logs. Tamarac. «xo0ssscuenaw 15,065 4,435 1,332
Birch and Maple......- 625,325 121,191 258,896
= Manis, «i. . < ceeded aes ad 33 pes
Tur Northwestern Lumberm avs i— Se eee oe ene ae ae
“L La 3 herman anya The) OE Given cee 6.78.90 125.0.3,5 202.3.2.16
umber Line” of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min- | w. 1, Staves..........- 204.1.0.12 178.1.3.21 518.6.2.11
Br. Staves...escseeeee oe esse 6.7.1.0

neapolis & Omaha railway is assuming vast
proportions. The efficient manager of the line,
Mr. R. T. Flournoy, of St. Paul, forwards to
the Lumberman a detailed statement of the lum-
ber that will be shipped the present season, and
it foots up in the aggregate 397,500,000 feet.
Last year the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road hauled 358,500,000 feet out of Chicago, and
it is generally supposed that no other road
carried as much, but evidently it will be obliged
to hand over the biscuit to its contemporary.

Deputy Supervisor.

Quebec, 14th July, 1882.

———————$—$—

A CORRESPONDENT of the Northwestern Lum-
berman, writing from St. Paul, Minn., says :—
I see plenty of Chicago lumber passing through
here going in the direction of the great North-
west. Getchell, Armour & Co,, of Chicago, are
shipping heavily this way.

=
LIVERPOOL STOCKS.

We take from the Timber Trads Journal the following Comparative Table showing Stock
of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on June 30th, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for

the month of June, 1881 and 1882 :—

ns

The stump itself would

Le —————————————
C = =
Stock, June 30th.| Stock, June 30th.{for the month of for the month of
1888. 1881. June 1882. June, 1881.
Quebee Square Pine.........eeeee eee eee eee 46,000 ft. 421,000 )
£ Waney Board........+ 112,000 ** 170,000 “* 50,000 ft. 158,000 ft.
St. John Pine........ 3,000 “ 3,000 ** a 2,000 “*
Other Ports Pine 22,000 “* 39,000 ‘* 3,000 “* 9,000 ,,
Pitch Pine, hewn. 975,000 ** 757,000 ‘* 196,000 “* 000 **
Sd sawn. 617,000 * 471,000 “* 169,000 “* 105,000 “*
JANENe dekcleccemmat vee ase EMER Tn 100,000 * 85,000 * 23,000 “* 000 “*
Moed(Pine. ¢.«ccceanthanaberence<ccsaraes eqan 9,000 “ 38,000 ‘* 5,000 ** 2,000 *‘*
Dantzig, Se., Fir ...... cece ee ee eee ee eeees 71,000 ** 124,000 “* 42,000 “* 72,000 “
Sweden and Norway Fir. 2... 6.6... eee eee eens 4,000 “* 9,000 ** _ =
Oak, Canadian. .........ceceeeeeneensecneces 162,000 ‘* $31,000 “ 52,000 “* 44,000 “
WRIA ER A. ce hee tua eee- cack oeecee eta 76,000 * 142,000 “ 58,000 “* 36,000 **
SCIRAIEIG. ccccuschins cembbuh.c suweGescicne ccm 49,000 “* 90,000 ‘* 4,000 “* 6,000 “
NM. cae heats csc eck mines SL AREER RE OeSORE 30,000 “ 27,000 ‘* 3,000 “* os
ASR Eien ctestuy vee sw test pemien Toes cakes bahan 5, bs 8, = 4,000 “* 2,000 “*
BUAPGHER Ses wins ve cba ns bah eQiedasee enue +. 22,000 “* 100,000 “ 42,000 ** 000 “*
Greenheart.......cccueceecccecnveser . 64,000 “ 000 “* ,000 ** 8,000 “*
East India Teak....... . 88,000 “ 8,000 “* 13,000 ** a
Sint ca “} 4,777 stds. 6,980 stds. 1,801 stds. 1,423 stds
N. B. & N.S. Spruce Deals . 7,328 “ 18,658 ‘* o10 « - «
: at ee mS ee \ 6,810 7,148
Baltic Deals ........0005 ek 1,601 “ 4,341 “ 719 69 “
3 Bakinaee ks aks wetcapeceesess aes 7 “8 $00 ** 61 “ 100 *
Flooring Boards. ...) cece scenes scene 2,726 “* 3,652 “* 545 “* 1,031 “

THE CANADA

OGhips.

“Tux mills of Nashville, Tenn., will run during
the night, while the hot weather lasts.

-Owensporo, Ky., has a curious freak of
mature in the shape of a catalpa branch growing
out of the side of a locust tree,

A SALE of 700,000 feet of black ash lumber
was made at Rochester, N.Y., recently, at $16
athousand. Another sale was reported of 200, -
000, at $15.

THE Duluth Lake Superior News of July. 13th
says :—There are one hundred cars of lumber
on the docks here awaiting shipment to Winni-
peg, owing to the scarcity of cars.

An exchange says that forty thousand acres
of timber land in the Duluth district, worth $40
an acre, have been stolen from the Government
by speculators at $1.25 an acre.

THE Michigan Iron Works, at Cadillac,
Mich., is to construct one of its new style en-
gines and 50 logging cars for Nicholas, Church
& Co., of Greenville, Mich. The contract
amounts to $7,000.

A SHIPMENT of lumber from Shreveport, La.,
was made lately to the state of Chihuahua,
Mexico, 170 miles south of El Paso. The cars
were loaded at the mill grounds, and were run
directly to their destination—a fact worthy of
notice in latter day American-Mexican pro-
gress.

THE Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says:
Charles Merrill, of Bay City, Mich., has been
to the Spanish River district, Ont., for the pur-
pose of locating a mill, which Folsom & Arnold,
of Bay City, will build for him the coming fall.
Mr. Merrill has recently purchased pine land on
Spanish River.

At Oswego, N.Y., E. H. Barnes, who manu-
factures box shooks, cuts up 13,000,000 or 14,-
000,000 feet every year in that line of manufac-
ture. A. W. Wright,!a manufacturer of sashes,
doors and blinds, uses up from 2,000,000 to 3,-
000,000 feet of lumber in his business, keeping
75 hands busy all the time.

Tuer Midland Republican says :—David Ross
is superintending a run of 1,500,000 feet of logs
for W. W. S. Sutherland, of East Saginaw.
They are now passing Midland and make a con-
tinuous string in the river over 20 miles long.

' Mr. Ross also has charge of a run from the
Chippewa and Pine river which started out last
Friday.

Tue ship Syren, which recently loaded deck
plank and spars at Seattle, W.T., for Bath,
Me., consigned to Goss & Sawyer, had 130
sticks on board. The ship could not stow as
many spars as was expected, so the deck plank,
some of which were of great length, were taken
as small stowage, The Syren received $15,000
for the voyage.

THE jam in the St. Croix, Minn., is assuming
formidable proportions, extending now to or
above Marine. The logs are seemingly inex-
tricably mixed and piled seven or eight feet
high. Communication is kept up, however
with the up-river towns, the freight and passen-
gers being conveyed around the jam in wagons
and carriages. It will probably be several
weeks before the river is clear of logs,

Tue Ottawa Citizen, of July 11th, says :—It
will be upwards of four weeks before Hurdman’s
drive on the Petewawa will be out of the river,
Last Thursday evening the drives of Messrs,
Perley & Pattee and Captain Young were at
the last slide, Petewawa, and are out now.
The last of Messrs. Perley & Pattee’s will be
out this week. The rafts of Messrs, Perley &

Pattee and Young were ready for Quebec yes-
terday.

Tue Quebec Chronicle, in an article on ‘‘ The
Future of Quebec,” says :—The timber trade is
no longer a staple industry of Quebec, nor are
we building wooden vessels to sell in the British
and other markets. The fact is, times have
changed. The steamer and the ironclad have
succeeded the old-fashioned square-rigged
wooden-wall. With regard to timber, the trade
hae also changed materially. Dressed lumber
is still cold, and there are shipments of it from
this port, but the competition is so brisk, and
the number of markets so many, that the profits
have declined materially. Still, it is by no means
yet a lost industry entirely.

LUMBERMAN.

Wuen the Sturgeon Bay, Wis., canal was
dug, the greatest depth excavated was 45 feet.
Down there a red cedar was found and hoisted
out, and the stump of it now lies on the bank.

Tur Liverpool correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says the idea that the importa-
tion of Quebec yellow pine will be comparatively
small for this year, gains strength daily, looking
at the high prices demanded there, and the im-
proved quality of much of the pitch pine now
imported, will tend greatly to divert attention
from the former wood to the latter, especially
as there is so great a difference in the market

values. .
THE Timber Trades Journal, of July 8th,

says:—We notice that last year the Hovding
was a day later from Quebec than she was this
season, but it is nevertheless a somewhat singu-
lar coincidence that her arrival should be so
near to time two years in succession, and seems
to imply that the spring fleet will not be so late
as was expected. It is true last year the Pro-
gress had previously arrived, but she anticipated
the first-named ship by only a few hours.

Tue business of building tenement houses in
sections, ready for transportation and erection
at, the point of destination is on the increase,
and proving eminently successful. . A firm in
Quebec has recently shipped in sections five
hundred wooden houses to Panama, where they
are to be erected and used by the contractors of
the canal being constructed. The same firm
has also manufactured a number of houses for
shipment to various points along the line of the
Canada Pacific railroad. :

A CORRESPONDENT of the Parry Sound Worth
Star says:—I was surprised to find that the
“sills” or ‘‘ stringers” being supplied for the
new sidewalk on Seguin street were mostly hem-
lock timber. Now anyone who has had even a
small experience with hemlock knows that it
will not last in that position more than two or
three years. Why not put in cedar and make a
good job while they are about it? I am sure
there is plenty of good cedar to be got. White
pine itself would be far preferable to hemlock.

Tue Emerson International says :—Fifteen
miles east of the Red River at Emerson, the
line of continuous forest is reached—woods of
almost impenetrable thickness, comprising all
the varieties of the Lake Superior region. West
of the Red River to the Pembina Mountain
the various streams which drain this region sus-
tain a fine growth of oak, poplar, elm, cotton-
wood and the ash-leaved maple, Southern
Manitoba being much more heavily timbered
than the central or northern portion. Timber
culture on the prairie is aJready carried on to a
considerable extent, and in a few years quite a
large quantity will be raised on ‘‘ Tree Claims.”

A DESPATOH from Halifax, N. S., dated July
12, says that D. C. Connor, who for two years
has been doing rather an extensive business at
Kingston station, Kings County, as general
merchant, hotel keeper and lumberman, has
failed with estimated liabilities of about $40,000.
Connor has been for some years employed by
a large Halifax firm in getting out logs for their
mill at Bridgewater. About a week ago he re-
ceived a cheque from the above firm for ten or
twelve thousand dollars, with which to pay the
men employed by him during the winter. He
drew the money from the bank at Bridgewater,
and instead of paying the men, drove to Anna-
polis, and, it is thought, left in the steamer for
the United States. Several local men lose
heavily.

Tuer Montreal correspondent of the Canadian
Manufacturer, under date of July 5th, says :—
Within the past ten days or so, three sailing
vessels have left port with deals for West
Hartlepool, England, one for London, and one
for Cardiff. Two vessels have also left with
cargoes of lumber for South America, Shipping
culls are scarce, and sales are reported at $14 in
large lots, and at $15 to $16 for jobbing lots
from yards. The sale of a lot of ash for the
American market is reported at $20, and sales
of red and white pine have taken place at $20
to $25, alot of very choice bringing as high as
$30 per M. feet. There is still a good demand
for white pine for Winnipeg, several car loads
having been shipped to that city during the
week, The yards are being filled up with new
season’s hard and soft lumber, and prices re-
main generally firm,

SYACORS

TRADE

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Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other

Pains and Aches.

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as a safe, sure, simple and cheap External
Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively
trifling outlay of 60 Cents, and every one suffering
with pain can have cheap and positive proof of ite
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Atlarket Aeports.

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent,

Juty 24,—The building trade here still con-
tinues excessively dull, and as a consequence
the local sale for all kinds of building material
is dull also, in fact one well stocked retail yard
would easily meet all the demands of the retail
trade at present. Of course it is usual to have
July and August quiet months, but there are no
present indications of anything much better for
the remainder of the season ; still, this will not
materially effect the sum total of our timber
sales at the close of the season, if our trade with
the other side continues good, and those who
are generally well informed on such matters feel
confident that our shipping trade for the re-
mainder of the season will be brisk, with a very
light stock left to carry over the coming winter.
Since writing you last considerable lumber of the
lower grades has passed over our docks, and af-
ter a few weeks more age, to fit it for market,
considerable of the higher grades will go for-
ward, and vessel owners are anxiously waiting
for cargoes, although the present rate of
of freights does little more than pay expenses,
and in some cases not that.

There are a few points which it would be well
for our manufacturers to note if they wish to
cultivate trade with the American markets, and
to obtain good prices for their stocks, and that
is to manufacture their lumber as carefully as
the American mill men. 2nd, to sort it as care-
fully. 3rd, to save it free of staining. Quite a
number of our large inills are behind in this res-
pect, as well as the smaller ones. The point
seemingly arrived at by many of them is to see
how many logs they can put in at one end of
the mill and send out of the other, and then to
crown all, pile up mill culls with the higher
grades, and in numerous cases so closely piled
as to sap-stain and so make mill culls, of what
otherwise would be good dressing or better.
The writer could point out, if necessaty, some
notable exceptions in those particulars, but, I
am sory to say that exceptions they are, why
not then apply the remedy ? Make less lumber
and make it well, sort it carefully, so that a
would be purchaser can see your stock as it
should be seen, and lastly pile at once from the
saws and pile openly and orderly each length on
on its own pile.

QUOLATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling..............
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths
stocks Pereira

‘ “oe “ce
be “e oe
oe oe oe
“ee 4“ oe 2
Scantling and joist, up to 28 ft...... Bra
oe oe te 30 ft
ee ae “
oe “ee oe
ae “ce “ee
oe oe “ee
“ “ee “e
Cutting up planks to dry............ccseceneeee
Ss opel UO sso rocongcascmorca censor
Sound dressing stocks. ..........+
Picks Am. inspection......
Three uppers, Am. inspection

B, M.
1}- inch flooring, OrLEssed, .. 1. cs. econo 30 00
14 MOUS tre ceseia 6 16 00
ss “6 CARESS OMe rehveeriets icici 26 00
i ut undressed. . . 16 00
oS 4 GreSSaGs. «ewes ce ee slants check 23 00
1” S ee NEE lso> oS poo Son sadoaUduee 17 00
4 Beaded Sheeting, dressed............. 22 50
Clapboarding, dressed ..........0..05 Bfeftiatatesein sis 12 50
XXX sawn shingles, BM............0.00 2 50@3 00
AX SawN SHINGICS....... veces veecescsseses sere 200
DAVIN TAT Geese ccueivvieinvees encase emene tives 2 20
o> — .
MONTREAL,

From our own Correspondent.

JuLy 24,.—Trade has been fair since last re-
port although not quite so rushing as in May
and June, purchasers are only buying for im-
mediate wants, which on the whole are pretty
heavy as there are a large number of buildings
going up both in the city and in the neighbor-
hood, There has also been a good demand for
hardwood from the United States. Harvest
prospects are good andif the grain is brought this
way forshipment a good business in lumber is
expected to be done on the wharves. A good deal
of lumber is arriving and prices in Ottawa keep
well up ; all the mills there are running day and
night and turning out a great deal of lumber

which is selling very fast and stocks do not ac-
cumulate much. In Quebec the square timber
trade is rather slack, as they have no vessels to
take the timber away. The supply in England
is rather small, but sufficient for present de-
mands, which are likely to improve if Kastern
matters were alittle more settled. Prices in
our local market are firm, and we note an ad-
vance on some. We quote ex yard as follows :

Pine, 1st quality, AB UM etaretatewicinrs'oisidis/sp.» $35 U0@40 00
Pine, 2nd ADL ucts Pivpiale agasia’s ain » 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, # Micon sea eae ta6 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, #M ..... ...... 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culley GQ Mis.c secede cle rus >> case 10 00@12 00
Spruce, # Bish weve, SP 2 0 10 00@13 00
emlock, # M.......... acts isselngis ei ato aa 9 00@11 00
Ash, run of long culls out, Bp M... Wi csrs 20 0U@25 00
Bass, @M..... ssse» 17 00@20 00
Oakly Aaa ais, ctelsnate metas abetaisldgiaie as 40 00@50 00
«see» 20 00@25 00

Hard Maple, #M..... see seeeeees 25 00@30 00
Lath, @M.......... 1 30@ 1 40
Shingles, lst, @M eeoes.-- 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, ond, BB Mirco s osigissteinelele sees «./. 200@ 0 00

SHIPMENTS,

The barque ‘‘ Cupid” which sailed from this
port on the 23rd of June with 541,213 feet of
lumber for Monte Video, went ashore 6n the
Manicoggan shoals, but after throwing her deck
load overboard was got off, and has returned to
Quebec to discharge and repair, after which she
will again proceed on her voyage. The damage
done to her hull was slight. The shipments
from this port since the 8th inst., were as fol-
lows :—-To St. Johns, Newfoundland, 122,985
feet of lumber, and 212 M. drum staves ; to St.
John, N, B,, 10,879 pes deals ; to Cardiff 13,384
pes deals; to Grimsby 6,724 pes deals, 105
standard deal ends ; to London 11,730 pes deals:
The shipments to the river Platte, since the date
of last report, were by two vessels carrying 656, -
473 feet of lumber. The total shipments to
South America since the opening of navigation
to date were 2,352,820 feet, against 2,817.263
feet for the same period of 1881 being a decrease
of 474,443 feet. There are 5 or 6 vessels now
loading here for South America, Freights are
steady but unchanged.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS,

Business is quiet and prices have favoured
buyers; 1st quality Quebec deals, (Pine) are
quoted £19 @ £20 10s. per standard ; 2nd
quality do, £18 10s. @ £14 10s ; 3rd quality do,
£9 10s. @ £9 15s, ;

CORDWOOD,

The market continues to be well supplied both
by river and road, but the demand continues to
be very slack, and at the present high prices it
will likely be soon superceded by coal. The
contract for the court house supply has not
been given out yet. We advance the price of
beech, other kinds of wood are unchanged. We
quote ex cartage :—

Long Maple sijess cep hcisnccu baat cccsauesacpinee $7 00
Short “ 6 50
Long Birch 6 50
Short ‘“ 6 00
Long Beech, osies vuiees cinv Caius, pnjeecndeepelenish = 6 00
Short * 5 50

00

Tamarack

OTTAWA,
From our own Correspondent.

JuLy 25,—The large trading in pine lumber
now going on in the American markets will
soon decrease the stocks on hand, and conse-
quently our yards will have to be resorted to

for a replenishment. Sales so far this season
have not been as numerous as other. years.
Shipping-continues somewhat lively, and last
years orders are in most cases nearly fulfilled.
American buyers are on the market ; they have
not done much, however. Quotations are about
as follows :—

Pine, 1st quality, per 1000 feet. ..$ 35.00 to $ 40.00

Ws ina Sens pedslece AU UURRO mec GO
«Mill culls She SO USS oe LOGO tO 2200
“Shipping St ene stcawisara 2LO.Q0EON 6.00:
‘ Pickings Sa Renn 20.00 to 26.00

Mr. John Macdonald the superintendent
of the slides at the Chaudiere, who is so well
known by the lumbermen of this district and
elsewhere, has been superannuated by the Goy-
ernment, He has held the position fora great
many years, and was a trustworthy and court-
eous servant. When he first took office he wit-
nessed and inspected the now rarely seen giants
of the forest, rafts of 75 foot average, In this
connection it has been remarked as an indica-
tion of the rapidly increasing scarcity of pine
trees in the limits on the Upper Ottawa and its
tributaries, of a size to make square timber,
that with a few exceptions all the square tim-
ber passing through the slides here will not ay-

erage 60 cubic feet per piece, a great falling off.
It is more difficult, lumbermen say, to get a raft
of timber 60 feet average to-day than it was a
few years ago to get one of seventy or seventy-
five.

Messrs Grant & Miller have a splendid raft
running the slides at present; as have also
Messrs. Perley & Partee, and Young & Bronson.
Two rafts of Mr. Oliver Latour, are yet to come
down. Four have already passed the slides.

The following rafts passed through the works
mentioned during the week ending 22nd July:

CALUMET S8LIDBS-
Rafts. Owners. Cribs. Pieces.
1 J. O. B: Latour......0...-« 93 2,525
1 DO MGONE saree lnadeainat es cx 83 1,941
1 J. & B, Grier...... apearre 80 1,856
3 256 6,322

PORTAGR DU FORT.
Rafts Owners. Cribs.
1 Young & Bronson......seeer+seese 0s one 64
if Perley & Pattee.........ccsvccvevenssccace 142
1 Richard White,...cehsec-+s dasv>tmcce™ ,-- 120
3 326
LEFT OTTAWA SINCE 18TH JULY
Peices.

Rafts Owners. Cribs Wor, 6 de.
1 Wm. Mackey......... 110 2,275 357
l Wm, Mackey. .....5.- 122 3,273 5
1 B. Caldwell & Son..... 102 2,661 135
1 Oliver Latour....:... . & 1,181 614
1 David Moore...... ... 84 97 =: 11,969
5 478 9,487 3,071

THROUGH GATINEAU BOOM SINCE 18TH JULY

Saw- Sq. Ft. R. R.
Owners. logs. Pine. Pine. Ties
G.B. Hall & Co, 2,609 136 ne” otswes
W.C. Edwards & Co 1,168 reve) 41M orale e
Rathburn & Son. 22,545
9,777 136 684 21,535
————__>___———_-
ST. JOHN, N. B.

From our own Correspondent.

Jvuy 22.—Owing to the low prices still ruling
in Great Britain, our lumber market still re-
mains dull, and deals that are arriving (that are
not already contracted for) are selling slowly at
about $9.50 per M, being about $1.00 less than
they were one month ago.

‘Freights still remain firm at higher rates, but
very few vessels have been chartered, owing to
the great advance in grain freight in New York,
which is drawing most of the available tonnage
there.

Tn the present position of the maket it is dif-
ficult to give reliable quotations of freight, but
the rates talked of are as follows :—

Liverpool. oes s acess 60s. 3d. c. d.

Bristol Channel ..... 60s. Od. 62s. 6d. c. d.

AV@USTG . ondiun suvvees 60s, Od. to 67s. Gd. ec. d.
VESSELS IN PORT THIS DATE.

Belle O’Brien, 1,847, Liverpool, 52s, 6d. c. d.

Arizona, 1,100, Cardiff, 55s. c. d.

Clarence, 1,032, Bristol Channel, 55s. c.d.

Lake Simcoe, 344, Troon, 57s, 6d. ec. d.

Belle, 480, Dundalk, 60s, c. d,

Assyria, 728, Warrenpoint, 56s. 3d. c. d.

Young Eagle, 534, Cork or Dublin, 60s,

Argus, 232, Wexford, 67s. 6d. ¢, d.

Adria,, 194, Ballywain, 67s. 6d: c. d

Harold, 189, Ireland, 67s. 6d. e. d.

Quaeo, 186, do, 68s. 9d, ce. d.

Lord Derby (3) 1,132, United Kingdom, 54s, ec. d,

G. B. Doane, 941, Bordeaux, 58s. c. d.

Gloire, 1,138, do, 54s. ce. d.

New York, 543, St. Nazaire, 5@8. 3d. ec. d.

Lottie Stewart, 742, unchartered.

Lepreaux, 719, do.,
Calliope, 1,202, do.,
COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 1ST, JANUARY TO DATE.
1881. 1882.
Deals. Pine. Birch. Deals, Pine. Birch.
M,S. jt. Tons. Tons. M.S. ft. Tons. Tons,
95,703 76S =. 2,306 105,279 359 3,890
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATE.
1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons.
39 28,600 21 14,131
—~>—
CHICAGO,

JuLy 22.—The Northwestern Lumberman says:
—Notwithstanding the large amount of lumber
reported, the cargo market at Franklin street
has had one offthe slimmest weeks of the season.
The largest fleet of the week was 20 vessels on
Monday, and while other days have shown 10
and 12, the rapidity with which they have been
moved has left the docks bare, or nearly so,
during the largest part of the time. Tbe Mon-
day fleet was all placed before noon, and the
few cargoes on hand Tuesday morning were
bought up so early that at nine o'clock no less
than five tugs were at work taking out their
tows at thesame moment, This statement may

be interpreted as giving an index of the fee
on the part of the buyers, indicating, as it doe
a readiness to take all desirable offerings at pe:
quotations, and even a slight advance. Bea

and bulls agree, for once, that while ono

offerings perhaps no actual advance is iis be

noted, desirable cargoes will bear quoting at 25
to 50-cents higher, while a generally firmer feel-

ing is more apparent than actual advances in

values,
CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green...... .....+--.- 210 50@1
DEY so siesicsue esc oone pe oa sp eee sess 10 75@11
Long dimension. ...0.+s ss-aesenee ene 12 00@13
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock... ooveoe Al S5Q056
NG. 2 SHOCK. sccc nee nagacsat ¢oaaeaene +» 16 00@20
No. 1 log run, culls out... oatee .. 17 0@z
et shingles...... 2 0@ 2

ee vineav ewe -.. 26@2
fee 2
LAER, .': 9s casoeat ve ies dsoeeb Eee 2

shingles, etc., for the week ending July 20, as
reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange:— __

RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shing
ISB2 se cieclevesevesnre sews 63,360,000 8
1881..... pebasicn <> -3pipeenine 60,682,000 32,526,000
FROM JANUARY 1 To JULY 20 INCLUSIVE.
RECEIPTS.
iia Lumber.
--) eee eee es 894,079,000 396,658,000
IBRS .. ecvesresannecueepenee 764,589,000 344,795,000
OE AR +. 129,490,000 51,793,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO JULY 19.
1882. - 748,747,000 368,264,000
IGSl. - .voccscvaces + aeep eee 627, 590, 000 272,603,000
Increase. « ..sskaupeue «++++121,157,000 95,661,000
STOCK ON HAND JULY 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
443,039,546 352,391,329 347,346,419
. .. 223,839,500 142,726,000 144,095,000
.-. 26,693,152 30,764,312 29,733,995
+.» 1,902,187 3,170,228 795,360
os 154,143 120,559 111,655
——__— »—_——_—__—_-
BOSTON.

JULY 22.—The Journal of Commerce says —
The demand isof a steady character, but at
the moment the tendency of general prices is to
easiness. The inquiry is mainly for the supply
of pressing wants. Stocks in the hands of deal-
ers are only moderate, and with the promise of
a good fall demand, it looks as if values would
eventually be well sustained.

CANADA PINE.

Shelving, Dressed, Ists..........
Dressed os ee es weecves euwoncces

5
nd SL. ine see ee 34 00@35

Litt

ALBANY,
Quotations at the = are as follows :—

Pine, clear, @ M.....-...
Pine, fourths...
Pine, selects... .«..a0sechtu-eueee .
Pine, good box.......-..-....---+0es
Pine, 10-in. plank, each..
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. rere
Pine boards, 10-Ins -..... csse<sseun oe

cu
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M..........
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft........... encase
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.......... 2aknn
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... .......-.
Pine, 1-in. siding, select....... Sassen eee
Pine, inch siding, common.... ........-.
Spruce, boards,
Spruce, plank, ‘Lhin., —: «ution cwitte wet
Spruce, plank, 2-n., ‘each...
Spruce, wall strips, each......20se saan
Hemlock, boards, each
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each...
Hemlock, joist, 2}x4, each .... es
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each. .........
Ash, good, ®? M
Ash, second quality, @ M............. wee
Cherry, good, 2 M
Cherry, common, @ M... ...-.......s..05
Oak, good, 2M we
Oak: second quality, @ M................
Basswood, BM. .ccccnccece evcccssasauss
Hickory, 2M oe epyanlent eewensssace vwekie
Maple, ‘Canada, P ee o00see wee wae cunqeegne
Maple, American, per M.......- eunecanme
Chestnut, @ M...0. ssecsccckscaue seueues
Shingles, ‘shaved, pine, OM. ...ms sieeve
2nd q
a extra, saved, pine ..i «. 2a

ana

UARRSRESTSSSSSSSSSSSSSLLUUEYSSSSSSSSTRUSSSEES

rocco RRB RIBAS HSSSSSSSSE ED HMR SSSEIE ER

Lath, hemlock, 2 M.
Lath, spruce, **
Lath, pine, *

saebesseceteettite

ooo

TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,

Epoch be on Shakes ans weceee SS
Common

i i

———_@—_—_—_————.
BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :—

Tee eee e eee

é 346
Common............ . Ruenccwesusn BO
RIG Gicc ce vesecsuserevacen pubeaneaqeenewe ie

a

OSWEGO, N.Y.

ATES UPPENVS..... cee rceereerceesesessess $46 00@48 00
Piuknee Metccisctsinitiv'e’ (ele tit a/miore inteaie Ore 36 00@38 00
Fine, COMMON ........ 6. eee tee eee ee 20 00@25 00
MSOWIMION. 5 sais cen ccna eeevnneacencee 14 00@17 00
MUNGUIGSL win. wip vip mos senceviedereles seversaurse 12 00@15 00
Mill run lots We cshoatece aie & ot ain mi aiahagrdcotase 0/60 18 00@25 00
Sidings, selected, Linch. ...s..s.seeseseeee 33 00@38 00

D4 MCh... ciee cae scan ceenesceces 35 00@40 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet......ssss-ee 17 00@25 00
RCTECEELE TIE «rer oslo ais sine cee 25 Breen ae

‘trips, 1 and 1 inch MEMVIIEN ATI wrasbyela\eleisiais » 14 00@20 0
“sey ; culls 11 00@14 00
1x6 selected tek clapboards........ . 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine 3 756@ 3 90

XXX, ig inch, cedar 3 00@ 3 55
MEP Tey ch ccbassinivis lie sosinnennes date @ 2 25
>—_——
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—‘‘The im-
portations of spruce deals continue to come for-
ward freely, but the market is not affected
thereby, for there is evidently a disposition to
store cargoes rather than submit to any further
decline in prices, and, in point of fact, several
cargoes are being stored on account of the ship-
pers, those which are being sold as they arrive
being principally cargoes brought by steamers
under charter with a few days to unload and
heavy demurrage.

ee
LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—‘‘Yellow
pide is still moderately represented, though the
expected arrivals from Quebec will probably
add considerably to the stocks here. There is
no telling, however, so much now goes overside
that the mere fact of recording the arrival in
dock of a cargo does not necessarily imply that
it will add to the stocks, though it is not an un-
fair inference to draw.
cargo, we understand a very large proportion
was delivered to lighters, and would not come
into the dock stocks at all.”

—____4_ —_—_
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—“* A pub-
lic sale of deals was held here on the 29th June,
by Messrs. Allison, Cousland & Hamilton. The
attendance was fair, and a good portion of a
fresh-imported cargo was disposed of.

At the close of the half-year stock-taking,
chiefly by the largest consumers, is general, and
on that account probable sales are not so heavy.”

ee
CARDIFF,’

The London Trades Journal says —‘‘ There is
still a moderately sood demand for the Bristol
Channel, and local merchants are seeking ton-
nage in average quantities from the Baltic and
White Seas. Several cargoes are also on the
way from Canada, and some of them are over-
due. Notwithstanding this, the trade for the
heavy classes of timber remains not so bright as
could be wished, and local traders are not bene-
fitted to the extent which-a more active enquiry
would ensure.

STOCKS ON THE CLYDE,
The following is a comparative statement of
the leading wood goods on hand at Clyde Ports,

31st March and 30th June, 1882 :—
(Loads, 50 cub. ft.)

30th 31st
June. March.
Quebec Waney boardwood 7,007 11,844
yellow pine timber. 7,082 15,081
“ Yed 5 3,682 5,311
«elm “ 2,398 3,409
«oak Ne 2,772 4,330
£6 neler “ 5 280 502
Bireli, MSGi. s sess cr sees ese 114 364
Pensacola pitch pine hewn....... 11,929 9,382
BAWM....000. 16,968 10,157
“ “ planks...... 1,102 1,659
Demerara greenheart...........- 2,091 440

(St. Petersburg standards, 165 cub, ft.)

Quebec Le ted pine deals ecarur 1,796 2,400
Fee sas 149 191
- ee i CY Pes 349 167
Lower Port Spruce “ ........ 910 477
+f pine BPE ni rn stec/s 234 475

EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK,
Statistics of exports of lumber from New
York show that the quantity during the first
six months of 1882, is less by 8,424,237 feet than
during the same period of 1881, Exports during
June were as follows :—

FEET.
To West Indies........ Fae Aso aun ss 6 2,572,781
MPEAN UMIMIORICAS oo sic) dis a csv sccesecs 2,589,024
EMME Bag isis eidis Doi n'0'86. oo wo 613,721
Es PIRES SS DATES pots 0.686 60's v0 20,500

DES poe ee 6,796,926
Months of 1982, previous.,.......... 26,756,669

Total since January 1, 1882.....33,553,595
Same time in 1321 61000 /41,977,832

Cerner ees

Of the Ocean King’s |

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

TIMBER MOVEMENTS.
The Ottawa Citizen says :—-During the week
ending the 15th July the undermentioned tim-

ber passed through the works stated ;:—
THROUGH CALUMET SLIDES,

Rafts. Owners. Cribs. Pieces
1 DBVid MOOGn sce veinsisit anoles 78 1,920
1 Grant & Miller......sssss5+e0:- 66 1,616
1 Perley & Pattee...... oes esees 142 3,250
1 TION SC VW sy WLLINTA Vin tere ce) ojetsie ieleletals 49 69 1,736
1 Young & Bronson.,..........+.- 64 1,738
1 Richard White)... 000 ssoesens« 120 8,000
6 539 «13,460
LEFT MADAWASKA SLIDES ON 15911 JULY.
Owners. Sawlogs.
Gilmour &i Coyne ee enac >. Guinn waded 250
Det Eve ES OOUMbrare\ elaine aleveletstaleisiaivie/=seyolsiascviieie sr ats 24,000
Tot, 12h, OG AAaor< AbupopounboobUUdodD ULhOnOn 1,200
25,450
THROUGH THE CHATS SLIDE SINCE 15TH JULY.
Rafts. Owners.
1 Wm. Mackey.
1 Je, (ORIGIN: un cameo Fon onopaoReBbONC Sse Aeo
2 225
LEFT OTTAWA SINCE 5TH JULY.
Owners. Cribs. Pieces.
Wa Pret. Pe Mead
J.B, Dickinson........ 138 1,769 936
Ase b WDILe, aalnetae ne 86 1,790 221
dome oN eRe 156 = 3, 724 86
Sereny & Fraser ....... 81 1,480 930
McCoshen & Fraser..... 127 3,163 59
R. Campbell & Son..... 116 SGML Diiimmels 22d)
Costello Bros........... 88 TBE) neice 1,694
R. Campbell & Son..... 127 2,224 1,112 11
R. & W. Conroy........ 108 2,287 122
Ob G4 Wo WOAe beagoaaon 89 N40) Nie 808
R. & W.Conroy........ 87 1,779 317
Fraser & Curry......... 168 4,158 33 78
B. Caldwell & Son...... 116 2,686 112
Oliver Latour.......... 94 1,181 614
1,579 30,318 6,119 3,818
THROUGH GATINEAU BOOM SINCE 10TH JULY.
Owners. Sawlogs, R. R, Tias
Go Be Halli Corr sc s.r e ns 14 SSO Meee) Ml) Mele etsist-
W. McClymont & Co. oe 4,349 = ain wees
Hamilton Bros...... 0 DXEBRS 7 y? podpoe
J. McLaren & Co........ peace MAE) | . | Bovoone
W.C, Edwards & Co...... AAG Woe 5. Wisiodn
Gaulmour ac COr seo see sie selsies PIRTE = onogos
H, B. Rathburn & Son........ es... 16,004
HebrongHarrishpemceascasuen aeeess 3,059
40, 40,942 19,063
THROUGH CARILLON DAM WEEK ENDING 15TH JULY.
Rafts. Owners. Cribs.
1 ARM CICA Mayotte stelelsleterstsjelele’aterelsferclaisielatorare'e 267
1 BRIMe Hii M CHa yar stetats stacchelaytelaivielsielelers ern 134
1 Jal lo nidltn RO tsadAcdadasoonoo0ddobeS 142
1 \Wihtts (CHEN oacongpnonoonondaco HooguOdDO 26
1 POLLS OL retetteieiotalslarerelctoteisioveletsicisislelavole)= 40
il JNISS.. INCE tropacondood sooceodducdebdond 59
1 WOLOam. (i (Ce hopbronpaoood socacddycaeano 84
1 Wists li PSA Boeude Gob (Ree ID SORT One De 80
1 Bell & Hickey........ Note gansocduo sAGboo 59
9 89

RAFTS ARRIVED.

The Quebec Chronicle of July 21st gives the
following lists of rafts &c., arrived :—

July 15,—Collins’ Bay Co., oak, etc., sundry
coves.

D. D. Calvin & Co., oak, pine, etc., Gilmour’s
cove,

Barnet & Mackay, red and white pine, Cape
Rouge.

Fraser & McCoshen, red and white pine, St.
Lawrence Docks,

D. D. Calvin & Co., oak, pine, &c., sundry
coves.

July 17.—A. McLean, pine, ete., Gilmour’s
Indian cove.

July 20.—A. McLean, white pine, etc., In-
Cove West.

A. Fraser, white and red pine, St. Lawrence
Docks.

Wm. Simpson, lathwood, Q. Warehouse Co.

R. White, white pine, etc, Dalhousie cove.

Cook Bros., waney white pine, elm, etc., St.
Michael’s cove,

Bush Fires.

The Campbellford Herald says every munici-
pality ought to adopt the action of the Brock
township council, the members of which recently
passed a by-law for regulating the burning of
brush, stumps, etc. The enactment provides
that no stump, wood, logs, brush, straw, shay-
ings, or refuse, shall be set on fire by any person
or persons in the open air within the municipali
ty in or during the months of July and August
in any year; nor at any other time or times
during the year until after eight days’ notice
has been given to the owner or occupant of the
adjoining property. Any person contravening
the provisions of this by-law shall, in addition
to any damage which may occur, be liable to a
fine of not less than $2 or more than $50 upon
conyiction before a Justice of the Peace,

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JONES & SON;

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers.
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

-

Rapid Building.

The rapid increase of population in Manitoba
has stimulated the inventive geniuses of the
Dominion to contrive houses that may be port-
able and quickly put up. LL. Forest, of Belle-
ville, Ont., has planned one that is in three foot
sections, and dovetails together. A house, for
a hotel or boarding establishment, has been put
up at Winnipeg, over 100 feet long, two stories
high, and devided into apartments sufficient to
accommodate 250 guests.

The foundation was |

laid on Tuesday and the house was completed |

Thursday afternoon following. A modern

Rome could thus be built in a day, with lumber |

and hands enough. A company has been form- |

ed at Belleville to manufacture the sections for |

these ready-made houses.

The Emerson International of July 20th says :
There are now twenty-three million feet of ‘logs |
in Red River floating down to Winnipeg. Eight
million feet of these logs are from the Otter
Tail River (the source of Red River) and the
balance from Red Lake River, The rear of the
Otter Tail drive passed Fargo some days ago,
and the other drive. in charge of 120 men, is be-
tween Emerson and Grand Forks. Logs com-
menced passing here on Tuesday of last week,
and men with pike poles are constantly employ-
ed at the bridge, guiding the logs between the
piles of thé temporary structure, so as to pre-
yent a jam, The logs belong to Winnipeg mill

*
owners, who purchased them at $17 per M feet.
Carney & Watson, proprietors of the Emerson
saw mill, endeavoured to secure some of them,
but were unsuccessful.

LEATHER
BELTING,

Chipman, Re Renaud & C0.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER. &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MON TR BAT

PAPER FROM WOOD.

The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer
gave, in a recent issue, a description of a new
process for treating wood to obtain fibre suitable
for papermaking, invented by Mr. Karl Daniel
Ekman, of Sweden. ‘The invention consists in
boiling wood under a pressure with a solution
containing sulphurous acid and magnesia in cer-
tain proportions, and under certain conditions ;
also in blowing off gas and steam during the pro-
cess of boilin .

The writer describes the process as applied to
Swedish white fir of good quality and fine grain
previously freed from bark and knots, and cut
into pieces of suitable form and size, and subse-
quently crushed between rollers so as as to
render the wood easily permeable by the liquid
solution in order to produce fibre of the best
quality for papermaking ; but the mode of pre-
paration may be varied. White fir and trees of
the same order are especially suitable, as they
give long and strong fibre, very clean, and simi-
lar in its properties for papermaking to that of
flax; and this kind of wood is comparatively
cheap and abundant in many countries.

The raw material of wood is selected with
more or less care, according to the purpose for
which it is required, but when a superior quality
of pulp has to be produced, all exceptionally
resinous and hard pieces of wood, as well as
those damaged by rot, are thrown out. The
fibre resulting from the treatment of the wood is
suitable for good ordinary printing paper, and
may be made suitable for superior papers by
means of treatment with bleaching powder,
The resulting fibre may be suitable for coarser
kinds of paper, such as millboards, papier
mache, and similar materials. The invention
can be easily applied to other kinds of wood be-

sides the white fir.
Se een

GUMPTION.

Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, recently
addressed the members of the Golden Branch
Society, of Phillips Exeter Academy, upon
“What Advantage Does an American Boy
Possess?” Mr. Atkinson urged that the young
who are soon to become the workers and con-
trollers in the business of life should be careful
not to become one sided, and not to lose the
“ sumption” which every Yankee boy ought to
possess, and which does not form a part of the
curriculum of the school or college, but is de-
veloped or lost in that part of the process of
education which is outside the books and inde-
pendent of the teacher. Gumption is that power
of applying the work of the hand and the brain
together under the quick application of the will,
which makes a boy or man ready for any emer-
gency, and enables him to decide at a glance, or
with a single thought, the right way of doing
something. In the old time, although the
organization of the schools was not as perfect as
it is to-day, and although the teachers were per-
haps not as competent as those of modern time,
while the variety of instruction was far less,
there was a no less number of able and capable
men among the graduates of schools and colleges
in proportion to the whole number of pupils
than there is to-day, The necessity which was
imposed on the rich and poor alike to do some
part of the work of life with their own hands,
while they were attempting to develop their
mental powers, worked in the direction of that
readiness and versatility which we call gump-
tion. It is obvious to men who have been en-
gaged from very early years in the active work
of life, and have been charged with the duty of
selecting men to fill important places, that the
number of school or college graduates who have
been adequately prepared to apply their instruc-
tion to immediate use constitutes a painfully
small proportion of the whole number. It may
be admitted that the only true result of school
and college training is to enable a young man to
know when and how to begin the real education
which must form part of his life, and which
will not end except with life, but it ought not
to happen that the method of preparation is so
ill-advised that it disqualifies the graduate in a
measure for the work he must do. Mr, Atkin-
son advocated for boys and young men in school
and college an organized system of sports as a
means of developing manual dexterity, urging
the development of hand and brain together.
His address throughout was an argument in

‘their or their father’s time.

236 | THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. ,
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favor of students endeavoring to acquire not
only that knowledge that Will enable them to
design, but the gumption that facilitates the
ready application of knowledge to the execution
of design in whatever work may demand their
attention and effort.
SS
TREE BURIAL IN NEW ZEALAND.

The recent fall of an enormous puketsa tree
near Opotiki, New Zealand, disclosed the fact
that the hollow interior from the roots to the
ground, had been filled ~with human bodies. A
confused heap of human skeletons burst out of
the butt of the tree when it fell. A local paper
says:—‘‘ A more extraordinary sight than this
monarch of the forest lying prone and discharg-
ing a perfect hecatomb of human skeletons can
scarcely be conceived. Some are nearly perfect,
while others are mixed up in a chaotic mass of
heads, hands, feet and arms, indiscriminately.
All the Maoris here seem to have been quite
unaware of this natural charnel house, and
declare that it must have happened long before
Indeed, the appear-
ance of the tree fully justified the supposition
that it must have been some hundreds of
years since this novel family vault was filled
with its ghastly occupants.”

LUMBER FOR EMIGRANTS.

The Mississippi Valley Lumberman, of Minne-
apolis, says of the immense influx of emigrants
now in progress :—The tide of Huropean emi-
gration which is pouring into this country this
spring far exceeds anything which has ever oc-
curred in our history. Northern Europe fur-
nishes the bulk of these new comers, and as
emigration preserves its latitude, the northwest
is receiving the lion’s share of these people who
are to help to develop the resources of this new
world, Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba will
catch more than any other three states. This
is especially important to the lumbermen of
this country. Every family of emigrants coming
in means more lumber to build houses, barns,
fences, etc., to be sawed. This marvelous
growth in population must be met by an equal
enlargement of the lumber manufacturing. The
chief difficulty now seems to be in finding
means to get the lumber carried to these
people.

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, Of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you.

EARS FOR THE MILLION

Foo Choo’s Balsam of Shark’s Oi]

Positively Restores the Hearing, and is the
only Absolute Cure for Deafness known.

This Oil is abstracted from peculiar species of small
White Shark, caught in the Yellow Sea, known ag
CaRCHARODON RONDELETU, Every Chinese fisherman
knows it. Its virtuesasa restorative of hearing were
discovered by a Buddhist Priest about the year 1410
Its cures Were so numerous and many so Seeming-
ly miraculous, that the remedy was officially pro-
claimed oyer the entire Empire. Its use became so
universal that for over 300 years no Deafness
has Existed among the Chinese People.
Sent, charges prepaid, to any address at $1.00 a bottle.

Hear What the Deaf say!

It has performed a miracle in my case.

I have no unearthly noises in my head and hear
much better,

I have been greatly benefited,

My deafness helped a great deal—think another
bottle will cure me.

“Tts virtues are UNQUESTIONABLE and its CURATIVE
CHARACTER ABSOLUTE, AS THE WRITER CAN PERSONALLY
TESTIFY, BOTH FROM EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION.
Write at once to Hayiock & JRNNKY,7 Dey Street,
New York, enclosing $1.00, and you will receive by
return a remedy that will enable you to hear like any-
body else, and whose curative effects will be perman-
ent. You will never regret doing so.”—Hdiior of
Mercantile Review.

4£27'To avoid loss in the Mails, please send money by
REGISTERED LETTER,
Only imported by HAYLOCK & JENNEY,
(Late HayLock & Co.)

SOLB AGENTS FOR AMERICA. 3 Dey St., New York.
L11-w22-ly

Has Facilities

FLEW W t Lun i : —FOR—
a BERS. DOING as GOOD WORK

a qf PROMPTLY

As any tingraver in Canada

ESTIMATES’ FURNISHED.

MILI SUPPLIES.

Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk i

Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spite: Went ns vine

ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all
kinds. £® Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

MACHINE OILS, Etc.
McCOLL BROS. & Co.

TOR ONY

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SEND FOR PRLCHES, 52
Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines

Represents

No. 5 20-Horse Power an.P
peters F 122-2: ) WITH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER
i iil \\ 16 H.P. ifsoordered, We are testing an Engine
CHAMPION EN 20H. P. every day. Intending purchasers are
wore invited to call at our Works and thor-
SAWMILL weSs oughly examine the Champion, We use
ENCINE KRUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,
Every plate tested.
aa _ Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water
be € pressure, Yi
SECTIONAL |
SAFETY It has no
_ BOILER.

We know from rience this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the +7
Western tries. Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the iarge Colo-

nization and Ranche Companies.
ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA, 2
Send for New Circular.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 237

D. McLACHLAN & SONS, ($@2xXIS ATEST

Manufacturers of all Descriptions of

STHAM BOTLERS. For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

SHIPS’ WATER-TANKS. Repairing Punctually Attended to. et

2 NORTH SLIP, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. GRAYS PATENT
ROBERT W. LOWE,

AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT Gradua | eduction Machine

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. Aa No Storage charged. All kinds of Merchandise ‘ Ip isis,

Bought and Sold. New and Second-band Furniture always op hand. Agent for Hazelhurst & Co’s ae 5
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &ce., &e., &e,

117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ADAM McK AY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Hngines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, N.S.

ROBERTSON’S |

NG CANTDOG

Saye, EY IN G,

The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World. The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
: This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolis

Et and two Reciprocating Sieves.
| The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
= 5 passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper

sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and

Ba
haudiere _ = a Ottawa middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the
a

ie large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through
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the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.
Each Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as

on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by 2
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. «#Send for particulars.

Provide yourselves with a bottle of PA7N-KJZLER at this season

of the year, when summer complaints are so prevalent ; it is a prompt,

safe, and sure cure. It may save you days of sickness, and you will

aE MANUFACTURED EXOLUSIVELY BY
find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine

PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KILLER, and take no other mixture. Ha [LER BROS & Vi iT H ; LL
Cozoura, Ont., March 3, 1880. 2 J

I have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years J have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. Itis an article that [ V [ ©) i NJ [ i=? = Fan | [
ecems to have combined in it all that goes to make a first-class family medicine, and .
es long as I have a house and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

: Yours, &., J. E, KENNEDY parSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller
Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations. Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.
Price 20c., 25c., and 50c. per bottle. 1119 Mention this Paper:

238

THE CANADA

‘LUMBERMAN.

LOGGING IN THE NEVEDAS.

A correspondent of the Worth-western Lumber-
man says:—‘‘ A chute is laid from the river's
brink up the steep mountain to the railroad, and
while we-are telling it, the monster logs are
rushing, thundering, flying, leaping down the
declivity. They come with the speed of a thun-
derbolt and something of its roar. A track of
fire and smoke follows them—fire struck by
their friction with the chutelogs, They descend
the 1,700 feet of the chute in 14seconds. In do-
ing so they drop 700 feet perpendicularly. They
strike the deep water with a report that cen be
heard a mile distant. Logs fired from a cannon
could scarcely have greater velocity than they
have at the foot of the chute. The average ve-
locity is overt 100 feet in a second throughout
the entire distance, and at the instant they leap
from the mouth their speed must be fully 200
A sugar-pine log sometimes
weighs 10 tons. What a missile! How the
water is dashed into the air! Like a grand
plume of diamonds and rainbows the feath-
ery spray is hurled to the height of a hundred
feet. It forms the grandest fountain ever be-
held. How the waters foam and seethe and
lash against the shore! One log, having spent
its force by its mad plunge into the deep waters,
has floated so as to be at right angles with the
path of the descending monsters. The mouth
of the chute is perhaps fifteen feet above the sur-
face of the water. A huge log, hurled from the
chute, cleaves the air and alights on a floating
log. You know how a bullet glances, but can
you imagine how a saw-log glances? The énd°
strikes with a heavy shock, but glides quickly
past for a short instant; then a crash like the
reverberation of artillery, the falling log springs
vertically into the air, and with a curve like a
vocket falls into the water, a long distance from
the log it struck.”

feet per second.

A KEEL piece 156 feet in length, and 30 in-
ches in diameter at the top end was recently
got out at Seattle, W. T. Wighteen oxen haul-
ed it on a skidded road.

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

TREE PLANTATIONS.

Mr, I’, P. Beck, Bethany, N. Y., afforded an
example of what can be done in forest culture.
He began a plantation of trees on rather poor
soil, which consists of a clay loam resting on
shelf-rock near the surface. He grew European
larches and Scotch pines. At two years from
the seed, these young larch and pine trees were
transplanted to places where they are to remain
four feet apart each way, an acre thus contain-
ing 2,640, Those that have been set six years
are now ten or twelve feet high, vigorous in
growth and branching so extensively as to make
it difficult for one to pass through the woods.
These are from two to three inches in diameter
at the ground. Those set eight years ago are
from eighteen to twenty-four feet high and from
four to six inches through. The pines are plant-
ed out sixteen feet each way. Ina year or two
Mr. Peck will begin to thin out the larches, us-
ing them for poles and small fence posts, The
land is thought to pay as well in these trees as
if planted to ordinary farm crops, while the ad-
vantages they afford in protection to other crops
and to the farm buildings is inestimable. Mr.
Peck believes if 20 per cent. of our older and
rough cleared land was planted to forest trees,
it would render the remaining 80 per cent. more
productive and valuable than the whole now is.

A. ¥IVE-FOOT saw, running 700 revolutions a
minute, burst in Salling, Hanson & Co’s, mill
at Grayling,” recently, with terrific
One piece went directly upward through the
roof, cutting a rafter completely off, and anoth-
er went through the end of the mill about 40
fect distant.

force.

Tue Kvart Review says :—Mr. Snyder tells
us that a company of men in Greenville have
organized to build a narrow guaye railroad from
Muskegon river, between Crapo and Paris, to
the pineries in Mecosta, Church, Moon, Crosby,
Nichols and Palmer are in the scheme, and 70,-
000,000 feet of pine to cut, besides large quanti-
ties of hemlock, ete.

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SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMBERMAN.

1119
504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

AMERICAN HHAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,

Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

‘A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts. |

wT, WickE. ROW. Jr

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,

P.0. BOX 556. LTO.)

BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Shaft and Shingle Mill,

for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Staff, &c., from spalts, board

trimmings, slabs, and mill waste generally, turning material otherwise

worthless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the

patenteo to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; have made and sold

a gcod number of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction
and can give the best of relerences,

Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

is now the Best Feed where Steam is the motive power. It is easily

operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely to wear out; sixteen

16 ft. boards, or eighteen 18 ft. boards, have been cui by it in one minute.

It is the established feed for steam mills; | make a specialty of its manu-
facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

Our Patent Twin or Span Circular,

with Steam Feed for Steam Mills, and Rope or Rack Feel for Water
Mills is fast coming Into general estimation and is used in place of Gang ~
Slabber in our best Canadian Mills. One of our Span Circulars which

will slab logs 25 inches in diameter dowao to7 and § inch stocks, will do

the work of three slabbers, with an immense reduction In first cost, run-
ning expenses and Jabour. Twoof these machines can bs seen at work

in Messrs. Gilmour & Co’s Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's
Mill, Waubaushene and Port Severn. "I am also introducing a new
style of Mill Engine, neat, substantial and simple, with Corliss Frame

and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made.

Covel’s Automatic Saw Sharpener,

is now well-known and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the
mill it sings out its own praise; I Keep it constantly on hand, ready for
immediate shipment.

Our Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

are too well known to need any reference, any further than to say that I
spare no pains or expense to bave my work all first-class and give Satis-
faction, and as I make Heavy Saw Mill Machinery a specialty, any pa
wanting a First-class Mill will find it to their advantage to give me acal

ON, Pe

terborough Foundry and Machine Works, PETERBOROUGH, Ont.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 239

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

(Ho Ai er ON, CAN ATLA

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUBL BRIGGS, Hamilton

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

DETRO TT

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
| GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., ~ Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & GO..
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. :

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ; Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the ‘Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. =

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240 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. :

———

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING !

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gummipg saws. Statisties show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of these run only a single saw edch. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was 50 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplites can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

12x4 )
. 10x} > 12x¥ |
x4 i i | :
' 2 yf 3% 10x 3: 12x4 Holes,
as # in. hole. 10x ¢ hole. 12x2 { 3, Z and Linch.
A 10x - 1ax8 |
> 12x¢ J

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12xj are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 4x1}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won’t touch it.
The answer is that you don’t wanta file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a softsaw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second

touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUESTION OF QUADEITY-

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almost every use an
‘Extra Soft” wheel like the * Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved On wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities <o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you a Tanite Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

Classification of Saw Gumming Wheels Is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel allover the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels usedare “ Class 2.
Jt outs fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some toosoft. We prefer the ‘* Pocono.” ’

CLASS 3. MEDIUM—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both finer In grain and softer than elther of the above. As a Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “* Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat.

Iustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. tyiis

Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED.

LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.
BOOK-BINDING. of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.
Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,
=>

TOKER & Co.,

“THH CANADA LUMBERMAN,

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

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VOL. 2.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., AUGUST 15, 1882.

NO. 16.

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THE BLACK WALNUT.

Black walnuts are best grown from the seed,
planted at once in the station to be occupied by
the trees. The Hon. H. G. Joly, an enthusias-
tic tree-planter of Montreal, is quite sanguine of
success there, and may be able to give his ex-
perience in that northern latitude. I should
hesitate recommending the tree for the Domin-
ion. The walnut prefers avery rich, deep soil,
and its natural habitat is chiefly south of the
Great Lakes, but it is hardy enough ; in thrives
in Bohemia.

The seeds may be gathered in. the autumn,
when they fall, and can be planted at once with
their hulls on, or they may be spread out thinly
on the ground not more than two or three layers
deep, and left exposed until the spring. The
hulled or cleaned seed may be purchased in any
of our towns for a price ranging from 25 cents
upward to $1 per bushel, varying with the de-
mand and crop of nuts.

In planting, the ground should be prepared
as for Indian corn, and one or two nuts dropped
at the intersection of the marker used for that
cereal, or they may be dropped in a furrow and
covered with the plow. They can stand 4 feet
apart, or if in wider rows, still closer. A row
of corn or potatoes can be planted between these

_ drills, if 5 to 7 feet wide. Spring planting may
be done in the same hills with the corn, as is
done with locust seed and some other hardy
species that will make a good growth the first
year, such as the white maple, or the ash. This
plan saves the labor and risk of transplanting
from the nursery row.

The land needs to be well cultivated and kept
clear of weeds for two or three years. The wal-
nuts may be planted in blocks alone or in alter-
nate rows with other trees that are to be remov-
edin a few years, as the walnuts need room,
but close planting forces them up.

J. A. WARDER,
Vice-Pres, A. F, A,

PENNSYLVANIA FORESTS,

The state board of agriculture, which recent-
ly met at Harrisburg, took steps to ascertain
what proportion the timber land of the state
bears to the entire acreage. Since then statis-
tics which have been obtained indicate that
about one-fourth of the acreage is woodland,
and that its tendency is toward a marked de-

" crease in quantity. The chairman of the com-
mittee on forests and forestry, Wm. S. Roland.
of York, forsees impaired health and discom-
fort of the people, and deleterious effects upon
the business relations of the state, if the destruc-
tion of Pennsylvania forests is allowed to go on
withont something being done in the way of
repair. ‘Trees are the dominating members of
the vegetable kingdom. They are the necessary
factors in the sum total of those influences
which constitute the environment of animal]
life.

Trees. by absorbing carbonic gas and |

emitting oxygen, act as agents in rendering the
atmosphere life-sustaining. By interposing
their foliage between the sun and the earth,
they serve a useful purpose in sheltering the
soil from the heat, and, as conductors of heat,
in equalizing the temperature of the earth and
air. The forest, too, guards the soil against
abrasion and the displacement from torrents
and overflows, and thus again exerts its conser-
vative influence for man’s good. We need trees
for the delight they afford, as at once the most
majestic, imposing and beautiful of nature’s
vegetable forms. The state cannot afford and
should not much longer withhold, or refuse to
give the subject of our ferests its most serious
attention.” Mr, Roland notes the encourage-
ment which tree planting is receiving in other
states, and thinks these examples should be
imitated in Pennsylvania. He suggests intelli-
gent legislation, the organization of local agri-
cultural societies, and the support of the state
board of agriculture. In this way mach good
could be accomplished, in his judgment, toward
creating public sentiment with regard to the
question, and starting a general movement for
the repair of the wastes which have been made
in the forests of Pennsylvania.— Williamsport
Gazette.

THE OUTLOOK FOR TRADE.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
amount of new projects in the way of building
operations, which is now developing not only in
Chicago but throughout the entire west, has
never been excelled at any period in the history
of the country. Newspaper exchanges from
every quarter contain notices of improvements
contemplated, and contracts entered into for
business houses and residences, to an extent
which bids fair to give employment to all the
skilled artisans in the land. From New York
and Boston, as well as other cities of the Hast,
to the Rocky Mountains, every town and ham-
let gives word of ademand for an unprecedented
quantity of building material of all classes and
descriptions,

During the past two weeks buyers from the
country have made their appearance in the
Chicago market in numbers and with demands
for lumber which presage a lively fall trade.
It is no doubt true that the yards of the dealers
in almost every section of the West have been
kept on short stock, dealers preferring, from the
unsettled condition of the wholesale markets,
to order from hand to mouth until such times
as prices should have, beyond cavil, reached
their lowest level. This is thought by many
buyers not yet to have been realized, and while
many declare that they are not yet prepared to
lay in full assortments, the boom in building in
many localities has forced the dealers to an in-
creased activity in obtaining supplies.

Every indication at present points to a condi-
tion of prosperity among the farming communi-

ties of the West which presages 4 contentment
of mind and satisfaction of feeling highly con-
ducive, on their part, to make all needful or
hitherto contemplated improvements. That
this is the view taken by the merchants and
dealers in all kinds of commodities, lumber in-
cluded, is fully evidenced by the increased ac-
tivity daily becoming more and more manifest
by the influx of buyers, as well as by the in-
crease of orders, at all wholesale points, seeking
the goods which a prosperous people are already
showing an increased willingness to purchase, as
well as by the building projects which are ne-
cessitated by the increased wealth of a people
who feel assured of their ability to purchase and
pay for the comforts and luxuries in which pros-
perity enables them to indulge. The present
outlook gives indications of a business boom ex-
ceeding anything which the past two years of
prosperous activity has witnessed. ~

NEW FORESTS IN THE WEST.

The Bay City Lumberman’s Gazette says :—
Many thousands of acres in the treeless regions
of the far west are annually planted with shoots
and saplings under the provisions of the law,
passed by Congress a few years ago, to encourage
the growth of timber. The wisdom of these
laws, says the Boston Advertiser, becomes more
and more apparent as time goes on. They pro-
mise to counterbalance the wholesale destruction
of forests in the older sections of the country by
creating new tracts of woodland upon the vast
bare plains of the trans-Mississippi region.
They appeal directly to the individual self-
interest of settlers and to the desire for land-
ownership which appears to be a stronger passion
in new communities, where the soil is almost
the only visible property, than in places where
an old society has created many other forms of
wealth. The western farmer who has home-
steaded a quarter section of 160 acres can secure
an additional quarter section by planting and
caring for the growth of ten acres of trees, If
he selects his homestead tract upon an unoccu-
pied section he can get 320 acres in a body, and
if this is not feasible he can usually find a chance
for a ‘‘ timber entry ” within a short distance of
his home and thus obtain a second farm to give
to his sons or sell when the denser settlement of
the region has made it worth agood price. Nor

are the benefits of the tree-culture laws limited |

to actual settlers. Many claims are taken up
purely for speculative purposes by non-residents.
Considerable areas of land are thus kept out of
the hands of men who would homestead and
cultivate them, but the object of securing the
rearing of numerous patches of forests in re-
gions naturally bare of trees is greatly ad-
vanced, ;

It is still too soon to tell whether or not any
noticeable climatic changes will result from the
creation of timber tracts now going on in south-

western® Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and
Kansas, but it is not probable that great benefits

may accrue to those regions. When the trees
attain a fair size the new forests may prevent
excessive droughts and destructive freshets, and

break the force of high winds and tornadoes,
well as promote a supply of fuel and Inmber for
future generations. The timber-culture laws
afford a striking example of how much can |
done to improve natural conditions by wi
legislation, and are a lesson to the advocates of
the let-alone theory of government. Their
successful working suggests the inquiry,—If the
United States can, by two simple statui
cause forests to spring up on hundreds of #1
sands of bare acres in the new west, cannot the
states do something by legislation to regnlate
and limit the destruction of timber in the older
sections of the country ?

OLD WOODEN BOLTS IN HOUSEBUILDING
Why do you make so lavish a use of nails in
the carpenter work of our houses, to the exclu
sion of the honest old oaken pin? Pull down
any building, if it be merely a barn, of more
than 200 years old, and you will not find a single
nail in the original work ; rafters and joists were
all bolted together so stoutly as almost to d
the tools of the destroyer. Many anold ma
barn, when pulled down of late years—as unfor
tunately only too many of them have been—
has shown itself to have been better built than
most palaces are now. There are arguments in
the way of economy of time and so on infay
of the use of nails in housebuilding, butt?»
are as nothing compared with the selid advan
tages of using wooden bolts. The iron nails
in time canker and rot rafters and floors, but
bolts hold them together “‘like grim death,
and render a house practically indestructible.—
Exeter Flying Post.

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THE Timber Trades Journal of July 15th says
of the 44 vessels to London recorded in this
number no less than 32 are steamers, 3 of them
forming part of the Quebec fleet. The spring
arrivals from the St. Lawrence to the present
time consist of the Ocean King, Hovding, Eri
King, Viking, Nightingale, Thames, Oren, and
Red Jacket, the last mentioned famous clipper
once again bringing to our port a full cargo
pine deals, &c., from Quebec.

A Derroir despatch says:—The American
Lumber Company has purchased from the
Detroit & Marquette Railway Company the
standing pine on its entire land grant, except
Mackinaw county and the east part of Chippewa
county—in.all 500,000 acres ; they have also pur-
chased 225,000,000 feet of timber in the northern
peninsula, giving it control of the largest body
of pine in Michigan. It intends to cut 14,000, -
000 feet next winter. The head offices
Toronto, Canada.

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THE UNITED STATES TARIFF.

The recently authorized and officially appoint-
ed commission for the purpose of investigating
the tariff policy of the United States, and mak-
ing such recommendations to congress as a con-
ference with the representatives of the various
industries of the country may impress the com-
mittee with the necessity of, possesses an inter-
est to the lumberman as much as to any other
class of our citizens. Already steps have been
taken in the Saginaw Valley to bring the sub-
ject of a tariff on products of the forest to the
attention’of the commission. Such representa-
tives as may appear before the committee, from
the manufacturing localities of the country, can
reasonably be expected to present only the
views of the pine land owners of the United
States, and it is an indisputable fact that a
large majority of these are advocates of a full
protective tariff, as opposed to the admission
free of duty of products from other countries
which may be expected to enter into competi-
tion with the timber and lumber produced in
this country.

Tt is a favorite argument with this class of
people that the admission of Canadian lumber
would reduce the selling value of the lumber
produced in the United States, and consequently
diminish the profits of a large and influential
class which, having large investments in the
manufacturing of lumber, gives employment to
vast armies of men in the woods, on the rivers,
in the saw mills, in the maritime interest, and
in the various manipulations of manufacture,
transportation and final distribution, down to
the final consumption on the farm, or in the
dwelling, or warehouse.

There is much force in the arguments of the
advocates of a policy which shall exclude from
the markets of the United States the timber
products of the neighbouring Dominion, and
this side of the case will without any question
be forcibly and ably presented to the attention
of the commission. But there is also a large,
well-informed and influential body of citizens
equally interested in the general prosperity of
the hation, and of the lumbermen particularly,
who believe that lumber and other forest pro-
ducts should be admitted to this country free of
duty. These, too, have strong arguments to
present in favor of their view of the case. They
acknowledge all that is claimed by the advocates
of protection, as regards the extent of the busi-
ness, and the vastness of the army of men who
find employ in its production, transportation
and sale. But they argue beyond those who
favor the protective policy in the interest of the
holders of timber land, and say that the greatest
good to the greatest number, the protection of
the interests of the great mass of the people in
a rapidly growing country demands that no re-
strictions shall be placed upon the importation
of a commodity necessary to the growth of the
country, and the development of its industries,
especially in view of the fact that the article
in question is rapidly becoming extinct as a
home product, and that even with the addition,
without let, hindrance or import duty, of that
which a neighbouring province can supply, the
period is all too near at which the exhaustion
of the home supply will be most severely felt.

Those who take this side of the question urge
that the interests of the many millions whocon-
sume the lumber are of paramount importance
to that of the few thousands of timber owners,
in whose interest protectionis demanded. They
go yet further and assert that the interests of
the timber owners of the United States would
not be in the least jeopardized by the admission
free of duty of ,the entire timber resources, or
surplus, of our Canadian neighbours, for the
reason that the Canadian supply is too small
in the aggregate materially to affect the markets
of the United States. They assert that the
yearly production of lumber in Canada does not
exceed, upon a liberal estimate, one quarter the
amount yearly taken from the forests of Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, and that at this rate of pro-
duction many of the Canadian lumbermen assert
the present existence in the provinces not to
exceed a five years’ supply. Even if it be suffi-
cient to maintain a present ratio of production
for twenty-five years, the prospects of denuding
the American forests in less than ten years is
ample justification for inviting the Canadians to
assist us in building up and peopling our vast

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

country, by lengthening out the period in which
our own pine lands will be exhausted.

The advocates of free trade point to the esti-
mates of the present resources of the northwest,
as presented by the census commission in 1880,
and confidently assert that if, at that time,
there were resources of but 81,000,000,000 feet
of timber in the white pine regions of the only
portion of the United States in which that
article is produced, while the yearly cut of the
same region is from 8,000,000,000 to 10,000,000, -
000 feet, it has become a matter of not exceeding
one decade when the point of exhaustion shall
have been reached, and that with an increasing
demand of froin 1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000
feet yearly, consequent upon the natural growth
of population, the addition of the increased de-
mand through importation from the Dominion
of Canada will work no harm to the present
owners of timber in the northwestern states,
while lengthening the period of their labours
and consequent profits. That the supply of the
United States is growing perceptibly less is,
they claim, proven by the rapidly advancing
values of standing timber.

The advocates of the free trade policy assert
that the general good being paramount to that
of the individual, cheaper lumber to the masses
is of greater importance than of increased profits
to the few, and that if by the introduction of
Canadian lumber free of duty the price was re-
duced, such a result would be for the benefit of
the people of the country as a whole.

This latter argument is probably the weakest
which has been suggested, inasmuch as the
abrogation of all import duties on lumber and
timber would but have the effect of leading
American capitalists to possess themselves at
once of all the Canadian timber, which is not
already owned by them, and a realization of its
true value, in view of the not far distant period
of the extinction of the pinus strobus in the
northwest, would forbid their placing it on the
market at unremunerative prices. Free trade
or protection will have but little influence over
the prices which the people as a mass will be
called upon to pay for their lumber in the future,
and the all important consideration is in the
question of lengthening out the supply.—Worth-
western Lumberman.

THE FOREST BABY.

There are ‘‘babes in the woods” which are
both beautiful and of value to those who are
seeking the best investment of time and money
in transplanting trees.

Autumn is better than spring time for the
usual methods of transplanting, but we have
found a more excellent way than either of these
times affords. All through the woods, and
under the trees on the edge of the forests and
along the road-sides, little forest babies, or
seedlings, are springing up. They are cozied
away under parent elms and maples, linden and
ash trees. Any rainy day from the first of June
till on in September is a good time to select
these sylvan seedlings, and set them where you
wish them permanently tostand. Take an ash-
pan anda transplanting trowel, with an old
newspaper or two in your pocket, out under
some hard maple of exceptionally fine form and
size ; one it may be which has been admired for
its beauty. You pick out as many as you want
of that kind. Take up plenty of earth with
each, and wrap enough paper around the earth
to keep it in place. The heads of the maple
forest babies are from two to four inches high,
and peep cunningly out from their nest in the
ash-pan. They are snugly in among their cou-
sins of other desired varieties, and in an hour
or less you return with a score or more precious
prizes. It may be well to set each one in the
ground, with the paper still around the roots
and earth. ‘The paper—unless there is more of
it than is necessary—will do no harm if left on,
and taking it off might displace the soil around
the tiny rootlets. ~“ We want of course to remove
the forest baby from its old home to its new one
without its knowing it has been moved. Thus
with the expenditure of less time and money
than is needed to transplant a tree, ten feet
high, twenty or more are set. In ten years, the
two-inch forest baby will be larger than its
neighbor which was ten or twelve feet tall, and
set, it may be, some weeks or months earlier,
The baby during the life of both, will outgrow

after the other has reached maturity ; as it
never had one-hundredth part the root distur-
bance which has been suffered by the other.—
G. M. Powell.

_ WOOD-CARVING.

It is remarked that the growing admiration
for antique patterns in dress, furniture and
house decorations has brought about the revival
of a form of art that almost starved to death
during the recent period of utilitarianism,
Wood-carving is perhaps not a very exalted
manifestation of the sculptor’s art, but experts
in it fifty years ago ranked among the foremost
of artisans if, indeed, they fell short of consider-
ation as artists. In older countries, where
vested wealth, continuing for generations in
families, made patronage of the arts one of the
chief, amusements of the possessors, stately
mansions are filled with rare examples of the
wood-carver’s cunning, and in the older portions
of this country similar objects are not wholly
wanting, if not plentiful. Gentlemen of estates
in revolutionary times thought their mansions
unfinished unless the showy rooms were plenti-
fully adorned with fanciful mouldings, panels
and wainscoting done in hardwoods. Such fine
workmanship was generally imported from the
mother country, and little encouragement was
given to aspiring youth of home growth to try
their ‘prentice hand in that field of endeavor.
Some few found foothold in the eastern states,
but their craft lost vogue, and about the only
field for its exercise came to be the fanciful
wooden figures indicating emporiums for the
sale of tobacco, or adorning the prows of ships,
and regarded as a sort of fetish by superstitious
tars. There is said to be only three master
wood-carvers in New York, and one of the
prominent practical exponents of this art has
directed his operations to the West, having some
time ago dropped down in Chicago. He is 52
years old, grizzled, and so deaf that a slate is
the medium of questioning him. His shop con-
tains many specimens of the carver’s art, in var-
ious stages of progress, from the rough-hewed
pine log to the finished and painted aboriginee,
whose tempting tender of a wooden something,
supposed to resemble the Indian weed, is val-
ued as the tobacconist’s trade mark. He has
been all through the mill from the age of 19,
serving his apprenticeship when the ambitious
beginner had to pay $100 to $200 the first year
for his preliminary knowledge. There was a
time when ship figure-heads were in demand,
and were carved to order at such prices as $12,-
000 to $15,000. A large business grew up in
the manufacture of wooden figures of Indian
men and maidens, and this is now an important
industry. In the early stages of the hue and
cry of circus humbuggery, when sensational
display was more of a big thing than now—it
having become an old story—the menagerie
nabobs vied with each other in the securing of
extravagant and fiery chariot and caravan{carv-
ings. Barnum would sell his fancy elements of
pageantry when they had been used a year, and
order new ones. A band wagon built for Fore-
paugh, with a wealth of carving, cost $2,225,
and though made in this country, he advertised
it as imported at a cost of $90,000. The carving
of effigies is a novel branch of the art. Some
time ago Allan Pinkerton, the noted detective,
had made the image of an old negro for whom
he had a regard which prompted the desire to
preserve his memory in that form, and the carv-
ing was executed from an old photograph.—
Northwestern Lumberman.

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NEW ZEALAND TIMBER.

Even in far off Australasia the people are
waking up to the serious effects produced by
cutting the forests from the hillsides. It is not
a country of forests, it would seem, and the
Otaga Witness editorially says: .‘‘ We who live
in Dunedin, and who can recollect how much
drier our climate has become of late years,
owing, no doubt, to the hills surrounding us
having become in great part denuded of the for-
est growth which for so long covered them, will
not need to call in the aid of science to convince
us, Our experience will be sufficient for that.”

It appears that one county (Lake) has official-
ly made a moye towards replenishing the forests,

matter under advisement for some years.

of the enactments provides that any pe
planting one acre (presumably of his own lan
with forest trees shall be entitled to receive
free grant of two acres of any land open for

in the province. But it was first to be

that the land had been devoted to the

of tree planting only for at least two years
that the trees were in a vigorous and healthy
state; and that they had been enclosed by
fence which was sheep and cattle-proof. A
amendment provides that certain crops may t
raised among the trees, and that not Jess th:
20 nor more than 250 acres could be taken ui

States law in relation to timber culture.

The move there is undoubtedly in the
direction, and will bring good results. é
work in tree planting, and the nursing of
wild timber in the west, is making itself fel
perceptibly already, in various modifications ii
the climate. It will be more and more surely
felt as the years go on. In some of our oncs
treeless regions it is also found that tree planting
pays in the value of the timber grown. In five
years poles may be taken out of the young
growth, and soon thereafter posts and large
timber, and at the same time space is furnished
to the timber left. The shade also becomes
valuable, and the growing timber holds moisture —
in the soil to be gradually given out. Its bene-
fit is also decided, not in increasing the annual
rainfall but in a more equable and timely dis-
tribution of the same. There certainly is profit
in the planting of timber in treeless regions.—
Lumberman’s Gazette.

Southern Pine in Northern Markets,

A perceptible increase is noticeable in the
northern consutaption of southern pine. In .
this city, where the more readily accessible and —
cheaper white pine has hitherto monopolized
the demand, to the almost utter exclusion of the
southern product, the increased use of the latter
in the laying of floors in all kinds of buildings,
and to other uses in which it is well suited, is
strong evidence that the day is not far distant,
when the use of the long-leaf pine of the south
will rank favorably in the extent of its con-
sumption with its northern rival.—Worthwestern
Lumberman,

So much complaint has been made by lumber-
men about the Chippewa Valley & Superior
railroad bridge, over the mouth of the Red
Cedar river, Wis., that the company has decided
to make a change in it so as to remove all possi-
bility of delay or damage to rafts.

Tue Northwestern Lumberman says:—A. M.
Elliott, from Canada, is considering the project
of starting a tannery at Cheboygan, Mich.
This may be the initial leather manufactory of
a large number that are bound to go into opera-
tion in northern Michigan, whereby the vast
quantity of hemlock bark in that region is to be
utilized.

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Mr. H. pe L. ALwen, of Duluth, is making
preparations for starting an extensive lumber
mill in the immediate vicinity of Prince Arthur's
Landing. He has very large timber limits in
the neighbourhood of Pigeon River, and he pro-
poses to tow the logs from that point for the
purpose of manufacturing his lumber at the
Landing. ‘

The exportation of fine household furniture
from the United States is assuming large pro-
portions, Last year the value of such exports
reached $5,000,000, an amount largely in excess
of the exportations of the preceeding year, thus
showing that the business is increasing. On the
other hand the importation of this class of goods
is diminishing rapidly.

Tur Emerson International, of August Ist,
says:—The river is again filled with floating
logs. The drives belong to the Winnipeg Lum-
ber Company. The logs come all the way from
Clear Water on the Red Lake River. The
quantity is about 10,000,000 feet. The logs are
pine, an¥ are as fine a lot as ever went down the
Red River or any other stream. ‘

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 243

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THE FORTHCOMING SUPPLIES.

The Timber Trades Journal says The great

question of the hour, so far as the timber trade
is concerned, just now is, what proportions are
the autumn supplies likely to assume? ‘'To the
provinces this is even more important than to
the laree towns ; the ability of the latter to re-
lieve their markets when unduly oppressed by
public sales, at which a numerous attendance
can mostly be relied on, makes prices less affect-
ed by the state of the supplies than at smaller
places where the bounds of consumption are not

capable of the same expansion, and there are
some ports where a dozen shiploads on the mar-
ket would be almost calamitous,

The general opinion is that the stocks will be
considerable for fall shipment, both as respects
flooring and deals, from the north of Europe.
The first, impression was that, through want of
snow to fill the rivers, the floatage of logs from
the interior of Sweden, &c., would have been
difficult, and the stuff available for conversion
consequently been extremely limited. This has
not been borne out in the result, as logs are
plentiful at the mills, while all are said to be in
full work manufacturing for export to the
various markets, both continental and colonial,
but two-thirds at least of which will most likely
find its way to the United Kingdom.

The German market is almost entirely closed
to the Swedes, owing to the prohibitive duties
on sawn and planed wood which the governing
powers of the former have thought proper to
institute, with the view of stimulating their
own manufacture. It is not improbable that
hereafter, when the Germans have established
planing mills, and produced more than is need-
ed for their own wants, we shall tind them look-
ing abioad for a market, and entering into com-
petition with the Swedes and Norwegians, At
present, however, in respect of sawn wood,
deals, and battens, to which their manufacture
is just now confined, we shall not receive from
Prussia any heavy supply this autumn. Neither
to the east country ports generally need we look
for heavy fall shipments, though in whitewood
from Riga and Petersburg an average supply
may be-counted upon. The redwood logs at
hand at the east Baltic ports fit for conversion
are stated to be very limited, and shippers,
though more anxious now than they were earlier
in the year to make sales, are not inclined to
make reductions in the f.o.b. quotations to any
serious extent, notwithstanding the admitted
dulness of the present state of trade on this side,
which is generally acknowledged to be telling
very seriously on the cargo values of nearly all
descriptions. :

We however, are not so immediately concern-
ed now with the tendency of prices as with the
subject of the coming supplies ; and, as will be
gathered from our remarks, the views generally
expressed imply that they are likely to be some-
what heavy from both Norway and Sweden.
With deals, &c., from the Gulf of Bothnia, we
are not overburdened as yet.. The stocks of the
latter country, however, run more in battens
and flooring. Already battens are plentiful at
the various markets here, and where flooring is
imported in large quantities, viz., the south and
west coast ports, the stocks are full ones for the
time of year.

Across the Atlantic it is early yet, with the
spring fleet from Quebec only just coming for-
ward, to attempt to discount the fall supply ;
but, while we are on the subject, it might be as
well to bear in mind that the manufacture up to
the present time has been short of that of last
year on both pine and spruce—in fact, from the
lower ports to the United Kingdom the spruce
shipments have shown a marked decrease as
compared with last summer. The talked-of
supply as forthcoming from New York, of this
Jast-mentioned description (8,000 standards),
alluded to some time since, we have heard
nothing further about ; and whether the quanti-
ty has been shipped, or only a portion, we are
not able to say. There can be no doubt that
with the facilities offering in the way of cheap
freights from the ‘‘ Empire City,” it became
possible to send goods through in that way, and
very likely, while we are writing, deals from
New York may be now discharging in some
European port. If it would pay to send spruce
through to New York, why not pine? ‘The
United States demand for the latter, however,

THE ‘CANADA ° LEE BEN.

is too active to admit 0 hiy pping

less favorable Ah & iy the Tri. low
freight would, in | res ie i vel ie probab-
ly not influence a ak cargo int he direction of
New York for transhipment.

On the question of prices, the present ten-
dency of values of nearly every description is
downward ; most of the importers have their
hands already full, and till trade recovers from
its present apathy, they are unlikely to pledge
themselves now to later engagements, but will
probably wait the tide of events—in fact, the
waiting policy at this juncture would be the
wisest for many and various considerations, the
probabilities of a rise in values being too remote
to lead speculators to invést in large stocks,
though, if values reach a lower point, it is more
than likely, at the present cheap price of money
and the quantity available, that large purchases
of timber will be made on the chance of im-
provement.
been highly interesting to have had the opinions
of the Society of Swedish Saw Mill Owners, but
that body probably do not think it judicious at
this critical and somewhat uncertain moment to
make any public expression of the state of the
stocks at the various mills.

With reference to London there seems to be
no indication as yet that the forthcoming supply
will be heavier than last year; in fact, up to
very recently the advices received were just the
other way, and the Dock Company last week

‘had on their list to arrive only 74 vessels, as

against 94 last July, but with the great shipping
facilities afforded by steamers the market may
be overburdened on a very short notice as long
as the stuff at the mills is plentiful and shippers

choose to send it here.
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CHIPPEWA CHIEFS,

The Northwestern Lumberman, of July 20th,
says :—Last Wednesday a delegation of Chippe-
wa chiefs and their attendants arrived in the
city, on their way to Washington to complete
negotiations which are now pending for the dis-
posal of their lands, in whole or part, to the
government. ‘The Red Lake, Minn., reserva-
tion and their outside territory includes 3,200, -
000 acres of pine land, the timber on which is
admitted to be of excellent quality and stands
thickly in most places. It is pretty well under-
stood that the untutored redskin is a poor lum-
berman, and more interested in the hunt than
in logging. While he is proverbially noted for
a distaste for manual effort, he is generally
found without facilities for performing practical
labor, and without the sagacity and skill in a
mechanieal way, which he would display on the
trail or in the chase. True, the Red Lake In-
dian is supposed to be nothing more than a
semi-savage, without grit enough to get up a
raid, or sufficient gumption to dig in and plow a
10-acre field, but he has the inherent qualities
of the American aboriginee, and hard work is
not on his bill of fare, though he will #tand more
grief than anybody for the sake of avoiding that
worthy essential to decent existence. As a re-
sult the pine on the lands of the Chippewas is
very little cut by its owners, while a large
amount of it is surreptitiously snaked off and
utilized by invaders. So the pine lands have
become very much of an elephant on the hands
of the Chippewas—they can’t hunt anything of
consequence in the forests but muskrats, they
won’t lumber to any extent, and the lands are
worth most to their friends who call and go
away again with a few million feet of pine in
their pockets, as a souvenir, . Ready cash is the
only thing the Indian can handle to advantage,
and hence the Chippewa nation has been looking
around for some time for a purchaser, and they
are beginning to get anxious about the matter
for fear they will not fix things before somebody
has ‘stolen all the timber. St. Paul, Minne-
apolis and Duluth parties have talked about
buying some of the land, but nothing but talk
has been evolved, hence the present treaty be-
tween the Indians and the government.

The delegation mentioned has been working
its way from the reservation up north toward
Washington, picking up stray nickels on the
route by giving exhibitions in native costume,
doing war dances, singing chants, and giving
other chatacteristic performances. Reaching
this city they associated themselves with Mr.
Englehardt, who has an exhibition of natural

It would at this juncture have

nm. the armoury ot pages
ke S. ater nine Pron te

of whom are chiefs. Their names are as follows,
the chiefs coming first | Show-an-ok-om-ick-kish-
hong, or The Man py Walks Where the Land
meets ; /As- At -wap, or Little Rock; An-mik-

nce, Ps Litt Thi +? Nite-weg-obow, or the
Man That Stands Where the Land Meets ; Ash-
awe-kin-ewe, or Crossing Eagle; Nakon-way-
witong, or Leading Thunder; Pas-in-ase, or

.Wind-driven Cloud ; Neak-ono-kot, or Leading

Cloud 3 Tape-pas- Mott or Low Feather ; Mish-
akee -keshiek, or Low Cloud; Lady Betsey

‘Delorme and Frank Russel, interpreter.

A representative of the Lumberman inter-
viewed the delegation, and found that the whole
tribe was pretty much disgusted with the way
their pine had been purloined, and bent on, ad.
justing “their affairs of real estate So’aé to get
legal tender for it or secure immunity from
wholesale thievery. Skirmishers from the

British Dominion, Canada Chippewas, Scandi-

navians, etc., arenot the only operatives who
plunder the lands, for there are those on the
American Shore who have respectable connec-
tions who instigate or execute such timber
thefts, and who ought to know better. If we
should make any personal allusions it would
result in stirring up the journalistic animals
over at Minneapolis, and an imaginary lumber
paper would do animmense amount of indignant
and energetic kicking. But the Redskins know
who are doing the looting over there, and are
not afraid to say so. The delegation will fill an
engagement at the lake front, and intends going
on to Washington presently to conclude the
treaty and get satisfaction somehow. They
desire to sell half of the land, at any rate. In
the meantime they are doing the grotesque war-
dance every day at the armory, and Little
Thunder, who was somehow mixed up with the
Custer affair, tells what he knows about running
soldiers into atrap and butchering the whole lot.

SHELTER BELTS.

We have something to offer as a substitute
for the forest, to those of our fellow citizens
who do not feel prepared to plant timber trees
extensively and as a crop, more or less exten-
sively, as it is done in thousands of instances by
the landowners of Europe. We offer this plan
to those who feel they cannot spare a single
field from the plans and schedules they have
laid down for a regular rotation of corn, oats,
wheat and clover, or meadow lands—and also
to those who may have on their farms no rocky
ledges, no ravines, no steep hillsides, no odd
waste corners, nor overflowed lands, upon which
they might advantageously plant trees. They
are not asked to give up a single field and turn
it into woodland ; but even they who are so
happily situated as to the cultivable character
of their lands may yet find it greatly to their
advantage to plant trees in the manner which is
now to be explained. It will be all the more
desirable that they should do so, if their farms
be surrounded on all sides by other lands equal-
ly well adapted to arable crops, and equally free
from the waste places so often found on many
farms, and which are almost utterly profitless,
though always counted in as so many acres by
the assessors in making up the tax duplicate.

In such a territory of fertile champaign coun-
try, where every farmer in a wide neighbour-
hood is similarly inclined to crop his whole
farm, and where all desire to reap the golden
harvest: from. every acre.of which he may be
possessed—just there is the great danger of our
finding out some of these days that we have too
much cleared land in contiguous tracts ; just
there we are liable practically to turn our wood-
land into a prairie—as in many parts of the
country we are rapidly reaching such a con-
summation.

Just there, too, is the place to institute means
that shall obviate the danger which threatens.
This is not to be done by relegating a single one
of these farms back to forest growths. No one
shall lose anything by cruel edict, but each for
himself, and all collectively, are promised the
full fruition of the benefits that will accrue to
those who accept the advice and adopt the plan,
which consists in a system of tree belts across
the whole township, and across or between the
several farms.

These shelter belts and wind-breaks, though

. been succéssful.

A son ee
i ally to i. e productive f the 5 is
retained in cultivation, they will in “no
small degree modify the local climate, which an

we amount of clearing has a
beat of ench broad sur-
cad nce of the scor i

and to = drying and blasting winds.

On the broad and open expanse of surface of —
the treeless plains of Iowa, where i in ay
western half of the state there is but one
woodland to a mile square of : he
shelter belts have been fairly‘tried ose whe
were bold enough to settle in su
Among them, Mr. C. E. Whiting has beer
of the first and the most extensive planter o
trees upon this plan, and for the purpose of
modifying the local climate, and in this he has
Mr. Whiting
can well afford to plant the trees and to gi
the land they occupy, independently otiertiel ‘
they already yield him, and the wood for many
economical purposes upon his farm, the remain-
ing four-fifths of the land still occupied by his
crops will yield him better returns than the
whole area would have done if it were all culti-
vated to the extreme outer boundaries, but ex-
posed to the elements, and not thus protected —
by these artificial shelter-belts.

This kind of tree-planting serves the double
purpose of replacing the forests which have been
destroyed and of modifying the climate. First
—It produces wood for fuel and lumber, Secon”
—lIt also modifies the climate.

These shelter belts are particularly Sie |
to level tracts of fertile lands devoted to agricul-
ture, and the broader the area of such lands the
greater becomes the necessity for their protection
in this way, just as they are needed in the
prairie regions.

The planting of these shelters does not super-
sede the necessity of tree-planting also on the
waste places, ravines and corners, where they
exist ; by all means, let that good work also be
done, to supplement the belts in our efforts to
replace a proportion of the forests we have de-
stroyed.

Here, as elsewhere, in all our artificial foresta-
tion, planting directed by human brains is
better, and the results will be more satisfactory,
than trusting to natural reproduction, for it en-
ables us to do the work more thoroughly, more
evenly and more judiciously, since we can make
a selection of the species best adapted to our
soils, and best fitted to our necessities, whether
for their sheltering effects or for their ultimate
wood products,

If, as of necessity on the praca you desire
to produce an immediate effect in the shelter,
you can be gratified by planting the trees of
most rapid growth, even though they be of in-
ferior quality. The outer rows of the wind-
break may be set with these kinds, and next to
them may be placed those of slower growth,
whether deciduous or evergreen. Or you may
have the effect you desire at first, and better
trees afterward, by planting intermediately
such as will be coming on more slowly to take
the place of the fast growers when they are re-
moved. This will be true of oaks and hickories
or walnuts, planted among poplars and other
rapidly growing kinds.

The evergreens should not be = with
deciduous trees either in the belts or in the
groves, but they should always be massed by
themselves and planted in separate rows, if we
desire them to succeed. In some cases it may
be desired to use the evergreens exclnsively ;
and for mere shelter, particularly in winter,
they are exceedingly effective, and a double or
quadruple belt will yield more shelter if set with
Norway spruce, or some of the pines, than ten
rows of almost any of the deciduous class.

The preparation of the land for the shelter
belt should be as thorough as for a crop of grain,
and done, of course, with a plow and harrow.
Furrows or marks are made at intervals of four
feet_ to receive the plants, which may be set
closely as in other plantations, especially as we
desire to break the force of the winds as soon as
possible.

—A single row of trees, especially if they be of
evergreen species, will yield a comfortable shel-
ter, but to be effective, and in exposed situa-
tions, several rows should be planted occupying:
a strip of some four to eight_rods in width,

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The cultivation should be thorough to encour-
age the rapid and healthy growth of the: young
trees, and it should be continued until the
plants entirely shade the ground—a varying
period, depending upon: the character of the
trees, and in part upon the-breadth of the foli-
age.

Until the trees have attained sufficient size
to protect themselves, it will be necessary to ex.
elude all domestic animals—or, indeed, these
should never be admitted to the plantations.—
Dr. J, A, Warder.

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ARRIVALS IN THE CLYDE.

The Dimber Trades Jowrnal, of July 22, says:
The Norwegian barque Dronnigan, 838 tons,
Captain Anderson, arrived in the Clyde with a
cargo of timber from Quebec. She was the first
arrival of a timber-laden vessel from the St.
Lawrence this season. She sailed from Quebec
on the 14th of June, and made the passage in
thirty days. The East, 1,153 tons, Captain
Lochead, arrived on the 15th inst, | She sailed
on the 15th June, making the same length of
passage as the Dronnigan. ‘The ship Abbots-
ford, 1,177 tons, Captain Williams, also arrived
on Saturday, but as she sailed on the 9th June
she was six days longer on the passage than the
Abbotsford. All the masters report the winds
strong and variable. The first arrival in the
Clyde from Quebec last year was the ship
Boyne, 1,350 tons, Captain Rae. She arrived
on the 17th of June, and the Ajmeer, Captain
Oswald, on the 28th June. In 1880 the Orleans,
Captain Cloutier, arrived on the 30th of June.
The fleet this year will be much later in arriving
than usual, owing to the protracted passages
they had out by being icebound.

a
Blowing Up Trees With Dynamite.

CG. P. Markle & Sons, at Markleton, Somerset
county, Pa., have a pulp manufactory, consum-
ing spruce and hemlock timber. Their opera-
tions are large, and instead of practicing the
slow method of chopping down trees and sawing
them up, in order to get the wood into the pulp-
mill, they blow them to splinters with dynamite.
An eye-witness thus describes the process :—A
fine large spruce was selected, and a hole was
driven in about 10 inches, the chips were remov-
ed, and a dynamite cartridge was inserted. The
dynamite comes in sticks like a candle and re-
sembles moist brown sugar. A fuse waa attach-
ed, and the men sought a place of safety. In a
few seconds there was a mighty roar, and the
great tree was lifted up in the air about 10 feet,
and then with a swoop and crash it came to the
earth, splintered half way up the trunk. Dyna-
mite is not cheap, but, taking into consideration
’ the time, labor, wear and tear of tools saved, is
not as expensive as might be supposed.—Worth-
western Lumberman.

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Tue Timber Trades Journal says we under-
stand that a firm of large timber importers
have decided to bring forward their goods in
future as far as possible by steamers, and that
special arrangements have been made.so as to

permit of seyeral steamers being discharged,

simultaneously. The new system inaugurated,
of bringing forward as much as possible by
steamer, carries with it two decided effects,
The most important is that, the bulk of the tim-
ber imported will in the near future be brought
over in English bottoms ; the, second is, that
the doing of trade bythe.smaller-importing
houses will in many respects be rendered more
difficult.

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Tue Ottawa Citizen, of August-2nd, says :—
There was a jolly party assembled at the foot of
the locks yesterday to enjoy raftsmen’s fare on a
splendid raft of timber which had been brought

from Victoria Creek. The raft is in charge of:

Mr. J. Melver. -This is the first raft that ever
came through the Victoria Creek—300° miles
above Ottawa—the firm of R. & J. White hay-
‘ing spent upwards of $30,000 to enable them to
get their timber through. The above improve-
ments were under the supervision of Mr. J. S.
Poupore, who is the agent for the firm, There
are about 130 cribs of first-class pine lumber
in the raft. As the steamer Rover swung the

raft—about two and a half acres in‘dimension— }
out of the bay it was a grand sight. The cabins'|’
comprised » village in themselves, yt

THE CANADA

2015

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.,
measured and culled to July 28 :—

, 1880. 1881, 1882.

Waney White Pine..... 875,765 882,949 739,677
White Pine............ 1,812,708 2,350,871 2,589,094
Redi Pine, (at ad 388,822 603,393 392,896
Oak! Ais qubypabrin. 80-34 824,866 1,535,533 643,069
HIM da saaie <lncced a, cata 662,508 778,979 441 896
MASTIM ciaversie chet vip e674 174,250 250,436 156,081
Basswoodi wees eiseens 96. 3,069 256
Butternut.......eses A48 897 1,960
DaNIRMC serie et ses cine 15,204 5,849 1,427
Birch and Maple....... 654,483 123,232 262,273
1) | re ea CCE os aie Aisisi 83 pes
SPausr ces sess ce estes sive mb nits
Std.) Stawegs\. ici’. leieias ats 12.3.0.6 160.2.1.13 237.3.2.15
W.. L. Staves... .neree ses 224.9.1.9 193.8,1.7 .604,1.0,0
Bri, Staves..on.s...00s aes 10.6.3.4

ALEXANDER FRASER,
Deputy Supervisor,
Quebec, 28th July, 1882.

RAFTS ARRIVED.

The Quebec Chronicle gives the following list
of rafts &c., arrived :—

July 24—Thomas Tetu, deals, Black River.

Sundry lots, deals, South Quebec.

July 27—R. & W. Conroy (2), red and white
pine, Dobell & Co’s cove. :

Bell & Hickey, red and white pine, St. Law-
rence docks,

A. & P. White, red and white pine, Cap
Rouge.

Ross Bros., deals, Buckingham.

J. B. Dickson, white and red pine, Cap
Rouge.

R. Campbell & Son, white and red pine, Cap
Rouge.

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
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“* AnD Foots who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with

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wonderful effects.

We ContRAcTED to insert Mack’s Magnetic
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was composed of reliable and honorable gentle-
men, and also because the medicine was recom-
mended as being all and more than the adver-
tisement claimed. We are informed by drug-
gists that it is the best selling article they have,
and that it gives satisfaction to their customers.
See advertisement in another column.

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
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who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
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their duties in assimilating the food. Geta ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
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C. Britton, Lindsay, Ont., writes :—‘‘ I have
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theyihave given universal satisfaction, and I
have sold more of them the past season than
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‘All interested in the subject of ‘Forestry
‘are invited to attend the Meetings and
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Tx Parsboro’ correspondent of the Chignec-
to, N. B., Post saya:—Immense quantities of
logs are yet at the mills unsawn—at Halfway
Lake steam mill, notably. Over 20,000,000 feet
of lumber has been shipped from our shores this
season. The lumber business is panning out, so
is the timber from our forests. We are going
down in the melstrom of American specula-
tion.

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Tue Dimber Trades Journal says a large
sailing ship load of spruce of 500 to 600 standards
has been placed in Liverpool at £7 5s. c. i. f,
Since the completion of this contract it is said
that spruce has been stiffening in the market.
The great amount of spruce that will this year
be brought into Liverpool by steamers will
prove to be one of the most prominent incidents
of the year’s trade.

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|]. THE Timber Trades Journal says the cheap-
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. AUGUST 16, 1882. |ness of pitch pine, coupled with its uniformly
_ | excellent quality, and the further fact that the
on oF logs can be procured with sawn sides, has had a
Be a ee cs Penneylvania ae ay, oe aed effect upon Baltic hewn timber,
fourth of the total in the state. almost driving the latter out of the market by
2 the pressure of the competition which the em-
A sqioK of pine 82 feet long was hauled into ployment of pitch pine has brought to bear upon
Manistique, Mich., the other day, to make 8 it i, recent years. Nor is it difficult to see that
mast for the “Fulton.” the competition is likely to decrease rather than
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to diminish in the future.
f Tux latest parts of Picturesque Canada,
namely the ninth and tenth, deal chiefly with
the lumbering industry. A chapter is especi- common lumber company are building twelve
ally devoted to this subject, and the various | miles of logging railroad and will put 40,000,000
scenesin the forest and on the river are illustrat- | foo of logs into Houghton lake to be run to
ed by beautiful engravings. Muskegon, They are already at work in the
—_=_—_ woods. R. E. Cade & Son have just started in
Tun Northwestern Lumberman says :—Across | for an operation in the vicinity of Otsego Lake,
the water devices are often adopted which would | proposing to skid 6,000,000 feet of logs before
do credit to an ingenious Yankee. ‘Timber | snow flies. T, J. Miller proposes to put in 40,-
floats are constructed to take the place of docks, | 000,000 feet of timber in the upper peninsula for
in order to avoid the dues imposed, and one at} Alger, Smith & Co., and has already started in
Queensborough, Eng., has been recently brought | to make his camps, ete.
into service for the receipt of lumber, mainly ee
pitch pine. THE FORESTRY CONGRESS,
s % Riteoe : Our readers should not forget the meeting of
a Cue Coa 3 1S al anon the American Forestry Congress at Montreal
naaane logs ane sas Chinen Hected are | 02 August 21st and 22nd, under the patronage
dam. ispreaginded, land. t eri id a of His Honour Lieut.-Governor Robitaille. The
ordered to be refunded, as it appears that the : ;
dam, instead of facilitating, retards the descent proceedings are likely Re be of great anterent,
of timber, and was built for the purpose of in- and, we hope, of practical benefit. The invita-

i i y iately printed on wood
i ter to the Carillon and | tons are very appropriatel ’
Paes EO Pe but by no means upon a shingle.

anneal

Tur Lumberman’s Gazette says:—The Ros-

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Tar Northwestern Lumberman says :—A white BIRD’S-EYE MAPLE.

worm about three-fourths of an inch long is To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman :
destroying the foliage of hackmatack and fir} Srr,—Can you tell me what city would be
trees in certain sections of Maine. The trees | the best market to sell some bird’s-eye maple in,
appear all bare and brown, as though scorched | and what kind of lumber it would be best to cut
by fire. Itis thought that this worm is identical | it into? A friend in the north part of Michigan
with the one that has destroyed so many acres | wants to get some out, but has no idea of its
of valuable spruce trees on the coast, worth per M. feet board measure. Any inform-
———————— ation you can give will much oblige. I am an
Gen. R. A. Alger, M. S. Smith and J. S. Mce- old lumberman and still feel an interest in the
Gaul have formed a corporation known as the lumbering business of Canada. I think your
Manistique River Improvement Company, with | valuable paper should be in the hands of every-
a capital stock of $20,000, held entirely by | one engaged in the lumber business. I see you
themselves. ‘They propose to expend consider- hit things about right, and any information you
able sums in improving the navigation of the | give I believe can be relied on.
Manistique river for the lumber trade in the I am yours truly,
counties of Schooleraft, Mackinaw and Chippe- THOS. LINGHAM,
sv, Belleville, Aug, 8th, 1882,

NON-COMBUSTIBLE WOODWORK.

Many processes have been discovered for pro-
tecting woodwork from burning, mostly by
foreign scientists. Usually it has been attempt-
ed to gain this end by means of paint. Nickle’s
process, which has been used a good deal in
Strassburg, consists in adding to the lime used
for whitewashing an equal weight of chloride of

No estimates of the amount of this second
growth pine have been made, although it
furnished a cut during the census year of
99,409,000 feet, board measure,

It is roughly estimated that the spruce forests
of the state contain over 33,750,000 cords of
hardwood and 165,000,000 feet of hemlock.

TIMEBZR BUPPLY OF VERMONT.

calcium of 14 deg. B., and applying the white- No. of Feet,
: Valley of Co
wash in the usual manner. Another wash used Green Paar ae a : Nicole 7
in Westphalia consists of 24 parts of salammon- —~—
iac, 1 part of sulphate of zinc, 2 parts carpen- Cut in year ending May 31, 1881 Ree tie} 5 jotoee' aoe
5 EBEN ieee 036,

ter’s glue, 20 parts of zinc white, and 30 parts
of water. Patera in Vienna has used with suc-
cess a mixture of 2 parts of gypsum and one
part of sulphate of ammonia in three parts of
water. J, P. Martin recommends 15 parts of
salammoniac, 5 parts of boracic acid, 50 parts of
glue, and 14 parts of gelatine in 100 parts of

. WHITE PINE,

The original white pine forests of Vermont
are practically exhausted,and are only represent-
ed by a small amount of second growth, which
furnished during the census year a cut of 6,505, -
000 feet board measure.

THE PINE AND SPRUCE SUPPLY OF MAINE.

water, to which is added enough pulverized : Pine. Spruce.
lime to bring it to the proper consistency. St. John cron) See,

Schussel and Thouret have rendered wood in- | Penobscot riverand tribu- 7 1»8#00,000,000
combustible by impregnating it with this mix-] Kennebec Liat ‘sa ch em 1,600,060,000
ture: To 16 parts of a phosphoric acid solution taries......... 50,000,000 1,000,000,000
of 16 deg. B., and 24 parts carbonate of am- me and
monia, are added 6 parts of a solution of | St. Croix, Machias,Narra Oe ee
salammoniac of 10 deg. B., and 1 part of ares ag ,
arabic,” "The deted word ts rs ae liquid PMc cc
for at least twenty-four hours, then allowed to} cut tor 1200, ening idaj em 5,000,000, 000
dry, and painted with oil paint. Sites cca tee 138,825,000 301,020,000

Considerable areas in southern Maine are
covered with second growth pine, not included
in the above estimate, although furnishing a
large proportion of the pine sawed in the state.
Pine has been cut in every township, and the
largest spruce has been removed from that state
except from the inaccessible region about the
head- waters of the Allagadash river.

The system of. cutting only the large trees
and carefully protecting the remainder prevails
in Maine, and allows the forests to be profitably
worked at stated periods, varying from 15 to 25
years. Their permanence is thus insured.

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A CUSTOMS ORDER.

The Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto
Globe says :—The lumbermen in this district are
greatly exercised over an order which has recent-
ly been passed by the United States Customs
authorities respecting Canadian lumber import-
ed into that country. It appears that for years
past Canadian boards have been admitted into
the United States on their nominal measure-
ment of one inch in thickneess, but the greater
number of Canadian boards it seems measures
one inch and a quarter instead of one inch, as
those manufactured across the border, and they
were measured for their length and breadth,
taking the thickness to be the same as Yankee
boards. A short time ago some genius discover-
ed the difference, and brought the matter be-

There is no doubt that impregnation protects
the wood from fire better than any kind of
paint, and will no doubt become very important
in the future. Probably the rather costly mix-
ture of Schussel and Thouret may be replaced
by other substances that are of scarcely any
value for other uses, such as the still unused
portions of the Stassfurt salts, and the enor-
mous quantity of waste chloride of calcium
made in some manufactures. Instead of satur-
ating the wood by simply dipping it into the
liquid, it would be better to force it in by atmos-
pheric pressure. Ina similar manner wood is
already impregnated on a large scale to protect
it from decay, and the works where railroad ties
are prepared should not permit the preparation
of fire-proof lumber for building purposes to
slip through its hands. The same substances
that prevent its burning also protect it from
dry rot. It isto be hoped that the use of im-
pregnated fire-proof lumber shall not be limited
to theaters and similar buildings, but come into
general use.— Wood Worker.

A LITTLE GAME.

The Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich-
igan, says:—The ‘‘large-sized African in the
fence’ in connection with the “‘ bear” move-
ment of the Chicago lumber exchange is being
divulged, and it is said to have been nothing
more nor less than a preconcerted plan among
that element to shove off a million or so of lum-
ber at the pretended reduction, and hoping
thereby to scare the Michigan manufacturers
into a panic in order to stock up at the reduct-
ion, when they would stiffen up the Chicago
market again and secure the advantage of the
situation, But the gauzy transaction didn’t
materialize worth a cent, and the expected
panic among the Miehigan mill owners didn’t
pan out as expected; therefore the few big
“bears ” interested have complacently pocketed
their losses and are wondering how it is that
those Michigan fellows are so mulish that they
refuse to ‘‘tumble to a racket” when it pro-
ceeds from Chicago.

es
TIMBER SUPPLY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
VERMONT AND MAINE.

Forestry Bulletin No. 16 says that the estim
ated amount of merchantable timber standing
in the state of New Hampshire May 3lst 1880,
is as follows :

issued the order respecting the measurement
which has proved so obnoxious to the United
States importers of Canadian lumber. A num-
ber of barges from Whitehall, New York,
Albany, and other American ports, which
arrived here a short time since for loads, have
not yet commenced to take in cargo, those in
charge of them having received telegraphic in-
structions not to do so until they receive further
orders. The new regulations will seriously
affect freight rates between here and the United
States. This matter is creating quite an excite-
ment among the lumbermen of this vicinity.
—_—_—_—_—
DESPISED WOODS.

For a county of which it was said years ago
that all the desirable timber was cut, (that is,
oak and heavy sticks), Essex is shipping a re-
markable quantity and’ variety of woods. Mr.
T. A. Ouillette continues to send out ash, but
tonwood, basswood and elm, to fill various

BLACK SPRUCE. contracts from Buffalo to Virginia. Railway

Counties Feet. ties are being shipped from Kingsville to
pik 5 ary » PAT MASA PATERS ERO Te Buffalo ; lumber from Leamington to Detroit,
Crafton. ....c.cccsccccccscrsrcccacce. 450,000,000 | The fact is, we are only beginning to learn the
Total...+.++ JAR. die SER OE 1,610,000,000 | Ses to which the despised firewoods of twenty
Cut in year ending May 31, 1882........ 158,175,000 | years ago may be put; and to dispose of hick

ory to steamboats for $2 per cord, or ash at $1
per cord now-a-days, as was done in 1850 to 1860,
a man would be considered as “green” as the
wood he sells. We learn from the Amherst-
burg Zcho that 25 tons of “‘bent stuff,” made by
Heard & Co., i @, shafts, felloeg and other

WHITE PINE.

The original white pine forests of New Hamp-
shire are practically exhausted. Considerable
areas formerly occupied by white pine, especially
in the southern part of the state, have grown
up again with this species,

fore the American Customs authorities, who -

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wooden parts of vehicles, were last week ship-
ped by propeller eastward, destined for Mon-
treal, Quebec and Halifax ; while buggy spokes
are going by the car-load to Sandusky, from
Higgins Bros., of McGregor in the same
county.

Timber Limit Sale.

The Ottawa correspondent of the Globe under
date of August 10 says :—A large sale of timber
limits took place this evening at the Grand
Union Hotel. Considerable interest was mani-

fested in the sale, and buyers were present from

both Ontario and Quebec. Thelimits put up
were understood by the knowing ones to be
very valuable, but the bidding was rather dull.
The Jean de Terre limits, consisting of Licenses
Nos. 145 and 146, and comprising 50 square
miles each, were started at $100 per square mile,
and slowly bid up to $340, at which figure they
were knocked down.

Tue Lindsay Post says -—From Boyd’s piling
yard at Bobcaygeon a large amount of lumber
has been taken. Six scow loads came in on
Wednesday. R. C. Smith, of Fenelon Falls, is
shipping some fine square timber. The rafts of
logs are being transferred to the Midland cars
at the loading point. A large. quantity of
shingles from the mill of Mr. W. Bick, Bobcay-
geon, are lying on scows at the wharf. They
will be hauled to Port Hope and shipped across
the lake to American customers.

Tue California forests are being sacrificed for
leather. One of the handsomest trees in the
state is known by the name of chestnut oak,
It furnishes the only native bark suitable for
tanning leather. The leather business has been
unusually good for the last two or three years,
and the consequence is, says the San Francisco
Bulletin, that over large districts this beautiful
tree is slashed down for the bark. The trunks
are peeled and then left to decay. Great open-
ings are made in the forests and the sun is let
in, evaporating the moisture so rapidly that
these trees do not propagate. The result will
be that this immense waste will only terminate
with the destruction of this tree and the decay
of the fallen timber.

Tue Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says:
On the occurrence of a forest fire of much mag-
nitude, the Lumberman receives letters from
operators deploring the fact and suggesting
that some means be employed to prevent such
fires, That is just what this paper has been
advocating for a good while. Whether any
means shall be employed, though, rests entirely
with the operators themselves. One thing is
certain, no amount of whining or regret will
prevent 2 single forest fire. It will require
work well planned and systematically carried
ont. So far as the observations of the Lumber-
mon have been made not a dozen operators in
the Northwest are willing to spend the time and
Toney necessary to insure their pine land
against fire,

J.T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
KINDS AND GRADES OF

American Lumber

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Timber Limits and the Square
Timber Trade a Specialty.
Office, Wellington Street, OTTAWA. I1tf

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

HE letting of the works for the FENELON
FALLS, BUCKHORN and BURLEIGH CANALS,
advertised to take place on the second day of August
next, is unavoidably further postponed to the follow-
ing dates :—
Tenders will be received until Thursday, the
Twenty-fourth day of August next.
Plans, Specifications, &c., will be ready for examina-
tion,(at the places previously mentioned) on Thurs-
day the Tenth day of August next.

By order,
A, P. BRADLEY,
Secretary.
Dept. of Railways and Canals,
Ottawa, 15th July, 1882. 6d17 2015

CVO
Welland Canal Enlargement.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

EALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned,
and endorsed ‘‘Tender for the Welland Canal,”
will be received at this Office until the arrival of the
Eastern and Western Mails on FRIDAY, the Ist day of
SEPTEMBER next, for the deepening and comple-
tion of that part of the Welland Canal, between
Ramey’s Bend and Port Colborne,known as Section 34,
eepEcing the greater part of what is called ‘‘ Rock

ul a

Plans showing the position of the work, and specifi-
cations for what remains to be done,can be seen at this
Office, and at the Resident Engineer’s Office, Welland,
on and after FRIDAY, the 18th day of AUGUST next,
where printed forms of tender can be obtained.

Contractors are requested to bear in mind that ten-
ders will not be considered unless made strictly in ac-
cordance with the printed forms, and, in the case of
firms, except there are attached the actual signatures,
the nature of the occupaticn and place of residence of
each member of the same; and further, an accepted
bank cheque for the sum of four thousand dollars
must accompany the respective tenders, which sum
shall be forfeited if the party tendering declines en-
tering into contract for the works, at the rates stated
in the offer submitted,

The cheque or money thus sent in will be returned
to the respective contractors whose tenders are not
accepted.

This Department does not, however, bind itself to ac-
cept the lowest or any tender,

By order,
A, P. BRADLEY,
Secretary.

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AMERICAN FORESTRY.

‘it is both interesting and gratifying to see
that there are representative men, occupying
positions of influence and power, who are alive
to the importance of preserving, and in some
places of restoring, the wood-lands of America.

It is so natural and easy for men to become
absorbed in the study of what seem to them,
and are, great questions of state policy, ques-
tions affecting the interests of commerce, man-
afactures and national prosperity which have
engaged the attention of statesmen in all civil-
ized countries, and will necessarily engage it to
the eud of time, that when an effort is made to
interest them in a subject such as this of forestry
they are slow to be conyineed that it is a matter
that should engage their attention, and are dis-
posed to look upon those who have studied the
subject as enthusiasts. But men who can take
broad views of national interests soon find that
this is a subject which touches the national
prosperity at many points. That it has most
vital connection with commerce, with manufac-
tures, with the supplies of food, with the health
and the life of a people. Among such men
standssprominently then Hon. Mark H. Dun-
nel, of /Minnesota, whose speech in the House
of Representatives of the United States is re-
plete with ‘earnest words, most valuable infor-
mation, and an evident, appreciation of the
importance of the subject. J'rom his speech we

Jearn that in February, 1874, a committee of the

American Association for the advancement of
science brought a memorial from that body to
the President of the United States, urging the
duty of Government concerning the cultivation
and preservation of forests, and recommending

that a commission should be ordered to mature
plans caleulated to meet the requirements of the
subject. The President laid this memorial
before Congress, which resulted, in 1876, in the
appointment of Dr. Franklin B, Hough, of
Lowville, New York, to the duty of ascertain-
ing the annual amount of consumption, impor-
tation and exportation of forest products, the
probable supply for future wants, and the best
means for the preservation and renewal of
forests ; the influence of forests upon climate,
and the’ measures applicable in this country
for the planting of forests.

In pursuance of this appointment, Dr. Hough
made two reports to Congress, one in 1877, the
other im 1878-9. Of the first of these an officer
of the Wurtemberg forest service says :—‘ It
awakens our surprise that a man, not a special-
ist, should haye so mastered the whole body of
American and Kuropean forestry literature and
legislation.”

From this speech we also learn that the
quantity of pine lumber produced in the State
of Maine has steadily declined from an average
aveage of 100,000,000 of feet per annum in 1851
to 1855 to an average of 11,800,000 per annum
in 1876 to 1881; that the timber supply of the
upper peninsula of Michigan, at the rate of pro-
duction in 1879, will last eighteen years ; that of
the lower peninsula will last seven years ; that
of the State of Wisconsin scarce twenty years ;
and that of Minnesota about eleven years ; and
that at the rates of present consumption in the
North-West, the whole supply of the timber of
the United States would last about seventeen
year. Hence he concludes that it is the duty
of Government to inquire how far it can with-
draw remaining timber lands from market and
place them under regulations that shall secure
the greatest present benefit from the use of tim-
ber now fully mature, having regard to the re-
quirements of the future, and to ascertain how
io impress upon private owners the importance
of planting, and how far and in what manner
it may encourage this object. To this end he
advises the establishment of experimental sta-
tions for the careful study of the requirements
ond capabilities of soils, and of the several
kinds of trees, and publish the results in a form
particularly calculated to impress their impor-
tance, and to teach the simplest rules for secur-
ing suecess. He concludes his very interesting
and instructive speech by saying :—

“Weare using up the capital which nature
fad for centuries been providing for us in the
growth of forests, and we are doing nothing to
restore them. Under skilful management the
supply might be so arranged that in twenty-
five or thirty years for some kinds, and in fifty

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

or sixty years for others, a new crop would be
furnished by growth ; and if only a twenty-fifth
or thirtieth part of the former, or a fiftieth or
sixtieth part of the latter, were taken yearly,
the supply would be perpetual. But instead of
of this, we are taking a tenth or twentieth part
every year,*while the growth from our neglect
is not a fourth part of what it should be where
any growth is allowed.

' “We shall only too soon be reminded of the
consequence of this improvidence in the grow-
ing prices of lumber, which in some kinds have
already doubled within a very few years, and
which are adyancing every day. These ad-
vances may be ascribed by some to speculation,
and doubtless to some extent they are, for the
speculator never loses a chance to turn a penny
in his favor, it matters not who suffers; but
when these advances are steadily going on from
month to month, and year to year, at an accel-
erating rate, it means that the intrinsic value
of the commodity they represent is becoming
greater under the combined effects of diminish-
ing supply and increasing demand. It will
inevitably lead to the realizing conviction that
there is profit in growing timber, and the sooner
this is understood and acted upon the better
will it be for the country and for the future.”

The large gatherings of influential and repre-
sentative men which recently took place in Cin-
cinnati, embracing not only scientists, whose
special duties have led them to understand the
importance of this subject, but also members of
state and national legislatures, leading agricul-
turists, and the chief of the national Agricul-
tural Bureau, this gathering is a cheering evi-
dence that our neighbors across the border are
becoming aroused to the importance of this
subject, and that steps will be taken to prevent
the needless destruction of their forests, and to
secure the planting of woodlands as a branch of
economic industry.

It is very gratifying to us as Canadians to
know that the Honorable the Commissioner of
Agriculture for Ontario is fully alive to the
great importance of this matter to us, and that
he is using every means at his command to
procure and diffuse information on this subject,
and to encourage the planting of forest trees for
timber, shelter and fuel, wherever it can be
done with advantage. '

Doubtless our own forests are disappearing
as rapidly as those of our neighbors under the
united ravages of the woodman’s axe and the
devastating forest fires. Already some parts
of Ontario are beginning to suffer from want of
a due proportion of the woodland in the dimin-
ishing volume of her springs and streams in
protracted summer drouths, and in the unbroken
sweep of frost-laden winter winds. It is time,
full time, that public attention be turned to
this matter ; that something be done to limit
the annual cutting of lumber, so that it shall
bear a proper relation to our present supply
and present needs ; that measures be taken to
prevent wholesale destruction by forest fires, and
that planting be commenced without delay on
lands suitable for the purpose, with a view to
keeping up the supply perpetually, and of pre-
serving the proper proportion of woodland, so
as to save us from those climatic changes
which are sure to follow the denudation of the
country, bringing in their train drouths, exces-
sive floods, sterility, famine and pestilence.—
Canadian Horticulturist,

INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—A good
deal of the lumber which the mills of the
northern states are turning out goes to meet an
already active and developing demand in the
Dominion, with which the comparatively few
Canadian mills cannot keep abreast. So much
emigration has tended to Manitoba, and other
provincial sections, that the results of the emi-
gration boom which has been so marked this
year, have not been so much felt in the north-
western states. That there is a building boom
in Canada there can be no doubt, for there are
facts in open view Which demonstrate it. As
things are conditioned now, however, what
affects the Canadian lumber trade has a health-
ful influence upon the markets of the United
States, and this benefit may be. more widely
operative than may be thought. For instance,
the upper Mississippi supplies are drawn on

quite exti “3
large sale of d
Winnipeg, wh
enterprise of constructing portable aie is
still actively prosecuted in Canada, the industry
being particularly prominent in Quebec, Ot-
tawa, Belleville, Hamilton, and other main
points, and among them competition is lively.
So great, however, is the need for shelters that
there is almost an enormous demand for tents,
which are used in lieu of better habitations. It
is told that in and about Winnipeg alone there
are more than 3,000 people living in tents, and
the plan has been adopted to more or less extent
over a widewection. This is all very well during
the summer weather, when Old Sol makes things
genial, and sometimes red-hot, but persons can
not successfully abide here in tents during the
winter months, and Canada 1s still farther to-
wards the north pole. The fact is, all these
tent-abiding people must~ be provided with
structures before the cold weather sets in, and
we opine that a very respectable share of those
provincial prospectors will sleep under American
pine in the futare. On account of the growing
scarcity of dry stocks, what building is now
prosecuted consumes largely green lumber, and
it is often a case of Hobson’s choice.

A LARGE PURCHASE.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—The Ameri-
can Lumber Company has purchased from the
Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railway
Company the standing pine on its entire land
grant, except Mackinac county and the east
part of Chippewa county. This comprises some
500,000 acres, and it is expected the yield will
amount to several hundred million feet of pine.
This company has also purchased of the same
company about 75,000,000 feet of pine on the
Tgquaquanenon river, in Chippewa county. It
It has also purchased about 150,000,000 feet on
the waters tributary to Ontonagon river. This
gives the company the entire control of the
largest body of pine in the northern peninsula.

A mill with a capacity of 100,000 feet per
day is now being erected at Newberry, Chippe-
wa county, on the line of the railroad, and it is
the intention to cut about 14,000,000 feet during
the coming winter. Another large mill near,
Escanaba is contemplated. The American
Lumber Company is composed of Scotch and
Canadian capitalists. The head offices are in
Toronto. H. H. Cook, M. P., A. MacKenzie,
Robert and John M. Dollar, and J. S. Lockie,
all of Toronto, are resident directors. The
headquarters in the northern peninsula will be
Marquette. Robert Dollar will be general
manager at that point,

OBSTRUCTING MILL STREAMS.

The Bay City Lumberman’s Gazette says :—
This bit of law comes to us through Brad-
street’s: A, the owner of a mill, filed a bill to
enjoin B, who had a mill to manufacture lum-
ber and clothes pins above that of A on the
same stream, to prevent him from discharging
his saw dust, shavings and refuse into the stream,
so that they were carried by the current into
A’s pond in such quantities as to cause him con-
siderable expense to remove this waste, and
interfered seriously with the profitable use of
A’s mill. In this case the supreme court of
Vermont granted the injunction, the Chief Jus-
tice (Royce), in the opinion, saying: ‘‘ While it
is true a manufacturer has the right to appro-
priate and use the water of a stream in a proper
manner, it is equally true that he must respect
and regard the rights of riparian proprietors be
low him ; and while such owners must submit
to such inconvenience and injury as may result
from such use, they are not compelled to submit
to injuries which are not necessarily occasioned
thereby. Such injuries as are incident to, and
necessarily result from a proper use of the
water, must be borne, but the manufacturer has
no right to do any act that in its consequences
is injurious to others, because it is a matter of
convenience or economy for him to do so. It is
as much the duty of a manufacturer to so dispose
of his waste as not to injure others, as it is to
refrain from injuring others by any other act.
No one is allowed to deposit any substance in a
running stream that will pollute its waters, to
the injury of )
Neither has anyone the right to deposit any

riparian proprietors below. | 5

ury : a
which the stream may run. It would be mani-
festly unjust to hold that a manufacturer could
so conduct his business as to seriously impair
the yalue of the rights and property of manu-
facturers on the same stream below, and i
or perhaps r ruin ‘the lands of riparian
without accountability, upon the showing
it was more convenient and economical to him
thus to conduct it. The acts of the defendant
in depositing the waste made at his in the
manner we have found it has been re
illegal, anda perpetual injunction will
enjoining him and his heirs, executors, adminis-
trators and assigns from so disposing of it in the
future.

AUSTRALIAN TI TIMBER TE. Di
~ Messrs. C. S. Rogs & Co.’s 1 ee

Melbourne states that the arrivals of timber
and building materials a heavier than
the demand for consumption, and prices had i in
consequence declined, especially in American
lumber and British shipments of red deals.
The arrivals for the past month haye been per
Aldergrove, Macbeth, British Enterprise, and
Gulf of St. Vincent. The parcels ex ships from
Great Britain (which were landed in the usual
bad order of such shipments) have been sold at
prices which leave a heavy loss to the importers,
and this result will always follow, as our buférs
require timber in bright condition. The Pacific's
cargo from Gefle was ordered on 12th May, re-
sulting in the sale of 4,000 pieces at from 6d. to
5 1-16th d. per foot 9x3, the balance being
withdrawn at the latter figure. The stocks in
hand are much larger than usual at this season,
and as they are weekly being added to from
Great Britain, the prospect for shipments en
route are not favorable to profitable results.
The British Queen, from London, arrived at
Adelaide last week with a cargo of 38,000 pieces
red deals and battens, and was ordered on to
Sydney. Our adviccs from Sydney reports
sales of small parcels of London shipments at
33d. to 44d. per foot 9x3, for 3rds. The
Ravenswood from Glasgow, Mistley Hail and
Ann Millicent, from London, and Hospoda, are
reported at the Heads.

A Good System.

The census office at Washington has just issu
ed a bulletin, giving some interesting figures
showing the estimated amount of merchantable
pine and spruce standing in Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, May 31, 1880. The statis-
ties for Maine show that 475,000,000 feet of pine
and 5,000,000,000 feet of spruce, board measure,
were standing in the census year, and that 138, -
825,000 feet of pine and 301,020,000 feet of
spruce were cut that year, including 6,000,000
feet of pine and 49,000,000 feet of spruce cut on
St. John River, but sawed in New Brunswick.

Considerable areas in Southern Maine are coy- ~

ered with second growth pine not included in
the above estimate, furnishing a large propor-
tion of the pine sawed in the state. Pine has
been cut!in every township, and the largest
spruce has been removed from the state, except
from the inaccessible region about the head
waters of the Allagash River. The system of
cutting only the large trees and carefully pro-
tecting the remainder prevails in Maine and al
lows the forest to be profitably worked at stated
periods, varying from fifteen to twenty-five
years, Their permanence is thus insured.

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Thad E. J. O'Neill, of the Dominion Police

Force, Ottawa, Canada, thus spoke to a repre-
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A STEAMER is being built at Oconto, Wis.,, for
picking up logs along the shores of Green Bay,

A LARGE number of Americans are visiting
the Thunder Bay regions north of Lake Superior
prospecting for timber and minerals.

Turn Two Rivers, Wis., Lumber Company
haye a log’scow with steam machinery for taking
logs out of the water and loading them on the
scow.

THE Chignecto, N. B., Post says :—It is said
that Mr. Alex. Gibson will pile some 15,000,000
feet of lumber at the Straight Shore, St, John,
this season, to be held for higher prices.

Tur Limber Trades Journal says a parcel of
over 1,000 standards, per steamer, said to be the
largest cargo of spruce yet shipped to Liver-
pool, has been sold by a firm of brokers to an im-
port house there, ;

In the return of exports from the port of
Trebizond, given in the report of Consul Biliotti
“for 1881, we find there were 8,898 cwts. of box-
wood, valued at £2,660, sent to Great Britain ;
and 272 ewts. walnutwood valued at £544.

THE uses of pine are many, and it is told that
the needles of the Silesian forests are capable of
conversion into what is termed forest wool,
which, besides being efficacious in cases of rheu-
matism, can be curled, felted and woven.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says the saw
mill at Butternut, Wis., has been enlarged, 60
feet being built on the north end, making it 120
feet long, and a shingle and lath mill has been
added. The capacity for next season is placed
at 10,000,000 feet.

THE Brighton Ensign says that Mr. Chester
Loomis of Newcombe Mills has completed a
shipment of 47,000 feet of basswood, ash, and
elm lumber to the Upper Canada Furniture
Company, Bowmanville. He got $13 per M.
delivered at the factory.

THE Stirling Wews-Argus, of July 28th, says :
Immense numbers of logs have passed down the
Trent within the past few weeks. The mouth
of the river is now fairly choked with logs,
about a hundred acres of space being covered
with a perfect jam. “It is a sight not often
seen. :

Mr. Botpuc, M.P. for Beauce, has purchased
from the Quebec Seminary extensive timber
limits in Montmorenci County, and will, it is
said, erect large saw mills at which 10,000,000
feet are expected to be cut annually for export
to England. The timber on these limits is
chiefly spruce.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says a repres-
entative of Noble & Little, Ashland Avenue
and 22nd street, has been in Manitoba working
up a little new Northwestern boom for his house.
He went for pleasure only, but managed to
make a sale for anywhere from 50 to 75 carloads
of lumber.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says:—We have
heretofore referred to the fact of the enormous
immigration pouring into the eastern states;
and on it we have based our faith for a perman-
ent demand for lumber, which would inevitably
be continued, as it is an imperative demand
which cannot possibly be ignored.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says a huge
raft, comprising 1,000 telegraph poles, arrived
at Monroe, Mich., lately, from which point they
are to be distributed along the line of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern road. Two more
of these large rafts are expected, the poles com-
ing from the shores of the Georgian Bay.

Messrs. C, T. Brannon & Co. have received
from Winnipeg, Manitoba, a large order for
common lounge frames, step ladders, camp
stools and small express wagons, which are to
be shipped knocked down in box cars from
Toronto. Quite a large trade it is expected will
be done with the Prairie Province in these
goods, .

THE Quebec Chronicle says our timber market
remaing a8 inactive as it has been during the
past few weeks, and we do not hear of any
transactions worth noticing. Rafts continue to
arrive and are placed in the different commission
booms, for sale. But it is generally expected
that they will remain unsold for the next few
weeks, and that little timber will change hands
betore September,

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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

A Nort Carona darkey was agreeably
astonished, recently, at beholding a lot of gold
coin roll out of an old log he was splitting.
There were 26 eagles in all, and it is thought the
money had been in the tree about a quarter of a
century. If the trunks were always that way,
there must be some valuable stumpage around
that section. me

Tur Timber Trades Journal says there has
been shipped from Quebec during the last few
years a considerable quantity of Ist, 2nd, and
3rd quality yellow pine boards, from 9 to 12 and
13 inches broad, of various thicknesses. These
boards, have been found by users of pine wood
to be exceedingly economical, and the quality of
them invariably good. They are fuller in the
various thicknesses than are boards of similar
widths which are cut from 3 in. deals. There
is a further advantage associated with them,
viz., the saving of the cost of sawing ; hence,
the importation of these boards is almost.certain
to increase considerably,

Tur Timber Trades Journal says the old and
new state of affairs in respect to the wood-carry-
ing trade have had a somewhat whimsical illus-
tration afforded them at one of the north country
timber docks, There, sheltered under the prow
of a huge wood-laden steamer, was to be seen a
modest little craft of 60 tons burden, discharging
Norwegian pit-props. The little vessel was
crudely built, in a home-made “fashion, her
masts, scarcely straighter than the rough cut
props that she was discharging from her hull,
and her general style and build illustrative of
those daring little crafts of our ancestors that in
the seventeenth century patiently made their
hazardous voyages amidst the perils of the
Baltic.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says the forestry
bulletins which show, by maps, the contracting
areas of timber lands, are calculated to en-
courage the protection of growing timber now
so recklessly sacrificed in the west. Notwith-
standing the efforts of the government to en-
courage the growth of forests by the tree-claim
plan, the necessity of more and larger trees is
felt, especially in those sections where lands
have been entered on tree claims. <A party of.
Colorado citizens were forced to ride six miles
to find a tree suitable for the hanging of a horse
thief. Such a lack of timber for a necessary
and imperative demand in Colorado, is entirely
inexcusable, and in order to remedy such a glar-
ing want, concerted action is demanded, on the
part of Colorado freemen.

THE Hull correspondent of the Timter Trades
Journal says:—Speaking of large timbers,
which is, in other words, speaking of American
wood, we may notice a few “‘sticks” floating in
the ponds of Messrs. R. Wade, Sons, & Co.
There are three logs of Quebec pine—63 ft. 6 in.
x 26% in. x 244 in., 286 ft. contents ; 43 ft. x
27 in., 205 ft. contents; 42 ft. x 25hin: x 24
in., 178 feet contents. These are closely match-
ed with the following logs of Quebec white oak:
46 ft. 6in. x 264 in. x 264 in., 227 ft. contents;
54 ft. x 25in. x 24in., 225 ft. contents ; 44 ft.
6 in. x 27. x 27 in., 226 ft. contents, which
latter are free from wane. Itis highly probable
that these dimensions can be exceeded in Liver-
pool and London stocks, but we give them as
examples of what are held here, feeling certain
that our many Baltic friends, who are strangers
to such logs, will be interested with the figures.

TueE Liverpool correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says the high prices demanded
for Quebec timber meet with but little response
from buyers, who, excepting for the very best of
work, are taking to pitch pine for many pur-
poses for which but a few years ago yellow pine
only would have been used. The fact is that
consumers will not pay the fancy prices that
have recently been asked for this wood, and are
substituting other and cheaper material for it,
and until our Canadian friends can reduce their
prices to something approaching former rates,
they will have to be content with a very small
demand from this neighbourhood, and that will
be confined to the better classes of wood only.
Already the common yellow pine timber, such
as was formerly imported under the designa-
tion of building timber, has been entirely super-
seded by pitch pine, and oak timber is now
being rapidly worked out of the market by the
large quantities of cut waggon scantling supplied
from the United States,

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Ava. 10th.—There is very little to report this
week. Prices continue steady as last reported,
business has been very fair, the demand for
building lumber has been good, and prospects
are that it will continue so for some time to
The market for walnut and almost all

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hardwoods has been active. Yard prices are as
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Mi iieitrsbs on few ewiewe ® $35 VO@4

Pine, Bae aM a OL id bail 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping a rc Mecca areiatats Asie 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, @M ..... wsseee 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, #@ M......+eeeeesseeeees 10 00@12 00
Spruce, # M........ Fe iipeniistetg soe thinset 10 00@13 00
Hemlock, @ M.....cceeeeeeseenseeeteeee 9 00@10 00
Ash, run of log culls out, a 0 Merspaisioensieiore 20 00@25 00
Bass, e . 17 00@20 00
Oak, BM... ..seevseneeeer ... 40 00@50 00
Birch, #@M....... ..- 20 00@25 00

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Exports are going on briskly, and there are
at present 18 vessels in port chartered to load
for South America, ‘The rise in grain freights
has had no effect on rates of lumber tonnage,
which, however, are firm, but the demand is
weak. We quote rates of freight to River Plate
at $14.50 to $15, as to size of vessel. Deals are
taken in considerable lots to the United King-
dom at from 6s. to 7s. 6d. The barque Cupid,
which was damaged, is still at Quebec under
repairs. Shipments from this port since the
24th ult. were :—To London, 30,000 ft. deals
and 33,541 pes. deal ends ; to Bristol, 10,000 ft.
deals ; to Liverpool, 577,712 ft. lumber ; to Cork,
10,000 ft, deals, The shipments to .the River
Plate since date of last report were 6 vessels,
carrying 2,957,430 ft. The total shipments to
South America since opening of navigation to
date were 5,310,250 ft., against 4,736,541 ft. for
game period of 1881, being an increase of 573,709
feet.

CORDWOOD,

There is not much to be said about this mar-
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There is not a very heavy stock on the wharves,
and if anything the tendency is upwards, which
We quote ex cartage :—

checks business.

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Long Birch...........seecceeeeneeetreneeeenens 6 60
Short 8 ccccescscrrevveneccccsecesenes We O00.
Long Beech............+ 6 00
WSHOK Ge iecretetsre rate sicieiefersicsjelelernivineruleieisissisiniaisio.as 6 50
MRIAATACICaelete ciaisisiatclniseeieesiele(eistelsiel ets 4 60@5 00
—_—___—_—__—
TORONTO.

From our own Correspondent.

Ave. 9th.—There is not much that is worthy
of record in regard to the movement of lumber
at this point since I last wrote you, Shipments
over our docks has been somewhat brisker dur-
ing the last week, but not nearly up to anticipa-
tions, and from present indications the local
consumption of lumber for this season will be
fully one-half less than during the building sea-
son of 1881. Various causes are assigned for
this falling off in our building trade ; some say
that the carpenters’ strike in the early part of
the season was the main cause, others affirm
that the high price of material has the most to
do with it;if the latter is the correct theory,
real estate owners may rest assured that the
day is past, never to return, when they will be
able to purchase lumber at rates existing four
or five years ago, and it is not difficult to deter-
mine why this advance in value of lumber must
to a certain extent hold good, All the pine in
our frontier townships has been cut off, and our
nearest points for any considerable quantities of
lumber, by rail, is now 100 miles, or over, on
which the rates of freight is 8hc. per hundred
weight, and in many cases the logs are brought
from 20 to 50 miles by river driving, to the
point of manufacture, so that it is quite useless
and certainly not desirable to expect that lum-
ber will again sell at any such figures as in the
past. For my own part I don’t think that
either of the above reasons given for the slack-
ness of the building trade are correct. The fact
is building in this city has been overdone, and
monied corporations have grown shy, and decline
to invest, preferring to take their chances on
farm property in Manitebe and elsewhere, al-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

though there is no doubt that land in many
parts of this city has doubled and trebled in
value during the last two or three years, and a
healthier state for the building trade of our fair
city will not tarry long.

Now although the retail trade keeps dull,
there is no glut on our market, all the yarde
having light stocks, and nothing is forced on the
local trade, neither will there be, so long as the
American market is open to dealers, and fair
prices ruling, so that I do not anticipate that
manufacturers will be left with anything on
their hands at the close of the season that can-
not be disposed of at fair prices.

QUQTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Mill cull boards and scantling..............+++- $10 00
Shipping cull <igeihgg promiscuous widths....... = =
Scantling and joist, BP 016 theses ee eesssenees . 14 00

TSB. sient noses pecuse 14 50

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Cutting up planks COUN R ae spun atnini- ei eiinie eine 22 50
GATOS) oh | cine sinieieegsieivitis ons ep n9 te + 20 00
Sound dressing stocks...........0sseese cere ene 18 00
Picks Am. inspection...... © sssseveerersneee 26 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection............s+00++ 35 00
B. M.
1 -inch flooring, CYEBIOM. 2. ncc. csvecns covers 30 00
1 TOUGD. ........cecercvieeesesece 16 00
De «dressed ......
oY Wa oe undressed. .
af aS dressed ....

oo

undressed. .
Beaded Sheeting, dressed. .
lapboarding, dressed

XXX. sawn shingles, @M...........000+++ 2 50@3 00
AX sawn shingles. .......scsecceecsssscceeves 2 2 ”

BR Wa Tiathis ine cicne ciloneuaaneee acne Upvbpeenaeiee

OTTAWA.
From our own Correspondent.

Ava. 8th.—As a result of the representations
set forth in a petition from a large number of
prominent lumbermen to the Minister of Public
Works, that the tolls on the Carillon dam be
rescinded, the latter has complied with the
prayers of the petitioners, and issued an Order-
in-Council to that effect. The following is the
text of the order, which appeared in the last
issue of the Canada Gazette :—

CrRx1FIED Copy of a Report of a Committee of
tthe Honorable the Privy Council, approved
by His Excellency the Governor General in
Council, on the 15th July, 1882.

On a memorandum dated 5th July, 1882,
from. the Minister of Public Works, submitting
that certain rates of toll on saw logs, timber,
&c., passing the Carillon Dam, on the Ottawa
River, were established by Orders in Council of
the 29th May, 1860, and 3rd May, 1882, and
published in the Canada Gazette.

That representation is now made to his De-
partment that the construction of the dam across
the river, instead of facilitating, retards the
descent of timber, from two to three days being
now occupied in passing, whereas previously
not more than two hours were required for the
passage of rafts, and application has been made
for the removal of the rafts in question.

That the dam was not built for the purpose of
facilitating the descent of timber but to increase
the supply of water to the Carillon and Gren-
ville Canal.

The Minister, in view of the circumstances,
recommends that the Order in Council in so far
as provides for the collection of tolls at the
Carillon Dam, be rescinded ; the Acting Minis-
ter of Inland Revenue concurs in the foregoing
recommendation and further advises a refund to
the parties who have paid tolls during the pres-
ent season of navigation.

The Committee submit the above recommen-
dation for Your Excellency’s approval.

JOHN J. McGEE,
Clerk, Privy Council.

I certify that the tolls heretofore collected on
saw logs, timber, &c., passing the Carillon Dam,
on the Ottawa River, under Orders in Council
of 29th May, 1860, and 3rd May, 1882, have
been this day removed by His Excellency the
Governor General in Council.

JOHN J. McGEE,
Clerk, Privy Coungil.

Privy Council, 15th July, 1882.

The construction of the dam complained of
causae a longtby aud inconvenient outlay in fhe

navigation of logs and square timber to the
Quebec market. Before the dam was built only
about two hours were required for the passage
of rafts; whereas at present from two to three
days are required. The object of the dam is to
increase the water supply on the Carillon and
Grenville Canal. The Government’s relieving
lumbermen of the obnoxious toll will be con-
sidered somewhat of a recompense for the in-
convenience existing.
THE SHIPPING TRADE.

An unusual dull spell exists at this port in
the shipping trade. There is a large number of
American boate lying at the docks awaiting
loads, as many as forty being counted to-day.
Rates have not materially changed. The cause
of the dulness in the exportation of the sawn
lumber is due in some degree to the enforcement
of new regulations by the American Custom
House authorities, which will no doubt affect
the market to no small extent. Heretofore, it
seems, the duty on Canadian board lumber was
levied by the Americans, on the prescribed con-
dition that the average measurement in thickness
of the board was one inch. Our manufacturers,
allowing for dressing, etc., have turned out
their boards averaging one inch and a quarter.
Taking the large amount that is exported annu-
ally, the amount of duty evaded by this quarter
of an inch must have been considerable. Strin-
gent orders have, however, recently been issued
by the authorities to the Custom House officials
on the other side to levy duty on Canadian
lumber at its actual measurement.

The saw mills hereabouts are running in good
order, the water being at a favorable height ; in
fact better than any other period this year.

————E——
ST. JOHN, N. B,
From our own Correspondent,

Ave, 8th.—Our lumber market is still very
dull, owing no doubt to the very high rates of
freight that vessels are asking now for Atlantic
business, and spruce deals have still farther de-
clined in price, and are selling at about $9 per
M., being 50c. less than atthe date of my last
report.

Freights generally on this side of the Atlantic
have advanced considerably during the past
fortnight, and even the greatly increased rates
paid at St. John have failed to draw a single
vessels from any of the ports of call. Under
these circumstances, and in view of the fact
that vessels of a good class are in great demand
for grain in the United States ports, and that
ordinary vessels are much wanted at Quebec,
where freights are considerably higher. It is
most likely that there will be a still farther
advance here.

Freights to-day may be quoted as firm at the
following rates :—

Liverpool ...... ..... 71s. 8d. c. d.

Bristol Channel ..... 70s. Od. 72s. 6d. ©. d.

IPQIONG <cepicnauee es y 70s, Od. to 75s. Od. c. d.
SHIPPING,

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of

freight :—
Calliope, 1,202, Liverpool, 61s, 3d. ec. d.

Eurydice, 1,247, - 70s. c. d.
Missouri, 818, ~ 62s. 6d. c. d.
Arabia, 957, as 71s. 8d. oc. d,

Lottie Stewart, 742, Bristol Channel, 70s. c. d.
Lepreaux, 769, Limerick, 65s, c. d.
Gloire, 1,138, Bordeaux, 60s. c. d.
Westmoreland, 218, Port Natal, £8 ¢, d.
Harriet Campbell, 649, St. Nazaire.
Fidelia, 450, Unchartered.
Belle Star, 353, Unchartered,
COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 18ST, JANUARY TO DATE.

1881. 1882,
Deals. Pine. Birch. Deals. Pine. Birch.
H,S, ft. Tons. Tons. M.S. ft. Tons. Tons.
117,228 768 2,962 117,594 359 3,890
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATB.
1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons.
28 21,721 ll 8,548
——_>__—-
BOSTON.

Ave, 5.—The Journal of Commerce says —

“There is a moderate and steady inquiry for
pine and other soft woods, and prices keep along
pretty even. There is considerable building
going on and in contemplation for fall, and the
outlook of trade is very good. Stocks are pretty
well reduced at the yards, and more activity is
to be looked for soon, The western primary
points generally show quite firm prices, At

Chicago there continues the irregularity in
prices that has prevalled for quite a time.
Advices from Albany report an agreement
among dealers to advance prices on August lst
at the rate of $2 per M feet on shelving and above

CANADA PINE,

Selects, Dressed... 2c. .cccccscccosns 00@50
Shelving, Dressed, lste.......... MS cones oo
A) % ,Mllaaine tiated Sabie 32 00@35 00
Wipes BUNSOM,...-.-cacnenerransecce 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box....... 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Let quality 6.6, ..cscesvvenuy 42 00@45 00
oT aT aS 34 00@35 00
—_—_—____
ALBANY.
Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Piste, Clean PM, 0. ob enctacenpeceansanas $57
Pirie, TOUS os ok i. 500 isos vec ESE Oe °
Pind, Ope... cntac e¢nteiss secu
FAIS, BOG BOX: os ons0 tne nctooe>santeeeae
Pine, 10-in. plank, each:... ...........
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each.......
‘ine boards, 10-in.........

Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft.,
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft..
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft.. ;
Pine, 1} in. siding, select... aan beds
Pine, 1

Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .

Hemlock, wall stg 2x4, each.
Ash, good, @ M
Ash, second quality, @ M............+006
Cherry, good, = rs

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BUFFALO.

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Mill run ‘Tots. See

selected
Strips, 1 and aes inch mill run.
culls.

1x6 selected for cla) hound. ..c.- ectccee
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... ......
XXX, 18 inch, epink, :,.deaisteee

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CHICAGO.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Values
at Saginaw, Muskegon, Minneapolis and other
points of production are fully maintained, with
a little stronger feeling rather than otherwise
prevailing. Purchasers who visit such places of
supply find that the offerings are extremely lim-
ited, the general statement being that the
stock to be cnt has been pre-engaged.
The limited number of cargoes daily offer-
ing on the market of this city is an evidence
that the statement of scarcity of procurable
lumber made by searchers after it is true at
least of Lake Michigan ports, Dealers who,
through what they considered wise motives, did
not stock up earlier in the season, are now a
little anxious to know where their supplies are
coming from, provided a heavy fall trade should
ensue. The pertinaeity with which manufact-
urers have held on to prices throughout the sea-
son thus far must be takep as a new feature of
the lumber business, which has an adequate
cause, and after the season’s fight is over it will
be well for the trade at large to study outa
means for meeting it in the future. Generally
the demand regulates the supply ; but this year
we have witnessed the supply dictating to the
demand, and laughing at opposition. Lately
we see in this cargo market the pushing disposi-
tion of the supply, for no sooner did the trade

a

—s,

make a few slight advances in the list than the
price of cargo lumber was crowded up a little,
advancing on peice stuff from $10.50 and $11 to
$11.50 a thousand, The manufacturers seem to
have a grip on the situation, and are determined
to hold it.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green,....- «s..++--+- $11 00@11 25
MONE GIMENSION 5). 60 on ole viens vices denies 11 75@15 00
Boards and strips, No, 2 stock.......... 12 50@13 50
SNGia E BGDCE es wintasi= wien i fo sg <iiots’> «o'ujniv ein 20 18 00@21 00
INO, Lilopi run; CHlIs OUt. 0... cet e wees 18 00@22 00
Standard. shingles... .....cccseewsecvsees 2 60@ 2 65
ARS Missal inivls) joie. ciejeisissieicisis ee «.cie's 2 70@ 2 95
IGT Ris Seger WJBSBB0r JOOBEInOOeS ae 3 20@ 8 2)

ohaielaberaiststale)a\ «/dteaie) =) 2 00@ 2 26
} {Receipts and stock on hand of lumber and
shingles, etc., for the week ending Aug. 3, as
reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange :—
RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.
ICCPAGAY 68 BRA So ageing sen 66,337,000 19,278,000
1881... Mas Bo 38 BRsde sec eRe 54,958,000 25,225,000
FROM JANUARY 1 TO AUG. 3 INCLUSIVE.
RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
+.» 1,015,052,000 435,309,000
883,683,000 393,259,000
Inc..... Seta is) fatn) s/s ais=\*/0 131,369,000 42,050,000
, LAKE RECEIPTS TO AUG, 3.
BSSQ\ oh. ssaicis'ets ia animiessio\siaua'niais/ei« 867,047,000 402,734,000
STOCK ON HAND JULY 1.
1882. 1881. 1880.
~ Lumber.......,..443,039,546 352,391,329 347,346,419
Shingles.... .... 223, 839, "500 142,726,000 144,095,000
bh sinite soa de 26,691,152 30, 764, 312 29,733,995
icketS.j.cce e305 1,902,187 3,170,228 795,360
Cedar posts. ... 154,143 120,559 111,655
—_—_~<>____—_-
TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.
Three uppers.. . .$43 00@46 00
Common.... -- 18 00@24 00
Culls..... < . 12 00@14 00
—_—_—_—_—>___—_
~LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal of July 22nd says:
A year ago the deliveries from the docks were
excessive, and all were surprised that they kept
at such a high rate for so long; the export to
the colonies, assisted by the country demand,
added to fair average demand on the spot,
brought them up to figures we are not likely to
see surpassed this year, unless something unex-
pected crops up to give them a stimulus. The
present deliveries are high enough, we expect,
for the dock company, who are not so anxious
about their keeping up, though doubtless glad
to record a great trade doing, but it is only nat-
ural they should like to see the arrivals plentiful
as well.

Just now the Surrey Commercial Dock Com-
pany are pretty busy, and in -Canada Dock
seven large sailing ships and one steamer dis-
charging together gave an appearance of greater
activity in that quarter than has been observa-
_ ble for sometime. The Quebec liners form a
prominent feature in the docks generally at this
period, and though hardly so many now as there
were at this time last year, the rest of them
cannot be far off, and probably the next fort-
night will help to swell the tonnage consider-
ably. Of the Colonial goods a considerable pro-
portion, we understand, has gone overside into
craft, but nearly all of the cargoes arriving from
the Baltic ports have been landed.

——————
TYNE.

The Timber Trades Journal of July 22nd saya *
The arrival of wood goods during the last four-
teen days has been upon a fairly large scale, and
covers almost every kind of timber. A large
fleet of Baltic ships have come to hand, and are
now delivering their cargoes at various parts of
the river, and as there are also several cargoes
of timber from Pensacola, &c., the river pre-
sents at the moment a very animated appear-
ance. Several steamers have arrived in the in-
terval with the usual assortrnent of wood goods
for cargo from Gothenburg and Norway, while
one steamer entirely loaded with battens is now
delivering at Newcastle Quay from Norway.
Several yellow pine ships are almost daily ex-
pected from Quebec, and, as these goods are
very scarce in the river at present, their arrival
will be hailed with welcome by the importers,

———>____— ._
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trodes Journal, of July 22nd,
says:—So far as spruce deals are concerned,
there is # firmer tone in the market, although
this hase not yet developed itself sufficiently to
make quotations higher ; but we is evidently

a disposition to store rather than sell at prices
recently obtained, and several cargoes are being
stored, amongst them being one large cargo per
steamer of about 1,200 standards. The details
of what has recently been done in these goods
by auction will be seen below, but higher prices
are anticipated for the next auction.

‘At the auction sale on the 14th inst., of which
a short summary was telegraphed, prices were
maintained at the previous rates obtained for
spruce deals, as will be seen from the following
details :—

2 Spruce deals, St. John, N.B.,—

2. 8) d. #£. 8. d.
16 to 24 ft. 3x11 710 O0to7 12 6
12° 15 ‘6 3x11 710.0
Ch b hdr ge F UC
16 ‘* 24 “ 3x9 f ib +0
12 6°15 ** 3x9. Tithe O
gf TL ox) 7 2 6
16°“ 27 “ 3x7 oro’ 0
12 “ 16 “ 3x7 700
9“ 11“ 3x7 700
9 93 * AX 710 0
9ft, &©up.3x12&up. 7 7 6
16 to 24 ft.3x8 7.0. 0
9 16 ** 3x8 617 6to7 0 0
9ft. & up. 3x6 7 1206
Scantling 65,0
Deal ends 6 0 Oto6 7
Do. St. Margaret’s Bay, N.S.— é
16 to 26 ft.3x11 7 10
V2 Sek SS: 7 7 Gto7 10
a UN elit ie Nios 7 LO:
12. “6 28.“ 3x9 7 5
8 TIP Sha9 7 0 Oto7 2
16/29 “3x7 6 17
LZySOrL) §8 Bx7 617 6to7 0
BoD B.eF% 615 0
9 ‘§ 29 §* x7 OM
9 ft 2b) €9 3x10) fe &
9 “* 29 §° 3x8 617 6
9 “© 29 “* 3x6 Vf PA GOP EY)
98 28 3x6 t 276
Scantlin 615 0
Deal ends 6 0 0
ll to 20ft.4x12t016 9 0 0
10," 23:."¢ 411 810 0
9 *° 25 “© 4x10 8 7 6
9 “27 4x9 Sinoe 0
9 ‘6 27 “4x8 812 6to8 15 0
9 OTS 4AXT Wale Omos) C0
Planed spruce boards—
10 ‘6 24 “1x7 &8 8 0 0
10°25 8 1x6 TeuiG
10)" 26" 1x5 712 6
10 ‘* 24 “1x4 7) 2e6
Unplaned spruce boards—
All sizes 67 6
Birch timber, St. John, N.B.—
22 to 24 in, deep 30d per ft.
204 a) 214 ac 25: “
20 is 244d ts
194 ss 21d to 213d Go
19 ce 204d ‘* 20 “«
18 “e 184 “ce 19d oe 19. “
17 “* 17, ce 174d wy “
16 ce ne oe oa “ 174d . “ce
ior Fitba SE 153d “ 1642 “
Te OSE 144d “ 15d as
13 ‘* 134 ss 144d OY
104 «43 ‘6 133d “
Maple 13 ‘‘ 17 cs 16d ss
Elm 20 Gi 18d Oy
Ash 15 of 22d se
—_—____—_—-
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of July 22 says:—
Imports of wood goods to Clyde ports during
the week have amounted to about 10,000 loads,
and comprise three cargoes of pitch pine, and
the remainder chiefly Quebec timber and deals,
At Grangemouth the arrivals have been to the
extent of about 3,500 loads.

ees
SWEDEN. ;

The Stockholm correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says :—Shipping operations from
the timber ports of Norrland are now being
vigorously prosecuted on a large scale, and with
favourable weather on the whole, From the
extent of recent sales, and other contingent
circumstances, I am inclined to believe that the
present season’s export will be the largest of
sawn and planed wood that Sweden has yet
despatched. I should not be surprised were
the present season’s export of these goods to
reach nearly 700,000 Petersburg standards, a
quantity that would have been considered fab-
ulous twenty years ago. It is not to be wond-
ered at that, under the pressure of this immense
consumption, the very oldest firms in the trade
in the north of Sweden, who ten or fifteen
years ago were convinced that the forests they
were then working would serve them longer
than they required to look forward to, should
now begin to reckon up more carefully the re-
sources at their disposal, and to find, to their
surprise, that they will soon have to enter the
open market for logs, the same as many of their
competitors have todo, This, I am informed,
has been the case this season with a particularly
prominent firm in the Lower Gulf, whose saw-
mill manager could not persuade the partners
that they were likely to require logs from other
than their own woods until the present year,

Negotiations are still being continued by

Oomaoooo @

THE CANADA, LUMBERMAN.

257

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JONES

& SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally. :

Pine Deck Plank and

prominent firms in the Gefle district, as well as
by Sundswall people, for the acquisition or lease
of large tracts of growing forest in their respect-
ive districts. Prices in the_latter district are on
the rise, and may be expected to still further
increase from the competition of the many mills

in the Sundswall district poorly provided with’

reserves of forest property. Forest fires, men-
tioned in my last as causing considerable loss in
Medelpad and Jemtland, have now been sub-
dued, thanks to energetic action on the part of
their owners, assisted by a copious rainfall.
a

The Red Lake Pine Lands.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—There
is likely to be a political fight in Minnesota, of |

no small proportions, over the Washburn bill to
provide for the sale of the Red lake lands.
Grand Forks Plaindealer is growing hot on the
question, and wants congressmen elected who
will defeat the bill. It says that $40,000,000 is
involved in the bill, and every effort should be
put forth to prevent that bonanza falling into
the hands of the Minneapolis ring. The
Plaindealer further says that there are thousands
of Minnesota men in the Red river valley who
are willing to pay from $10 to $16 an acre for
the Red lake pine lands, while the ring back of
the Washburn bill is trying to get it on the “‘old
swindling”
While the Grand Forks interest is trying to
defeat the Washburn bill through political

measurgs, it bad better keep right on with the

The |

auction plan for $2.50 an acre. |

proposed scheme of forming a syndicate for the
purpose of acquiring a large share of the pine
lands in dispute. Grand Forks has a golden
opportunity that should not be neglected.

LEATHER
BELTING.

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACH LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MONTREAL:

252

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

THE GREAT MICHIGAN FIRE.
A correspondent of the Fireman’s Jourmal,

who has lately gone over the territory devastat-
ed by the great firejin the forests of Michigan last

fall, says his observations are conclusive that

phenomena aside from the ordinary conditions

of combustion were developed. In the first
place the fire created at least two veritable
storm centers which had the essential features
of storms, and especially the spiral winds. The
evidence are confirmatory of the belief that this
storm center, after it became fully developed,
consisted of a heated body of air or gas in a
state of combustion, which was constantly fed
by the smoke and vapor driven to the center by
the whirling winds and gases generated in the
combustion of the pines and other resinous
woods. ‘This body of air, or burning gas, if it
may be so called, by its heat acquired an accen-
sive force, but by the rapid forward motion of
the fire was sucked forward and devoured, ac-
tually preceding the fire proper. It is evident
that this body was of intense heat, possibly as
great as 400° Fahr., at which point oxygen and
carbon unite. That such a body of luminous
vapor existed, detached from the fire, is assert-
ed by many -who-saw it from a distance, and by
those who were under it, but who escaped from
the fact that it passed above their places.

The idea is further sustained by the fact that
the fire jumped whole patches of inflammable
slashings, and alighted beyond, lifting and fall-
ing in its}forward motion like a balloon touch-
ing the earth. ences in. the center of broad
fields burst into a blaze as if by explosion; and
others nearer the fire escaped. A man in fight-
ing the fire took off his trowsers, fearing they
would catch fire and burn him up, and left them
in a furrow in the middle of a field remote from
any combustable material. When he went to
get them he found them burned, and six quar-
ter-dollars that were in the pocket melted:to-
gether. A set of spoons were served the same
way at another place.

Mrs. Lock and five childern were burned to
ashes, noting but their bones remaining in the
middle of the road, one hundred feet from any
heavy timber. Green timber was dried and
burned, and perhaps the most conclusive evi-
dence was the apparently spontaneous appear-
ance of fire in stumps and fences where no
sparks were falling. These blazes appeared of
white light and indicated a chemical union of
carbon and oxygen. Another general feature
is the fact that the fire appeared to move for-
ward in parallel lines of varying width, and
that in these lines everything was burned and
frequently to ashes. At the edge of the track
a fence would be burned square off, just as
though it had been cut or sawed perpendicular-
ly ; a house would be taken and the barn left ;
a wagon and a fanning mill were within five
feet of each other, and the wagon was burned to
ashes and the fanning mill not charred. It
would be impossible under ordinary circumstan-
ces, to burn a waggon without piling combus-
tible material over it, but of this nothing but
the iron was left.

Finally, the storm and fire disappeared sim-
ultaneously ; that is to say the fire was depend-
ent upon the storm, or secondary to it—that it
was prevented from lingering in the track or
from burning sideways. In from two to three
hours the fire was practically out where it had
passed, indicating that the prime cause of the
_ rapid combustion was in the storm which had
passed, and which passing, perhaps, carried in
its wake a condition of atmosphere opposed to
combustion. This hypothesis explains pretty
much all the phenomena except the balls of fire,
which exactly correspond with what is known
as ‘* ball lightening,” but which is a form of
electricity wholly disputed by some, but recog-
nized by Professor Loomis.

The statements of Ballentine and Kabocke
are confirmatory of this ball lightning idea, and
contradictory of the idea that these lights arose
from the intense heat, or they themselves could
not have survived it. Other statements are to
the effect that this ball of fire fell on the ground
and exploded, running in all directions. This
is explained by some who were not present,
who say that it was but the resinous cones of
the pines ignited, carried by the wind, falling,
scattering the burning pitch, about them ; but
it should be remembered that those people who

saw this phenomenon are men who haye lived
amid forest fires all their lives and haye seen all
the ordinary phenomena, and are not of a class
exactly visionary or imaginative. It is fair to
assume the possibility of electrical phenomena
incidental to this fre storm, both from the fact
that it was a great commotion in the elements
and because it differed from a storm only in the
facts of the absence of rain and presence of fire.
—Scientific American.

Botanic Gardens.

In an article on the approaching Forestry
Congress in Montreal the @azette says :—There
is one branch of the subject which, we think,
has never had the attention in the Dominion
which is due it—we mean that of botanic gar-
dens. Some of the colonies have institutions
for the study of forestry, with a museum and
botanic garden attached, which have been pro-
ductive of much good. With us but little has
yet been attempted in this direction, though
Halifax has set a good example. Why should
we not have at Montreal as a part of our beau-
tiful park, a garden, representative of the various
forest wealth of Canada? ‘We would respect-
fully suggest that some of the members ofthe
Congress-take up this proposition and set it; in
all its details, before the authorities and the
public. A garden of that kind would not only
do much»for the furtherance of the study of
forest. botany, but would be a feature of our
city, most attractive both to residents and
strangers.

Tuer Hon. M. C. George said in Congress last
April that the coast range forests of Oregon and
Washington territory embrace an area of 17,-
000,000 acres. This, he alleged, is ten to twenty
times as many acres as are in the best timbered
lands of Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania.
The fogs of the sea that creep up the valleys are
mainly the cause of the astonishing growth of
the coast range forests.

PORTABLE FORCES

Send es Circulars and Prices to
H.R. IVES & Co., Montreal

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pleasant to the taste, and each box contains sufficient
for two week’s medivation, and is the cheapest and best.
437 Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire
to mail free to any address,

Mack’s Magnetic Medicine is sold by Druggists
at 50 cts, per box, or 12 for $5, or will be mailed
free of postage, on receipt of the money, by addressing
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Sold by all Druggists in Canada, L23

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SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

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Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CANADA LUMEERMAN.

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Extra Stretched and Patent Smooth Surface

_ RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies.
HOYT'S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &c., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hoge, Silk Bolt Cloth, Eme

Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Spindion West Vin

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kinds. 2#®-Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

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MACHINE OILS, ETc.

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SAW MILLS!

Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run
the year round.

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves
to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

; As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without permis-
sion to E. WATT, Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
running respectively 10, 8,5 and 8 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

C. NORSWORTHY & CO.,

ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mille
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. THE CANADA /LUMBERMAN.

ROBERTSON’S

See ey ey er ee Co
The minutes, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

PETER ROBERTSON,

Chaudiere - - Ottawa.
AMERICAN HHAV Y

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | | Rubber Packing,

Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose.

A Full and Complete 5 Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

T. MiclIZL.FReOwW. JR.
WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
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CH, | WITH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER

FIRE-PROOF 12 H. P. ey 4 :
fy 16 H. P. if soordered. Weare testing an Engine
CHA MPI r@) N C/K 20H. P. every day, Intending purchasers are
} : invited to call at our Works and thor-
SAWMILL f) * oughly examine the Champion. We use
p. KRUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,

ENCINE a. Every plate tested.
a Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water
WITH pressure. ‘

OVER 600 SOLD
in 5seasons. The favorite everywhere.
It has no

SECTIONAL -
SAFETY
BOILER.

The sectional safety boiler is manuf: ed expressly for the
“North West” trade, This boller is so arranged that it is readily taken ap rt in sec
enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it and preyent burning out.
Weknow frome this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the great

Western prarrics. Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the large Colo-
Hization and Ranche Companies. (

ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA.
Send for New Circular.

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For Flour Mills uf 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

GRAY’ Ss PATE NT

radual Reduction Machine
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The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls
and twe Reciprocating Sieves.

The Grain“passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and
middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the
large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through
the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.

Each Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as
on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roH is used,and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed
is stopped. The Machine is NOISBKLESS and DUSTLESS.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. s#Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY we

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Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

ova. GOLINE ie By AA Ta

saeSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless

Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.
Mention this Paper.

Roller

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RAFTS ARRIVED.
The Quebec Chronicle gives the following list
of rafts, &c., arrived :—
July 29—R. & G. Strickland, white pine, R.
R. Dobell & Co.’s cove.
D. D. Calvin & Co., oak, pine, &c., sundry
coves.

July 31—Sundry Js. staves, Union Cove.
D. C. Thomson & Uv., staves, Bridgewater
' Cove. F

O. Latour, white and red pine, Cap Rouge.

Price Bros. & Co., deals, Town Wharf.

Wn. Mackay (2), white and red pine, Hadlow
Cove,

Aug. 2—D. D. Calvin & Co., (Charleson Lot),
staves, Union Cove.

OC. & W. Mohr, white pine, &c,, St. Lawrence
Docks.

C. & W. Mohr, spruce deals, St. Lawrence
Docks.

Ed. Derenzy, white pine, &c., Cap Rouge.

Costello Bros., white pine, &c., Cap Rouge.

B. Caldwell & Son, white and red pine, St.
Lawrence Docks. ‘

Aug. 3—Sereney & Wilson, white and red
pine, St. Lawrence Docks.

David Moore, white and red
Rouge.

Costello Bros., spars, Cap Rouge.

pine, Cap

Ked Lake Pine.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
pine forest region around Red Lake, north-
western Minnesota, begins to attract’ much
attention. Aside from the political capital that
will be made out of it in connection with the
Washburn bill for bringing it into market, there
are natural reasons why it will be difficult for
T. B. Walker and his ring, or any other
Minneapolis interest, to wholly monopolize it.
The Red Lake river, which connects Red lake
with the Red river of the north, is pronounced
an excellent log driving steam, and nature seems
to have designed that the larger share of the
forest products of the region should go west-
ward to supply the vast prairie country of
northern Dakota.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Young's Point, Ont.

Suincie Mizt.—The shingle mill which is
run by W. J. Kearns is doing an immense busi-
ness, and owing to the great demand for shingles
Mr. Chalmers intends to sell the present ma-
chine, which only cuts 11,000 shingles per day,
and purchase a new one to cut from 16,000 to 20,-
000 per day, which will pay all concerned, and
the supply will be kept up to the demand.

Saw Loc Drives.—Mr. Alex. Wynn, in the
employ of Mr. Geo. Chalmers, passed through
here Monday, July 31, with a drive of 25,000 saw
logs, bound for the Lakefield saw mills, to get
cut into merchant lumber for shipping to the
other side. Mr. Hilliard has also a large drive
consisting of about 40,000 pieces, bound for
Blythe mills, which were run over here on
August 2nd ; Mr. Foster, foreman. Mr, Irwin,
of Nassau Mills, has also a large drive of saw
logs in the rear, and more drives to follow.

Turtle Mountains Timber.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Turtle
mountains lie across the line between Dakota
and the Dominion of Canada, On the south
there is a belt of excellent agricultural land,
mostly prairie. On the lower slopes of the
mountains is a fringe of timber, ranging in a
zig-zag course from the prairie land to the
mountain tops. The timber observed by a
tourist was oak, ash, elm, birch and poplar, the
trees being sturdy, and the forest free of under-
brush. Some pine is said to abound.

Tur Glasgow correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal, of July 22nd, says the imports
at Glasgow have been chiefly Quebec deals per
steam liners, large quantities being at present
on the wharf at Yorkhill in course of removal
to the yards for being stacked.

ar Rev. Charles E. Piper, formerly of Pitt-
field, N. H., but now of Wakefield, R. L,
writes :—‘' I have used Baxter's Mandrake Bit-
ters in my family for over two years, and as a
result have not called a physician in the whole
time. My wife had been an invalid for two
years, but these bitters have cured her.”

ADAM McKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Hngines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Bagines and Boilers, Girders, poeta, Radia-—
and dealer —

tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass

tings and Sh 4
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MIL Teg, Oe WORK

SUPPLIES.

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Farmers and Mechanics.

J Provide yourselves with a bottle of PA/N-KIJLLER at this season

of the year, when summer complaints are so prevalent ; it is a prompt,

safe, and sure cure. It may save you-days of sickness, and you will

find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine

PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KILLER, and take no other mixture.

Coxgovre, Ont., March 3, 1880.

I have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other

patent medicino that I have on my shelves, and in those years I have pever heard a
It is an article that
seems to have combined in it all that goes to make a jirst-class family medicine, and

customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor.

aslong as I have a house and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both.
J. E, KENNEDY

Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations.
Price 20c., 25c., and 50c. per bottle.

Yours, &c.,

LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY. for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

. Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co.,

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,’

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO,

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Linite

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. O56

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUBDL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. ah Seoretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

EMERY ant CORUNDUM WHEELS

These Wheels are

Wire Strengthened For Saw Gumming

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., _ Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO..
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
* PETERBOROUGH, | DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. 7

256 . THE, CANADA, LUMBERMAN.

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Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of guiletting and gumming saws. tat flee &h
25,000 to 30,000 saw-mills in the United States. Many of there run only asingle saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two
wheels a year, costing $3 to $4 each, and when such small mills order single Emery W heels from the factory, the express charges
often’ equal the cost of the wheel. There wana flme when the quality of Kmery WW beels was 80 uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to éarry them instock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer In saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stoek,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

a oe —_i—_ — — a

; 12x} )
10x 12x% |
8x
BA 2; 10x : 12x4 | Holes, —
sl } gin a i pion hole. 19x ( 9, and 1 inch: Let Ld
10x 1x I
12x¢ J

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12xj are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harder the saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer is that youdon’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in- which condition the saw. will euabout 33} per cent..more jumber than a sefisaw will. Those
who want to usé the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after golbg all‘over it on¢e), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale. —a

A QU EHSTION OF O02 22 --

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have led us to a decided opinion as to what quality 1s the best. We prefer for almost every use an
“Bxtra Soft” wheel like the * Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, so as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that wecan furnish
gualities /o match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, aud we can send you a Tanile Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

Classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is THE STANDARD Saw Gum ming Wheel all over the world. Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels are 2.
{teuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it woo hard, some toosoft. We prefer the “ Pocono.” 7 of

CLASS 3. MEDIUM-—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as * Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

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CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both siner in grain and softer than either of the above. As aSaw Gumming Wheel, “Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light toueh, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat “a

VWilustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. iy.ls

Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED. |

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Shaft and Shingle Mill,

AV 4 for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Staff, &c., from spalts, board

alti trimmings, slabs, and mill waste generally, turning material otherwise

wortbless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the

patentee to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; have made and sold

a good number of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction
and can give the best of references.

Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

| wl ; A Way HATA | S on SON is now the Best Feed where Steam is the motive power. It is easily
iG ul \\ | ia mM \f A operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely to wear out; Sixteen
A 16 ft. boards, or eighteen 12 ft. bogrds, have been cut by it in one minute.
It is the established feed for steam mills; I make a specialty of its mann-

facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

Tl

al

aC = ec a. i Qur Patent Twin or Span Circular,

ELH
: MU == 332 a os ;
z = ~ TMs Q MM an

; RT Tc ~ mt oe N81) ' with Steam Feed for Steam Mills, and Rope or Rack Feed for Water
— Se vo CY. [el = \ Mills is fast coming Into general estimation and is used in place of Gang
mT - — eS " maT My Slabber in our best Canadian Millis, One.of our Span Circalars which
Mt mM | ll HITTANTTL LEY! 2 | | | Hi will slab logs 25 inches in diameter down to7 and § inch stocks, will do
lt Il ll UHL | H | | ANA Whee the work of three slabbers, with an immense redaction in first cost, ran-
= - — - ning expenses and labour. Two of these machines can be seen at work

Wm , ; y a _ wil

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— nytt 1 | in Messrs. Gilmour & Co’s Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's

Mill, Waubausbene and Port Severn. ge Lam also introducing a new

style of Mill Engine, neat, Substantial and simple, with Corliss Frame
and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made.

Covel’s Automatic Saw Sharpener,

is now well-known and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the
mill it sings out its own praise; I Keep it constantly on band, ready for
immediate shipment.

mu

Siti

Our Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

are too well known to need any reference, any farther than to say that I
spare no pains or expense to have my work all first-class and give Satis-
faction, and as I make Heavy Saw Mill Machinery a specialty, any party
wanting a First-class Mill will find it to their advantage to give me a call.

=—_ 9,
SS

WILLIAM HAMILTON. Peterborough Foundry and Machine Works, PETERBOROUGH, Ont.

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thirty-seven were steamers, is likely to be re-

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_NO. Ki

A GooD many trades, concerning the workings
of which very little is known, make use of wood
as their principal raw material. Such a trade
is the wholesale toy trade. A wholesale toy
manufacturer has informed the Timber Trades
Journal that at his works never less than fifty
tons of wood are cut up, solely for the purpose
of toymaking, every week of the year.

THE Timber Trades Journal says :—The Lon-
don import list is again swelling to something
like large dimensions, and the arrival of sixty-
four timber-laden vessels this week, of which

garded as quite enough for the time being, and
many interested in the trade will think it would
be none the worse for this market if some of
them had gone elsewhere.

EVIDENTLY inserted-tooth saws are not very
popular in England. Speaking of saw teeth,
the Timber Trades Journal, of LondonNgays i=
Those most generally in use are known in this
country as the peg, gullet, fleam, handsaw, mill-
saw, and the M tooth. False teeth are used to
a considerable extent in America, but owing to
the undue waste of timber, and the excessive
power required to drive them, they are entirely
unsuited to English practice.

THE Monetary Times says there is a combina-
tion among tan-bark dealers in Maine and the
Eastern Townships, if the Boston Advertiser is
correct. That journal says that the Canadian
bark dealers are masters of the situation. Some
bark has just been sold as high as $15 per cord,
agreat advance. In the spring, and even in
June, it was at $10 to $10.50. A month ago
the price was $13 per cord. Holders of bark
hold strong views as to the future. They claim
that during the last sixteen months tanners
have used 50,000 cords of bark more than there
will be for them to consume in the next sixteen
months. ;

Tue Trenton Council have granted permission
to Gilmour & Co. to lay a railway track along
Water and Ontario streets, which is now being
done. The intention is to pile lumber on their
property along the river’s edge, toward the rail-
way, with the ultimate object of making connec-
tion with the Grand Trunk. The company
have nearly finished in their yard an inclined
railway track by means of which they can run
their motors on either the ground or elevated
tracks. The mill proper is now the greatest
hive of industry imaginable. Over 500 hands,
large and small, are as busy as they can be
handling the lumber, and making, of the refuse,
lath, headings, pickets and shingles. These |
twin circulars slab and prepare for the gangs on |
an average three logs a minute, The mil] cut
one day in the 10 hours 432,000 feet, and has cut
on an average 20,000 feet a day lately.

IMPORTANT INVENTION.

The future timber supply for the mills of the
Saginaw River has been a problem which has
long been a subject of serious consideration by
our citizens generally, but more especially by
those who have yast pecuniary interests involv-
ed. If the statistics are at all reliable, and the
predictions of many lumbermen themselves are
worthy of serious consideration, at the present
rate of consumption it will not take much over
a dozen years to virtually exhaust the white
pine of the country tributary to the Saginaw
river, and the query has naturally arisen : What
is to become of the vast pecuniary interests in-
volved in the gigantic lumber manufactories
which line either side of the river from its
mouth twenty miles inland. Will these vast
manufactories be removed or will man’s inven-
tive genius, or the necessities of the situation
develop some scheme whereby the raw material
shall be forthcoming to satisfy the insatiable
demand of these monster institutions? That
there is plenty of. timber available which it is
possible to to utilize in order to keep the vast
machinery in motion until the present genera-
tion shall haye passed off the stage of activity is
undoubtedly true, but how shall it be safely and
cheaply transported is the query which has
puzzled those most nearly interested. We have
heretofore alluded to the Georgian Bay country
as a source of log supply for the Saginaw river,
providing the difficulties involved in the trans-
portation problem could be overcome. If the
co-operation of the weather clerk could certainly
and positively be secured, the problem would
be solved at once, and the immense log rafts
which, during the fine weather of midsummer,
pass through the lakes, would continually line
the route between the two points. But herein

lies the difticulty. The storms which are liable

to be encountered on the route with the present
ordinary appliances for securing logs in the raft
have been heretofore considered an insurmount-
able bar to the successful prosecution of the
work involved. Several schemes have been de-
vised for the purpose of overcoming the difficul-
ty. Log boats have been built, a few of which
are are at present in use, a device has been put
to practical test in loading these boats cheaply
and expeditiously, and it has been claimed by
those interested that these contrivances would
solve the whole problem of log transportation.

But utility and cheapness are not combined in
the plan. ‘The boats, in order to be secure,
would have to be very strongly built, at a heavy
outlay, and the handling would be no incon-
siderable expense, and this brings us to the point
at which we are aiming.

We have before us a design for a patent boom
stick which, it is claimed, will be the open
sesame out of all the difficulty embraced in log
transportation. It is a very simple device, and
like all other articles of great utility, when they
are first discovered the wonder is that it has

|

eeescech thought of before.

The inventors | ed cheap manufacture of salt, is incalculable, if,

are Messrs, William Goldie, of Goldie shingle | when it is put to the practical test, it should

machine fame, and Frank Durell, of this city.

| accomplish all that is claimed for it.—Lumber-

A patent has been applied for and the device | man’s Gazette.

sufficiently protected to admit. of its public ex- |
It consists of three sticks instead of |
one; as at present used, and really constitutes a |
The centre |

planation.

floating fence built around the raft.
stick or float is of white pine and two feet in
diameter, Attached to it, with an interstice
of about six inches space between them and the
float log, are two other sticks about one foot in
diameter. One of these, the under log, is of
elm or other timber of about the same specific

gravity as water, and is weighted sufficiently

with iron attached to the connecting rods to
serve as a “‘ sinker.”
of white pine peeled, and acts as a rider.
three logs are firmly bolted together, with one
inch bolts running from top to bottom, through
the three logs; and when completed and the
“patent boom stick” is in ‘the water, it will
stand about three feet below the water surface
amd two feet above, preserving this position of
course by the laws of gravitation, and acting
sunply asa breakwater for the safety of logs
confined within the limits of the raft.

It is well understood that a wave of water is
simply a form, and the water itself does not
move along with the form as it passes along the
surface, as one would be inclined to suppose
from a superficial observation. In forming a
wave the water simply moves up and down and
not longitudinally. Break this form and the
water beyond the break, of course, is stilled-
The old form of boom. stick fails to accomplish
this result sufficiently to secure the logs which
they enclose, and consequently when the force
of the wave strikes them the logs occasionally
pass over or under them, as the case may be,
according to the relative position they occupy
on the rising or falling wave. The new boom
stick, it is claimed by the inventors, Messrs.
Goldie and Durell, will obviate this great difti-
culty and accomplish the desired result of secur-
ing comparative, if not absolute, safety to the
raft. The device has been exhibited and ex-
plained to a large number of the practical mill
men on the river, and they unanimously pro
nounce emphatically in its favor.
sanguine anticipations of the inventor are fully
realized, the new ‘“‘ patent boom stick ” will be
an important contrivance, as it will not only
obviate the necessity of log boats or any other
contrivance of that character for the safe trans-
portation of logs, but actually solve the great
problem which has so long been a source of
anxiety to the Saginaw river mill men, by un-
folding to them the channel through which
they are to secure the stock with which to supply
their immense lumber manufactories in the
future ; and its bearing on the future of Bay
City and the other prosperous towns on the
river, considered in connection with the continu-

| mainly of wood-and iron.

‘PORTABLE HOUSES.

In many of our colonies and in foreign coun-
tries as well as at home there appears to be a
| growing demand for portable houses composed
In an article in a

| recent issue of the Colonies and India, we are
| told that portability, simplicity of construction,

The other or upper log is |
The |

If the |

| iron than in any others.
!

and ease of erection are the three great essen-
tials, and these exist more in houses whose outer
covering is composed of galvanized corrugated
It might be thought
that the most economical way of erecting these
houses would be to buy the iron and wood on
the spot and hire skilled artisans to do the work.
But practically this is found not to be so, owing
to the difficulty of procuring skilled labour and
the high price it commands when secured. The
consequence is that anyone requiring any sort o
portable building, or indeed any structure main-
ly composed of iron and wood, will effect a great
economy both in money and convenience (and,
in many cases, in time) by getting some manu-
facturer of these houses in the mother country
to send out all the materials required ready for
erection, which can then be readily done without
the employment of any skilled labor at all. TIé
is on account of their having given espécial at-
tention to these points that we would wish to
draw our readers’ attention to the iron houses
manufactured and exported by Messrs, Edward
Spencer & Co., of 87, Fenchurch street, Lon-
don.

We may here state that the firm above men-
tioned has been established more than 100 years.
It was originally founded for the manufacture
of Dr. Arnott’s hydrostatic beds, and from this
has sprung a general business of wood-workers,
the special branches being a case-making depart-
ment, where large contracts are carried out for
Her Majesty’s government ; a carpenters’ de-
partment, where every description of woodwork
from the plainest deal to the most elaborate
hardwood is made ; and a saw mill, chiefly em-
ployed on their own work, but where sawing,
planing, &c., are also done for the trade. Some
time since Messrs. E. Spencer & Co. determined
to commence the manufacture of iron and wood
buildings both for the home markets and for ex-
portation, their works being conveniently situ-
ated on the Regent’s Canal at Bow. The firm
manufacture every description of — portable
dwellings, churches, warehouses, stores, &c.,
while they supply ‘‘roofing, from a hen house
to a railway station.”"—Timber Trades Journal.

-
i

THE Trenton Advocate says it is the intention
of Mr. Rathbun to fit up the mill at Baker's
Tsland next spring, on account of the construc-

tion of the Murray Canal.

FORESTRY CONGRESS.

The annual meeting of the American Forestry
Axsociation, which was held in Montreal on
Angust 21st, 22nd, and 28rd, passed off very
There was a large attendance of
those interested in forestry both from the States
and the Dominion, among the representative
men of high standing being many of our leading

successfully,

lumbermen.

The following is a partial list of the delegates

from a distance :—

B—Bureau, Senator, St. Remi; Butler, A.
W., Brockville, Ind.
ter, C., Three Rivers ; Beadle, D. W., Barnes,
Ww. S., Baskerville, P., St. Catharines ; Ber-
geron, J. G. H., Beauharnois ; Brigham, Dr.,

Phillipsburg ; Bell, C. E., Representing Crown

Lands Department, Quebec ; Beaufort, E. L.,
Cape Vincent, N. Y.;
dosa, Ma.

C—Chandler, Hon.

—, Chicago; Chaffers,

W. #H,, St. Cesaire ; Chapais, J. C., Varennes ;
Crebassa, J. G., Sorel ; Chapman, C., Toronto ;

Cowper, G. B., Toronto ; Charlton, E. J., Que-
bec; Charleson, J. B., Quebec; Cuthbert, FE.
O., Berthier ; Chester, I’. W., Quebec ; Chandler,
G. H., St. John, N.B.

D—Dean, Harmon, Shelby Co.,
J. M., London, Ont. ; Dempsey, P.
ton, Ont. ; Dunn, L. H., Quebec ; Dall,
line H., Washington, D.C. ;
Suttonville ; Dwyer, E. A., Sutton ; Dougall,
J., Windsor ; Dawes, T. H., Lachine; Des
rivieres, F, G., Desrivieres ; Dougall, John, N.
VY. ; Du Vernet, F. H., Toronto.

B—Emerson, N.P., Sutton Junction ; Emery,
Dr. J. G., Port Burwell; Emery, Vernon H.,
Hamilton. :

F—Ternow, B. E., Statington, Pa. ; Kyles,
Rev. T. W., Cowansville; Field, J. G.
stead ; Fulton, Rey. James, Lachine.

G—Gnuilbault, HE. M. P., Joliette ; Gillies,

O. ; Denton,

Jas., Carleton Place; Gillies, John, Braeside ;
Sha

Gibbs, Hon. 'T. N., Ottawa; Gleed, C.
Topeka, Kansas.

H—Houeh, Professor I,

tonville, N. Y.
J—Joly, Hon. H. G., Quebec ; Jones, W. J,
Bowmanville ; Jouette, S. N., New York,
K—Kinsey, Chas. E., Cincinnati, O.; Kay,
Andrew, Granby, P.Q.
Kerr, Thomas, Toronto ; Kerr, Walter, Kempt-
ville, Ont, ; King, Rev’ KE. A. W., Levis, P.Q.

L—Little, L. G., New York ; Little, J., Cote

St. Antoine; Logue, C., Maniwaukee ; Lynch,
Hon. W. W., Quebec.
M—Mohr, Prof. Chas., Mobile, Ala.; Martin,

J. R., Cayuga; Malhiot, Hon. H. G,, Three

Rivers; Manning, J. W., Manning, H. G,,
Reading, Mass. ; Mills, W.
Miles, H. R., L.L. D., Quebec ; Moffatt, J. R.
G., London, Eng. ; Mills, W. B., Beaufort, N.
B. ; Martin, R., Martin, E., Martin, W. R.,
Hamilton ; Mitchell, C. W., Ottawa; Massue,
L. H., Varennes ; Mills, Jas., M.A., President
Agricultural College, Guelph ; Morris D., St.
Therese ; McConville, P. W., Joliette.

N—Norman, J. B., Three Rivers ; Nagle, R.,
Ottawa; Norris, John.

P—Painchaud, Dr. C. F., Varennes ; Pardre,
Avern, Toronto ; Peffer, G. F., Pewanee, Wis. ;
Perrault, J. H. Varrenes; Pell, D., Pembroke.

Q—Quinn, Stephen J., St. Hyacinthe.

R—Russell, A. J., Russell, J. Haig, Ottawa ;
Renaud, Eugene, Montmagny ; Ritchie, Wm.,
Three Rivers ; Russell, A. G., Ottawa; Rodri-
quez, J., Jacksonville; Ross, W. G., St.
Nicholas ; Robitaille, L. A., Quebec ; Rully, J.,
Sherbrooke.

S—Saunders, W., London; Studer, J. H.,
Solumbus, ©O.; Stetson, John, Toronto ;
Stephen, John, Chicago,

T—Tache, EH. E., Quebec ; Thistle, W. N.,
Ottawa ; Tracy, W. W., Detroit, Mich.

U—Ulrich, Alfred, Dresden, Saxony.

W—Warder, Dr. J. A., North Bend, O. ;
Wilson, H. W., Boston ; Whiteside, E., Cam-
bridge ; Winnett, W. H., London, Ont. ; West-
over, D., Frelighsburg.

Y—Young, W. C., Ottawa.

The Congress duconibled on Monday, August
21, at 2 o'clock, the number present exceeding
a hundréd,

Prof. Hove nominated, in the absence of the

; Beall, I. Lindsay ; Bros-

Brisebois, EK. C., Minne-

K., Tren-
Caro-
Dwyer, G. E.,

Stan-

B., Washington ;
Hicks, J. S.. Roslyn ; Hope, James, Toronto ;
Howard, J. W., Chambly ; Hyatt, Jas., Stan-

; Keefer, T. C., Ottawa ;

H., Hamilton ;

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Vice-Presidents, as President of the Congress.
The nomination was enthusiastically ratified.
Mr. Joly took the chair.

Prof. Hoven was elected Secretary, and
Charles Moore, Ala,, as temporary Treasurer.

The PresipEntT briefly explained the objects of

the meeting, and announced the order of pro-
ceedings by sections,

Prof, Houcu announced that the officers of
the sections, as appointed at the Cincinnati
meeting, would continue in office until the
election of new officers. He moved the appoint-
ment of a committee consisting of Charles
Moore, Bernard Fourneaux and Wm. Saunders
to take into consideration the relations between
this Congress and the American Forestry
Association, which had previously appointed a
similar committee consisting of Messrs. HE.
Moody, New York; D. W. Beadle, Ont., and
N. J. Colman, Missouri.

Dr. J. A. Wanner, first vice-president of the
Association, said the American Association had
come here prepared to co-oporate with the Con-
gress, and to submit to whatever the committee
should recommend to-morrow. The Association

had done a great deal of good during the last

seven years, but they were even prepared to
abandon their organization, if necessary, in the
interests of American forestry.

Mr. C. E, Bett, Crown Timber Agent for
the Province of Quebec, offered for the in-
spection of the Congress, a box containing forty
speciments of Canadian woods, They were ex-
cellent specimens, some of them polished and
and were greatly admired.

The Congress then adjourned and met im.
mediately afterward in sections.

SECTION A.

This section assembled under the presidency
of Prof, Franklin B. Hough of Washington,
W. Little, of Montreal, being secretary.

FOREST FIRES.

The first paper by Mr. JosepnH 8. Fay,

Wood’s Hall, Mass., made a single brief sug-

gestion—that new plantations should be made
in blocks of 10, 20, 40 or even 100 acres, divided

from each other by the least 100 (even 300) feet.
HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTION.

Prof. Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama, then read a
very elaborate paper on ‘‘The Distribution of
Hardwood Trees in the Gulf Region of the
Southern States,” giving very full details as to

the various species.
PLANTING BY RAILWAYS.
The third paper read was by Dr. Franklin B.

Hough, Chief of the Forestry Department of
Agriculture, Washington, on ‘Tree Planting
He dwelt upon the

by Railroad Companies.”
immense consum) tion of timber by the railways,
especially for ties, giving statistics as to the
numbers required, their duration, the necessary
ages of the trees. their preservation, etc. He
urged the railway companies themselves to
plant, showing that it took 25 acres of land on
an average to supply a mile of road. He also
dwelt upon the need of shelter belts, to check
snow drifts, and related what the Northern
Pacific and other companies were doing in this
respect.
TREE PRUNING.

Mr. N. H. Eeuizston, Williamstown, Mass.,
read a paper on the ‘‘ Rational Method of Tree
Pruning.” After condemning the thoughtless
lopping of trees, he said that by a rational
method a forest will yield much more than when
left to itself. This was known in Germany 250
years ago, and pruning was renewed in this cen-
tury, and is now practised on the continent.
Des Cars’ treatise has been translated into Eng-
lish at Harvard. The essential thing is to cut
off a branch as close as possible to the trunk, no
matter how large the wound. The descending
sap that makes the new wood cannot do it if a
stump projects from its line of descent. Ra-
tional methods were practised in Europe with
great benefit.

THE RUSSIAN MULBERRY,

Mr. D. C. Burson, of Topeka, Kansas, sent a
short paper on the Russian Mulberry, which he
said was coming into great use on the western
prairies as a tree to bring returns to the present
generation, It was a quick grower, with hand-
some and durable timber.

THE LARCH.

Nicot, of Cataraqui, Ontario,

Mr. Dayip

President, the Hon. H. G. Joly, one of the

Ontario Experimental Farm.
Guelph, Ont.

Beaufort Hurlbert, L.L.D..

contributed a paper on the advantages of the

Larix Europea, or European larch, its quick

growth, adaptability, propagation and culture.

He discussed these very fully. The larch, he

said, was adapted for lands otherwise valueless.
VILLAGE COPPICES.

The next paper read was “The Coppice for
the Village and Town,” by Mr. M. C. Read, of
Hudson, Ohio. The article advocated the plant-
ing of coppices in odd spots in villages, towns or

farms.
STREET TREES.

J. Beaurorr Hurvsert, LL.D., of Ottawa,
in a paper on the subject of forest trees most
suitable for streets, lawns and groves, which he

gave as suggestive only, presented a list of some

thirty trees that he considered most suitable for
ornamental purposes. Of the seventy to seventy-
five forest trees, and the thirty to forty shrubs,
of Canadian growth, he would give the prefer-
ence, for streets and lawns, to the maple, elim,
basswood, beech, birch, oak, butternut, walnut
and ash.
FOREST PRESERVATION,

Mr. Joun DovGALt, editor of the New York
Witness, read a paper on ‘‘ The Preservation of
Forests from Wanton Destruction ; and on Tree
Planting.” This was one of the most important
contributions of the meeting. He described the
evil effects that had followed from the too ex-
tensive denudation of the forests of this conti-
nent, and described how this evil was at length
recognized. He advocated a system of forestry
laws similar to those of France, Germany, Nor-
way, and other countries in Europe. These
should include a law to prevent the kindling of
fires in the woods, a forest police, regulations
for the gradual thinning out of the largest trees:
giving the youriger ones time to grow ; a general
system of tree planting by large corporations,
etc. Every farm, he held, should have a belt of
timber planted along its windward side 50 feet
wide at least ; swamps not covered with trees
should be planted, he thought, with white and
red cedar and tamarac ; rocky ground also might
be profitably utilized. Forest commissioners,
he held, should be appointed just as fish com-
missioners are now. As to Canada, he urged the
need of tree planting in the valley of the St.
Lawrence about Montreal, and on the, North-
western prairies. The other Provinces were
better supplied, and the system of selling timber
limits to lumbermen was conservative of the
forests, but there was need for greater precau-
tion against fire and waste. A capable commis-
sioner of woods and forests for the Dominion
would therefore prove a very valuable function-
ary if he were not only an expert, but an en-
thusiast in Forestry, otherwise his salary would
only be an additional and useless burden.

Mr. THISTLE, Pembroke, suggested that the
forest rangers, whose work ceases in the spring,
should hereafter be employed during the
summer in an attempt to preserve the woods
from fires.

Mr. E. B. Cowper, Crown Lands Department,
Toronto, did not think the time had come when
the planting of forests was a practicable question
for Ontario and Quebec. Clearing must go on.

Mr. Litrte said too much, perhaps, had been
made of planting as compared with the pre-
servation of forests, which was of infinitely
more importance. He has seen splendid pine
destroyed for the sake of clearing land, which
would only grow fifteen bushels of corn to the
acre. He scarcely thought that was right. It
was like flying in the face of Providence.

Some further discussion took place on the ne--

cessity of preserving forests from fire, and a
difference of opinion was shown as to whether
there was more necessity of protecting our tim-
ber supply or of planting new forests.

The meeting adjourned about six o'clock.

FOREST FIRES.

Before adjowmning, however, it was resolved
that the report of the committee on forest fires
be submitted to the general sessions.

OTHER PAPERS,

The following papers were also submitted to
this section :—

The Destruction of Trees and Shrubs at the
Prof. W. Brown,

A few Thoughts on the Necessity fora Certain
Portion of each Farm being left in Forest. J.
Ottawa, Ont.

Forest Economy of Canada. Stewart Sh
Ottawa, Ont. > & .

Experimental Plantation of the Eucaly
near Rome. Franklin B. Hough, Ph. D., L
ville, N.Y.

Ppaditions of Forest Growth, —
Fernon, Shaweegan, Pa.

Lessons to be Learned from the Forests.
Western Asia. Prot. M. S. Osborn, Oxford,

Borers in Forest Trees. Rev. T. W. F
Cowansville, Que.

SECTION B.

This section was organized under the pre
dency of that enthusiastic forester, Dr. John
Warder, North Bend, O., Chairman of the »
tion. The Hon. Spring Rice was elected Se
tary of the section.

TREE PLANTING FOK RAILWAYS.

As a well deserved compliment to the
man, the first paper read was his contril
on “ Tree Planting for Railroads.” He poini
out that forest plantations being a long defer
investment, had not much attraction for a po
man, but might well be undertaken by co
panies, and especially by railways. He gave
detailed account of the success of some re
operations in prairie tree planting. He d
specially on the merits of the catalpa specic
for ties and similar purposes. ‘

THE CATALPA IN CANADA.

Mr. Rospert Burnet, of Pictou, N.S., contr
buted some ‘‘ remarks on the Canadian culti
tion of the catalpa speciosa. As a test whethe
this very useful tree would grow north of
lel 42, in the spring of 1880, 100 plants from
Illinois were set near Pictou (45 north latitude
on a sharp, gravelly soil with a south exposure.
They were protected from sun and frost, at hi
spring were distributed. All the reports of
their progress are very good. There is eve
reason to hope that the complete naturalization
of the catalpa, as suggested by Dr. Warder, of
the Bend, Ohio, will be accomplished.

RAPID PLANTING. J

Mr. Ropgrt Dovcias’s (Waukegan, IIl.,)
paper on the three motion system of planting
trees was read by the chairman. First the
ground should be carefully prepared, say as for
corn, it is then rolled and marked into spaces
four feet apart, and the young plants, which
are generally done up in parcels of fifty,
dibbled in. Three men aga rule are
two plant and one carries the slips or yo
trees. A hole is made, the plant inserted,
spade withdrawn, and the digger, planting on
foot close to the young tree, forces it into posi
tion, and passes on to the next space. Thi
method is considered better than running fur
rows with a plough. The plants used were us
ually yearlings. By this method as many as 4,
500 trees could be planted in one day. ¢

PRAIRIE PLANTATIONS.

Mr. H. W. Penne, of Russell, Kansas, sen
a communication dwelling on the want of pro
tection of those open regions from the win
which have a free sweep of hundreds of miles,
The only way for breaking up those winds was
by planting trees. In his own experience,
least half of his 6,000 black walnuts are in fruil
this season ; 3,500 ash-leaved maples transplant-
ed this spring, are making fine growth in spite
of the severe drought. The author seemed to
find the ravages of insects the greatest draw-

back.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.

The following papers were also contributed to

this section :—

Oaks of Hardin County, Ohio. W. F. Eng-
lish, Mount Victory.

Timber Trees of the Black Hills. Rober*
Douglas, Waukeegan, Ill.

The Coniferous Trees of the United States
and Canada. Dr. George Vosey, Botanist of
the Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C.

Black Locust Growths.
den, North Bend, O.

Experiments in Tree Planting in Cape Cod.
Joseph 8. Fay, Wood's Hall, Mass.

The Ash. Arthur Bryant, Princetown, mu.

Larchwere. A plantation on drifting sands.
Dr. John A. Wardén, North Bend, O.

Extensive planting by shelter Belts. H. M.
Thompson, Preston Lake, Dakota.

The classification of Oaks. Dr.
Warden, North Bend, 0.

Dr. John A. War-

John

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- A Western greeting. James A. Allan,Omaha, | last year was $24,802,064, a fourth of the whole
Neb. , Dominion exports, and an increase of $2,000,000
Forest Tree plantation. B. ¥. Peck. over 1871. In 1871 the amount of timber cut,
Trees, tree planting, etc. J. A. Matthews, | as reported to the Government, was—white
Little Metas. | pine—24,236,821 feet ; red pine, 1,954,371 ; oak,
Timber culture a national necessity. D. C. | 3,302,048 ; tamarack, 5,695,963 ; birch, 1,939,357;
Scofield, Clynn, Ill. /elm, 1,832,624; walnut, 117,589; butternut,
Rural Improyements, B. G. Northrop, | 102,981 ; hickory, 197,827 ; other kinds, 26,290, -
Clinton, Conn. | 264 ; pine logs, 12,416,408 ; other logs, 9,314,557;
SECTION C. | masts, 121,685 feet ; staves, 64,706 m. ; lathwood,

This section was under the presidency of Prof. | 25,706 cords ; tan bark, 162,521 cords ; firewood,
B. Saunders, of London, Ont., the secretary | 8,713,083. This makes an aggregate of 22,271,-
being the Rev. T. W. Fyles, of Montreal. | 384 trees. Putting 50 trees to the acre, this
SCIENTIFIC PRUNING. means 445,428 acres, equal to one township,

Mr. Joun S. Hicks, of Roslyn, N.S., com- denuded in one year. The ten years since then
municated a paper on the ‘‘ Commercial Value | will have denuded about 3,240 square miles, or
of Pruning.” If the lower branch of young | 30 townships. This, without counting the home
trees are not cut off, then loose or black knots | consumption, which is greater than the exports.
will appear on the timber. Often a branch will |The Quebec Chamber this year passed an act
rot and the rottenness goes to the heart of the | giving $12 to anyone planting and keeping one
tree. Knots can be kept sound by the branches | acre in trees, and an act forbidding the clearing

being cut off while alive and quickly overgrown.

One hickory tree that was not worth splitting |
for firewood might have been worth $30 or $50 |
3f a few hours had been spent in pruning. |
Hickory, oak and chestnut will show the result |
Clear pine has nearly |

of decayed branches.
doubled in value in the past ten years, and is
still increasing, while common or knotty pine
has only risen a few dollars.
have the old growth to draw from, and when
the trees have to be planted the neglect of prun-
ing will be severely felt. The increase in value
of 2 wood free from decaying branches will be
more than the expense of pruning.

PIONEERS’ APOLOGY.

The Hon. J. W. CALDWELL, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, President of the Cincinnati Pioneer Asso-
ciation, wrote affirming that none had done
more for the adyance of the country than the
two first generations of pioneers, and asking
gentle treatment for them. The pioneers had

to clear the ground, and though they lost the |
forest they gained sustenance for increasing |

millions of population. There was no market
for their lumber, so it was burned; those
millions. have now madea market. As to what
is now to be done—each person must plant two
trees for one that he fells. The writer is the
first Arnerican born and oldest survivor of the
first Irish immigrant family that settled north-
west of the Ohio River, and his father kept one-
sixth part of his 300 acres as primeval forest.
Az to legislation—the road tax might be remitt-
ed to farmers who plant their road sides with
trees, or a portion remitted- according as he

plants trees on his farm. He wassorry hecould
not be present to give his vote in favor of tree |

culture.
ARBORICULTURE.

The paper by Mr. W. Ross, of Montreal, on
“The True and False in Arboriculture,” dealt,
like several others, with the scientific system of

forest tree pruning, European countries being |

cited as examples.

There followed a brief but interesting discus- |

sion on the subject.
FOREST DENUDATION.

Mr. G. L. Marien, Montreal. read his paper
entitled “‘ Some Notes and Remarks on the De-
nudation of our Forests.” He said that of the
two great forest belts in Quebec, that to the
sonth of the St. Lawrence had been almost de-
nuded, and the northern would rapidly follow.
The Government’s gross returns from forests

We will not long |

| of land by fire between July 1 and September 1.
Government, when putting revenue from forests
down as income, has been killing the goose that
lays the golden eggs.
placing the trees that are being cut down. From
100 square feet sown with ash you can plant out
| 100 acres of ash trees and have a return in three
years. Emigrants to Manitoba should take
boxes of tree seeds with them; a plantation
would break the winds as well as supply his
much needed timber.
THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS.

The Rev. W. FyYuzs read a paper of ‘‘ How
the forest of the Eastern Townships was broken
up,” The hilly district between the Seignories
and Lake Memphremagog was one of vast
forest, broken here and there by lakes and
beaver meadows. The elms first disappeared,
as the early settlers found them best for pot and
pear! ash, the pines followed, only the best being
used and the remainder being destroyed. White
ash, brown ash, and basswood were utilized for
fences. The sugar maples were often tapped so
violently as to make them an easy prey to in-
sects. Splendid bass was split into sap troughs.
When the Waterloo Railway was opened the
hemlocks began to be stripped of their bark,
and left to rot. The winds, too, wrought havoc
on the forests at the edges of the clearings, and
fire has damaged them ten times more. Then
there were the insects which attacked the trees,
and of these he gave a lively account. He con-
cluded by asking editors and teachers to advo-
cate greater foresight in regard to our forests,
and farmers and others to preserve the trees.

OTHER PAPERS.

The following contributions were also submit-
| ted to this section :—
| Living Fence Posts.

Roadside Tree Planting.
brooke, P.Q. ;

Letter on Forestry. Dr. Ailly, Malvern, Ark.

Fungi Injurious to Forest Trees. Byron D.
| Halstead,

Forests in Connection with Water as Aids to
T. T. Lyon, South

Win. H. Ragan.
W. H. Hale, Sher-

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| Climatic Amelioration.

Hare, Mich.

The Forests of the United States, as shown
by the census of 1880. N. H. Egleston, Wil-
liamstown, Mass.

| Forest Culture, Surveys, &. Gen. W. Burns,
| U.S, Army.

| Economic Tree Planting, How and Where?
|B, Galt,

Everyone can help in re-/

LUMBERMAN.

General Mill Supplies always on hand.

1120

The mills of West York. J. Jenkins, Win-
ona.

Individual effort in preserving and propagat-
ing trees. Dr. Reginald A. King, Compton,
Pa@:

Profitable Forest Culture. ,
Springfield, O.-

What to Plant for Forest Trees for Groves
and Wind-breaks. Sam’l Foster, Muscatine, La.

Canada’s forests and her future as a steel
producer. Edward Haycock, Ottawa.

Climatological range and geographical dis-
tribution of forests, and the climate favorable
to them. E. Beaufort Hurlbert, LL.D., Ot-
tawa. :

Plan of instruction in an American school
of Forestry. Prof. Ad. Leuc, Cincinnati.

The relation of forests to Agriculture.
G. Humphrey, M.D., Galesburg, Il.

Forestry from a hygienic standpoint. Henry
Howard. M.D., Montreal.

A PUBLIC MEETING.

E. Thorne,

A,

met as a body in the Queen’s Hall, which was
appropriately decorated. The public were ad-
mitted and were present in large numbers.
The Mayor took the chair and welcomed the
visitors. The Hon. Mr. Joly, Dr. Hough,
and Mr. Beadle, of St. Catharines, Ont., gave

the meeting.
CONSOLIDATING THE SOCIETIES.
When the Congress
Tuesday morning, the committee on the pro-
posed amalgamation presented a report in favor
of combining the American Forestry Associa-
tion and the American Forestry Congress under
the latter name, and the union was carried.
A FORESTRY JOURNAL.
The question of establishing a Forestry jour-
nal and other subjects of. interest were then
‘considered. The Chairman said it was proposed

publishing house in Cincinnati, Robert Clarke
& Co., had offered to undertake it. But they
required one hundred more members, and the
agent of the house was present to take subscrip-
tions.
here was the necessity of Government devoting
some of its revenue to the promotion of the
interests of forestry.
A LUMBERMAN’S VIEWS.

Mr. J. K. WarpD then read a paper to show
the importance of preserving our forests. He
stated that at present the production of lumber
‘in Canada amounted to 2,000 million feet per
annum, and 12 million saw logs eighteen inches
by twelve. Nine-tenths of this lumber is ex-

To produce the above quantity of lumber it re-
quires a million acres of land to be gone oyer.

In the evening of August 21st the Congress |

to publish a journal of forestry, and a strong |

Another matter that should be discussed |

ported, giving a return of some $25,000,000. |

| bring the offenders to justice.

able and interesting addresses on the subject of |

was reassembled on |

THE MONTREAL

MONTREAL,

Address all correspondence to Chas. M.

SAW WORKS

Terewen

456,
St. Paul

Street.

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WHITLAW,

MANAGER.

There can be no question as to the necessity of
taking means to make the best use of our stand-
ing timber, and in utilizing it—first, in greater
economy in manufacturing it, both in the mill
and in the woods, discouraging as much as pos-
sible the making of square timber. Second, in
government land the laws now applied to pins
should extend to spruce and tamarac. that is,
that nothing less than twelve inches at the
stump should be cut down. Third, fires should
be more carefully watched and prevented. In
his thirty years’ experience he had come to the
conclusion that most of the forest fires were
due to the fishermen and hunters. In view of

| this he would suggest that Government would

employ as many men as necessary in each agency

| to look after and trace the origin of fires, and

The quantity of
timber land under license in the Province of
Quebec to-day was 40,000 square miles. In the

| other provinces there was about the same extent.

The quantity of timber land now in Canada was
something like fifty million acres of land, and
at the present rate of production this quantity
of timber would last for about fifty years to
come. It was beginning to be said now in
Canada that cotton was king, but a glance at
the present proportion of the lumber industry
would show that lumber was king in Canada.
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS.

The President, Dr. Loring, Commissioner of
Agriculture for the United States, who had been
unavoidably detained, but had now arrived and
taken the chair, delivered an address which
showed his mastery of the subject. He dwelt
upon its great importance from many points of
view, and spoke of the pressing necessity of put-
ting a limit-to the present distruction. He did

| not under-rate the magnitude of the work of

preserving our forest, and spreading a know-
ledge of forestry.
FOREST FIRES.
Dr.CuHas. Mone read the report of the commit-
tee of the last meeting of the congress upon the

| injuries caused by forest fires, among which was

mentioned the practice of circling trees in order
to secure the gum that exudes from the wound,
for purposes of commerce. Another cause of in-
jury to forests is the partial burning over of
timber lands by fires, which, though it may not
kill the trees, almost entirely arrests their
growth. Moreover, these frequent fires finally
result in the total destruction of the organic
matter in the soil. The pasturing of cattle in
the woods, a custom very common in the coun-
try, is also a cause of gradual but sure destruc-
tion to the forests on account of the catile
browsing the leaves off the young and growing
trees, so that when the old trees die out, there
are no saplings to take their places.

(Continued on page 262.)

maple nor beech to be cut into wood. Within
ten years the man in Emmet, Cheboygan, Char-
levoix, Antrim, Grand Traverse or any other
country of northern Michigan, who has slaugh-
tered his hardwood for the sole purpose of clear-
ing up his farm, will feel like sitting in the
ashes of his log heaps with a gunney bag about
him, mentally clubbing himself, like the repen-
tant codgers of old, because he was such a fool
as to send up in smoke so much forest wealth.
The Lumberman advises the farmers of that
section to go slow on land clearing. Chop just
enough each year so that the best value can be
got out of the timber, clear the denuded land
well, and wait a little for the waggon of pro-
gress. It is bound to come not long hence—in-
deed, it is in sight now, and the noise of it can
be heard down the stumpy road. Wait a little
longer, and the value of your standing trees will
be more than you could raise on your farms in
the way of crops in half a lifetime. And while
you are waiting and clearing your lands slowly,
you will learn to be good farmers by force of
circumstances.—Worthwestern Lumberman.
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TREES AND CLIMATE.

Tn the International Review for August, there
is an interesting article by Dr. Felix Oswald
upon the effect of trees upon climate. He says
that, owing. to the destruction of its forests,
Southern Europe is now what Africa was a
thousand years ago, a region of rapidly growing
deserts, The effect upon the climate has been
to change the gentle warmth of summer to
burning heat, and the clear, crisp, healthful cold
of winter to warmth and moisture that generate
deadly fevers. Coming to this continent, he
says that in the Atlantic States there was such
a redundance of forests in the first place that
their cutting away has not changed the climate
for the worse ; that it has made the summers a
trifle drier and the winter considerably warmer.
In the west Indies and some of the Gulf States
the clearing of the primeval forests has produced
extensive sand-barrens, with sand drifts and
scorching sumumers.

Dr, Oswald brings together many instances of
the gain effected by tree planting. For years
the coast dwellers in France have redeemed by
judicious tree culture, about 10,000 acres per
year, and in other portions of Europe 8,000 acres
have been rendered habitable. ‘The writer tells
the story of Mehemet Ali who, half a century
ago, decided to plant with trees the sand plains
bn the coast of Egypt. It appears from a
moderate estimate that 15,000,000 of fruit and
forest trees were planted, eighty per cent. of
which lived and throve. As a result, the aver-
age yearly rainfall has increased from 0.60 to 14
inches, and the summer temperature of Suez
decreased from an average of 92 Fahrenheit to
86 degrees. Dr. Oswald would have such a re-
clamation and revolution as this begun in both
the old world and the new, wherever the axe
has made need of it. He urges the State
authorities in the West to encourage tree plant-
ing on the prairies, and says that drouths will
be unknown when there is a forest in évery
county.

Dr: Oswald may be somewhat sanguine over
his hobby, but undoubtedly tree planting would
add vastly to the climatic advantages of regions
like Manitoba and the Northwest.— Winnipeg
Times.

GO SLOW.

The Petoskey, Mich., Record advises the
farmers of ead county, in that state, to
‘clear away the

.

estic maples "for the pur-
pose of growing grass, because a stalk of timothy
‘has been produced in that vicinity nearly six
feet tall. Probably the advice will be follewed,
as farmers are rapidly settling on the hardwood
lands of northern Michigan, and the splendid
deciduous timber of that region will be rapidly
slaughtered and reduced to ashes in the log
heap. ‘The same process has gone on during the
progress of settlement ever since the first sound
of an axe rang out over Massachusetts Bay.
Before there was any considerable use for hard-
woods in manufacture, the sacrifice of upland
forests in the eastern states appeared to be
necessary in order to obtain cultivatable areas.
That necessity followed the Connecticut and
Pennsylvania settlers to Ohio, and the New
Vorkers to Southern Michigan. But in these
more modern days, when the manufacture of
agricultural implements, railroad cars, furniture,
and the interior finishing of fine houses has
made 2 market for hardwoods, it seems like a
great waste of natural wealth to cut and burn
up the “‘ majestic maples ” of northern Michigan
for the only purpose of getting them out of the
way, so that the land on which they grow can
be cultivated. It seems as if there were a better
way.

The Lumberman is not an agricultural journal,
but it is bound to have its eyes open and take a
common-sense view of things ; and since a num-
ber of our largest operators have devoted their
denuded lands to farming, this journal has a
right to slip in a word now and then about the
most profitable disposition of forest lands, after
the timber is cut off, as well as while it is stand-

ing.

Tf there was excuse for the slaughter of forests
in the earlier history of this country’s settlement
there is none now. If there is excuse for such
sacrifice in the remote sections of the South or
West at the present time, there is none for the
settlers in northern Michigan, where the means
of transportation by water and rail to the best
hardwood markets of the country are abundant.
The farmer who goes upon a piece of forest land
in northern Michigan with the object of ‘‘ hew-
ing out a farm,” as the poets say, is inclined to
go a trifle too fast. He is anxious to clear up
his farm so as to get on in the world. Large
fields of grain and pastures are what he aims to
have as soon as possible. For this reason he
looks upon the standing trees, be they ever so
straight and tall and fine, as in the way of his
progress, and he attacks them, lays them low,
with the only Sbject of clearing them off the
land, and with little or no thought of their value.
Tf he would reflect that at the longest not more
than five years will elapse before he can sell
every tree for a good price, he would be inclined
to drop the uplifted axe before it cleaves many
achoice tree. It is true that the new occupier
of forest land needs crops to support his family
and feed his stock. But a five-acre patch, well
cultivated, is better than 25 acres “‘hogged
over,” as the good farmers say. . The disposition
of the new settler in the woods, or on the prairie,
is to be shiftless with his farming and cover too
much ground. A farmer who is trying to clear
up forest land is especially inclined to slash
down a great deal more than he can clear per-
fectly. If the new settlers on Michigan forest
lands would cut off the timber no faster than
they can clear the land well, they would make
money by raising better crops, and by saving
their timber. It would be well for them, when
they begin upon their lands, to look about and
see that their trees constitute a source of wealth
that, if economized, will last them a number of
years, and furnish a means of revenue in the
winter time, when crops cannot be grown. Just
at present many of them may be situated some-
what remote from dock or railway station, but
in these times of rapid progress the day cannot
be far distant before buyers will visit them at
their homes and fairly beg for their timber,
When the writer was a boy, maple wood in
northern New York was worth but $1.25 a cord;
now there is but little maple wood to be sold at
any price, and a maple log is worth too much
for lumber to be cut into wood. The time will
come in northern Michigan, ihuch sooner than
it came in New York, when there will be neither

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CHIPPEWA RED LAKE RESERVATION,
Representative Washburn’s bill, now pending

in Congress, for the colonization of the Chippe-

wa Indians, and the sale of their reservations in
northwestern Minnesota, contemplates the fol-
lowing :—The bill provides for the colonization
of 10 reservations, and for removing the Indians
to White Earth reservation. The lands from
which it is designed to remove them are to be
sold for their benetit. Mr. Washburn acknow-
ledges that a strong opposition to the bill has
developed in northwestern. Minnesota and
northeastern Dakota, and partly for that reason
he has not felt so anxious as he otherwise would
be for the passage of the bill at this session of
congress. He says the peeple in the sections
named have been clamouring ever since he has
been in congress to have the lands of the

Red Lake Reservation brought into market and

sold, so that the population in that region

might avail themselves of the timber there, but

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

the moment any practical steps were taken to
affect that object, a strong OPiostion aroke,
especially at Grand Forks, and protests against
it have been sent to Congress. As a safeguard
against any possible grab on the part of capital-
istic rings, Mr, Washburn claims to have framed
the bill so as to bar out such schemes, He
says :—

The laut ee are to rie elas in the smallest gov-
ernment subdivisions, to-wit, 40 acres, they
having first been appraised by commissioners to
be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior,
90 days’ notice of sale being given, and in no
case to be sold at less than $1.25 an acre. I
had also proposed to amend the bill providing
that only one-tenth of this land should be sold
in any one year, |

The opposition to the Washburn bill, as bas
before been stated, arises from a fear that the
lumbermen of Minneapolis, or other capitalists,
would gobble the pine lands before the less
powerful, because less wealthy, interests at
Grand Forks, or other places in the new North-
west, could get possession of their share of them.
The matter is now likely to affect the next con-
gressional election in northwest Minnesota.
Possibly the reason why Mr. Washburn is not
anxious for the passage of his bill this session is
because the capitalists who have designs on the
pine lands have signified their willingness to let
the scheme rest for a while, with the object of
tinkering the northwestern opposition with
solder made out of gold and silver. With that
object in view they can well wait a year or two,
for the land cannot be sold till the Indian occu
pants are disposed of. In the meantime the
Chippewas would like to know who is going to
pay for the timber that will be stolen from
them.—WNorthwestern Lumberman.

oP aco, ahd, it i con bkakesned, ella

no other, providing they are ambitious to turn
out the best quality of iron. The demand =
this kind of coal will constantly i

for years to come they will probably

to take all the charcoal that a be

market.
been known. To say nothing about the call
that is made for it in the manufacture of iron,
large quantities are used in every city for various
purposes. In a large city it always finds ready
sales, and the lumber manufacturers who are
located within easy reach of such cities ought to
put in retorts and derive a handsome profit
therefrom.—WNorthwestern Lumberman.

NO SCARCITY APPARENT. is
The Timber Trades Journal says :—The alleg-
ed scarcity of timber abroad is slow to show
itself in this country, where the only thing the
trade is afraid of is getting too much of it.
Large cargoes come rolling into London, one
over the other, as it were, as fast as berths can
be found for the ships, and the ery is, “ still
they come.” Ninety-seven arrivals of timber-
laden vessels were reported at the Custom
House the week ending the 2nd of August, forty
of which were steamers. To say the least of
it there is no evidence in this lot that any de-
scription of wood is running short abroad. We
occasionally get a remonstrance from some
foreign house or their representative here,
because we refrain from adopting their theories,
and urging them more warmly on our readers ;
we must refer them for our excuse to the ship-
ping lists. When vesséls return without car-
goes, or half empty, because timber to load them
was not to be had, we shall be ready to join
with the shippers in recommending importers to
secure what they can for their trade on such
terms as are fairly obtainable and on the first
opportunity that presents itself.

LUMBERING IN THE SOUTH.

The Southern Lumberman, published at Nash-
ville, says :-~The lumber trade of the upper
Cumberland has been heavier during the season
just closed than ever before. We are informed
by Maj. L. T. Armstrong, president of the con-
olidated line of steamers plying between this
city and points above, that for the season, com-
mencing on the first of November, to the present
time, fully 12,000,000 feet of sawed lumber has
been brought down by his boats, all of which
has entered into the trade here, having been
purchased by our dealers and placed in yards,
or shipped to various points east and west.
Besides this amount, it is estimated that 2,000, -
000 feet more have been brought down by flat-
boats belonging to private parties and by raft.
This lumber consisted of poplar, walnut and ash,
with some oak, though of the latter the quanti-
ty was was not very considerable. The ship-
ments were made from Creelsboro, 335 miles by
water from Nashville, and from a few points
above, all the way down to the city, the largest
proportion being from Selina, in Clay county,
and other landings in that region. A large
amount of this lumber was walnut of good
quality, which brought high prices. Owing to
an almost total failure of the crops last year in
the upper counties, the people along the river
cut and hauled more logs than has ever been
done before, and this accounts for the greatly
increased cut of the mills. The season has
closed, and most of the mils have shut down for
want of logs, and will continue idle until after
the crops are laid by, when active operations
will again begin, both with loggers and the mills,
the product for next season will not be so great
by several million feet as that of the present
year, for the reason that accessible timber is
beginning to be scarce, and the large crops likely
to be made will require more of the time of
farmers.

A BIG SAW MILL.

A correspondent writes :—During the week I
had an opportunity of visiting the beautiful
new saw mill of the Georgian Bay Lumbering
Co. at Waubaushene. The mill has been
running about four months, and is scarcely in
good running order yet. It is a beautiful struc-
ture, built on the site of the old mill that was
burnt last fall, at a cost of $85,000. The main
building is 12670 ft. with an engine house
attached of 20 x 30, a boiler house of 36 x 40, and
a machine shop of 60x80. The buildings are
fitted up with the very best and latest styles of
machinery, and it employs 71 men. The mill is_
driven by two large twin engines of 250 horse
power each, and is so’ constructed that in case
one engine breaks down it can be disconnected,
and the mill driven by theother. The cylinders
are 25 in. bore by 26 in. stroke, and drive three
gangs of saws (1 stock pony and aslabbing gang)
two twin circular saws, one large circular saw
and the lath mill. With these saws they turn
out an average of 150,000 feet of lumber and 30, -
000 lath per day of 11 hours. They saw an
average of 1,200 logs per day.

TIMBER LAND SALE.

The Northwestern Lumberman says the Com-
missioner of the Federal Land Office at Wash-
ington, on August 11, forwarded to the receiver.
and register, at Duluth, Minn., a proclamation
announcing a public sale of honda at Duluth on
December 4. The offering will comprise the
vacant land in about 135 townships, situated
north and west of Duluth, much of it covered
with pine. Lists for the offering of isolated
tracts of pine and agricultural lands, the sale to
take place at St. Cloud, Minn., are being pre-
pared, and it is expected that they will be ready
some time in January, when the lands will be
offered for sale.

DEMAND FOR CHARCOAL.

Mr. J. A. Mathieu has recently contracted to
put in eighty charcoal retorts at Birmingham,
Ala., for the purpose of supplying a blast fur-
nace at that place with coal. If the southern
lumbermen would depart from the ways of the
saw mill men in the north, and, instead of erect-
ing hells to burn the refuse of the mills, would
put in retorts and reduce their slabs and the
lumber too poor to ship to charcoal, it would be
money in.their pockets. The lack of shipping
facilities would prevent many of them from
doing this, but along the waterways where cheap

Isaac BEARINGER has returned to Duluth
to remain, and it is said that he will —
extensively in lumber manufacturing. ~
plans contemplate the erection of a mill a
if not superior to that of the Duluth Lumber
Company. Two other concerns also intend to
establish lumber operations at Duluth the com-
ing fall, but their names are withheld by the
local papers,

freight rates can be obtained it would be feasible —

In fact a surplus of tieactel oe not

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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FOREST LAWS,

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City, Mich.,
says :—Europe, in its forest laws, is far ahead
of the United States, and is in less danger, at
this moment, of becoming a desert than is the
United States, unless something prompt and
effective shall be done to arrest the wholesale
destruction of timber which is still going on in
‘all parts of the country. It has been truly said
that growth is slow and restorations tedious,
while destruction is rapid and injury instan-
taneous. Palestine and Syria, Egypt and
Italy, France and Spain, have seen some of
their most fertile lands turned into deserts by
the destruction of the forests. There are parts
of Asia Minor, of northern Africa, of Greece,
and even of Alpine Europe, once covered with
luxuriant woods, verdant pastures and fertile
meadows, which have now become so complete-
ly desolate as to be rendered an unfit abode for
man. We are really in danger here of such a
result in some sections of the country, unless
intelligent and immediate measures of remedy
are adopted.

; Doors Shrinking.

Tt has been asked of us how we are able to ac-
count for the fact that the panels of inside
doors, made of thoroughly seasoned wood, so
frequently shrink when the doors are hung in-
side newly-built houses. To this natural in-
quiry we would point out that wood is an
exceedingly elastic material, expanding in an
exact degree to the amount of moisture it ab-
sorbs, and shrinking again just in proportion as
the moisture evaporates. Highly-dried wood
absorbs moisture readily, and newly-built
houses are usually full of damp air. It would
appear to be further the fact that, with the
evaporation of the absorbed moisture, some of
the natural sap exudes, and thus even highly-
diied wood becomes further shrunken. With
well painted doors this shrinkage is not so ap-
parent, and we should advise those who cannot
wait for a house to be thoroughly dried, to have
all the woodwork thickly coated before fixing it
in its place in a new building.—Timber Trades
Journal. .

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-Two Thonsand Years Old.

A. mine has been found in the mountain near
Salzberg, Austria, which gives indications of
having been occupied and abandoned at least
2,000 years ago. It contains a large and con-
fused mass of timbers, which were used for sup-
port, and a number of miners’ implements. The
timbers were notched and sharpened, but were
subject to an inundation and left in confused
heaps. The implements were mainly wooden
shovels, axe handles, &c. The probabilities are
that the ancient salt miners were overtaken by
the flooding of the mine, as mummified bodies
have been discovered also.

aed

Tue Pontiac Advance says a raft of timber be-
longing to Mr. George Taggart has arrived
there from the Quinze Rapids, at the head of
Temiscamingue Lake, being the first ever taken
from that place. The “‘fifteens,” so called from
the number of them, are altogether some fifteen
or twenty miles long, and located near the
headwaters of the Ottawa River. It is said
they are nearly two hundred miles from Matta-
wan village. Heretofore lumbermen have not
cared to venture so high up, besides considering
the rapids impracticable for the descent of tim-
ber. Mr. Taggart has, however. proved this not
to be the case, and doubtless others will try
next season,

Tue first raft that came through Victoria
creek, upwards of 350 miles above Ottawa,
Canada, is owned by R. & J. White, who have
spent nearly $30,000 in getting their timber
through, many important improvements being
made. The craft contained 130 cribs of first-
class pine.

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cutting walnut timber near Arkansas City,
Ark. The most of the force is on Walnut
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THE FORESTRY CONGRESS.

Tue recent meeting of the American Forestry
Congress at Montreal cannot fail to have a bene-
ficial effect. The growing attention paid to the
subject of the preservation of the remaining for-
est, and the establishment of plantations on the
prairies, is manifest by the numerous articles on
the subject that have with increasing frequency
appeared in the journals both of Canada and the
United States. It is evident that the conviction
is spreading that in the past there has been far
from an economical use of our forest wealth, pro-
bably because it had been looked upon as prac-
tically inexhaustible, and that we must adopt a
more prudent and provident course in the future.

The attendance at this Congress shows that it
was not a meeting of mere enthusiasts riding a
favorite hobby, for among them occur the names
of politicians and officials of high standing, both
in the Dominion and the States. Neither were
they mere amateurs, whose enthusiasm might
take an impracticable form, for among them
weré some of our leading lumbermen. Under
such circumstances it might well be supposed
that the proceedings would take a practical
shape, and this, in truth, was the case. The
papers read, the discussions held, and the steps
taken, in many cases had a most practical bear-
ing upon the subjects of economical forestry, and
the great lumbering industry of this continent.

Among other useful results was the appoint-
ment of an influential committee to confer with
the Governments of theDominion and theUnited
States and the various Provinces and States
composing them. Among other valuable sug-
gestions which will thus be authoritatively
brought under the notice of the *' powers that
be,” are the reservation as forests of timber
Jands unfit for settlement, the prohibition of
burning at dangerous seasons, and the formation
of forest districts with a competent staff. In
some more or less modified form these sugges-
tions, and others, may well be adopted so as to
put an end to the present hap-hazard and waste-
ful system.

Much knowledge of these and kindred mat-
ters must have been disseminated by the late
meeting, the contrast between our own uneco-
nomical procedure with the more methodicay
aystems of other countries have been forcibly

brought out, and the power of combination and
organization to improve the situation has been
brought into play.

This meeting of the Forestry Congress in our
chief commercial city is a most important event,
and we trust that it is only the inauguration of
a new era in our dealings with our forest wealth.

Mr. H. Grey, of Acton, has been in Ottawa
trying to purchase butternut timber; he has
secured 4,000 feet from Mr. G. Masson, and is
negotiating with Messrs. McLaren & Co. for
30,000 feet.

Tue trees planted by Dakota and Minnesota
farmers in the Red River valley are doing well,
and in a few years where there was a treeless
waste there will be a landscape, varigated groves
and belts of timber.

THE Timber Trades Journal says :—As regards
the present outlook, there is Alexandria offering
a field of enterprise to some speculative spirit
among our large traders here, who might relieve
the London market, perhaps to his own profit,
by transferring some of the stocks here to the
chief port of Egypt, in view of the almost un-
limited demand for building stuff that will be
required should that city fall into the possession
of the United Kingdom. We only throw out
the suggestion, and think that worse business
might be done than shipping half a dozen large
steam cargoes of deals and flooring to the Khe-
dive’s dominions, and though the time is hardly
ripe for such a speculation it is worth bearing in
mind by those who have plenty of stock on hand
and a dull market for it here.

FORESTRY CONGRESS.
(Continucd from page 259.)

The report was on motion received, and the
President called for remarks on the general sub-
ject of forest fires.

Mr. P. Wuitr, M. P., Renfrew, Ont., said
that there was a difference in the regulations re-
specting timber lands in the United States and
Canada. In the United States timber lands be-
came the exclusive property of the occupant,
whilst in Canada the Government retained the
ownership, and only leased the use for a term of
years. He was convinced that in the Upper
Ottawa district as much timber had been con-
sumed by fire as had been cut down and carried
away, to the value of at least twenty millions a
year in each case. Not only were those fires
caused by sportsmen, fishermen and hunters,
but also by the settlers in clearing their lands,
and even by the criminal carelessness of the em-
ployees of the lumbermen themselves. He
would suggest that the Provincial Government
should intervene. In Ontario settlers were not
permitted to burn their brush from April to
November, while in Quebec the restriction only
applied to the months of July and August.
This restriction should be extended at least to
the months of June and September. The au-
thorities should take the precaution of dividing
the timber lands into convenient districts and
place them under the supervision of agents, who
should visit every settler and acquaint him with
the penalties that the Government should here-
after visit upon the careless setting of fires,
There was very little malicious setting of fires ;
it was, in nine cases out of ten, the result of
earelessness, In the Ottawa section the lumber-
men had endeavored to co-operate in preventing
fires, but their experience showed that onlyGov-
ernment authority would suftice. The lumber-
men themselves would not object to a special
tax to meet the expenses of close governmental
supervision.

The Hon. GrorcE Bryson heartily concurred
in Mr. White’s suggestions as to the means of
preventing forest fires. The months of May,
June,September and October were those during
which nearly all the destructive fires took place
on the Ottawa. Some twenty-five years ago he
was examined before a committes of the House
of Commons, when he stated that for every tree
that was cut ten were destroyed by fire. That
proportion did not continue now, but his opin-
ion was that for a great many years ten times
as much timber was destroyed by fire as was cut
and used.

Mr, THISTLE advocated Government superr
yision of the forests in order to prevent deyas-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
Se

The immense regions beyond the
Ottawa forming the water shed toward Hud-
son’s Bay, were once covered with valuable for-
ests which had been almost completely destroy-

tating fires.

ed by fire,

Mr. J. K. Warp said if the authorities took
half the pains to prosecute malicious forest in-

cendiaries that they did to punish a poor wretch
who stole a dollar’s worth of goods, it would
have a beneficial deterrent effect.
Several other members spoke to a similar effect.
The CHAIRMAN, there being no more speak-
ers on the subject, thanked the Congress for the
practical statements and suggestions which had
been put forth. He especially wished to empha-
size # suggestion that a man who would set fire
to the woods but not to a barn, should be
taught that one crime was as great as the other.

APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.
Hon. Mr. JoLy moved that it is the duty of

this Congress to draw earnestly the attention of
the Government to the necessity of protecting
effectually the public forests against fires.
proposed that a memorial should be sent to the

He

Governments of the United States and Canada-
The motion was carried.
The following gentlemen were elected a com-

mittee to memorialize the Governments of the
United States and Canada on the necessity ef

protecting public forests :—Messrs. PeterWhite,

M. P., J. K. Ward, Dr. Mohr, Hon. George

Bryson, Prof. Hough, and P. E. Furnow.
The Congress then adjourned until
o'clock.

two

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.
In the afternoon the Congress again met and

some of the papers, the titles of which we have
given under the respective sections, were read.
Space will not permit us to give the details at

present.

In the evening there was again a public meet-
ing and addrresses were delivered by the Hon,
Mr. Loring, President of the Congress and
Commissioner of Agriculture for the United
States, Gen. Eaton, Commissioner of Education
for the United States, and the Hon. Mr. Joly.

LEGISLATION SUGGESTED,

The Hon. Mr. Bryson presented the report of
the committee appointed to memorialize the

Governments on forest fires recommending legis
lation as follows :—

1. The reservation of all pine and spruce lands

unfit for settlement for lumbering purposes ex-
clusively.

2. The prohibition of burning brush by settl-
ers in the vicinity of fir trees during May,June,
September and October.

3. The division of timbered country into dis-
tricts and the appointment of forest police
under a superintendent with magisterial powers,
whose duty it shall be to detect and punish

offenders and provide for the extinguishing of

fires,

4. The cost of maintenance of this protective
force, might partially be met by the imposition
of a moderate tax on the parties owning or leas-
ing timbered lands.

Mr. J. K. WARD suggested that August be
substituted for October in the prohibitory sea-
son. October was, he thought,in Canada, a wet
month,

Mr. Bryson thought October a very bad
month for fires, as the leaves were dry.

The report was adopted.

THE CONSTITUTION.

Mr. Furnow presented the report of the com
mittee appointed to revise the constitution,
which was adopted.

BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS,
Mr, BEADLE offered a resolution that the sec-

retary and officials furnish information and as- |

sistance for the organization of State and Pro-
vincial Forestry Associations.—Carried.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS,

The following gentlemen were elected officers
for the ensuing year ;—

President, Hon. G. B. Loring; First Vice-
President, Hon. H. G. Joly; Second Vice-
President, Dr. John A. Warder, North Bend,
Ohio ; Recording Secretary, Dr. F. B. Hough,
Chief of Forestry, Washington ; Corresponding
Secretary, Mr. William Little, Montreal ;
Treasurer, Joseph S. Fay, Wood’s Hall, Mass,

NEXT MEETING.

ed mucous surfaces of the Stomach and Bowels,

~~

and date were left for the Executive Com-
mittee to appoint.

Mr. Hicks moved that the executive commit-
tee make arrangements for getting papers to be
read at next annual meeting, on the planting,
cultivation, preservation and management of the
white pine. Such papers would be especially
interesting if they met at Minneapolis, the cen-
tre of a white pine region. Carried.

VOTE OF THANKS.

The following votes of thanks were passed by
the Congress :—To the Governments of Ontario
and Quebec for sending delegates ; to the mayor
and citizens generally ofMontreal ; to the press ;
to the various railway and steamboat companies
who had provided facilities to the delegates ; to
Mr. James Little, for his achievements in aid of
forestry ; to Mr. Wm. Little, in the most speci-
al manner, for his earnest and energetic labora
in securing the great success of the meeting ; to
Dr. Warder; to the Commissioner of Crown
Lands of Quebec, for a collection of samples of
the woods of Canada ; to the Geological Survey,
of Ottawa, fora set of reports; to the Quebec
Government, for maps and books ; to the citi"
zens of Ottawa, for an invitation to that city ;
to A.A.A.S., for invitation to excursions ; tothe
ladies of America for their work in aid of for-
estry ; to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Soci‘
ety for the offer of their library, ete., for the
use of the Congress delegates; and to the gen-

| tlemen who had contributed papers to the meet-

ing.

CONGRESS ADJOURNED.

The Congress finally adjourned at 11 o'clock,
until such time and place as the Executive Com-
mittee may appoint.

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causes marked increase in weight in persons of naturally
thin habit, who do not present any evidence of disease.

Unlike ordinary preparations of Cod Liver Oil, it
produces no unpleasant eructation or sense of nausea,
and should be taken in such very much smaller doses,
according to the directions, as will ensure its complete

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assimilation ; this, at the same time, renders its usé }

economical in the highest degree.

For sale by all Druggists,

jYDROLEINE

leading physiciansof |
England, the United |

S.S.MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &c.

4a7P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. litt

A Syndicate of Limit Holders

Represented by the Undersigned, offers

_ FOR SALE
On the Upper Ottawa,

600 Square Miles Virgin Forest of Pine,
| comprising 18 Licenses, nearly all Front
| Limits, on the main stream of the River
Ottawa itself, on reasonable terms.

The Proprietors will sell either the whole, or, if
preferred, a part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
watd towards Manitoba, the establishment of stearn-
boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this property,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving the lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only half the distance away, but forced
| to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
the large volume of the “‘ Grand” River itself to float
it to market.

PF Full particulars will be promptly sent on

| E. J. CHARLTON,

1716 QUEBEC, P, O.

k Bolting Cloth, Emery
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Is a new, efficient, and exceedizgly cheap machine and
is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is moved along the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be i
just were wanted as easily as a file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five mill t
lumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better mac! ines. It is patented
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

ced

‘Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any otber. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened -by a foot lever, and grip the block like a
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for

without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of
$100. Send for circulars to

rue T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTA.

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MANUFACTURERS OF

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NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery
on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

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QA i rs THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

A NEW INDUSTRY.

The latest industry which has seen the light
of day at the capital is one for the erection of
portable houses by the Logan Construction
Company of Ottawa, To the untiring energy
of Mr. G. J. O'Doherty the community is in-
debted for this new manufactory, which already
gives employment to quite a number of artizans,
although only in its swaddling bands. After
considerable negotiations Mr. O’Doherty pre-
vailed upon Mr. Logan, C. E. and M.E., a
gentleman of great ability and well up in his
profession, besides having a thorough under-
standing of constructing portable houses, to
open up an industry of that character in the
city. The company was formed, the work
commenced, and in a very short time three local
orders were fulfilled with great satisfaction to
the purchasers. The only house worthy of
mention among thesé is a neat little residence
built for the Aylmer Toll Road Company, and
which only came off the blocks a few days ago.
In the meantime the Logan Construction Com-
pany are performing their operations on the
bank of the Ottawa River, near the foot of
Sussex street.
chimney” erected on the spot, but’ there is
reason to believe that in the course of a very
short time the firm will remove to new premises
when such will be the case, the Skating Rink
being leased for the purpose of prosecuting their
operations on a much larger scale than is now
the case,

What is commonly understood by portable

' houses is that a factory will supply sashes,

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cloors, windows, lumber cut to size, and that
some other place will supply the chimneys to
some purchaser, who will ship the same to
Manitoba or elsewhere, and in the course of
time a dwelling will be constructed through the
employment of skilled labour. The one men-
tioned, for which Mr. Logan holds a patent, is
entirely different. It is constructed in sectional
parts on the spot, and when completed can be
taken apart, removed and set up again without
driving one nail or employing a single artisan—
indeed everything is so plain in this respect that
*“he who runs may read.” The building is of a
composite style of architecture. A look at the
front of the structure shows an octagonal bay
window, 8 feet wide and four feet deep, sur-
mounted by a Tyrolese window 4 feet wide and
2 feet deep. The porch is a detached semi-
octagonal, six feet in width, having a neat roof
of the same shape and supported by iron posts,
which besides have fancy capitals, the whole
being surrounded by an exceedingly handsome
balustrade of a new design. Over the porch
there is a Tyrolese window with a plain panel
above the roof, the front part projecting about
two feet six inches and has a fancy berge board,
The building is 20 feet in front by 32 feet deep,
and 16 feet corner posts, the roof being one-third
pitch, ‘The side walls are divided into five sec-
tions each, and the roof into the same number,
while the front and rear comprise six sections
in all, and the floors four sections each. The
simple putting together of these sections, which
it may be said include outside and inside or the
entire wall, enclose the house complete, when
the arrangement of the interior may be pro-
ceeded with. Turning to the inside it was ob-
served that there was a hall 16 feet long by 6
feet wide, on which was located the staircase for
the purpose of ascendin® to the upper floor.
ntrance from the hall is made by a door to the
parlour, which is 20 feet by 13 feet 6 inches, the
walls and ceiling of which are beautifully carved
and pannelled. Adjoining the parlour and con-
nected with it is the diningroom, which is 15 ft.
6 inches by 9 feet 6 inches. From the rear end
of the hall entrance is made to the kitchen,
which joins the diningroom to the right,

Space will not permit to describe the second
storey of the building. Suffice it to say that the
Staircase, which is of a roomy, neat and hand-
some construction, some excellent work being
displayed upon the bannisters, can be re-
moved en bloc, as is the case with all the parti-
tions in the interior of the building. The bed-
rooms are well ventilated and neatly arranged.
The roof is an improvement on the car roof
style, and is so constructed as to be entirely
impervious to rain. It was omitted to state
that the side walls are tongued and grooved, and

There is as yet no “tall:

spect of a lasting and endurable character. It
is really marvellous to look upon the simplicity
of the manner in which all the parts can be put
together. after being finished. For warmth,
comfort, convenience, and appearance the house
will compare with any wooden structure in
Ottawa, besides possessing many novelties which
are not in the latter. It cannot be wondered at
that the edifice is attracting considerable atten-
tion and receiving many visitors, who one and
all admire the workmanship. When completed,
as it will be next week, it will be forwarded to
Hon, H. J, Clarke, ex-Attorney-General for
Manitoba, who is the purchaser.

It may be also stated that the company in-
tend having one placed on the grounds during
the exhibition at Toronto, As a good omen of
success it may be observed that the firm have
received an order for ten houses, and three
stables, of 100 feet each, from the Government,
for the North-West Mounted Police at Qu’-
Appelle.—Ottawa Citizen. —

pe ee ne
RAILWAY LOGGING.

The Newaygo, Mich., Tribune describes the
manner logging is done on Ryerson, Hill & Co's
Pickerel lake and Muskegon river railroad, in
that county, in the following manner ;—On
arriving at the lake we found a second train of
10 flat cars, loaded with logs and ready for the
engine, which was.at once attached, and leaving
its empty train to be loaded, steamed off to the
river, making the round trip in 30 minutes, on
an average, As soon as the track was clear the
empty cars were pushed alongside the skidway
upon which the logs are placed, consisting of a
platform of the requisite height, from one end
of which extends an approach, up which the
logs are hauled from the lake by means of an
endless chain propelled by a stationary engine
at the opposite end of the logway. Two men
are stationed at the foot of the slide, who push
the logs into proper position to be seized by the
chain, and thus a continual supply is kept moy-
ing. As the logs reach the platform on top of
the slide, they are rolled on to the logway and
at once loaded on the waiting car by six loaders,
three on a slide, who handle their canthooks
with a skill and certainty wonderful to behold,
As the logs reach the car the ‘‘ catcher” places
them in position, and as soon as the requisite
number is loaded the car moves down the track
and the binder dexterously encircles the load
with his chain and fastens it securely, while an
empty cartakes the place of the one just loaded,
and thus the process is repeated until the train
of 10 cars is freighted with logs and ready for
the returning engine which is to haul it to the
rollway on the river. The average time used in
loading a car is one and one-half minutes, An
average of 270,000 feet a day is put over this
road, and 15,000,000 feet has been taken from
the lake and put into the Muskegon this season
in less than sixty days. The firm has 200,000,-
000 feet of pine tributary to Pickerel lake.

RED OAK,

A Frankfort, Ky., correspondent makes an
inquiry in another column about red oak, a
wood regarding which there is much interest
just now. This wood is now in much favor as
a finishing wood, and is constantly and rapidly
gaining in popularity. Compared with other
finishing woods it has a large sale in this mar-
ket. Red oak has been in stock at the yards
for many years, but its value was never fully
understood or appreciated until within the last
two years, and since it began to be used more
extensively it has gained ground constantly,
Before it came into favor it was slow of sale,
and only put to isolated uses. It was principally
made into barrel staves and other rough stocks,
When walnut began to get high, with cherry
following suit, a search was made for a cheaper
wood that would fill the bill, and a most valu-
able substitute was found in red oak. It has a
rich and conspicuous grain, is easily worked,
takes on a polish readily, and is much more
economical than many of the woods deemed
more fancy, which hardly present as good an
interior effect. It is used generally in finishing
and building, including balusters, newels, step
plank, sideboards, floor and ceiling strips, ete,
Tt is also put in oftice desks and furnishing, and
is generally regarded a very neat wood. It

put together with white lead, and in every re-| sells in this market at about the same price as

white oak, which is likewise a very pretty
finishing wood when rift-sawed, though not
much is used thi way. | a2. :

Red oak enters to some extent into manuf.
ture also, but in this direction its province is
limited. It is used some in the making of fur-
niture, and takeg the place of ash in certain
wood-work in the manufacture of implements,
and is made into poles and felloes. It is some-
times used in waggon-bottoms, in the absence of
white oak. The latter is generally preferred;
because it is a tougher and better wood, as a
general thing. Some of the red oak, however,
is regarded fully as good for durability and
strength. That which grows in northern or
central Michigan is considered by many
handlers as better than that from the forests of
southern Michigan and in Indiana, because it is
harder, firmer and stronger. The farther south
the wood is found the softer it is, which is the
tendency with most woods. Some dealers had
stocks on their hands for which there was no
sale, the piles being simply a dead weight on
business, through 1879-80, but the demand for
wood during last year and this season effectively
cleaned out such supplies, and now good red oak
is in no sense a drug. There have been several
good sales of red oak at the yards of late, and
when it cannot readily be had dry, it is bought
half dry or green, and kiln dried. We have
already mentioned the fact that nearly 200,000
feet of this goes into the new First National
Bank, of this city, and we know of other impor-
tant contracts. ‘

The wood is most used in thicknesses of 14,
14, and 2-inch, 1-inch being less used. The
lengths and widths run as in other lumber,
Three and four-inch stuff enters into the sizes
that are sawed, but are not so extensively em-
ployed. One and a half and two inch stuff, 12
inches wide and 12 feet long, is used for step
plank, and heavier pieces for newel posts, ete.

This lumber has also been pushed somewhat
in the Milwaukee, Wis., market. It is certain
that good red oak is bound to be in favor where-
ever it is properly introduced.—Worthwestern
Lumberman. i

THE BRITISH TRADE.

In an article on the official trades statistics of
the United Kingdom the Timber Trades Journal
says :—Turning now to the report of the timber
trafic, we shall find several facts worthy of
observation, The value of the wood imported
in 1877. was estimated, including mahogany, at
more than £20,000,000, the greatest amount it
had yet attained to. In 1879 the value was only
£11,200,000, a falling off in two years of more
than £9,000,000 sterling, in a single branch of
trade, with its subdivisions. In 1880 it reeover-
ed itself to £17,000.000, and last year it exceeded
£15,400,000. Though apparently a sober, well-
conducted, steady-going business, none seems to
be subject to wilder fits.of speculation than the
timber trade. Fortunes.made in 1876 were lost
in the excessive importation of 1877; and it is
remarkable that in five years of expanding trade
and population the demand for foreign timber
has never since justified such an importation as
overwhelmed the trade in that unlucky year.

In comparison with its enormous import,
there is a very limited export done in foreign
timber from this country, but occasionally small
shipments are made, chiefly to the Cape and
Australia. Nor does this trade seem to be
appreciably"progressive. In 1877 we exported,
all told, 49,587 loads, which quantity was not
reached in any subsequent year till 1881, when
the export extended to 65,307 loads, about as
much as not infrequently comes into London in
a single week during the import season. Ships
now load full cargoes direct from Scandinavian
ports for the southern regions, and the export of
wood in its unmanufactured state from our
shores is not likely to expand. When a ship is
laying on for Australia partly laden, and no
further cargo immediately offering, a hundred
standards or so of flooring or deals are some-
times taken at low freight, or perhaps bought
for the occasion, to fill her up. The commodity
is light and imperishable, forms an excellent
platform for other goods, does not run into much
money, and is pretty sure to make a tolerable
return for the outlay when it reaches its port of
destination. Thus, within a certain limit,
foreign timber will always be incidentally ex-

es

ported ; but probably it would be useless to tr
and make a regular business of it, when by full
cargoes, for which there is now a trade, it ¢
Eg cheaper from the loading ports abroad,

n the enumeration of quantities and values
of the timber imported last year some anomalies
occur which are difficult to reconcile, For in-

bro

stance, Russian square timber stands high in the
English market, and generally fetches the be: 3

price going for European fir, but the importa-
tion of 224,421 loads of it is only valued in the
Blue Book at £420,145, or not £2 per load, while

220,379 loads of hewn fir from British North

America are set down at £888,070, or more than

£4 per load,- But our public sales would tell a

very different tale. In the valuation of wood
sawn or split, planed and dressed, from the
same countries, the value is more equal, as

thus :-— ’
A Loads. Value.
Russia aio dinu: wig eta 822,864 £2,102, 6 is
British North Ameri 987,481 2,468,083
Sweden... 22: so pa7 eee 908,475 2,325,633

By this account it appears that British North
America sent us more of this class of wood last
year, both in quantity and value, than any other
country.

No duties being levied, these valuations are

far from reliable, as they are generally taken by
word of mouth from the importer or his entering
clerk, who may speak at random or in ignorance,
as he is not required to verify. The figures may
be taken as an approximation to truth neverthe-
less, as the mistakes plus and minus in all likeli-
hood pretty nearly balance each other.
PENCIL CEDAR. ;
The Southern Lumberman has received in-
quiries from English parties in regard to red
cedar for pencil stocks, and samples cut to pat-
tern have been forwarded to London. Ameri-
can red cedar is the staple wood used for making
lead pencils in all parts of the world, and the
Tennessee cedar has been found well suited for
the purpose. During the war the demand for
it was great, and the difficulty of procuring it
so considerable that a lumber dealer of Memphis
made a handsome sum by buying up posts, that
had been set some time, and shipping them to
the North, where they were sold to pencil manu-
facturers. During the last year the shipment
of pencil cedar to Liverpool, Eng., was 15,812
cubic feet against 11,263 feet in the previous
year, and the stock there at last accounts was
entirely exhausted. The present wholesale
price in Liverpool for pencil cedar logs is 97
cents to $1.10 per cubic fuot.

Mr. J. McALuisteR, a lumber merchant of
Windsor, while engaged in watering square
timber on the banks of Lake Erie recently,
was forced over the bank by a lange piece falling.
About fifty feet of timber following fell on him,
and death resulted almost instantly,

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls. <A five cent sample settles it.

‘** AnD Foots who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entire!
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wi
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly as to its
wonderful effects.

THE Rev. Charles E. Piper, formerly of Pitt-
feld, N. H., but now of Wakefield, R. I.,
writes :—‘‘ I have used Baxter's Mandrake Bit-
ters in my family for over two years, and as a
result have not called a physician in the whole
time. My wife had been an invalid for two
years, but these bitters have cured her.”

A SINGLE Box of Mack’s Magnetic Medicine
will prove to any sufferer from nervous prostra
tion or weakness of the generative organs, that
it is the best and cheapest medicine ever sold
for this class of diseases. Read the advertise-
ment in another column and send at once for
the great brain and nerve food.

C. Brrrron, Lindsay, Ont., writes :—“ I have
much — in recommending Baxter’s Man-
drake Bitters in all cases of Jaundice, Bilious-
ness, Sich Headache and Liver Complaint, for
they have given universal satisfaction, and I
have sold more of them the past season than
any other one patent medicine.” ‘

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to beg perform
their duties in assimilating the food. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist, A few doses will surprise you,

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WOOD AND PAPER,

Speaking of the relative qualities of paper
made from wood and straw, and that made
from rags, &ec., the Western Paper Trade makes
the following remarks :—Modern improvements
in the quality and cheapness in the price of
paper appear to have been coincident with the
discovery and practicable application of new
fibrous substitutes for rags in paper making,
As early as 1772 Christian Scheffer published a
book on papermaking, and Matthias Koops, in
the beginning of this century, obtained a patent
for extracting ink from waste paper, and recon-
verting it into white paper; also for making
paper from straw, thistles, hemp, &c., and
different kinds of wood and bark ; and he actual-
ly printed a book in 1801 on paper made from
wood and straw. Koops, in this book, stated
that he had been able to produce the fine and
strong paper upon which the book was printed,
from straw and wood, without other mixture.
Hofman, who had a copy of this remarkable
book, wrote of it in 1873 :—‘‘ The last fifteen
pages are printed on paper made entirely from
wood ; it has the colour of light manilla, and is
rather rough. The wood had evidently not
been thoroughly reduced to pure fibre, but
nevertheless the paper is strong and tough, and
the printing shows well upon it.”

“Tf the modern paper maker has not realized
to the full extent the sanguine expectations of
Matthias Koops, in the early years of this cen-
tury, certainly straw and wood as papermaking
materials have reached an importance that
would surprise the original searcher in the field
of valuable fibres. If we cannot yet make the
purest white print paper out of wood, the pro-
gress in this direction has been great. A lead-
ing papermaker, who has been experimenting
in this direction, recently said that he had
arrived at a point where 90 per cent of wood to
10 per cent. of other fibres could be utilized in
print paper with good effect, and he confidently
looked forward to the time when even the 10
per cent. of rags or other material might be sup-
planted and the entire fabric made from wood,”

SS ee
LARGE CARGOES.

The Stockholm correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says :—I have to chronicle the
loading of the largest cargo of wood that ever
left Sweden. This is the cargo per steamship
Prinz Georg, of Hamburg, Captain D, zum
Felde, for Avonmouth. The vessel, which is

quite new, and on its first trip, loaded about 400

standards at Hudikswall and completed at
Skonvik, Sundswall. This completing of the

cargo represented; however, no less a quantity

at Grand Works, Dak., July 29,
that the drive will reach Winnipeg about the
last of August.

ATE UAINAD SS

LUM DE DVNEAIN.

Chips.

Loes to the amount of 20,000,000 feet have
been rafted thus far this season at the Bangor,

Me., boom.

THE end of the Red River log drive arrived
It is expected

THE rapid development of the South in Jum-
ber production is indicated by the fact that at
one time there were on track at Louisville, Ky.,
30 carloads of mill and wood-working machinery
that was in transit from the North.

THERE is a large foreign demand for the lum-
ber of the Pacific’ coast. It goes to China,
Japan, the South Sea Islands, Mexico, and the
west coast of South America, Those markets
are continually making large demands.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says the Fort
Edward, N. Y., board of health wished to re-
move the accumulation of saw dust and drift-
wood in the river there, and to do so, poured
kerosene oil on the mass and set it on fire, The
stuff burned briskly for two days, presenting
the novel spectacle of a river on fire,

THE Timber Trades Journal says the Quebec
trade, like a large portion of the Baltic, will
soon be in the hands of steamers altogether, and
we see signs of it in the fact that many of the
regular liners are dropping out of it through old
age or other causes, but which all lead up tothe
same result, viz., handing over the carrying
trade to steam vessels,

Very few people, we presume, have any idea
of the extent of the lumber business done in
Emerson by our three lumber firms. One firm
alone, that of Chalmers & Carney, have during
the past month got in one hundred cars of lum-
ber. They are now receiving a consignment of
one million feet of lumber, which Mr. Chalmers
recently purchased at points on Georgian Bay.
It is brought up the lakes to Duluth and from
there by rail.

Unner the heading ‘‘ Biting Into Our Sand-
wich,” the Northwestern Lumberman says :—
The Canadian lumber operators are fishing for
some of the Australasian trade, an effort being
made to capture Australian custom. Induce-

ments held out have resulted in the appearance

at Montreal of Mr. Sharpe, of Sharpe & Sons,

Melbourne, Australia, where, it is stated, he
has made arrangements for the direct shipping

of lumber from Canada to Australia.
Cox. Prossrr, United States timber agent,
lately seized the log drive on the Yakima river,

OSWHEGO, N. ¥_

UNIUN FOUNDR

Union Street, - - - Carleton,

Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware for SHIP and
1118

J. K. POST & CO.
LUMBER MERCHANTS |

And Shipping Agents.

Warerooms, Water Street,

ST. JOHN, N. B.
Allan Brothers

(Late of Harris & Allen)
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF

Steam Engines

AND

MILL MACHINERY.

Ships Windlasses, Iron Capstans

and Ships CASTINGS of all kinds,

Ships Cambooses & Cabin Stoves

COOKING AND HEATING

STOV HS,

Shop, Office and Parlor Stoves, and Franklins

Agricultural Implements.

BRASS CASTINGS.

HOUSE use.

_ GU VR

IRWIN & PHILP

Commission
Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
Shipping»General Agents
PORT HOPE.

i.tf

ROBERT SMALLWOOD

MANUFACTURER OF

The Patent Lever Feed Shingle,
Box Board & Heading Machine

(Always takes First Prize.)

Rotary Saw Mills
MACHINERY for SAW and
GRIST MILLS.

E= SEND FOR CIRCULAR. -=&

CHARLOTTETOWN,

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

15,000 IN USE!

1129

W.T., put in by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. He claims that a large portion of
the timber has been cut from lands belonging
to the Government, the intention of the com-
pany being to use it in constructing the road at
points remote from the Cascade division, when

than 700 standards, total about 1,100 Petersburg
standards. It is quite clear that, with the
possibility of having the market crushed be-
neath the weight of such enormous quantities of
goods as are now carried in single bottoms, im-

N. H. DOWNS?

Vegetable Balsamic

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porters in England will have to remodel their
They will have to keep as
small stocks as possible, and do a hand-to-mouth
trade, so as to avoid the risk of being caught
when a glut of goods arrive. The small import
places will either have to get their supplies from

mode of business.

the large depots, or a class of steamers built
carrying from 150 to 200 Petersburg standards.
—_— ae :

English Oak Bark.

Messrs, Cleeve W. Hooper & Sons report in
their July circular that the price of oak bark re-
mains stationary. The quality is good, but
with the quiet operations of tanners the con-
sumption is by no means as great as formerly,
although the high price of Australian bark has
caused some increase in certain yards.

—<$—$<—<$

THe Timber Trades Journal says a Jargish
parcel of Petersburg lathwood was bought for
country consumption at £6 10s, a fathom, an ap-
parently moderate reserve being placed on the
stuff, which there was no difficulty in obtaining,
for the bidding was offhand, and seemed to lie
between a couple of provincial representatives
who apparently had it all to themselves. The
evident disposition of holders on this occasion
was to sell if they could find buyers at anything
like a reasonable figure, and with this in view
the reserve values for most of the parcels were
put at a limit that the room were able to ad-
vance upon and yet secure bargains,

it should be used on that part of the line in

order to entitle the company to the timber.

AN English paper says the favor which has
during late years been accorded to pitch pine
as an inside joinery wood is evidenced by the
fact that our house painters are now imitating
Pitch pine graining bids fair to be-

the grain.
come as popular as was oak graining twenty
years ago. The grain of pitch pine can be very

effectively copied, and the painted work has a

pleasing and very clean appearance. The com-
mon bedroom furniture, which was so generally
painted in vile imitation of maple and satin-
wood, is now effectively painted in imitation of
ash and of other, what may be termed, “‘modern
woods.”

THE Glasgow correspondent of the Timber
Prades Journal says the imports of American
timber and deals to Clyde during the past week
have been large, amounting to over 15,000 loads,
The arrivals of Canadian deals alone at Glasgow
sum up to 104,149 pieces, making a total since
the season began of 292,000 pieces, which is con-
siderably in excess of the quantity imported at
corresponding date last year.
have arrived per steamships. _ The prices ob-
tained at Wednesday’s sale held well up, the
attendance being good, with a fair sprinkling of
country buyers. Quebec spruce deals formed
the bulk of what was disposed of, the offers
made for the yellow pine deals not being con-
sidered sufficient by the brokers,

The bulk of these | °

a 2 a a aS

7 \\. Am |.

Many years’ close study,in order to discover
the cause, thesymptoms and the cure—yiz:

Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Catarrh, Croup, Asthma, In-

fluenza, Pleurisy,Hoarseness, §

Spitting Blood, Bronchitis,

ind every species of oppression of the Chest
end ieee Inall Gard where this Elixirhas
been duly administered its efficacy has been
invariably manifested, convincing the most
incredulous that

CONSUMPTION

is not incurable, if properly attended to.— im

Consumption, atits commencement, is bute
slight irritation of the membrane which
covers thel ungs; then aninflammation, when
the coughis more observable, butratherdry-
then becomes| ocalfever and

common. This Elixirin curing the abovecom
laints, operates so as to remove allmorvid
@rvitations and inflammation from the
lungs to the surface, and finally expel them
from thesystem. Ittacilitatesexpectoration,

IT HEALS THE ULCERATED SURFACES

and relieves the cough and makes the breath-
ing easy. Itsupports the strengthand at the
Same time redupssthe fever. Itisfreefrom
strong opiate at d astringentarticles, which
areofso drying @ nature as to be in great
danger of destroying the patient; whereas
this medicine never dries or stops the cough,
but, by removing the cavusg, generally des-
troys the hectic before the cough is entirely
gone. Consequently, when the cough is
cured the patientis well. Send address for
pamphlet giving full directions for cure of
pulmonery diseases. Price 25cts. and S$]
per bottle. Sold everywhere.

HENRY, JOHNSONS & LORD, Props,
MONTREAL, P. Q.

ELIXIRIS

This valuable medicine is purely vegetable NN
the discovery of which was the result of |

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266

Market Reports.

dull state of things, there is a tendency up-

OTTAWA.
From our own Correspondent.
SALE OF TIMBER LIMITS.

Ava. 10th.—This afternoon a large number of
our most prominent lumbermen and limit-
owners were present at the sale of limits at the
Grand Union Hotel. Bidding was extremely
lively. The limits formerly belonged to the
late Eugene Martineau, at one time Mayor of
this city. They were-put under the hammer by
the Banque Martinale. The ‘Jean de Terre”
limits, comprising 50 square miles each, were
sold for $340 per square mile. The “‘ Baldwin B
limits, of 914 square miles, brought $300 per
square mile, and the Temiscamingue limit of
50 square miles sold for $3880 per square mile.
These limits are all situated in the Valley of
the Ottawa. Mr: E. Beaudet was the purchaser,
having bid on the three lots put up.

and lath, the latter being scarce, and, as pre-
dicted in one of my spring letters, there is no
prospect of lath selling this season at anything
like as low figures as that reached last year. [
still am under the impression that business over
the docks during the fall months will be brisk.
Our American cousins have been blessed with a
bountiful harvest, which will stimulate to in-
creased activity in building, and ready pur-
chasers will be found for all the lumber we have
to dispose of, and if our mill men will only take
the pains to manufacture, sort and pile as care-
fully as the American manufacturer, they will
be able to compete in any of the American
ports with American lumber. Our pine is as
good as theirs, and there is no reason why we
should not realize as good prices, in the astern
markets at least.
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

NEW SLIDE MASTER. ;

Mr. W. Macdonald, slide master at Arnprior, Shipping clas So promiscuous widths “n a
will succeed Mr, John Macdonald, the slide | seantling and joist, up toAG Ht. cece obs havens a OO
master at this place who was recently super- ve % #3 a wf Fee teeesecereeenes A a
annuated. Mr. Harvey, formerly slide master Ce “ “ OD Bhi cutee Robaina DADO
at Arnprior, has been reappointed to that posi- 4 * a 4: Ek oS ie 16 00

QB it... ceesrscsvcveee
30 ft.
82 ft.
BA fh....0s-

tion. ; Scantling and joist, up to
THE DRIVE. ; E Pa

Ava. 25th,.—At no season during the past

“cr “e “

“ “ec

twenty years has the timber drive been so com- . a a a4 “4 a ae ae
plete and advanced as at present. Thus far the ct “ “ AM CCB ES POP arta 30 00
drive on the Ottawa has been completed to | Cutting up placbss ta a9. vin ee sesamin Re
within some thirty miles of Pembroke, at which | Sound dressing stocks. ...-. +. .s00s1ss00ssse0%
i ‘ ‘ _ | Picks Am. inspection...... ve
point the water 18 reported by agents lately re Three uppers, Am, inspection... ...+++ssssseees $5
turned to the city to have risen as much as ten B. M.
inches within the past few days, and is still on | 14-inch flooring, dressed... ....s+..sssere sees 30 00
4 i Fi anit ely eee ny YOUN ......5 ss eeeeneeveseerces 16 00
the increase, ‘The prevalence of high water will |} 74 « the ta wanaedl lace le pene Saas 96 00
have a not less beneficial effect upon theseason’s | 14 © <6 undressed... ...eeeeeeeeee ees 16 00
r ° 1 i oh ‘4 Gressed ........eeeeee . 23 00
cut, which, as already stated, will greatly ex-} 1 « Cine Meee peed wet ER "17 00
ceed that of preceding years. 4 Beaded Sheeting, dressed... ..++..+.++- 22 50
Clapboarding, dressed .........00ceeeee weeeees 12 50
SCARCITY OF MEN. XXX sawn shingles, @M...........++-..+ 2 50@3 00
Manufacturing operations which have been | XX sawn Shingles. ......-seeeeeeeeeseeceseess , 205
. nang Sawn Lath. ccuscccesccccceeeveeevinssenecsteenes 2 20
up to the present carried on unremittingly by
all the lumbering firms in this district, promise MONTREAL.

From our own Correspondent.

Ave. 25th.—The Forestry Congress which
has taken place this week in this city will
doubtless be of immense benefit to lumbermen,
timber limit owners, and farmers, and the hints
and suggestions made, if carried ont, as they
should be, ought to help to a large extent the
saving of timber, the planting of new forests,
and prevent the wholesale destruction of trees
by fire. The proceedings of the Congress will
be read and studied with much interest, as they
show the experience of some of the best Arbori-
culturists in Canada and the United States.

Business has been good here since the date of
our last report, imports are pretty heavy and
stocks are well kept up, which seems to go as
Prices in the yards keep

to receive a check shortly from an anticipated
‘scarcity of men. The causes for this are two-
fold. During the past week several of the
principal firms have been sending their advance
gangs to the shanties which reduced their
manufacturing staff in some cases to the lowest
working quota. The high rate of wages offered
by farmers throughout the country to harvest
hands has induced numbers of men to quit work
in the saw mills and accept that which affords
a remuneration of $2 per day, if only for a linit-
ed season. The effect of this will probably be
that in a few weeks at the farthest some of the
mills will be compelled to discontinue night-

work,
SQUARE TIMBER,

The market for square timber, which has been
this season unprecedentedly stagnant, is reviv-
ing. A few sales have lately been made.
Messrs. Thistle, Carswell & Co. have disposed
of two rafts. The price obtained is said to be
32 cents for white and 22 for red pine.

LIMIT SALE.

The valuable property known as the North
Nation Mills and Cameron limits were sold by
auction yesterday at the Russell here. There

fast as it comes in.
steady ; they do not vary much in this market,
such as they do at ports where it is sold for
shipment. A large number of rafts of square
timber have -passed here lately for Quebec,
Very few rafts of saw logs pass here now, most
of it being sawn into boards before leaving Ot-
tawa. We continue to quote yard prices as
follows :

Pine, 1st quality, a

was a large attendance of prominent lumber-} Pine, 2nd “WM... ..-.seeesrsss es 22 00@24 00
imit- “ds , Pine, shipping culls, ® M.....- Afdoragodd 14 00@16 00
men and _limit-owners, and the bidding was Pine, 4th quality deals, 1 M -.... ...00: 11 00@12 00

. 10 00@12
10 00@138

00

lively. The property was started on a first bid
00

~ = ‘ Spruce, #M....ceceeeeeecce se tee ee eces

of $20,000, and was knocked down to Mr. W. C. emlock, % M......cseee sess eee teen e ces 9 00@10 00
Edwards, of Rockland, for the sum of $100,000, | Ash, run of log culls out, BAU cn een ae ore 20 00@25 00
imi i - ; Bass, ES “ BARD. sc a0 seises 17 00@20 00

The limits comprised 139 square miles. OREN MOL Actin Face Satanetncustennteas 40 00450 00
CHIPS. Birch, @ M...se ccc cc ene eer er eee esee vee 20 00@25 00

Mr. Oliver Latour, the enterprising lumber- Hae tt ESRB OSES DUBDD INOS mb wes ‘4
man, left on Tuesday last for Manitoba, where | Shingles, Ist, @M ... 8 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, @ M....+-. 2 00 0 00

he goes on an exploring expedition, He will
invest in limits in that province, if he sees his
way clear.

Thirty car loads of lumber are being shipped
daily from Messrs. McLachlin Bros.’ mills at
Arnprior. Water pipes have been laid through-
out the lumber yards for protection against fire.
The electric light will shortly illumine the whole

premises, :
——___>__———

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.
Avo. 22nd.—Both the local trade and ship-
ments over the docks is still extremely quiet.

Argbitects and their helps are able to take a

SHIPMENTS.

The shipments from this port since the date
of our last report were as follows :—To Glasgow,
11,788 pes ; to Gloucester, 8,346 deal ends ; to
London, 56,618 pes pine deals ; to Buenos Ayres,
1,996,265 ft. lumber ; to Montevideo, 490,107 ft.
and to Rosairo, 364,420 ft. The total shipments
to South America from the opening of naviga-
tion to date was 8,161,042 ft. Six ships have
cleared for the River Plate since the 10th inst.
Freights are unchanged.

CORDWOOD.

The military authorities have given out their

contract for cordwood delivered in the city and

long holiday without danger of their business
suffering in consequence, and yet in spite of this

wards in prices, more especially on bill lumber

Pine boards, 10-in
Pine, 10-in.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

on St, Helen’s Island at about $8.50 per cord.

rail,
as under, ex cars and on the wharf :—

Long Maple.....
Short ‘ Ant

phe rerestoesesessesceseereesene

Not much wood coming in either by water or
Demand continues slack and prices steady

$7 00
6 50

20 vessele at the dock for Friday’: market,
Saturday showing about the same number.
Monday’s fleet was 20 vessels, Tuesday’s but
about a dozen, Wednesday brought 20, and
Thursday 23, Every day witnessed a pretty
general clearing out of all the offerings, and at

‘

coue Pweh 2 ews,’ sca. seine sce 6 A
Short 4)ais ans Bponee 6 noon on rsda’ i
Long Beech.....+.-+++++++ RA Sy saiyoe 6 00) cold emredey there romana but Ginee ae
Short “ ....e. eee cejsiot igahase 5 50 | 80ld cargoes on the market. Prices were well
Tamarack....++++ Se dee hice cule dodo 5 00| sustained at the quotations following, except-
—— ional cargoes bringing more or less, according
ST. JOHN, N. B, to their excellence or lack of desirability :—
From our own Correspondent. / CARGO QUOTATIONS.
Ave, 22nd.—There is no change in our lumber ys es ETECN 5 00 v9: oo eunwnesa #11 25@11 50
f a A Mg GiMeNBION. ...650+ scccvsesessense 11 7
market worth mentioning since my last report, | Boards and strips, No. 2stock.......... 12 wala r

and prices remain about the same. Deals that
are aniving are selling slowly at about $9.
Freights still remain firm at my last quotations,
with an advance of about 2s. 6d. for moderate
sized vessels for Irish ports. Owing to the
recent scarcity of vessels and unremunerative
prices of deals in England, shippers have been
accumulating much larger stocks than usual
here, and this will of course have a tendency to
maintain freights during the remainder of the
season, Which will also keep the price of lumber
from advancing to any considerable extent.

Treights to-day may be quoted as firm at the
following rates :—

Liverpoo]l......- .-.+- 71s. 3d. c. d.

Bristol Channel ....- 70s, Od. 728. 6d. c. d.

TyalANG pc sina asp 72s. 6d, to 778. 6d. c. d.
SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of
freight :—

Calliope, 1,202, Liverpool, 61s. 3d. c. d.

Eurydice, 1,247, 70s. c. d.

Missouri, 818, < 62s. 6d. ec. d.

Arabia, 957, se 71s. 8d.c.d.

Lottie Stewart, 742, Bristol Channel, 70s. ec. d.

Unity, 420, “2 678, 6d. c. d.

Maiden City, 799, “s 71s. 3d. c. d,

Lepreaux, 769, Limerick, 653; ¢. d.

Fidelia, 450, Dublin, 72s. 72s. 6d. c. d.

Belle Star, 353, East Coast Ireland, 70s. c. d.

Annie Burrill, 897, Belfast, 65s. e. d.

Pernana, 424, Cork or Drogheda, 72s. 6d. c. d.

Minnie Hunter, 457, E. C. Ireland, 73s, 9d. ¢. d.

Cedar Croft, 1,098, Valentia, 65s, ¢. d.

Harriet Campbell, 649, Unchartered.

COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 18ST. JANCARY TO DATE.

1881. 1882.
Deals. Pine. Birch. Deals. Pine. Bireh,
M.S. ft. Tons. Tons. M.S.ft. Tons. Tons,
131,822 768 2,962 118,814 359 3,800
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATE.
1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons.
1s 14,717 18 11,776
—————_<—__——_-
‘ ALBANY.

Quotations at the yards are as follows :—

Pine, clear, @ M....e-. ese eeeeneeeeeeeers S57 00@64 00
Pine, fourths. .... 66... eee cee ee ee ee neee

.. 57 00@59 00

Pine, SEl6CtS....ccscvcnccsnnsshocn eens tg 2 00@55 00
Pine, ZOOd DOX.. eee ee vet ene ceee eee enees 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each. - . 00 40@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each... +++. ++++- 00 20@00 22

00 26@00
00 20@00 2

boards, culls.....-

Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @ M........-- 30 00@83 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft. ........0seeeess 30 00@33 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13 ft... 0... +.seeeeeee 27 00@29 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select... ..+++--++++-- 45 00@47 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common. ..+ ...++++>- 19 00@21 00
Pine, l-in. siding, select......+ 45 00@46 00
Pine, inch siding, common,... ...-.-+. 18 00@20 00
Spruce, boards, each.. ++. ...eeeeeeseers 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each... ..--sseee ees 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., CACH...-..eeee sees 00 00@00 380
Spruce, wall strips, each... ......5++s0+5 00 12@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each... ....eeeeeeeees 00 0O@00 14
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each. ........-+++++- 00 00@00 33
Hemlock, joist, 2x4, each «...-.eeeee es 00 14
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each. ......... 00 00@00 11
Ash, good, @ M......eeeee eee eee eees «+. 40 00@48 00
Ash, second quality, ® M......-..ese nee 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, @ M.... seen eee eee eens 60 00@S5

Cherry, common, @ M... se+see+e sees eee 25 00@35

Oak, good, @ M...... sc. see eee ese eeeeees 40 00@43

Oak, second quality, ® M......--+++-+-++ 20 00@25

Basswood, @ Mussccccvcase seccvceveness on 00@25

Hickory, @ M....csseeee eee cece et eee:
Maple, Canada, ® M
Maple, American, per M
Chestnut, @ M..... +e
Shingles, shaved, pine, ® }

ice sios

Qnd quality... ....5eeeeeees 5

extra, sawed, pine 5

clear, Y 8

. cedar, mixed...........ceeeees 3

> cedar, XXX... eee. wees ceneees 0 000) 4

i. hemMlooh cece ees secant es ee 0 00@ 2
Lath, hemlock, @ M...eeeeeeee ee eee eee es 0 00@ 1
Lath, Spruce, “* sseepeeseveseenseeses 0 00@ 2
Lath, pine, STE Risa IOUHOATOL ae ne 0 00@ 2

——_>—_——-
CHICAGO,

The Northwestern Lumberman of August 26th
says :—The cargo market has been somewhat
better supplied during the past week, the favor-

able winds having enabled the fleets to arrive

with more celerity. At the close of our last
report a fleet commenced arriving, which placed

Nb. I SEOUK sie goss0000 60 vir! «see aagpeane

Receipts and stock on hand of lumber and
shingles, etc., for the week ending Aug. 24, as
reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange :— ‘

. Poses
Lumber. Shingles.
RZ 5 ctetoals as.d. 55> ni.vle GB pan 62,746,000 17,505,000
BEB Licieks rn t's0:0.000 os aed amevre 60,138,000 35,000,000
FROM JANUARY 1 TO AUG. 24 INCLUSIVE.
" Big
umber. Shingles.
1882 «a pion seas ora he alapdll 1,187,574,000 496,952,000
SSL. acess bb cen spategn none 1,087,715,000 480,474,000
ANG) wisn ne cabons dadnn dab 99,859,000 16,508,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO AUG, 23.
LSS oe Winn poian ey vie he ene 1,025,506,000 458,736,000 ~
RTOCK ON HAND avo. 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber......... 611,903,574 422,404,156 412,861,039
Shingles. ... . 244,221,650 184,168,000 164,004,000
Lath ....-.....+: 39,859,887 36,346,046 46,549,316
Pickets...... .. . 1,717,165 2,777,053 1,232,450
Cedar posts. ..... 298,243 255,655 154,090

»>——
BOSTON.

The Journal of Commerce says :—There has
been a very fair and steady inquiry for most
kinds of western and eastern stock of soft woods,
and values keep along on quiet a uniform basis.
Southern pines continues rather dull, and prices
are certainly no stronger. Hard woods meet
with a fair inquiry and prices are well sustained.

CANADA PINE. ‘
Shelving, Dressed, ree SS 00@50 00

Dressed Shippers
Dressed Box

Sheathing, Ist quality...-...+.-.- esas 42 00@45 00
nF nd © * .. ween suse 34 00@35 00
—o
BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :— a
Uppers. «de uane ences este sees ++ S46 00@48 00
Oommen; sie % tae occcds énvak ee 18 00G@19 00
Cullls..... . nes cesccseevees a5 sueune mannan - 18 00@14 00
—____9—___

OSWEGO, N.Y.

Trade has been very quiet during Angust and
the attendance of buyers in the market limited
to those who were seeking to make an assort-
ment. Stocks on hand are good and well assort_
ed. We make some corrections in quotations,
as noted. Canal and lake rates have advanced
a little:—$1.80 to Albany and $2.50 to New
York. Receipts to date, 1882, 121,000,000 ; 1881,
90,000,000 ; excess, 31,000,000.

Three uppers.........-.-se8ee« vonnhite® $48 00@45 00
Pickings............. 33 00@35 00

Fine, common ...... 20 00@25 00
Gorman .\\)<54<<see4 14 00@17 00
Calls) .x.. .cvsupencss - 12 00@15 00
Mill run lots............. Save cuse «+. 18 00@35 00
Sidings, selected, Linch. ......+-++++0s+-* 33 GO@3S 00
1} inch.......+. See 35 0O0@40 00
Mill run, 1x10, 13 to 16 feet...... 17 00@25 00
Pe ee .. 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch mill run.....-. wees 14 TWGW OO
- = * oulls......3 «... HL W@l4 00
1x6 selected for clapboards...... « owaeb ee 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... «..--- 4 0@ 435
XXX, 18 inch, cedar............. 3 75@ 375

Timthiv cage wanes ensiens onawee nhs eeene 1 S0@ 1 90

Rt
TONAWANDA.

CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

Three uppers.....+...---see sees
Common
Culls, . 2... pce se eeeewenene

BRISTOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of August 12th,
says :—Messrs. King Brothers’ latest circular
contains the following : We are pleased to be
able to report a slightly better demand for tim-
ber. The importation, though heavy compared
with last year, is not in excess of the average at
this period. Quebec Goods.— Yellow pine tim-
ber—The new arrivals have been for railway
purposes, Waney board pine still elicits en-
quiries. Red pine—We are unable to report
business, Oak remains dull of sale, ~ Birch, ~

ash, and walnut are enquired for, and the first
arrivals will command a ready sale. 7
are still arriving by steamer, but are not much
in demand. New Brunswick goods.—Spruce
deals have arrived somewhat freely ; the stiffness
of the freight market is now favorably influenc-
ing their value. Pine deals—No stocks. Birch
_ —A parcel has arrived ; large sized wood will

sell well.
—_—___@——___—_

GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal, of Angust 12th,
says:—The imports of wood to Clyde during
the past week have been light for this season of
the year ; they comprise two cargoes of Quebec
timber, one of pitch pine, one of New Bruns-
wick deals, and a cargo of Tabasco mahogany
and cedar. .

At the auction sale held here on the 9th inst.
the demand was quiet, and of the Quebec deals
catalogued the bulk were withdrawn, offers not
being considered sufficient by the brokers. A
A portion was disposed of at the prices under-
‘noted. In the selling of the small parcel
American black walnut a strong demand was
indicated for sound logs of large square.

On 9th inst., at Glasgow, Messrs. Edmiston
& Mitchells, brokers :—

_Quebee Ist pine deals— ;
10 & 11 ft. 12/24x3 2s. 8d. cub. ft,
> sole 10x3 2s. 4d. ae
x3 ** 9x3 2s. 3d. *s
Do. Ist pine planks—
6 to 14 ft. 6/13x2 2s, 1d. CG
Do. 1st pine deal ends—
7&8 ft. 6/18x3 2s.2d. “
6“ 7/18x3 28, ue
Do. 3rd pine deals —
: 11 it. 11x3
Ty ab 3

4 parcel of 18 logs American black walnut, 21 in. ay.
8q. string measure, sold at 4s. 8d. to 6s, 9d. per cub.
ft., averaging 5s. 34d.

Se
TYNE.

The Timber Trades Journal, of Aug. 12th,
says :—Another week has added a good list of
arrivals of wood cargoes to the already large im-
portations reported recently. and every branch
of wood-exporting countries appear fairly re-
presented. More Quebec cargoes are to hand,
and several more are daily expected; some
pitch pine ships are delivering in the river, and
although prices of the latter are a little weaker,
a fair even trade is being done all round in it.
For wood goods generally the demand is feeble,
with the exception of American yellow pine,
&c., and for it prices remain firm. So far this
season the appearance of cargoes leaves little or
nothing to be desired ; they are clean and bright,
and the delivery having been under sunny akies,
the wood will turn out well at a later date.
Stocks of red deals are getting larger, a great
proportion of later arrivals having been placed
to stock in Tyne Dock.

LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal, of August 12th,
says :—During the past week there has been
% eteady amount of business donein small orders,
and it is apparent that consumers are at last
beginning to realize the fact that the market is
going against them, and that from the present
appearance of things it is likely to be the case
for some considerable time tocome. One of the
best criterions of this is to be found in the fact
that there have been no wholesale transactions
in spruce deals, which are being held firmly by
the shippers’ agents for higher prices. There
are very few vessels engaged or loading in St.
John, N. B., and it seems probable that at any
rate for some time the supply will be moderate,

Quebec pine deals are also advancing in sym-
pathy with the increase of freights and insur-
ance, and there does not seem any chance of
decline. Taken all around, there is a most live-
ly tone in the market, and orders coming in
take a more animated feeling than has been
experienced for some time past.

a
LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal, of August 12th,
says :—The increase noticeable in the deliveries
last week has not been unexpected, though it
can hardly be attributable to the public sales,
these having been on a more than usually limit-
ed scale. There are undoubtedly signs of a
fresh stir in the trade in the renewed activity
in the deliveries at the docks, though the general
Feporte are not corroborative of it, At harvest

Pine deals

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

time, however, we naturally look for some im-
provement, and undoubtedly the spell of fine
weather we have been experiencing, though
short, has given outdoor work a stimulus which
may remotely affect prices in a favorable man-
ner, Inthe f. 0. b. trade several transactions
have been concluded for late shipment at very
fair prices all things considered—certainly better
than the poor values obtained at the public sales
would lead one to expect. |

On the whole, so far as the season has gone,
we think the shippers have very little to com-
plain of. At the beginning of the year they
managed to place the bulk of their open-water
and summer shipments at full prices, and the
subsequent concessions on goods for autumn
shipment were comparatively insignificant, and
even for fall shipment the present quotations
are hardly 10 per cent. below the first price list
issued in January last. This, in the face of im-

| mense stocks, both here and abroad, speaks well

for the vitality of trade, and is due to the rapid-
ly widening area of the field of consumption,
which seems eyery succeeding season to be ex-
tending more and more.
-—
WEST HARTLEPOOL,

The Timber Trades Journal, of August 12th,
says :—In the new docks several large ships are
discharging yellow pine deals and timber from
Quebec and other American ports. The Buce-

‘| phalus, with this class of wood, for Messrs.

Harrison & Singleton, is said to be the largest
sailing vessel which has ever entered these docks,
having on board upwards of 400 standards of
deals as well as 200 loads of timber.

In the big timber department of the trade
there are not so many deliveries from stocks in
pond, but there has been a better general supply
of timber lately, and orders from these are
plentiful. Oak is particularly in good demand,
and from 60 to 70 loads are going away daily ;
the first shipments of timber from Quebec are
also just now discharging, including parcels of
waney board and white pine, elm, ash, birch
and oak, and as there is scarcely any American
timber left on hand from last year’s supply, a
considerable proportion of these shipments is
certain to be sent away direct ex ship.

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street Hast,

TORONTO, ONT.

1utf

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WANTED,
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.
LiL

LEATHER
BELTING.

Chipman, Renaud & C0.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACE LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

MON TR HAL

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PARKHR&HVANS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL

BOILER FLUID COMPOUND.

Patented 5th March, 1877.

This Compound will save its Cost many times in one year by saving fuel.

It eradicates scale, and when the Boiler is once Clean a very small quantity
keeps it Clean and Free from all Incrustation.

It is perfectly harmless to Iron, and emits a clear pure Steam.

In ordering, mention the CaNaDA LUMBERMAN.

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504 St. Paul Street, MONTREAL.

J. F. LAWTON
Alexandria Saw Works

SAINT JOHN, N.B.

Saws of all kinds manufactured from
the BEST CAST STEEL that can be
procured in any Market.

EVERY SAW WARRANTED.

SAWS REPAIRED in the best manner
and on Short Notice.

Send Address for Price List, Terms, &e.
117 J. F. LAWTON.

JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NHW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

on

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MAKING A SEAPORT.

The acheme of making Manclrester(Eng., )into
a seaport is again on the tapis, and judging from
the spirit of earnestness which is animating the
advocates and promoters of the work, its accom-
plishment at a not far distant day seems highly
probable. The project is the conversion of the
River Irwell into a canal by widening and deep-
ening it suitably throughout its course, some 38
miles, to the point at which it enters the Mer-
sey, about 7 miles below Liverpool. The salt
water tide would thus be admitted, and to the
advantages of a waterway for ocean shipping
would be superadded the obvious sanitary bles-
sing of transforming what is now and has long
been, a filthy disease-breeding stream, into a
wholesome water stretch flushed twice in every
twenty-four hours by the health-giving tide from
the old ocean. The cost of the work is various-
ly computed at from five to fifteen million ster-
ling, and even at the largest sum mentioned, it
is reasonably calculated that the enormous im-
ports and exports through the canal would yield
a good return upon the investment. The large
outlay, moreover, that must be made for
wharves or docks and warehouses, and the at-
tendent increase in the value of property as a
consequence, would form no inconsiderable ad-
dition to the city’s wealth and importance, All
this means, undoubtedly, a protanto diversion of
traffic from Liverpool, the effects of which the
latter city could not but seriously feel. The
ultimate results, however, of such a work on all
the various interests involved it is difficult to
forecast, and impossible to estimate. We shall
watch with interest the outcome of the agitation
now rife in Manchester upon this matter,—
Monetary Times.

_—————
RAFTS ARRIVED.

The Quebec Chronicle gives the following list

of rafts, &c., arrived :—

Aug, 7—J, B. O. Latour, white pine, &c., Cap
Rouge.

Perley & Pattee, white pine, &ec., Hadlow
cove.

B. Caldwell & Son, white and red pine, St.
Lawrence Docks.

Fraser & MecCoshen, white and red pine, St.
Lawrence Docks.

Collins Bay Co.,

Smith & Mackey, white
Rouge.

Aug. 8—J. McRae & Co, and A. McIntyre,
staves, Indian Cove West.

Higham Lot, deals, South Quebec.

Aug, 9—John Roche, deals, Wolfe’s cove.

Aug. 10—Levi Young, red pine, Windsor
cove.

vine, etc., Sharples’ cove.
’ ’
and red pine, Cap

ce SR

asa Farmer.
Sompany is getting

A Lumber Company
The Kirby-Carpenter

things fixed so that when its stumpage on the
Menominee is used up the members of the com-
pany will have something to fall back on for a
At its nine-mile farm a barn is being
150, with 20-foot posts, with a base-
The company has

living. *
erected 36 x
ment eight feet in the clear.
several farms, all in crop, and the harvest of hay
is immense. The company will cut 700 or 800
tons of hay, and the harvest of root crops would
suffice for a large section of Ireland's population.
We shouldn’t wonder if Mv. Carpenter would
before long write a book on what he ‘‘ knows
about farming,” like the lamented ‘‘ H, G,”—
Northwestern Lumberman.
Swedish Forests,

The board of the Swedish Crown forests has
just published its review for 1880, of which the
following will no doubt interest our readers.
The whole surface of the kingdom of Sweden is
estimated at 10,051 acres, of which 8,892 acres,
or 88°47 per cent., are covered with forests. Of
these 1,409 acres are Crown forests, and the rest,
or 7,483 acres, are private property, the latter
being 74°45 per cent. of the whole area of the

kingdom.

Cement For Leather Belting.

Common elue and isinglass, equal parts,
soaked for ten hours in just enough water to
cover them ; bring gradually to a boiling heat
and add pure tannin until the whole becomes
ropy or appears like the white of an egg. Butt
off the surfaces to be joined, apply this cement
warm and clamp firmly,

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

Russian Saw Mills,

At the National Exhibition at Moscow, says
the Jronmonger, is a saw mill put up by the
Wyborg Mechanical Works, on the system
usually adopted in Finland. The framing is a
combination of timber and iron, produced in a
cheap way, and admirably suited to the wants
of Russia. The mill is complete with engine,
driving gear, hauling gear, and circular saw, the
frame beiuy capable of taking in a 30 in. log,
and with the boiler and all connections, includ-
ing strapping, is sold for about £600. ‘The work
is not of that finish seen in the frames of Ran-
somes or other English makers, but for all
practical purposes it answers the end in view by
cutting 60 trees per day of 28 ft. average length.
The fiame alone costs £240 with gearing.

A New Demand.

The Timber Trades Journal says there appear
to be some rather heavy shipments of firewood
ends just now coming forward, and it would be
interesting to know to what purpose, other than
the making of firewood chips, the wood is being
applied. We expect this demand for ends has
grown out of the enormously increased number
of small wooden boxes that are in these times
required for such multifarious purposes. ‘Thou-
sands and tens of thousands of small domestic
articles are now-a-days packed and sold* in
wooden boxes, and thus a new and exceedingly
important branch of commerce has been estab-
lished, which directly affects the interests of the
wood trade,

Sweden and Australian,

The Stockholm correspondent of the Zimber
Trades Journal says:—The cargoes shipped to
also getting very large, but the
Australian cargoes is
than the
Maraval,
probably
nearly 700 standards, is now in course of loading
at Nacka, near Sundswall, by Mr. J. A. En-
horning, for Hobson’s Bay. The Australian
trade is now very important for Norrland, and

Australia are
large
much pleasanter for the
monster steamers to Kngland.
of Glasgow,

loading of these
shipper
The

an iron ship, carrying

is developing rapidly, as I have frequently of
late had to ay out.

JACOBS 0,

TRADE

SS
THE GREAT

‘ita

ERMAN REMEDY.

ROBERT W. LOWE,

AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.
Cash advanced on Goods put in for sale. £2@°No Storage charged.

All kinds of Merc!

as th and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always on band. Agent for Hazelhurst &

THROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES,
SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

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RANKLIN, &c., &c., «

MACHINE OILS, Fro

McCOLL BROS. & Co.

.

tee, RD ek Loca

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

4

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SEND FOR PRICES, BTC.

SAW MILLS

Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run

the year round.

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves

to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-

gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without permis-
sion to E. WATT, Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
running respectively 10, 8,5 and3 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

C. NORSWORTHY & CO,,

ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mills
Lia

AMERICAN HEAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting,

RHEUMATISM, Rubber Hose,

And Cotton Hose.

Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell-
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily
Pains,

Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and al/ other

Pains and Aches.

No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacons Or
as a safe, sure, simple and cheap External
Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively
trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one suffering
with pain can have cheap and positive proof of its
claims.

Directions in Eleven Languages,

SOLD BY ALL DnaUGGISTS AND DEALERS
IN MEDICINE.

A. VOGELER & CO.,

Baltimore, Md., U. §.4.

4 hivber Packing,
| Linen Hose,

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

XT’. MWicILFROW. JR.
WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,

P.O. BOX 556.

TORONTO,

—— ee

~ ROBERTSON’S

AGHTNING CANT-DOG

GMEEEA DIR, ea GE

The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

PETER ROBERTSON,

Chaudiere

- =~ Ottawa.

6124

Farmers and Mechanics,

} Provide yourselves with a bottle of PA/N-KILLER at this season

of the year, when summer complaints are so prevalent ; it is a prompt,

safe, and sure cure. It may save you days of sickness, and you will

find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine

PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN-KILLER, and take no other mixture.

Cozoure, Ont., March 3, 1880.

I have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any-other
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years I have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. Itis an article that
seems to have combined in it all that goes to make a first-class family medicine, and
aslong as I have a house and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both,
J. E, KENNEDY

Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations.
Price 20c., 25¢., and 50c. per bottle.

Yours, &c.,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

969

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For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

GRAYS PATENT

radual Reduction Machine

The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls

and two Reciprocating Sieves.

The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the four and
middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the

large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through

-|the second or lower pair ot rolls, when a second separation is made.

Bach Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

The Machine is perfectly adjustablé, the same devices being used as
on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by a
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed

is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.

These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
desirable, as.they save the room required by two scalping reels and an
elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. s#Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY. BY

MILLER ITCHELL

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET

MON TR EHA Ta.

sarSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller

Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.
Mention this Paper.

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270

FLOORING BOARDS.

The Timber Trades Journal says it is interest-
ing to observe how the favor for flooring boards
of 6 in. and 7 in. widths has of recent years
strengthened. Some years ago the importations
of narrow boards exceeded those of the two
sizes referred to. At the time that a large
amount of common property was being erected
‘cheapness of first cost
primary, and indeed only, consideration. An
‘experience, however, of the narrow boards went
to prove that, althouyh by their use a good floor

was obtained, econoniy was not effected, and so |

favor has been extended to6 in, and 7 in. boards,
and more particularly to the 7 in., which is now

|

appeared to be the |

|

THE CANADA

OnE of the North German railways was some
time back supplied with 1,000 young oaks, for
an experiment in side planting for the sake of
the bark.

Aone the line of a proposed new road to
touch at Katahdin Iron Works, Me., operators
are preparing to get ont ship timber, knees,
hoops, and spool and yulp wood in large quanti-
ties, to be hauled by rail next winter,

THE Belleville Intelligencer says ihe last piece |

| of the timber drive passed through the harbor |
The |

boom on Monday afternoon, Aug. 21.

/number of pieces that came down the Moira

generally regarded as being the most economical | this season is largely in excess of the number

‘of all widths.

Mr. J. R. enon has purchased Messrs.

3ar- | 326,033.

which came down last year and the year before.
In 1880 the number was 232,434; in 1581,
We have obtained from the Harbor

net & Mackie’s Indian River timber limits for | Master the number of pieces which were bronght

$26,500.

is an excellent sale.

will now lumber on the Mattawa and Nipissing | 13,066 ;

districts.

It is generally supposed that this |down by the Moira this season, as follows :—
Messrs, Barnet & Mackie | Logs, 434,305 ; ties, 42,176 ;

LIVERPOOL STOCKS.

We take from the Timber

cedars, 20,137 ; jots,
posts, 4,606 ; floats, 1,121; timbers, 63.
(Tots ul, 5b ), 37D.
Trades Journal the following Comparative Table showing Stock

of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on July 3lst, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for

the month of July, 1881 and 1882 :—

| Consumption Consumption

| in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MIL

LUMBERMAN.

ADAM McKAY,

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Hingines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine E a and Boilers, Girders, Heate
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass ange and Sheet Iron Work; ake se
SUPPLIES.

144 Upper Water Street, HALIFAX, Ns. -

Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines —

° 4 = £} WITH PLAIN OR SECTIOWAL BOILER
16 H.P. if so ordered. We are testing an Engine
20H.P. every day, Intending purchasers are
invited to call at our Works and thor-
oughly examine the Champion. We use
KRUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,

Every plate tested.

Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water

,

Represents
No. 5 20-Horse Power

FIRE-PROOF

CHAMPION

SAWMILL ,

ENCINE

WITH : pressure, ; _

SECTIONAL | ose ee sb

in 5 seasons. e favorite everywhere.

SAFET vy It hasno
BOILER,

Stock, July 3.18t.| Stock, July 31st.\for the month of for the month of Q
1581, 1882. July, 1881. July 1882 ’
ee patente oh a ts tee
Quebec Square Pine... ne 582,000 ft. 158,000 ft. ) | ae 51.000 ft
““ Waney Board.. 195,000 « Bad.o00 5) 185,000 tt. PY;000 78, ;
St. John Pine......... 3,000 “* 3,000 **
‘Other Ports Pine. 80,000 41,000 * 10,000 * 4,000 ** *
Red Pine. sieve cigtaiets: 5 Waar 45,000 ** 11,000 °° 4,000 ** 4,000 *
Pitch Pine, hewn... .....+e-. 795,000 * 971,000 - 197,000 “ 183,000 *
a Sawn (Logs and Planks). . 668,000 ‘* 949,000 ** 184,000 ** 502,000 **
Dan tzi Pewee: cM sis. aiciers meres hkcakel aes eniena tele 100,000 60,000 ** 24,000 ** 14,000 ** °
‘Sweden and Norway Vir. Qh at: deena 7,000 ‘* 4,000 ** 2,000 ** = - ;
Oak, Canadian and ‘Americans; . 0. ae eg uke. 414,000 * 290,000 ‘* 23,000 ** 19,000 ** _ site, ” _
SP MBIANKG «sete cicig auty en ivisatareniente AR cine 132,000 ‘* 102,000 * 39,000 56,000 * The sectional safety boiler is manufactured Gupressiy for the >
ee Balne POCO TE On MCU LOG fh. Sh aon 83,000 * 60,000 ‘ 7,000 ** ee * ‘‘North West” trade, This boiler is so arranged that it is readily talctan apart in ca
im. ee het 44,000 ‘ 38,000 ** 4,000 * 6,000 ** par
Birch ees We. aera alan none 52/000 « 27000 « 31/000 « enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it and prevent burning ‘am
East India. Meni wcnree trem ie eed ae , - 48,000) ‘ 1,000 * 17,000 «* 32,000 ‘ We know » this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the
Greenheart . Wuthiveiateieletes) skate OF O00 nes 88,000 ‘* 24,000 ‘ 21,000 ** :
N.B.& N.S. ‘Spruce Dealissisactves aise 16,428 stds 9,682 stds, |) Bases in ark hte Western iries, lary used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the large =
Gusto Pine fi shan eainaee cate ee aye a 1,100 ‘* ea se; nization and Ranche Companies, y
MODECID GAIN ltesieieisielelUeinieley oelluvnayi iy 8,657 ‘ ba 2,651 2,177
Baltic Red Deals, &c............sesssce, sere 3,912 « 2,820 | 816 “ 12 ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA.
Norway, &c., Boards..........,... 162 ‘ 92 § 1382 ‘ Te .
fo Boardadldoring.....0cccce hace 2,727 « 2,436 | 1,681 * 855 Send for New Circular. :

LUMBERMEN’'S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co.,

“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,’

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 271

pt

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, ' JAMES T.. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton.

President. Secretary-Tveasurer,. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

EMERY ant CORUNDUM WHEELS

These Wheels are And Specially Adapted
Wire Strengthened For Saw Gumming

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability. —

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ,
GALT. | MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO. REFER TO |
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, | Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, | DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. | Lumber Merchants. *

272 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING!

Solid I2.mery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from

25,000 to 3,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only a single saw each. A one-saw mill would use one or two 7
wheels a year, costing #3 to $1 each, and when such small mills order single Emery Wheels from the factory, the express charges x
often equal the cost of the whee). There was a time when the quality of Kmery Wheels was s0 uncertain, and the demand so 7

fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in lock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled.

Tne principal sizes are:

A tad )
8x4 | 0s | at | Hol
oe 2: x; a: 12x4 | oles,
hf ee ae ee 1nd ( 3,2 and Linch.
4) 10x8 ae | .
12x2 J

Probably more wheels 12x}, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x1}. The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer is that, you don’t wanta file to touch it. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a soft saw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly asecond time (after going all over !t once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

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PRUNING FOREST TREES.

At the recent Forest Congress at Montreal |
the following paper was read by Mr. John S. |
Hioks, of Roslyn, N. Y., entitled :

““THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF PRUNING.” |

I would call attention to pruning for the ben- |
efit of the lumber product of trees, not for
beauty, only the increased value of the sawn
lumber. The value of clear in compavison with
knotty lumber is well known. The defects of
loose knots and much of the rotten lumber is
due to the want of: pruning. :

Trees when quite young have branches exten-
ding to the ground, as it grows these, if not
pruned, will die and in time produce a black
knot that will continue to extend through the
trée as long as the branch is attached, causing”
the tree when sawn to produce lumber with
black or loose knots.

Often when the tree has been standing a long

_ time the branch will decay, this decay extend-
ing to the centre of the tree, causing it to be
worthless while it looks sound on the outside,
and its condition is only known when sawn, in-
volving a loss of all expenses and costs.

Clear lumber of all kinds is only obtained on |
the outsides of the log. All logs having a cen-
ter of knots, if this can be made small and the
few knots kept sound, as they will be by being
cut off when alive and quickly overgrown. |

With the hickory and the oak there is still |
more difference, as the knotty lumber has no |
value over firewood, and as the large knotty |
oak and hickory logs are scarcely worth cutting |

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and splitting small enough for firewood.

T have now in mind a hickory tree nearly two |
feet in diameter, that for the want of pruning |
was not worth the labour to split into firewood ; |
had it been pruned early and with but a few
hour’s labour expended, it would have been |
easily worth $30 to $50. a

White oak timber, if knotty, will so check |
and warp that it is worthless.

The chestnut invariably shows the decay of |
the dying branches in the centre of the log and |
rendering the timber of but little value.

In most if not all of our more older wood-
Jands, trees are allowed to grow as nature starts
them. The worthless ones are not cut out and
replanted with those of value. It has been the |
thought of many that nature attends to all this, |
and the trees that are best suited to the soil will
grow. This error is plainly shown by the fact
that two locust trees are now growing at Ros-
lyn, L. L, that originally were brought from
Airginia by Capt. John Sands, of Sands Point,
in 1785. From these two trees and another at
_ Oyster Bay, L. bE, have grown all the valuable
locust timber on Long Island.

When we notice that the value of clear. pine
has nearly doubled in value in the past ten |
years, and is higher now than black walnut was
then, and ia still increasing in value each year, |
@hile the common or knotty pine is worth but

shows the same increase in value.

When we realize that the old growth of forests |
are melting away so fast, and that will not Jong
have the old century growth of trees to cut clear
lumber from the outsides, caring but little for
the centre, even if it is knotty fora foot or
more in diameter, it being of so little cost at
the stump that it might make but little difter-
ence.

But when timber has been planted and each
year of its growth matched, the value of prun-
ing will at once be seen as an element of profit.

Forests showing a sound growth of smooth
trees, no dead and decaying branches will at all
times have a value thae will repay all the ex-
penses of pruning and replacing trees of value
for worthless ones.

The fact is we have never cultivated our
woodlands, and do not now realize their value,
or what would be their value if in proper con- |
dition, But we will soon learn. With clear |
pine selling at wholesale for $65 per thousand |
feet ; black walnut, $100; oak, $65 to $85;
hickory, $85 to $120.

We will then scarcely believe that we have
devoted co much time to crops of a yearly
growth, and done nothing for those that take a

lifetime to harvest.
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CEDAR FOR BLOCK PAVING.

Now that cedar is likely to come extensively
into use for block paving, it is necessary to ap-
ply some test which will prevent bad or decay-
ing cedar beimg used. The Corporation of Tor-
onto, in its specifications for this kind of work,
requires that none but live cedar be put in ; but
this condition is far from being adhered to in
practice. There can be no doubt that this re- |
striction is a proper one, and we fail to see on
what authority corporation officials authorize a
departure from it. It is clear that they have
no authority to waive one of the essential con-
ditions of a contract. Cedar dies from various.
causes; from an excess of moisture, from the

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| ravages of worms, which get below the-bark and

which eat a slight distance into the alburnum or

| sap-wood ; occasionally the roots rot, probably |

from being lifted up by the frost. No cedar |
which is cut after it has died is as good as ona
cut while living, and some are quite rotten
when they die. Small cedars which die first at
the root are almost invariably rotten by the |
time the foliage withers. Cedars killed by
worms are in a state of decay when they die.
Sometimes a tree will stand erect years after it
is dead, and these years take so much out of the
wear it had in it when it died, yet we see such
cedax as this used in Toronto as short posts to
support the planks that mark the line between
the boulevards and the cedar block roadway. |

he is willing to pay for it.
A distinction should be made between live
cedar and green cedar ; though the tree should

| be felled when it is alive, it ought to be allowed

some time to dry before it ig used. None, how-

ever, seems tu have been made by the City

Council of Toronto ; perhaps because if we had

to get dry cedar, cut when alive, we should have

to postpone the making of some of our cedar |
roads. But the error is one which ought to be

corrected when opportunity offers.

We are satisfied that the rejection of every
kind of dead cedar rests on substantial grounds |
—not that some kinds of dead cedar have not |
considerable wear in them—and for some pur- |
poses they are useful; but if dead cedar were |
allowed to be used in making block pavements, |
we should bargain for rottenness and decay, |
and could not complain when we got them.

Of live cedar, that is best in which the dura- |
men or heart-wood forms the greatest propor- |
tion of the whele, and the sap-wood the small-
est part. The heart-wood is permeated by a
secretionary matter of a resinous nature, insol-
uble in water, while the mucilaginous ingredient
of the sap-wood is soluble in water. The gen-;
eral and well-known tendency of sap-woods to |
decay is not Jess in cedar than other kinds of
wood. Round cedar posts decay on the outside,
but insmall posts the decay is greatest, because |
the thickness of the sap-wood relatively to

‘the diameter of the*trees is greater. The heart-

wood of the cedar is peculiarly liable to decay,
under some conditions of growth or age. When
this decay manifests itself and proceeds far, the
gap-wood is the best part of the tree. By the
process of kyanizing, which consists of injecting
some preservatlve substance, such as creasote,
the sap-wood can be made as durable as the
heartwood ; but where this is not done, the less
the proportion of sap-wood bears to the heart-
wood the better. Very small blocks are almost
certain to be, in this way, objectionable ; and a
good rule would be to establish a minimum size,

below which no block should be used for pay- |

ing.

The mechanical decay of cedar, which com- |
mences in the live tree, and is carried on by |

grubs or worms below the bark, probably ceases
soon after the death of the tree ; for, unlike the

operations of the furniture beetle, the ravages |
of this grub are superficial, and can be traced in |

a kind of graving on the outside of the tree
when the bark is taken off. But when mechan-

ical decay ceases, natural decay, the work of low |
forms of parasitical vegetation, is very likely to

commence, and this is more likely to happen in

a tree which dies a natural death, than in et
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which is cut down in a healthy state.

must be to make the blocks decay on the outside
first. When the proportion of sap-wood is
large, the chances of decay are increased from
|two causes instead of the one which exist«
where there is no striking or pressure to resist.

But surely cedar is not the only wood in
which we ought to experiment in block-paving
our streets. Several other kinds are used in
England, and some not used there might be
tried here.—Jdfonetary Times.

FIRST CIRCULAR SAW IN AMERICA.

R. O. Hussey writes as follows to the Builder
and Wovdworker: ‘I have long known that it
was a very old invention, and have sought very
diligently to learn who first used the saw in this
country. Without presuming to certainly know
about it, I willsay that the first to use it
of which I have any information was Constant
Wyatt. In the early years of the present cen-
tury Mr. Wyatt worked at cart and wagon
making in the neighborhood which is now em-
braced in the town of Pawtucket. R. I. Atthe
time I received the information he wazs still liv-
ing, and I sought him and received from himin

| person this statement: ‘About the year 1800 I

heard by an Englishman that there was in Eng-
land a round saw in use for sawing plank, and
it seemed to me that. such a saw wonld save
much hard work. I went up to a shovel factory
and got a plate that had not been bent to shape,
and from it I cut out a saw and filed up the
teeth as well as I could and set it to going in my
shop. It was rather a rough affair but it saved
metuch labor. Afterwards I made a better
oné and used it several years, and when the war
was over I sent and got one from England-

“T had the above statement from Mr. Wyatt
| many years ago and as] have not been able to
learn of any one in this country who used one
| before him I have believed him to be the first
| maker, user and importer also, of circular saws
in America, and that to the bright town of
Pawtucket belongs not only the eredit of run-
| ning the first cotton mill, but also that of the
| first circular saw.”

Quebec.

It is reported that Richard White's white
pine timber, about 52 feet average, 164 inches
girth, has been sold at 314c. per fyot, and from
| two to three drams of Muskoka waney board
pine, 194 inches, at 353c. per foot.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says about 30
| workmen were brought from Ottawa, Canada,
by the American Lumber Company, the other
day, to begin operations at Newberry, Mich.

The intention of the corporation has been to re- |
ject them, and though the restriction is founded |
oy good reasons, this kind of cedar is yery much |

The part of such block most liable to decay is} Another year the company expects to have
the outside, which is algo,-when laid in a road- | about 1,000 men in its employ at Newberry and
bed, liable to the greatest pressure when struck, | in the Qntonagen region,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

CANADIAN LUMBER.

Cuicaco, Sept. 9.—The lumbermen had a
hearing before the Tariff Commission to-day.
The Saginaw men and others had urged a duty
of two dollars a thousand feet of lumber. Mr.
Dean, of Chicago, a wholesale and retail dealer,

longer be looked for in quantity except in five
States, and in these he gives the following
estimates of available standing timber, and the
cut for 1881 :—

took an oppisite view. He could see no pom iy en
reason why aduty of two dollars a thousand ; Feet. Feet.
feet should be paid on lumber from the neigh- Maino... danger ana eee es gs
bouring Dominion ; but he could see many rea- eee stele ble ale ee she Saree
sons why there should be no such duty. The Michigan ee, 35,000,000,000 4,400,000,000
Saginaw men the other day had estimated their | yinnesota..... ke 6,100,000,000 540,000,000

84,375,000,000 —_7,558,000,000

In other words the results of his investiga-
tions show that, taking into account all white
pine timber whether profitably accessible or not,
there nuw remains less than twelve years’ sup-
ply ; and what deductions follows from these
facts ? It is not difficult to see that the demand
instead of lessening will, with continuing pros-
perity, and enlarging population there, still
further increase, and that very soon the Cana-
dian source of supply must be looked to. We
have been told by some lumbermen that there
is still a fifty years’ supply in Canada. That,
however, does not take into consideration the
certainty, ten or fifteen years hence, of this im-
mense United States demand, which, added to
that from Great Britain and South America
and to our own local consumption, will soon tell
on our forests. It is very doubtful if, in view of
these facts, we have twenty-five to thirty years’
supply. It may be said that the pine tree is
constantly growing, but very few are aware that
it takes between seventy-five and one hundred
years for a pine to attain a merchantile size suf-
ficiently large for square timber. | But this is
not all. The general opinion among lumbermen
prevails that more pine has been burned by for-
est fires than has been cut by the lumberman’s
axe, These fires aro the more serious in this
respect that small as well as large trees are
burned, and that the soil beneath them is large-
ly ruined by the vegetable mould being as it
were eaten away. The question as to what we
are to do under the circumstances is very grave.
The provinces of Ontario and Quebec at present
derive a large annual revenue from timber lands,
and therefore have an important interest in see-
ing that our forests are not exhausted, and that
these sources of revenue are not gradually gut
off. The Dominion at large, again, is interested
in continuing in future years our export trade
in timber and lumber, and so conserving our
forests that the sources of supply will remain
undiminished. If we further recall the facts
that no industry in the Dominion wequires as
much private and banking capital, employs as
many men and is as widely distributed, as an
industry, over the whole Dominion as that of
lumber and its products, we see forcibly how
the question of the conservation of our forests
is one which must interest every section of the
country. How is this question, then, to be
settled ?

The Forestry Congress discussed the subject
of forest fires and made recommendations,
some of which, I trust, will be taken up by Par-
liament. But has the Congress gone far enough ?
Even if forest fires are entirely stopped, still
the supply of white pine remaining is insufficient
to carry us over very many years unless steps
are taken to promote the growth of the younger
trees. The true and most feasible plan would
seem to be to strictly preserve all seedling pines
from injury, to prevent the cutting down of any
under about fifteen inches in diameter at the
base,and to curtail the leases of limits to lumber-
men to a fixed period of five or seven years,
after which the limit should have a rest of
twenty to twenty-five years. This rest would
give an opportunity to the younger pines to at-
tain a merchantable size, and if followed under
a regular system over the whole country in
which pine timber limits occur, could be arrang-
ed.in such a way as to afford a continuous sup-
ply of lumber in the future and a perpetual

supply of lumber at only enough for ten years.
If that were so, it was the part of prudence to
draw from others sources. He himself was not
in full sympathy with the idea that there was
but ten years’ supply of lumber on hand in
Michigan, but still the supply was growing
rapidly less. The “‘stumpage” men had formed
combinations, and the effects was to “‘bull” the
price of lumber, which had been advancing for
the last two or three years out of proportion to
former years. He had been in the business
many years, and up to the time of the fire lum-
ber had cost him an average of $14.46 per
thousand, The year after the fire the rebate
which was allowed on iron, glass, etc., not hav-
jing extended to lumber, it cost him $16.80 per
thousand, so that the lumbermen made a profit
of over two dollars per thousand by the great
fire. In 1873 it fell to $12.72, in 1875 to $11.78,
avd in 1876 to $9. Itremained at about the
same figure from 1877 to 1879, but in 1880 a
little ‘‘boom” started, the stumpage being con-
fined to asmall number of owners, and the
average cost of the lumber in that year was
$11.62; in 1881, $13.92, and in 1882, so | far,
between $14 and $15. That was the direction
which things had been taking in consequence of
the manipulation of stumpage. He could see
no earthly reason why the American lumber in-
terest should have any protection. Corn, pork,
and beans were what entered into the lumber
business ; Illinois produced them. As to the
difference in the cost of labour he had no faith
in it. He did not see why a fool across
the imaginary line would work for $15 a month
when he could cross that line and get $20 a
month. He believed that the labour in Canada
was as well paid as in the United States. Be-
sides, the Canadians had to pay at least $1
more a thousand for freight on lumber than the
Michigan lumbermen. Another advantage
which the Michigan men had was that they
could utilize their slabs and sawdust. With
these advantages on the side of the American
jumberman he could not see why they should
be further protected by a duty of $2 a thousand.
New York, Sept. 10.—To-day’s World says :
*«The duty on Canadian lumber, as Mr. Dean,
of Chicago, showed yesterday, is one of the
greatest scandals of the whole tariff. The
Michigan lumbermen had testified before the
commission that the supply of Michigan lumber
would be exhausted in ten years at the present
rate of diminution, and they had at the time
insisted that a duty should be retained for the
purpose of restricting the importation of Cana-
dian lumber and of confining American buyers
to the rapidly dwindling American supply. A
more greedy, selfish,and scandalous demand was
mever made. Europeans look with horror upon
the recklessness with which we are using up our
national inheritance, and wonder that there is
not enough foresight in the country to adopt
some measure for keeping a constant supply of
forest timber. Our children will known what we
havethrown away, and while the Canadian for-
ests can yield us the product of all products that
it is to our advantage to import as much of as
we can, since many generations cannot repro-
duce the timber which one reckless generation
can destroy, the men who profit for the time by
this recklessness are allowed and encouraged to
argue in behalf of a duty which insures that the
denudation of our forests shall go on at a more
breakneck pace than ever.”

THE PROTECTION OF TIMBER LIMITS.

The following letter appeared in the 'Toronto
Globe :—

Str,—Among the practical results of the
Forestry Congress has been the directing of
public attention to the timber supply of the
Dominion and the United States, We find

the present systems are that they subject the
public lands to unrestricted waste for just such
length of time as the lumbermen find it profit
able, without any regard to the future; and that

owners desirous of making the largest possible

from the official reports now being issued of
Professor Sargeant, the United States special
commissioner, that, practically, white pine can no

source of revenue to the Governments of our
different Provinces. The grave objections to

they place the Governments in the position of

immediate return, regardless of the impoverish-
ment of their possessions in the near future..
Now if the regulations for the prevention of
forest fires be made more stringent and a system
of police protection inaugurated with a view to
the detection and heavy punishment of offend-
ers, and if, following this, the forests are, under
an organized plan, given periodical rests, there
is no reason why the lumber trade should not
continue in the far future, as it is now, a large
and important industry.
Yours truly,
A. T. DRUMMOND.
Montreal, Sept. 2, 1882.

FOREST FIRES.
The Montreal Herald, of Aug. 23rd, in an
article on the Forestry Congress then in session

says :—‘‘One topic broached on Monday, and

judged of such commanding importance as to
head the list of subjects to be taken up, namely,
Forest Fires, was by general consent, held for

yesterday, the members, doubtless, feeling that,

in a matter of ‘such magnitude, of such vital in-
terest to the Republic and Dominion alike, and
involving so many delicate questions, and such a
variety of conflicting opinions, it would be well
—not exactly to ‘sleep over it,” but to discuss
the matter conversationally before dealing with
it formally. The wisdom of this postponement
was fully proved by the tone of the debate
when the topic was brought up yesterday.
Members had evidently come prepared to dis-
cuss the whole question in a practical spirit, and
it was simply astonishing to observe the concur-
rence of opinions as speaker after speaker
unfolded his views. Some of the statistics
offered will, we are sure, be startling to the
general public. Those which show the enormous
value of the forest's products, eclipsing that of
every other industry, are second in startling in-
terest to those representing the fearful waste
which has been going on for years, and the
means of checking which have yet to be devised.
By a coincidence which is more than curious,
for it is as nearly demonstrated as could be,
those who took part in the debate one after an-
other placed the value of woods destroyed by
fire at ten times that of timber felled by the
lumbermen. One gentleman, it is true, mod-
estly alleged that for every tree cut another was
burned, but this was generally put aside, as not
e\en an approximation to the actual facts.

The causes of these fires were gone into to
some extent, among those specified being the
carelessness of hunters and tourists, the ignor-
ance of new settlers, the recklessness of shanty-
men in some cases, and, though it is difficult to
bring oneself to believe that such rascalities are
frequent, the deliberate firing of the forest by
lumberers’ employes with a view to providing
themselves with the chance of work in the pros-
pect of slack times. The remedy the Congress
evidently felt was harder to get at than toascer-
tain the causes of the mischief. One suggestion,
the appointment of a forest constabulary, paid
by the Gorernment or by the Government and
the lumbermen jointly, met with general favor,
and unanimous approval was stamped onaresolu-
tion offered by the Hon. Mr. Joly, to the effect
that it was the duty of the Congress to press on
the governments the necessity of taking precau-
tions for the prevention of forest fires. Among
the many sagacious suggestions offered by the
President, the Hon. Mr. Loring, United States
Commissioner of Agriculture, there was the ex-
cellent one of appointing a mixed committee of
Canadian and American delevates to make this
resolution effective.

GOOD WORK.

The work of the American Forestry Congress
recently held at Montreal, doubtless accom-
plished much good.. This will eventually be
realized, not so much in the direct benefits ac-
cruing from its deliberations as by the interest
which it arouses and the attention it will call to
matters of vital importance alike to Canada and
this country. To the active lumberman whose
energies are devoted to securing the most logs
and making the most lumber that the character
of the season and the extent of his resources
will permit, the reading of essays on forestry ;
how most effectually to conserve them; the
best methods of working timber lands in the in-
terests of the holders, of the public, and of the

revenue ; the duties of gavespinedls in regard to
of tim- —
ber bearing lands in districts where timber is —

forestry ; how to promote the e:

scarce, and how best to introduce it into treeless
regions of the west ; the protection of forests
from fire ; forests in relation to the water supply;
utility of rosdside planting, and the other kin-
dred subjects which received the attention of
this congress, may seem but visionary and impra-

cticable, but there are important considerations —

involved in all these questions and it is only by
agitation and persistent work that the worthy
aims in view can be successfully brought about.
An appreciation of the importance of these

matters and the necessity of caring for the great _

interests involved can be secured only by forcing
them before the people through such efforts as
are being made by this congress. —Lumberman’s
Gazette, P

SIBERIAN FORESTS.

Some examinations have recently been made
by exploring parties, of the character of the im-
mense forests of Siberia, The most important
timber stretch begins a little south of Dudino,
and still far north of the Arctic Circle, the
pines become tall. Here is a veritable forest,
the greatest the world has to show, extending
with little interruption from the Ural to the sea
of Ochotsk, or about 650 miles, and 4 times as
much from east to west. This primeval forest
of enormous extent is nearly untouched by the
axe of the woodman or cultivator, but in many
places devastated by great forest fires. The
forests consist principally of cembro pine, val-
ued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly
awlshaped Siberian pine, the fir and scattered
trees of the common pine. Most of these trees
north of the Arctic Circle reach a large size,
but are often far isolated from all others, gray
and half dried up with age. The ground be-
tween the trees is covered with a labyrinth of
fallen branches and stems which are frequent-
ly covered and almost concealed by luxuriant
beds of mosses. The pines, therefore, lack the
shaggy covering common in Sweden and the
bark of the birches scattered through the pines
is distinguished by an uncommon whiteness.

FIRE-PROOF JOISTS.

A Philadelphia paper notes the use of wood
joists in the construction of a fire-proof building
in that city, on Walnut street, above Fourth.
It says that, strange as such a statement may
appear, it is a matter of fact that many New
England builders, contend that the wood joists,
encased in plaster, are proof against any ordin-
ary fire, and for many reasons are much prefer-
red by them to the ordinary regulation fire
proof joists. The joists are “‘ stripped” on the
outside, and over these strips irons are run, and
on these the plaster is spread. The theory is
that in an ordinary fire these joists thus treated
will be fire-proof, and only when the fire has
reached such a fury that the building must go
anyway will they be affected. Here comes in
one of the advantages claimed for them. When
a building is being burned by a furious fire the
iron joists expand and crush out the walls and
do other damage. The wood joists would simply
be burned up without injuring the walls at all.

Aw Ottawa despatch says :—During the week
ending the 2nd of September there passed
Calumet slide 4,616 pieces of timber; Mada-
waska 5,695 pieces of timber and 5,183 sawlogs
There left Ottawa on the 6th and 7th of Sep’
tember two rafts containing 3,661 pieces of
white pine and 2,004 pieces of red pine.

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is no more effectual remedy for Cholera, Dysen-
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infants or adults, than Dr. Fowlers Extract of
Wild Strawberry.

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healthy action in the system. oils, blotches,
pimples and the various humors and blemishes
of the skin are only symptomatic of bad blood
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render its tributaries pure. Burdock Blood
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WOOD IN PAPER.

An exchange complains of the use of wood
pulp in paper-making and says that a reaction
is now setting in, and that consumers*are begin-
ing to protest against so. much wood. This re-
minds us of an amusing incident which came to
our knowledge. It seems that the proprietor of
a prominent newspaper had a strong prejudice
against wood pulp, and he was unaware of the
fact that the manufacturers who supplied him
with paper had gradually introduced the object-
ionable material into their prodnction until he
was receiving a very considerable proportion of
wood. There came a time, however, when the
manufacturers found occasion to use more rag-
stock and less wood pulp. The result was that
the newspaper man demanded to know why his
paper had deteriorated in quality. The manu-
facturer, being assured that every lot previous
to the last had been satisfactory, kept his own
counsel, and the result was that afterwards the
journal was printed on paper containing a good-
ly precentage of wood in its composition and
that no dissatisfaction resulted.

The face is that a certain, and by no means
small proportion, of wood in paper does not
impair the value of the product, but gives it
body and adapts it to receive the ink impression.
Of-course much depends on the way pulp is
manufactured, and here a very marked advance
has been made in recent years. Instead of
chopping the wood into fine bits and destroying
its fibre, the most approved processes now crush
the wood in such a way as to preserve a strong
fibre of sufficient length to felt well in the sheet.
One of the most prominent dailies in the country,
if not the most prominent, is printed on a paper
composed of 75 per cent of poplar wood. We
have seen paper containing 90 per cent of wood,
which was by no means an inferior article, and
we have seen the fly-leaves of costly books made
from wood-paper, which the expert eye could
not distinguish from rag-made material.

Among competent judges wood-pulp is not
coming into ill-repute, but is growing in popu-
larity ; and it is well that this is so, for the
ever increasing demand for paper has made a
raw material cheaper than rags imperative.
Every innovation on long established methods
is viewed with apprehension by the conservative
ones, and wood-pulp will naturally come in for
its full share of abuse from those who know lit-
tle of its true character and who are only too
ready to attribute to it any defect in the pro-
duct. Substitution is, nevertheless, the order
of the day in manufactures.—Lumberman’s Gaz-
ae.

The Endurance of Woods.

In tests made astothe durability of woods
results have varied. Pieces of wood two and
five-eights inches square, buried one inch in the
ground decayed in the following order: Linn,
American birch and aspen in three years;
willow and horsechestnut in four years ; maple,
red beech and birch in five years; elm, ash,
hornbeam, Lomrbardy poplar in seven years;
rebina, oak, Scotch fir, Weymouth pine and
silver fir decayed toadepth ofa half ineh in
seven years ; larch, common juniper, Virginian
juniper and arbor-vite were uninjured at the
expiration of seven years.—WNorthwestern Lum-
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BELTING

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1876
1877
1879
1880
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Hamilton,
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The, World's Iron Trade.

A critical estimate of the annual iron product
of the world shows the yield to be close upon
nineteen and a half million tons a year, Statis-
tics for the more important countries are obtain-
able as late as 1881. For the others it is assum-
ed that the yield has not fallen off since the
latest figuries reported. Under ‘‘ other coun-
tries,” in the table below, are included Canada,
Switzerland, and Mexico, each producing about
7,500 tons a year, and Norway, 4,000 tons a
year.

Year Gross Tons.

Great Britain............ 1881 8,377,364
United States............ 1881 4,144,254
Gepwmtannyristects's'ciee cies ssc 1881 2,863,400
NTaNCON plese edsa ects dsiste/as 1881 1,866,438
Belgiumaly./.susieirectselrcelee 1881 622,288
Austro-Hungary......+.. 1880 448,685
Swedeniiasarisicpici- eters: 1880 399,628
DMXEMBPULG sales, vale seis 1881 289,212
THER De baden cuoondanaone 1881 231,341
TWbalyicesisciceceidrs evesiec. 1876 76,000
SPAisecccsccscscenee «oe 1873 73,000
MIPKCY soe fle see ne apie 40,000
SAPAMMaiaicsicwe tits « svilacee 1877 10,000
All other countries ...... - 46,000

Lud Ol lanesa@ecwouboonobasoaode 19,487,610

The first four countries produce 88°4 per cent
of the world’s iron supply ; the first two 64°3
per cent ; the first 43 per cent. The chief con-
sumer is the United States, 29 per cent; next
Great Britain, 23°6 per cent; these two using
more than half of all.

A DRIVE of 9,000,000 feet of logs and 180,000
ties for the Northern Pacific railroad is about
starting down the Yakima in Washington Ter-
ritory. They were attached to satisfy a claim
of $50,000 by the government for stumpage, the
timber having been cut on government lands.
At last accounts the railroad had rebonded the
logs, but the ties remained in the hands of the

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FORESTS SACRIFICED TO LEATHER.
Ono of the handsomest trees in California is
generally known by the common name of chest-
nut oak. It is a tall, slim tree, having limbs
like the chestnut tree; it is evergreen, and
never grows in. open grounds. Its habitat is
nearly limited to that of the redwood, or more
accurately to that of the madrono. It is the
only oak in that vicinity which furnishes a
bark suitable for tanning leather. At least, it is
the ony oak bark that has ever been used in
that state. Now, the leather business has been
unusually good in that state for the two or three
years last past. Over large districts this beaut-
iful chestnut oak is slashed down for the bark.
The trunk is peeled and then left to decay ;
great openings are made in the forests and the
sun is letin, evaporating the moisture so rapidly
that these trees do not propagate. The result
will soon be that this immense waste will ter-
minate with the destruction of this tree, and
decay of the fallen timber. :

What wil the tanners do when the -tree dis-
appears, or is 80 remote and inaccessible that it
cannot be reached? In the Eastern States
hemlock is extensively used for tanning, but the
latter is not found in California. For at least a
quarter of a century experiments have been in
progress to find some substitute for the tanning
‘of leather. Various chemical processes have
been introduced. But none of them have taken
the place of bark, either because they were too
expensive, or did not make a good quality of
leather. There are many barks and many drugs
which have astringent properties, but the discov-
erer has not yet hit upon the cheap and satia-
factory process by which bark can be dismissed,
and the chemical can be substituted. When all
the chestnut oak of the Pacific coast has disap-
peared, ax it will within a dozen years at the
present rate of destruction, what are the tanners
going todo? Will they find a new and satia-
factory process? Why not findit now, and £0
let a few of the trees stand over for the benefit
of another generation ?

The price of tan bark in the coast counties
thas advanced more than fifty per cent in the
Jast three or four years. It is still advancing,
The bark men now go twenty or thirty miles
from the coast, or from the nearest railroad.
'They climb almost inaccessible mountains, strip
the bark and draw it. out on sleds, or chute it
down the mountains in troughs. With the
greater labour of getting it, of course, the price
must advance. But when there is no more,
then will necessity become the mother of inven-
tion? Surely, a satisfactory preparation for
tanning leather ought not to be beyond chemi-
wal discovery. That it has not yet been reached is
evident from the fact that tanners in California
are paying the largest price for bark ever paid,
and that they have not yet adopted any one of
+he chemical processes which from time to time
have been introduced. ‘The chemist is now
wanted at the front who can show tanners how
to make good leather without the use of tan-
bark.—The Lumber World. ‘

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FOREST PRESERVATION,
At the recent meeting of the American For-
estry Congress at Montreal, the following paper

_ entitled ‘“‘Tho Preservation of Forests from

Wanton Destruction, and Tree planting,” was
yead by Mr. John Dougall, editor of the New
York Witness :—

The greater part of the North American con-

‘tinent was covered with forests when first

invaded by Baropeans. These forests had stood
for many azes undistarbed, except by the slow
decay of one generation of trees, if we may so
speak, and the slow growth of another. These
operations had been going on simultaneously
sinoe the creation, or since the last great con
vulsion of nature, and tha annual falling of
Jeaves and the gralual dscay of branches and
trunks had covered the earth with a vegetable
mould of considerable depth.
A UNIVERSAL MINE OF WEALTH.

This mould, possessing all the elements of
fertility, was au immonse treasure, everywhere
abounding, and tempting the settler to clear
away the trees and reap the benefit of the virgin
soil. When trees were cut down, a crop, which
had probably required several hundred years ta
grow was reaned in a few weeks or years, there:

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

by leaving the earth bare, and the vegetable
mould was used up in @ few years by continued

cropping in wheat, corn and potatoes. The}

writer knew an excellent bush lot which pro-
duced great crops at first to bs reduced in less
than ten years to mere rocks and stones. And
this process of exhausting the vegetable soil
went on everywhere as fast as settlements ad-
vanced. Of course where the subsoil was good
and turned up in part to mix with the vegetable
mould fertility continued much longer, but, in
course of time, all, except prairie lands, were
reduced so much in fertility as to require the
application of fertilizers at great expense. Had
the soil at first required these fertilizers the pro-
gress of settlement would have been exceeding-
ly slow or more probably there would have been
no progress at all.
WAR AGAINST TREES AND ITS EFFEOTS.

The labor of cutting down great trees, cutting
them into short lozs, and piling them up in log
heaps to burn, was, however, so great, that a
feeling of dislike to trees as the settlers’ natural
enemy became general, and the vengeance
against them so great that in extensive, regions
the land was completely bared, and thus ren-
dered not only unsightly but unsheltered.
Bleak winds had full play and droughts parch-
ed the earth. What was even worse, the clear-
ing on the hills and mountains by. the settlers,
the lumbermen and forest fires left the snow of
winter exposed to the spring sun ; and the sud-
den melting and running off of this accumula-
tion of frozen water made dangerous floods in
the streams in early summer and left those
streams nearly dry in the hot season.

OALLING A HALT.

At length the evil results of indiscriminate
cutting down of trees began to be preceived.
The improvidenco of previous generations was
lamented, and efforts to conserve what forests
were left and to plant trees gradually became
popular. The first class of efforts was directed
to preserving a few acres of the original forest
in each farm where that still could be done, and
merely thinning’ the treos for firewood, fencing,
etc., thus leaving the smaller trees room to grow
more rapidly. The grove thus preserved be-
came one of the most necessary and valuable
portions of the farm, and that without any
labor of ploughing, sowing or cultivating. It
also afforded a delightful shade in hot weather

for man and beast.
FORESTS IN THE TERRITORIES.

The preservation of the vast forests in the
Territories belonging to the nation attracted at-
tention also, and laws were enacted to protect
them from wanton waste. Secretary of the In-
terior Schurz distinguished himself for endeav-
ouring to enforce these laws, which was very
difficult of exeoution on account of the oppor-
tunities lumbermen have in an almost uninhab-
ited region for cutting trees on Government
land, and the frequency of forest fires kindled
by careless Indians, hunters and trappers, lum-
bermen and settlers. These fires often do more
damage to forests in a few days than lumbermen
could do in as many years, and how to prevent
them is yet an unsalved problem.

FORESTRY LAWS,

The only remedy and that only a partial one
that oan be suggested, for the wanton destruct-
ion of forests is a national system of Forestry
laws somewhat similar to those of France, Gar-
many, Austria, Norway, and other European
countries, which prohibit under severe penalties
the injury or destruction of trees by unaythoriz-
ed persons; and also the kindling of fires, or
even smoking in the woods. A forest police
was created to see to the execution of these
laws, and at che same time providing for the
utilizing of forests by gradual thinning out and
selling the largest trees, 80 as to leave more
room for the smaller ones. In this way the
public forests are an annual source of revenue,
and after centuries of such management they
are in as good condition as they were at first.

JUDICIOUS THINNING.

In passing through Plattsburgh, N. Y., once
the writer saw the Saranac thickly covered with
sawed lumber, aud he asked an old gentleman
if that river was not yet lumbered out, The
reply was “I have knownit for sixty years, and
the quantity of lumber coming down has been
pretty much the same all the time, . There is as
much now 9s thore was sixty years ago.” This

shows the result of a judicious system of thin-
ning forests.

A COMMISSIONER OF WOODS AND FORESTS.

If the United States, and each State had a
department of woods and forests with a suitable
head and the necessary subordinates, much
could be done, not only for the preservation of
forests belonging to the public, but to persuade
settlers to leave a suitable portion of their farms
in wood; and to counsel from time to time in
public documents, not only care in husbanding
present forests, but some general system of
tree planting by States, corporations, and indi-
viduals, so as to provide a supply of timber for

the future.
TREK PLANTING.

The second branch of this great subject is tree
planting, and here credit must be given to the
U.S. Government for its encouragement of this
necessary work in the prairies. “The law giving
160 acres to anyone who will plant apd main-
tain for a few years 40 acres of tress, has had a
great effect already in providing for a future
supply of timber in the prairie States, those
groves will also break the terrible prairie bliz-
zards, and, probably, to some extent, attract
rain-clouds to mitigate prairie droughts. A fine
spirit of tree planting has also been manifested
in many cities and villages; and ‘‘ Arbor Day,”
or a day set apart in spring for tree planting,
has become, in some parts of the couutry, an
institution for the purpose of beautifying streets
and public and private grounds.

PLANTING TREES ON PUBLIO ROAD-SIDES.

The public roads should be lined on both
sides with trees, which, when grown, would do
something towards sheltering and beatifying the
country everywhere; but along the railroads there
should be something more than isolated trees.
There should be a rather broad belt on the
windy side, thickly planted with the various
kinds of trees needed for repairing the roads.
This belt would shelter the railway from storms,
catch and retain the winter’s snows which give
us so much trouble, and, before many years,
supply much useful timber when the supply
from other sources might be exhausted.

TREE-PLANTING ON FARMS.

Every farm should have a belt of timber
planted all along its windy side, this belt, not
less than fifty feet wide, should be planted
thickly with the various kinds of trees that

| grow best and fastest in the neighbourhood, the

thinning of which for useful purposes would
soon be valuable, whilst the shelter it would
give from prevailing winds would be invaluable.
All swamps not covered with trees should be
planted with red and white cedar and tamarac,
all of which grow best in damp ground, and
produce most excellent timber for various pur--
poses. The leaves also of these trees would ab-
sorb the unwholesome air which swamps gen-

erate.
STONY GROUND,

There is on many farms more or less of ground
so rocky that it will not repay the expense of
cultivation, and all such spots should be planted
with trees. Those may be got out of the woods
or farm nurseries; or what would be easier,
cheaper and probably more effectual, the seeds
of various kinds of trees could be sown, imitat-
ing as nearly as possible the natural processes
which have produced all the forests of the
country. The seeds of different trees should be
gathered in the woods just at the time that they
fall naturally, and they should bs immediately
planted in little shallow holes among the stones,
and covered with a little earth. There the
rains of autumn, the snows of winter, and the
sunshine of spring would bring up quite a crop
of young trees, which should be fenced in from
cattle and left to themselves. They would re-
quire no labor after the first sawing and fencing
except subsequent thinning out from year to
year of those that were too crowded or most val-
uable for economie purposes. If hickory nuts,
black walnuts, butternuts, chestnuts, and the |
see ls of sugar maples, pines and spruces were
any of them or all of them sown every here and
there over the place intended for a grove the
most valwable kinds and those that thrive best
could be ultimately let to become great trees.
After ten years the annual thinnings of this
grove for wood, fencing, hop poles, railroad ties,
ete., would probably make it as valuable a part
of the farm as any other, and when the black

wi nut

grove would be very great. The present race of
farmers may say they would not live to see the
trees 6 fit for the cabinet

that whether the owner sold it or left it to his
children. Chi.
A FORESTRY COMMISSION. © ©.

What is very much needed as a preliminary
the covering of a considerable portion
with thesé groves is the advice of sci
experts as to the kind of trees suitable to
ferent soils, the rapidity of their growth and the
relative value of their wood. This information
could be collected and scattered by a judicious

commissioner of woods and forests in ~
just asthe fish commissioners now give 8

mation about fishes. To plant or sow

of trees is just'as necessary as to hatch and dis-~

tribute millions of food fishes.
THE DOMINION. ,
With respect to the Dominion of Canadathere
is great need {ny-tree planting in tho fertile yal-
ley of the St. Lawrence for a considerable dis-
tance around Montreal. and still more need in
the prairies of the North-West. In the latter
region of vast capabilities, to which much at-
tention is now turned, a system of granting
land on. condition of planting trees might be
most advantageously introduced now, as every
year will render such an arrangement more
difficult. The other provinces of the Dominion
are still well supplied with timber, and the
system of selling ‘‘ timber limits” to lumber-
men is conservative of the forests, but there is
need for great precaution against forest fires or
wateful uses of valuable timber. A capable
commissioner of woods and forests for the
Dominion would therefore prove a very valuable
functionary, if he were not only an expert, but
an enthusiast in Forestry, as otherwise his ap-
pointment would merely add another salary to

the expenses of Government.

THE GREAT NORTHERN FOREST.

The Toronto Globé says:—The great forest
which bounds Hudson Bay on the east and ex-
tends up the interior of East Main and Labra-
dor to Ungava Bay and Hadson Straits, six
hundred miles north of Moose Factory, attains
its greatest characteristic development just
south of James’ Bay, which lies nearly midway
between the northern and southern limits of the
peculiar trees which compose the great northern
woods. Some trees, such as the Banksian pine
and the spruce, which along their southern lim-
its in Central Ontario are almost valueless com-
mercially, here become giants of the forest, and
are valuable for timber. The list of trees which
flourish at James’ Bay or in its drainage basin
includes, according to Professor Bell, the spruce
(two feet or more in diameter), the tamarac,
balsam poplar (luxuriant), Banksian pine, sil-
ver fir, arbor vite, elm, white pine, and red
pine, and of lesser importance the poplar,
mountain ash, and mountain maple. As James’
Bay is as near to Liverpool as is Quebec, the
future of the district as a lumbering country
looks hopeful. -

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STEAM OR SAIL.

The London Timber Trades Journal says :—
With the absorption of the Atlantic wood carry-
ing trade by steamships we shall get the colonial
goods here at a freight charge that will bring
them much nearer to those from the Baltic.
The fact that large steamers can partly load up
with other commodities in addition to deals
much readier at the North American ports than
they can in the Baltic will influence the rates in
that direction considerably. The great draw-
back to low quality dea's from the westward
has been the heavy freight charge on them, but
with this reduced to a trifle more than from the
north of Europe ports a great impetus will be
given to the consumption, and we shall see
fresh sources of supply developing in every
direction. Places that are now too remote to
cull from, owing to the heavy cost of carriage,
will be brought within paying distance of Que-
bec and the other ports when the Atlantic
freights are some 40 per cent. less than now rule,
whith will probably be the case before many
agasons pass cyer our heads,

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none the would the growth of
increase the value of the farm every :

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To the Canadian ports, with few exceptions,
"sailing ships offer no inducements to cha terers
that can entitle them to a preference over
steamers. The small outports here as a rule do
not import pine, as the Atlantic voyage necesi-
tates large vessels being employed in the trade,
and to the large central ports here it is not so
material the size of the cargo that is imported,
but with steam vessels of great size bringing
part cargoes all objections to their employment
are removed, and it can be only a question of
time as to the total extinction of the old class of
yessela-in the pine and spruce trades.
The Carmona arrived this week from Quebec,
though over 2,000 tons, discharged into the
- Surrey Commercial Dock under 700 standards
of pine deals (of course being loaded up with
other goods), and is, we believe, the largest ship,
steam or sail, that has ever entered the docks
mentioned. We alluded to the fact last year,
when she brought then as now a portion of her
eargo of deals, which she delivered into the
Victoria Docks, whence they were barged into
theSurrey Commercial,that the latter were capa-
ble of accommodating vessels of even larger ton-
nage than the Carmona. We understand the
Dock Superintendent guaranteed 23ft. of water
on the ledge at the main entrance at Rother-
hithe. What a vista opens up for the timber
trade of the metropolis in the contemplation of
- the timber fleet being composed of vessels of
this large class !

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STEAMERS IN THE WOOD TRADE.

A correspondent of the London Timber Trades
Journal says :—

S1r,—I think it just as well to make answer

to the letter contributed last week by “‘ W.V.,”
although all the arguments he urges have been
replied to.

Reference is made to the relative carryirg
powers of steamers and sailing vessels. Doubt-
less sailing vessels carry as much in proportion
to their bulk as do steamers, but they are not
capable of carrying anything like so much in
proportion to the cost of working a voyage.
The matter of bulk then is one of no conse-
quence. ,

There can be no doubt but that timber im-

porting as it is now carried on at the small out- |;

ports is practically a doomed branch of com-
merce. So long as the existing sailing vessels
will swim it may be possible to charter them to
bring over wood, but, as wood freights are sure
to cheapen very much, it will be almost impos-
sible to work sailing vessels at steamer freights
without loss. The foreign shipowner has had
td snbmit to the inevitable whenever steam has
entered into competition, and the wood-carrying
trade will afford no exception to this rule,
The force of the competition which steamers
will offer in the near future will lie in the low
freight that will be accepted. Another impor-
tant feature is that foreign shippers will prefer
toload steamers. It is better that merchants
at the outports should speedily recognize the
altered state of affairs, and be prepared to
gradually conform their business to the changed
conditions, rather than to persevere in what,can

only be a losing game.— Yours,
SHIPOWNER.

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Aug 25—Richard Nagle, white and red pine,
‘Cap Rouge.

Aug 26—J. R. Booth, white and red pine,
Woodfield Harbour.

Bell & Hickey, white and red pine, St. Law-
rence Docks.

Aug 28—Sundry lots, deals, &c., South Que-
bec.

Aug 29—J. L. Lyon and Son, pine and oak,
Indian cove east.

Aug—Ross & Co., white pine, &c., Cap
Rouge.

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WaAsHINGTON territory boasts the widest gauge
railway yet reported. It is an eight-foot gauge
logging road running back from Skagit river.
The rails are wood, eight by eight inches, The
cars are large and are carried on twelve wheels
of nine inches face with double flanges.

A LARGE quantity of first quality of pine
timber is in the railroad yard at Chateaugay,
N. Y., awaiting shipment to England, It was
cut during last winter by Canadian parties at
the head of Chateaugay lakes, floated down to
the forge, and thence hauled by teams to the
station. Some of the sticks are two feet square
and 20 feet long.

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Tur Timber Trades Journal says :—The mar-
ket for spruce deals on the west coast continues
to steadily advance, and every probability of a
further rise is presented to us, Doubtless many
of the large buyers inland hold considerable
stocks of spruce, but the feeling abroad is that
the supply is likely to be limited, and consumers
are naturally enough anxious to secure them-
selves against any such contingency as running
short of the stuff.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Up in
British Columbia, contiguous to the Puget
Sound lumber district, where the enormous firs
grow plentifully, there are some pretty tall
tree cutting in more senses than one, as well as
on the Sound. Recently Angon C, Fraser took
a contract for getting out $12,000 worth of spars.
It took just 37 days by the telephone to get out
these spars, and during the same period 1,200, -
000 feet of logs was gotten out.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—There
_ are now five logging camps on the Snoqualmie,
in Washington Territory, putting in an average
60,000 feet of logs daily. The camps are oper-
ated mainly by settlers who are unable to work
full crews. The water is low, and nothing in
the way of driving can be done till there is a
rise. The drives on the Yakima have been
clean and successful, and are finished for the
season, The railroad operators have taken 7,-.
000,000 feet of logs to Ainsworth, W. T,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Leatuem & Suirn, the Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,

lumbermen have a new and important enter-
prise under way. They will erect a mill shortly
on the west shore of Green Bay, which will cut

cedar shingles exclusively. ‘The intention is to

have the mill in operation this fall, and keep up

work all winter. There is an abundance of
cedar in the vicinity. It is intended to turn
out 20,000,000 shingles the coming winter.

W. T. Pricz and N. C., Foster, are building
arailroad from Fairfield, Wis., which penetrates
east for 15 miles into the extensive tracts of

pine land owned by them. It will be of the
usual gauge and run a locomotive and cars dir-
ect from the stump to the mill, a plan much in
vogue in Michigan, but little adopted in Wis-
consin, The northern lumbermen will no doubt
continue to get down to business in this fashion,

THE FORESTRY CONGRESS.
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman.
Dear Sir,—Your paper of Sept. 1st has
come to hand with the report of the Forestry
Congress at Montreal. Allow me to suggest,
and it may be gracefully added in another issue,
that the success of this very successful meeting in

0 | the interests of forestry were mainly due to the

untiring efforts and thoughtful provisions that
had been made in advance by Mr. Wm. Little,
of Montreal, who had notified all he could reach,

had arranged with the transportation lines for

concessions, had secured elegant rooms and ac-
commodations for the meetings, and, in a word,
had devoted himself wholly to the cause of the
Forestry Congress ever since the adjournment of
the Cincinnati meeting.

The selection of such a man to be our corres-
ponding secretary, with the honest and earnest
vote of thanks which was heartily passed, are
but an expression of the feeling of obligation
under which the society universally feels to our
worthy corresponding secretary, Mr. W, Little.
So says A MEMBER,

OUR WANING FORESTS,

Under this heading a Connecticut correspond-
ent of the American Agriculturist takes a more
hopeful view of the subject of the demolition of
our forest than other writers on the subject. He
claims that only one-tifth of the area of a country
need be left in wood to secure its highest pro-
ductiveness in farm crops, and says that this
point has not yet been reached in some parts of
the seaboard States, yet in other parts it has
been somewhat passed, and there isa deficiency
of wood for fuel and timber. ‘‘ The alarmists
overlook the most important fact that very
much of the timber land that is cleared in the
older States is very soon renewed by natural
agencies, There isa regular system of growth
and clearing, and timber and fuel are as much
reliable money crops as corn and potatees. On
fair, average, soil, a forest will renew itself once
in 25 years. It would probably pay better to
stand 30 or 40 years, but it is available, and can
be turned into ready money every twenty-fifth
year, A farmer with twenty-five acres of forest
can clear an acre every year, with no dominu-
tion of woodland. In the rural districts of Con
necticut, with which we have been familar for
the last fifty years, there has been no waning of
forests, Ship-timber, near seaports, has grown
scarce and high, but the price of wood for fuel
is no higher, and in some markets is even cheap-
er than 50 years ago. The census shows that
in the exclusively agricultural towns there has
been no increase of population, and in some of
them a decrease during the last 40 or 50 years,
so that there is no more demand for fuel and
timber to-day than there was in the days of our
grandfathers. Wood for fuel, except in the
shape of kindling and charcoal, has gone
out of use in our cities and villages on the
seaboard and along the line of our railroads,
Farmers, not a few, within four or five miles of
these villages, are beginning to use coal, and the
base-burner, once in the parlour or sitting room,
soon drives out the wood fires and stoves from
the rest of the house. Coal is found to be far
cheaper, and a cleaner and more convenient fuel
than wood, even for those whe own wood lots,
Kerosene is also becoming available for heating,
and we see no propect in the future that wood
for fuel will ever be any more in demand than

it ie to-day. It is doubtful if it ever will be
dearer for lumber. Iron is taking its place in
ships, bridges, machines, houses, and public
buildings, and the demand for iron, stone, and
brick, as the most desirable materials for build-
ings, is likely to increase as the country increases
in wealth, In some of these rural districts
there is more danger of a relapse into barbarism,
than of exterminating our forests for the the ad-
vance of high farming and civilization. In 75
of our farming towns there was a decrease of
12,000 in population during the last decade,
which means an increase of woodland.”

This writer lives in the rural districts of Con-
necticut, where decreasing population and con-
venience of coal and lumber markets render a
resort to the forests unnecessary, except to
gather switches for the common school-room and
bean poles for the garden.—Lwmberman’s
Gazette,

THE STUMPAGE TAX IN NEW BRUNS-
WICK.

Mr David Wark, in a letter to the St. John’s
Globe complains that, in the future sale of tim-
ber berths, in New Brunswick, the $8 mileage
now deducted from the stumpage tax will not
be allowed. He gives a historical sketch of the
growth of the stumpage tax, with a view of
showing the New Brunswick lumbermen are
now subjected to greater burdens than ever
before. He points out that the export duty on
lumber was substituted for stumpage in 1843.

It was fixed at 1s. per M. on sawn lumber and
1s, per ton on pine timber ; 10s, mileage was not
so much intended as a source of revenue as to
give the operators a legal control over the
ground, but the late Mr. Rankine from North-
umberland, who, from his great experience, was
better able to judge than any other member of
the House, estimated that it would yield from
2hd. to 3d. per M., supposing the average tim-
ber lands would yield 40 M. or 50M. per mile
annually, Thus the only burthen imposed on
the trade, was not more than 1s. 3d., say 25
cents per M. Many years after the mileage was
raised to $4, making the whole impost thirty
cents.

**When the Washington Treaty rendered the
repeal of the export duty necessary, the Domin-
ion made us a permanent grant in lieu of what
we collected on the U. Smtimber, of $150,000
annually, It must be admitted that this was
ample for the sacritice we made, and left no de-
ficiency to be provided for, even by continuing
the 30 cents impost, yet the government at once
imposed 60 cents stumpage, which they soon
after advanced to 80 cents, and now they give
notice that the $8 mileage heretofore credited in
the stumpage will no longer be refunded.
Therefore, if Mr, Rankin’s estimate made forty
years ago that, that 10s. mileage was equal to 5
cents per M., there can be little doubt that the
$8 now to be imposed will be equal to 20 cents
per M., raising the actual cost to $l. Parties
well acquainted with the subject have estimated
that the changes in the Dominion tariffs have
added 60 cents to the cost of getting out 1M.
of lumber, This added to the local tax make
$1.60, a remarkable contrast to the 25 cents of
former years.”

Mr. Wark admits that lumbermen are willing
to pay even a higher stumpage on private land ;
but then he contends that no comparison can
be drawn between the partially exhausted
crown lands and such lands as are in possession
of the N. B. Railway. If New Brunswick
lumbermen are subject to higher imposts than
the lumbermen of other provinces, the disad-
vantage they labor under must work seriously
against their success.— Monetary Times.

HEMLOCK LUMBER.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Hem-
lock is not coming to the fore as fast as it
should, considering the high price of pine,
Hemlock lumber would materially lessen the
expense of building if it could be obtained, and
would be used. There exists some silly object-
ions to its use, which should be speedily over-
come. If the builders in the west were fully
acquainted with the merits of hemlock for
dimension, siding and fencing, there would be a
demand for it that would bring it into the mar-
ket. Not long ago it would have been thought
a reckless business enterprise to stock a yard in

later.

‘could be prepared similarly to poplar, It has a

Chicago with yellow pine exclusively, but now
that it is done, the demand is such that at all
times it has not been easy to meet it. There is
no reason why a yard that sold nothing but
hemlock should not thrive equally well if the
proprietors of it used the necessary push.
Hemlock stumpage is so cheap that the lumber
could be sold for several dollars less per thous
and than pine, and for Many uses the preference
should be for the former. No better wood
could be used for corn cribs, the construction of
which consumes an immense amount of lumber
every year. Carpenters in the west will be the
first ones to raise serious objections to the use of
hemlock, on account of the unpleasantness
handling it, but their ilk have used it in the
east for many years, and still survive. The —
men who do the building are the ones who
should have their say about it, as it- is their
money that settles the bills, and their interests
all around that are at stake. Inthe meantime,
men with business foresight are buying large
quantities of hemlock, and will hold it until the
demand comes, which is certain to, sooner or

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LOOTING LOGS,

The Muskegon, Mich., Booming Company’s
patrol force of about a dozen mien, whose busi-
ness it has been to scour the lake shores for a
distance of 35 or 40 miles, beaching Muskegon
logs that had gone astray, often finding large
numbers scattered about at different places,
finally struck a batch of Muskegon marked logs
in the Grand Haven harbour, where they had
got mixed with the other logs, and many of them
had no doubt been investigated by Grand
Haven saws. The company and the interested
Muskegon log owners amassed their forces,
boarded some tugs and set off for Grand Haven.
There they found 78,000 feet of lumber cross-
piled and 368 logs, all of which was claimed as
the property of the Muskegon parties. The ex-
pedition very coolly went to work to load the
lumber on the propeller McDonald, when the
sheriff put in an appearance and demanded,
officially,’that the lumber loading should cease.
On being questioned he admitted he had no
writs or documents, but said a man named
Willard had charge of the logs which have the
Muskegon marks, and that Sid. Clark had
charge of the lumber, which had been sawn by
the thousand at Bowers’ mill. The campaign
was executed on a recent Sunday, and the
Sheriff could not well obtain the papers he
wanted. However, on having the facts in the
case presented, he concluded not to interfere.
The property, to the ainount of about $1,000, :
was secured and safely taken to Muskegon. It |
was to have been sold, and the avails divided q
pro rata among the Muskegon log owners of j
last season, and the looters will probably suffer.
—WNorthwestern Lumberman.

COTTONWOOD FOR PULP.

The Southern Lumberman advocates the erec
tion of numerous pulp-mills along the Mississ-
ippi and other streams, to utilize the immense
quantity of cottonwood which grows in the
South, and can be had in many instances almost
for the asking. This is upon the ground that it
is the cheapest and best material for the pur-
pose, and quite likely to take the place of po
lar and the loblolly pine of North Carolina
in this industry. The cottonwood, it is thought,

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stronger, tougher fiber, is a whiter wood, and is
therefore better suited for paper making. It
cheapness, and the enormous quantities which
are found along the banks of navigable streams,
particularly the Mississippi river, would cause
it soon to displace every other material used
for this purpose. It is instanced that the cost
of transporting the poplar used to the more
northern points where the mills are located is
considerable, yet the profit of paper making is
large. Delaware mills go clear to North
Carolina for wood, whereas if the operations
were in the midst of the timber, the cost of
manufacture would “undergo an important re-
duction. According to the figures given, woods
which could be had for a dollar per cord, when
transported to the northern mills reaches the - .
sum of $10-per cord. There is market enough -
in the South to support such enterprises, while
the cheap cost of manufacture and the reduction

in the transportation of raw material, would
place the southern mills in lively competition
with northern industry. i
Denne el
* NEW SECOND FOREST GROWTH.

A correspondent of the Worthwestern Lumber-
man from Pottsdam, N. Y., says :—Before
leaving this section I must say a word about its
forests—not the standing timber in the mount-
ainous region to the southward, from whence
the mills derive their supplies, but the forests
that remained after the farms had been partial-
ly cleared. Twenty years ago there was plenty
of the primeval growth still standing, and the
maples that were “ tapped” for sugar making
were mostly old trees. Now the original hard-
wood growth has nearly disappeared, but the
forest is still there, a second growth having
taken the place of the first. Im one sugar-
bush” that I remember as a boy, the ancient
maples have either fallen before the winds or
been cut down ; but where once stood one tree
that used to furnish sap, three have taken its
place. The same number of acres of forests are
there, but the old woods that I knew asa boy
have disappeared. The sizeable maples that
have taken the place of the old ones were mere
“ staddles” 20 and 30 years ago. This shows
that the fear that the country will eventually
be denuded of forests is largely groundless. I
should say that northern New York is better
supplied with hardwood timber to-day than it
was 20 years since. The trees, it is true, are
smaller, but they are much more numerous, and
are growing rapidly. Thisis a country natural
to timber, and is better adapted to forest cul-
ture than any I know of, for the reason that it
is fit for nothing else, while trees flourish on the
rocky soil finely.

In speaking of the second forest growth of
this section it must not be inferred that pine,
cedar and hemlock are as abundant as they
once were. These merchantable woods have
nearly all disappeared before the consumer’s
demand. There is still considerable cedar and
tamarack in the swamps, but the majority of it
has been cut off. A thick second growth has

* succeeded, which is being used for hop poles to

alargeextent. Getting out hop poles is a lead-
ing industry here in the winter. They sell for
five and six cents each, and, on some farms, fur-
nish a considerable revenue. Cedar and tamar-
ack grow rapidly in the swamps, and even at
this early day, two and three crops have been
cut off the same land. Cedar is, of course, pre-
erred, but tamarack is much used.

Judging from the fact that there are appar-
ently as many acres covered with forest in
northern New York as there were two decades
since, backed by the fact that farmers manifest
a disposition to preserve their trees, especially
maple, on account of the sugar making indus-
try, I can see no mission here for the American
Forestry Congress. The population need no
education to make them understand the impor-
tance of the forests. They have common sense

enough to see that they need fuel, timber and

sugar trees, and to know the profit of them,
Actuated by this knowledge they are preserv-
ing their woods, and doubtless will for genera-
tions to come. Ffty years from now there will
be more forest in New York than there is now.
Dr. Loring stated at the forestry congress, at
Montreal, that there is now a greater area of
forest in Massachusetts than existed 30 years
ago. The same may doubtless be said of this

state 30 years hence.
anne

A Saint at the Zoo.

Capt. Harry Piper, Alderman and Superin-
tendent of the Zoological Garden, lately com-
municated the following facts to a reporter of

one of ‘Toronto’s must influential!papers ; ‘‘Some
time ago we purchased from the collection of
animals at Central Park, New York, a mon-
strous Russian bear, which we have named
“Peter the Great,” on account of his tremend-
ous size.- Not long after ‘‘Peter” arrived we
found that he was suffering from therheumatism,
andin a pretty bad state. Pete was not the
only one in the ‘‘Zoo” which had a touch of
that delicious torture ; the lion likewise had it,
and in fact I was just being cured of a bad case
of the rheumatism, myself, by the use of St.
Jacobs Oil, the Great German Remedy. I
found St. Jacobs Oil an excellent remedy, for
it cured me ina short while, and my case was
@ very aggravated one. I argued that if it cur-
ed men it must be good for animals aa well.

. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
rr oi ae

WILLIAM CAMP

The Stranger in London.

That the great City will ere long be hardly re-
cognisable by its former denizens, all the world
has heard, The visitor passing up the Thames
now finds his eye gratified by the many hand-
some edifices recently erected. Ashe reaches
the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises
over him on the right hand the new Times office,
and onthe left hand the new tower-crowned
works of Mesers. James Epps & Co., both
phases of Italian architecture. It may be said
that these two buildings are types of the far
reaching business energy of the nineteenth
century, for it has resulted from such means
that these two establishments have brought
themselves to the fore, and that the annual
issue of each has come to be estimated by
ynillions. During the last year, the number of
copies of the Z'imes issued is estimated at 16,”
276,000, while the number of packets of Epps’
Cocoa sent of in the same period is computed at
14,749,695. The latter is a large total, when it
is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption

of Cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was |

but 425,382 lbs., there then existing uo prepar-
ation of it such as this, which by the simple
addition of boiling water would yield a palat-
able drink. Truly time may be said to work
many changes. :

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preferred, a2 part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
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boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this property,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving the lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only half the distance away, but forced
to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
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THE CENSUS AND THE TIMBER SUPPLY.
To the Editor of the Northwestern Lumberman :

It is becoming evident to the most obtuse
understanding that the lumber market of the
future is to be one of comparatively high values
as compared with the past, and that the imme-
diate season is to be one of great activity and
small profit to the Chicago dealer.

Regarding the former proposition, two impor-
tant and perfectly true statements may be urged,
First, the recuperation of the timber supply
from new and unknown sources is out of the
question while the timber stock of the country
is rapidly being depleted. Second, the popula-
tion of the country is rapidly augmenting, and
the demand for lumber will, in the very nature
of things, increase with the growth of the popu-
lation. Here, then, is the statement in a nut-
shell. With an increasing demand, there is a
rapidly decreasing stock with which to supply
it, The census of 1870, showing a population of
35,000,000, gave a consumption of lumber
amounting to 12,000,000,000 feet for the year
1869-70. The figures of population were un
doubtedly correct ; those of lumber consumption
were but approximate, as no careful endeavor
was at that time made to get at the bottom
facts. The census of 1880 showing a population
of 55,000,000 in the country, and a more careful
estimate of lumber consumption, withal taking
cognizance of no production in communities of
less than 8,000 porulation, gives a total for the
census year of 1879-80 of 18,000,000,000 feet of
Iumber, and other forest products summing up
fully 2,000,000,000 feet additional. But when
it is remembered that the lumber producing lo-
calities are in but a comparatively few instances
included in the populous centres, no candid and
well informed mind will assert that an addition
of 60 per cent. to the figures is inordinate or un-
justifiable. Assuming, therefore, 30,000,000,000
feet as the yearly production of lumber to satis-
fy the wants and demands of: 55,000,000 people,
we find an average consumption of 5454 feet per
capita of population per year. This, while in-
cluding the consumption of all kinds of timber,
is, in a great measure, of white pine, and it is
safe at least to say that 300 feet per capita will
not more than represent the dernand for tliis
variety of timber. The average increase in
population for the ten years from 1870 to 1880
was about 5 per cent. of the census of 1870, and
the same average maintained for the coming
decade will add 2,750,000 souls per year to the
consuming element’of the nation, requiring, at
the average of 300 feet per capita, a production
_ of 17,250,000,000 feet for 1881 ; 18,075,000, 000 for
1882 ; 18,900,000,000 for 1883 ; 19,725,000,000 for
1884, and with a population of 68,500,000 in 1885,
a requirement for 20,550,000,000 feet of pine
tumber ; or continuing the ratio to 1890 upon the
same basis, we shall find a population at that
time of 82,250,000 souls, requiring for that year
no less than 24,675,000,000 feet of pine lumber,
while the total demands of the decade will have
aggregated no less than 210,000,000,000 feet.
Where is this vast production to come from ?

The census reports assure us that the total
supply of the three chief white pine producing
states aggregate but 81,000,000,000 feet, which
if the figures be doubled, will still fall short of
the demands of the decade by 43,000,000,000
feet, or more than the needful supply for the
two years 1889-90. That the population to con-
sume will decrease, no man in his senses will
dare to assert ; that it will cease to consume, as
long as pine can be obtained, is an equally pre-
posterous proposition. That white pine will in
a measure be supplemented by the consumption
of northern hemlock and southern pine may
with safety be asserted, but a resort to substi-
tutes neither increases the reserve of white pine
or renders its value any less. We can therefore
come to but one conclusion, that the market
value of the white pine of the North must in-
evitably advance with its destruction, and with
the figures before us, who shall doubt that
much higher prices than now prevail are inevit-
able from a mere commercial standpoint of
supply and demand. If the figures aro reliable
white pine lumber at present prices is the
cheapest commodity in general use.
figures of available white pine be raised from
the estimate of 81,000,000,000 feet to quadruple
that amount, or 320,000,000,000 feet, a propor-
tionate increase of population would demand

Tf the,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

the whole of it in legs than 16 years. We are
too prone to forget with what rapidity this
country is growing, and as well how limited is
the area of white pine production. There is no
timber which can fill its place with equal benefit
or equal advantage when it is gone.

Tn our calculation we have made no note of
the Canadian resources, or of the Canadian
population. It is safe to say that the Canadians
cannot spare enough to the United States to
any more than offset the demands of her people
upon United States forests, and we may there-
fore offset the one item against the other. It
were well for those who express the belief that
lumber is now held at figures above its actual
value to weigh well the statements herein con-
tained, and after making all the allowances
which the most’ exacting critic can demand, to
give careful heed to the results which shall be
deduced from his researches, ;

Chicago, August 15, 1882. Taurus,

FOREST TREESIN THE WABASH VALLEY,

In an interesting paper published in the
“Proceedings of the National Museum,” Mr,
Robert Ridgway gives the result of long and

careful observations made by himself and other

naturalists upon the forest growth of Southern
Indiana and Illinios.
interest, because here many of the peculiarly
Southern trees, like the pecan, the water locust,
the overcup oak, and the bald cypress, reach

their Northern limits, and because this forest is
hardly surpassed by any other in the number of
species of which it is composed, and the magni-
ficent development attained by many individ-
uals, Nowhere in the whole of Eastern Amer-
ica have ax many large specimens of as many
species been recorded as Mr. Ridgway finds in
Nearly all of our
largest and most valuable broad-leafed trees are
here found associated together ; and in a single
square mile of woods seventy-five species of
trees, nearly all of the first class, were detected
by him, or nearly as many as grow on the whole
By actual measurement,
thirty-four species are found to oceasionally ex-
ceed 100 feet in height, while seventeen others,
although not measured, are-believed to attain a
height of at least 100 feet. The tallest specimen

the lower Wabash Valley.

European continent.

measured, a tulip-tree, was 190 feet mh height,

and individuals of ten other species, exceed 150

feet.

Mr. Ridgway calls attention to the fact that
the numerous small prairies which were common
in the Wabash Basin at the time of its first set-

tlement have become transformed into wood

land, and that, owing to this gradual change of
prairie to forest, the actual area of forest in
Wabash and the adjoining counties in Illinois is
Extensive woods

greater than fifty years ago.
of oak and hickory more than eighty feet high,

and with trunks nearly two feet through, are
now growing on what was open prairie within
the memory of some of the present owners of

the land. ‘‘ This is interesting as a slight indi-
cation of the solution of the mystery which
involves the origin of the prairies ;

with which these new woods

rapidity

sprung up shows that the reproduction of our
failing forests can be accomplished in a shorter

time than is generally supposed, if proyer con-
sideration and attention “ean only be given to
the subject.”—Boston Journal of Chemistry,

A MAGNIFICENT PRIZE.

In an article on the recent Forestry Coneress
the Toronto Globe says:—The quostion of the
supply of white pine was one upon which a good
deal of information was given, The standing
pine under license in Ontario and Quebee is
estimated to be sufficient for 50 years at the
present rate of consumption. The quantity on
land not under license is unknown, and opinions
differ as to whether the quantity is greater or
less than that on land already under license.
In the United States the supply of pine is given
by the census at seven years in Michigan, ten
years in Minnesota, twenty years in Wisconsin,
and sixteen pears im Maine. Large quantities
of white and yellow pine exist in the South, and
the method of logging by railways, now in use
in Michigan, will render this southern pine
easily accessible. But what we in Canada are
concerned with is the fact that the Michigan
and Minnesota pine is almost gone, - It is true

This region is of special

while the
have

that the census figures are laughed at by lum-
bermen of those States, but it is no very difficult
task to find a probable motive for their un-
willingness to admit the imminence of the ex-
haustion of their pine forests. If they did ad-
mit as much, their case for protection against
Canadian lumbermen would be gone. The
American people would at once see that there

is no particular object in their paying taxes in

order to hasten the exhaustion of American
forests and to husband the supply \of Canadian
pine. At the same time it must be remembered
that statistics about the exhaustion of Michigan
and Minnesota forests, similar to those given by
the census, have been circulated any time during
these last twenty years, and yet the yearly
supply increases. That the pine in Michigan
and Minnesota is disappearing goes without
saying, and no effort whatever is made to foster
anew growth, Comesoon or late the day must
arrive when the supply from these two
States—our principal competitors in the West—
will begin to decrease. All the more reason
why, by guarding our forests against waste, we
put ourselves in position to make the best use
of our opportunities when at length our chance
comes. If there is any truth whatever in Am-
erican census figures, it is certain that, before
ten years are up, the Chicago market will lose
two-thirds of the supplies it receives from the
two States named, As the Chicago market ab-
sorbs an amount of lumber equal to three times
the cut of the whole of Canada, it will be seen
that the prize certain some day to fall into our
hands is a magnificent one. In view of these
facts it will be seen how important it is that the
lessons of the Forestry Congress concerning the
preservation of pine timber should be applied.

INDIANA WALNUT IN 1834.

In the course of a recent conversation con-
cerning Indiana timber in general and walnut
in particular, with one of our pioneer settlers
who came to this country in 1834, the old gentle-
man remarked :—‘‘ The walnut timber used to
be a great deal of bother to us in those days.
Tn clearing our lands we usually felled the trees,
then rolled them into log-heaps and burned
them. Walnut was the meanest wood of all, as
it was almost impossible to burn it. I knew a
neighbor who spent the best part of some three
weeks trying to reduce an immense walnut tree
to ashes. Some years later there was a saw
mill erected a few miles away, and the owner
bought a great deal of timber, some of which he
sawed up, but most of it he shipped in the log
to Cincinnati. I had sold him tonsiderable
timber, when one day he came to me and asked
what I would take for a large walnut tree that
had fallen in a swamp a year or two before.
told him he might have it for nothing if he
would take it out of the way. He told me
afterwards that he made quite a little sum out
of it, but had I that tree now I could sell it for
$490. Many and many a fine walnut tree did
we cut fora ‘coon. We had no particular use
for walnut then. It was in the way; and we
took the quickest and best methods to get rid of
it. Sometimes we made rails of it, but it was
frequently so curled and twisted that it was im-
possible to split it. We would probably have
ridiculed the idea then that these curled and
twisted logs might some day have made us
wealthy, or that a big walnut knot would ever
have any value.”— Wood Worker.

SENSIBLE FORESTRY TALK.

A Michigan journal takes occasion to discuss
the forestry question as follows :—While there
is much said and written in regard to forest tree
cultivation, very little attention is paid to the

preservation of natiye forests, In the timbered | gon booming company.

sections we have been too busy trying to get rid

agricultural college an experimental arboretum
of four acres has been growing a few years ; and
a farmer in Monroe county has this year set out
1,500 black walnut trees swith a view te grow
them for timber. Would it not be well to study
more closely the possibility of improving the
timber lands that still remain. The woods still
standing contain a vast amount of material
which is susceptibleof development im far less
time than would be required for the planting
and growth of new forests, the neglect of
furnishes a striking proof of the general
ance of forest culture. The timber is ruthlessly
cut from many places that are nearly useless for
cultivation after, and would be worth
for growing timber than for any other
more beautiful to the eye and more
In many instances the native woods
so much neglected or so injured as to be pz
redemption, yet there are still large areas of
forest and smaller groves and wood-lots now
yielding no revenue which might be developed

into timber forests of very great value and at

the samé time yield an annual crop of fire-wood
in the process. Cut out the dead and least
valued timber for fire-wood, preserve the small
growing trees that are of the best varieties for
timber, mingled with a great number that are
worthless or only fit for fuel. In many cases
they have been neglected and cannot be im-
proved, but in most cases intelligent work in
thinning and pruning will be followed by profit-
able results.—WNorthwestern Lumberman.
ee
ANCIENT OAKS.

Among the ancient oaks of England few are
most interesting than the gigantic ruin now
standing in an arable field on the banks of the
Severn, near Shrewsbury. It isthe sole remain-

ing tree of those vast forests which gave Shrews. “

bury its Saxon name of Schobbesburgh. The
Saxon seized this partof she country A. D. 577,
when they burnt the Roman city of Uriconium,
where Wroxeter now stands, four miles from
the village of Cressage; and underneath this
now decrepid dotard it is said that the earliest
Christian missionaries of those times—and
possibly St. Chad himself—preached to the
heathen before churches had been built. The
Cressage Oak—called by the Saxons Criste-ache
(Christ's Oak)—is probably not less than four-
teen centuries old. The cireumference of the
trunk was about thirty feet, measured fairly at
a height of tive feet from the ground ; but only
about one half of the shell of the hollow trunk
now remains. It still bears fifteen living branch-
es, each 15 feet or sixteen feet in length. A
young oak grows from the centre of the hollow.
The noted oaks of England,thanks to those who
have preserved them, thanks to the universal
veneration for timber, and to a stirring and
lengthened history, are innumerable. Windsor
Forest is particularly rich in historic oaks, and
Sherwood Forest, though disafforested, still
contains some memorial timber, like Needwood,
once a crown forest, now a fine estate of well
farmed land. Dryden's,

“Three centuries he grows and three he stays,
Supreme in state, and in three more decays.”

is a poetical statement, and some of the dates
on trees cut down in Sherwood Forest, and
marked. 600 years before, in the time of King
John, prove that it isan under-estimate. The
great Winfarthing Oak, in Norfolk, was called
the ‘“‘Old Oak” in the time of the Conquerer,
and has been supposed to have attained the age
of 1,500 years. The King Oak in Windsor For
est is npward of 1,000 years old.

ROUGH JUSTICE.
Many logs have been stolen from the Muske-
Logs escape from the
booms, and float into the lake; and a man was

of the timbor to think of any measure of preser- | detected regularly employing a steam tug to

vation.
ly timbered, there is now felt to be a scareity of
timber, particularly of that kind which is useful
in manufactures. The only remedy mentioned
is the planting of forest trees for this purpose.
But this is a work that we are hardly prepared
for in this state, and it is probable that only
necessity will compel artificial planting. The
time seems too long to wait for an investment
of this kind to begin to pay, and there are very
few who will undertake the work. At least
yery little has been done in this line. At-the

Yet in some sections that were former- | gather them up and tow them to Grand Haven,

where he had them sawed up as his own before
the booming company’s tug got around. The
other day the booming company loaded a tug
with a gang of men, chartered a barge for
Chicago, and went to Grand Haven and loaded
the barge with sawed lumber bearing their

marks before the Sheriff of Ottawa could get out —

a warrant, and sent out the barge with 78,000
feet.” This makes things nearer even, and if the
man who had the sawing done goes to law he
will be arrested for stealing the logs, ¥

' New Northwest.

Ohips.

THE new handle factory at Chattanooga,
Tenn., started up Aug. 7. About forty hands
are employed, and the capacity will be from
two hundred and fifty to three hundred dozen
handles daily.

Logs and planks split or crack at the ends for
the reason that the exposed surface dries faster
than theinside. Where a saturation of muriatic
acid and lime is applied to the ends in a thin
coat, the chloride of calcium formed attracts
moisture and prevents splitting.

A REPRESENTATIVE of H. K. Porter & Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa., was in Menominee, recently, for
the purpose of selling a logging locomotive to
the “ windfall ” syndicate that is pondering on
the project of building a logging road to the
down timber. Theagent looked over the ground
with the possible object of inducing his company
to put in a road, if the operators don’t do it
- themselves.

Reports from Eau Claire make it absolutely
certain that nearly one hundred million feet of
logs. are hung up on the South Fork of the
Flambeau and Jump rivers, seventy-five million
on the former and about twenty-two millions on
the latter. Some of the Eau Claire mills are
already shut down on account of the scarcity of
logs, and mill men generally are quite despon-
dent over the prospect.

The Quebec press state that a number of
Americans have been in the city for some days
past engaging men for lumbering operations in
Michigan, and offering very advantageous terms
which are not complied with. The unfortunate
Canucks once in the interior of the State, being
unable to return to Canada for the want of
funds, are therefore compelled to remain there
at wages much below those they earn in Can-
ada. ;

Forestry is taking hold of the thinkers in the
Witness the {following from
a Dakota paper: ‘“‘All trees set out by our
farmers seem to be doing well. When each
tree claim hasa fine grove upon it, and the
homes of the settlers are surrounded by shade
trees, as they soon will be, the appearance of
our prairie country will be changed greatly, and
for the better. The presence of the thrifty
young trees and large timber in the gulches
along the river banks, where the prairie fires
cannot reach them, is evidence that the climate
and soil both are favourable to tree culture here.
No farmer should neglect to plant seeds and
set out young trees or cuttings in abundance.
No crop will bring larger returns.

Tue Tonawanda Herald says: ‘“This season
will foot up the heaviest receipts of lumber ever
known in the annals of Tonawanda’s business
career. A prominent. dealer, well posted, pre-
dicts that it will reach fully 500,000,000 feet, |

|

which is at least fifty millions more than any
previous year. This result doesn’t look as if we
were retrograding any in reputation or other-
wise. The increase of new dockage this year is
@ sure indication that even more will be needed

in the near future. The extension of the Erie |

ally docked. The contemplated track to reach
the south side river front will also materially
increase facilities. Tonawanda has really only
commenced its great career as a lumber de-
pot.” -

Vannoy and Co. are running three steam saw
mills and 2 shingle and planing mill, at Beaver

track along the river road will cause every foot |
of the water front in that vicinity to be eventu- | FR

Tue British American Lumber Company is
soon to put up anew mill at the head of Bay
de Noque, Mich.

Tue will of the late Jesse Hoyt, of New York,
lumberman and capitalist, bequeaths to the city
of Saginaw, Mich., four lots on which to erect a
public library, $50,000 to erect the building, and
$50,000 to endow the same ; and also some pro-
perty on Washington ‘avenue for use as a public

park.
The London Limber Trades Journal says :—

We hear that orders for a considerable quan-
tity of timber have already been issued by the
Government for Egypt, and contracts entered
into for the supply of the same by a London
firm ; this, coupled with other operations that
are now taking place in the market, ought to
impart fresh vigour to trade, and we shall not
be surprised to see a favourable change shortly.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says:—The Ros-
common lumber company are building twelve
miles of logging railroad and will put 40,000,000
feet of logs into Houghton lake to be run to
Muskegon. They are already at work in the
woods. R. E. Cade & Son have just started in
for an operation in the vicinity of Otsego lake,
proposing to skid 6,000,000 feet of logs before
snow flies. T. J. Miller proposes to put in 40,-
000,000 feet of timber in the upper peninsula for
Alger, Smith & Co., and has already started in
to make his camps, etc.

—————
Water Elin.

An important use for water elm has present-
ed itself in the making of sewing machine
tables, the American Sewing Machine Com-
pany using 30,000 feet per month in this way.
The elm is laid one layer on another to the re-
quired thickness and then veneered with walnut.
The process does not diminish the expense, but is
rendered feasible by the scarcity of Illinois and
Indiana walnut, which is hard to obtain, while
that from Missouri and other southern states
warps so badly that its use has been abandoned.
Water elm has in the past been a much despised
wood, being thought almost worthless, except
for use in making baskets or in some other triv-
ial way, and not worth the cutting, but it ap-
pears to have a value, after all.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, 281

Drake Brothers Box Mill,

Provost Street Extension, New Glasgow, Pictou County, \. 8.

SPRUCE, PINE? HEMLOCK SHINGLES

yr. HoH. DRAKE. 1117 WwW. H. DRAXHZ.

ROBERT W. LOWE,
AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT

81 SANDS BUILDING, PRINCE WILLIAM STREET.

Cash advanced on Goods putin for sale. £@°No Storage charged. Al! kinds of Merchandise
Bought and Sold. New and Second-hand Furniture always oD hand. Agent for Hazelhurset & Co's
WINTHROP COOKING RANGES, WATERLOO WOOD STOVES, FRANKLIN, &., &e., &e,

1117 SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Mini SU PPL es.
RUBBER BELTING—in Stock, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Plies,
HOYT’S CELEBRATED LEATHER BELTING.
COTTON BELTING, for Flour Mills. &c., Superior Quality.

DISSTON’S CELEBRATED MILL SAWS.

Steam Packing of all kinds, Rubber and Linen Hose, Silk Bolting Cloth ry
Wheels, Lacing Leather (Page’s Genuine), Lard, Seal, Cylinder, Suda Weat viz.
ginia and Wool Oils. Our Stock includes Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods of all

kinds. 2 Quotations furnished for any part of Canada. 1121

ESTEY, ALLWOOD & CO., SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

MACHINE OILs, Etc.
McCOLL BROS. & Co.

ne) be IN a ©;

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SHND FOR PRICES, HTC.

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Thomas hastwo, and two more are run by
Stoddard and Sons, the combined capacity of
the mills of the place being 80,000 feet daily.
Vannoy and Co. have 1,000,000 feet of lumber
on hand and the rest combined another 1,000,000
feet, all awaiting shipment, being detained on
- aecount of the cars of the-Utah and Northern
Railroad being mostly engaged on the Oregon
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also conducting a very thrifty mercantile busi-
ness. The settlement ix prosperous, there be-
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AMarket Reports,

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.
September 9.—There is still little worthy of
record in connection with the local trade here
since last writing you, and retailers with whom
T have conversed say they have never experien-
ced as dull times as thef{present, however, there is
one good feature worthy of note in this connec-
tion, and that is prices hold up, whereas in the
period of depression, formerly experienced,
prices went away down to zero, this goes to
show that our home market has but little to do
with ruling prices, it is the foreign market that
we mainly look to, and althongh American
buyers are shy at present and are evidently
holding back somewhat in the hopes of a break
in prices, the holders of stocks feel confident that
the close of the shipping season will find them
with no surplus stocks to winter over, and the
fact that so many dealers from the American
side are feeling around is fair evidence that the
eastern markets are not overstocked at the pre-
sent time, and my firm impression is that
holders of stocks need not be under any appre-
hension as to the ultimate result of this seasons
business. Small as the demand is for dimension
stuff it is difficult to obtain bills, and for such
stuff cut to order prices rule high. Considerable
lumber is passing over the docks,in fact quite an
improvement over that of four weeks ago, and
Considerable good lumber is now coming forward.
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

Mill cull boards'and scantling.....-..+.+++++0++ as 00
Shipping cull pon promiscuous widths. . . 12 00
BUCGHBiierteie'scaviereiere silences e's aisule eee 14 00
Scantling and joist, up to 16 LEAD. Ht lie cab eeaied A 00
WGiLGs deta ctsras ae abroetd 14 50
as ss ff DV etwenieccccsrvece 15 00
G9 aS ce D2 ib cen ensiesnweessae 15 50
che oo BE Qa ttt.» «vaio eRe ous 16 00
m en 1 26 ft Aapnooorodgac. 17 00
sf fi As 28 ft wrnreteras sie aewow800
As a0 @ COE Cteonoeeeoecoanrn:.. 20 00
ss ae es B2ft.....+ aitaeleiee ieee. 2h 00
cs 56 zs SEE ea ceech %endgiviests 22 50
a ee ae BOWE biareie ies hie he « charetabe« 6s 25 00
fs Wi ef SENG. i sve Race gists Mas 30 00
ss ce ‘s 40 t0/44 fOr. Fic eas 35 00
Cutting up planks todry.....s..ceeeeeeeee essen eH DO:
DORE GAs unectsreiticinteinlels\q(siais(niaietale‘are’elalx 20 00
Sound dressing stocks. ........seseereeeeeeeeeee 18 00
Picks Am. inspection...... seseeeee 27 00@30 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection......++++ . 85 00@40 00
B. M.
ak: inch flooring, Aressed....csecrseceseee covers 32 00
14 YOURD aa cs ayacrenccen nie Weielvieiete 16 00
yo“ tg GWEC Gbonone BoorbOUoD Woyae 2GuOo
th Na cs UNALESSED a fea. nfo omen vo ae nels 16 00
Dees’ cs AYESBGOG)s cisieteisiaret= ss Rlsieinisiarsieie 28 00
Lig. SS ES Undressed. owt. ceenececcnacee 17 00
4 Beaded Sheeting, dressed. ..... ....ee0e eeceee 22 50
Clapboarding, dressed Dm teniveiacieesiaje wieveretelere 14 00
XXX sawn shingles, BM..ceeee. sc cee eee eeeeeee 83 00
XX sawn shingles.......seeeeeesewescene recess, 2 00
Sawn Lath. ves..c.e cece eens Ture rigpisdiecee eqece 2 25
—_—______——_—_
MONTREAL,

From our own Correspondent.

September 9.—General business continues
very good here and prices, though unchanged,
are firm and well maintained. In Ottawa man-
ufacturers of lumber are working day and night,
and find aready market for all they can turn out
as the American demand is very good just now.
Freights for local and American traffic remain
very firm. The receipts of lumber here up to this
date are believed to be considerably larger than
for the same period of 1881; and foreign ship-
ments are also larger. Wecontinue to quote
yard prices as follows :—

Pine, Ist quality, @ M..
Pine, 2nd 5) M..
Pine, shipping a R M....
Pine, 4th quality deals, # M
Pine, mill culls, # M

+eeeee $35 VO@L0 00

“.. 10 00@12 00
+ 10 00@13 00

Spruce, # M......
Hemlock, ® M.......+..ee005 .. 9 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of. log culls out, UM Sh ieee ates ‘20 00@25 00
ass, #M. . 17 00@20 00
Oak, # M......... Mareieis/sitenile Tans ... 40 00@50 00
Birch, @M...........cneneeetees + 20 00@25 00
Hard Maple, @ M.....+eessesesees . 25 00@30 00
Thoth, AROM ec nies. siaec0 Jone sods doccda so » 180@ 1 40
Shingles, Ist, @M .... ......08 seeeee... 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, APO MM aicteinrertajssoteferetere secesee. 2 00@ 0 00
SHIPMENTS.

The shipments from this port since the 25th
ult., have been as follows :—To Liverpool, 38, -
976 pes deals and deal ends ; To London, 8,475
pes spruce deals ; to Buenos Ayres 1,505,489 feet
Inmber ; to Montevideo 1.901,626 feet lumber,
The total shipments to South America from the
opening of navigation to this date amount to
11,568,157 feet, against 9,645,373 feet, being an
increase of 1,922,784 feet. There has been very
little doing in freights.

CORDWOOD.
‘There has been a better demand for cordwood

THE CANADA

suddenly cold, and the stock inthe yards is not
large, many dealers having put off buying in
hopes of lower prices, but there is no appearance
of any change, as the quantity coming in still
continues light. We still quote ex cars and on

the wharf.

Long’ Maples. sis siasvleedbissiusp vine aia ssece vaste) Oa me
Short» 4" sce s'vievovcic be als yoleavcecccvssers-oe 6 50
Long Birch...... Wap civsieteWitepedege des aeeecevegs PDO
Short ‘ Sauda ~idaie's le penis hed hede Rie acess -ons'e0 6 00
Long Beech. es.ssiccssccces Sinica Nis.eléaiere' («Vie peeing DIO
Shorts, pareve Sige ales lk widld Rigtate acaiala/ 50g 7a 5 50
Tamarack. ssescsastsres asiaces octes 4 50@5 00

—___——_—_—_—.
QUEBEC.

The Chronicle of September says :—There is
not much animation in the market this week,
though more timber has changed hands than
during the previous ones.

Oak has been sold in considerable quantity
at abont 44 to 46} cents, while for choice wood
50 cents is about the current rate.

Some elm has, we understand, changed hands
at prices which have not transpired.

In white pine some four or five rafts have
been sold. One good lot of fifty feet average,
164 inch girth, with some waney board of 19
inches at 31 cents. A choice raft 46 feet, with
waney board at 29 cents. And two rafts of
about 37 and 45 feet, at 18} to 20 cents. We
also learn that some choice waney, St Lawrence
wood, 19 to 194 inch. changed hands at 35 cents.

In other woods there is little doing.

ee
ALBANY.

Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine, clear, @M....0. ---seeeeeserseeeere $57 00@64 00
Pine, fourths..........--ceeeeereeeeeees - 57 00@59 00
Pine, GBlGotas 0 wae Ai. tae seeeee.. 52 0O0@54 00
Pine, GOOAMON. «ceived Ve scedeveceeees 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.. —svee eeeeaee 00 40@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each... + eeeee 00 20@00 22
Pine boards, 1S fee I ceeecrr 00 26@00 32
Pine, 10-in, boards, CUS Firs + Gainn ns oe en 00 20@00 21
Pine, 10-In. boards, 16 ft., @M.........- 80 00@33 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft.........6ceeeeee 380 00@88 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, 18 ft.........seeeeees 27 00@29 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.....+.+..++ ++.. 45 00@47 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common. ... «...+++-+ 19 00@21 00
Pine, 1-in. siding, select...... conecechess 45 00@47 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ....5...-+ 18 00@20 00
Spruce, boards, each. ....... Peat ececuis 00 00@00 16
Spruce, plank, pee A. CACM. 0000 seecvccces 00 00@00 20
Spruce, plank, 2-in., BACHE os vacnencaces 00 00@00 30
Spruce, wall strips, each “Ad aatas acre Aunisiteatais 00 12@00 12
Hemlock, boards, each. ....-.sseeeeee 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each... .... 660 eeeee 00 00@00 33
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each ......eeeee ees 00 00@O00 14
Hemlock, wall del 2x4, each. ¢ 6.2.2. 00 00@00 11
Ash, good, Gasp ctenis.e Wisinaleis.« vnig'etslas «se. 40 00@43 00
Ash, second Erutien PM. cescscccccceees 2 OO@SO 00
Cherry, BOOd, WM... reece ceenaceeees Gu 00@85 00
Cherry, common, # M... «.«.... ... 25 00@385 00
Oak, good, UM, sicic nicvince ... 40 00@43 00
Oak; second cow eM ... 29 00@25 00
Bassw' ood, ® M cece . 22 00@25 00
Hickory, cf) Ws site conieines 40 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, @ M.......esseeeeewennee 28 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M,......-+08e+ee0s 26 00@28 00
Chestnut, 8 MM. vou. eee me dene ceccnceeces 35 00@40 00
Shingles, ‘shaved, pine, @M..... ee... 0 00@ 6 50

2nd quality eran es 0 00@ 5 00

ae extra, saw ed, pir 0 00@ 5 00

Bs clear, 0 00@ 8 60

ac cedar, ssiecsial 0 00@ 8 50

Lu eedar, XXX 0 00m 4 00

Lu hemlock 0 00@ 2 50
Lath, hemlock, ® } 0 00@ 1 75
Lath, spruce, ‘‘ 0 00@ 2 00
Lath, pine, Seer Rina MAREE NaNO 0 00@ 2 25

————
BOSTON.

The Journal of Commerce of September 9th
says:—The demand is very good, and rather
improves as the season advances. There is a
firm tone to the general market, and if there is
any change, it is in the direction of higher
prices. Stocks all around seem to be in a very
encouraging shape, and the prospect is for a
good steady fall trade.

CANADA PINE.

Selects, Dressel sais. sain cis ccnp ceeeceee oe $48 00@50 00
Shelving, Dressed, ists. Bi ccltebte. Sa caene 40 00@42 00
BNA iivie cafe WEE te eee 33 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers.......+.s.eeeeseeeeeee 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box .........005 Wiovereretetwe rete - 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Ist quality. She cee chs nie wkusiving 42 00@45 00
Bnd s SOB, | hic pwiervaesieieitinte 84 00@35 00
——Ssss
BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers. .......ceues eeneces seceeeeeeese S46 OO@4S 00
Commons... eet ce. oe. wes Ue Senbet ict eemthis 18 00@19 00
Gall es cafaciccaninenaniat el «cies clurmsiecek 13 00@14 00
—_—_e____—_-
CHICAGO,
Sept. 9.—The Northwestern Lumberman

says :—Nothing very marked has transpired in
the general lumber trade of the country since
our last issue At all the principal points, east
and west, a steady demand is recorded, with
generally firm prices. In New Yorkand Phil-
adelphia the tendency is fo increased firmness,

and it is likely to improve ; the weather has got

LUMBERMAN.

and in some instances a slight advance. Deal-
ers at the east are stocking up more liberally
than they were, the advance at Chicago and
elsewhere having the effect to discourage the
hope hitherto entertained that prices would go
lower. Latterly quite a number of buyers from
the eastern points have been in Canada, and not
content with the figures given by the Toronto
magnates, they have gone up to the mills. There
they have generally found that the stocke were
controlled at the lake ports, having been pre-
engaged, as is the custom to a great extent, in
Canada. The stiffness of tone still maintained
at Saginaw, added to the solid condition of
things in Canada, has covinced eastern buyers
that the day of concession has been deferred
for an indefinite time. For this reason the
general movement of lumber is thought to have
improved a little. Still, dealers are moving
cautiously, no rush prevailing. Mill imen at
the east and in Canada seem well satisfied with
the condition of things. They say that while
the demand has not been quite equal to their ex-

pectations in the spring, it has been steady and
in fair volume, so that about all they have had
to offer has been taken at good prices. Trade,
the country over, has been healthy all the sea-
son—not so overwhelming as to induce inordin-
ate speculation, but real and strong, the mill
product being wanted for actual consumption.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green...... ....++-.-. $11 25@11 50
Long dimension. 5245 06 Wwe due ceccccees 13 W@l4 00
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock... ...0.. 13 00@15 00
NG, DE Wiese nuk neenioacis ua ehds em oke 16 00@20 00
No. 1 log run, culls out......... SP ES 17 00.422 00
TAT cad nntinWe «a 04s encceeese eeereseros 2 8U@ 3 00
CIBAYS, cus gn ugstha0sn anv eennn seawceece 3 20@ 3 25
Path. .o. fe tides Ge wade Uae bectnee 0 0O@ 2 25

Receipts, and stock on hand, of lumber,

shingles, etc., for the week ending September 7,
as reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange:

RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.

1BB2.. ccc ccccccces 62,022,000 23,634,000
TSSLivsesscvesce : 57,715,000 17,435,000

FROM JANUARY 14 TO SEPTEMBER 7 INCLUSIVE.
RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.

IESE. .vevcccsvccepsves-a0 «++ 1,310,557,000 539,230,000
p Ess a ee evoesreweravdes 1,204,154,000 529,733,000
Whose. Wars cee Caceres 106,403,000 9,497,000

LAKE RECEIPTS TO SEPT. 6.
1698 MT eee «+++ 1,187,097,000 498,201,000
STOCK ON HAND AUG. 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber, seeesees-511,908,574 422,404,166 412,841,089
Shingles.... ....244,221,650 184,168,000 164,004,000
Lath seeeeseseeee 39,859,837 86,346,046 46,549,316
Picketed. ive ves + 1,717,165 2,777,053 1,232,459
Cedar posts. ...... 298, 253 255,656 154,690
a

TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
Three uppers.. . $43 00@46 00

Common. . 18 00@24 0U
CGIG. .s° canvas on Se uWuautes W Ubebemsaece 12 We@l14 00
—_— >

4 OSWEGO, N.Y.
Three uppers............ wenctae vce pWur a $43 00@45 00
PIGRIODS | sun < case ttmertanee eee, 0508 «++» B33 00@35 00
PG, OUTIGNL, 5:2. vs a harcy son aes aes ees-.-- 20 00@25 00
COMMON sian cee ert e¥enuee we hinede ew -. 14 00@17 00
Oulla.. a<%< eeensaccecosscees ees sees 12 00@15 00
Mil ran Tots, +. . 2855. 0008 pe desusspanaawe 18 00@25 00
ana x & aged linch.. vik . 33 0O@38 00
940g nen RURNiG'sh 0 30.en Renee 35 00@40 00
Mill t Aas mrt 13 to RG feeb. . vac cenaguu<« 17 00@25 00
salected/eiadsvctae ceca seeeee+s. 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and Lk inch mill run.......ee+.- 14 00@20 00
23 culls......, «+... 11 OO@14 00
1x6 selected for clapboards Secees ean vens 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine............ 4 00@ 4 35
XXX, 18 inch, cedar... 5.2: deen < 3 75@ 3 75
LaGh, oc aweck ened x aches tae eins Ger xiga Gee 1 80@ 1 90
ooo
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of Aug. 26th
says:—The public sales of American timber
held during the week have been giving indica-
tions of a rather improved demand... The sale
at Greenock on the 17th inst. was partly with-
out reserve and attracted a good company. The
wood, which was of a varied discription, was
disposed of at the rates noted in the appended
report.

The sales held here on the 23rd inst. were
well attended. The bulk of the deals disposed
of consisted of Miramichi, N. B., and Quebec
spruce, prices offered for the Quebec pine deals
not being up to brokers’ limits. Prices realized
appear to be about what they have reached at
public sale for some time past for a similar class
of wood. After the sale of deals there were dis-
posed of various lots of walnut, &c. As the
day was very fine, a large proportion of the
company remained, and the brokers (Messrs.
Edmiston & Mitchells) experienced very fair

noted,

60 c, ft.

competition for the wood offered, results

AUCTION SALES.

On the 17th inst., at Greenock, -
Edminson & Mitchells, brokers :—
Quebec yellow pine timber—
av. per log 1s. 10d. perc. ft.

Do. 3rd yellow pine deale—

10 to 16 ft. 8/14x3 1s. 1jd.

The following were sold without noel
liverable in Glasgow :—
Quebec yellow pine timber— -
80 c. ft. av. Per log (00 log Sg fe 5d, per c, ft.
Greenock :—

Do yellow pine sadedatin

“

80 c, ft. av. per log (86 logs) Is.4d, “*
29 * (20 * e-: Sa: *
21 “ae (20 o ls. 6d. ae
40 “ 4 “ 1s, 11d. “
hee tems
c. ft, (4 logs) 28. 3d. “
Do. damaged igor pine—
279 c. ft. (12) 1s. 54d. ea
Pe. - pine tim
72 c. ft. (201 1s, 8d. A
Do. oak (20 loge)
283 c. ft. (6 logs) 2s, 5d. “
5 ae fs os Qs 8d. -
ne nks ls. S -
Do elm MP ds - 9
7. c. ft. Md oe?) ls. 3d. ra
“ id
Teak teens
589 c. ft, (13 gs 4s. 2d. -
190" O* ee fe. 1d. & 58,24. “*
117 “* (@ “ ) 88, 2d. (damaged) **
Hewn pitch pine—
3,204 c. ft. (40 logs) = . ”
107 ae @ 8 ) >
Sawn pitch pine—
128 c. ft. (9 logs) 11d. =
Hewn and sawn pitch me
77 ¢. ft. (2 logs) Is. 2hd, ~
Damaged pitch pine—
95 c. ft. (4 logs) 1ld. “
Quebec Ist spruce deals—
12tol4ft. 9x3 1s. O}d. & 1s. 1d “
12 ft. 7/9x3 1}. &1ljd.
10 tol3ft. 9/16x8 . 119d. <z
8“14% 7x8 104d. ¥

os 8rd pine deals—

1 lot

ux3

1 ft. 11

y tol6 ft. 7/15x3 11
Damaged pine and spruce
9

———__
LIVERPOOL,

The Timber Trades Journal of Aug. 26th
says :—There has again been « steady and pro-
gressive business done during the week, and,
although buyers are loth to pay the advanced —
prices, now demanded, they find they have no —
chance of bettering the present position. Even —
at the present advance in rates, shippers are not
making as much money as they were early in
the summer, the advance in prices now current
being lees than the increase in freights. The
scarcity of freightage is becoming more appar-
ent every day, and this together with the in-
creasing rates of insurance afford but little hope
that the present prices will long continue,

It would by no means be surprising to find
spruce deals advance at least 10s. during the
next fortnight, for there are comparatively few
vessels of suitable tonnage now offering suitable

for the requirements of the lower ports.

In Quebec freights are very firm, and holders
of all kinds of timber and deals maintain a firm
attitude, and are not sellers except at price that

will satisfy them.

Spruce deals, New Richmond—
Le
9/25 ft. 8xll 8 5
16/25 “ 3x9 8 5
12/15 “* 8x9 8 2
g/l “ 3x9 8 0
16/25 ‘* 3x7 7 12
19/15 “* 8x7 Tr
g/l “* 3x7 a
9/26 “* x7 8 2
g/2s * 3x4 @15 712
o/24 “* 3x13 710
9/24 “* 3x12 712
9/25 ‘* 8x10 715
16/25 ** 3x8 712
9/15 “ 3x8 712
9/28 “* 4x18 to 16 92
g/2s “* 4x12 S 82
9/24 “* 4x11 92
9/25 “ 4x10 22
9/25 “* 4x9 ge
9/24 “* 4x8 92
9/24 ** 4x7 762
Deal ends 67
Palings > 40
Do., St. John, N. B.—
16 to 26 ft. 8x11 8 6
iz a5"= 3x11 8 7
S mS ee 8x9 8 7
pb ae |e 8x9 S. &
ig's* 23° ** 3x7 712
19 36 8x7 re ?
o* n= 8xll&9 715
Scantlings 7 5

Birch a New Richmond —

18 “* 1

"Under 14

CoarTGaaeo COAMAMMAAAGDSACAGM@aaCcace”

‘ LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal of Aug. 26th
says :—There are not wanting indications that
the present is the turning-point of what prom-
ises to be a very active fall trade. The harvest
seems now almost assured as being above the
average, and prices of wood have come down to
a level, below which it is hardly probable they
will sink ; a rise is therefore evident, and it is
only as to the time at which it will make itself
felt that there are any doubts. Stocks of floor-
ing boards in the docks are undergoing consider-
oble reductions, and it is just on the cards that
the end of the year may find us with very little
more of this commodity in the docks than we
had to record last Christmas. It is possible,
however, that the present shipments will be
supplemented to a much greater degree than we

are yet aware of.
—__»—___—_.

AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Messrs. Gemmell & Co., in their report dated
Melburne, July 3rd, state:—The amount of
business recently carried through shows a con-
siderable falling off from the average, and we
do not look for much improvement during the
present winter. American lumber.—Prices re-
alized at auction show a reduction on last
months rates. Shipments have been beyond
our requirements, and as the trade are fully
stocked, no improvement may be expected.

WOODEN IMAGES.

A New York paper says that the wood used
for figures, no matter what use they are put to,
is white pine. The butt end of a new spar ser-
ves the purpose best, and is generally used.
When green the wood cuts much easier than
when dry, and is not so liable to split. The
carving is done mostly by the eye, Chalk or
pencil lines are drawn on the log in making the
general contour. If the figure is that of a man
or woman, it is made eight times the length of
the head. Ordinarily, the image is one solid
block of wood, but if the arm is extended a
separate piece is put on, so that the grain will
run the right way, to prevent its breaking off.
Regular carver’s tools are employed, such as
chisels, gouges, etc. It takes from a week to a
month of steady work to make a figure, and the
prices of images range from $50 to $250, accord-
ing to size. A mermaid three and a half feet
high costs $100. The tug boats mount eagles on
their pilot houses. These are worth from $40 to
$75. Figures have been known to last 200
years. Ifa thick coat of paint is kept on them
they will last much longer than if neglected.
The paint closes up the checks and cracks, and
prevents decay to a great extent. The figmes
are fastened to ships’ bows with bolts. There
are only four or five places in New York where
the figures are carved.

Useful Facts.

Weights of logs and lumber are given as
follows in a book recently issued by H. K. Por-
ter & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa: ‘‘Weight of green
logs to scale 1,000 feet, board measure—Yellow
pine (southern) 8,000 to 10,000 lbs., Norway
pine (Mich.) 7,000 to 8,000 lbs.; white pine
(Mich. ) off of stump, 6,000 to 7,000 lbs., white
pine (Mich.,) out of water, 7,000 to 8,000 lbs.;
white pine (Penn.,) bark off 5,000 to 6,000 lbs.;
hemlock (Penn.,) bark off, 6,000 to 7,000 lbs.
Weight of 1,000 feet of lumber, board measure
—Yellow or Worway pine, dry 3,000 lbs.; green,
5,000 lbs,; white pine, dry, 2,500*lbs.5 green 4,-
000 Ibs. Weight of one cord of seasoned wood,
128 cubic feet per cord—Hickory or sugar maple
4,500 lbs.; white oak, 3,850 lbs.; beech, red oak
or black oak, 3,250.; poplar, chestnut, or elm
2,320 lbs.; pine, white or Norway, 2,000 lbs.;
hemlock bark, dry, 2,200 lbs. (One cord bark
got from 1,500 feet logs,”

Bobbin’ Over the Line.

The Northwestern Lumberman says:—A
manufacturer of bobbins in Massachusetts, find-
ing that he was receiving a large number of
orders from Canada, in order to avoid the
customs duty of 20 per cent., hasset up a
factory on the upper flat of He ro Que.,
saw-mill. He has received a large number of
orders in the Dominion as a basis of his new

enterprise,

rule, due more to neglect than to use.
can be well taken care of, it will pay to buy
those made of the best steel, and finished in the
best manner; but in common hands, and with
common care, such are of little advantage. Iron
and steel parts should be cleaned with dry sand
and a cob, or scraped with a piece of soft iron,
washed and oiled if necessary, and in a day or
two cleaned off with the corn-cob and dry sand.
Finally paint the iron part with rosin and bees-
wax, in the proportion of 4 of rosin to 1 of wax,

THE CANADA

THE U.8, TARIFF.
Before the United States Tariff commission

Mr. Arthur Hill, of Saginaw City, stated that
the existing tariff of $2 a thousand increased
the cutting capacity of Michigan lands 30 or 40
per cent, by giving the operators in that state a
chance to work off their coarse pine.
tariff did not exist the coarse stock of Canada
would flood the markets in the East, to the ex-
clusion of Saginaw lumber. This would be so for
the following reason :
the pine of the better quality. In Canada lum-
‘ermen skim through the woods and cut the best
trees for the purpose of sawing them into deals
for the English market.
for a future cutting. If it were not for the tariff

If the

The tariff does not affect

The poor stuff is left

this course lumber would be cut and shipped to

the States, where it could be sold at such prices
as would drive the common stock of the Sagmaw
valley out of the market.
particularly hard on the Michigan business,
since the operators there have latterly been
obliged to cut their stumpage pretty close,
the larger trees having disappeared.
the tariff the Michigan operators are able to

This would come

Under

utilize their coarse stumpage, which adds an in-

come of about $3,000,000 to the people, of the
state, which otherwise would be burned up and
lost.
dealers, but the aggregate amount going into

True there is but little profit in it, to the

the hands of the people from this source’ is con
siderable, Such coarse lumber brings an aver-
age of $9,50 a thousand, and costs $8 to produce

it. With low freights by lake and canal, such

as prevail this year, the Saginaw lumbermen
continue to make a small profit. Saginaw stands

in an unfavorable position compared with
Ottawa, which lays down lumber usually at
$1.50 a thousand less than it can be done for in
Saginaw. But when freights are low and prices
are fair the difference is overcome.

eS

Putting Away Tools.
The wearing out of farm implements is, as a
If tools

melted together and applied hot. This is good

for the iron and steel parts of every sort of tool.
Wood work should be painted with good boiled
linseed oil, white lead and turpentine, colored
of any desired tint; red is probably the best
color.
dry and hard, or they will lick, with death as
the result,
hand tools, the boiled oil with turpentine and

Keep the cattle away until the paint is
If it is not desired to use paint on

‘liquid drier” does just as well. Many prefer
to saturate the wood work of farm implements

with crude petroleum. This cannot be used

with color, but. is applied by itself, so long as
any is absorbed by the pores of the wood.—
American Agriculturist.

IRWIN & PHILP

Commission

Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
ShippingGeneral Agents
PORT HOPE.

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LUMBERMAN.

JONES

& SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers

39 Broadway,

NEW YORK.

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally. :

Pine Deck Plank and

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

1utf | 417

ROBERT SMALLWOOD

MANUFACTURER OF

The Patent Lever Feed Shingle,
Box Board & Heading Machine

(Always takes First Prize.)

Rotary Saw Mills
IN‘FOUR SIZBS, and other
MACHINERY for SAW and
GRIST MILLS,

f= SEND FOR CIRCULAR. “SX

CHARLOTTETOWN,

1129 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WANTED,
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

LEATHER
BELTING,

Chipman, Renaud & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

LEATHER BELTING,

FIRE ENGINE HOSE

LACE LEATHER, &c.
124 & 126 Queen St.

| MONTREAT,

FLOATING DRIFTS,
Zo the Editor :

We come to you for advice, and perhaps
among your numerous subscribers and corres-
pondents we can be enlightened. We are
troubled with two heavy drifts, which have
caused us lots of trouble in rafting logs, and we
would like to know which is the best method to
remove them, as we have not had any experience
in removing such obstructions. The two drifts
are each 190 steps long and about a mile apart,
and are what we call a packed drift; that is,
they rise and fall with the river, so it does not
make any difference how high or how low the
river is, the drifts are on top, and stop all rafting
or running of logs. One party tried burning
them, but that did but little good. Some have
advised us to chop them out, but that seems too
expensive and rather slow work, What we
want is the easiest, quickest and cheapest
method, and we would like to hear from some
one that has had some experience in removing
such obstructions. We thought of blowing
them out with dynamite or Hercules powder,
but would wait until we heard from some one
else. Anyone giving usinformation will greatly
oblige

Two Saw MILrEs,

Fairfield, Ill., Aug. 14, 1882,

From the description given, we imagine that
a few days’ work of a gang of good choppers
would be the most effective remedy. The rise
and fall of the drifts with the changes in the
volume of the river indicates a key log, or logs,
holding the masses and preventing them going
down the stream. If these key logs can be
found and broken up, probably the mass will
at once move, If it should move in a body the
key logs, probably whole trees, will soon come
toastop and again the jam will form about
them, By chopping and detaching portions of
the drift at atime, the detached portions will
probably get wholly out of the way and no
further jam be formed, after the key is reached
and cut down to safe dimensions. It is usually
x tedious job to remove such a drift as is de-
scribed by our correspondent, but oftentimes it
is cheaper to chop and wholly get rid of it, piece
by piece, than to move it in a body, unless ad-
vantage can be taken of a heavy freshet, We
think we should risk a few charges of Giant
powder on the lower edges of the drift, and see
what effect it had, but think a few days chojp-
ing would not be labour lost. Perhaps some
of the readers of the Lwmberman, who have had
experience with such drifts, will give their views
on the subject,—Northwestern Lumberman.

ee RT

The Barrel.

A gentleman who has been reading upon the
subject saya that the invention of the barrel,
made of strips of wood and rendered tight and
strong by hoops, finds in history no notice of
origin or inventor. Pliny attributes it to the
Gauls of the Po, in Lombardy. There is, how-
ever, good reason to believe that the barrel was
in use before the Gauls reached Italy, perhaps
before their existence as a people. In one of
the inscriptions copied by Wilkinson from
Egyptian monuments may be seen two slaves
emptying grain from a wooden-hooped vessel,
while a scribe keeps tally and a sweeper stands
by to sweep in the kernels. Close by, a poor
victim is undergoing the bastinado, for short
measure or petty theft. The measure is barrel-
shaped, precisely liké the kaye of modern Egypt,
and would apparently hold about a peck. The
age of this inscription is not indicated.—

Northwestern Lumberman.
NT
It has Entered the Capitol Buildings.

Tt has finally gained its point and no less a
personage than the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House of Commons. Mr. D, W. McDonnell,
Ottawa, thus endorses the Great German
Remedy : ‘'St.Jacobs Oil is asplendid remedy,
T used it on my left hand and wrist for rheuma-
tism, and found all that it is claimed to be,
Mrs. McDonnell used it for a most severely
sprained ankle; by a steady use of the article
for a few days a complete cure was effected,
St. Jacobs Uil does its work very: satisfactorily
and also rapidly ; such at least is my opinion,”

A GENTLEMAN aged 65, writes; ‘I heartily
thank you for the great boon I have obtained
end the use of your wonderful rejuyenator,
known as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, advertie-
ed in another column of your paper.”

"

THROUGH A BURNING FOREST.

Mr. Newton H. Chittendon, of Portland,
Oregon, recently’encountered a burning forest,
and writes as follows regarding it: Before
leaving the coast great volumes of smoke were
seen rolling over the forests in the direction of
Olympia. Near Elma a horseman cried out
that the whole country ahead was on fire ; that
several families had been burned out; that the
roads were so blocked with fallen timber that it
would take weeks to remove it. The mail mess-
enger passed us mounted, having left his wagon

behind for fear of detention ; and before leaving

Hicklin’s, the’ crash of fallen trees, sounding
like the roar of heavy artillery in the distance,
as well as the thickening smoke, gave much
ground to fear that the worst reports were not
exaggerated. A few miles beyond, reinforced
by the road overseer—a broad shouldered
brawny man—armed with saw and axes, we
found ourselves face to face with, and breathing

the hot breath of, the raging, devouring, ele-
ment. It is impossible for those who have never
seen the forests of western Washington to im-
agine the grandeur and desolation of the spec-
tacle they present when these great fires are
sweeping through them. Magnify the fiercest
prairie fire a hundred times ; add the thunder-

ing roar of the rapid downfall of monster firs,

big and long enough for an effectual breastwork
for 300 men; pile these black burning giants
one above another from 10 to 15 in height, over
hundreds and thousands of acres; let great
burning limbs descend, whizzing and glaring
like meteors shot from the heavens; and the

cracking of advancing flames through the un-
dergrowth sounds as the musketry of an advan-
cing army,then envelop the whole scene with an
atmosphere glaring with heat, stifling with
smoke and full of cinders, driving all animals

and birds before it in great alarm ; witness the |

consternation of threatened and retreating in-
habitants and the picture is still incomplete. —
Northwestern Lumberman.

Large Belts.
The Iron Age says :—
“Messrs. P. Jewell & Sons, of Hartford,

Conn., have acquired an enviable reputation for

making large belts. According to an item in

the Buffalo Hxpress, the largest -belt ever made

from a single width of hide was recently pro- |

duced by this firm for a New York flouring mill.

It was 48 inches wide, 96 feet long, and weighed |
at |

1,000 pounds. We learn that this firm are
present making two belts larger than the above,
to be used in one of the largest rubber factories
in the country. One is 48 inches wide and 120
feet long, and the other 44 inches wide and 150
feet long, both double thickness. These are the
largest belts that can be made from a single
hide, as no hide can be solid and thick more
than 4 feet in width. It is comparatively few
years since belts of these proportions could be
made, or pulleys on which to run them. No
country except the United States is making use
of articles of this kind of the dimensions given.”

We understand that Mr. Geo. Stethem, of
Peterborough, is the only dealer in Ontario
who keeps a stack of this belting.

NEVER BE WITHOUT It.—Tourists and all who
are subjected to a change of climate, water, diet
&e., should never be without Dr. Fowler’s Ex-
tract of Wild Strawberry, the infallible remedy
for all Summer complaints,

** AnD Foots who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles wit
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly as to its
wonderful effects. ‘

A WIseE Precavurion.—During the Summer
and Fall people are liable to sudden attacks of
bowel complaint, and with no prompt remedy
or medical aid at hand, life may be in danger.
Those whose experience has given them wisdom,
always keep Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild
Strawberry at hand for prompt relief, and a
Physician is seldom required.

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few

cents for'a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the

new and remarkable compound for cleansing

and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their duties in assimilating the food, Get a ten
cee nga of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your! P.O. BOX 556.

uggist.

A few doses will surprise you.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

To MILLMEN
HODCSON’S

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheay machine ching
; : is equally well adapted to grinding pa “and 1
saws of every description. Wheel is moved wung the length, and inthe depth of the tooth, and can be
ust were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million

factor, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amberst, Nova Scotia, ae

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, «
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block likea
Traverse of carriage to suit large.or small stock, is under contro! of operator when boating! Will run for
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under

#100. Send for circulars to
T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTA

ESTABLISHED 1820.

EAGLE FOUNDRY
GEORGE BRUSH

14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL,

MAKER OF %

Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,

CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLIS,

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and

Power Hoists for Warehouses, &., &c.,
AND AGENT FOR
‘‘Water's’’ Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s”

IL24

20
Centrifugal Pumps

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SOR TES Sea

TURBINE WATER WHEELS

i ‘Mill Machinery,

ADDRESS:

PAXTON, TATE & CO.

PORT PERRY, ONT.
se-Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

AMERICAN HHAVY

Oak Tanned Leather Belting
' Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,

Rubber Hose, | Linén Hose,
| And Cotton Hose.

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

7. MicEELLROY. Jr

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
TORONTO,

A

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.

GRAY'S PATENT

Gradual Reduction Machine

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodates themselves
to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

os [ eae . ’ is-

As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without perm
sion to E. WATT, Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
running respectively 10, 8,5and3 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

C. NORSWORTHY & CO.,

ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw su

The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
and SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls
and two Reciprocating Sieves.

¢. * a é The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
Mill Supplies, &c.

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passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and
middlings passing through the sieve and out from the Machine, and the

large unreduced portion passing over the tail of the sieve and through

Represents i i H
We. 5 20-Horse Power & Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.
YIRE-PROOF 18 a z Wi TH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER Flach Machine makes two reductions and two separations.
16 HP. if so ordered. We are testing an Engine i ;

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Sh HN 20H.P.) every day. Intending purchasers are cel ic ‘stable, the same devices bei Fy
CHAMPION ¢ : = er na ce oe Wot aud thor- The Machine is perfectly adjustable, ti m ces being used as

SA WMILL i daneee examine the Champion. We use | on the simple roller machines. The same feed gate and roll is used, and
E P’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE pee a : :
ENCINE ea aca mne tested. > the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by 2
ae 4 i, Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water | gingle belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultansously when teed
a4 Beek : pressure. r is J
KECTIONAL ~ OVER 600 SOLD ; is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLSSS.
a in 5seasons. The favorite everywhere. .s = :

BAFPETY 4 : : It has no These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is
BOILER. equal.” | Gesirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an

elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the
roller system at a comparatively slight cost. s#Send for particulars.

MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY

MILLER BROS. & MITCHELL,

Nos. 110, 112, 114 and 116 KING STREET
qv INT Ee BAL.

saSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller
Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.

Mentios this Pans.

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The sectional safety boiler is manufactu expressly for the % = 2

“North West” trade, This boiler is so arranged that it is readily taken apart in sections

enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it and prevent burning out.

Weknow nee this ts absolutely neces. with the alkaline waters of the great
Western Erwiries. Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the iarge Colo- ’

ization and Ranche Companies,
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Send for New Circular,

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ARRIVED AT QUEBEC.
The Chronicle gives the following list of rafts
arrived at (Juebec :—
Sept 1—Hamilton Bros., pine deals, Point-au-
Pizeau.
Sept 2—Sundry lots, staves, sundry coves.
Burton Bros., pine, &c., Sillery cove.
John B. Campbell, ash, etc., Cap Rouge.
McLachlin Bros, white & red pine Cap Rouge,
do. red pine, do,
J. R. Booth, white and red pine, Cap Rouge,
Sept 4—Fraser & McCoshen, pine, &c., St.
Lawrence Docks.
J. R. Booth, pine. &c., Cap Rouge.
John McRea & Co, staves Indian Cove west.
Flatt & Bradley, staves, St. Micheal’s cove.
Sundry parties, deals, South Quebec,
Sept 5—J. K. Ward, pine, ash, &c., South
Quebec,

Collins Bay Co., oak, etc., Indian cove west.
D. D. Calvin, and Co., (2), oak, pine, &c.,

sundry coves.

Sept 6—J Sharples, Sons & Co., (Forster Lot)
deals, Market wharf, Levis.

Sept 7—G. B. Hall & Co., deals, Montmor-
enci.

J. R. Booth, white and red pine, Woodfield
cove,

R. R. Dobell & Co., sawn plank, alongside
bark Marianna ITI,

i een deneneeennree ome pemmne
To Plug Leaky Boiler Taubes.

Tf the leak is near the head, fit and drive ina
short ferrule ; if the leak is in the body of the
tube where a band cannot be bolted around it,
take it out and put in a new tube,

i dane nEneeeEeneneeeeee ee

Sure, safe and effectual, that old remedy,
Downs’ Elixir, for the cure of Coughs and
Colds.

THE well known drug firm of N. ©. Polson &
Co., Kingston, writes that Dr, Fowler’s Extract
of Wild Strawberry has long been .censidered
the best remedy for summer complaints in the
market, and adds that their cusromera speak in
the highest terms of its merits, Wild Straw-
berry is the best known remedy for Cholera
Morbus, Dysentery and all Bowel Complaints,

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.,
measured and culled to Sept. 8 :—

1880, 1881. 1882.
Waney White Pine.. 1,744,365 1,587,594 1,631,073
White ‘Pine......... 3,484,674 4,602,956 6,176,139
Red Pipes: ..s0es0s 824,655 1,366,124 1,091,146
OBI: cite aislelnie cle tone 1,209,516 2,222,023 875,308
JIL OSBORN SBME TeeIeO + 892,054 931,725 562,629
PEIN islp'n oislersieitsie lashes 227,872 359,501 207,939
Basswood .........4+ 206 3,356 1,273
Butternuti’.......... 627 1,574 2,585
PAMATAG 0. owes adh 21,395 22,728 8,234
Birch & Maple....... 555,874 140,428 263,473
Masts.........cs0.05 4 pcs — pes 33 pes
PSPAYB ites ete cheese 23 pes — pes 51 pes
Std. Staves.......... 16,4.8.15 314.6.3.0 304.4.0,16
W. I. Staves......... 260.0.3.0 326.0,8.0 914,8.2,2
LUST RICO@BORDRCODEE MaGor na | monarae 42,0.2.8

JAMES PATTON,
Supervisor of Cullers.
————

A TREE was cut at Jackson’s camp on the
Skagit, W. T., a few days ago, that yielded
from logs of 32, 30, 30 and 26 feet, in all 118 feet
in length, and measuring 71 inches at the top.
The logs cut from the tree scaled 24,000 feet,
which, at $7 per thousand, will amount to $168,

Says the Virginias, of Staunton, Va.: We
would like to have some of the ‘ forest-wise ”
people—wise from European, but not from an
American stand-point—who are croaking about
the destruction of our forests, and predicting
that we will have a treeless country in a short
time, see how rapidly and beautifully Culpeper
and other counties along the Virginia Midland,
that were almost deforested during the late war
by the great armies ‘that camped and-wintered
there, are now becoming afforested in the life-
time of half a generation. We noticed a few
days ago fuel and fencing being cut where
Meade’s army burnt up every tree in the winter

of 1863-4,
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cure. Price 25c. per bottle.

ADAM McKAY,.

MANUFACTURER OF

Steam Hngines and Boilers,

AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.

Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
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——
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safe, and sure cure. It may save you days of sickness, and you will

» find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine

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Cosovure, Ont., March 3, 1880.

. L have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years I have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. It is an article that
seems to have combined in it all that goes to make a first-class family medicine, and
aslong as I have a house and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both.
J. E, KENNEDY

‘ Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations.
Price 20c., 25c., and 50c. per bottle.

Yours, &c.,

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We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY Limited

PAMwIitTrON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
oO 2 Tos Oo XT

EMERY and CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

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These Wheels are
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Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, | Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. : TORONTO. :

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants, Si

288 ; THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EELS FOR.

Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting abd gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 30,000 saw-miljsin the United States. Many of there run only asingle saweach. A one-saw mill would ose one or two
wheels a year, costing #3 to $4 each, and when such sniall mills order single Emery Wheels {rom the factory, the express charges _
often equal the cost of the wheel. There was a time when the quality of Emery Wheels was so uncertain, and the demand so
fickle, tbat storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as Staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes in stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $500 to $750 worth atatime. Saw Gumming Wheels are used with the edge (or face) square, rouvd
or beveled. Probably seven-eigths of all in use are beveled,

Tne principal sizes are:

12x ) : 2
10x 12x4 |
8x | 7 cya ‘2
pee (e's 10x¢ | ,- 1a | Holes, L DSF A
bt \ # in. hole. 10x ( 8 in. hole. 12x8 [ SS ad hlelars
10x2 | 12x
12x¢ }

Probably more wheels 12x%, 12x} and 12x} are used than all the other sizes together. “aw Gammipg Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 24x14, The most frequent complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that @ file won't touch it.
The answer is that, you don’t want a file to toucivit. An expert workman will shape and sharpen the teeth with anE heel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw willcut about 334 per cent. more lumber than a soft "al, hows
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and {bis second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QUESTION ©O2"G U4. 2 y-

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery W heels, have Jed us toa decided opinion as to what quality is the best. We prefer for almostevery use an
‘tBytra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved On wages. As we cannot get every one to
adort our views, we make several qualities, 50 as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satisfied with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that we can furnish
qualities to match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what itis, and we can send you a Tanite Wheel of similar quality. Our regular

classification of 8aw Gumming Wheels Is as follows: _ ve ;
‘ i. rm
CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Wheel is rHz STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel allover the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels used e Class 2.
Jt cuts fast and keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some toosoft. We prefer the ‘* Pocono.” ay er es
CLASS 3. MEDIUM-—SOFT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ‘‘ Class 2,” but a sof/er, and therefor freer cutting wheel. ee

- = oe e
CLASS “POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. [tis both finer in grain and softer than eliher of the above. As aSaw Gumming Wheel, © “Pocono” i«
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat. .

Iustrated Circulars and Catalogue, showing Cuts of Saw Gumming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. lyul3

'anite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED. :

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY ©

BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Shaft and Shingle Mill,

for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Stuff, &c., from ts, board
trimmings, slabs, and mi!! waste generally, turning material otherwise
wortbless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the
patentee to manufacture and sell for thé Dominion ; have made and sold
a gcod number of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction

and can give the best of references. 5

Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

ON " ‘ SRN is now the Best Feed where Steam is the motive power. It is éasily
AN aan - Se a - \ operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely to wear ont;
NN NU aut | Nae 16 ft. boards, or eighteen 18 ft. boards, have been cut by it in One minute
Hh It is the established feed for steam mills; I make a specialty of ite manu’
facture ; will guarantee Satisfaction,

Qur Patent Twin or Span Circular,

: with Steam Feed for Steam Mills, and Rope or Rack Feed for Water
cL WSS : <= = M| Milis is faust coming into general estimation and is used in place of Gang
Meee TST rent Taam a : = mT Slabber in our best Canadian Mills. One of our Span Cirenlars which
| e tM i|| ] Hill a iH will slab logs 25 inches in diameter down to7 and 8 inch stocks, will do
cf} y& i HHI nt 1 wt
AAA TCE i IN
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the work of three slabbers, with an immense reduction In first cost, ran-

. ning expenses and labour. Twoof these nyachines can be seen at work

in Messrs. Gilmour & Co’s Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's

Mill, Waubaushene and PortSevern. ¢@ "I am also tntrodocing a new

style of Mill Engine, neat, substantial and simple, with Corliss Frame
and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made,

} a ae | Covel’s Automatic Saw Sharpener,
an i ae ull i iN i a = is now well-kvown and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the

= mT i NY PEN at mill it sings out its own praise; I Keep it constantly on hand, ready fer
Tee are ||| f iit ae} | Hh immediate shipment.
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Qur Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

are too well known to need any reference, any further than to say that I 5
spare no pains or expense to have my work all first-class and give satis-

H faction, and as I make Heavy Saw Mill Machinery a specialty, any party s
We wanting & First-class Mill will find it to their advantage to give me a call. A

AM HAMILTON, pettorough Foundry and Machine Works, PETERBOROUGH, Ont

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VOL. 2.

_PETERBOROUGH, ONT., OCTOBER 2, 1882.

NO. 19.

oy DEMAND FOR HARDWOODS.

There is 2 constantly increasing demand for
the finer grades of wood in the United States
for use in the manufacture of furniture and for
house finishing. Pine is being rapidly super-
seded by walnut, cherry, ash, oak and other
finer kinds of woods, especially in the east, and
the future is pregnant with the grandest results
for those who shall engagein the culture of wal- |
nut and cherry. It has been demonstrated
from actual experiment that a quarter of a cen-
tury is sufficient time to propagate walnut and
bring it to a state of profection fit for the mar-
ket. -Thus it will be seen that if a farmer could
devote sufficient time each year from his other
duties to cultivate a single acre of walnut trees
jn twenty-five years he would begin to realize |
from his investment, and he would have an an-
nual income from that time forward which
would abundantly repay him, and his annual |
crop of walnut lumber would be found the most
renumerative of anything which he could pro-
duce from the soil. - |

Wild cherry is also a wood for which a large
demand is springing up, which must inevitably |
make it. very valuable in the future. It is used ;
principally to supply the place of walnut, Itis |
extremely close grained, and can be very highly |
polished; and is at present very extensively used |
in making ebonized furniture and in the inter-
nal fittings of railroad coaches and public build-
ings. Loe

It would be an excellent thing if the agricul- |

| ance, is handsome enough for any ordinary use.

i The people in this section of the country, if | |

they are slow, have sense enough to know that

ec widely different groups of Australian trees,
the eucalypti and acacias, have arrived at a)
vertical instead of a horizontal disposition of

they can sleep as soundly in & room furnished | their leaves by two different methods. The
with ash as they can in one furnished with wal- | acacias have accomplished this by suppressing
nut, and inasmuch as ash costs less money than | the true horizontal leaves and flattening the

| Boston, New York, and other eastern and

tual community could be brought to.a realizing { strips of separated bark.

sense of the pecuniary advantages of tree cul- |
ture, as much of the land which is not available, |
for many reasons, for the production of cereal
or vegetable’ crops, might profitable be utilized
im the.direction indicated. The agricultural
societies throughout the country might accom-
plish an- excellent work by a properly organized
effort, and we would impress upon the Bay |
county agricultural society the desirability of |
its taking an advanced stand in this direction,
by thgofier of premiums sufficiently liberal to |
induce the commencement of this work in our
own county. The society might thus be one of }
the pioneers in the accomplishment of a grand |
and noble object. Will it make the effort 7—
Lumberman’s Gazette.

FURNITURE WOODS.

A correspondent of the Northwestern Lumber- |
man says :—There are several small furniture |
factories at Potsdarn that use maple, ash and |
cherry, derived mostly from the forests of the |
vicinity. The wood mostly used is ash, and a.
fine wood for ordinary furniture it is, Variety |
to plain light color is given by what the manu- :
factarers call imitation black walnut, put on in |
moldings, veneers. etc. Ash furniture can be |
afforded much cheaper than walnut, and, if it |
does not give an apartinent a% rich au appear- |

| which, in the shape of their trunks, remind one
| of a carrot upside down, so disproportionately

; Erde,”

‘which exists between the tree vegetation and |
| the coating of grass which covers the ground

walnut, some of the extremely economical peo- |
ple out here would not be able to sleep at all ;
with a tall walnut bedstead, that cost one hun- |
dred dollars, beetling over their recumbent |
forms. The furniture men here appreciate the
value of the birch, cherry and maple now stand- |
ings and nearly inaccessible in the “South |
Woods,” and hope for the time when railroads |
will be built so that it can brought out. No |
better points than Potsdam and Norwood ffor
manufacturing furniture could be found, if the
facilities, were once supplied for transporting
the raw material out of the forest. Enough
furniture wood exists in the Adirondack district
to furnish another Grand Rapids, and some day
it will be utilized. But it is probable that it
will be sawed in the vicinity and shipped to

southern points, for manufacture into furniture.

THE GUM TREES OF AUSTRALIA.
The ranges are covered with a dense forest of

gum trees, m many places of enormous height,
standing with their smooth trunks close together
and running up often for a height of 200 feet |
without giving off a branch.

The light-colored stems are hung with ragged

The great slenderness of the trunks of these
giant gum trees, in proportion to their height, is
striking, and in this respect they contrast most
favorably with the Californian ‘‘big trees,’

broad are they at their bases. The large species
of gum tree, the tallest tree m the world, is |
Eucalyptus amugdalina.

As Baron von Muller says: ‘The largest |
specimens might overshadow the Pyramid of |
Cheops.” °

Grisebach, in his account of the vegetation of
Australia (A. Grisebach, ‘‘ Vegetation der
p. 216, Leipsic, W. Engelman, 1872),
dwells on the close relation of interdependence

beneath it, and remarks that the amount of
light allowed by the trees to reach the ground
beneath them is rendered more than usually
great by the vertical position in which their
leaves grow ; hence the growth of the grass
beneath is aided.

It may be that this, permitting of the growth of |
other plants beneath them, and consequent pro-
tection of the soil from losing its moisture, |
besides other advantages to be derived, is the |
principal reason why, as is familiarly known,

| notions of what values should be.

| and the same is true, more or less, this side of

leaf-stalks vertical leaves or
“ phyllodes.”

The gum trees, on the other hand, have simply
twisted their leaf-stalks, and have thus render-
ed their true leaves vertical in position.

There must exist some material advantage |
which these different trees derive in common
from their peculiar arrangement, and the benefit

derived from relation to other plants by this |

into pseudo

| means may be greater and more important than |

that arising from the fact that the vertical
leaves have a like relation to the light on both
sides; and are provided with stomata on both |
faces. In support of this conclusion I was
told, when at Melbourne, that when the native
vegetation was cleared away from under gum
trees they ceased to thrive, and in time
perished.

I was shown a number of gum trees, not far |
from the city, scattered over some public land, |
covered with only short turf, which seemed to |
be mostly in a dying condition.—H. N. Mosely, |
Ghallenger Notes.

AN OUTSIDE CRITIC.
The Northwestern Lumberman, of Chicago, in |
an article entitled ‘‘ Canadian Lumber Logic,”
says :—Canadian lumber purchasers have learn-
ed a lesson. During the depression of some |
years ago lumber declined to such a notch
that the coutinued advance it has since taken |
has appeared inordinate to retailers. They, it |
is stated, unwisely permitted their stocks to run
low, either because their faith in a recurrence
of the decline was strong or with a view to for-
cing the market to a point which would suit their |
This policy
has been pursued so far as possible by the Can- |
adian handlers of lumber for the last two years, |

the border. But the result has simply been in |
the upward direction, and during the last month
prices on several kinds of lumber were advan-
ced in the Canadian market from $1 to $2, |
which is about the same asthe Chicago advance.
In regard to the reasons of constant advance
the manufacturers of lumber point to the fact
of an increase in the price of stumpage, labour
and supplies of all kinds, which they say has
been in a greater ratio than the upward move-
ment in the lumber market.

The argument is carried still further. It is
cited that emigration to the United States and
Canada has created a large demand for the
erection of shelters. At the same time the)
natural and increasing wants of both countries

‘have cut the same important figures which they

ee have. In the Manitoba market the de-
mand has been abnormal. Lumber is constant-
ly and rapidly diminishing in supply, and in-
creasing in the cost of production. Under these

| conditions the manufacturers insist that nothing

but persistent advance can be logically expect-
ed. This line of philosophy is then clinched by
the argument that with good crops and the ab-
sence of financial depression, prices must go

i up.

It is instanced that lath is in short supply,
everywhere, and the mill men do not marvel at
it. For years 1,000 pieces of lath, equal to 500
feet of lumber, have becn selling for $1. Itis
then not strange that operations upon such an
unprofitable basis should be curtailed. The
mills have preferred selling slabs for fuel to
making them into lath. The result is indicated
by the recent advance in lath to $2.25 to $2.50
per thousand. One Canadian firm states that

'more orders for lath have reached that house
| than could be manufactured in three years, and
| the consequence is a material advance in price.

Of this line of Jogic many will say it is a bull
argument straight from the shoulder. But there
are certain facts presented which are hard to
get around, and no one will claim that the con-
ditions are just right to sustain the bearish
| views. Even if the inevitable upward tenden

ey were wholly a bull movement it is plain that

'no one possesses weights that are heavy enough
| to hold prices down, and while they continue to
ascend, it is best to take the bull and the dilemma
by the horns, and buy before stocks get up a
peg higher. :
It appears the Canadian retailers find them-

| selves with bare yards right on the heels of an

advance, when they might havestocked up long

| ago, and the present advance would in itself

have counted for a good percentage of profit.
Possibly the American dealers would do well] to

| admit that the bulls are holding prices on their

horns, and go in for the needed stock before
rates get another toss. There is no telling when
a red cloth, in the shape of a coloured census

| bulletin, will stir up taurus again so that he will

brace himself for another pull on the list.
There is some reason for attaching importancs

; to arise in lumber in Canada, though the ad-

vances nade by the Chicago Lumberman’s Ex-
change could as well be pointed to. It is
possible that in Canada lumber is sold accord-

ing to the raise, and that it is not necessary to

copper an official list in order to get at true
values. With the past antics of the Chicago

| trade fresh in the mind, on the other hand, it is

a difficult matter to tell whether an advance

) advances.

THE Ottawa Citizen says:>—Mr. Richard

| Nagle has sold a small raft for 25c. per square

foot. Messrs. Thistle & Carswell have sold all
their square timber in the Quebec market for
5c, per square foot.

290

I

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

FORESTRY MEETING.

The Montreal Witness of Sept. 21st, says :—
A goodly number of substantial citizens met in
the old post office building, 138 St. James street,
last evening, for the purpose of considering the
question of a Canadian association for the pro-
pagation and protection of forests.

Mr. Jamus Lirrin, as the convener of the
meeting, stated its objects, and nominated the
Hon. H. G. Joly as chairman, and Mr. Stuart
Thane as secretary. The nominations having
been received with universal applause, the gen-
tleman named came forward and took their res-
pective stations.

The Hon, Mr. Jony then addressed the
meeting, calling attention to the numerous
draughts being made upon our already depleted
forest wealth.. Attention had been called to
this subject as far back as 1690, under the old
French kings ; but the governors of those days
do not appear to appreciate the necessity ¢f
taking protective measures. The laws were
then rather favourable to forest destruction
than to their preservation, or instance, there
was a law compelling a man whose forest ad-
joined a neighbour’s fields to cut a belt thirty
feet wide along the dividing line to admit of sun
and air getting at the neighbor's crops. This
had the effect of compelling many forest owners
to cut all their valuable timber, and for this
reason Mr, Kinkers introduced and passed an
act repealing the injurious law. At the recent
Forestry Congress here a resolution had been
adopted recommending that the matter of forest
conservation should be submitted to all the
Legislatures on the Continent for their serious
consideration. Looking back for a precedent
to guide them in the present effort, he had ac
cidentally come across an account of efforts
made by Mr. Levesque twelve years ago, which
were well calculated to prove successful, but,

unfortunately, they died with, their author. ,

That gentleman had organized an association,
the condition of whose membership was simply
a pledge on the part of each member to plant a
certain number of trees each year. The honor-
able speaker recommended some similar organ-
ization to effect the same object now. This had
been deemed an appropriate time to inaugurate
a movement, in view of the large number of
people in the city from various sections of the
country. One of the leading objects"to be ar-
rived at by the proposed organization was an
attempt to propagate timber woods of sorts
that nature has not provided us with, and in
this connection he referred to his own experi-
ments, very encouraging in their results, with
black walnut. He would advocate, all the more
opportunely in view of the presence of the Hon.
Mr. Lynch, Commissioner of Crown Lands, the
adoption of some system, under the auspices of
Government, of replenishing the constantly de-
pleting forest wealth of the Province. To
stimulate us we had the example of our repub-
lican neighbors, a practical people inclined to
look first at the money side of the question. At
present no idea was taking more hold of them
than that of restocking their forests. He had
met with General Sherman, one of their lead-
ing citizens, that evening, who, upon being in-
formed of this meeting, had expressed deep
‘sympathy with the movement and would have
been present had engagements permitted. The
honorable gentleman recommended educating
the people upon this subject through the agency
of our schools and colleges as one of the very
best that could beemployed. Referring to ar-
bor, or tree-planting day, now an established
institution in the United States, he was sure the
Government of this Province would favor the
institution of such an anniversary here. The
spring time would not be favourable for
such a purpose here, on account of the precari-
jous nature of the season here, which taxed the
farmers’ closest attention. Another suggestion
he would make was that the ladies should be
enlisted in the cause with the all-powerful in-
fluence ‘and devotion that they brought to all
their undertakings. Our grain trade was all
important at present, but we should not forget
that once the timber was our only trade and the
beginning of the prosperity of to-day. We

ought to feel grateful to that industry for the |

start made by it, and we also owe it to poster-
ity that we should hand the Province down as
rich in woods as we found it,

There were | tions had not korne much fruit.

streams in the Province that, elghty or ninety
years ago, furnished never failing power to
mills, which were vow as intermittent in their
periods of usefulness as the rains upon which
they depended for their supply, and this be-
cause their banks were denuded of their former
wooded growth. Our climate was undergoing
change under the unnatural influences that the
present movement was designed to check, but it
was not too late to take measures that might
save us from such inundations as many portions
of Europe are periodically suffering. Mr. Joly
was frequently applauded during his address as
well as at its close.

The Hon. Mr. Lyncu, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, said he came to show his keen interest
in the objects of the meeting, and he convey-
ed the deep regrets of the Hon. Premier of the
Province for his inability to attend, He refer-
red in terms of high appreciation to the honor-
able chairman’s action last session in bringing
the subject of forestry to the attention of the
Legislature, which he rejoiced to say had met
with no division of sentiment, and which it had
been his great pleasme to support. Those
taking part in this movement he assured of the
Government's hearty sympathy, and it was a
matter in which all could rise above party div-
ision. He pledged the Government’s approval
and support of organized effort in the direction
sought. The fortunes of the people, both pre-
sent and future, were in the hands of the rulers
of the day, and they were bound to support
projects for the advancement of the same within
their jurisdiction, or his part he favoured the
organization proposed on this occasion having
Provincial rather than aiming at Dominion
scope. The question as to what season should
be adopted for general tree-planting he recom-
mended to the fullest consideration as being of
vital importance. :

The audience gave an enthusiastic reponse to
to the honorable gentleman’s eloquent speech at
every point.

Mr. Marier was in favour of a provincial or-
ganization and moved a resolution to that effect,
Among other good suggestions, he urged that
the forest rangers to be appointed shou.J be ed-
ucated men and lovers of trees,

Mr. Henry Lyman, accepting the question
of forest culture and protection as a foregone
conclusion, preceeded to express his hearty ap-
proval of the suggestion of utilizing the eduea-
tional institutions to build up healthy public
opinion upon the matter. It was the duty of
vovernors and governed to promote the objects
in hand, One condition of membership ought
to be a reasonable money fee. With reference
to the proposed stipulation that each member
should plant some trees every year, it should be
provided in all cases that the member has land
in which to plant. He had studded all his
ground with trees, and feared his next duty
was to cut some down. Mr, Lyman concluded
his practical remaks with a suggestion that a
committee of organization be appointed. In
response to calls,

Dr. T. Sterry Hunt took the floor. He
claimed to be a pioneer in this business. It was
thirty-five years since he began the geological
survey of this province. In the course of that
task he had observed the vast waste of trees
then going on in manufacturing potash from
them by most extravagant methods, and the
primary destruction of valuable timber in that
process often fell short of that occasioned by
fugitive fires starting from the potash piles, and
devastating immense tracts of forests. There
were many places where the soil was of such a
composition that it took many years to recover
from the effects of these burnings sufficiently to
yield life to new growths. La Tortue River,
flowing into the St. Lawrence, Dr. Hunt gave
among other instances of streams within his
knowledge which once sustained mills but were
now inadequate for that purpose. In his European
travels he had seen once fertile valleys,such as the
Daros, that from being despoiled of woods had
become sterile. He had in his geological re-
port of 1857, protested against the forest waste
encountered by him in his explorations, and
warned the Government of its certain bad ef
fects. Forests were then regarded as a shelter
for bears and other evil beasts to be swept away
as expeditiously as possible, and his representa-

in tree planting and induce all they can influ-
ence to follow it. He suggested the encourage-
ment of farmers’ clubs, with forestry as a main
object in their formation, as one of the best aids
tothe cause. These being useful institutions
in a high degree otherwise, their general estab-
lishment with this particular object in view
would amount to killing two birds with one
stone. Another sugggestion he offered was the
enlistment of school children, who could do a
great deal by planting trees about the school-
houses, many of which stood badly in need of
pleasant shade. Let organization, he urged, be
proceeded with at once.

Dr. Henry Howarp, after general remarks
in line with previous speakers, seconded Mr.
Marler’s proposal for the formation of a Pro-
vincial Association, thus bringing that point
squarely forward.

Mr. CostiGAN moved in amendment that a
Dominion Association be formed.

Dr. ALLoway seconded the amendment, urg-
ing with great force the desirability of our
placing the results of home labour before the
British and European peoples with a distinctive
stamp of their Canadian origin. He pointed
out that Canada suffered severely in this respect
from Canadian productions being almost invar-
iably classed as American in the markets of the
Old World, and this was the case even in the
Mother Country, as he knew from personal ob-
servation in English ports.

Messrs. LyMAN and MARLER again supported
the Provincial idea, the latter giving as an ad-
ditional argument that the society would require
immediate incorporation to work with advan-
tage in the Province.

Mr. Bratt had entered the meeting in favor
of Dominion organization, chiefly in view of |
the great necessity of Manitoba being started
in the work. Since listening to other speakers,
however, he had altered his opinion, feeling that
there was nothing to prevent other Provinces
having their own organization, with mutual af-
filiation between all.

Mr. J. K. Warp favoured the Province as
the field of action, because Crown lands were
under Provincial control, each Province having
a system of management thereof peculiarly its
own.

Mr. CocHvr wanted to start as a Canadian
institution, so that the commercial metropolis
should be the recognized pioneer. The promises
made on the part of the Provincial Government
should give courage for seeking a more compre-
hensive scope rather than cause a narrowing
down to its constituency.

The Hon. Mr. PERRAULT argued in favour of
the Province, as they wanted to give the Gov-
ernment encouragement in stopping the great
waste going on in the public lands. We should
see that our remaining fifty million acres of
timber were not destroyed. In Europe the ex-
tent of forests was now being increased rather
than diminished. Here the system for destruc-
tion of forests was perfect, as the only officers
in the woods were the stumpage surveyors,
whose duty was to see that the Government got
the greatest possible amount of revenue out of
the timber limits. There ought to be a system
adopted whereby as much forest should be re-
produced annually as was used. There would
then be a perpetually standing capital of natur-
al wealth, out of which the cost of the system
would come many times. Begin at home in our
own Province.

Mr. BARNARD thought much time was being
wasted upon one point, and therefore moved,
seconded by Mr. Costigan, that an organization
committee headed by Mr. Little be formed,
which should decide upon the jurisdiction of
the organization.

The CHAIR suggested, with manifest approval,
that the main question should be put before
ranization was preceeded with.

Mr. W. DryspaLr then suggested that the
organization be called ‘“‘ The Canadian Forestry
Association af the Province of Quebec,” which
e considered would combine the ideas of all
rties to the discussion. This suggestion was
taken as a happy one all around, and having
been accepted by the mover and seconder of the
main resolution, and the amendment also being
withdrawn by its originators, the question was

Mr. Barnarn thought no time should be lost. put t tot
Let all now feeling an interest set the example | unani

at an Bodin Va
of pr

re an.
ian Fomticy Association of the Provine
Quebec,” $

Council be requested to consider the’ sele
of an arbor day for the Province, and be
gentleman suggested that the rural muni sip:

councils could best judge of a day suit:
their respective districts. The view °
concurred in by Mr. Lyman, who fea
councils would neglect the matter, and co
ed the Government gma wor

more influence.

chairman was selecting a committee o
ation, Dr. Alloway did not believe
flourish in Manitoba, as at a certain
soil was perpetually frozen, which wai

reason corn could not be raised there. _ “

t Fad

tions, the latter that the e: u se 8
before the agricultural aisle ak the a vot =
fall exhibitions.

announced from the chair :—Messrs. Barnard, —
Little, Beaubien, Hunt, Perrault, Ward,

aa and report at a general meeting.
took place. Mr, Perrault suggested the first —

counties making most satisfactory returns. Dr.

“ Proposed by Mr. "Mar

and shall be known as ‘

The Carr suggested that the Gc

A desultory discussion aii

Messrs. Baylis and Bueban off

jou

The following committee of eS

, Ty

man, Marler, Drysdale, Lewis, Dr. Howard,
Prof. Bovey, Messrs. James, Baylis, Massue,
Bryson, Principal Dawson and Mr, Joly, to
meet in the same room at half-past nine on

A short discussion on arbor day then Sinks

week in October, and that prizes be given to
Howard thought that time rather early, and
| preferred prizes for individuals, The Chairman
said that a law was passed last session, provid-
ing for prizes to individuals for tree-planting.
On motion of Mr. Perrault, seconded by Mr.
Drysdale, it was resolved to ask the Govern-
ment to have an arbor day instituted in the
province by proclamation.

The meeting then adjourned, those present
registering their names in an index in an ad
joining room.

QUEBEC FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. ,

The Montreal Gazette of Sept. 23rd, says :-— t
At yesterday’s meeting of the committee ap-
pointed to consider the organization of this as-
sociation, there were present, Hon. Mr. Joly, in
the chair, Messrs. Wm. Little, Dr. Henry
Howard, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, John Lewis, J.
A. U. Beaudry, Stewart Thane, acting secret-
ary, Ed, A. Barnard, James Baylis, E, S. Orr,
of Cookshire, Geo. W. Stephens, J. K. Ward,
J. O. Perrault, G. L. Marler, James cattle,
Leonard G. Little.

After some discussion it was resolved to name
the new society, ‘‘The Forestry Association of
the Province of Quebec.” ,

The following draft of the constitution of the »
Association was submitted to the = and
adopted.

Ist. That the name of the anseldaslensios the

*« Forestry Association of the Province of Que-
bec.”

2nd. The object of this Avisos to se
cure {the efficient protection of our standing
forests ; to promote the re-wooding of denuded
districts, and to encourage the selection and
cultivation of the most valuable kinds of
trees that will suit our climate and
stances.

3rd. Every member of this Association oe
owns land fit for the purpose must undertake as
his contribntion to sow or plant, or get sown or
planted, annually, at least 25 forest trees ; to
give them proper care, and to send, at the time
appointed, a report of his operations to the
secretary.

4th. The contribution of members who are
not so circumstanced as to be able to cultivate
forest trees, will be $2 a year, to ‘be applied to
the purposes of the Association.

5th. That it shall be the object of this Asso-
ciation to have representative members or
branch societies in every municipality in the
Province.

6th, The direction of the Association will be

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next.

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INFLUENCE OF FORESTS UPON STREAMS.

The Kaffrarian Watchman says :—The above
is the topio of one of the sections of a very in-
teresting report upon forestry, prepared by Dr.
F. B. Hough, under the direction of the United
States commissioner of agriculture. Dr. Hough
collects the facts in support of his line of argu-
ment from a variety of sources, and we shall
here avail ouselves of his Jabourious industry
and make use of his examples to show the
“influence of forests upon streams.” ‘‘ Mr,
James Brown, of Sterling, Scotland, a standard
authority upon forestry ” (runs the report), “in
speaking of the effect of tree planting upon
moisture, says :— ‘I have frequently been sur-
prised to find (on examining woods which had
been planted some ten or twelve years, all the
Jand under which had been considered dry at
the time the plantation was made) wet spots,
spreading wider and wider every year, and
some of them even beginning to throw out runs
of water ; thus proving that under the shade of
the trees the larger portion of the moisture of
the land is retained, and therefore accumulates
in spots, according to the nature of the sub-
soil.” Tne reference is made to a volume, enti-
tled *‘ Influence des Forets sur les Climats et les
Sources,” and published at Montpelier in the
year 1874, which contains an account of certain
observations prosecuted by one M. Jules
Maistre de Villeneuvette during a period of 18
months in a wooded basin and in one that had
been cleared, but other wise similar in soil and
conditions. The former, with an area of seven
hundred and seventy hectares, delivered one
hundred and ten litres of water very regularly ;
the other, with 6,786 hectares, had a drainage of
only ten or twelve litres a second, and was very
irregular. He found the temperature in the
open field at least 10° C. above that in woods.
He noticed that, in the southern region, the cul-
tivation of cereals is becoming more uncertain
and less profitable, and that the injuries by the
Phyllowera upon the vine roots were more des-:
tructive.” Then the report enlists in its service
Mr. R. U. Piper, from whose work on the
“Trees of America” the following extracts is
made by way of illustrating the return of water
by restoring the woodland shade: ‘‘ Within
about one half-mile of my residence there is a
pond upon which mills have been standing for a
long time, dating back, I believe, to the first
settlement of the town. These have been kept
jn constant operation until within about twenty
or thirty years, when the supply of water be-
gan to fail. Tho pond owes its existance to a
stream which has its source in the hills which
atretch some miles to the south. Within the
time mentioned these hills, which were clothed
with a dense forest, have been almost entirely
stripped of trees ; and to the wonder and loss
of the mill-owners, the water in the pond has
failed, except in the season of freshets, and,
what was never heard of before, the stream it-
self has been entirely dry. Within the last ten
years a new growth of trees has sprung up on
most of the land formerly occupied by the old
forest, and now the water runs all through the
year, notwithstanding the droughts of the last
few years.” Next a fact is mentioned in connec-
tion with the Ohio River, ‘‘ About 1871-72,”
runs the report, ‘the waters sank lower than
had been known before, and at Smith’s Ferry,
where the Pennsylvania line crosses, a ledge of
rocks was laid bare that had not been seen be-
fore by the present inhabitants. On this sur-
face, from fifty to one hundred feet and several
hundred yards long, inscriptions have been
made, such as are ascribed to a race which den-
sely populated the country before the advent of
the recent Indian tribes. It is possible to con-
jecture that the clearing of forests by an
agricultural race may have brought about the
condition now existing, a long interval of ne-
glected culture and forest growth having since
intervened,” Nine years ago at a meeting of
the International Congress of Land and Forest
Culturists held in Vienna, it was shown that
the Rhine, the Elbe, and the Oder were all
shallower than they had been in the past, and it
was pointed out that this was directly traceable
to the destruction of forests. And our last ex-
tract shall be from a payer read before the Royal
Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, in Jan-
uary, 1876, and for which also we are indebted
to Dr, Hough’s report, ‘‘ Asa warning example,

Bae EL

rik ert

the author cites Palestine, Persia, Greece, Sicily

and Spain, which countries are suffering on ac- | may be of service to farmers who intend to | tree planting on the public domain. The trees
count of the devastation of their forests. To | make experiments to know that the. standard | thus planted would certainly enbance the value

this list may be added a portion of southern |

Russia, where one hundred and fifty or two
hundred years ago there existed large forests,
now changed into naked plains where the hills
are without water, and the population is forced
to settle in the valleys. We may also mention
the Volga and the Dnieper in Southern Russia,
where the forests around their sources have been
cleared to such an extent that in the middle and
lower portions, where these two rivers, 80 im-
portant to the commerce of Russia, pass through
a wholly cleared country, the high water reaches
points never before attained when the upper
forests were standing. Every one knows of the
changes made yearly in the beds of these rivers
by the floods, and the consequent inconvenience
and even danger which these occasion to navi-
gation, The fact is also generally known that
the deep gu'fs which in summer and winter are
without water, become wild torrents after heavy
rains, and in the melting of snows in spring,
carrying with them acres of the finest soil. We
believe that these evils would have appeared in
less degree if the country adjoining these rivers
had not been cleared of its woods.” Nor does
our author in this section of his report fail to
insist upon and to illustrate how the cutting
away of forests tends to produce great irregular-
ity in the rain fall and to bring about torrential
rains, which run off the surface of the ground
from their very impetuosity, and carry with them
the best of the soil. As coal is brought more
and more into ordinary and general use in this
country, and the consequent necessity to burn
wood as fuel is lessened, we may hope to see
some restoration of the forests and of the
seasons to something of the regularity observed
in regard to them for some years after the land-
ing of the British settlers.

A correspondent of the Northwestern Lumber-
man speaking of a projected railroad’ says :—I
mention this enterprise again particui.:ly be-
cause it is the initiative that is bound to open

work upon the subject is ‘‘The Forester,” a
practical treatise on the planting, rearing and
general management of forest trees. A fifth
edition almost entirely re-written, has just been
issued by Blackwood & Sons, the British pub-
lishers. The work is written by Mr. James
Brown, Inspector of Woods and Forests, Port
Elgin, Ontario, assisted by his son, Mr. George

E. Brown, forester, Cumloden, Newton Stew- | land; and the surplus value of the crops, over ~

art, N. B. In a review of the edition, the
Farmer's Gazette, an Irish Agricultural paper of
high standing, says that there is no other book
of its kind published in the English language so
comprehensive and complete, so practical and so

satisfying, or so calculated to meet the wants | government in appropriations of a very doubt-
and requirements of all engaged or interested in | ful character, to say the least, were expendedin

| of the lands to a much greater extent than the
as the years passed by, and any person purposing
settlement would very willingly pay the increas-

| ed cost. This would’aleo put the lands within
the reach of the settler who was devoid of cap-
ital, as he would thereby be enabled to attend —

| strictly to the agricultural development of the

and above what might be absolutely necessary

for the support of himself and family, could be

applied to the remuneration of the govern-
lment for its investment. If a few of the
lions of dollars annually squandered by

the

cost, and would be annually increasing in value _

lau

planting or having to do with woodlands or | the direction indicated, it would tend very much —
woodland work, as is this valuable and gener- | to the solution of the problem which is bother-_

ally recognized standard work. The Gazette, in}ing the brains of many of our best citizens, viz.:

the course of its ably written review, has some-
thing to say of the value of tree pianting to the

forest production. Besides the climatic consid-
| erations involved are of inestimable value, and

farmer and gardener, for transcribing which to | absolutely beyond the range of. computation. —
the columns of the Zimes from such a high! Lumberman’s Gazette. m3

authority no apology is needed :
provement of farms, judicious tree planting 1s
calculated to be of the highest service. In the
reclamation and improvement of waste lands it

is calculated to play an all-important part, and |}. en appeared before the Umted)Seatestaae) 22

the attempt to improve such without planting
to afford shelter, is sure to be a failure. A
knowledge of trees and planting should not,
therefore, be ignored by the farmer. Itis near
ly as indispensible to the better class of garden-
er as it is to the professional forester, the head
gardener in places of moderate extent having
mostly to combine the care of woods with his
other duties.”"— Wiunipeg Times.

SEIZURE OF LOGS,

For a series of years there has been more or
less dissatisfaction at the way the assessments
have been made by the Tittabawassee Boom
Company, and last week a suit in attachment
was begun to test its validity. The Boom com-
pany has been in the habit of requiring so much

up the Adirondack: timber region in @ way it | per M. feet for booming and rafting the logs,

was never before. Other railroads will be built.
The Adirondack Company’s road, projected
from Saratoga north through these wilds, and to
strike the St. Lawrence at some point, is now
under a management that is likely to carry the
‘project to completion, It would be a pity if
the western craze for eleaning up stumpage
should ever get hold of the Adirondack woods,
because the country is nearly worthlese for agri-
cultural purposes, and should be everlastingly
preserved for timber growing. The Racket
river lumbermen are right in one thing, that of
economizing their standing timber. While a
little more enterprise in developing the hard-

wood utilization and the’hemlock wealth ofthe | custody.

and at the close of the season of allowing a re-
bate to the owners of logs rafted. This has

caused the dissatisfaction, some holding that the | pled the past season because of that fact. It -

company had no right to fix the price of hand-
ling logs higher than was absolutely necessary.
Edmond Hall, of Detroit, has a large quantity
of loys in the river and refused to pay the regu-
lar assessment. He offered, however, to pay
the amount of actual cost of booming, and ten-
dered the same, which was refused, and the
company also refused to deliver Hall’s logs. To
test his rights, Hall caused all his logs to be re-
plevined, and yesterday the sheriff was busy
visiting the boom and taking Hall’s logs into his
The outcome of the suit will be

region would be commendable, there is but lit-| watched with great interest. Edgett & Brooks

tle doubt that the spruce is -being handled
wiseley by the present method, Be this as it
may, when capital becomes interested in the
Adirévdack forests they will melt away like
grain before the sickle of the reaping mackine,
and the men who now advocate the ‘‘ North
Woods ” for a state park will be sorry by and by
that ‘they did not persist in it more strongly
and persistently. The cutting- away of the Ad-
irondack woods would be a groat damage to the
surrounding country, no doubt, on account of
the effect it would have on the streams of the
region, Already they carry less water
than formerly, in the summer after the
spring flush has passed off. Were the woods
cleaed up entirely, or much land denuded of
trees, the effect would be to reduce the volume
of water in the streams still more.

FOREST GROWING.

That the great prairies of the Canadian
Northwest were at one time covered with forests
has been proved beyond a doubt, and a discuss-
ion is now taking place all along the line con-
cerning the possibility of repairing the ravages
created by fire from heayen or the careless hand
of the hunter, Gentlemen who, like U. S.
‘Consul Taylor, have devoted much attention
arid study to the subject are perfectly satisfied
that no serious obstacles stand in the way of
ameliorating the climate and ministering to the

|

are the attorneys for Hall, and John Moore for
the boom company.—Sayinaw Herald.

TREE PLANTING.

A great deal has been said and written on the
subject of tree planting, and suggestions ‘‘as
thick as blackberries * have been advanced in
regard to the best methods to be adopted, and
the kinds of trees that are the most likely to
prove remunerative because of quick growth
and the value of timber. The government has
even adopted measures to ensure timber growth
on the prairies of the great west by accepting as
remuneration for the land taken up by the set-
tler an affidavit to the effect that he has a cer-
tain number of trees under cultivation on his
land. While all these suggestions are worthy
of consideration, and each may be possessed of
considerable merit from its peculiar standpoint,
yet there is ordinarily a serious impediment, so
far as tree planting is concerned. The young
trees before being planted cost quite a consider-
able sum of money, which very often puts them
beyond the reach of the settler whose capital is
generally his bare hands and plucky determina-
tion. There is one view of this subject, how-
evor, which has as yet received no consideration,
and whi: h appears quite feasible from a super-
ficial coi sideration at least. It is-nothing less
than this for the government to take Lold of
this eubject itself, through a “forestry depart-

“Tn the im- | ——-~ —- —---
| CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. —

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says>—~—

| At the time a representation of Chicago lum-

iff commission at the Grand Pacific Hotel, this
city, considerable was said about the low rate”
of wages in Canada as a reason why the lamber~
tariff should be abolished. Mr. Van Schaick
alluded to it in strong terme, and asserted that —
there was so much difference between the cheap
labour of Canada and the comparatively high
rate of wages in the States, that the removal of
the duty on lumber would make it very hard, if
| not impossible, for the lumber producers of this
country to compete with those of the Dominion.
The argument would have been a strong one if
it had any basis in fact. But the truth is that
since the Manitoba boom began, labor in Cana-
da has been neither plenty nor cheap. A repre-
sentative of the Lumberman was lately in
Ontario, and was informed by the best authority
that the supply of labour was positively not
equal to the demand in that proVince, and that
leading industries have been considerably crip-

was also stated that the operators in logging —
camps and mills have been unable readily to
obtain all the help they have required this sea-—
son. This scarcity of men has enhanced wages,
which are nearly or quite double what they

were two or three yearsago. The truth is, a -

great industrial change has come over the Dom-
inion, on account of the opening up of the new
North West to settlement, and the building of
the Canada Pacific road, and it will not do here- —
after to judge of the tariff or any other question
affecting our relations with the Dominion by
old time standards. The Canada of the future

is to be afvery different thing from that of the —

past.

’ ——--

Polished Woods,
Black woods have come into great demand, -
and are growing in popularity. Ebony is imi-
tated and excelled by a charcoal polishing pro-
cess, which of course adds to the demand for
other woods than ebony. Carefully selected

woods of close and compact grain are used, and —

carefully polished, a chemical process quite

complicated being followed, and when finished ~
the woods have a dead black color, sharp, clear- ~

cut edges, smooth surface, and apparently the
density of ebony. The polished wood is held

to be more serviceable than ebony, and will not —

tarnish like gilding, or grow yellow like woods

| that are not so polished, while it is always aneat —

finish, agreeing happily with the other decora-
tive elements.

Tue construction of the branch of the Can-
ada Atlantic Railway to the Chaudiere lumber
yards is being rapidly pushed forward.

ital

A Lonpon Druggist says:

eral satisfaction, or for which there was such a
la ge sale, as there is for Mack's Magnetic
Medicine, advertised im snother column of your

r ~aper, »

“during the ©
many years I have been in the drag business, T_—-
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MONTREAL NOTES.

A Montreal correspondent of the London
Pree Press says :—The export trade in deals and
and lumber continues fairly active,
wind-up of the season will see an unusually large
increase in the exports from this port upon
those of the previous year. There are now
loading with lumber for South American ports,

the barques Capt. Strathay, Ameer, Piskataqua,
Eleaner, Edina, G. W. Halls, and Joy, with 3,-
000,000 feet. The sailing vessels, Ida, Cathella,
Charles E. Robinson, and James L. Harway,
are chartered to follow with lumber for South
America, The barques now loading with deals
for U, K. Ports are the Fida and Twee Zuesters,
the Latona, Milo and Agnes, have been charter-
ed to follow. The Excelsior goes to Quebec to
load. Freight engagements for lumber are re-
~~ ported $16 to $16.50 to River Platte, and deals
at 65s to 75s, steam and sail to U. K. ports.
The local trade in lumber is fair for the season.
Tt would, however, be much larger at present
were it riot for the fact that most of the stocks
of dry lumber have run out, and the recent ar-
rivals have been too green to go into immediate
consumption. <A good demand exists for pine
on American account, and a large business is
“expected between Ottawa and American ports
this season in that kind of wood. Prices here
remain unchanged. A good export movement
is still reported, and freights are quoted at 67s 6d
~~ to 70s. for deals per steamer to Liverpool, while
lumber charters to South American ports are
quoted at $15 to $16 by sail.

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AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION.

The Northwestern Lumberman of Chicago is
now engaged in the compilation of anew Dir-
ectory of all the Saw Mills in the United States
and Dominion of Canada, which stupendous
undertaking it expects to have completed in
December next. The event will be signalized
_ by the publication in January, 1883, of a mam-

moth extra number of the Lumberman which,
"its publishers claim, will be the largest single
eopy of any trade journal that has ever been
published ; it will contain about 200 pages, and
‘it is now announced that an edition of thirty
thousand copies will be printed for distribution
among lumber and mill men all over the world,
An edition of thirty thousand was first announ-

ced, but the publishers assure us that the num- |

_ ber of saw mills developed by their canvass thus
far, so greatly exceeds their expectation that the
extra ten thousand copies will be required to
cover the ground over which they intend to dig-
tribute this mammoth number, Besides the list
of saw mills, which will be printed in full, this
extra will contain the Lumbermam’s Tenth An-
nual Review of the White Pine Lumber and
Shingle Product of the North West, giving the

_production in detail of each saw and shingle
mill, with comparative statements, showing the
amounts of lumber and shingles monufactured
each season for ten years, with stocks of logs
‘and lumber carried over at the close of each
season, etc. It will also contain carefully drawn
plans, elevations and specifications for the
struction of model saw and plaining mills,
showing all the improvements made in mill
architecture, construction and arrangement of
machinery, with illustrations of all the latest
improvements in the way of machines for saw-
ing and dressing lumber. The new Directory
will also be published in book form, and besides
the name and post office address of the oper-
ator of each mill, will give its average daily
capacity, whether run by steam or water power,
and the kind of lumber manufactured. The list
will be arranged in alphabetical order by states,
territories and provinces, with the towns also
arranged alphabetically in each. The price of
the book has not yet been fixed, but will be an-
nounced in due time ; advertisers who desire to
avail themselves of the opportunity to reach al]
the saw-mills at once, presented by the Lumber-
mows Mammoth Extra, will do well to secure
space at an early date.

Iris very seldom indeed that the water in the
Ottawa is observed so high at this season of the
year as it is at present, although it is beginning
to fall slightly. Shipping operations were car-
tied on to an unprecedented extent all summer
owing to the good supply of water,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

RINGS ON TREES,

An interesting observation on tree rings i6
recorded by Prof. Bachelart in La Nature dur-
ing a visit to the ruins of Palenque, Mexico, in
1859. M. Charnay caused all the trees that hid
the facade of one of the pyramids of the palace
to be cut down. Ona second visit, in 1880, he
cut the trees that had grown since 1859, and he
remarked that all of them had a number of con-
centric circles greatly superior to their age. The
oldest could only have been twenty-two years of
age, but on a section of one of them he counted
250 circles ; the tree was 60 to 65 ctm. in diam-
eter. A shrub, 18 months old at most, had 18
concentric circles. M. Charnay found the case
repeated in every species and in trees of all
sizes. He concluded that in a hot and moist
climate, where nature is never at rest, it may
produce, not one circle a year, as with us, but
one a month. The age of a monument has
often been calculated from that of trees that
haye grown on its ruins. For Palenque, M.
Larainzar calculated 1,700 years, having counted
1,700 rings in a tree. M. Charney’s observa-
"tions requires the number to be cut down to 150
or 200 years making a considerable difference.
1,500 years. Prof. Bachelart asks whether M.
Charney took account of certain colored rings
which some tropical trees present in cross sec
tion, and which are to ke distinguisLed fiom
the annual c'rcles.

Messrs. Powell & O’Neil have sold and will
manufacture and deliver in logs on Muskoka
Bay to the Georgian Bay Lumber Company al!
their timber situated in the neighbourhood of
Huntsville.

The Deseronto correspondent of the Belleville
Ontario says :—A strong force of men and _ hor-
ses have been employed lately in hauling out
large quantities of logs for the ponds, and pil-
ing them up for winter operations at the Cedar
Mill. Some additions to that extensive estab-
lishment are already in progress. 1168 railway
ties were cut in one day lately in the Cedar
Mill, and an average of over 1000 are daily
turned out—not bad work for one saw.

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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. OCT. 2, 1882.

J. B. CHartEson, of Quebec, has purchased
1,800 acres (6,000,000 feet) of spruce timber
stumpage from Lucius Packard, of Auburn, Me.
The land is situated in the township of Stoke,
on Windsor river.

Firry-rwo cars loaded with hemlock bark on
a recent Monday stood on the track at Luding-
ton, Mich., awaiting shipment across the lake.
It is said that the hemlock forests in that part
of the state are being sacrificed for bark.

Forest fires are scattered through Maine.
About six square miles of the best timber land
on Deer Island, near Calais, were burned over.
Another fire was started in Dayton, and 76
acres of plain and woodland was burned over.
Other fires are reported.

Tn is estimated that during the last three
months 100,000 cords of bark have been taken
from the trees in the northwestern part of Pen-
nsylvania, and 120,000 feet of lumber has been
placed on the market. Wholesale slashing of
forests has been going on on in Erie, Warren,
McKeen, Elk, Cameron, and Clinton counties.
Men who were born and raised as lumbermen
say they never before knew the like of it.

——EEE

TuE Northwestern Lumberman says :—It has
been urged that the native pine forests in New
England may easily be restored to a dignified
importance by a systematic effort. All over
this region are found great tracts of light soil,
on plain and hillside, that is not worth cultivat-
ing for farm products, but which can be made
available for pine growing. Experiments re-
cently made at the Shaker settlement at
Enfield, Conn., have had gratifying results,
seed planted in sandy soil in 1869 having
produced a dense growth of trees that are now
12 to 16 feet high. If there are conditions un-
der which the growing of forests can result
practically itis in such sections as that described
above. Where the land is naturally adapted to
the growth of timber more than for other pur-
poses, it is strange that efforts in the direction of
tree-growing were not made earlier, so that
results could have been had at a time when they
would be the most acceptable,

exported to the United States.

Ly the treeless region between Ainsworth and
Sprague, W. T., 1,000 young trees have heen
set out, fenced and boxed, along the line of
track, and the most of them are doing well.

Tur Northwestern Lumberman says :—Lum-
bering in Kewatin, Canada, will be carried for-
ward on an extensive scale next winter,
stimulated by the growing demand in Manitoba,
R. J. Short has some large contracts on hand,
and Hugh Sutherland intends to lumber ex-
tensively. D. Mather, of the Kewatin mills,
will do a heavy business.

SAW DUST.

The Minneapolis Zribune calls attention to
the urgent necessity of some legislation to abate
the crying sawdust nuisance by which the chan-
nel of the upper Mississippi is being choked up
much faster than all the government dredge
boats can clear it out. The Tribune says that
“three hundred thousand cords of sawdust are
annually deposited in the Mississippi river from
the saws of the Minneapolis mills.” The injury
done to commerce and the expense caused to the
government by this accumulation of debris, are
almost incalculable. The sawdust is dumped
recklessly into the river, floats for some distance

0 | below and finally sinking, forms into bars that

cause infinite annoyance and danger to the
steamboat men. All this trouble and _ peril
could be easily avoided by a law compelling the
saw mills of Minneapolis and all points above,
to consume their dust in their own fires. It is
of but little use for Congress to appropriate
money for the improvement of the river from
below as long as the saw mills continue to fill it
up from above.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

HEMLOCK BARK,

There is a great scarcity of barks in many of
the tanning districts of Canada, which has
already caused several tanneries in Ontario to
close, and in other parts where it, is obtainable
the price has advanced considerably, thus add-
ing to the cost of manufacturing leather, but
what now concerns our tanners most is the
actual scarcity of the bark supply, owing to the
large quantities which have of late years been
It is now be-
ginning to be realized that our hemlock forests
are not inexhaustible, and that one of our fore-
most manufacturing interests is liable to suffer
from it at no distant day. We have previously
referred to the heavy drain which the American

demand has entailed upon the hemlock re-

sources of this province, and some of the lead-
ing men in the leather trade here have ex-
pressed concern as to the effect which the rapid
exhaustion of our bark supply will soon have
upon the tanning industry of the Dominion,
The price of bark is up to $7.00 per cord in the
Eastern Townships, where only a few years ago
it could be bought for about $3.50. The Amer-
ican market for bark is also advancing through
the shrinkage in the Canadian supply, which
they have been drawing upon for years past,
and at the same time have preserved their own
forests.—Montreal Gazette.

NORWAY AND SOUTHERN PINE TESTS.

Reference is made in a recent number of the
Railway Gazette to tests of the relative strength of
Norway and southern pine for car building pur-
poses. Ata meeting of the Master Car Builders’
Association, Mr. Davenport, of the Erie works,
exhibited some specimens of the two kinds of
pine, which had been submitted to tests on a
steelyard suspended in a frame for that special
purpose. ‘There were five specimens of each yar-
iety, each one inch square and 11} inches be-
tween bearing points. The pressure was applied
in the centre with the following results of
breaking strain: southern pine, 500, 510, 500,
490, 490, and 580 pounds ; average, 506 pounds.
Norway, 620, 645, 730, 650 and 630 pounds ;
average, 655 pounds. ;

Mr. Bissel, of the Barney & Smith company,
of Dayton, Ohio, also had some specimens test-
ed. The following is a report of the tests; A
number of specimens of Norway and southern
pine were dressed exactly an inch square, and
these were broken in a testing machine by
placing them on bearings one foot apart and the
weight in the centre, The southern pine had

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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been air seasoned for two years and upwards,
the Norway 12 to 16 months, The weakest
southern broke at 726 pounds, the strongest at
1,102 pounds; average of eight specimens of
southern pine pine 904 pounds. The weakest
Norway broke at 501 pounds, the strongest at
790 pounds ; average of ten specimens of Nor-
way, 702 pounds, showing the southern pine to
be 28.7 per cent. stronger than Norway, and
that a southern pine sill of 4x8 inches dimen-
sions is equivalent to a Norway sill of 53x8
inches, with the further advantage in favour of
the southern pine that it can be got much freer
of knots, and consequently stronger in compar-

ison than these figures show, which are based on
clear timber. '

THE EBB AND FLOW OF PRICES.

The more the season advances the greater the
difficulty becomes of forming a judgment as to
the position of the trade at the end of it; for
never perhaps were opinions on that point more
equally divided nor more stoutly defended. You
meet an influential man in the trade, perhaps
representing a well-known Swedish stock and
mills, who, on being interrogated as to the pros-
pects of the fall trade shakes his head and
laments that things are looking bad for the
shippers just now ; the great east coast ports are
too well supplied to increase their engagements
for this year, and small vessels are difticult to
obtain for fulfilling such orders as are still in
hand, for places of less note. He fears there
will be a great glut in London, as ‘‘those Fin-
land fellows will send their goods forward,
whether wanted or not,” and that the spring
trade is likely to open badly for the shippers.
Scarcely have you time to ponder over this view
of the situation when you run against the re-
presentative member of an influential Canadian
house, who, on your suggesting that things do
not look.very well for the maintenance of prices,
expresses his surprise at your innocence. ‘‘My
dear fellow, look at the Canadian freights,
what a spring they have taken—70s. to Liver-
pool and Glasgow! Do you think merchants
would pay that if they did not want the goods?
Take my word for it, yellow pine deals will
fetch at the public sales 10 to 15 per cent. more
this fall than they did last year.” And he adds,
perhaps, “TI only wish I had twice as much jat
market as I have now.”

Thus each argues from his own point of view.
Sweden, up to the end of July, with heavy stocks
remaining on hand, had already shipped 42 per
cent. more this year than last in sawn and man-
factured wood and morethan 50 per cent. of square
timber. Canada, on the contrary, has shipped,
on the whole, say 15 to 20 per cent. less than,
date for date, was done last year, and is looking
forward to a brisk demand for next year from
the moment the navigation opens.

If we look around upon the trade at home,
and compare the reports, it is equally difficult
to come to any definite conclusion, Quebec
wide pine deals of first quality fetched at the
sale by Singleton, Dunn & Co.,on the 29th Aug.,
at Greenosk, from £24 to £28 per standard,
according to their width, the smallest price be-
ing for 12 ft. 15x38, and the highest 3s. 44d. per
cubie ft. (equal to £27 16s. 104d. per standard)
for 12 ft. 19-20x3, while fourth yellow pine
deals, 12 ft. 113, fetched within a fraction of
£8. But if we look at the prices which yellow
pine fetched at the last London sales, we shall
see that, out of a large assortment offered on
both days, not one lot went as high as £20 per
standard. Ist bright Quebec 12 to 14 ft. 3x9
and 10 (good sizes) fetched but £15, The best
price obtained was for some lower port (Bath-
urst) Ist quality 10 to 20 ft. 3x14 to 18, which
went as high as £49 10s., while third quality of
similar dimensions brought no more than £8,
and other good useful sizes and lengths of this
quality were sold at £2 a standard less, and 4ths
9 to 18ft. 3x 11 to 16 in. were knocked down at
£5. Take, say, only £4 out of this for freight,
landing charges, rent and broker’s commission
(freight alone would now be £3 10s.), and what
return does the importer get who paid probably
£3 10s. to £4 for them free on board at the ship-
ping port ?

With these things passing before our eyes, how
can we justify a belief that the general market
is improving and prices getting firmer? What
is true of one place or one kind of wood is false,

it may be, if applied to another. Glasgow, for
instance, is a good market to sell yellow pine at
this time, but by tke test of public sale London
is more favourable for those who have occasion
to buy it. Nor can we say very much in favor
of the spruce trade, which, though better on the
whole than it has been, is not steady at any
measurable advance, Cuebec Ist quality regu-

lar sizes (12 and 13 ft. 3x9 and 11) at £10 5s.
can hardly be considered other than cheap, for —
they fetched that in the bad year 1879. St.
John and Miramichi spruce are doing better in
the London market pro rata, as they used to be
about 40s. to 50s. a standard behind the Quebec
prices, and now approach them much nearer;
but lower port batten sizes have been recently
sold at prices varying from £5- 5s. to £7 10s.,
according to quality, at the public sales in Lon.
don. On the Clyde, pitch pine planks appea
to be very cheap. 12 to 30 ft 9 to13x3 to. din.
at 1s. Ofd. per cubic foot, at the sale id
at Greenock, is lower than anything we haye

heard of in London—£8 15s. 4d. per Petersburg _
standard, and while this kind of wood can be

had so reasonably it will be difficult to force up
the prices of other kinds, especially while

the importation continues on such an abundant

scale.

Our friends across the Atlantic, that is on the
Canadian side, wonder why they cannot get
better prices here for their specialities of pine
and spruce when they are less plentiful than
they were last year and the shippers have to
pay more for them ; in fact the trade is annual-
ly warned that they will have to pay dearer
for these goods when the next season
comes around ; but buyers on this side, when
they have to go to market, find that they
can still supply themselves on as easy terms as
ever. That there is no appreciable advance on
yellow pine in the London market this season
has already been shown, yet the shipping from
Quebec, had fallen short in comparison of last
year up to the 15th of August by more than
10,000 tons, which would represent 13,000 to
14,000 loads of timber. Evidently, therefore,
we ought to find those goods on the rise here
generally, and doubtless it would be so were it
not for the constant influx of pitch pine to this
country, which, though surpassed in utility for
special purposes by many other kinds of fir, is
an excellent substitute for them all. Its cheap-
ness is a standing difficulty in the way of woods
that are preferred to it realizing any thing more
than a very moderate profit, because any serious
advance brings pitch pine into question, and it
is then found that Canadian pine is not so in-
dispensible as it was formerly thought.

That this is ghe actual position of the trade is
manifest in the large importation of pitch pine
to Liverpool and Glasgow, that being the only
stock that is seriously in access of last year.
Very little doubt can be entertained but that
Canadian pine would almost fetch its own price
within any not very unreasonable limit, and
thing shows more the esteem in which it is
d, where first-class joiners’ work is in con-
stant requisition, than to see best yellow pine
deals fetching, say, on the average of the most
useful sizes, £25 per standard, while the
same quality of pitch pine, in dimensions
scarcely less useful, not requiring to be classified
on account of general good mercantile quality,
could be had at the same sale for less than £9.
Still there is the fact that for every other use
but that which requires choice joinery pitch
pine offers a strong opposition, not only to
Canadian but to Swedish and Baltic timber as
well, and while it contiues to be sent into this
country so plentifully, and at a price within
everybody's reach, it will be very difficult to
establish any advance upon the building timber
of other kinds either in Northern Europe or
America.

If the f. o. b. rates that have ruled for this
season, and that they are endeavouring to main-
tain still in Sweden with some misgivings, as
may be gathered from our Stockholm letter in
last number, can be continued next year, it is
as much as the shippers can wish for, and in
respect of the home trade, let it be as good as it
will, we do not see that there are any grounds
for expecting a general rise of prices while the
supply is so ample and the prospects of a lange
increase not by any means fading away,—TZimber b
Trades Journal,

Sa le CY

DHE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of

Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &e.,
measured and culled to Sept. 22 :—
1880. 1881. 1882.
Waney White Pine.. 1,902,988 1,967,310 2,185,259
White Pine... * 3'984,256. 4,827,905 7,023,350
Red Pine. “* "340,890 1,762,594 1,328,803
Oak.. ,. 1,256,798 2,406,731 1,015,523
Elm.. 892,054 935,612 576,470
Ash.. 997,872 877,615 «218,518
Basswood .......+-++ 206 3,519 1,273
Butternut.........-. 627 2,930 2,585
TAMAYAC...--2e 00s +e 22,435 24,327 8,284
Birch & Maple....... 555,874 140,826 263,812
PASTS s/oicie(niatere Mie aver. 4 pes 25 pes 83 pes
Spars...eesceveeeeee . 23 pes — pes 51 pes
Std. Staves.........- 16.4 3.15 317.7.0 7 315.0.3.25
., W. 1. Staves......+.- 260.0.0.22 382.1,3.2 1041,0.0.19
I SIGs! GOMER SOUS CORTE MEDD ODmme emrorac eg 42.8,1.17

JAMES PATTON,

Quebec, Sept. 22. Supervisor of Cullers.

MACHINERY FOR SALE.

The Engine Boilers and all the Machin-
ery in an Extensive Sash, Door and
Furniture Factory for Sale, separately or in
bulk. Catalogue on application to
T. W. CURRIER,
Canal Basin, Ottawa

2118

A Syndicate of Limit Holders

Represented by the Undersigned, offers

FOR SALE
On the Upper Ottawa,

600 Square Miles Virgin Forest of Pine,

comprising 13 Licenses, nearly all Front

Limits, on the main stream of the River
Ottawa itself, on reasonable terms.

The Proprietors will sell either the whole, or, if
preferred, a part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
ward towards Manitoba, the establishment of steain-
boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this property,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving the lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only balf the distance away, but forced
to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
the large volume of the ‘‘ Grand” River itself to float
it to market.

$F Full particulars will be promptly sent on}

application to

E. J. CHARLTON,

QUEBEC, P. O.

AUCTION SALE

- OF VALUABLE

TIMBER LIMITS.

Situated on the Rivers Ottawa,
Gatineau and Jean de Terre.

1716

The following limits, if not previously disposed of, will
bz offered for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION,

At the RUSSELL HOUSE, OTTAWA,
on Thursday, Nov. 30th next,

AT TWO O'CLOCK P.M.

Miles.

River Gatineau,—License Number 176 for 1881-2—46}
do do li7 do £0
do do 178 do 50
. do do 179 do 50
do do 180 do 50
do do 181 do 50

do and Ottawa do 182 do 283
do and Jeau de Terre 183 do 48
do do 184 do 46
do do 185 do 42
do do 1&6, do 50
do do 187 do 50
do do 188 do 18

do do 189 do 46 9-10
do do 190 do 50
do do 191 do 50
do do 192 do 50
Ao do 193 do 31}
do do 194 do 50

do do 195 do 39 6-10
do do 196 do 21
do do 197 do 50

Terms and conditions made known at time of Sale.
Purther information can be obtained by application to
h. C. W. MacCusig, Auctioneer, or Crown Timber

. Offices, Ottawa.
R. C, W. MacCUAIG,
Auctioneer and_Real Estate Agent,

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CHIPS FROM DULUTH.

Captain Ira Holt is in the city, having arrived

on Monday. He is recently from Duluth, and
veports things booming both there and at Sup-
erior City. It is the Captain’s opinion, based
on statements received from parties who have
been in the woods in that region continually,
that there is an almost limitless supply of pine
there, more than the Saginaw valley ever had.
Already fifteen mills are in operation at Duluth,
and more are to go up this fall.

In the streams there is, taking the season
through, a far better chance to drive loge than
here, and not a raft has been lost this season.
Lumber is selling for $20 to $45 per M, and the
demand is so great that it is impossible to supply
it. All lumber is shipped by rail and can’t be
cut as fast as itis wanted in the northwest at
double the price we get here. Duluth has at
present three elevators and only a short time
ago parties were in Superior City for the pur-
pose of building an elevator, flouring mill, hav-
ing a capacity of 2,500 barrels of flour, and a
saw mill, all combined. Those two cities will
eventually, the captain thinks, be one, and will
undoubtedly form the great reservoir into which
the vast grain supplies of the limitless northwest
will be poured. Immense docks, as we have be-

ore stated, are being constructed, and the
Jmaha, Chicago & Superior City railroad, form-
ing an air line to Chicago has just been, or is
about to be completed.

He says that Duluth is never without a dele-
vation from Saginaw or Bay City. No sooner
‘as one left than another arrives, and often two
rv three are on hand at the same time,—Lum-

‘erman’s Gazette..
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MIDLAND, ONT.

The Free Press says :—Midland with its six
saw mills, and two sash and door factories is
ndeed ahead of almost any town in the Domin-
‘on in point of importance as a lumber man-

facturing centre, and as such, a medium
hrough which we can all air our intellects, if
ve haye any, is almost indispensable,

Lumber, thanks to the general activity of
trade and bountiful harvest, remains firm at
prices lucrative to mill men and dealer alike.

At this end there will not be the quantity cut
there was last year, not from any scarcity of |

‘imber, but owing to the lateness of the mills |
starting, together with so limited a supply of |
men as to preclude almost the possibility of |
running the mills at night.

Every day brings along its buyers from the
States and North-West—those from the former
looking almost exclusively for the good end,
whilst the latter has been and must for some-
time remain a good opening for the coarser
grades.

Notwithstanding the increased cost of getting
out logs last winter, mill men as a rule have ob-
tained remarkable good prices for their stocks.

The entire cut of this neighbourhood outside |
of Mr. J. M. Dollars’ is controlled by Messrs.
J.& F. N. Tennant, of Toronto, and represent-
ed here by their agent, Mr. Frank Weston.

Up to the present time there has been no |
great activity in shipping; in fact, outside of |
what has gone by vessel to Duluth for points in |
the North-West, comparatively little has yet
moved, Lath is higher than it has been for
years, the supply not meeting the demand, and
and shingles remain tolerably firm,

In consequence of the considerable amount of
building going on here there continues quite an
extensive local demand for all descriptions.
Your readers, many of whom have been under
the impression that they could not obtain what
lumber they required for their respective build-
ings in consequence of dealers monopolizing the
stock, may now take notice that arrangements
have been made at the different mills whereby
they can procure anything they want in either
lumber, lath or shingles, on production of the
“needful,”

The respective cuts thus far for this season
may be roughly summoned up as follows :—
British Canadian Lumber and Timber Company
(3 mills) about 12,000,000 feet ; Dollar’s about
3,500,000 ; Chew Bro.’s, about 1,800,000 feet, in
addition to which the McLeod & Cameron
mill, across the bay, is turning out a lot of cus-
tom stuff in both lumber and shingles, credit-
able to themselves and useful to the local com-

eS eee ener Ree eae as

Se ep

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

found essential for the growth of forest trees—a
temperature during the warm months of be-
tween 50 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and some-
what uniform summer rains. The entire ab-
sence of forests causes a diminution of the rain-
fall in the summer months, and this smaller
quantity is quickly carried off, swelling the
streams and leaving less in the ground than in
forest lands to feed the springs. Hence the
springs and smaller rivulets fail early in the
summer, If, say one-fourth of each hundred
acres were left in forests, the evils referred to
would be much Jess, Often a portion of the
farm is rocky, producing, however, the finest
forest trees, but unsuitable for tillage. That
part could be left in wood, in which state it
would be more valuable than under culture. In
all forest land the Government could make it a
condition in every sale or grant, that a certain
portion should be left and kept in forests ; and
encouragement could be given to replant trees
on those farms denuded of the pristine forests.”

munity. Messrs, Chew & Week, as extensive
manufacturers of cedar and pine shingles, must
not be overlooked, Frequently do we notice
large schvoners alongside their dock carrying off
their million or so to Lake Superior as well as
to western Canada points. We cannot yet re-
port any particular move in shipping. It is thus
far confined to an odd vessel load for Duluth
and the west, together with a few car lots prin-
cipally for the home market, but every day
brings us nearer to the time when eastern yards,
the stocks of which have fallen so low, must be
replenished, and our western Canadian buyers
be filling up for their winter farmers’ trade.

—— wore)

QUEBEC.

The Chronicle says :—There has been unusual
activity in our market, and some twelve to four-
teen rafts of Ottawa timber are reported sold,
at considerably better prices than were looked
for some time ago.

Rafts of white pine of 50 to 55 feet average
have been placed at twenty-nine to thirty-two |
cents, according to the quality and quantity of i
waney board in each. Smaller averages have |
been placed at eighteen and a-half to twenty-
two and a-half cents for timber measuring from
35 to 45 feet. One raft containing #rds waney,
20 inch, brought thirty-four and a-half cents.

Thistle & Carswell, of Ottawa, have sold all
their square timber here for 33 cents per square
foot. Mr. Richard Nagle has sold a small raft
for 25 cents per square foot.

Red pine with the above rafts has been sold
at 124 to 17 cents, according to average and
quality.

OaK.— We hear of no new transactions,

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PUGET SOUND.

Mr. G. W, Bullene, a veteran draughtsman,
18 years on the Pacific coast, and late United
States Inspector on Puget Sound, is enthusias-
tic in regard to the forest resources of the
country. ‘‘ We have on Puget Sound,” he said,
‘* the largest body of growing timber in Amer-
ica. ‘There are no ice, snow or frost to interfere
with the work of the loggers, and no stoppage
of mills on account of low water or freshets,
Logs of any required size are attainable every
day inthe year, Our tugs bring us logs from
all parts of the Sound, and even from the
British shore on the straits of Fuca. They
traverse the Sound 50 miles south and 150 north.
But there is an immense supply of good timber
within a few miles of this mill ; though it is
now more convenient and cheaper to harvest
the forests near the coast line. By and by cap-
ital will come in and penetrate the forests with
small railroads until the surrounding country is
gradually cleared, making room for the farmer
and stockman. Don’t you believe anybody who
tells you that these fir lands cannot be profit-
ably cultivated. A large proportion of them is

GLASGOW IMPORTS.

The Pimber Trades Journal of Sept. 2nd,
says :—The imports of Colonial American tim-
ber and of foreign wood to Clyde during the
past week have been extremely light. The sea-
son’s arrivals from Quebec to date, compared
with those of corresponding period last year,
show a marked falling off as regards log timber,
the following being the particulars :

1882. 1881,
Quebec waney boardwood 1,846 5,020 | adapted to profitable culture. Acre for acre,
yellow pine logs. 13,301 22,154 | the soil will compare favourably in the valleys
LI red DING isla ; 3,532 4,378 A - = bs
VAI k 3,203 599 | and rolling lands with that of New England
re ohn sees reeaenees a4 Bek and New York. But agriculture in this coun-
aa TS NY, ge 807 11628 try is still in embryo, and in the meantime the

great saw mills are aiding to solve the problem
by clearing off the vast forests and rendering
the land fit for settlement. The world furnishes
the market for our lumber, and there is no land
where it is not welcomed.”

The number of Quebec deals, however, im-
ported during the current year show an increase,
the figures being: 1882, 377,369 ; 1881, 271,630.
Of lower port deals (St. John, N, B., &e.) the
contrasted imports are: 1882, 332,995; 1881
577,530.

Deliveries of deals have been steadily going
on of late, the number removed during last
month from Yorkhill Yard alone being over
112,000.

Stopping Fires.

A correspondent writing about the Sandwich
fire, which spread over thousands of acres, gives
the following suggestions: ‘‘Remember that a
pail of water and a broom or a green bough are
good implements with which to check a run-
ning fire on the ground, Wet the broom and
sweep out the fire. Where water is scarce, ina
case of this kind, a little may be used to good
advantage in this way. Sand is sometimes
| used to check a running fire. At one time a
wet blanket was found to do good service. At
another time a garden sprinkler was used suc-
cessfully. At one time where a collection of
people were watching a bush fire, fearing to go
near it, a resolute young man rushed in and the
fire was subdued. Have presence of mind in
such cases, and act promptly. It is said that

FOREST AND FARM.

The Montreal Herald contains the following
synopsis of the paper written for the Forestry
pOoneness on ‘A Few Thoughts on the Necessity
| for a certain Portion of each Farm being left in
| Forest,” by Dr. Hurlbert, of Ottawa.

“Upon a cursory view of this subject two
thoughts are suggested, the one the economic
and climatological value of forests, and the
other beauty of landscape produced by the in-
terchange of forests and groves with cultivated
lands, The economic and climatological value
of forests can scarcely be over-estimated. While
they remain in their pristine state we know | more more wood and timber is destroyed by fire
that rains are somewhat uniform ; after they | in this country than falls before the axe. It
have been cleared off we find the rains falling | seems as though intelligence and prompt action
during the hot summer months, But the time} might prevent a part of this wholesale loss of
between the existance of the forests in their | property. valuable in more than one respect.”
primitive state and their entire destruction over | ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_———————
vast areas is so great that the comparison is not | A Continual Demand.
easily made, Upon the first settlement of a; The London Timber Trades Journal says -—
country, pioneers find the forests in their way. | It is well that our friends on the other side
They hew and hack and burn them as a nui-| should know that there are annually re-
sance. They must sow and reap their food | quired a large number of whitewood or spruce
plants. Hence there is no thought of the beauty | deals for hat-box making and many other pur-
or economic value of the forests, So impressed } poses, which are wanted, not only absolutely
have the continental countries of Europe been | free from knot, but also perfectly straight in the
with the deterioration of climate following the | grain and of a free character. For such wood—
entire absence of forests, that, under the direct- | and the size is hardly a matter of consequence
ion of commissioners of scientific men, the |—there is a continual demand, and high prices
Governments have ordered the resetting of forest
trees, Two conditions of climate have been

known as ‘‘ shavers,”

can be realized, In some parte such aahng >

ABRIVED AT QUEBEC.

The Quebec Chronicle gives the following
of rafts, &., arrived :—
Vicia 9.—D D Calvin & Co,, pine, Sharples

ve.

BC Lumbering & Timber Co., white pine,”
&c., St Michael’s Cove, i

David Moore, white, waney and red
Sillery. 2 im

Sept 11.— David Mohr (2), white, waney, 1
red pine, Sillery.

British Canadian Lumber & Timber Co, waney
and red pine, St Michael’s cove.

Sept 12.—British Canadian Timber and
ber Company, white, waney and red pine,
Michael’s cove, ~ fae

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- A Novel Cross-Caut Saw.

The Alpena, Mich., Pioneer thus deseri
new way of sawing arranged by Fletcher,
& Co., at that place :—“ They have aw
ceil very conveniently for cutting logs
proper lengths for bill stuff. It is a circular, a
the corner of the mill projecting over the
so low and close to it as to be used in cutting
the logs as they lie in the water. The log is
floated under the saw, and the proper length

*

found by &# scale on the platform, then by pull-’

ing a rope the log is held while the saw drops”
and cuts it off. The operation is neatly and
quickly done and is a great improvement over
cross-cut saws. This is probably the only saw
of the kind for this purpose in existance,
being the invention of Mr, C. L.. Kimball, a&
member of the firm.”
—_—_—_ at

Water from Wood. 7

By thrusting the ends of green scrub wood—~
“mallee scrub”—in the fire, and catching the
sap driven out at the other end in a bark
trough, an Australian supplied himself with-
water and saved his life while crossing in a
waterless region. He says that a dozen mallee-

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sticks, 4 feet long and two or three inches in
diameter, would give a pint of waterinan hour, —

and suggests that the same device may =
be found of vital importance to other bush.

rangers and travellers in arid regions,

The Stranger in London,
That the great City will ere long be hardly res

now finds his eye aratiGnd by the many hand- -
some edifices recently erected. As he reaches
the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises .
over him on the right hand the new Times office, —
and onthe left hand the new Se
works of Messrs. James Epps & Co.
phases of Italian architecture. It
that these two buildings are types of
reaching business energy of the
century, for it has resulted from
that these two establishments ha
themselves to the fore, and that
issue of each has come to be
millions. During the last year,
copies of the Times issued is estimated
276,000, while the number of packets of
Cocoa sent of in the same period is com:
14,749,695. The latter is a total, when it —
is borne in mind that in 1830 ¢ aeeptioe
of Cocoa throughout the ete saecone was
but 425,382 Ibs., there then existing no
ation of it such as this, which by the
addition of boiling water would yield a
able drink. Truly time may one to
many changes.

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As a cure for all diseases ofthe Langs Dowas'
Elixir has no equal. :

TeaBERRY whitens the teeth like
pearls, A five cent sample settles it.

One dose of Baxter's Mandrake Bitters
relieve Sick Headache. One bottle
cure. Price 25c. per bottle.

I. F. Surru, Druggist, of Dun
ne is, one = Dn Soma —
oO i traw "It ean =
fact bae the larzéet wall during the summer of
any patent medicine in stock,” and
that he can heartily and itto the
lic. The above named remedy is nature's grand
eure for Cholera, Dysentery and all summer
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— Ohips.

A THOUSAND cords of poplar are being gotten
out at St. Ignace for a Niagara Falls. paper
company.
_ Tsp last timber raft of the season left Ottawa
_ for Quebec on Sept. 18th, It contained 185
_ eribs, and is owned by Mr, O. Latour.
A Few days since a crew of fifty men was
_. sent by J. A. Pearson & Son, from Saginaw,
Mich., into the upper peninsula, the intention
being to put in about 35,000,000 feet this
_. winter. "
‘Tue Duluth Lake Superior News says :—It is
_ aaid that there will be 1,000 men at work in the
_ North Shore pine woods this winter. Already
__ the lumbermen are begining their preparations
+ for the fall and winter logging.
THE Muskoka Herald says that Messrs. Las-
_ sell & Jones have taken a large contract from
the British American Lumber Company, which
__will occupy about three years before it is com-
pleted. It is estimated that there will be 20,-
_ 000,000 feet in the limit.

The Muskoka Herald says:—The lumber
firms are vigorously prosecuting the work of pre-
paring for the season’s cut, which promises to
be even larger than that of last winter. A
number of camps have already been started, and
more are being equipped every day.

During the past year the Tennants, of Tor-

- onto, shipped 3,000,000, feet of lumber to
Manitoba., and expect to forward 2,000,000 feet
more, Nearly a million feet went by way of
_ Chicago, but the larger portion was shipped by
the Lake Superior and Duluth route.
_ Tue Monetary Times says that at Lancaster,
N. B., 2 woodenware factory has been put into
operation by Mr. D. L. Richards, who is assist-
ed we understand, by Mr. J. V. Thurgar of St.
John. The woods used in the factory are
_ mahogany, black walnut, white wood, cherry,
ash and birch.

Tue Northwestern Lumber Company, of Eau

Claire, Wis., is piling lumber at the rate of 100,-
_ 000 feet per day, one river crew being retained
_to run a part of the product to the Hannibal,
_ Mo., yards. More side-tracks have been put in,
_ and the company has on hand logs enough to
run till a freeze up.

L. B. Hopecss, who has charge of the tree

planting interests of the Northern Pacific Rail-
_-way Company, has gone to Dakota to resume
_ operations for fall planting, He proposes to
_ plant out, before winter closes in, 2,000,000 trees.
Those hitherto planted passed through the hot
season without serious loss.
. Frye Menominee river companies have decid-
_d to cut a wagon road along the Michigamme
at once, the intention being to cut some 30,000,-
000 feet of logs on that stream this winter, and
eamps are now being located. » This is the
_ section which was damaged by fire some time
ago, and the timber will be put in as rapidly as
possible,

Tue Cincinnati Commercial tells a big story
of a big walnut tree. In 1864 an Indiana man,
aa the story runs, bought the tree for one dollar
and subsequently sold it for sixty-five dollars.
The buyer sold it to a Cincinnati lumber dealer

_ for $700 ; the Cincinnati dealer sold it to a New
Yorker for $2,200, and he cut it up into veneer-
ing which he sold for $10,000.

The Kingston British Whig of Sept. 16th
says :—The steamer Chieftain, on Thursday, was

_lying with a Port Hope raft off Nicholson’s Is-
_land. The wind, veering around from the south
_to west, broke up the latter, and the timber
drifted to the shore near Wellington. It canbe
recovered. Mr. W. McRossie had a raft of oak
aud pine broken up in the harbour by the gale,
He will probably secure all the pine, but will
lose some of the oak.
_ THe Ottawa Citizen says:—The Canadian
Pacific Railway Company have made arrange-
toents to run 4 mixed train for the special ac
eommodation of lumbermen every Tuesday and
Friday to Mattawa. It is highly pleasing to yee
_ the company using their utmost endeavours to
meet with the requrements of the general public
in every possible way, and this latest improve-
maen® will be s decided acquisition in supplying
@ went felt by the many lumbermen in Ottawa

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

FOR Tay BpsSsT

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Mill Machinery,

ADDRESS:

PAXTON, TATE & CO.

PORT PERRY, ONT.
sar-Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

To MILLMEN!

HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

| THE Midland, Ont., Pree Press says :—Our
jesteemed neighbour, Mr. W. Lummis, of Wye
Mills, has decided not to confine himself solely
tothe manufacture and sale of lumber at his
own mills, but enters the field as a dealer, hav-
ing purchased an excellent little stock of J. &
F. N, Tennant, of Toronto, and cut at Haddens
mill, Foxmead. More power to his elbow.

Tue Thunder Bay Sentinel, of Sept. 11th,
says :—The Government Dock presented quite |
an animated appearance to-day. The steam |
barge Georgian arrived with a cargo of no less |
than 260,000 feet of lumber and shingles for |
Messrs, Graham and Horne, and a large raft of
lumber of Mr. Carpenters was at the same time |
being unloaded which arrived this morning from
Carp River.

THE Ottawa correspondent of the Gilobe says :
A valuable farm and timber limits on Lake
Temiscamingue, Montreal, and Waposse rivers
was offered at auction on Tuesday afternoon,
Sept. 19th. The licenses are 223, 224, and 225,
of 1881, two comprising 104 square miles. The
property was started at $21,000, and withdrawn
at $41,000, the amount not having reached the
upset price.

Tue Montreal Post says :—Mr. Wm Little
has been requested by several members of the
American Forestry Congress to call a meeting

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of those who take an interest in the preservation zg < . lense , ?
i iA Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine an

of forests or planting of forest trees, to be held Mi is equally well adapted to grinding long and round

at Forestry Hall, 132 St. James Street | saws of every description. Wheel is moved wiung the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed

It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
jumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate’ price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. Phe cast steel feed rolls are opened by 8 foot lever, and grip the block like # vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Wil) run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an honr, under forfeiture of

3100. Send for circulars to T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTA.

Montreal on Wednesday,the 20th September, at | Just were wanted as easily as a file.

8 o'clock p.m. It is proposed to consider the
practicability of establishing a provincial or
Canadian association for the promotion of
forestry interests.

A LARGE amount of lumber, largely white
birch, is manufactured between Canton and
Livermore, Me. At Canton Point, H. G.
Thayer employs 20 hands in his saw mill and
shook shop, and two miles from that point a
similar establishment is run by Melvin Goff,
who employs the same number of men. At
Jay Bridge, Richmond & Thompson employ 50
hands, in a turned wood box factory. They
have a pay roll of $1,000 a month, and ship
goods at the rate of $4,000 per month.

A correspondent of the Ottawa Free Press,
says :—Mattawa is at present excited over the
prospect of having two extensive saw mills built
here by two of the leading lumbering firms of
the Ottawa Valley, and it is no doubt a fine lo-
cation for milling purposes. This is going to be
an important place. Eight miles from here on
the line of the C. P. R., near the confluence of
Amable du Fond and Mattawa, Mr. Wm.
Mackie, of Ottawa, is putting upma fine saw
mill on the finest mill spot in the Dominion,
and Mr, Jas. Bonfield, M. P. P., has just start-
ed’a new mill at the same place.

The Belleville Ontario says:—The steamer
Chieftain left Port Hope on Wednesday after-
noon with a raft belonging to Messrs. Smith
McDougall & Son, of that town, and containing
five drams of oak and other timber. When be-
tween Nicholson’s Island and Long Point the |
wind had a full sweep at the raft, and the result }
was that the fastenings parted and the sticks
were in a few minutes scattered all over the
lake. The raft, which was worth $100,000 was
not insured, and is therefore a total loss, Of
course some of the timber will be recovered, but
it would cost almost as much as the timber is
worth to collect it. The mishap is a very seri-
ous one, |

The Parry Sound Stay says :—The Messrs.
Armstrong, of McKellar, have already three :
camps started, and intend to start five others | Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
soon, Active preparations are being made by | built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
all the lumber companies for the winter’s work, | of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

Supplies are being shipped and camps establish- | The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves
ed. ae y S. ais eyes aie pee ‘to any bend in the poles.

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2h het icra be ees he Ali ie aa The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
faapisks lumber within arahert aiatenee: = ’ his | gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.
village. Those of our readers who imagine the As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without permis-
pine around here is all cut will be surprised at sion to B. WATT. Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
| this information, The shingle and planing mill | 1 RWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
of Midland and North Shore Lumber Company | ™Unning respectively 10, 8,5and3 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

is now running. The P. 8, L. Co, intend mak- ©. N O R S W O RTHY & C Gs

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Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run
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turned,from the French River where he has been
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Market Reports.

MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

Sept. 25.—A matter which ought to be of
considerable interest to lumbermen all over the
Province took place here last week, viz., the
formation of a Forestry Association, A com-
mittee has been appointed to draw up rules,
which will be submitted to a general meeting of
all those interested during this week, particulars
of which and a regular record of transactions
we hope to furnish regularly to the readers of
the LuMBERMAN. ‘The demand for lumber here
keeps fair, and is likely to continue during the
season, this demand is chiefly kept up by the
building trade who have been very busy. There
has been quite a run on hardwood both local
and from the United States, stocks of which
here are in pretty fair order. Ottawa River
freights are if anything inclined to be a little
stiffer, as some of the forwarders have had con-
siderable quantities of grain to carry. A good
deal of lumber has still to be brought into the
city, dealers are pretty well sold out aud the
winter supplies have still to be laid in, The
quantity of lumber consumed on the wharf by
the grain and cattle ships is only about half of
either of the previous two years, arising from
the fact that there has been little grain and
fewer cattle to ship. We understand that the
Ottawa lumbermen are sending up their men to
the woods with the intention of making a large
number of logs this season, for although they
have made a very large quantity of lumber this
year the demand from the United States was so
good they feel justified in going on, on a large
seale. They have been fortunate this year in
having plenty of water. Prices here are steady
and without any material change in price. We
quote yard prices as follows :—

Pine, Ist quality, @ M..s...cee, veeeeees $35 00@40 00
_Pine, 2nd “ ®M ... 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping culls, 0 M. . 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, B Mt
Pine, mill cull e M aja

10 00@13 00

Spruce, eM...

Hemlock, @ M......seeee cress eeeeneees 9 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of, log culls out, Fa soo ge ane: 20 00@25 00
Bass, AIM ss nay cisigale 17 00@20 00
Oak, BoM... .cccceeeeeee tect eeeeeeeenee 40 00@50 00
Birch, i) Mecscccccseveesuss rom eneett « 20 00@25 00
Hard Maple, AAU Mesa feleia(ele/einistsisiais ealatale viel gate 25 00@80 00
Lath, @M......... 1 80@ 1 40
Shingles, Ist, @ M 8 00@ 0 00
Shingles, Qnd, M.. 2 00@ 2 50

SHIPMENTS,

The shipments from this portsince the 9th Sept.
were as follows :—to St. Johns, Nfld, 98 mille
drum staves and 84,401 ft of lumber : to Liver-
pool 317,836 ft of lumber and 25,484 pes boards
and deals ; to London 240,000 ft of lumber ; to
Buenos Ayres 1,766,810 ft of lumber ; to Mon-
tevideo 814,578 ft. The total shipments of
lumber to the River Platte since the opening of
navigation to date were 14,149,535 ft, against
10,716,180 ft for the corresponding period of
1881, being an increase of 3,433,345 ft,

CORDWOOD.

Wood is rather dearer this week and the
market very firm. We note an advance in
some kinds. The demand is improving, buyers
evidently have made up their minds that no
lower prices are likely to prevail this season,
We quote ex cars and on the wharf.

Long Maple.....+.e.00s elateteiatecafe\Sreveyorsiais/atertie)s/1) ete $7 50
GHOKG) SO Sie erences ss seteeensis comes ve eine 7 00
Long Birch.......seecee sevens ees eeeeneeeeeeaes 6 50
SOG 6 wie siren albie a oyare ye vote Wie nielainive viainiore veins 6 00
Long Beech. ...escses eee er tent cece terse re eeene 6 00
TRG) i Ge MEAS eBricio OO EU AGUIG OOD GRE OO SW en aS cnoon 5 60
Tamarack. .....++00 Pat iisr@udaiels s vaiuinye:d aipleie:aviele 5 00
———————_e_—_———__
OTTAWA.

From our own Correspondent.

Sept. 23,—The fall ‘‘ boom” in the lumber-
ing industry has opened up vigorously, and ex-
tensive preparations are being made for the
coming winter’s operations in the limits in the
Upper Ottawa district. Hundreds of men are
daily leaving this city for the shanties and in
consequence two extra trains have been put on
the line running to Mattawa by the Canada
Pacific Railway Co. ‘This great exodus is
causing a dearth in the saw mills about here,
and very great difficulty is experienced in
procuring a sufficiently large number of men to
keep the mills running to such an extent as is de-
sirable. In fact one of the largest saw mills in
this vicinity—Gilmour’s—has been compelled to
cease operations on Monday next, owing in the

ereatest measure, to the scarcity of hands, but
owing also to a shortage in logs. More timber,
no doubt, will be cut during the coming winter
than there ever was before in one season,

THE SUMMER’S WORK,

Precisely as your correspondent predicted
early in the spring, the summer’s cut at the dif-
ferent saw mills hereabouts has been an unus-
ually large one. The water has kept very
favourable right along, as it is at present, for
shipping and what is not very often seen here,
boats leaving the dock at present carry a full
load, Other years at this time the. water would
generally be so low as to admit of no more than
a two-third load or perhaps less. The mills
have run constantly up to the present and will
not shut down until the last moment. The
average cut of each mill for the season will be,
roughly estimated, 30,000,0000 feet, or a total
for the Ottawa mills of 225,000,000. E. B.
Eddy heads the list, having three mills, with
75,000,000 feet, :
—— ee Se
ST. JOHN, N. B,

From our own Correspondent.

Sept. 22.—Since my last report there has been
quite a stir in our lumber market, owing, no
doubt, to the advance of prices in England dur-
ing the last week or two from £7 10s., to £8 7s,
6d. per standard, at which latter price several
cargoes have been sold in Liverpool, and deals
that were selling here slowly at $9 per M.
about ten days ago, are now being eagerly
looked after at an advance of nearly one dollar
above that price.

Freights still remain high and firm at a slight
advance above my last quotations, but some
shippers are of the opinion that the hiyh rates
that are being paid here will attract vessels in
this direction, and that there will be a decline
in rates, especially after it gets too late to char-
ter for the St. Lawrence ports.

Freights to- oy may be quoted as follows :—

Liverpool .. 72s. 6d. c. d.

Bristol Channel . ..71s. 3d. to 72s. 6d. c. d.
TrGlandiierecee ev vans 72s. 6d. to 77s. 6d. c. d.
SHIPPING.

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of

freight :—
Henry, 1,095, Liverpool, 70s. c. d.
Honolulu, (new), 1,400, Liverpool, 70s. o. d.
Robt. S, Bernard, (new) 1, 194, Liverpool, 71s. 3d. c. d.
Albuera, 655, River Mersey, 71s. 8d. c. d.
Antwerp, 5738, Cork, 72s 6d. c. d.

G. H. Gordon, 478, Cardiff or Newport, 71s. 3d. ¢, d.
Kate Burrill, 690, W. C. England, 72s, 6d, c. d.
Lalia, 391, Bristol Channel, 72s. 6d, ¢, d.
Twilight, 756, Londonderry, a/e c. d.
Telegraph 357, United Kingdom,
Scioto, 855, Liverpool.
Magnolia, 469.
COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 187. JANUARY TO DATE.
1881, 1882.
Deals. Pine. Birch. Deals. . Pine. Birch.
M,S. ft. Tons. Tons. M.S. ft. Tons. Tons,
145,472 768 3,789 134,287 1,082 3,890
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATE.
1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons.
29 24,471 16 11,240
——_—4.—_—$_<__—

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Srp, 22.—Local sales have been much brisker
since I last wrote you, although not nearly
what it should be at this season, but if we get a
fine open fall considerable trade may yet be
done by our local dealers, and in any event
there is no large quantity of bill stuff likely to
be forced on our market this fall, so that prices
will not go below that now asked by dealers for
that class of stuff, On visiting the various re-
tail yards, I find no excess of stocks on hand,
and indeed quite light in most‘ kinds of dimen-
sion stuff, lath are scarce and shingles plentiful,
prices for the latter rather tending downwards.
The N. & N. W. R. R. Co., meet the wants of
their customers fully, and I hear of no com-
plaints made relative to scarcity of empty flats,
still there may be a rush before the close of
navigation yet, which will doubtless be welcom-
ed by shippers. One thing seems quite evident
—holders of stocks here do not feel inclined to
allow American buyers to make a break in
prices, and stocks that does not realize figures
at present demanded will likely be held over for
the spring trade. If Michigan dealers hold
firm to present prices, eastern buyers can do as
well here as there, and with the probable ad-
vance in freights for the remainder of the season,
I question if they cannot do a little better here.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

My views, thus expressed, may not be correct,
but this I do know that most of the stocks now
cut, and being cut, from the Georgian Bay
southward, are nearly all held by dealers here,
and bought at figures which does not justify
them in accepting lower prices than those now
asked,

Large quantities of cedar posts are now being
brought into the city, for block paving purposes,
and before the close of the year 1883 all the
principal streets of this city will be payed with
that kind of material and mud will no longer
reign supreme in this the Queen City of the
West.

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ALBANY.

Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine, clear, # M.....-.... Saieibe Retcinetr > wt $57 00@64 00
Pine, fourths saan iets Dim elele aw ime eee» wiltela . 57 00@59 00
Pine, AR Ae ie cae ANY 52 00@54 00
Pine, ZOOd DOX. ++ seer sees seeereereeeeees 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.«-. sere eeerees 00 40@00 44
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each ne binaieiAmant= 00 20@00 22
Pine "boards, LOIN. snes snowed dee detve 00 26@00 32
Pine, 10-in. boards, CONS 5 cs cars nnp eee .. 00 20@00 21
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @ M.. .. 30 00@33 00
Pine, 12-in. boards, AB hte is oinivins . 80 00@33 00

.. 27 00@29 00
.. 45 00@47 00
.. 19 00@21 00
.. 45 00@47 00
.. 18 00@20 00
. 00 00@00 16
-- 00 00@00 20
.- 00 00@00 30
. 00 12@00 12

Pine, 12-in. boards, 13 ft...
Pine, 1} in. siding, selevt....
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common
Pine, 1-in. siding, select..
Pine, inch siding, common.
Spruce, boards, each
Spruce, plank, ‘Ui -in., each.
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.
Spruce, wall strips, each.

Hemlock, boards, cach... «.--++s+seee 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each 4 a so = 00 00@00 33
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, ACH ...+ceeeeeeee- 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, wall Le erips, Ox do COCK. cienecss 00 00@00 11
Ash, good, 2 Bs OE Ae SE a 40 00@43 00
Ash, second patie AB ME cin Sowden So's s alee 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good, BM. ....ceeeer eee ecr cece 60 00@85 00
Cherry, common, @M... «++ ievecanaems 25 00@35 00
Oak, good, BMS oo. cose wee enw eleindasio’ 40 00@43 00
Oak, second quality i SPP een) 20 00@25 00
Bassw OO, BM.cecesccccee cocesssccenes 22 00@25 00
Hickory, @ M......0eeceeeeereercsevenes 40 00@40 00
Maple, ‘Canada, BM. cercevcccnavesesomes 28 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M.......seeareeeee 26 00@28 00
Chestnut, @ M.....-ccccccscccsesscsaces 35 00@40 00
Shins gles, ‘shay ed, pine, @ M..... -++--.-- 0 00@ 6 50
2nd quality Se ee 0 00@ 5 00
«extra, saw ed, Pine....-2ece00 0 00@ 5 00

“2 Cleat, (vs So .« auscasenepekisers 0 00@ 3 60

“ cedar, mixed st era Peres 0 00@ 3 50

ag cedar, EEE. c> inner wade ae 0 00%) 4 00

oe hemlock...soe esserncesevecsss 0 00@ 2 50
Lath, hemlock, ® M...cccscesesesseueees 0 00@ 1 75
Lath, spruce, *S secwereceereweereeree 0 00@ 2 00
Lath, pine, Be in oak adhe ied ee 0 00@ 2 25

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BOSTON.

The Journal of Commerce of Sept. 23rd says =
There is a good steady demand, and the general
undertone is firm, with a continued favourable
outlook for business. The western markets on
white pine are quite firmly sustained, and there
are very light stocks on the market here for
sale, Eastern lumber is quite well sustained,
with limited receipts. Southern pine continues
rather quiet, and not very strong. Cedar
shingles are firm and scarce. Hard woods are
pretty firm with an improving trade.

CANADA PINE,

Selects, Dressed «sjenv0.000nedss vate ayas S48 000250 00
Shelvi ring, Dressed, Ists . 40 00@42 00

2nds . 83 00@35 00
Dressed Shippers 4 ... 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box..... + 18 00@20 00

42 00@45 00
34 00@35 00

Sheathing, Ist quality
Onde) "Sons dot hehe ieee
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BUFFALO,

We quote cargo lots :—

Uppers. .ccccccevccceursensensensaveers S46 00@48 00
COMMON: .. oc occu ckh ME VaR ebestscasen re 18 00@19 00
Cullq.cccscvcevesscdvccticgun bea semeneee 13 00@14 00

ewes $45 00@45 00
-»» 33 00@35 00
. 20 00@25 00

Three uppers...
Pickings......

Fine, common °
Common... . -e. 14 00@17 00
Cull... ce<.us «ss 12 00@15 00
Mill run lots........ . 18 00@25 00
Sidings, selected, Linch... .0..+.seeee sree 33 00@38 00
If inch oa epuiny os mi l.a mo maoe 6 eR Soe iS 35 00@40 00
Mill run, sae: 18 to 16 feet... ...eseeess 17 00@25 00
selected Sijne sieieles ale dee alate eA DR MNS 25 00@35 00
Strips, 1 and Re inch mill run.....eeeeee 14 00@20 00
Bt OUD vieanee Shae 11 00@14 00
1x6 selected for clapboards. ..... «++s0++: 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... ....-+ 4 QO@ 4 35
XXX, 18 inch, cedar........00..+ 3 75@ 3 75
Lathe vccscccnnes pusceceunvcwseesicneacns 1 S0@ 1 90
—_——_>
CHICAGO,

The Lumberman’s Gazette of Sept. 23 says :—
The distribution of lumber throughout the
Northwest is less in volume than it was during
August, owing partly to the fact that Septem-
ber is not a good month of the year for the

lumber trade, and the drop in the prices of farm }.

products. The outlook for business is, how-
ever, good. Underthe pressure of recent heavy
arrivals at the Chicago docks, the cargo market
at this point had dragged, and while holders

shere, and the stocks are being worked down

claim that prices are firm, buyers assert
they have been able to shake them a li
Trade is reported dull at some points abe
Dubuque. At some points down the r
manufacturers seem anxious to sell. Altoget
it is doubtful if values at the mills, from Sag
inaw to the Mississippi, are quite as stiff

they were, though it cannot be said that the
are any lower. Holders may possibly be a
more eager to sell, and not quite as confide
the future, on account of a possible material d
cline in prices for farm produce.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green...... « sasowwaee

Long dimengion.....0++ ceess sevsecnve

Boards and strips, No. 2 stock <eas=s bea

NO. 1 St0CK.c0cn-esceetctns sossecccse oe

are 1 log run, culls OUt .5....2ecesceess

Cleat cobespescteedsmer lee oosesse davebee a 3
Lath...-..-<sn<»; oe: pena eenteadns see 0 W@

Receipts, and stock on hand, bd lumbe
shingles, etc., for the week ending S per 2
as reported by the Lumberman’s Resheoreadl

FROM JANUARY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 21 INCLUST

Lumber.
1882 a sarkessaeKeen see+~ 1,454,270,000
UBGL) . sis's's> ode ek debs Mele 171,000
WHO vconacenanan socsvauaen 129,099,000
Decrease... 0 .ccstsaeensann casecch Gee
LAKE RECEIPTS TO SEPT. 20,
JGSE <9 os Oopceeee eeeee + 1,270,259,000 ;
STOCK ON HAND SEPT. 1.
1882. 1881.
Lumber 580,890,533 481,154,279 467
Shingles 226,806,750 219,628,000
Lath .. 42,996,432 37,556,820
Pickets. 2,678,476 2/030, 210
Cedar posts. . 218,309 256,235
——$— ee
TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

Three uppers..........-ss0ee+ sonces--- 48 OOGSE 00
Comnion.. ..'; ivwaves ecevecsceadvsvaene™! 16 COG OD
Gulla, ; .cnissasnnen occercecene pspnenn nile ane
ee eS
BRISTOL.

Messrs. King Bros.’s last circular contains
the following —A fair amount of business was
done during the earlier portion of the last
month, but latterly trade has been quiet. The
importations continue large, but stocks are not
excessive, as the quantity of old goods held
over from last year was small. Qnebee goods.—
Yellow pine timber—All the arrivals have been
for railway work, Waney board pine is much
wanted, stocksare butnominal. Red pine—None.
Oak—No demand. Birch, ash, and walnut are
all wanted, no stocks. Deals are not in good
demand, except for exceptional sized, which
command high prices. New Brunswick goods.
Spruce deals have improved in value, but the
consumption is not so large as in should be. —
Dealers are very shy of holding stocks. The
present market values are not in accordance
with the prices that are now being asked for
cargoes c.i.f. Pine deals—No imports. Birch
—But two parcels have arrived, which appear
to be selling at fair values.

—
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 16 says:
The import of all kinds of timber and deals
continues very light, and the various quays are
beginning to wear a very bare aspect, what is
not sold ex ship is going into store. With the
prospect of alight autumn import, owing to the
scarcity of vessels, sellers are by no means anx-
ious to quit their goods, as there is every ‘ap.
pearance that time is in their favour, and that
prices will be much higher later on.

There is a continuance of good "steady trade

rapidly, the consumption during the month of
August being 383,000 cubic feet instead of only
155,000 cubic feet as by the dock stocks issued
by the brokers in their circulars, in which
mistake in the figures was subsequently —
ered. The general position of the
therefore be assumed to be very favo or
holders here for a considerable length of time to

come. 2 ote eee
a ties

GLASGOW. <i
The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 16 says:
The Clyde imports during the past week have
been yery light, compris _ three cargoes, Viz.,

Quebec timber, pitch pine, and lower port deals,
one cargo of each, with sundry parcels of staves,
&c. At Grangemouth there have arrived six
small cargoes chiefly deals and battens.

4 During the past week there have been no auc-
ti

on sales to report, With regard to the deal

Rerada at Yorkhill Wharf, it is at present ex-

_ tremely quiet, very little moving off, and, as

“indicated above, supplies very trifling. A pub-

lie sale by and by, however, may produce a
decided movement, as it is known there is work

oe aed

on hand, in the execution of which considerable
quantities will be required.
The wood which attention has been chiefly

directed to here for shipbuilding purposes is

pitch pine. As compared with last year at cor-
responding date the import of the current year
(of pitch pine) shows a considerable falling off,
the following being the tonnage employed in
conveyance : 1882, 38,000 tons; 1881, 47,800.
But compared with years prior to 1881 the im-
port of the current year shows a large increase.
It is considered that stocks are meantime quite

sufficient for the amount of work going on.

. Oe
SWEDEN.

The Stockholm correspondent of the Zimber
Trades Journal writing on Sept. 9th says :—
It is felt that the prices which are at present
being obtained for whitewood goods of all class-

es are toolow and out of sympathy with the

aspect of the spruce market at Liverpool.
Many holders of such are therefore declining to
sell on present terms, preferring rather to keep
their goods and take their chance of the mar-
ket. Exporters are loth to believe the increase
of about £1 per standard on the prices of spruce
deals at Liverpool will be altogether without
effect in Sweden. I am also of the opinion that
white deals and battens have touched their low-
est point for some time to come.

WINNIPEG.

The Winnipeg Sun of Sept. 21 says :—Taking
advantage of the presence in this city of Mr.
John Mather, of the Keewatin Lumber Com-
pany, a Sun representative called upon that
gentleman yesterday afternoon for the purpose
of obtaining some information with regard to
the lumbering interests in this country. In re-
ply to questions asked, he stated that he estim-
ated that 60,000,000 feet of lumber, costing on
an average $35 per thousand feet, had been
brought into Winnipeg this year. Of this
amount 25,000,000 feet had been imported from
outside, from Minnesota chiefly ; while the re-
mainder had been produced in the country,
mainly in Keewatin. The cut of the Keewatin
company’s mill this year would be about 10,-
000,000 feet. Their cut had been purchased by
Messrs. Boyd & Crowe, of this city, who at the
pfesent are shipping lumber to Regina. The
Keewatin Company paid their mill hands from
$2.50 to $3 per day. The cash value of the
lumber brought into the city would be about
$2,100,000, and Mr. Maher was asked if in view
of the fact that about $6,000,000 worth of new
buildings were being put up this year his estim-
ate was not ratherlow. He stated that it was
not, as in the valuation of the buildings, labor,
which he estimated to be two-thirds of the cost,
had been included, while many of the buildings
were of brick. The value of the building hard-
ware had also to be added. He could form no
estimate of the available timber supply of the
country. There was a good deal of pine scat-
tered at different points between here and
Thunder Bay,but he did not think any accurate
computation of it had ever been made. There
were probably 100 saw millsin the Northwest, but
many of them were exceedingly small, some of
them not having a capacity of more than 3,000
feet per day.

WHITE PINE.

Those in a position to know most concerning
the subject, census commissioners on forestry
and leading lumbermen, are of the opinion that
all the dense white pine forests of the United

States will be destroyed within the next twenty |

years at farthest. There are many reasons
which render their preservation impracticable.
They could only be saved by concerted action

on the part of the owners and by a héavy ex-

pense in the employment of watchmen, pur-

moe CANADA LUMBERMAN. 999

JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

chase of apparatus for the i giihing of fires
and other expensive precautions of great cost
and doubtful utility. These grand forests do
not find their only enemies in forest fires and.
ruthless lumbermen. As a pine forest is re-
duced in size the wind has a fairer sweep on the
remaining trees and does more damage to them.
Insects injurious to pine trees have multiplied
in the past few years and the causes of fire in-
creased through the carlessness of lambermen,
hunters, fishers and campers. Tires often have
their origin from sparks sent forth by engines
and locomotives, which penetrate the great
wooded districts in every direction. Persons
opening up farms in the vicinity of pine forests
have too slight a regard for property rights,
looking upon the ownership of the trees as enti-
tled to no greater respect than proper in many
less valuable natural products of the soil. They
too often appropriate whatever may be desired
for buildings and fences, being liberal in allow-
ances for all demands. Bridges and culverts
are constructed from this timber when other
wood would answer a better purpose and is
equally accessible. Young trees are not preser-
ved and the outlook suggests the necessity of
providing a substitute for this favorite lumber
which has served such a good purpose in the
development of this country. Jn discussing
this important question the Chieago Times says
that there are more scattering pine trees on
broken land, in ravines and in somewhat inac-
cessible places that many people are aware of.
The pine forests cut down were those that stood
near the banks of streams or near the sides of
lakes. A few years ago forests remote from
water courses were of little value. Now rail-
ways go everywhere and much lumber is trans-
ported in cars instead of by means of rafts.
Every year more economy is employed in the
cutting of lumber. A few years ago the slabs
were thrown away or used for fuel. Now they
are cut up into materials for laths. There is
now little waste in a saw mill except in the mat-
ter of sawdust, and the amount of this has been
reduced, even this being converted into a sub-
stituted for lumber in some places. In the
meantime other woods are being employed in
the place of pine for a large number of purposes.
The fir, spruce and hemlock are growing in im-
portance every year. Hard woods are gradual-
ly taking the place of the soft woods for in-door
work, For many purposes the southern cypress
is taking the place of the northern pine. It is
much more enduring and is quite easily
worked. The trees are very large, and alinost
every portion of them can be converted into com-
mercial lumber. The quantity of cypress lumber
is much larger than many persons suppose.
Poplar, basswood and other soft woods are now
extensively employed for a large number of
purposes. Attempts are being made to render
the various kinds of tupello available in the
arts. It has many desirable qualities. It is
white in color, very light, and not liable to
warp or split. It decays quickly when not pro-
tected and is very porous. With materials for
closing its pores and rendering it less destruct-
ible it would be as desirable as white pine for
all purposes and more desirable in some res-
pects.

There is no deguising the fact that the rapid
growth and great prosperity of this country has
been largely due to the abundance and cheap-
ness of pine lumber. By means of it towns
have been built in a few weeks, and shelter pro-
vided for families on the prairies in a few days.
Houses and other buildings have been construct-
ed all ready to be put together, and sent on cars
or boats hundreds of miles into the country. In
some cases they have been offered almost as cheap
as tents. Pine lumber has been transported
down streams and across lakes at a nominal ex-
penss,and with very little liability toloss. It has
afforded the materials for bridging ten thousand
rivers and streams, and for erecting fences
whose combined length would reach many times
around the earth. Nearly all of our cities and
towns were built almost entirely of white pine
in the first instance. This was true not only of
the houses and other buildings, but of the fences
and sidewalks. It must be acknowledged that
white pine has ‘‘ been the making of the: coun-
try.” It has been the leading factor in our
prosperity. It is therefore by no means strange
that many persone believe our decline in mater-

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber. Pine Deck Plank and
Ship Stock Generally. r

ial prosperity and advancement will begin with | pation is in a fair way of realization. Stocks
the destruction of our pine forests. They see | of spruce in Liverpool are, according to the
that the present generation will be deprived of | opinion of one of our informants, lighter than
the greatest source of prosperity. They argue | they are generally known tobe. The deliveries
that our territorial expansion will be retarded | of spruce deals from Liverpool just now are of
by the deficiency of pine lumber. Some have | an exceedingly limited character ; this fact,
already composed new books of lamentations pre- | however, does not show conclusively that the
paratory to hanging their hats on the willows. | consumption has fallen away. What it proba-
This feeling. inspired partly by sentimentality | bly means is that users of spruce are depending
and partly by the desire to play the part of | entirely upon stock, and that they will go into
the philanthropist, caused the passage of the | the market only as necessity forces them. It is
forest tree culture act and the various schemes | not to be expected that consumere of spruce
to encourage forestry. It is likely that an acre | deals, who have laid in stock at prices varying
of land has been given away for every timber| from £6 10s. to £7 per standard, will, before
tree that will be produced. they have used up the stocks they hold, buy
There is no reason, however, for believing | fresh parcels at prices varying from at least 20s.
that the “country will go to smash” as soon as | to 30s. a standard higher. Some of the Liver-
the supply of pine timber is exhausted. It is | pool houses are said to be practically cleared
certain that it ‘“‘served a good turn,” and, as out of spruce deals, and, if this be the case,
the saying is “helped us out” when the people | there is some reason for the belief that the wood
were poor and the means for erecting buildings | has not yet touched. the highest point.
were limited. We are better off now, andina| Spruce deals 4 in. in thickness are becoming
condition to get along with other kinds of build- | more common in the market. They are nearly
ing materials. The first settlers of any portion | always required for weight-carrying purposes, a
of the country need a cheap material for build-| position which the tough, resistant nature of
ings, fences, and fuel. The second generation, | spruce peculiarly qualifies it for. We should
however, inherit their property, and can be at |say that there have not before been so many 4
more expense for these things. Observation | in. spruce deals held in stock on this side as
shows that buildings composed of more endur-| now. We quite expect the importation to in-
ing materials generally succeed those made of | crease, considering how serviceable the deals
wood, In every town of considerably size, | are.
wooden building are only erected for temporary | Pine deals have distinctly advanced in price
occupancy. As population and business in- | during the last fortnight on the west coast. The
crease and better buildings are wanted, they are | advance may safely be recorded as not haying
constructed of brick or stone. As the building | been of less extent than 10s. per standard.
contains more valuable property the greater
security is required to protect them from An honest medicine is the noblest work of
fires. Substitutes for wood in some department | ea tae sielioe ae a Seoul ed
of industry are brought out almost every year. | only reliable, but is almost infallable to cure
Within the past five years barbed wire has | Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, Canker of the
almost entirely taken the place of boards in the | Stomach and bowels, and the various summer
; : | complaints, whose attacks are often sudden and
construction of farm fences. In five years | foray
more iron or stone will take the place of wood; V. Epmanson, of Bradford,writes:—Burdock
for supports or posts. In a near future shelters | Blood Bitters is an excellent preparation, gives

ean entire satisfaction and sales increasing every
for stock will be made of sheet metal fastened to | day, it sells now on its merits—Burdock Blood

supports of the same materials. Slate or glass | Bitters cures Scrofula Liver complaint, Dys-
will surely supersede shingles for covering roofs. | pepsia and Kidney complaints, in their worst
Wooden sidewalks will give place to those made | form.

of stone or cement. At present more fences are’ ~

being torn down than erected in front of resi- |
dence lots in cities and towns, This results in |
saving much lumber. Wood, except for kindling |
purposes, is now rarely used for fuel in town |
houses, and has almost entirely given place to_
coal for generating steam,—Lumberman’s Gaz- |
ette.
SPRUCE IN ENGLAND. i

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept 16th | r ;
says:—The most important consideration of | Chipman Renaud & C0
moment still appears to be the spruce market, | j =
and when discussing the subject interest is al- MANUFACTURERS OF

most entirely centered upon the state of affairs | |

at Liverpool. It is said—we do not guarantee LEATH ER BELTI N G,
the statement—that £8 10s, Pee standard ey
been offered for
Liverpool and ee A well. ae and un- |

doubtedly well informed Liverpool importer is | LACE LEATHER, &c.

understood to have some time back expressed 724 & 126 Queen St.
his belief that St. John spruce deals will touch

£9 per standard ; it would seem that his antici- WO a at Ee HAT

300

FIRM PRICES.

‘A correspondent of the Chicago Morthwestern
Lumberman, who has been visiting Toronto,
says :—The lumber merchants of Toronto ap-
pear to be satisfied with the year’s business,
thougn they admit that it has not been charact-
erized by as much of a boom as they: expected
in the spring. They say that the demand has
been good, and that stocks are not plenty in
Canada, ‘They are all very firm in regard to
prices, The cut of the season, it is thought,
will show a considerable shortage at the close,
and not as much lumber will be handled as was
expected. The price of labour at the mill has
been very high throughout the season, on
account of the scarcity of hands, At many
mills it has been impossible to secure help
enough to man them so as to employ their full
capacity. This state of things tends to shorten
the Canadian supply of lumber, and, though it
may not have any appreciable effect on the
eastern market. serves to make the holders of
stocks in the Dominion feel firm as regards

prices.
ED

The Teak Market.

The teak forests of British Burmah have sup-
plied a yield of 227,000 tons for some years past.
The efforta of the Forest Department are being
directed towards increasing the forest reserves,
so as to render them independent of the trans-
frontier forests, which will probably be worked
out in time, and towards enlarging the yield, so
that British Burmah may be relied upon to sup-
ply the demand of the world for teak. There
seems little prospect that the demand for it will
decrease, for the timber combines in a remark-
able way many useful qualities, and its employ-
ment for various purposes is steadily extending,
while the teak-growing areas of the world are
but limited. Forest conservancy is, of course,
an expensive undertaking, but the receipts al-
ready more than double the cost, and there
seems no reason why sixty or seventy years
hence the forest reserves of British Burmah
should not yield an annual revenue of half a
million sterling.—Timber Trades Journal.

Tannen ennai atD
United States Regulations.

The Ottawa Citizen says:—The ‘Treasury
Department at Washington has made the foll-
owing decision, which will be of interest to
lumber dealers, viz:

There is no intermediate thickness known be-
tween 1 and 1}, 1} and 1% inches, under the
practice and commercial usage. Lumber must
be classified for duties uncer the following

scale :
If 4 inch and less than § inch it is 4 inch,
it 5 ae “es ae ‘4 o“

It} “a “ q “ “a
Ifl 4“ se 1} “ 1 “
If 1} “ “6 14 “ li ee

In the same manner 14 or over } in variations.
This decision is final, and the shippers can
govern themselves accordingly.

I

Tur Midland Free Press says:—There are
strong rumours afloat that a former resident of
of this village, and a well known lumberman,
has received the appointment of manager of the

Bristish Canadian Lumber & Timber Company, |

at a handsome salary. We are not ina position
to mention any name, but should the report of
the appointment prove correct we look upon it
as a very good one and prognosticate its satis-

faction to all concerned.
eee

Surg, safe and effectual, that old remedy,
Downs’ Elixir, for the cure of Coughs and
Colds,

Ir mothers and nurses would cease giving
opiates in the guise of Paregoric, and Cordials,
and for children teething and subject to bowel
complaints, give instead Dr. Fowler’s Extract
of Wild Strawberry, the lives of many infante
might be saved that are sacrificed to deadly
drugs.

*‘ Anp Foots who came to scoff remained to
prays We receive many letters from those
aving tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly as to its
wonderful effects.

Amona the most prevelant fatal and sudden
attacks of diseases, are those incident to the
Summer and Fall, such as cholera morbus,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is » comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &e.,
measured and culled to Sept. 19 :—

JAMES PATTON,

Quebec, Sept. 15. Supervisor of Cullers.
—— nal

Our Prairie Province Woods.

The Kingston Daily Mews in its report of the
Dominion and Provincial Exhibition in that
city, referring’to the contributions for Manitoba,
says:—‘There is a prevailing, thought some-
what erroneous idea that Manitoba has no
woods, This impression will be banished when
the blocks of cotton wood, white willow, white
ash, soft maple, elm, black poplar, oak, birch,
balm of Gilead, red cherry, high bush blueberry,
black cherry, plum and white poplar are shown.
Any illusion that this country cannot produce
good forests will be dispelled by a glance at the
huge blocks. Selkirk West is wellirepresented
in this department William Pruden exhibiting
plum, red cherry, choke cherry, high bush blue-
berry, maple, white ash, white willow, balm of
Gilead, elm, oak, black poplar, white poplar
and cotton wood, The bluck of oak from the
banks of the Assiniboine is three feet in
diameter.”

1880. 1881. 1882.
Waney White Pine.. 1,902,770 1,799,707 1,938,076
White Pine......... 8,668,672 . 4,623,948 6,524,244
Red Pine.... .- sees. 840,644 © 1,874,517 1,118,533
(Of 1 "Rehan carcdnstionn: 1,256,798 2,226,098 1,093,949
Ui sites ateleiiies ites « 892,054 984,505 662,822
Asa i> aio'stale aleisiese le ole dle 227,872 859,501 211,994
Basswood ........006 206 8,356 1,273
Butternut... .csse.s fe 627 1,674 2,685
AE MINI MPEG. a/oleisielaie aio cle 22,404 22,728 8,234
Birch & Maple....... 556,874 140,428 268,812
Maat. cies s.e.eeenes 4 pes — pes 83 pes
Spars....... Ae cadae 4 23 pes — pes 61 pes
Std. Staves.......... 16,4.3.15 $14.6.30 810.0.1.3
W. 1. Staves......+5. 260.0,0.22 $26.0,3.0 962,7.1.8
Bri StaVesmciicvcinire wala rill ge mammiavenics 42,0.2.3

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20H. PF. every day, Intending purchasers are
invited to call at our Works and thor-

SAWMILL oughly examine the Champion. We use

ENCINE HAT.
as Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water
pressure,
SECTIONAL nn; OVER 600 SOLD i
SAFETY n 5 seasons, Bites —oe
BOILER.

ne octet safety boiler is manufactired expressly for the = =—
“Nor yest”’ trade, This boller is so arranged that it is readily taken apart ‘sections
enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it ae prevent burning out.
We know ex, this is absolutel with the alkaline waters of the
Western iries. Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the lange Qole-
Rization and Ranche Companies, 3
ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA,

Send for New, Circular,

Rubber Packing,

TORONTO.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 3 301

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mao Am Mock AY, TEE KGa “IE EST
MANUFACTURER OF i
For Flour Mills of 50 to 125 Barrels Capacity.
tors, and all kinds of Steam and Brass Fittings and Sheet Iron Work; and dealer
in all classes of Railway, Steamboat and MILL SUPPLIES. 1119 |
14 to 34 King and Queen Streets, MONTREAL, |
MAKER OF
Power Hoists for Warehouses, c&c., &c., |
AND AGENT FOR 1120 |
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MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN | The above engraving shows the driving side of Machine.
Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them | passes through the first or upper pair of rolls and on to the first or upper
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion. sieve, where a complete separation of the product is made, the flour and

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Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps,
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| This Machine is by far the Best and Simplest Combined ROLLER
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AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY. |

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CIRCULAR SAW MILLIS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS,

MACHINE ¢ OILS, mane) |

i d chi ] ne d nd Illu nN ] {| d {] | n ()j Is iand SEPARATING Machine made. It has two pairs of Corrugated Rolls
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Locomotives, Stationery and Marine Engines and Boilers, Girders, Heaters, Radia-
GEORG ia BRUSH :
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| The Grain passing down from the hopper and over the feed roll,
the second or lower pair of rolls, when a second separation is made.

Bach Machine makes two reductions and two separations.

| The Machine is perfectly adjustable, the same devices being used as
on the simple roller machines. . The same feed gate and roll is used, and
the same adjustable and self-oiling boxes. The Machine is driven by 2
single belt. Both pairs of rolls can be spread simultaneously when teed

|is stopped. The Machine is NOISELESS and DUSTLESS.
| These Machines are designed for use where economy in space is

farmers and. Mechanics, 2 i desirable, as they save the room required by two scalping reels and an

elevator, thus affording to smaller mills the great advantages of the

} Provide yourselves with a bottle of PA7N-KILLER at this season

of the year, when summer complaints are so prevalent ; it is a prompt,

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safe, and sure cure. It may save you days of sickness, and you will

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find it is more valuable than gold. Be sure you buy the genuine
PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KILLER, and take no other mixture.

Cozovre, Ont., March 3, 1880. |

I have been selling Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer for the past six years, and have |
much pleasure in stating that its sale in that time has been larger than any other i
patent medicinc that I have on my shelves, and in those years I have never heard a
customer say aught but words of the highest praise in its favor. Itis an article that
seems to have combined in it all that goes to make a first-class family medicine, and |

UEC) INES ee Br A. Ta
mee I here. a Ronse and store, Perry Davis Pain-Killer will be found in both,

Yours, ke eee sarSole Licensees for Dominion for Gray’s Patent Noiseless Roller
"Beware of Counterfeits and Imitations. ~ Mills and Gradual Reduction Machines.
, Price We,, 25c., and 50c. per bottle. i 1119 Mention this Paper,

302 ‘ THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Offices at City Prices.

Shanty Settlements Office Letterheads

Shanty Orders Office Noteheads :
Shanty Receipts Office Envelopes
Shanty Time Books Office Cards 4
Shanty Log Books Office Notes é
Shanty Reports Office Drafts
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Drive Books ~ Office Ship Account Books
And everything necessary to a complete office outfit.
All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.
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ene CANADA | LUN BERMAN: 303

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
Oo 2S TE OS OO XT’

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
-TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO.,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & 00.
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, | Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, » DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. me

304 3 } THE CANADA LUMBERMAN, —

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING |

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Solid Emery Wheels are now almost in universal use for the purpose of gulletting and gumming saws. Statistics show from
25,000 to 80,000 saw-millsin the United States. Many of these run only asingle saw each. A one-saw miil would use one or two
wheels a year, costing 33 to $41 each, and when such small milis order single Hmery Wheels from the factory, the express charges
often equal the cost of the whee). There wasa time when the quality of Emery Wheels was-6o0 uucertain, and the demand so
fickle, that storekeepers could not afford to carry them in stock. Now, however, Saw Gumming Wheels have become as staple
an article as Files, and every dealer in saws, Hardware and Mill Supplies can afford to carry a few dozen standard sizes In stock,
Large dealers order stocks of $400 to $750 worth ata time. Saw Gumming Wheeis are used with the edge (or face) square, round
or beveled. Probably seven-eigltis of all in use are beveled,

Tne principal sizes are:

i 12x )
10x 12x
| 8x} | 3 /
3; 10x§ { 3; 12x4 | Holes
ae t 2 in. hole. Wx) 2 in. hole. 12x [ 3, hand Tanck,
a 10x8 12x9 |
12x2 )

Probably more wheels 12xj, 12x} nud \2xj are used than all the other sizes together. Saw Gumming Wheels are used,
however, of all sizes up to 2ixl}, The most frequeut complaint is that Emery Wheels harden the saw so that a file won't touch it.
The answer Is that you don’t want a file to touch it. An expert workman wil! shape and sharpen the teeth with an Emery Wheel,
leaving the teeth case hardened, in which condition the saw will cut about 33} per cent. more lumber than a softsaw will. Those
who want to use the file, however, have only to touch the saw lightly a second time (after going all over it once), and this second
touch will cut through the case-hardened scale.

A QU StlLOoOmN, 2) Faw Aaa

Thirteen years of experience as makers of, dealers in, and actual users of Emery Wheels, have Jed us to a decided ortnion as to what quality lathe best. We prefer for almost every use an
“(Extra Soft” wheel like the “ Pocono.” We believe that money lost through the rapid wear of the wheel is more than made up by the money saved on wages. As we cannot get every one to
adopt our views, we make several qualities, 80 as to meet their views. We say to those who think they can only be satished with some other make of wheels (not Tanite), that wecan furnish
gualities to match any and every other make. If you have got used to some special quality of wheel, let us know what it is, and we can send you @ Tantle Wheel of similar quality. Our regular
Classification of Saw Gumming Wheels is as follows:

CLASS 2. MEDIUM—HARD.—This Whee! is rHz STANDARD Saw Gumming Wheel all over the world, Probably seven-eighths of all the Saw Gumming Wheels usedars “Class 2.
it cuts fastand keeps its shape well. Some think it too hard, some too soft. We prefer the ‘‘ Pocono.” |

CLASS 38. MEDIUM—S0FT.—The same as to coarseness and fineness as ** Class 2,” but a softer, and therefor freer cutting wheel.

CLASS ‘‘POCONO.” EXTRA SOFT.—This Wheel we prefer to all others. It is both finer in grain and softer than elther of the above. Asa Saw Gumming Wheel, Class “ Pocono” is
specially suited to those practical and experienced Sawyers who know how to grind with a light touch, and who wanta free cutting wheel that will not create much heat. »

Wlinustrated Cirenlars and Catalogue, showing Cots of Saw Gamming Machines, and Shapes, Sizes and Prices of Wheels, sent free on application. iy.ié

Tanite Co. Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania. —
CANADIAN TRADE SPECIALLY SOLICITED. |

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MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

- BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Spalt and Shingle Mill,
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for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Staff, &c., from ts, board

trimmings, slabs, and mill waste generally, turning material otherwise

worthless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the

patentee to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; bave made and sold

a gcod number of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction
aud cap give the best of references.

ff S as Heer s Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills, .

is now the Best Feed where Steam is the motive power. It is easily —

operated, is simple, rapid. and seems never likely to wear out; sixteen

16 ft. boards, or eighteen 18 ft. boards, have been cul by it in one minute a

It is the estublisbed feed for steam mills; I makea specialty of its manu. ~
facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

Qur Patent Twin or Span Circular, Z

with Steam Feed for Steam Mills, and Rope or Rack Feed for Water

Mills is fast coming Into general estimation and is used in place of Gang

Slabber in our best Canadian Mills. One of our Span Circulars which *
will slab logs 25 inches in diameter down to7 and 8 inch stocks, will do
the work of three slabbers, with an immense redaction in first cost, ran-
ping expenses and labour, Two of these machines can be seen at work
in Messrs. Gilmour & Co’s Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's
Miil, Waubaushene and Port Severn. ja&8"l am also introducing a new
style of Mill Engine, neat, substantial and simple, with Corliss Frame

and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made,

I USS SS
Tee smn |

» hey

Covel’s Automatic Saw Sharpener,

Ning : :
LATTA iH TMI a H j Mt js now well-known and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the
TOTO enn Tin | | Lear = | SANT BAGH mill it sings out its own praise; I Keep it constantly on hand, ready for

coc immediate shipment.

(ur Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

are too well known to need any reference, any further than to say that I
spare DO pains or expense to have my work all first-class and give satia-
faction, and as I make Heavy Saw Mill Machinery a specialty, any
wanting a First-class Mill w ill find it to their advantage to give me aca

WILLIAM HAMILTON. ‘aia Foundry and Machine Works, PETERBOROUGH, Ont. :

PUBLISHED}
SEMI-MONTHLY. §

The only Newspaper devoted to the Lumber and Timber Industries published in Canada.

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VOL. 2.

MUTUAL ADVANTAGES.

Just now, as explained elsewhere, St. Paul
is objecting loudly against the running of the
sawdust of the mills at Minneapolis into the
Mississippi river. __Well-informed men, who are
not particularly interested in either, claim that
on the part of St. Paul it is a spasm of jealousy,
and that the arguments used are not the sound
est, as of course they are liable not to be if
jealousy is at the bottom of them. The towns
are smart ones in every sense of the word, are
but a few miles apart, and if the feeling of
rivalry that naturally exists between them
should result in the kicking of one against the
other whenever there was the slightest possible
excuse for doing so, it would only be an exhibit
of human nature.

Notwithstanding the reason of the objections
raised by the St. Paul people, it appears to the
Lumberman that it is in the range of possibil-
ities for this very sawdust, that they now view
in the light of an enemy, to be utilized in a
manner that will be valuable to them.

An embryo sawdust pressing company, or
something of that sort, made a proposition to
take the dust and experiment on it with its
patent, but. the saw mill men saw an objection
ahead; claiming that the money the fuel com-
pany was willing to pay them would not recom-
pense them for making the necessary changes in
in their mills. Possibly, too, they had in mind
the fact that as the pressing of pet into
fuel is an experiment anyhow, the bottor might
fall out before they could sell any sawdust to
speak.of.

-But pass the compressing concern by, and
there are still better uses to be made of the saw-
dust of the many mills at Minneapolis than
turning it into the river. One of the necessities
of Minneapolis is gas, and no doubt the major-
ity of the business men of St. Paul would say
without hesitation that much of it is used in
their-rival city. Gas can be manufactured
from sawdust. There are mills at Bay City,
Mich., that are successfully lighted with such
gas. Wedonot know how much coal costs in
Minneapolis, but the coal bill of gas manufact-
urers are always big ones everywhere. In the
manufacture of gas from sawdust, the residuum
is charcoal. Certain acetates of commercial
value are also produced. As has been known
for years, charcoal iron is best. In fact, any
other, in this day of the world, is considered
very inferior.

Parties in St. Paul have been sinking what
they have hoped would be an artesian well. At
the depth of six hundred feet magnetic iron ore
was struck, of nearly native richness. The
drill was sunk into the ore forty-two feet with-
out passing through it, and the well-diggers
have suspended operationa until they can obtain
diamond drills,

With iron ore of the first quality iron could
be manufactured at St, Paul for the needs of the

great and growing Northwest. The question
would be at the cost of the fuel, which would
have to be transported from the mines of Penn-
sylyania, Right here is where the despised
sawdust would step in and fill a vacancy that
otherwise would be an aching void. The char-
coal from the Minneapolis gas retorts would
more than take the place of the Pennsylvania
coal, and the chimneys of the iron works of St.
Paul would be enduring monuments, and envied
ones by the city up the river.

Should anything step in to prevent the manu-
facture of iron at St. Paul, the Minneapolis mill
men need not continue to let their sawdust run
into the river, if by so doing they are likely to
gain the eternal enemity of their down stream
neighbors. Minneapolis is a great flour town—
the greatest, in fact, in the would. Her flour-
ing mills have a capacity of some twenty-five
thousand barrels daily. A great many barrels
are required for that portion of the flour that is
barrelled, and the barrels cost something like
forty centseach. In New England barrels have
been made for years from wood pulp. The en-
terprise has been a success of the first water.
At the factories there, to produce a barrel it
costs seventeen cents. Sawdust is proper
material for pulp, and doubtless much of the
expense ordinarily attending the manufacture
of it would be done away with, because the
grinding of the wood would be done free gratis
by the mill saws. To put in rumning shape a
pulp factory of the proper capacity, for the
manufacture of barrels, would require an invest-
ment of $250,000, but without much doubt it
would.pay handsomely. If it pays in New
England where the people are several seconds
toa mile slower than they are in the rushing
Northwest, it surely ought to pay in Minnea-
polis, Then such a mammoth cooper shop would
be a feather in the cap of Minneapolis that St.
Paul could not possibly stick in her tile, simply
for the want of sawdust.

The Lumberman suggests no chimerical pro-
jects. Both of them have been tried, have paid,
and have not been found wanting in a single
respect. It would be much better if brotherly
love existed between the inhabitants of Min-
neapolis and St. Paul, and these suggestions are
made in order to bring it about.—Worthwestern
Lumberman.

EXPERIMENTS IN TREE-PLANTING.

That the Forestry Congress recently held in
this city will have the effect of deepening the
interest of Canadians in the subjects which
came before the scope of its deliberations there
is good reason to believe. Not the least inter-
esting of the papers which were read during its
sessions were those gwhich treated .of experi-
ments in tree-planting made in different parts
of the Dominion and the United States. We
have received a small pamphlet containing a
paper taken from the Montreal Horticultural

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., OCTOBER 16, 1882.

NO. 20.

and Fruit-Growers’ Association’s Report for

this year, in which the Hon. H. G. Joly, who,
it will be recalled, took a leading part in the
late Congress, gives an account of some experi-
ments conducted by himself in the cultivation
of the black walnut, the elm and the box elder
or ash leaved maple, He recommends that,

whenever practicable, the black walnut should |

be raised from the nut, which should be
sown jin rows, four feet apart on every side,
this distance allows the trees to grow up with-

out spreading lateral branches which, being |

fragile, are liable to be torn by the wind and
other agencies. Guided by experience, he

thinks the fall the best season for sowing, care |

having been taken to protect the nuts from
rancidity through heat. These valuable trees
have not as yet been regularly cultivated on an

extended scale in Canada, but Mr. Joly gives |

the substance of some trustworthy and interest-
ing information on the subject from Mr. George

Stanton, of Simcoe, who sowed last fall twenty- |
five bushels of black walnut nuts in the rich soil |

of hisown land. It has been ascertained that
with the soil and climate of Ontario, under
good management, this tree will grow annually
at least two thirds of an inch in diameter, or
twenty inches in thirty years. Under less
favourable conditions, such as are found in Que-
bec, these averages would be reduced to half
an inch yearly or twenty inches in forty years.
In his report on Forestry for 1877, Prof. Hough,
whom we had the pleasure of hearing at the
Congress in this city, allows 680 trees, 51 years
old, to one acre, the distance apart on every
side being eight feet. At this rate, we are told,
an acre of good soil, planted in black walnuts,
if well attended, might be expected to yield a
revenue in from 30 to 40 years, of $20,400—30

cubic feet (at $1 a foot) being allowed for each |

tree averaging 20 inches indiameter. European
writers do not give quite so many trees to the
acre as Mr. Hough, but Mr, Joly thinks that
two-thirds of his number may be safely conce-
ded. In calculating the lapse of time before a
profit could be obtained from such a plantation,
he takes it for granted that the trees would not
be cut down before they had attained a diam-
eter of, at least, 20 inches. In his carefully
compiled statement of the northern limits of the
Canadian forest trees, Dr. R. Bell says that the
black -walnut (piglans nigra) is confined to the
tract lying south of a line drawn from the head
of Lake Ontario to near the outlet of Lake
Huron, and Mr. Stanton says that Long Point
and the adjacent region was once a great black
walnut country, and that there is still quite a
number of those trees left there. Some of those
which he measured had a girth which indicated
an age of 55 years.

Mr. Joly’s other experiments were with elm- |
| ber ranging from two to twenty millions, and

raising from the seed. He advises for that pur-
pose the collection of the small seedlings which
grow so thickly at the foot of the trees. Of a

couple of hundred, no bigger than needles,
pulled up in bundles with the attached moss,
only half a dozen died after being transplanted.
Kept damp and in the shade for some days, at
the end of three months they were over six
inches high and they still promise to grow in
accordance with this rapid start.

Having obtained some seeds of the box elder

|or ash-leaved maple (negundo aceroides) called

| holiday for tree-planting.

6,000,000,000 fect.

by the French of erable a giguieres, Mr. Joly
placed them in a flower pot and they came up
with wonderful vigor. Though occurring in the
Eastern States, Dr. Bell says that this tree does
not seem to have been found native in Quebec
or Ontario, but he mentions that young trees
raised at Montreal from seeds brought from
Manitoba grew rapidly and bore seeds in the
8th year. It abounds in the Red River valley
and extends north to the Dog’s Head on Lake
Winnipeg. Prof. Macoun found it at Tail
Creek, discharging into Buffalo Lake, Mr. Joly
found mention of itin D. J. Browne’s Sylva
Americana (1832), where it was recommended
for fuel. Michaux says that, to obtain its full
proportions, it requires a climate some degree
milder than that of Philadelphia. The fact that
it grows well in Minnesota and our Northwest,
contradicts the opinion of both these botanists.
Nuttall gives it a much greater northern exten-
sion than the latter, pronouncing it abundant
about the Saskatchewan and Red Rivers, and
reports the manufacture of sugar from its sap
by the Crow Indians. This statement is con-
firmed by the experience of Mr. Joly’s western
friends, who say it is fit to be tapped for sugar
at six years old.

Mr. Joly’s paper ends with an appeal to “‘men
of good will” to espouse, by word and act, the
cause of forest culture, urging them to begin at
once and plant for coming generations. He sug-

| gests that in Canada we might with adyantage

adopt a pleasant custom that prevails in feveral
of the United States, that of having an annual
On “ Arbor Day”
1875, in Minnesota more than a million trees
were planted.—Montreal Gazette.

THE St. John Sun says that Mr. Robt. Rob-
ertson, jr., will ship 125 standard of spools and
spool wood from his Petiticodiac factory to Eng-

| land, per the brig ‘‘ Lovoida Borstal.”

THE Chippewa Logging Company, of Eau
Clairs, Wis., have recently purchased a large
tract of pine land from the Cornell University,
comprising 110,000 acres, and containing over
The demand for logs for
next season’s stock is such that 3,000,000 feet

| will probably be put in the coming winter, if it

can be contracted. Contracts for banking tim-

extending from one te three years, are being
made,

306

LUMBERING IN MANITOBA.

The Winnipeg Zimes says :—Winnipeg has
many industrial agencies that materially assist
in increasing her wealth and development, and
it may be surprising to many to learn that her
lumber trade forms the most important of these
auxiliaries. Year by year the trade has been
growing until now it has become of astonishing
magnitude. A few years ago the lumber trade
of Winnipeg could be summed up in a few mill-
ion feet, but now it is found to amount to hun-
dreds of millions of feet. A few years ago,
also, a couple of hundred men were sufficient
to carry on the trade, but now nearly one thous-
and men are employed. Such has been the
rapid development of this valuable industry ;
put it will not stop here, for on every hand
new lumber firms are springing into existance,
new saw mill being erected, new timber limits
being surveyed and secured, and those at pre-
sent engaged in the business are increasing their
facilities in order to keep pace with the demand.
The above is strong evidence that lumbermen
anticipate a much larger trade than ever in the
future. Those already in the business report
that the trade increases monthly, and this year
it will be a third greater than that of last year.
As a circulator of money there is no other in-
‘dustry existing in the city that equals the lum-
ber business. The statement given below,
which was obtained from the lumber dealers by
a Times reporter, and which includes all classes
of building material, shows that 203,800,000
feet of lumber is handled annually in the city.
This lumber is sold at prices varying from $30
to #70 per thousand feet, according to quality.
If the above amount of lumber was sold at $35
per thousand feet, the sum of money distributed
would be enormous. The lumber trade of this
city is also the greatest employment bureau, ex-
cepting the C. P. R., in the country, nearly
1,000 men being employed in its operation,
These men receive wages averaging from $2 to
$3 per day during the whole year. There is not
a line of business in the country that is not
benefitted, either directly or indirectly by this
great source of wealth. Already this season
the dealers of this city have sold 100,220,000,
Half of the lumber handled by our vocal dealers
is consumed in the city, and the other half in
province and territories. Below is a list of the
Principal dealers, and the amount of lumber
they handle annually, the amount they have al-
ready handled and the number of men they
employ :—Jarvis & Berridge deal extensively in
and manufacture all kinds of Inuiber, pine,
spruce and hardwood, lath, shingles, Uvors, sash
and everything connected with this line of busi-
ness. The firm has in operation two saw mills,
having a sawing capacity of 50,000,000 feet per
year, in connection therewith they operate a
large sash and door factory, which consumes
annually about 10,000,000 feet in the manufac-
ture of doors, sashes and other: tine work. Be-
sides this firm has handled since the commence-
ment of the present season 15,000,000 feet of
lumber. In conducting this business 150 men
are employed during the whole year. Brown &
Rutherford have two saw mills and one planing
mill in operation, manufacturing a. classes of
lumber, doors, sashes, lath, ete. On saw mill
is situated on lake Winnipeg, and saws annual-
ly 20,000,000 feet of lumber. The other mill is
establioMed i in the city, and cuts, per year 3,000,-
000 feet, mostly goes through the planing mill,
with over 2,000,000 feet of imported lumber
of the better class for doors, sash and other
kinds of building requisites for which fine timber
is required. During the present building season
this firm has disposed of about 11,000,000 feet
of lumber. On the average seventy-five men
are employed by the firm all year. Dick &
Banning own three saw mills, which during the
Sawing season are constantly working. These
mills will cut 35,000,000 feet of lumber this
year. About 3,000,000 feet of this will be used
in making doors, &c., besides 5,000,000 feet of
fine lumber which the firm imports. Dick &
Banning have already sold this season 15,000,-
000 feet. The firm has at all seasons of the
year 150 men on their pay roll. Shore & Davis
operate a saw mill at Lake Winnipeg, and im-
port largely all kinds of lumber, Already this
season they have handled over 4,000,000 feet,
and before the year closes they expect to handle
asmuch more, They employ, on the average,

THE CANADA

50 men during the entire year. Plews & Mann
commenced business about the first of June
last, and since that time 2,000,000 feet of lum-
ber have entered and left their yard. This firm
imports their whole stock. They deal in every
description of building material, and employ 15
men. B,C. Kenway consumes 2,000,000 feet
of lumber yearly in the manufacture of doors,
sash, &c. He imports solely, Hehas also sold
2,400,000 feet for building purposes since last
spring. Fifty men are employed steadily in the
yards. D, Sprague has thirty men in his em-
ploy, erecting a fine saw mill on the banks of
Red River. He has imported and disposed of
520,000}feet of, lumber within the past four weeks,
When his mill is completed 50 men will be em-
ployed to operate it. Boyd & Crowe handle the
entire cut of the Keewatin Milling Company,
which represents 12,000,000 feet per year. Dur-
ing the present season this firm has sold 9,000,-
000 feet of lumber. The Keewatin Milling Co,
employ 125 men at their mill and in the woods,
Hugh Southerland & Bro. carry on an extensive
business as wholesale and retail dealers and
manufacturers of lumber. They handle the cut
of three saw mills which amounts to 60,000,000
per year, and they have sold more than half
of that amount since the beginning of the pre-
sent building season. They have also imported
8,000,000 feet from the States and other places.
The average number of men on their pay-roll is
200. D, Patterson operates one of the largest
sash and door factories in the city. In the
manufacture of doors, flooring and other mater-
ial, 50,000 feet of lumber are consumed weekly,
or 2,600,000 feet annually. Mr. Patterson has
in his employ 150 men, part of whom work in
the factory and part on building contracts,
which this gentleman also takes in connection
with his other business.

The above do not include all the lumber
firms in the city. There are a number of
other more obscure firms of recent birth, which
have not yet branched out to any very notice-
able extent. A rough estimate places the
amount lumber these small concerns have
handled altogether this season at alot 2,000,-
| 000 feet, and the number of men employed 100,

PROF. SARGENT ON FOREST PROTECTION.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—In the
current number of the North American Review
Prof. Charles S. Sargent has a paper on ‘‘ Pro-
tection of the Forests,” which evinces thorough
general observation of the subiect. He takes a
discouraging view of the capacity of rapid re-
production in our native forests. He says :—

*“Tt is not improbable, in the light of recent
scientific investigations, that even so recently
as the time when some of the immediate ances-
tors of the trees which form the forests were
growing, the whole interior region, now believed
to be gradually drying up, enjoved a more abun-
dant rainfall than it now receives, and that
these forests thus originally grew under more
favourable conditions than at present. If the
hypothesis is correct, it will be easy to under-
stand why, under less favorable circumstances,
their reproduction will be difficult. The inter-
ior forests at the north may he expected, how-
ever, thanks to the present rainfall of that part
of the country, to reproduce themselves slowly ;
but so slowly must this process go on, that,
judging from the age of existing trees, many
hundred years will have passed, if these forests
are destroyed, before their successors can attain
sufficient size to be of economic importance.
Through all the southern part of the interior
region the struggle for life has been so severe
that the stunted groups of trees, which barely
deserve the name of forests, have only succeed-
ed in finding a foothold in the high canons about
the heads of the scanty streams. The age of
some of these small trees “is immense; few
young trees are growing up to replace those
that perish in the course of nature ; and once
destroyed, the reproduction of these forests is
so doubtful, or must at least be so slow, that the
possibility of it, even, need not be considered in
any practical discussion of the question,”

Prof. Sargent’s views as to the ability of our
forest land to reproduce trees rapidly will hard-
ly stand the test of observation. On a recent
visit to his native county in New Nork the
writer was powerfully impressed with the fact,
heretofore alluded to in these columns, that the

LUMBERMAN.

second growth of maple, cedar and other woods
has been very rapid in the last twenty years—
so much so that the doings of the Forestry | editorial
Congress at Montreal, from which the writer
has just come, appeared as though they had no
essential motive; nature and the good care of
the land owners were doing a practical work
that the forestry agitators were essaying on
paper and on the platform. As a matter of
fact the forests of many parts of New England
(we have the supporting testimony of Dr. Lor-
ing) and New York, and doubtless of all the
other forest bearing Middle States, cover as
much area as they did 25 years ago, and more
trees are now standing on a given area than
there were a quarter of acentury since. It was
our observation, too, in the state of New York
that the owners of forest lands fully appreciate
the situation, and instead of there being a waste
of timber, there is an economy of it, farmers
often valuing their timber more highly than
any portion of their free-holds. This feeling
will doubtless grow as the demand for all mer-
chantable woods increases. It will be a question
of economy of available wealth, and will be de-
termined by selfishness, the same as any other
practical economical question is determined.

Prof. Sargent reverses the popular theory
that forests produces rainfall, and insists that
rain produces forests. Probably he is right. It
has been our observation for years that rain-
storms, like all meteorological changes, are
wide sweeping, and determined by nothing of a
local character. A storm will often sweep over
the entire western states, taking in forest and
prairie, and no topographical peculiarities of
of localities make any difference with the pro-
gress of the wind, clouds, rain or snow. It is
the same with the great storms that sweep along
the Atlantic coast, such as recently denuded
New Jersey and New York. The ocean and
mountain ranges have more to do with determ-
ining storms than anything else, forests having
very little effect. Long continued droughts as
often occur in forest countries as on the treeless
prairies.

Prof. Sargent’s proposed remedy for the waste
of forests in the older states is by state legisla-
tion, as forest lands in those states has passed
out of the hands of government. This legisla-
tion should be designed to prevent forest fires,
to check the recklessness of lumbermen, to stop
the roaming and browsing of cattle—all des-
tructive of forest growth, both old and young.
He thinks that wherever the general govern-
ment still controls forest area, notably on the
Pacific slope, positive measures should be adopt-
ed to prevent a wanton waste of woods.

Prof. Sargent concludes his paper as follows :

‘‘ Looking, then, over the whole field, it is seen
that the forests of the country, with a single
important exception, are still capable of large
production. It evident, however, that grave
fears should be felt for their future extent and
composition ; that in all the eastern and central
states regulation is required to protect the for-
ests from fire and indiscriminate pasturage, and
that in the interior Pacific region experiments
in forest protection could, perhaps, be wisely
undertaken, unless this region is to be entirely
stripped of its forests. All protective legisla.
tion, however, will fail to accomplish the results
expected from it unless backed by popular be-
lief in the value of the forest. Such belief will
come only with a better understanding of the
importance of the subject ; and the American
people must learn several economic lessons be-
fore the future of their forests can be considered
secure. They must learn that a forest, what-
ever its extent and resources, can be exhausted
in a surprisingly short space of time through
total disregard, in its treatment, of the simplest
laws of nature ; that browsing animals and fires
render the reproduction of the forest impossible ;
that the forest is essential to the protection of
rivers ; that it does not influence rainfall, and
that it is useless to plant trees beyond the region
where trees are produced naturally. When
these lessons shall have been learned, forest
protection in the United States will be possible,
and can be made effectual.”

__—_——SE_E

THE Buffalo Lumber World says —Our ex-
ports of lumber and other building materials to
Australia are said to be steadily increasing.
They include pine, hickory, ash, and syeamore,

Fae FOR WHITE er
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note on we es Oe
The announcement, made by lanthorilf’ oh :
Government bureau, that the white pine fovea

of the United States would, at rate
of consumption, furnish less than twelve }
supply of that indespensible : gh

copied into most of the papers, has not recei
the general attention which it deserves, and
probably will not until the advancing cost «
pine lumber brings the lesson forcibly —— i
the public mind. This advance,
already begun, the price of fine Mea
great timber-producing States having do
within a few weeks, and the question of the
ployment of some other material-for the c
uses of building is earnestly discussed
architects and contractors. On some acco
the substitution of hard wood for pine it
finishing of houses would tend to promote #)
solidity as well as their artistic interest,
of which are compromised by the universal
| habit of using hard wood only in the form of

veneers or casing upon grounds of cheaper

material ; but a decided progress will have to
be made in the art of seasoning and working
the timber of deciduous trees before it canZbe
used in large pieces in a way to satisfy those ac-
customed to the straightness, smoothness, and
unvarying character of pine. For framing,
spruce and hemlock, with whitewood in the
Southern and Middle States, will probable soon
occupy the field entirely, and the makers of lath
and shingles will perhaps transfer their industry
to the forests of hemlock or arborvite. For in-
ferior finish, ash, oak, including many kinds
now rejected, chestnut, black birch, walnut and
elm may be turned to good account ; while for
exterior work the deciduous varieties will pro-
bably be introduced before long, for the sake of
variety, if not of economy, and with them a
| Style of design different from that now practis-
ed, to which they are totally unsuited.

WOOD FINISH.

Richness of effect may be gained in decorative
woodwork by using woods of different tone,
such as amaranth and amboyna, by inlaying
and veneering. The Hungarian ash and French
walnut afford excellent veneers, especially burls
and gnarls, A few useful notes on the subject
are given by a recent American authority.
In varnishing, the varnishes can be toned down
to match the wood, or be made to darken it, by
the addition of coloring matters. The patent
ed preparations known as “‘ wood fillers” are
prepared in different colors for the purpose of
preparing the surface of wood previous to the
varnishing. They fill up the pores of the wood,
rendering the surface hard and smooth. For
polishing mahogany, walnut, etc., the following
is recommended :—Dissolve beeswax by heat in
spirits 4 turpentine until the mixture becomes
viscid ;* then apply by a clean cloth, and rub
thoroughly with a flannel or cloth. A common
mode of polishing mahogany is by ing it
first with linseed oil, and then by a dipp-
ed in very fine brickdust ; a good gloss may be
produced by rubbing with linseed oil, and then
holding trimmings or shavings of the same ma-
terial against the work in the lathe. Glass

paper, followed by rubbing, also gives a good

luster.

There are various means of toning or darken-
ing woods for decorative effect—logwood, lime,
brown soft soap, dyed oil, sulphate of oil, nitrate
of silver exposed to sun’s rays, carbonate of soda,
bichromate and permanganate of potash, and
alkaline preparations are used for darkening
the wood ; the last three are specially recom-
mended. The solution is applied by dissolving
one ounce of the alkali in two gills of boiling wat-
er, diluted to the required tone. The surface is
saturated with a sponge or flannel, and imme-
diately dried with soft rags. The carbonate is
used for dark woods. Oil tinged with rose
madder may be applied to hard woods like
birch, and a red oil is prepared from soaked al-
kanet root in linseed oil. The grain of yellow
pine can be brought out by two or three coats

of japan much diluted with turpentine, and af-_

terwards oiled and rubbed. To give mahogany
the appearance of age, lime water used before
oiling is a good plan. In staining wood, the
best and most transparent effect is obtained by

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repeated light coats of the same. For oak
stain, a strong solution of oxalic acid is employ-
ed; for mahogany, dilute nitrous acid, A
primary coat, or a coat of wood fillers is advan-
tageous. For mahogany stains the following
are given :—two ounces of dragon’s blood dis-
solved in one quart’of rectified spirits of wine,
well shaken; or raw sienna in beer, with burnt
sienna to give the required tone; for darker
stains boil a half pound of madder and two
ounces logwood chips in one gallon of water,
and brush thé decoction while hot over the
wood. When dry, paint with a solution of
two ounces of potash in one quart of water. A
solution of permanganate of potash forms a
rapid aud excellent brown stain.—Building
News.

FATAL EXPLOSION.

LonerorD Mitts, Oct 7.—R. C. Smith’s mill
about a a mile north of this place on Lake
St. John, has been shut down for some days to
repair a steam pump which had got out of order.
The pump was repaired last evening, when they
pumped up the four boilers. This morning
steam was got up and a start made at six
o'clock. About 6.30 the glass water gauge on
one of the boilers broke, and in about five min-
utes an explosion took place. A small boiler
next to the mill exploded first and was blown
to atoms, the larger portion of it falling fully
two hundred yards off into the lake. The next
boiler was blown up through the roof of the
enginehouse, tearing the shafting and machinery
and landed about fifty feet west of the mill.
The third boiler was thrown out, and also the
fourth, The fireman, Ellis, had his head blown
off. Fred. Gray, a piler, who had just come
into the engine-room, had his head cut two-
thirds off, leaving only the face connected with
the body. Dougal McFadyen received some
bad wounds about the head, but will likely re-
cover. David Roberts is badly bruised about
the body, but he will likely recover. Fred
Dinwoodie, the foreman, was stunned by some-
thing thgowing him on a car, which was all
smashed, but he miraculously escaped almost
unhurt, Harry Gray was also hurt; Archy
McFadyen was scalded badly, and several
others received slight wounds. The cause of
the explosion is as yet unknown. An inquest
is now being held by Dr. Ramsay, coroner, on
the bodies of Ellis and Gray, after which a re-
port of thesame will likely give some fuller
details,

Ellis was a married man, leaving a wife and
one child. Gray was unmarried. The mill is
a total wreck, beams, boilers, shafting, and
machinery being strewn around in every
direction.

LUMBER INSPECTION.

The Monetary Times says :—The prospect for

a large lumber trade between Canada and the
New England States during the coming winter
and spring, is very encouraging. In the east,
general business is active, and with flatter-
ing prospects of the future ; money is plentiful
and builders are getting safe orders.
past quarter of a century the building interests
haye not been in safer hands. To-day the mas-
mechanic is generally the contractor, and as

2 consequence better work and material are
given. Profits are not large, by reason of the
great number of the competitors, and the exten-

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sive use of labour-saving machinery ; but, ow-
ing to the large demand, fair profits may be
made by all. During the dull times eastern
dealers took advantage of the manufacturers
and “‘forced” the qualities so that a No. 1 liner
would be taken only as a common No. 2, and
they continue these qualities to the present, te
the disadvantage of the manufacturers. If the
consumer ultimately gets the benefit, then it
neutralizes and no harm is done to the trade.

Some western manufacturers resort to small
business in filling orders from petty commission
dealers in the east forslets ef 10,000 feet, divid-
ed in many cases into five separate sales. This,
of course, is not just to dealers, who are under
expenses for skilled labour and wharf rent in
the large cities, as it leaves them only odd jobb-
ing orders. Were it possible one would like to see
the sales regulated in the interests of legitimate
trade—for these mushroom commission peddlers
can hardly be considered in the business—and
also as near as possible a fixed standard for
qualities in the interests of manufacturers and
consumers. In some places in the east, the
quality and quantity of each invoice of lumber
are supposed to be legally specified, in the in-
terests of manufacturers and consumers, But
this salutary law is now kept more in the
breach than in the observance. In an impor-
tant lumber centre like Boston, with a large
staff of deputy surveyors, and a well paid sur-
veyor general, all held under bonds to the
State, for the faithful performance of their work
according to law, it is safe tosay that not more
than three-fourths of the lumber that enters the
port is submitted to legal inspection. We have
no inspectors in Canada, as there are in Wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Chicago, where the buyer
and seller agree upon a man who shall inspect
large purchasers in the interest of both parties
to the transaction. Without any desire to find
fault, we refer to these facts in the hope that
all interested may be benefited.

TREE-PLANTING IN LONDON.

London is making progress in the matter of
tree-planting, says the Telegraph. We have
“street improvements,” as they are termed,
which cost enormous sums of money, but this is
one against which no such objection lies, for it
gives us a splendid return for a small outlay.
The Metropolitan Board has done well in decor-
ating the Thames embankment and Northum-
berland ayenue with rows of trees which, with a
little tender watchfulness, will grow into fulness
of form and beauty by-and-bye. Several of the
vestries and district boards are following the
same track, We know there is a tendency to
grumble at the ‘‘ drip ” from the branches in wet
weather, and at the falling leaves in autumn.
Some of the vestries are particularly sensitive in
regard to these matters. It is said that the
planting of trees in suburban roads began in
1875, but it is too probable that the number of
trees cut down in the suburbs since that date
have nearly equalled the number planted. It is
at a point rather within the suburbs that im-
provement of this kind has been most conspic-
uous, and it is a happy sign when the fashion
spreads as far towards the heart of the metropolis
as Tooley street. Our forefathers must have
been possessed of some good taste in this par-
ticular, if it be true—as apparently it is—that
there is not a street in London from some part
of ee a tree may not be seen,

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ARRIVED AT QUEBEC.

The Chronicle gives the following list of rafts, |
etc., arrived at Quebec :—

Sept 22—D & J Maguire, deals, etc., Cap |
Rouge.

Sept 25—Gilmour & Co, deals, sundry places. |

Sundry lots, staves, do

Collins Bay Co, staves, do

Sept 26—D D Calvin & Co, (2), oak, etc, Do- |
bell’s and other coves.

P Letendre, white pine, etc, Ringsend Cove.
Ross & Co, board pine, etc, New Liverpool |
Cove.
Sept 27—P McHharen, white pine St. Law-
rence Docks.

Sept 29—Guy, Bevan & Co, spruce deals,
Amqui, P. Q.

Oct 2—Coote Bros, waney white pine, elm,
&c, sundry coves,

O Latour. white pine, Cap Rouge.

C Wright, board pine, do.

B P Fleming, deals, etc, Connolly’s Mills.

Oct 4—Collin’s Bay Co, oak, pine, ete. sun-
dry coves.

J M Irwin, white pine, &¢ Woodfield Har-
bor.

Oct 5—Gordon & Co,’s and Connolly Weller,
Lots, white pine, etc., New Liverpool.

W C. Edwards & Co, tamarac, Cap Rouge.

Canada v Michigan.

The Bay City Lumberman’s Gazette says :—
Already crews of men are being sent into the |
pineries, and soon the preliminary work of
securing the logs which shall supply the mills
next season will be well under way. There is a
good demand for men, and they arescarce. The |
rate of wages paid in Canada this year is about
as high as in Michigan, which has the effect to
keep the Canadians, on whom Michigan has |
always largely depended, at home, and the
Wolverine state is looking elsewhere for her
help. This of course effects the supply for the
Wisconsin and Minnesota pineries, and jobbers
are now offering about $2 per month more than
was paid last season. The good crops have, how-
ever, effected a marked reduction in the cost of
supplies, although they are still high.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says :—The signs of
the times from a St. Louis standpoint indicate
that an extensive change is likely to take place |
in the lumber business within a few years. The
great mills at Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls
are fast making arrangements topile and dry the
greater portion of their product, and ship it di-
rect to its destination in Western Minnesota,
Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska by rail, instead of
running it to the Mississippi towns in rafts and

hence on the cars,

THE Cowansville Observer says :—Messrs. W.
Watkins & Son have the frame of their new
saw mill on the L’Avenir line up and enclosed
ready for the machinery. They put up a port-

| able saw mill and have cut all the lumber for

their own buildings, all required for the bridges
on the line, and have shipped considerable to
other parts. Their new mill is 50x100 feet, and
they are putting in engines sufficiently powerful
to run two gangs of saws, besides edgers and
trimmers, etc., but will only put in one large
circular this season.

THE Ottawa Free Press says :—Allan, Grant
& Co., ship daily two trains of square timber of
20 cars each through here from Pembroke to
Quebec. They are made up at Pembroke, to

| where they are floated down the Upper Ottawa.

They have a contract for 2,000 cars. All this
timber used to go down the Ottawa in rafts.

THE Ontonagon Lumber Company has sold

| its entire possessions, including mill and other

buildings, at Ontonagon, Mich., and its stand-
ing timber on the Ontonagon river, to the
Diamond Match Company, of New York, the

| consideration being about $700,000.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

THE U. 8S. TARIFF.

At the meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 27th, of
the Chicago Lumberman’s Exchange, the
following address was read by Mr. Dean :—

The forty-seventh congress having authorized
the appointment of a commission for the pur-
pose of gaining information directly from the
people upon the subject of the present tariff,
the gentlemen comprising the said commission,
as we understand the scope of their duties, in-
tending to recommend to congress amendments
to the tariff law, when it shall ajpear them,
from good evidence, that the people of the Un-
ited States will be benefitted by such changes,
and we believe most earnestly that the time has
come when it would be greatly to the interest
and good of the people of the United States to
remove the presgnt import tax upon lumber,
which may conveniently be brought to them
from the Dominion of Canada. In support of
this argument we would say that the wonderful
growth of the United States, and especially the
development of that portion laying west of the
lakes, has been due to the readiness with which
cheap dwellings, barns, fences and graneries
were obtainable through the plentifulness of a
cheap building material, such as is found in the
white pine lumber supply. With the exhaust-
ion of this supply, the still vast unsettled prair-
ies and fields of the west, will, in a measure,
cease to present inducements to the emigrant
from foreign lands, the unoccupied overflow
from the older states of the Union, or the
inducements for development afforded by the
building of railways and other highways of
commerce.

That the time is not far distant when the
lumber supply of the Northwest will be practi-
cally exhausted, and that evidence of that
exhaustion are even now quite apparent, will be
disputed by no well-informed person.

It is but a few years since the value of stand-
ing pine, of good quality, averaged from as low
as 50 cents to as high as $2.50 per thousand
feet ; the value of the same grades of timber has
risen at the present time from $38 to as high as
$8 per thousand feet, an average value being,
probably, fairly stated at from 4 to $5 per
thousand, This value is still further advanced

- tothe consumer in the fact that a majority of
the present timber supply is remote from
streams, and consequently more expensive of
ACCESS.

The efforts of the United States census com-
missioners to ascertain the extent of the timber
supply of the United States, has resulted in a
report, under the sanction and approval of that
bureau, placing the timber supply of the three
principal pine producing states at but 81,-
000,000,000 feet, or an amount equal to the
demands of the country for a period of eight
years, based upon the present consumptive de-
mand. Aside from the states of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota, the white pine tim-
ber resources of the country are insignificant,
and while the supply of other kinds of timber
in the South, and elswhere, 1s reported as ade-
quate for the needs of a full generation, there is
no other variety of timber which can take the
place of or is adapted to the same uses as white
pine, unless it be the cypress of the South, una

-vailable for many economic reasons, or the
whitewood or (tulip) more valuable for other
commercial uses than as a substitute for pine as
a building material.

Aside from the supply of white pine in the 3
states above mentioned, in the Dominion of
Canada their exists, a quantity equal, according
to the opinion of many experts, who have con-
sidered the (uestion, to the present remaining
supply of the United States. We believe that
it is in the interests of a good and wise policy to
admit this timber tothe United free from the
incumbrance of a tax. We assert that this tim-
ber has cost, and does cost, those who control it
for utilization a larger sum per thousand than
was obtained by the United States Government
from those to whom the timber lands of this
country were disposed ; that the cost of manu-
facture in Canada is not below the cost to the
American manufacturer ; and that the average
cost of transportation of a majority of that
portion of the present Canadian pine which
would naturally reach the United States market,
is considerably in excess of the cost of placing
the native product_in the hands of the consum:

er. These combined factors preclude the possi-

bility of any injury resulting to the American
manufacturer from the admission of foreign

lumber.

In support of the first proposition, we assert
that the liberal policy of the American Govern-
ment has permitted the timber lands of this

country to be purchased in fee-simple at from
$1.25 to $3.50 per acre. ‘These lands are estim-

ated in general to yield 5,000 feet of timber per

acre, while a large proportion of them have and
will yield from 10,000 to 15,000 feet per acre.
The standing timber, therefore, has been sold
by the government at an average probably less
than 25 cents per thousand feet, including the
ownership of the land, which in many cases
readily sells at from $5 to $10 per acre after
being denuded of its timber, such land being
found in many parts of Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota to be unsurpassed in value for
agricultural purposes. From the land and tim-
ber for which the government has received, at
its highest established price, $1,600 per square
mile, the manufacturer of lumber has realized,
and is now realizing, 3,200,000 feet of timber
of an average stumpage value at the present
time, as stated by the Saginaw manufacturers,
in an address recently presented to the congress-
ional special tariff commission, of $4.50 per
thousand, or $14,400 per square mile, to which
may be added the inarket value of the land for
agricultural purposes, which, if stated at $2.50
per acre, or $1,600 leaves the case to be stated,
simply, that the government has presented $14, -
400 in timber to each purchaser of a square mile
of timber lands. ‘This we esteem to be fully all
the protection to which the manufacturer of the
United States is entitled at the hand of the
government,

Comparing the policy of the American goy-
ernment with that of Canada, we find that it is
the policy of the latter to place its timber lands
in groups of townships, which are offered to the
highest bidder at public sale, of a bonus for the
privilege of cutting off the timber. This bonus
or privilege usually costs the purchaser not far
from 85 cents per thousand feet, after which,
under many and usually expensive restrictions,
the government claims a stumpage duty of 75
cents per thousand on all timber actually cut,
in addition to local taxes of about $100 per year,
per square mile or an average of about 3 cents
per thousand feet, a total stumpage cost of over
$1 per thousand paid to the Canadian Govern-
ment, the ownership of the land remaining in
the government.

While, therefore, the American timber owner
investing of necessity but $1,600 to secure 3,-
200,000 feet of timber (actually securing nearly,
or quite double that amount as a rule) realizes
from the value of his timber and the sale of his
land $16,000, the purchaser of Canadian timber
pays to the government not less than $3,200
without any rebate, in the value of the land,
for the purpose of securing the net quantity of
3,200,000 feet of timber. The Canadian lum-
berman, in a country less favourably situated
for railroad transportation of men and supplies
to the camps, is consequently at greater expense
in his preparatory work, and as the contiguity
of the two nations enables a ready interchange
of labor, it follows that with a larger number of
laborers, bred to the work of the lumber camp,
the Canadian laborer seeks work on American
soil whenever the rate of wages between the two
countries is greatly disproportiongd, thus com-
pelling the Canadian employer to pay nearly or
quite as high rates of wages as prevail in the
more extended lumber regions of this country,
if he will retain his laborers.

The food markets of Canada are based in yal-
ues upon those of the United States, so that in
the staples which enter most largely into the
business of lumbering ; namely, grain for teams,
flour, beef, pork and beans, for the men; the
averave expense of camp supplies is to the Can-
adian operator, but little if at all less than to the
American. In the running of logs to the saw-
mill, the expenses again are not far from equal,
the general comparison of streams in the two
countries being if anything in favour of the
American.

The capital invested of necessity in pursuit
of this industry is greater in Canada, in propor-
tion to the extent of the work performed,

from the necessity te acquire the large land |

limits, witch alone can be obtained from the

Canadian government ; the American goyern-

ment selling as low as 40 acres at a cost of not|stumpage on timber donated to him by
over $100, while nothing less than a township is
disposed of by the Canadian government. The

number of men employed is not less, per thous-

and feet produced, in one country than in the

other, and the capital employed in saw-mills
will bear the same comparison. It would be
folly to assert that greater intelligence enables
the Canadian laborer to preform a greater
amount of work in the saw-mills than does the
American, while it is a fact that by improved
methods and machinery, more generally adopt-
ed in this country, than in Canada, the cost of
producing Jumber is greater in Canada than in
the United States. Inthe matter of transpor-
tation the Canadian again labors under a disad-
vantage in being, in the main, and especially in
the western portion of the province whence
must come a’ iajority of the timber, at a long
distance from markets, whereas the American

operator can utilize lake or rail transportation |

at his pleasure, and with but short lines and a
low freight rate. The disadvantages under
which the Canadian operator labors we assert to
be more than the equivalent of any superior
advantages he may possess, so that it may with
possitiveness be assumed that Canadian lumber
laid down upon the docks of Chicago, or any
other distributing centre, will have cost the
Canadian as much, if not more, than the same
quality of stock has cost the American manu-
facturer at the same port.

Having demonstrated, as we believe, that the
American government has dealt more liberally
with the American timber owner, than has the
Canadian, pointing to the statement of the
Saginaw manufacturers, before referred to, in
wnich by their own admission the royalty on
Canadian timber is $1.75, or nearly double
what we have assumed it to be, as further evi-
dence that our estimates are wholly within
bounds, we next controvert the statement of the
Saginaw memorial in which the liberality of the
Canadian government in building piers, booms
and slides is pointed out, by referring to the
general policy of the American government
with regard to navigable waters, pointing to the
river and harbour bill, appropriating an addit-
ional $17,500,000, no mean proportion of which
was devoted exclusively to improvements in the
localities where the lumber interest is benefitted
to a greater extent than is any other individual
industry.

Analysing the statement of the Saginaw
memoralists, we have shown that while the
Canadian lumberman has paid to that govern-
ment from $1 to $2 per thousand stumpage on
the timber cut by him, the American govern-
ment has virtually presented to the Jumberman
of this country each section of pine land, to-
gether with the timber on the same, of a value
of $14,400, for the mere nominal sum of $1,600
or, as he can readily realize that sum for the
stripped lands, has made him a gift of the tim-
ber for his labor in clearing it. The census
bureau reports 1,649 lumber manufacturing es-
tablishments in Michigan, 234 in Minnesota and
704 in Wisconsin, a total of 2,587; assuming
for arguments sake that the number is 10,000
and asserting, as we believe, that no timber in-
terests, except those connected with the lumber
manufacturers of the states named, are to be
affected by a abrogation of the tax on lumber,
it would seem*that after giving $14,400 with
each section of pine land to 10,000 manufacturers
of lumber, it was now the duty of the govern-
ment to consider the interests of the consumers
of lumber, represented by over 5,000,000 per-
sons to each 1,000 manufacturers.

These have a right to claim that the timber
which has been donated to the manufacturers
by the government shall be provided for their
use at a reasonable modicum of profit to the
manufacturer. With a yearly destruction of
the forests, the timber donated by the govern-
ment to the manufacturer has risen in value
until it is no uncommon thing to hear of sales
of standing timber at the rate of 88 and $10 per
thousand stumpage, while the average price, as
stated by the Saginaw lumbermen, is not far
from $4.50, The average price in 1870 was be-
low $1 per thousand. The consumer has been
compelled to pay this difference, and if values
adyance in the same proportion during the pre-

bd a ela hay © Syed pay tot
facturer not less than per thor
government.

When weconsider thatthe ann :
of lumber in the three states men timed exe a
8,000,000,000 feet, and that this «
home forests means the destruction of 4
square miles of timber each year, and at thi
rate that there is but an eight years’ supply t
draw from, it would seem the part of p
to begin to purchase some portion of our st
from those who have it for sale, bef:
when absolute want shall force us
the sellers asking price.

Some gentlemen claim that there are clir
consideration® that have a bearing upon th
subject, that the destruction of our fore
affect unfavourably the productive force of our
soil; this branch of the subject we leave wit!
those persons interested in agriculture.

The Saginaw committee claim that the set
tlers, by crowding in upon their pine lands t&/
make clearings for farming pucposes, destroy by
fire all their pine forests, and for relief desire tc
cut off the trees as rapidly as possible, so as to
save them. We seriously question this state-
ment, not believing that the averge thrifty fa
mer seeks the pine belt in pursuit of his occupa
tion, but from our own knowledge believ
that the forest fires are in the main brov
about in consequence of the accumulation
the limbs, bark and chips that become dry an
easily ignited shortly after escaping from the
lumberman’s axe. Hence we should say that a
good way to preserve forests from fire would be
to stop filling them with bonfire materials.

The Saginaw memorialists say, “‘ When our
government can furnish lands upon such easy
terms as that of Canada, free trade in lumber
might be nearer just.” Having that our
government has been even more tothe ©
lumber manufacturer than to any other class of
our citizens, and vastly more so than has the
Canadian government to its manufacturers, and
having demonstrated that the cost of lumber to
the Canadian producer precludes any possible
danger of his entering into ruinous competition —
with the American manufacturer, we respect
fully submit that the short supply of native —
stock, and growing demands of a mighty nation,
the interests of 55,000,000 of people in cheap
homes, and manufacturing industries needing —
thr consumption of pine lumber, imperatively
demand that all restrictions should be removed —
from the importation of that limited quantity
which the Dominion of Canada can supply to
supplement our rapidly decreasing timber re- —
sources.

For the above reasons and many others that —
might be given, we most earnestly pray that all —
duty upon jpine lumber, lath and shingles may
be removed, to the end that the people of the
United State, and particularly of the States
and territories to the west of us, may improve
the rich prairies, and at moderate expense con-
struct their buildings anjapores trollo pro-—
ducts of the forests nada, as similar
material grown in the United States has become —
so nearly exhausted and cannot be reproduced. —

After a long and warm debate on motions for —
adopting the address, for laying it on the table
and for referring it to a committee, this last
motion was carried by a vote.

A committee was chosen to handle the sat
tion and report in 15 days to a called
consisting of Messrs. Thad Dean, B. L’ Ander-
son, A. C. Soper, A. G. Van Schaick, Addison
Ballard, James P. Ketcham and S. K. Martin. |

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NATIVE FORESTS.
While there is much said and written in re- —
gard to forest tree-cultivation, we find very
little attention paid to the preservation of nati
forests. In the timbered sections we have been
too busy trying to get rid of the timber to think
of any method of preservation. Yet in se
sections that were formerly timbered there is
now felt to be a scarcity of timber, p :
of that kind which is useful in manufac
The only remedy mentioned is the nting
forest trees for this purpose, but this is a
that we are hardly prepared for in this
and it is probable that only necessity will ¢
pel artificial planting. The time seems t

dang Sy wait for on inreeeeel sf head

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begin to pay, and there are very few who will
undertake the work. At least very little has
been done in this line. At the Agricultural
College an experimental arboretum of four
acres has been growing a few years; and a far-
mer in Monroe county has this year set 1,500
black-walnut trees with a view to grow them
for timber.

Would it not be well to study more closely
the possibility of improving the timber lands
that still remain. The woods still standing
~ eontain a vast amount of material which is sus-
ceptible of development in far less time than
would be required for the planting and growth
of new forests, the neglect of which furnishes a
striking proof of the general ignorance of forest
culture. The timber is ruthlessly cut from
many places that are nearly useless for cultiva-
tion after, and would be worth far more for
growing timber than for any other purpose,
more beautiful to the eye and more profitable.
In many instances the native woods have been
so much neglected or so much injured as to be
past redemption, yet there are still large areas
of forests aad smaller groves and wood-lots now
yielding no revenue which might be developed
into timber forests of very great value and at
the same time yield an annual crop of firewood
in the process.

Cut out the dead and least valued timber for
firewood, preserve the small growing trees that
are of the best varieties for timber. It will be
necessary for the best care of the forest to keep
stock from running in it, as they will totally
destroy all small growth. In almost every
tract of woodland may be found more or less
of trees of the best varieties for timber mingled
with a great variety that are worthless or only
fit for fuel. In many cases they have been ne-
glected and cannot be improved, but in most
cases intelligent work in thinning and pruning
will be followed by profitable results.—Detroit
Post.

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MUSKEGON LUMBERING.

An exchange says:—I had a few minutes
pleasant chat at the Everett house last evening
with Col. Fuller, one of the Muskegon lumber
kings. Col. Fuller is an old “state of Mainer,”
and takes to a pine tree as naturally as a Bay
City newspaper man does to Anderson county
budge. He has been operating largely in this
State a number of years. He told me that un
der the most favourable circumstances it is cal-
culated that at the close of rafting operations
there will be in the neighbourhood of 200,000, -
000 feet of ldzs back. The strike at Muskegon
is largely responsible for this. He said manu-
facturers there are obtaining good prices for
lumber. Many of the mills are running nights,
and a siderable quantity of lumber is cross-
piled. ould the fall be favourable he is of
the opinion that the cut of the mills at Muske-
gon will approximate that of last season. He
said that logging will be carried on on the west
side on a large scale the coming winter, nearly
everybody is going into the woods. The Col.
purchased a branch railway nearly three miles
long, tapping a tract of pine in Clare County,
from which he calculates to cut 15,000,000 feet
of logs, which will be put into Lake George,
and they will be thence hauled over the Lake
George & Muskegon railroad, and put into the
Muskegon.

A curious double pine tree is said to be
growing near the line of Green and Jackson
counties, Miss. Two distinct trunks rise from
the ground, and unite 30 feet above, forming
one solid trunk, round and symmetrical.

Baxrer’s Manprake Birrers never fail to
cure Costiyveness and regulate the Bowels.

Tue Wild Strawberry plant posseses rare
virtue as a cleansing, cooling, astringent,
anteaptic, and healing medicine, and when com-
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in Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry, it
is an unfailing remedy in all Bowel complaints,

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach.
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
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who finds himself suffering will spend a few
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

CHICAGO SHIPMENTS.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
secretary of the Lumberman’s Exchange has
been at work for some time past in endeavoring
to arrive at a correct basis for calculating the
shipments from this city, and has ascertained
that the average weight of 32,150,000 feet, ship-
ped by promiscuous dealers during the month
of August, was 2,475 pounds per thousand feet.
This embraced 2,805 cars, averaging 11,1054 ft
per car. Upon this basis he estimates the Aug.
shipments by rail and canal at, 138,958,756 feet,
or 744 per cent., leaving 47,564,285 feet, or 254
per cent. of the total, to make up the 186,522, -
041 feet shown by the September inventory to
have been disposed of during August. Upon
the same pasis it is figured out that the volume
of trade for September differs but little from
that of August, the rail and canal shipments to
August 26th being 124,000,000 feet ; estimate
for four days at some proportionate rate, 23, -
620,000 feet ; city consumption (add one-third),
49,207,000 feet, leaving the estimate of the
September shipments at 196,827,000 feet. It
will take a few weeks’ test of the basis to de-
termine the value and correctness of the figures,
The percentage of city consumption will not
astonish the readers of this journal, who have
noted our estimates of from 20 to 24 per cent.
for the past three years.

Awmone the many industries of Rockfort, IIl.,
furniture making is one of the most important
ones. The Forest City Furniture Company,
whose plant covers an entire square, has among
its facilities a dry kiln capable of containing
50,000 feet of lumber, and has on hand in the
yards 2,000,000 feet of walnut, ash, white-
wood and basswood lumber, which is being con-
sumed at an average rate of 125,000 feet per
month. TheUnion Furniture Company has on
hand 500,000 feet, and dries all that is used in
the open air. The Central Company uses about
two car loads of ash and walnut lumber per
week, and will erect a dry kiln next spring. The
Rockford Co-operative Furniture Company has
a dry kiln with a capacity of 24,000 feet, and
has on hand about 1,000,000 feet of walnut, in
addition to the other kinds used, using about
7,000 feet of walnut per week. The Rockford
Chair and Furniture Company has just built a
dry kiln with a capacity of 40,000 feet, and will
use chiefly ash. The Excelsior Company also
operates heavily.

Sure, safe and effectual, that old remedy,
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W. H. Crooxer, Druggist, of Waterdown,
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. OCT. 16, 1852,

Ir is thought that half a dozen men have
grabbed all the timber land on the north shore
of Devil’s lake, Dakota, and that the military
survey for a reservation, lately ordered, is in
their interest.

Fivzr Menominee river companies have deci-
ed to cut a wagon road along the Michagamme
at once, the intention being to cut some 80,000, -
000, feet of logs on that stream this winter, and
camps are now being located.

A sT0cK company has been organized at Mus-
kegon by C. C. Ballinghurst, J. B. Champaigne,
HK, L. Davis and others, to engage in manufact-
uring shingles. The stock is $30,000, and expect
to make 400,000 shingles per day.

A SPUR track is being built from the Hau
Claire Lumber Company’s new mill, above
Thorpe, Wis., to the Wisconsin & Minnesota
railroad, Hardwood lumber will comprise a
portion of the produce of this mill.

Tue Chippewa Logging Company, Wau
Claire, Wis., has bought from William Griffiin,
of Troy, N. Y¥., about 42,000,000 feet of pine
standing upon land on the Little Elk and on
the west fork of the Chippewa. The price was
$120,000.

Tue Albany correspondent of the Lumberman’s
Gazette says :—Spruce and hemlock. from the
Champlain canal have been received in good
quantities, and the market has now a large stock
all kinds, which will be keep up from continuous
arrivals from the mills now well supplied with
water,

(aE RSE Ane near a ee

Tuk Ottawa Free Press says :—Although Mr.
Poupore has been appointed to the Crown tim-
ber agency at this city by the Dominion Govern-
ment, he cannot act for Ontario or Quebec till
the governments of those provinces formally en-
able him to do so, The Quebec Ministry will,
of course, be agreeable, Mr, Chapleau having
some time ago accepted the nomination of Mr.
Poupore. Ontario remains to be heard from,
but we are told that no difticulty is anticipated
from that quarter,

AN Ontario merchant who has been on a visit! Tux single cork oak tree at Tallahassee, ¥ila., | another spirit prevades our legislation. If the
was diemantled by a recent storm, It was 30 y

to the Northwest, in a description of the neigh-

hood of Edmonton says :—‘‘ There is no pine,
but the Norway spruce grows to alarge size and
makes good lumber.

to two feet in thickness.”

Messrs. Campbell, Campbell & McKenzie,
of Lachute, P. Q., are putting up a new steam
saw mill to cut 8,000,000 feet of lumber per an-
num. The foundations are built, and the tim-
ber for the building has arrived on the spot.
The paper mills of Mr, I. C. Wilson, at the
same place, are very busy, as are also the wool-
len mills, rope factory, and other industries of
this thriving town.

AN Anoka, Minn., mill sawed a stick of tim-
ber 68 feet long 20 inches in diameter at the
base, and 13 inches at the top, ordered for the
electric mast at St. Paul. After being loaded
safely on the cars, it rolled back, and 20 feet of
the small end was broken off, demonstrating
that there is many a slip. Theentire pole is
now spliced and planted at St. Paul, and is said
said to be over 100 feet in height.

N®&ARLY a century ago, when earthenware was
coming into use, Robert Bloomfield wrote :—

‘“Trenchers for me, said I,

That look so clean upon the ledge,
And never mind a fall,

And never turn a sharp knife’s edge—
But fashion rules us all,”

The obsolute wooden trencheris now being revi-
ved in the United States. A factory in North
Carolina is said to be turning out 10,000 wooden
plates a day.

THE Winnipeg Sun has a despatch dated Rat
Portage, Oct., 2, which says:—An agent of a
Minnesota lumbering firm arrived her on Satur-
day night from Fort Francis. He reports the
discovery of fifty million feet of magnificent
pine timber on the Little Fork River. It is
probable the limits have already been secured
at St. Paul, and that operations will commence
this winter. This will prove a great advantage
to Fort Francis, and must increase its trade

immensely,
_————

THE Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich.,
says :—The fall demand for lumber having set
in, exhibits a very gratifying condition of trade
throughout the country. Prices are still main-
tained, with no apparent tendency towards a
decline, and in fact, no good reagons for a de-
cline can be given. It may be set down as an
established fact that the boom in lumber will be
continued unless a financial disaster should
overtake the country generally, of which there
is no probability.

J. B. Bassery & Co., of Minneapolis, Minn.,
have adopted a new method of handling lum-
ber, doing away with a slow process that has all
along been in vogue at the Minneapolis mills.
Lumber has been hauled from the mills on
wagons a distance of from a quarter of a mile
to a mile and a quarter, where it was piled, and
when dried, hauled a considerable distance to
the planing-mill. Bassett & Co., now drop
their lumber upon ordinary platform cars, and
these are switched over the Manitoba line to
the company’s new yards,and side-tracked to the
piling grounds, It is farther, but the expense is
less.

Tue following items are from the St. John,
N. B., Sun of Sept. 30:—A new safe from
Messrs. Goldie & McCulloch, Galt, Ont., was
placed in the Maritime Bank, yesterday after-
noon.—Messrs. R. Roberts & Co,, which
partnership includes Mr, R. Roberts and the
firm of Gunter & Co., of Indiantown, are build-
ing a shingle mill at Marble Cove for the pur-
pose of sawing cedar shingles, It is expected
to be ready in about a month, and two machines
will be put up to start with. The boiler is being
manufactured by Messrs. D. McLachlan & Sons,
Messrs. Gunter & Co, have been engaged in the
cedar shingle business for some years, but they
now find the trade going away from them, as
the cedar from Aroostook is being carried away
to the United States,

I saw sticks two feet in
diameter, and any quantity can be had from the
Beaver Hills for building purposes of from one

feet high and in a thrifty state. Some 25 years
ago thousands of cork oak acorns were sent out
by the patent office to California, for experimen-
tal purposes, Very few of them, though plant-
ed more from curiosity than otherwise, produced
There is one cork oak tree growing
vigorously at Sonora City, one or two in N, apa
valley, and they are not infrequent in the
Those that are

plants,

southern section of the state.

growing have attained considerable size and

show a fine quality of bark.
a

It would appear that American walnut was
in demand a long time ago, albeit it is to-day
regarded as one of the woods of modern fashion,
A correspondent writes us :—“Many years ago
I was sent by my employers to Titusville, Penn.,
to buy black walnut, which was required for
the making of some extensive counter tops.
The title of the tirm from which I bought was
“ Hatch & Patch,” lumber dealers. I have al-
ways remembered the title by reason of its sin-
gularity,” In those days the value of American
walnut was at a low ebb. Modern taste in
respect to woods has added enormously to its
former value, and the time may not be far
away when we may find American walnut rank-
ing in value with mahogany.

————

THE St. John Sun says:—We hear of some
extensive lumber purchases by Mr. Gibson in
the last few days. It is said he has bought all
of Mr. Murray’s logs and deals—some 25,000,000
feet—and has taken all of Mr. Hamilton’s sea-
son’s cut, probably 3 to 4 millions more, These
with his home supply and some 10 to 12 millions
which he will buy from outports, will give Mr.
Gibson probably 80 to 85 million feet for ship-
ment this fall. A large tonnage will be requir-
ed, of which sufficient for 20 to 25 million feet
has already been secured. Deals are holding
their price well in England, and freights, no
doubt, will fall. It is altogether likely that
both those who are selling at home now and the
shippers to England will do well on what will

go forward this fall.
————

LEGISLATION ON FORESTRY.

At the recent Forestry Congress at Montreal
the following paper was read by Mr. P. J. U.
Beaudry, of Beauharnois :—

Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,— Although
I could not easily resist the temptation to com-
ply with the invitation so gracefully wired me
yesterday by the worthy vice-president of this
Congress, I feel that I must beg from you a
great amount of indulgence.

Accustomed to the quiet of my little study I
am more familar with the leaves of law books
than with those of the forest kings. I feel as if
I were treading an almost foreign ground where,
besides, I must speak an almost foreign lan-
guage. One thing only I can say: Have hopes,
because I am of the opinion of he who said
that any lecture should not last more than
twenty minutes, and that with a strong recom-
mendation to mercy.

The destruction of our forest trees has for
some time past been a matter of regret to the
artist and to the lover of the picturesque. It
was sad, indeed, to see the bush growing stead-
ily smaller every year, leaving the eye to wan-
der over a barren plain, and this in a country
where in Evangeline’s time

“* Stood the forest primeval,”
that bush where, in younger day, one had per-
haps broken his best pen-knife in trying to
commit to the bark of a friendly tree the name
of a sweet companion,

But this is not the worst. Tender memories
and the love for a beautiful landscape do not
occupy much of the time of a mind whose shel-
tering locks are turning grey, and then the
mind will turn to wider speculations and from
the thinning of a favorite bush will drift to the
wanton destruction of our far away forests, so
important an element in the national prosperity,
a destruction brought on either through fires
started by guilty negligence or by wilful stub-
bornness, either by the indiscriminate hacking
down of all trees within the conceded limits of
Crown lands,

Now I am happy to say that, thanks to the
unremitting efforts of a few pxtriotic minds,

movement be only continued for some years and
gone into thoroughly, the tears of many willbe
removed, :

In 1875 an act was passed authorizing the
Crown to reserve some parts of the Crown
lands which may be placed under regulated
cutting.

The last session has given us two important
statutes on the subject. We have one relating
to the saving of pine timber on lands conceded —
by the Crown and one offering a premium for _
the planting of forest trees,

Should not the legislature goa step further? —
Why not also impose regulations npon the cut-
ting on all timber limits sold by the Crown?
Surely in a matter of such importance, the sal-
ary of a few keepers would not be of great
weight,

One article in your programme points to the
utility of roadside planting—an idea which for
years I have done my best to promote, but an —
idea, which in many parts of Lower :
seems to be little understood. I remember
about our little town a row of trees which used
to line the property of a Scotch gentleman well
known there ; after his death the property went
from hands to hands until it came to a very
respectable, but not over bright farmer who cut
down all these noble trees because, forsooth,
they prevented his wife from watching the peo-
ple go by.

Now, I know well that we live under a consti-
tution claiming to leave the subject as untram-
melled as posssible, and I do not supppose that
our wise men would care to pass a statute com-
pelling every land owner to line his property :
with trees, but perhaps the honorable gentleman ry
who, yesterday, presided at the Congress, and
who has given the subject of Forestry so much
of his valuable attention, perhaps he might find
it possible to put in our municipal code some
means of encouraging roadside planting. And
I am sure that party politics would be laid aside |
if one could bring our people to make of the |
lonely country roads fine avenues of shade trees,
beneficent alike to the sweltering wayfarer and
to the poor dumb animals that I have often seen
seeking, through very instinct, the thin shades
of the rail fence when under the scorching sun
in the pasture fields,

There is also the subjabor bush fires, where
legislation might improve existiny matters. A
penalty of fifty dollas and costs orthree months
seems to be rather inadequate if you bear in
mind that some times such accidents as lighting
a little fire in the bush have caused whole town-
ships to be swept over by the fiery waVe, which
even threatened some of our cities,

Here would you allow me to leave legislati
aside for a moment.

With regard to clearing lands for eer
I once, long ago, read of a scientific way of des- — 7
troying stumps, which is perhaps worth study-
ing and trying. I read that if a hole were bored
in the heart of the stump—pretty deep—into
which would be poured some sulphuric acid,
carefully avoiding to burn the head of the open-
ing, if then the whole were tightly covered with
a flat headed piece of iron, the result would be
that the stump within the ground would rot
away in a short time leaving a rich manure to
be turned over by the plough,

This theory is not new—is it true? I leave it
to the experience of wiser men. But certainly
if it be practicable it would put an end to dan-
gers of bush fires from the clearing of lands.

I am done Mr. President ; I have only to add
my homble share of thanks te the Congress for
having honored our Canada with this year’s
session and to hope that it will not be labor
lost.

May we one day see our people, awakened to
a clear idea of their interest, protect their
forests—cultivate their bushes by cutting away :
the underbrush and giving air, lightandstrength
to the trees—shade roads and, not last nor least
to an artist’s eye, make a green garden of our
beautiful country,

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MONTREAL NOTES, 7

The Montreal Gazette of October 6th, says :—
A fair local demand is experienced for hard and
soft lumber, more especially for the former,
which is wanted for the American market. The
stock of ash is somewhat small compared with

that of former seasons, and some of our large
dealers say they have no surplus to spare Ameri-
can buyers who ate looking around for it. A
large export trade continues in lumber for
South America and in deals for the United
Kingdom, The shipments of both lumber and
and deals will be heavy at the end of the sea-
son, and will largely exceed those of the previous
year. Freights to U. K. ports are quoted at
70s. for deal, and to River Platte $16 to $17, but
at the moment there are no sailing vessels offer-
ing. Prices remain unchanged.

rT
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SPRUCE IN ENGLAND.

TuE Timber Trades Journal says :—Informa-
tion which has been handed us this week,
certainly leads us to the conclusion that spruce
deals, and some other Canadian woods, may
reach a still further advanced price. In the
matter of spruce deals in particular a number
of circumstances point to an increase in their

market value. It is thought that even in the
event of some considerable arrivals coming into
the great west wood ports during the next few
weeks the demand will be equal to anything
short of an excessive supply. But it is not pro-
bable that an excessive supply will come to
hand ; and should it happen that the anticipa-
tion of those who look forward to only a limited
supply being received be fulfilled, we may see
spruce deals this side of Christmas realize very
high figures. Of course the higher market value
of spruce will, under any circumstances, be
limited, by reason of the competition which
will soon oceur from the eastern ports, where
stocks of whitewood are said to be heavy. Al-
ready, however, it is reported to us that the
effect of the higher prices and limited stocks of
spruce on the west coast, is being experienced on
the east coast, where the markets for white-
wood generally are firmer, and it may be that
to some extent the other whitewood markets will
follow the direction taken by the spruce markets.
Whatever may be the ultimate issue, we fail to
find at the present moment any existent signs
of weakness in the market for spruce, while
there unquestionably are many circumstances
which wouldlead us tosuppose that the increased
yalues have not yet attained their full limit.

——SS——
MIDLAND, ONT.

A correspondent of the Midland Free Press
gives the following items :—

Tue B. C. L. & T. Co.’s general superintend-
ent expects to move into his new house on the
1st of November.

Tur Company’s Jarge house on the hill is
occupied on one side as a boarding house by Mr.
Secord, which is being fast filled up with a nice
lot of lady and gentlemen boarders. The south
side is occupied by Mr. Benson. the manager at
Midland.

Messrs. Cuew & Weexs have a large con-
tract to saw cedar shingles for the Company,
and McLeod & Cameron are also busy cutting
lumber, ties, and shingles for the same firm.

Tre B. C. L. & T. Co. have given instruc-
tions to their mechanical superintendent, Mr.
Thompson, to erect a burner at the new mill,
for cremating slabs, and also a gang in the same
mill, as well as another circular saw at the old
mill. ‘Onward we march.”

AND again is not that indefatigable John
Dollar to enlarge his mill the coming winter.
Carpenters, get your tools sharpened, for it is
further said that Chew Bros. are contemplating
an enlargement and a cedar mill for the B. C,
L. & T. Co. is also on the bill of fare.

Tue B. C. L. & T. Co. are shipping large
quantities of ties to American markets, and
cedar framing posts to Toronto.

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FLAMING REDWOOD.

A recent account of a forest fire in the vicinity
of Redwood, Cal., stated as follows: The fire
in the mountains is still burning, and extends
about 10 miles from north to south, and is three
miles wide. Saturday night, in one hour, be-
tween 9 and 10 o’clock, it ran more than three
miles, and Sunday night it travelled north about
the same distance. At the back of Dr. R. O.
Tripp's, at Woodside, it ran with the roar of an
angry ocean. If the wind changes, and it drives
to Bear Gulf mill, it will not cease until we have
rain, The principal loss isin cord wood, The

{THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

side of the mountain looks as if covered with
snow, from the white ashes left after the fire.
The bridges are all burned on the Summit
Springs toll road, and teaming has entirely
ceased. Those who were fighting the fire on
Sunday tell marvélous’stories of the flight of
game of all kinds, and the freedom with which
the wildest animals would approach human
being in their frenzy. Deer, hare, squirrels,
and birds of all kinds, and even larger and
more vicious objects, were seen flying in all dir-

ections.—Worthwestern Lumberman,
— aaniaannil

A Prospective Lumber Point,

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—East
Grand Forks, Minn., is a town that is perform-
ing the mushroom act on a high and dry location
across the river from the flourishing city of
Grand Forks proper. It is situated near the
mouth of Red Lake river, and though making a
mushroom growth, it is likely to become some-
thing more substantial than that French luxury.
Besides having the prospect of being a great
agricultural and trade centre, Hast Grand Forks
will be the lumber manufacturing and distribut-
ing point for the billions of feet of Red Lake
pine. It has the natural advantages of boom
sites and milling privileges, and there seems to
be no reason why Red Lake river will not be-
come another Muskegon or Chippewa. Lum-
bermen looking out for a future stake can stick
a pin at East Grand Forks if they want to, and
not stick it amiss.

Kiln Dried Lumber.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—There
are still several concerns that object to kiln
dried lumber. One of the largest wagon manu-
facturers in the country will use nothing but air
dried stock, claiming that kiln drying destroys
the life of the wood. This whim, if such it is, is
costly, as any piece of timber required for use
in the manufacture of a wagon can be thorough-
ly dried in a kiln in thirty days, while in the
air, according to an accepted rule, the axles for
a heavy wagon should be piled four years.
The fact that the interest on a heavy stock of
hardwood for that length of time would count
heavily proves that the big wagon maker thinks
his convictions well founded, and furthermore,
that he considers his reputation worth some-

thing.

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Wood-working Engineers.

The wood-working machinery for which such
firms as Wilson & Sons, of Victoria Road, Leeds,
and Joseph Green & Nephew, Globe Ironworks,
Crown Point Road, Hunslet, are eminent, is
finding greatly improved markets, both at home
and abroad. In connection with building oper-
ations, in both France and Holland, some large
shipments have been made. J. Green & Nep-
hew have recently patented a hand-power ten-
oniting machine, which cuts the tongue and
both shoulders at one operation with the great-
est ease. This is believed to be the only suc-
cessful hand-power machine which has yet been
invented for that purpose. It is self-feeding,
and will cut a tenon of 11 in. lock rail complete
in a minute and a half.—Ironmonger.

— SS Oe

Tuer firm of JJ. & 8S. McKachen, Douglas,
writes us June lst, saying ‘“There is not another
preparation we can recommend with so much
confidence as Burdock Blood Bitters, as it in-
invariably gives the best of satisfaction.” Bur-
dock Blood Bitters cures all diseases of Blood
Liver and Kidneys.

Brtiousness.—A furred tongue, bad taste in
the mouth, nausea vometing, nariable appetite,
alternate diarrhcea and costiveness, faintness,
weariness, yellow cast of eyes and countenance,
indicates serious biliary trouble. Jaundice is a
dangerous disease, it is an overflow of bad bile
in the circulation, any of these symptoms should
be remedied without delay, and Burdock Blood
Bitters is the remedy upon which you may
surely rely.

MACHINERY FOR SALE.

The Engine Boilers and all the Machin-
ery in an Extensive Sash, Door and
Furniture Factory for Sale, separately or in
bulk. Catalogue on application to

T. W. CURRIER,
Canal Basin, Ottawa

2118

511

CURRIE BOILER WORKS

ESTABLISHED 1852

MANUFAC

TURERS OF

STHAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery

on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

lily

A Syndicate of Limit Holders

Represented by the Undersigned, offers

FOR SALE
Qn the Upper Ottawa,

600 Square Miles Virgin Forest of Pine,

comprising 13 Licenses, nearly all Front

Limits, on the main stream of the River
Ottawa itself, on reasonable terms.

The Proprietors will sell either the whole, or, if
preferred, a part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
ward towards Manitoba, the establishment of steain-
boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this property,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving the lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only half the distance away, but forced
to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
the large volume of the ‘‘Grand” River itself to float
it to market.

Full particulars will be promptly sent on
application to

E. J. CHARLTON,

QUEBEC, P. O.

AUCTION SALE

OF VALUABLE

TIMBER LIMITS,

Situated on the Rivers Ottawa,
Gatineau and Jean de Terre.

The following limits, if not previously disposed of, will
be offered for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION,

At the RUSSELL HOUSE, OTTAWA,
on Thursday, Nov. 30th next,

AT TWO O'CLOCK P.M.

1716

Miles.

River Gatineau,—License Number 176 for 1881-2—46}
do do 177 do £0
do do 178 do 50
do do 179 do 60
do do 180 do 50
do do 181 do 60

do and Ottawa do 182 do 283
do and Jean de Terre 183 do 48
do do 184 do 46
do do 185 do 42
do do 186 do 50
do do 187 do 50
do do 188 do 18

do do 189 do 46 9-10
do do 190 do 50
do do 191 do 50
do do 192 do 50
do do 193 do 314
do do 194 do 50

do do 195- do 39 6-10
do do 196 do 21
do do 197 do 60

Terms and conditions made known at time of Sale.
Further information can be obtained by application to
R. C. W. MacCuaig, Auctioneer, or Crown Timber
Offices, Ottawa.

R. C, W. MacCUAIG,

Auctioneer and Real Estate Agent,

58 Sparks Street.
Ottawa, 1st September, 1882, 4119

J. & F. N. TENNANT

| Dealers in all kinds of

Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Office, Union Loan Building,
‘Toronto Street, Toronto.

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THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS.

The Quebec Chronicle says:—The October

number of the North American Review is a very
readable issue, It shows by its table of con-
tents that the editor, Mr. Thorndike Rice, has
still faith in his generous policy of devoting the
best part of his space to the discussion of timely
topics. Among the large number of really clever
articles, the reader will naturally turn with
much interest, to Prof. Charles S. Sargeant’s
useful and practical paper on the protection of
the forests,—a subject which, of late, has been
paramountly brought before the attention of the
public, in all parts of this Western Continent.
Mr. Sargeant deals with his theme in a very
direct and comprehensive manner, and adds
very materially to the literature of Tree Plant-
ing and Forest Conservation. He takes a
national view of his subject, and argues with
great breadth and knowledge. In outline he
sketches the distribution of the forests of the
American continent, referring by the way, of
course, to those of the Dominion of Canada.
He points out where they exist, and what their
capacity is, and what recuperative energies they
possess. He indicates what these wonderful
groves were, and what they have become, and
alludes to their final extirpation as an almost
necessary consequence of the people’s indifference
as to their preservation. Men used to say that
the forests produced the rain, and some very
ingenious reasoning has been based on that as-
sumption by quasi-scientific people, but Prof,
Sargent destroys the illusion completely and
shows that, on the contrary, the rain produces
the forests, thus reversing the phrase. The
error,—a vulgar one, it must be admitted,—
arose naturally enough from the fact that where
there is rain there are trees, and by a peculiar
process of reasoning some men reached the con-
clusion that the trees were the cause rather
than the consequence of the rainfall. Prof,
Sagent is quite philosophic over this part of his
subject. He makes an interesting point here
where he says :—‘‘ It is not improbable, in the
light of recent scientific investigations, that
even so recently as the time when some of the
immediate ancestors of the trees which form
the forests were growing, the whole interior re-
sion, now believed to be gradually drying up,
enjoyed a more abundant rainfall than it now
receives, and that these forests thus originally
grew under more favourable conditions than at
present. If this hypothesis is correct, it will
be easy to understand why, under less favorable
circumstances their reproduction will be diffi-
cult. The interior forests at the north may be
expected, however, thanks to the present rain-
fall of that part of the country, to reproduce
themselves slowly ; but so slowly must this pro-
cess go on, that, judging from the age of existing
trees, many hundred years will have passed, if the
forests are destroyed, before their successors can
attain sufficient size to be of economic impor-
tance. Through all the southern part of the
interior region the struggle for life has been so
severe that the stunted groups of tree, which
barely deserve the name of forests, have only
succeeded in finding a foothold in the high can-
ons about the heads of the scanty streams, The
age of some of these small trees is immense ;
few young trees are growing up to replace those
which perish in the course of nature ; and once
destroyed, the reproduction of these forests is
so doubtful, or must at least be so slow, that the
possibility of it, even, need not be considered in
any practical discusssion of the question,”

Prof. Sargent next proceeds to find a remedy
for the wholesale destruction of the forests of
the continent. He regards the forest fires, the
browsing and ranging cattle, the reckless lum-
berman as the prime enemies of tree life and
tree culture, He advises the enactment of more
efficient laws against roaming cattle and against
fires, by the several States of the Union, the
matter being, in his opinion, clearly one in
which the State, and not the Federal Legisla-
ture should act. He thinks that so far as the
woods of the Atlantic region are concerned, the
time for government action has passed away.
The Government domain in Eastern America
has either passed or is passing so speedily into
private hands, that Government has practically
no forest left in the Atlantic region to protect,
Forest protection in this region, the writer
thinks, should be sought from the State, and

not from the general Government. In the
Pacifle region, however, where a different con-
dition of things exists, different action is sug-
gested. We may quote here Prof. Sargent’s
words. Hesays: ‘‘ The general Government
still controls immense areas of forest stretching
over the mountain ranges of the Pacific region,
and here, if anywhere, the experiment of Gov-
ernment protection of the forest can be tried.
On the coast the climatic conditions will always
ensure forest growth, and if the Government
undertakes to preserve any portion of the coast

forest it should do so only because it will seem a

profitable business transaction to withdraw from

s . . .
immediate sale land which promises soon,

with alarger demand for timber, to increase en-
ormously in value ; but it is in the interior region
that the Government can perhaps enter with
more propriety upon forest preservation, as the
forests of the interior cannot long survive the
wasteful and shortsighted methods of individual
management. These interior forests either do
not, under existing conditions, readily repro-
duce themselves, or do not when once removed,
grow at all again.”

The American forests yield every year about
$450,000,000 worth of raw material, and furn-

ishes employment directly and indirectly to

upwards of a million pairs of hands, and the
maximum productive capacity is not nearly yet
reached. Prof, Sargent asks for a healthy pub-
lic opinion, and seems to rely on it for the con-

servation of the trees, rather than on other

means,
paper :—

He thus concludes his admirable

** Looking, then, over the whole field, it is

seen that the forests of the country, with a sin-
gle important exception, are still capable of
large production,
grave fears should be felt for their future extent
and composition ; that in all the Hastern and
Central States regulation is required to protect
the forest from fire and indiscriminate pastur-
age, and that in the interior Pacific region ex-
periments in forest production could, perhaps,
be wisely undertaken, unless this region is to be
entirely stripped of its forests. All productive
legislation, however, will fail to accomplish the
results expected from it, unless backed by pop-
ular belief in the value of the forest. Such
belief will come only with a better understand-
ing of the importance of the subject ; and the
American people must learn several economic
lessons before the future of their forests can be
considered secure. They must learn that a
forest, whatever its extent and resources, can be
exhausted in a surprisingly short space of time
through total disregard in its treatment of the
simplest laws of nature ; that browsing animals
and fires render the reproduction of the forest
impossible ; that the forest is essential to the
protection of rivers ; that it does not influence
rain-fall, and that it is useless to plant trees be-
yond the region where trees are produced
naturally. When these lessons shall have been
learned, forest protection in the United States
will be possible and can be made effectual,”

THE SPANISH RIVER.

The Alpena Argus says :—Last November the
Northwestern Lumberman had considerable to
say in regard to a tract of land situated on the
Spanish River, Ont., and owned by Messrs,
Fletcher Pack & Co., W. H. Potter and W. H,
Johnson, of this city, and that sheet carried the
idea that these gentlemen were sick of their
bargain in purchasing the lands, and were anx-
ious to sell to other parties, It now turns out
that the ‘‘elephant ” was a regular ‘‘ Jumbo,”
and we understand that Messrs. Potter and
Johnson have sold their two-thirds interest in
these Spanish River pine lands to Wood, Pack
& Co., for the snug little sum of $90,000;
Fletcher, Pack & Co., not wishing to sell, still
own their one-third. Those parties who consid-
er the Spanish River pine lands such an “ ele-
phat” on the hands of the owners, may now
have a short season, for reflection.

QUEBEC FORESTRY ASSOCIATION.
The Montreal Sta of Saturday, Sept. 30th
says :—Another meeting to further the promot-
ion of a Forestry Association for this Province
was held this morning under the presidency of
the Hon, Mr, Joly, Thore was a good attend-

It is evident, however, that

ance, among them present being Messrs. J. K,
Ward, J. A. U. Baudry, Barnard, Adams, H.
Lyman, Perrault, Drs, Alloway. Howard and
Hart, and others. Mr. Stewart Thane acted as
secretary, After a few introductory remaks
from the chairman, a letter was read from the
Hon, W. W. Lynch, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Quebec, in which he said: ‘‘ My duties
here will prevent me from being in Montreal to
morrow. I can only repeat the assurance I
gave the other night that the movement for the
organization of a Forestry Association has my
hearty approval and I will gladly co-operate in
any way I can to ensure its success.

I find, on referring to the Act of last session
respecting the encouragement of tree planting,
that it comes into operation only on proclama-
tion of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. I
am to-day taking the necessary steps to have
such proclamation issued. I wish the gentlemen
who meet to-morrow would kindly give me their
idea as to the best day for ‘‘ Arbor Day ” under
that Act.”

The report of the committee appointed at the
general meetmg was read, and the various
clauses discussed seriatim. On clause 1, refer-
ring to the Association’s title, Dr. Alloway ob-
jected to the name of the Province of Quebec
only being given. Why was the name of Can-
ada kept continually in the background? Were
they ashamed of it? Many people did not
known where Quebec was, Wht they did
know Canada,

Dr. Alloway’s objection was met by deciding
to call it the Association of the Province of
Quebec, Canada,

Several clauses were discussed and agreed to.
One, allowing the officers and delegates of the
American Forestry Association to be ipso facto
members of the Forestry Association of the Pro-

vince of Quebec, Canada, was passed on the

motion of Mr. Barnard, seceonded by Mr,
Baylis.

Clauses 6,7 and 8 were amended, providing

for the management of the society as follows:
‘“That there should be one president, two vice-
presidents, two secretaries, treasurer, a council
of sixteen, and a general committee.”

The meeting then proceeded to the election of
officers for the ensuing year, with the following

results :—

Honorary President, Mr. James Little,

President, Hon, Mr. Joly.

Vice-Presidents, Messrs, J. K. Ward and
Massue.

Recording Secretary, Mr. Jos. Perrault.

Corresponding-Secretary, Mr. E, Barnard.

Treasurer, Mr. G. L. Marler.

Councit :—For Montreal—Messrs. W. Little,
Henry Lyman, Henry Evans, Dr. Henry How-
ard, Hon. Louis Beaubien, Messrs. J. A. U.
Baudry and Wm. Robb.

For Quebec—Messrs. Louis Bilodieux, Col.
Rhodes, S. Lesage, A. Blondin,—Becancour, A,
Dupuis (St. Rochs.)

Abbotsford—Mr. Thos. Gibb.

Longueuil—Mr. J. M. Browning.

Chateauguay—Mr. R. Jack.

Three River—J. B. Normand.

A long discussion then took place respecting

the suggestion about “‘ Arbor Day” in Mr,
Lynch’s letter, and some differences of opinion
were expressed as to when was the most appro-
priate time. Dr. Howard said he thought
when the day was appointed it should be kept a
general school holiday, so that the importance
of tree culture would be impressed upon the
minds of the scholars. Eventually it was de-
cided to inform Mr. Lynch that in its present
position the Association did not feel itself quite
prepared to fix upon a special day.
After other business the meeting separated.

FORESTS AND STEEL.

The following paper on ‘Canada’s Forests
and her future as a steel producer,” was read at
the recent Forestry Congress at Montreal by
Mr, E. Haycock, president of the Ottawa Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Co, :—

Mr. CuarrMan,—In this paper, on the future
of Canada with reference to her wooded lands,
I have found it necessary, for the purpose of
elucidation, to bring before your Congress two
principal facters in that future, factors intim-
ately connected one with the other, namely,
wood for charcoal making and iron ores, for, in

to approach our Dominion Legislature urging

the manufacture of high grade iron the charcoal
fuel will be used, in fact, so far as our present —
knowledge of such manufacture, cannot be dis-
pensed with.

The present age is one, well termed the “Steel
Age,” in which steel is used in the construction
of a large portion of articles formerly made
from uncarbonised iron. This extensive em-
ployment of steel is probably only in its infancy,
and will in all likelihood be vastly extended.

This question in the present meeting of your —
Congress is, therefore, to the point.

In the manufacture of this steel for the future,
wood charcoal is a necessity, where is it to be
found? And what steps can be taken to protect
the supply from destruction ? “a

Here it is that the heading of this paper
“The future of Canada as a steel producer”
comes fairly before the Congress, and I ye '
to assert that Canada will be the great future —
field from which the largest portion of the
world will have to draw their supply of stee
and steel making irons,

The Dominion has been called a “wooden
country,” we Canadians are proud to accept the
term, and are prepared to show that in the
practical sense, our Dominion is a well wooded
country, our forests extending thoughout in vast
extent, and when we see that this forest is in-
timately connected through the Laurentian
rocks with the richest and purest class of iron
ores, we may well feel proud of these facts,
which place our Dominion before your Congress
as an extensive future supplier of charcoal, and
charcoal made irons, 4

For instance among others, take the Valley
of the grand Ottawa River, and those of its
tributaries, the forest may be counted in square
miles by hundreds of thousands. This forest
partially consists of pine timber, much of it in
the hands of lumbering firms, who in their large
undertakings add to the wealth of the country,
and are much to be commended for so doing.
Although this wealth is large, that in the
future which may be acquired through Canada’s
forests in connection with her iron ores, will
fully equal, if not exceed it; as in connection
with these timber lands, and in vast independ- —
ent tracts are forests of the finest maple, beech,
birch and other hard woods of the greatest
value to the Dominion for the production of
charcoal, and if, as is the case, in many portions,
iron ore is found on the same lands, it is easily
understood how valuable they become.

The cut from these lands will range from 20
to 80 cords of wood to the acre, say an average
of 50 cords, making 40 bushels of coal to the
cord, thus 4 cords of wood will make 1 ton of
iron, or 12 tons to the acre, shewing its value, ~-
and importance to the country,

If proper care and supervison is given to see
that the young wood is allowed to grow, the
supply of wood for fuel in the Dominion is
practically inexhaustible and fully establishes
the fact of a great future.

Wood chareoal, to become valuable, has to be
within a reasonable distance from the ore it is
required tosmelt. I wish to draw a comparison
between Canada with her forests and ores, and
other countries which carry ore, drawing first
attention to the fact that all other countries
available are running short of their supply of
charcoal fuel.

Spain, Algeria, and the Mediterraneanislands —
with their rich ore have no wood. England
ditto, Norway nearly so. Sweden, the present
great steel producing region, is rapidly approach-
ing the same position. Germany: and France _
ditto. The United States with their vast con-
sumption, and rapid increase of charcoal blast
furnaces, will hardly be able to keep up their
supply many years. Russia’s freight andinter- __
nal dissensions kill the possibility of a supply
being drawn from her. Where then can the
coming ‘‘ Steel Age” derive their supply from?
Unless from Canada with her extensive wood
lands and rich ore beds.

I have not in this paper touched upen the —
large amount of wood for charcoal making that
is available from the waste of our extensive saw
mills, nor do I take up your time in showing
the waste made in clearing up land for settle-
ment, these are points that can be made avail-
able and improved upon, After reaping the fruits
of this meeting of your Congress, we will have

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measures that will prevent waste, and lead to
encouragement of that industry which, with our
good natural advantages, will make Canada the
first steel producer in the world.

Mr. Chairman I close by expressing gratifica-
tion in viewing this friendly visit of your im-
_ portant Congress, and a hope that your meeting
among us will produce results in the protection
of our wealth-giving forests, and increased cor-
diality among those who have the interests of
our respective countries at heart.

GUM PLATES.

S. H. Gray’s wooden plate factory at New-
bern, N. C., has been in operation about three
years, and employs 100 hands. The wood used
is sweet gum, and the process of manufacture is
thus described by the Newbern journal: The
logs are cut about four feet long and are thrown
into a vat and go through the cooking process,
The bark is next taken off and the logs go to
the veneer machine, which is regulated by gear
to cufeto any width desired. The machine cuts
the logs as it revolves, until it becomes perfectly
round, and then it is peeled of in sheets, carried
to the cutter, which cuts them the right length.
They then go through the drying process. For
this purpose there is about 2,000 feet of heating
surface, and the square sheet of wood is placed
between the steam pipes to dry ; after drying
they are taken to the second floor to the presses,
of whice there are about 100 kept heated to a
certain degree by steam pipes. <A half dozen of
the sheets of wood are put in each press and a
weight swung to the lever, which gradually
presses them to the proper shape; here they re-
main until perfectly dry ; then, by pulling a
lever they are cut perfectly round and in nice
shape. When taken from the press they are
sent to the packing room, where a number of
boys are engaged in counting and assorting, 150
being put in each package. They are then
ready for shipment. A 75-horse power engine
is used at present, and the average turned out
per day is about 50,000. A 120-horse power
engine is to be added soon, and then the average
turned out per day will probably reach 100,000.
One of the latest improvements to the factory
is the pressing of the plates by hydraulic pres-
sure, worked by an accumulator. With a suffi
cient number of these machines, two boys will
be able to do the work of six hands,—WNorth-
western Lumberman.

NORWAY.

The Christiania correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal of Sept. 16 says :—Spruce hav-
ing gone up in value, it seemed quite natural to
expect that Norway whitewood flooring boards
would again find fayour in the Liverpool dis-
trict at fair prices. I have, therefore, been
surprised to learn that no more than £3 15s. c. i.
f, Liverpool for 1sts could be obtained this week,
which with present rates of freight and insur-
ance increasing, would not cover first cost of
battens (at prices for which they can be had
now), together with planing and shipping ex-
penses. Besides, the above rate does not com-
pare reasonably with the price of spruce battens
recently quoted in your columns, and if some
shippers have nevertheless accepted orders for
Liverpool on the basis of £8 15. ¢.i.f., which I
believe to be the case, it may, perhaps, be
accounted for by this, that what they have
been shipping to Australia has been principally
redwood, leaving them with a good deal of
whitewood in stock.

A Well “‘Cured” Editor,

At. No. 80 King Street, East Toronto, Ont,
are the editorial rooms of the Sunday School
Manual, edited by Mr. Withrow, of 240 Jarvis
street, in the same city, Cunversing recently
with several gentlemen,—one of them the re-
presentative of the largest advertisers in the
world,—Mr. Withrow remarked ; ‘ As to
advertising, I consider St. Jacobs Oil the best
advertised article by far. It is a splendid
remedy too, Besides the many cases
of rheumatism it has cured right amongst
us, it has rendered me most efficient service in
curing @ severe soreness of the chest and an
obstinate headache. It does its work satia-
factorily.”

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 313

age and his wife 31 years old, living at Bear
lake, Mich., last winter cut 27,000 feet of maple
logs. The wife weighs 310 pounds and wields
the axe and handspike better than a man.

Tu Bay City, Mich., saw-mills are forbidden
to blow their whistles by city ordinance, while
those in West Bay City are privileged to blow
their smoke stacks down if they want to, It is
aside blow at Bay City that makes the latter
mad,

ENGRAVERS complain about the scarcity of
good boxwood, which they say is difficult to ob-
tain. The box forests of Turkey, upon which
consumers depend for the bulk of the supplies,
are being wastefully cut, and few new trees are
planted,

THe Hamilton & Merryman Company has
cleared out about 20 miles of Pike river, in the
Menominee district, Mich., and built four dams
during the past summer. The company has
had crews at work on the blown down pine all
summer, and is now running the logs out.

Tur Mackinac Lumber Company at St. Ig-
nace, Mich., will saw some 30,000 feet of birch
and maple logs into timber for logging sleds,
and other uses in the woods. The company has
started 2 camps on the pine, 35 miles from the
mill, and camp three is about ready to be start-
ed.

THE Quebec Chronicle says the timber market
has’ been quiet all week, but some large trans-
actions are reported at price which have not
transpired. We hear that manufacturers of
square timber are stiff, and demanding rather
higher rates, owing to the great difficulty in ob-
taining men for the coming winter, and the
great advance in wages.

RECENTLY Fanning & Morrison, of Jackson-
ville, Ill., had cut on the Illinois river bottom a
walnut tree measuring seven feet in diameter
at the butt. The trunk measured 48 feet in
length, and was without a limb, knot, shake or
rot. It made four logs 12 feet long, the diam-
eter at the small ends being 51, 45, 41 and 38
inches respectively, measuring nearly 5,000
feet.

The Alpena Pioneer says :—We learn that the
Canada pine lands purchased by our citizens 2
or 3 years ago has come into the market and is
now selling for four times what the purchasers
gave forit. That is the right kind of an ‘‘ele-
phant ” for one to have on his hands just at this
time. We learn that one party has just hauled
in $30,000 for what has cost him in all less than
$8,000. Who wrote those letters to Bay City ?

Tue London Timber Trades Journal says :—
By the by, what quaint-looking little crafts
they which bring over mahogany logs often are ;
the sailors dressed in their blue cotton suits,
with their sunburnt, brown complexions, the
vessel schooner rigged and rakish-looking, the
long bamboo canes or poles lashed to the bul-
warks, the bunches of bananas hung out in the
snn to ripen, the valuable little cargoes, each
and all looking thoroughly tropical, and are as
a rule, the most interesting object to be found
in the docks,

Tux Ottawa Free Press says :—The great re-
volution brought about in the business of con-
veying timber to Quebec by the construction of
railways is shown by the fact that Mr, Richard
Nagle has completed arrangements with the
Canadian Pacific railway for the transport of
all his next season’s make of timber direct from
his limits on Lake Nipissing to the Port of Que-
bec. The time has evidently arrived when the
system of rafting with its dangers, risks and
delays will pass away forever from the Ottawa
River. .

-The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says
that the Pentriss Lumber Company, of Alpena,
Mich., has purchased of Ross & Co., a Canda-
dian firm, the stumpage on certain timber limits
along the line of the Detroit, Mackinac & Mar-
quette road, from which part of the timber has
been removed. Ross & Co. make a speciality
of getting out square timber for the export
trade, selecting only trees of certain large sizes
and lengths ; thus leaving a large amount stand-
ing that is valuable for lumber. This the pur-
chasing company will utilize, and logging crews
will be started at once,

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TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Oot. 9.—Lumber is now moving briskly, al-
‘though not by any means rushing. I find on
‘enquiry at the different yards and factories,
‘that there is a full supply on hand for all pre-
‘sent demands, and the deficiency existing at all is
in bill timber, the supply of which is not equal
to the wants of customers, so much so indeed, is
‘this want felt, that considerable quantities of
‘that much abused wood, hemlock, is now meet-
ing with ready sale, and I confidently venture
‘the asssertion that the day is not far distant
»when it will be generally used for all rough pur-
jposes, and there is no question but that for
‘strength and durability, and where not exposed
ito damp, it is far preferable to white pine, and
tthe prejudice entertained against this kind of
wood has arisen mainly on account of the dis-
like entertained by the workmen to handle it,
and because lathers in their haste to put on a
certain number of yards per day, break more
mails in doing so,

All the vessels arriving at our docks for lum-
ber find no difficulty in obtaining cargoes, of
course many of the vessels trading from this
port in the early part of the season have gone
off and found more profitable freights in the
shape of grain, so that it enabled those remain-
ing in the trade to demand better figures, which
‘they are now getting, viz., $1.25 per M., to
‘Oswego, and the chances are that still higher
freights will be demanded before long, so that
‘unless American buyers can succeed in breaking
jprices, they will have to pay more for their
ypurchases delivered in Oswego, than it would
‘have cost them one month ago, and I still main-
wtain that in view of the increased cost of pro-
‘duction for our next season’s supply they will not
‘succeed in pulling prices down this fall. I
thimk I am safe in stating that 100,000,000 feet
would cover all the lumber north of this city in-
tended for shipment to the Eastern markets,
and I think it will be conceded that after de-
ducting any contracts to deliver, now made,
and doubtless there are some, it will not leave
any serious quantity to winter over, and have
ready for the spring trade, the facts are that the
extimated cut presumed upon in the early
spring, will fall short at most of the mills, un-
foreseen accidents such as mills being burnt,
boilers exploding, etc., all combine to reduce the
expected cut for the season. Quotations from
the yards are unchanged.

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling.................. “ae 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths. . 12 00
BLOCK Sinieleleiatyis eieleieis\e aos afeperalaloiereie'elhie 14 00

14 00

Scantling and joist, up to 16 ft..... dalesen interaite
“ec “e ee 18 ft

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‘Cutting up planks OV stetueteislatatelsinieteia/eis icicle sje 22 50
OMNES fs aiiciereutniaterevatelbisye-b sighaysteis 20 00
Sound dressing stocks. ........ssecsececceateees 18 00
Picks\Am. inspection...... .seseve ++ 27 00@30 00
‘Three uppers, Am. inspection........... 35 00@40 00
1y- ‘inch flooring, ANGSSCM aiejuwiniste veieisaieteiae! wes cite 82 00
ul POUB Ac iraausers’s beva.w's isieletereinelaciere 16 00
14“ SOP URESRE rer atatelcre isleipicl shelve eters ire G 26 00
x aes STATA TITIONONSEC creel vidieletwuaiiercawelelcts 16 00
eeSE ae WYCSHE or eainwien siete gasgbes36 23 00
Tg OS ce RINGYOSHER slnieiet cys frets/ernsinvgereatet 17 00
Beaded Sheeting, dressed..............46 voce 2250
peer oardings. GYESSER |, crwiessiur see'vislae,t Galensige 14 00
Sawn shingles, BM.wseccecscerseveucves 8 00
XX sawn shingles........... Hodhgaeneo gOS seu5 2 00
SWCD MLAEAUIR Glo vieisiaycipioleje iatesbstin/6\ Bye a(ereyeinies eae Giarhins« sini 2 26
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MONTREAL,

From our own Correspondent.

Oot. 9.—Business still keeps good, the de-
mand being very firm. Prices are firm and for
the most part unchanged. 2nd _ shingles are
dearer and we advance the quotation. The
quantity of lumber coming to the city is a little
larger than it was a few weeks ago, arising from
the fact that merchants are begining to fill up
their yards for the winter. Lumber merchants,
coal merchants, cordwood men and forwarders,
haye, during the past year or two, been very
much cramped for accommodation at the canal,
-so much so, that a vessels has frequently been

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

QUEBEC.

Oct. 7.—The market has been fairly brisk this
week, and we understand that the sale of sever-
al rafts of Ottawa timber has taken place, re-
ducing the number of white pine rafts to about
24 or 25, Three rafts, averaging about 57 feet,
with waney board, 18} inch, were placed at 29c.
and red pine at 16 cents. <A choice raft of 51
feet, with waney board, 194 inch, at 30c. Also,
some drams of St. Lawrence waney, at 34c. to
35e.

Oak and other hardwoods are in fair demand.

We hear, that, owing to the scarcity of men
and the high wages asked, # considerable falling
off in the manufacture of timber is likely to
take place,

obliged to discharge her cargo in four or five
different places. At last session of Parliament
a sum was placed in the estimates for the pur-
pose of building two new basins in the canal,
the plans for which are now about complete,
and it is the intention of the Minister to adver-
tise for tenders and push on the work with as
little delay as possible.

The heavy American contracts for lumber en-
tered into in the spring are now about complet-
ed. There have been a number of enquiries lately
from the United States for ash lumber, but as
the supply here is not heavier than will meet
the local demand, holders are not anxious to
part with that class of lumber. We quote
yard prices as follows :—

Pine, sth QUBMIDY ASTON cles siclsesivin te oreisssie’ $35 00@40 00 eS ae ae
Pine, 2n Ae BOL isisialigis'sl.s\vi0 ves sieeve 22 00@24 00
Pine, shippin calla OM... iiibekeds 14 00@16 00 ALBANY.
Pine, 4th quality deals, YM ..... ...... 11 00@12 00 Quotations at the yards are as follows :-—
Pine, mill culls, @M........66+ ... 10 00@12 00 Pine, clear, # M $57 00@64 00
PI ne ae von Oe aes OO Wine Mansfligiey. ts ceva . 67 00@59 00
emlock, @ Mi, ccc cenese case .. 9 00@10 00 Pitiesdalactn 62 00@54 00
Ash, run ‘of log culls out, eM .. 20 00@25 00 Dis, good Sa ea Per Oe G8 Te an? 22 00@35 00
“ 1p DOOR DOK s cces se ccrcscsewereacsssece
Oak’ # M OM ‘ae rh mon KA Pine, 10-in. plank, each... .... »e....- 00 42@00 45
Birch Ot te ia a * 90 00@25 00 Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each Wis siulae boede 00 22@00 25
Hard Ma le, 4 M 05 00@30 00 Pine boards, 10-in........ Pole noite ap e+++. 00 28@00 32
Gath OM ‘ 1 30@ 1 40 Pine, 10-in, boards, Chills, J cco vens- 0 ---.. 00 20@00 21
Rlinielée ist, ‘OM |. Tha te ii a a diael ory hS 8 00@ 0 00 Pine, 10-in. boards, 18 (.; OSes ee 2.2 30 00@35 00
Suivelen, ond, @ M ere 2 60@ 0 00 | Pie, 12-in. boards, 16ft............u0-+- 30 00@34 00
B sineihes eipelesescp sit cin diae Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft...........6 ++. 27 00@29 00
SHIPMENTS, Pine, 1} in, siding, Select... \cceseste v.«.. 45 00@47 00
a ne . . O Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... ...... +-. 18 00@20 00
Shipping has been going on very briskly ome Pine, 1-in. siding, select.............. «- 45 00@47 00
the date of our last report, seven vessels having | Pine, inch siding, common.... ........-. 18 00@20 00
Spruce, boards, each..........

cleared for the River Plate, one for London,
two for Liverpool and one for Grimsby, The
quantity shipped was as follows: ‘To London,
632,000 feet ; to Liverpool, 7,989 pes deals and
ends, 14,734 boards ; to Grimsby 6,131 pes deals

Spruce, plank, L-in., each
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.
Spruce, wall strips, each. .
Hemlock, boards, each .

Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each...

Hemlock, joist, 2hx4, each .
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each

and ends, and 199,980 feet of lumber ; to St. | Ash, good, @ M..............s0..- nce «+» 44 00@43 00
kK . x 9 4¢0 | Ash, second quality, @ M..........ceeees 2 00@30 00

John, N, B., 53 mille drum staves, and 2,460 Cherry, good) @ My econ he eee 0 OO@85 00
pcs puncheon staves ; to Monte Video, 3,026,645 | Cherry, common, ® M... «...--..--..... 6 OO@25 00
Oak good WM osc ncissassaduceentebi. 40 60@43 00

feet ; to Buenos Ayres, 751,880 feet. The total Oak’ second quality, @M................ 20 O6@25 00
Serene of lumber to South America since Basswood, WD Mc's citwinnsieew thetvicbon deen. 25 00@30 00
. Saye O58, #HICKOry, WAL... tec scsctas tee. fcateune 40 00@40 00

the opening of navigation to date was 17,928, Maple, ‘Canada, ea. oe 23 00@30 00
060 feet, against 10,716,180 feet for the same] Maple, American, per M........+s+++s--- 26 00~@28 00
. . Cee m6 Chadenuk, 40, «ccs cypcacacsndbeclinsbane 35 00@40 00
period of 1881 being an increase of 7,211,880 Shingles, ‘shaved, pine, @M............ 0 00@ 6 60
feet. Sid GuIRMIBY c's swcasa co chpstbue 0 00@ 5 00
CORDWOOD. “extra, saw ed, DlIR, cicsdnet emacs 0 00@ 5 00

Business is fairly active and wood is moving “ Sam og i ap ae 4 oon ; -
pretty fast. Arrivals are not by any means ‘* cedar, XXX 0 00m 4 00
h sats ted ‘that l titi “ hemlock. 0 00@ 2 50
eavy, but it is expecte at large quantities | Lath, hemlock, # M. 0 00@ 1 75
will be brought in by rail during the winter, | Lath, spruce, “ ....... 0 W@ 2 00
Lath, pine, Moy Db fin eetatah Ween oh © 00@ 2 25

Prices still tend upwards. We quote ex cars

and on the wharf, j

Long Maple $7 60 eres

tee Bete 4 B The Journal of Commerce of Oct. %, says :—
Siorem : 600] Lhe demand is very good, and rather improves
ed Beech * ne as the season advances, There is a firm tone to
Tamarack. finsisiycWieas oes We» olf So agbe aaa 5 00| the general market, and if there is any change,

it isin the direction of higher prices, Stocks
all around seem to be in a very encouraging
shape, and the prospect is for @ good steady fall
trade,

ST. JOHN, N. B,
From our own Correspondent.
Oct, 6.—The deal market here is still higher
than it was a fortnight ago, as since then most of
the stock held here has been purchased by one

CANADA PINE,

Selects, Dressed..........
Shelving, Dressed, Ista. .

firm at prices ranging from $10 to $12 per M., Geen oe 2nds.. =e
for ordinary mill specification, and sellers are | Dressed Shor) fe
asking similar prices for all stock yet remaining | Sheathing, Ist quality...........-....00. 42 00@45 00
unsold, Ra OO Rivaiins nightie vb btu 34 00@35 00
Freights are considerably weaker, owing, no
doubt, to the fact of the stock here being in the w BUFFALO.
hands of so few persons who are now in a posit- U hein pang fotien 218 tees
ion to control freights to a considerable extent. One Tah, Rens eke ae oes a 00
Freights to-day may be quoted as follows :-— Gulla. pti ivi kcgkcens te ieee eens 13 00@14 00
rope Was eate eae s Tls. c. d. ——_e—_——_
Bristol Channel ..... 70s. to 708, 8d. c.d
VOLO wcicienie cis s.c'es 71s. 3d, to 75s. ¢. d es
SHIPPING. The Northwestern Lumberman of Oct,,7, says :

The receipts of the past week have averaged
with those of the corresponding week of last
year, although 10,000,000 feet of lumber and
13,000,000 feet of shingles less than last week,

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of
freight :—

Honolulu (new), 1,400, Livepool, 70s, ¢. d,

Importer, 1,447 do, 71s. 8d. co. d. while the total receipts now exceed those to the
Cavalier, 1,089, do, 703s. c. d, same date of 1881 by 149,059,000 feet of lumber
Crown Jewel, 716, do, 71s, 8d. c. d. and 15,708,000 shingles. The cargo dock has
Vendome, (new) 1,400, do. 788, c. d. been well supplied during the week, and a

Lalia, 390, Bristol Channel, 71s, 8d. c, d,
Scioto, 855, United Kingdom,
Wolverton, 620, Bristol Channel, 71s. 3d, ¢, d.
Helen O. Phinney, 421, do, 728. 6d. o, d.
Village Belle, 625, Londonderry, a/c,
Belle Walters, 400, Carnarvon,
Anna P, Odell, 880, Avonmouth, 718, 8d, ©, d.
Blanco, 844.
Christiana, 508,

COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 187. JANUARY TO DATE.

marked indifference has been manifest on the
part of purchasers, making what is charactar-
ized by all as a dead market. With fair offer-
ings of 15 to 20 loads loads per day during the
closing days of last week, Monday brought a
fleet of 33 vesssels, of which one-half worked
off during the day. Tuesday’s offerings com-
prised 22 cargoes ; Wednesday’s 19, while on

188). 1889, Thursday but five were present. Coarse lum-

Deals. pana. stay ee. zine. Birch. | ber rated dull and lower, while good stock was

eee en ee “R.7e. “Tons. “Zonk. quickly taken. Short dimension stock receded
156,185 805 3,802 141,845 1,082 3,890 : a Sad

VEBAEIN cGRDENGReTa nae slowly, until at the time of writing $10.25 and

1881. 1882, $10.50 are the ruling prices, the latter price for

Ships. Tons. Ships, Tone. good assortments and quality, with a good pro-

25 23,642 14 ~—-10, 596. portion of long lengths aboye 18 feet, No dry

stock has been offered for some weeks and we
suspend our quotations upon such, :

Long length dimension has ranged from $11.50 _
to $13, at which they are fairly quotable, as to
to character of stock and sizes, combined with
lengths. No. 2 boards and stripe are not in
active demand at a range of $12 to $13, while
cargoes of good assorting grades rule firm and
quiet at a range of $15 to $23, while select car-
goes of No. 1 stock, with common out, or large-
ly so, brings from $23 to $28, This grade of
stock is wanted, but the large accumulations at
the yards of coarser stock disinclines purchasers
to bother with it, unless at a decided odvantage
as regards price.

Shingles have proved active and prices are
well maintained. Standards selling at $2.60
and $2.65, *A* of the less favorite packing
bring no more than the best standards. A fair
market range of *A® is from $2.65 to $2.95, the
latter price only for approved and favorite
brands. Clear shingles have not been
during the week, and those brands which are
approved under this designation are contracted
ahead to an extent whicn forbids the necessity
of coming on the market.

The present condition of the market is what
the Lumberman predicted in August, although
its coming was delayed a couple of weeks later
than anticipated. From this time to the close
of the season it is doubtful if any decided ad-
vance will be realized on coarse stock, the yards
being full up to nearly a winter stock ; still,
should the country demand improve, and the
stock now in yard be worked off satisfactorily,

there is a bare chance for later receipts to bring
an improved figure.
CARGO QUOTATIONS,
Short dimension, green...... wecsanbuen $10 25@10 50
Long dimension. .....++ «sees seeeeeees 11 50@13 00
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock cos senese 12 00@15 00
No.) stock iss s. «3 c'c0ac.s.5\sehusuneennn 15 00@22 00
No. 1 log run, culls out ......+s0eee0eee 17 00@23 00
Standard shingles.......... seeseeees ~ 20@2 6
@A®, nus catnes cue’ snseeueneee os Savane 2 G@ 295
CheSi 52 cccscvnasahveseeeanee eemsuceves 0 W@ 3 25
eee eo ciusensduccetaenee 0 00O@ 2 25
Receipts, and stock on hand, of lumber,
shingles, ete., for the week ending October, 4,
as reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange:
y RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
1BBE. wwonscuncceescides gaualiel 65,300,000 27,555,000
TBS. 0 600 canes ccanensesshesEas 66,113,000 30,123,000
FROM JANUARY 1 TO OCTOBER 4 INCLUSIVE.
IBOM, ... cconnvucsesnans’ «+++ + 1,504,197,000 659,554,009
IBS. ccc ciss cuvsucncesedenuse 1,445,138,000 643,846,000
i eee 149,059,000 15,708,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO OCT. 4.
BES sc cave ast opxmonueee «+++» 1,402,204,000 603,861,000

. 46 0CO@4S 00

36 0O@SS 00

. 20 00@25 00

14 00@17 00

12 00@15 00

.. 18 00@25 00

83 00@38 00

35 00@40 00

19 00@25 00

b coud dees abe ew hee Sncavegus +

Stri land 1 inch mill run. secceceecess 14 QO@20

BE : seeeess ees» 11 OO@14 00

1x6 se lected for clapboards......... «+... 25 00@40 00

Shing les, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... .....- 3 75@ 3 ov

XX, 18 inch, OOdAr, <<. cavanuben 3 0O@ 3 25

eh: ee See Suewes Convenes. VucaGemn 2 256@ 2 25
—__—————
TONAWANDA,

CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
Prec MMMeNBie’ aciewi ss vcduense aeveee... S43 OO@46 00
ht ae genes dicicciet = cukin celica 18 00@24 08
i, 8 Gee ery peers eahecveueseiceuewen ene 12 00@14 00

LONDON,

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 23rd
) Says : —The fall fleet of Quebec timber ships
t appesir to have had long passages out to the St.
Lawrence. Our irrepressible old friend, the
Red Jacket, was thirty-eight days between Lon-
don and Quebec, and few ships from the west
coast ports did bettter. The vessel mentioned
sailed from here July 26th and arrived out on
the 2nd of Sept., and was reported as undengo-
ing repairs and “‘ boot-topping,” in Russell’s
Dock, Levis, on the 8th, The Hovding, 1,192

tons, entered at the Custem House for loading,
on the 5th. Sheis chartered to Messrs. Bryant,
Powis & Bryant, and will doubtless clear out
for sea before the Red Jacket.

There will be a good many heavy ships from
the river and Gulf of St. Lawrence, which may
be expected to reach our shores in Oct., at
freights from 62s, 6d. to 65s, standard for deals,
and 26s. to 27s. a load for timber. 67s. 6d.
Montreal to London is the highest quotation at
present, so that freights continue easy enough for
the season from the North American ports. In
1874 they went up to 75s. and 80s., but soon
came down again, and have been near about
their present level for several seasons.

The arrival of seventy-four wood-laden vessels
since our last report permits of no anticipation
of short supplies to London, though very little
is as yet coming forward from the Canadian
side. Only two vessels in the list are from the
St. Lawrence, and these are both from Montreal
(Quebec as well, of course), and with one pitch
pine cargo from the Atlantic fleet. Most of the
other cargoes are from Northern Europe, while
the quantity of firewood is rather considerable
for a week’s supply, exceeding as it does 3,500
fathoms. Of the week’s fleet 26 only are
steamers forming in number little more than a
third of the whole, though in respect to their
cargoes we reckon they bring nearly half the
week’s import.

—___»—____.
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept, 23, says :
The advance in the prices of nearly all kinds of
wood goods appears to have checked in some de-
gree the steady rate at which the consumption
has been going on for some time past, and there
are now heard expressions of the difficulty there
is in obtaining in the country any advance cor-
responding to that now reigning here.

Consumers generally appear to be unable, or
perhaps unwilling, to grasp the chief feature in
the upward movement that has recently taken
place—that is, the high rates of freight which
have now to be paid to this country—but there
does not seem to be any probability of a de-
crease in this direction, as tonnage available for
fall shipments from the deal ports in Canada
and the provinces appears to be as difficult to
procure as ever itdid. The few vessels that
have been chartered recently have been paid ad-
vanced rates for the purpose of bringing for-
ward contracts entered into early in the season,
which must leave the shipper to face a heavy
less upon these transactions,

The present sluggishness of business may be
merely a pause until such time as buyers have
recovered from the affects of the recent ad vance,
and can look to the future with more confidence
than they do now, bearing in mind that there
has been no advance in the prices at which the
goods are now selling which will compensate for
the increased cost of freight and insurance.

There has been no auction sales of whitewoods
since your last issue, but the sale advertised by
Messrs, A. F, & D. Mackay to take place on
Friday, the 22nd inst., is looked forward to with
interest.

——___q@____.
LEITH.

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 23rd,
says :—The arrivals at this port have been
pretty numerous during the past week, thirteen
cargoes of deals and battens, containing 93,682
pieces, having been reported. Of these, three
cargoes are from Hernosand, three from Stocka,
two from Cronstadt, and the rest from various
well-known ports, No public sales have been
held here since my last; Messrs, Mitchell,
Somerville & Co. have, however, one announced
for Tuesday next.

Trade here is pretty steady, and prices for
American goods firm ; the demand for this class
of goods, however, is not great.

— ——
GLASGOW,

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 23rd,
says :—There have not been any public auctions
of timber at the Clyde ports during last week,
@ lack of interest or healthy competition being
apparent at several of the sales held recently ;
but 2 sale of wood goods of varied character is
advertised for the 21st instant, result of which
will be noted for next issue, . The strike of ship

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American black walnut (large and straight-
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BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
The following are the returns issued by the
Board of trade, for the month of August, and

for the first eight months of the year :—
MONTH ENDED 31s AUG., 1882.

Quantity. Value.

Timber (Hewn). Loads. £,
RRUSSIB ec ae aie ai scl nal cipleisielaivreleine 2. AayAOD 90,261
Sweden and Norway......+ Stat qupe 67,644 106,576
GBYDIANY 5 wih asim, sie «ciaiere fips neimieh op» 0 28,110 68,271
Whavtneel ShetS5. Sam ABIeneee spore odeuts 11,846 44,246
British India.......+...+ east 911 8,894
British North America.......+ depen 48,682 238,627
Other Countries.,..........eeeeeees 23,972 32,425

TOGA eicierstasedtaisieiane aio js\olyis)elslelelayi\a 225,630 589, 309
Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed ).

IRAISS Bier asia) wisletatesateveluyerstely s) ain pio faeya 219,573 623,653
Sweden and Norway....ssessrereves 212,689 620,679
British North America... ......+0+ 168,729 464,974
Other Countries.......6:cecesseeeee 32,044 98,177

DOL ayertalstateistsiectaelsietevelatniesseisielnts 633,035 1,707,483
Staves, (all gizeS)...... esr vere eres 15,668 78,784
Mahogany (tons)....+++s+seeeeen eens 1,714 15,783
Total of Hewn and Sawn........++-- 858,665 2,296,783

RIGHT MONTHS ENDED 3181 AUG,, 1882.

Timber (Hewn).
Russia......+ Oct tapngaug Rice easel (Sy220 372,505
Sweden and Norway.....- poOcdoK C0 9 395,095 607,062
Germany...........8 176,339 523,369
United States 129,100 437,247
British India...... .....5 30,572 884,250
British North America...........%.+ 126,695 589,419
Other Countries. <2 ceo ea scene sens: 236,476 301,665

IOUB ixaislele later starerstereiatsletemeuaie’s tons 1,271,606 2,251,517

Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed).

Russia..... +++ oo oontogt secceeee.- 671,581 1,681,540
Sweden and Norway ......+++ +». -1,022,858 2,627,634
British North America ..552,750 1,437,174
Other Countries.......+0++ 265,420 847,922

Total..... eal: ute meta OORT 2,512,609 6,594,240
Staves (all sizes)........0.-eeeeee «+e 16,478 390,94
Mahogany (tons)......+-+005 eeeees 18,218 171,213
Total of Hewn and Sawn.......... 8,784,115 9,809,757

SC
QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c,
measured and culled to Sept. 29 :—

1880, 1881. 1882.

Waney White Pine.. 1,986,008 2,286,631 2,201,705
White Pine......... 8,764,684 6,049,732 7,161,267
Red Pine.... .....-. 948,679 1,866,585 1,329,262
ORK BR oaks Iowa onn 1,285,443 2,680,165 1,062,977
POLIO ioiersre ave aisvaye/eletnin« . 894,694 998,678 635,205
PASM itcistaiefetayeyelaloietalnistels 230,506 892,877 243,301
Basswood .......005° 256 8,576 1,273
Butternut..... booses 627 2,991 2,585
UiPhith esooneuboonG 4 22,458 24,382 12,445
655,874 161,742 268, 282

4 pes 25 pes 33 pes

Spars......+ 23 pes — pes 61 pes
Std. Staves.......5.. 16,4.3.16 368.7.2.29 320.2.3.29
W. I. Staves. . . 260.0,0.22 348,1,3.3 1066,0,0.28
IBTIEStAVGSiacvaeeectin cates | | msvesiay 71.9,1.9

JAMES PATTON,

Quebec, Sept. 29. Supervisor of Cullers, ~

TWO HUNDRED MILLS OF PINE,

The Minnesota pine owners are likely to be
deprived of the lumber monopoly along the
Northern Pacific road, A boom is coming from
the west as soon as the road is completed
through, On the western slope of the Rocky
mountains there is a vast forest of white and
yellow pine, some Norway and a sprinkling of
tamarack and cedar. H. W. Scott, the govern-
ment commissioner, has traversed the region,
and glows and gushes about the timber there
like a true government official, but after making
all due allowance for his federal proclivities, we
must conclude that there is quite a neck 0’

BLACK WALNUTS.

My Dear Sir,—I have received many en-
quiries as to where black walnut nuts were to |
be got for sowing this fall, and hope you will be a
kind enough to insert this note, 80 as to let the
public know that Mr. Wm. Evans, of the
Agricultural Warehouse, Montreal, has under-
taken to procure the nuts from the West at a
reasonable price for all those who would apply
to him in time.

Those who wish to sow this fall ought to write
to him at once. A bushel contains about four
hundred nuts, more or less, so that people
ordering a bushel or a fraction of a bushel will
know how many nuts they will get. If possible,
sow them at once where they are destined to
grow, as the transplanting checks seriously the
walnut by destroying the long tap roots. Pre-
pare your ground carefully, the deeper and
mellower the better; sow the nuts as soon as
you get them, about two inches deep, no more ;
four feet apart on every side; mark each nut
with a picket to facilitate weeding. In the
course of time, when they interfere with one
another, you remove one row, and your trees
will then stand eight feet apart, and owing to
the close order in which they have been started
will be long and straight.

If you have no ground ready for permanent
planting sow them in nursery in a corner of
your garden, in rows, eighteen inches apart
each way and transplant permanently, at the
end of the second summer. I tried, last fall, to

woods over on the western slope, The com-
missioner says :— £ ‘)

it is a wonderful region, all things considered.
Going west after you cross the main range of
the Rocky mountains, and passing 50 miles be-
yond, the great timber belt is reached, For a
distance of two hundred miles the road runs
through a grand forest of pine, cedar and tam-
ack, The pine is of three valuable varities,
and includes besides the white or cork pine,
splendid Norway, and the genuine yellow pitch
pine of the South. This pine timber in not the
largest in circumference that I have ever seen—
for trees of more than three feet in diameter are
not frequent—but it will average in height of
trunk and evenness of diameter to a great
height better than any timber known to the
forests of northern Wisconsin or Minnesota,
Taking the length and evident soundness of the
pine into consideration, I presume it will aver-
age, for sawing purposes, better in yield and
quality than any body of that wood ever made
accessible in this country. The great height
and symmetry of the timber indicate thatit has
been of even and vigorous growth, and that it
will, therefore, be of a very superior quality.
Of course, for finishing purposes the yellow
pitch pine has few equals among woods, and this
will be a new resource for supply in that direct-
ion. The cedar, too, is of a superior growth
and quality.

This valuable timber is on government land,
excepting that included in the railroad grant.

MAN REMEDY
RHEUMATISM,

Neuralgia, Sciatica,

Backache, Soreness of the Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell-
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily

During the present season fires have raged in} plaster some of the nuts, as our farmers plaster ‘

the woods, no doubt doing much damage. As} their seed wheat, and found the result most sat- Pains,

goon as the railroad is completed mills will be | isfactory, in fact remarkably so, and would ad-| Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
put up along the line in this forest region and | vise every one to try it with part of their nuts, Feet and Ears, and all other

Pains and Aches.

No pI gp = ve i equals St. Jacons Ort
as a safe, sure, sim and cheap External
Remedy nN trial entails but the
trifiivg outlay of 50 Cents, and every one

: pain can have cheap and pasties pou of
ciaime.

Directions in Eleven Languages,

and compare results,

Excuse this hasty letter ; I think it contains
the most necessary information for this fall’s
sowing, but will be very glad to send any ad-
ditional information to anyone who may want

an immense output of lumber will be the result ;
and it {will tend powerfully to put off the evil
day of a timber famine that they are so much
worried about over in Quebec and Saginaw.—
Northwestern Lumberman.

—_—_—_—_—_—_——_ it. 3elieve me, yours truly, SOLD BY ALL DSUQGISTS AND DEALERS
. , Pf
PINE LAND FRAUDS. Ay ‘ Be a a IN MEDICINE.
The Lumberman’s Gazette says:—The public cint, Platan, ©) Gas PAD mis Bae A. VOGELER & Cco.,
Baltimore, Md., U. 8. As

interest in the pine land frauds at Duluth,
which has languished for a month or two, will
be revived by the latest step of the commission-
er of the general land office. It appears that
the frauds have been going right along in spite
of the crusade by the department, and that the
commissioner finally despaired of stopping them
by ordinary means. Iyen the change of officers
at the Duluth land office did not stop fraudul-
ent pre-emptions. Dishonest officers could fa-
cilitate frauds, but honest officers could not, it
seems, preyent them. Finally the commissioner
struck at the root of the difficulty by ordering
the surveyor general to file no more township
plots in the Duluth and St. Cloud districts.
The land-grabbers make their selections from
these plots and send their tools to file on the
land selected. The prohibition of filing the
plots will break up this practice, while it will
not work serious injury to actual settlers who
select their land after actual inspection of the
ground itself. There will probably be a how]
against the order, however, in the name of the
poor settlers whose rights to public land are in-
fringed,

ANCIENT TREES,

A Philadelphia correspondent of the Worth-
western Lumberman says :—Among the places of
interest to lumbermen and others interested
in trees is the square bounded by Pine, Spruce,
Eighth and Ninth streets. Here is the Pennsyl-
vania hospital, with ample grounds upon which
are trees set out in ante-revolutionary days.
Here are grand elms and gigantic sycamores,
Some of the sycamores will scale well up to 3,-
000 feet—forest monarchs in the midst of a great
city—primeval nature kissing the hand of art.
Many varieties of trees can be seen in these ex-
tensive grounds, and they are so old that their
genial shadows have refreshed many of the most
notable men of the early days of the republic.
Presidents have stood with uncovered heads be-
neath these branches, and the leaves quivered
when the old bell rang out the first pean of free-
dom to America.

\5,000 IN USE!

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls, A five cent sample settles it.

Onr dose of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters will
lieve Sick Headache. One bottle effects a
cure, Price 25c, per bottle.

the month of Aug., 1881 and 1882 :—

LIVERPOOL STOCKS,
We take from the Timber Trades Journal the following Comparative Table showing Stock
of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on Sept. 31st, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for

Men and women are equally benefitted by
the use of that great brain and nerve rejuvena-
tor, Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, an advertise-
ment of which appears in another column,

Davy & CLARK, Druggists, Renfew, writes us
June 3rd. ‘* We have sold Fowler’s Extract of

JOSEPH HALL Mfg. Co..

(ESTABLISHED 1851.)

Stock, Aug. 31st.|Stock, ~! P
1331, 1882, ~ Aug. 1881. [ Aug. 188%. ban po she bod "56 = pexpor ox OSHAW A, ONTARIO.
SO = | which it is designed.” Dr. Fowler's Extract o
Quebec Square Pine.......sseseeereeseeeees 558,000 ft. 181;000 ft. 150.000 ft 238,000 ft Wild Strawberry cures all forms of Bowel com- war i
“t , Waney BQbKas (ach i vpcesiiiits ss Sniiss 337,000 S7ejoowe J : ' ell plaints incident to Summer and Fall, MANUFACTURE THE CELEBRATED
SE, John PinGwi. cs... cece usec cece seen nnane 23,000 ** 9,000 ** — « 1,000 ** 5
Other Ports: Pinas ves cashes esis «Ne Fo elas 46,000 ‘* 44,000 * 13,000 “ 23,000 «¢ - JAMES LEFFEL’S /
PRCCMEIN Oe ce tears Riche aici ate tersisctoe scorers sr 52,000 ‘ 26,000 ** 13,000 ‘* 15,000 “« 2
Pitch Pine, hewn......++ ni . 774,000 ** 908,000 ** 188,000 “* 162,000 ** D bl T D W t Wh |
LET SR Se ae RO bav/000 «| 854,000 ** 141,000 * 155,000“ S.S.MUTTON & Co., |VOUDIE TUPDINe water Cel,
“ “6 ox “ “
Dane aes Vie ieihie™ i 6. EE. inetlede “ panes “ aegon “ ar anh “« All Sizes of Stationary and Portable Engines
Sweden and Norway Fir.....sesseseeeee sees 5,000 * 7,000 “ 2000 “* <2 Wholesale L umber Dealers and Boilers, Shatting, Palleys, Hangers,
Oak, Canadian,... . gene y eens 494,000 ** 264,000 ** 67,000 ‘* 165,000 4¢ Gearing, latest improved English
ce PIANEM Care create eae “ 94,000 “4 32,000 ** 61,000 * and American Gilad
“ * “ “ ‘ rs) “e a &
ate Baltio. »..r0 ns Pauttecne nore 4 ee 2 Seay a ariahs * T re) R oO N = re) The Stearn’s Circular Saw Mills with Fractional Head
PETS ia Lease aha AN | cel eR re “ 19.000 “ 6,000 “ 9,000 “ . Blocks and King of Dogs—this Mill is acknowledged
BiGhs cee te ee “ 62,000 55,000 88,000 « 2 in the United States and Canada to be superior to all
East India Teak Lied ee eee A 48,000 6,000 $3 3/000 “ a others—also a very complete Circular Saw Mill with
GeeNheart is'eerculs tic ere Saree ye Ave (o.sth htm eis cals eos 43,000 ‘* 131,000 xe 7,000 se 24,000 “ Iron Frame and cheaper Head Blocks for Small Mill.
N. B. & N.S. Spruce Deals..... 7,825 stds ; 12.608 stds 9.639 std We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK, | Saw Mill, Flour Mill, Paper Mill and Water Works
WS ine © Mea S STOTT 680 ** ’ 5 ? stds 7 2WOO cs E = - Machinery a Specialty.
morta cade peae mee ca oy a o4y7 «| NHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT. Sef oo he
Ro 2 1 tanta i ioe i Laie « Vegi «| TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &e. #2 For partic rene,

Baltic Deals,

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BER wisi Sev yoy: cas 3
Boards Flooring......

Conswimption | Consumption —

Ang. Sist.|for the month of|for the month of Wild Strawberry for a number of years, and

JOSEPH HALL Manufacturing Co.,
OSHAWA, ONTARIO |

78

ona: * sar P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,

CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER, litt

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Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Hoisting Engines, Steam Pumps, | :
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, BARK MILLS, SHINGLE MILLS, The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog in the World.

Ore Crushers, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Hangers and Pullies, Hand and ——

Power Hoists for Warehouses, c&c., &ec.,
— AND AGENT FOR 1120
“Water's” Perfect Steam Engine Governor, and ‘‘Herald & Sisco’s’’ Centrifugal Pumps ;

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TURBINE WATER WHEELS “22875 ~~ vie

Mill Machinery, ate all
82 POL SADLE

PORT PERRY, ONT.
6116

sa>Send for Illustrated Catalogue. MONTRE AL
SAW MILLS!

Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run
the year round.

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves
to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

As to cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without permis-
sion to BE. WATT Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now AES
running respectively 10, 8,5 and 3 miles, and are stocked with our Cars. No. 5 20-Horse Power |

Manufacturers.

Lace Leather,

Mill Supplies, &c.

Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines

oie WITH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER
CG N O fe SW O RTHY & C O LORETO Oe ap if so ordered, Weare testing an Engine
Pe every day. Intending purchasers are
* ty) CHAM PION invited to call at our Works and thor-
SAWMILL oughly examine the Champion. We use
ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO. ENCINE Ey, KRUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw Mills We Every plate tested.
Litf mm We H | k Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water

WITH pressure.

SeGrON Ais OVER 600 SOLD

MACHINE OILs, ETc. <> Bp BS —
McCOLL BROS. & Co. \ ,

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MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them enabling maconnors to clean iuoceneen every rae GE it and prevent jaoatin= out.

We know from experience this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the great

jn 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion, Western prairics. Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the iarge Colo-
nization and Ranche Companies. (

ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA,
SEND FOR PRICES, Brc. B1u24 Send for New Circular,

318 THE CANADA, LUMBERMAN.

LUMBERMEN’S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or
Offices at City Prices.

Shanty Settlements
Shanty Orders
Shanty Receipts
Shanty Time Books
Shanty Log Books
Shanty Reports
Shanty Ledgers
Shanty Cash Books
Shanty Way Bills
Drive Books

And everything necessary to a complete office outfit.

STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and

Office Letterheads

Office Noteheads

Office Envelopes

Office Cards

Office Notes

Office Drafts

Office Orders

Office Receipts

Office Blank Books

Office Ship Account Books

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.
«

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co.,

“THH CANADA LUMBERMAN,” ;

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO.

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

EMERY ani CORUNDUM WHEELS

And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are |
Wire Strengthened §

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
3 TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESO.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. | TORONTO. ;
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants, 7

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING,

In order to remove the difficulties connected with the importation
of TANITE GOODS iu small quantities, and to bring such goods
within easier reach of

CONSUMERS IN CANADA,

we have arranged with the well-known firm of .

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To take our sole Agency for the Provinces of ONTARIO and QUEBEC. By this means consumers
who want only single wheels, or goods in small quantity, can supply themselves easily and avoid
the trouble of special importations, while dealers can secure the most liberal terms, fully equal

to those they could obtain by buying of us direct.
Messrs. Frothingham & Workman will carry a full stock of TANITE EMERY WHEELS,

and a sample line of Machines, and can fill all orders promptly.

Tanite Co. Stroudsbure, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania.

September 28th, 1882.

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

BY THE USE OF

Brown’s Patent Spalt and Shingle Mill,

for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Stuff, &c., from spalts, board
trimmings, slabs, and mill waste generally, turning material otherwise
worthless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the
patentee to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; have nd sold
a gcod number of these machines which are giving excelle ‘action

and can give the best of references,

Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

is now the Best Feed where Steam Is the motive power. It is easily

operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely lo wear out; sixteen

16 ft. boards, or eighteen 13 ft. boards, have been cut by it in one minute.

It is the established feed for steam mills; I makea specialty of its manu-
facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

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Covel's Automatic Saw Sharpener,

nown and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the
raise; I keep it constantly on hand, ready for
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VOL. 2.

TIMBER-CLAIMS. SPECULATION.

A writer in the New York Tribune who has
been up through Dakota by way of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railroad, tells
of some things which he learned about the
“‘tree claim,” business in that section. Claims
to government Jand may be secured under the
homestead act, pre-emption law, and the timber
culture act—a quarter section under each, He
says that the latter, the ‘‘tree claims,” are the
most sought after, and that they are taken for
thirty or forty miles on each side of that rail-
road and sixty to seventy miles beyond its pre:
sent terminus. But they are taken mostly for
speculative purposes: In all the route he did
not see but a few tree plantings, and they were
very much neglected. The number of tree
claims is limited by the law, but every one, so
far as he could learn, had been taken, the rea-
sons being that persons are not required to live
temporarily or otherwise on the claim, and they
are not obliged to do anything the first year.
They ‘‘ enter ” their claim, and as soon as en-
tered, offer their right for sale, asking a thous-
and or fifteen hundred dollars or more for it,
according to location. They sell many of them
to actual settlers, who.are pouring in by thous-
ands, and buying up claims wherever they can.
The party who ‘‘enters” the claim does so for
purposes of speculation only. The purchaser
from him may, under the law, and does in near-
ly every instance, convert his ‘‘ tree claim ” into
a pre-emption claim. Thus the tree-culture law
becomes a dead-letter and means of speculation
to those who never dreamed of perfecting title
under the act or complying with its provisions.
The Timber Culture Act was passed with the
very best motives, to encourage forest growing
in those barren regions ; but it seems, according
to nearly all accounts, to be practically a fail-
ure for the purpose intended. It sadly needs
amendment.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

WINNIPEG LUMBER DEMAND.

From the whir of machinery now to be heard
along the river bank in this city, a person un-
acquainted with the state of business in Win-
nipeg would conclude that the supply of lumber
turned out ought to meet any reasonable de-
mand, even in a new and growing country like
this. Inquiry into the matter, however, reveals
a very different state of affairs. A Commercial
representative has made some investigations of
the facts, and he finds that our lumber dealers
and manufacturers are hard pushed to supply
the demand in the city alone, while orders from
the surrounding towns have to be left almost un-
attended to. The extraordinary amount of
building now going on in the city and the
quantity of lumber required therefore cannot
be comprehended after a superficial survey of
the principal buildings now constructing. The
suburban proportion of the work although made
up principally of smaller business buildings and

residences causes a great demand for lumber
which only those who visit the outlying portions
of the city can form anything like an accurate
approximation of. The crowded state of this
branch of business has no doubt been aggra-
vated by the long blockades caused by the
snows and still later by the floods of last spring.
The supply from the south may be said to have
been practically suspended for two months, and
building operations during that interval were at
a stand still. Making full allowance, however,
for the exceptional circumstances of last spring
the lumber trade is in an extra healthy state,
with a heavy demand which will in all proba

bility be a long lasting one.

The local supply of logs has filled but a small
proportion of this season’s demand, and heavy
importations have had to be made from the
United States, while in cut lumber the supply
from the same locality has bean equally heavy.
At present the booms on the river are so crowd-
ed with logs that large quantities have to be
hauled up upon the bank. Seldom have our
mills had such a supply ahead, and it is being
steadily added to while navigation remains
open. We may expect therefore that these
mills will have a late run this fall, and that
their producing capacity will be tested to its
fullest extent till very near the close of the pre-
sent year. We find also that the arrangements
at the different logging camps for the coming
winter are on an extensive scale, and will furn-
ish for next summer the largest supply of logs
ever brought out in the North-West.— Winnipeg
Commercial.

TRAFFIC IN TAN-BARK.

A steamboat fitted up with machinery for
grinding and compressing tan-bark has recently
been built in Cincinnati. It is supplied with
three engines, one for propulsion, one for grind-
ing and elevating the tan-bark, and one for
compressing it into bales for shipment. For-
ward, on what may be termed the forecastle,
are located three hoppers, in which are the
grinders, and after the bark has been ground it
passes into a trough, where a spiral elevator
takes it wp and conveys it to the extreme high-
est point of the boat, where it is emptied into
other hoppers, and thence conveyed to the var-
ious compressors. The machinery is ponderous
but simple. When the bark is in shape for
shipment or storage it is on the upper deck,
lying on the floor. On either side of the com-
pressors is an elevator, similar to those in com-
mon use in buildings, and on these the bark is
conveyed, in its compressed form, to the hold of
the boat, where it is stored. No barrel, bale,
tie or other covering is needed to preserve it, as
it is a compact mass, after undergoing the above
process, almost as hard as rock, but will dissolve
upon the application of water. Before being
ground and compressed it is thoroughly dried,
40 that when ready for market there is not a

PETERBOROUGH, ONT., NOVEMBER 1, 1882.

NO. 21.

article of moisture in it. Already the Ameri-
can Compressed Tan-bark Company owns 2,000
tons of bark corded on the banks of the Ten-
nessee river, which was purchased fromthe owner
by weight. Should the supply upon that stream

become exhausted, there are many others which |

are lined by chestnut, oak, and hemlock ; nota-
bly, the Arkansas river, where for a distance of
400 miles no timber has been cut. Should the
present boat prove successful, others of a similar
kind will be built to operate in diffierent streams
and different sections. In America, or at least
in this section of America, the price of loose
tan-bark ranges from $10 to $15 per ton. Hu-
rope is generally supplied from France and
Germany at $30 to $35 per ton. It is probable
that for awhile most of that compressed on the
boat just built will goto Europe, but after awhile
it may be compressed in such quantities that
much of it will be used at home.—Worthwestern
Lumberman.

THE NEEDS OF FORESTRY.

At the recent Forestry Congress at Montreal
the following paper on ‘““The needs of Forestry”
was read by Mr. E. Gillivray, of Ottawa :—

S1r,—I have been requested by circular to
prepare a paper on Forestry, and in attempting
to do soI do not feel myself adequate to the
task, with the great importance of wood to the
present and future generations and the rapid
decrease of our forests on this continent, which,
from the first settlement of the country, it was
found necessary to destroy for the purpose of
making way for the agriculturalist. This art is
the basis of all other arts, and in all countries
coeval with the first dawn of civilization which
is said employs seven-eighths of every civilized
nation, and without this art mankind would be
savages thinly settled through intermediate
forests, and now except in new settlements the
total destruction of our forests are unnecessary,
and absolutely useful in many respects both for
man and beast.

The Germans were the first, as far as I have
been able to ascertain, to treat scientifically the
management of forests and establish forest ran-
gers and academies in which all branches re-
lating to them were taught, and those institu-
tions originated from the increasing scarcity
year after year of the woods of that locality.

The Prussian Government also soon discover-
ed that their forests were decreasing, and
directed their attention to the forests of that
country, so that at the present time no one is

-appointed in the forest department without go-

ing under a regular course of examination in all
branches connected with the forests, and to
serve personally in the forests for a certain
length of time. The English forest laws have
had only reference to the game laws of that
country.
The French also paid some attention to their
forests, and enacted a code of laws for the pros

tection of the forests of France, but I have not
been able to ascertain what they were.

And it would be well if the people of this
Continent were to learn a lesson from those
countries and educate its inhabitants to the
preservation of our forests and study the ques-
tion thoroughly, and establish forest academies
and appoint men understanding the subject, and
treat it scientifically. They should also have
power from the government to prevent the
spreading of fires, and punishing those who have
been the means of starting or causing the
spreading of bush fires and destroying immense
forests annually, for it has been said by many
of our leading lumbermen in this country that
there is more valuable forest destroyed by fire
every year than what is cut away for manufac-
turing purposes.

I well recollect the great fire of Miramichi in
1828, the destruction of property on that occas-
ion ; also in 1854, when the whole of the Up-
per Ottawa was on fire from carelessness in
setting bush land on fire, which, it being a dry
season, spread throughout the Upper Ottawa
with frightful rapidity ; also, in 1870 when the
whole of the Ottawa Valley was in flames, cov-
ering in its ravages several counties in Ontario
and Quebec that it was thought even by some
that some fearful calamity was to happen, and
only by extensive rain it was conquered.

I have read lately in some of the American
journals that at the present rate of cutting tim-
ber in twelve years the country would be
stripped of all its pine forests. Although Can-
ada is manufacturing a large quantity of pine
every year, it will take yet many years before
the country is stripped of its pine forests ; it is
not only that we should be careful of our for-
ests, but that new forests be created by trans-
planting. I am not prepared to say whick are
the most successful trees that ought to be trans-
planted, as they are too numerous to mention,
for each locality has its own peculiar climate,
and each may not suit to be transplanted indis-
criminately. Thus if we had academies of
forestry there they would be made a study and
would then follow the recommendations of those
professors, especially to those who never made
it a study to transplant. We see every day by
our own experience the necessity of transplant-
ing trees along the highways, farms and the
streets of your towns and cities ; it has always
been recommended that trees should be trans-
planted as near as possible like the soil which
they are taken from and more likely to succeed,
and ta place them north and south as they orig-
inally stood, and likewise not to take them from
too dense a forest, for they are less likely to

stand the two extremes of cold and heat.
———————

SAwMILLs were first used in Europe in the
fifteenth century. Before that a man who swore
he lost his leg in the army was generally be:
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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

HAILSTORMS AND FORESTS.

The Geneva correspondent of the London
Times writes, under date September 1 :—‘‘ Hail-
storms, as is well known, often play havoc in
Switzerland as well as in other parts of Europe.
They generally last only a few minutes, but in
that time the crops of the whole district are
destroyed, trees stripped of their fruit and
leaves, and even the potatoes in the ground
hacked to pieces. Birds are sometimes killed
by the hundred, and a grape-vine touched by a
hailstone is ruined for ever. Seven years ago
there was a hailstorm in this canton, which 1n
less than five minutes did damage estimated at
a million of francs. In some districts there are
mutual hail insurance societies, as in other
countries there are mutual fire insurance socie-
ties. In these circumstances everything relat-
ing to the phenomena and causes of these visita-
tions is studied with great interest, and papers
on the subject read at the late meeting of the
association of Swiss Geographical Societies,
held this week at Geneva, by Herren Beaumont
and Riniker, of Aargau, are attracting consid-
able attention in scientific circles. The utility
of forests as a safeguard against avalanches and
a hindrance to tourments and snowdrifts has of-
ten been pointed out, but it has never before
been suggested that forests are a preservation
against hailstorms. Such, however, is the
opinion of Herr Riniker, who is chief forester
of Canton Aargau. He says that where there
are forests there are no hailstorms, and in sup-
port of this theory he adduces a remarkable fact,
for the accuracy of which he and many others
can personally vouch. In the south of Aargau
there is a little chain of mountains known as
the Lindenberge. The Lindenberge are about
twenty kilometers long, of an average height,
above the sea level, of some eight hundred feet,
and completely covered with wood. About
twenty years ago, the forest was divided in two
places by wide gaps, with the consequence that
the valleys at the foot of the moun-
taims were soon afterward visited with fre-
quent hailstorms. The hail-charged clouds
were seen to traverse the gaps. In 1868 the
wider of the open spaces were closed by a plan-
tation of firs, and since 1871 no hailstorm has
crossed the forest. In explanation of this
phenomenon Herr Riniker suggests that, as

hailclouds are saturated with positive electricity,
and trees conduct from the earth negative elec-
tricity, the meeting of the two currents develop
sufficient heat to prevent the complete con-
gelation of the clouds and even to thaw the
hailstones contained in them—for the clouds of
this description pass very near the earth—and
so convert the frozen particles into rain, If
further observation should confirm the accuracy
of Herr Riniker’s conclusions in this regard, the
importance of forests in countries where hail-
storms are frequent will be greatly increased.”

SL

OUR TRADE WITH ENGLAND.

The Zimber TZrades Journal says :—It is
comforting in the face of heavy Baltic stocks to
turn to the supplies“ already in hand from
British North America. In both pine and
spruce the stocks continue moderate. The for-
mer are short of last October’s stocks by 212,439
pieces, while spruce are less than those of a
twelvemonth ago by 132,780 pieces. Battens, in
both pine and spruce, are also behind the stocks
of a year ago of similar descriptions, and the
same may be said of pine and spruce ends,

It is a question, however, whether the com-
paratively short supplies of pine are not in some
measure attributable to a falling off in the con-
sumption of that particular kind of wood in
this country rather than to a diminution of the
forest productions in Canada, With the im-
proved trade in the United States and the fall-
ing off in the demand from the mother country,
producers may be leaning towards a home trade,
and so cutting less and less as time rolls on for
the Huropean markets in proportion as they can
dispose of their stuff at a more renumerative
rate to consumers on the spot. Anyhow the
inclination has been apparently to send less and
less pine to the English market for severalseasons
past, and either some causes are operating such
as we have described, or else the stocks are in
the hands of those who are able to regulate them
on a basis of moderation that has never yet

been attempted. ‘That some cause is at work
to keep stocks low is evident, for though lower
port spruce stocks have been at times inordin-
ately heavy here, we have latterly become
accustomed to see only moderate supplies of the
more valuable description of Canadian wood.
It is also open to question whether the limited
nature of the spruce and pine stocks will be of
help to the heavy supplies from the Baltic ports.
Pine and spruce do not generally come in con-
tact with redwood from the north of Europe,
the first named being used for totally differen®
purposes, but whitewood will of course be
materially assisted by the short supply of spruce;
but, as the bulk of the stocks is redwood it
becomes of less importance to the market here
the state of the spruce stocks. Of course it is
still on the cards that large shipments should be
made of the last named commodity yet, for we
cannot see how a ring could be formed in the
spruce market, whatever might be the case with
regard to pine, and, only that we have advices
which put the freights from the spruce ports as
rapidly rising, while at Quebec vessels are
plentiful, and can be secured at moderate rates,
we should look for some heavy additions ; how-
ever, this month will either assure the continu-
ation of the present shortage of Canadian goods
throughout the winter, or solve the mystery at-
taching to the fall shipments.’ Pitch pine, and
in fact nearly all the floated goods are less in
stock now than a year ago, the exception being
red pine timber, the demand for which is not
particularly active just at present.

REMOVING RIVER OBSTRUCTIONS.
To the Editor of the Scientific American :

In your issue of the 16th inst. I noticed an
article on the removing of sand bars, etc. The
idea of floating or washing out obstructions of
this kind in rivers is not new to me, as I have
advocated the system for the Mississippi, with
its wonderful shiftings, on the following plan.
Have large flat bottom boats with heavy steam
machinery, and supplied with fans or force
pumps whose power would be conveyed to the
object to be removed through hose weishted so
as to drag on the bottom when the power is
being exerted against the obstruction. The
hose (one or more) to be put from the forward
part of the boat and adjustable to the depth re-
quired. In the after part of the boat, and at
proper depth below the surface of the water,
have revolving attachments, constructed so that
they will draw the water from under the centre
of the boat and throw a swell toward each side,
which will carry a quantity of the floating or
dislodged matter beyond the channel. To pre-
vent creating an obstruction by the settling
down steam, it would only be necessary to run
further down each time the route is gone over,
To keep a river open in this way it would re-
quire boats to be stationed at such distances as
could be gone over each day, or as occasion
required, and I believe the cost would be much
less than dredging, and certainly always leavea
clear channel. R. H. ANDREWS,

Washington, D. C., Sept., 1882.

PROTECTING THEIR FORESTS.

The Northwestern Lumberman says:—Mr.
N. C. McFarland, commissioner of the general
land office at Washington, has addressed the
following circular to the timber agents through-
out the country :

“The fact having been brought to the notice
of this department, that extensive forest fires
from time to time, in different sections of the
country, are destroying vast amounts of timber
upon the public land, ,and no means having
heretofore been provided by the Government
for the purpose of checking or preventing the
same and preserving the public timber from
such destruction, your are hereby informed that
it will hereafter be a part of the duty of the
special timber agents of the general land office
to protect and preserve the public timber from
this kind of waste and destruction as well as
from destruction by the woodsmen, or from any
other source,

You are, therefore, hereby instructed to keep
yourself fully informed to as the condition of
the timber upon the public land in your district,
and to use your best endeavours to protect it
from waste and destruction from any and all

sources ; and to this end—where there are state
or territorial laws for the preservation of timber
—you are authorized and directed to co-operate
with the state or territorial authorities and to
aid and assist them in enforcing said laws.

Should your at any time receive information
of any forest fire being in progress in your dis-
trict, you will at once proceed to the locality of
the same and use all possible means to check its
progress and extinguish it,

Should it be necessary to employ assistance in
such case, and the emergency be such that it
would be impossible to inform this office of that
fact and to receive special instructions, you are
hereby authorized to expend a reasonable sum
for such purpose, but you will at once inform
this office} by telegraph, of the number of per-
sons so employed and the total probable ex-
penses.

One of the most dangerous elements to
contend with in case of forest fires, and one of
the principal auxiliaries to the spread of the
same, is the dry tops of trees which parties
leave upon the ground after having cut and re-
moved the timber for saw logs and other
purposes. When the tree tops can be profitably
cut into wood, the person cutting such trees on
public land—when such cutting is authorized
by law—must cut the tops into wood, or at
least cut up and pile the bush in such a manner
as to prevent the spread of fires.

A failure on the part of woodsmen to utilize
all of the trees that can profitably be used, and
to take reasonable precaution to prevent the
spread of fires, will be regarded by this office
as wanton waste, and subject them to prosecu-
tion for wanton waste and destruction of public
timber. Zc

A SINGULAR MISFORTUNE.

The Building News relates to a singular mis-
fortune which has occurred to a small church in
Andover, Mass., whith seems to be in process
of eaten up bodily and swept away. The
church was erected about six years ago, and is
finished with what is said to be ash, but has
more the appearance of chestnut, which often
closely resembles the coarser kinds of Ash. A
year or two after its completion the sexton
noticed little heaps of dust on the carpet near
the walls. These grew more and more frequent,
and appeared in various portions of the build-
ing, so that they had to be gathered up regularly
every week, and on searching for their cause the
wood of the base-boards and portions of the
pews was found to be completely riddled with
holes make by small, round, black and blue
worms, the debris of whose boring fell out
occasionally upon the floor in the form of dust,
Unlike most boring worms, this species seems
not to object to the taste of varnish, for the
polished surface of the wood is pierced in
thousands of places. The stock was regarded
as completely seasoned and in good condition
when put into the building, but it would seem
that it must have contained the embryos of the
insects, for the finish of the galleries is attacked
equally with that of the ground floor. If any
of our readers, adds the News, met with a
similar case we should be pleased to receive an
account of it, and if any know of a remedy, the
thé trustees of the church would be glad to
avail themselves of it.

MENOMINEE MOVEMENTS.

In the Menominee, Mich., district, operations
promise to be active. The Kirby-Carpenter
Company, with 29 camps and 200 men, expects
to bank 70,000,000 feet of logs this winter, and
the Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick company
55,000,000 to 60,000,000 feet. The Girard Lum-
ber Company will run five camps, and counts on
10,000,000 feet. It is said that Ramsey & Jones
will have 12,000,000 feet on the landing by
April, and will saw the entire stock by the fall
of 1883. The Bay Shore Lumber Company
will operate five camps, mostly on the Deer,
and cut 10,000,000 feet. M. F. Merrick will
cut 10,000,000 feet, half of which will be sawed
at the Florence mill, and half at the
mills at the mouth of the river. Spies &
Martin are to put in 8,000,000 feet, that firm
having piled most of this year’s lumber cut. S.
Coleman will bank 10,000,000 feet. The Lud-
ington, Wells & Van Schaick Company recently
purchased 25 horses, and the Kirby-Carpenter

States, on the north sani of 6 Sup
Canada, some 700,000,000 feet’ of time tha
can be sawed. Of this is white pine,
the remainder Norway, c., and is fou
the islands of the Lake of the Woods, :
Lake, along the rivers and islands 3
Tako th ies a nds tS
the country north of the Lake of the Woods and _
Rainy Lake. ‘The northern limit at which
white pine grows is perhaps 75 to 100
north of the Canadian and United States lir
All the available timber is sold, mostly oa
ties at Keewatin, Rat Portage, St. Francis and
Winnipeg. There is little timber left back from
the streams, and there are small patches on the
ridges and around the small inland lakes. The
general quality of all the lumber in that country
is not merchantable. The correspondent refer- .
red to has but a poor opinion of it,
—_———

THE Northern Pine Land Company, of Min-
neapolis, Minn., lately filed articles of incor-
poration. The object of the corporation is to
buy and sell pine and other lands, manufacture
and deal in lumber, and do a general business.
Its capital stock is $500,000. The incorporators
are Joseph Vilas, of Chippewa Falla, Wis. ;
Franklin W. Pitcher, Boston, and W. W.
Huntington, S. G. Cook and Charles H. Maxey,
of Minneapolis.

A QuEBEc contractor has engaged to supply
the French Government with tamarac railway
ties. The lumbermen in the Ottawa district are
expected to be all wealthy at the close of an-
other good season’s operations. Facts like these
show what valuable possessions forests are, and
the necessity of protecting them against waste-
ful destruction and of replenishing what is
taken for commercial purposes. Our Forestry
Association was formed none too soon.

——_—_—_—_———

THE Timber Trades Journal in an article of
the Quebec Forestry Association says In
conclusion, we may remark that, whatever in-
difference may have been shown to the science
of forest culture in the past, it is not likely to
be neglected henceforward ; and the promotion
of such institutions as “the Canadian Forestry
Association. of the Province of Quebec,” sup-
ported equally by the wealth, talent and
industry of the timber-producing regions, will
not only check the wanton destruction of ex-
isting forests, but will cherish the restoration of
others, wherever it may be necessary to do so ;
whereby the trade of the lumberman need
never decay, even in the land most familiar to
his labors ; and with this system in process we
may reasonably conclude that as long as he can
carry an axe he will never be at a loss for a tree
to cut down with.

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THE CANADA

BRITISH IMPORTATIONS.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—The Board
of Zrade timber returns, for the month of Sep-
tember have nothing alarming in them as to the
‘state of the importation, The increase is not
great over the quantity brought forward twelve
months ago, and in some instances there is a
creat falling off, that is, from the Gulf and
River St. Lawrence the Quebec and lower port
supplies being very considerable short of the
quantity sent in during September last year.
It is teue that the influx of that month was un-
usually great, exceeding even that of Septem-
ber 1880, by as much as 846,456 loads exceed
817,311, but this last month was greater than
either, having gone to 859,587 loads, notwith-
standing the shortage from the Canadian ports.
But there is some satisfaction in the circum-
stance that the excess of this year over the last
has not been much increased by the large im-
portation of September. It was 789,240 loads
last month, and it is only. 802,321 now, or 13,-
081 loads more by the importation of last month
than it stood at when August closed. The
shortage of British North American wood on
the month as compared with the same month
last year was about 90,000 loads, so that the in-
crease from other countries (exclusive of the
United States, which was about 5,000 loads
short) must have been for the month over 100,-
000 loads. From these figures it would appear
that while our trade with Sweden and Norway
in the commodity of wood is largely expanding,
that with our colonies is diminishing. In the
whole nine months the increase from Sweden
and Norway as compared with the same period.
last year was no less than 408,477 loads, while
instead of an increase from Canadian waters,
there is for the same period a deficiency of 57,-
513 loads. Our Colonial friends augur, looking
at the short supplies from their country, that
prices here must rise. But how can they in the
face of such overflowing supplies from Northern
Europe? Nothing but the great elasticity of
trade this year and its ever-enlarging demands
could haye prevented a reaction that would
have been disastrous to the timber interest. It
has, however, stood its ground wonderfully, and
every confidence seems to be felt that it will do
so still,

STOCK AT THE CLYDE.
The following is a comparative statement of
the leading wood geods on hand at Clyde ports,
30th Sept., 1881 and 1882.

1882 1881.
Loads. Loads.
(50 c. ft.)

Quebec waney boardwood...... eoow ss, 10,701 11,891
«yellow pin€....+.++++ APE ens 13,328 28,564
“red ee eee vec cic 3 5,732 7,776
«elm Gent ast diadas cao,» 6: 1,834 4,943
PC ROAMMEO LST ssiaclo over + oes 0'¥ 8 0d s'c 5,326 "7,172
ae Se Se se tet es 344 719
Birch, Al portays tonic ss 4 spdvsiove vswieibwis 620 1,599
Ponsacola pitch pine—hewn.....+.... 11,243 16,302
o COL oe SOS 18,716 13,721
+ planks ........ 998 1,736
Pet. stds. Pet. stds,

} (165 c. ft.)
Quebec yellow pine deals....... .,..- 3,194 5,950
“& Fed pine daals, .. a... .. 0/5900 267 583
RE SBDINGS ACAI B soos cin a pin cs is amos 1,024 1,071
Lower port spruce deals.............. 684 1,931
SIME ICHIS: a vicanisicin tise os.ce 251 ~=—-:1,098
Mille. Mille.

1,200 pes.
Quebec pipe staves..............2+.+- ¢ 8} > 9

SEMICON gs nian we 613.0 ong pininin.e
REECE M esate claps ie 4155 0.0 s'¢.0:- aye

THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Messrs Gemmell, Tuckett, & Co.’s report,
dated Melburne, August 28th, says:—The wet
weather prevailing of late has somewhat retard-
ed outdoor building operations, and, notwith-
standing that August is proverbially the dullest
month of the year, a large consumption of all
descriptions of building materials has been
going on. Brickmakers cannot overtake
the demand, and there is abundant em-
ployment for masons, carpenters, bricklayers,
plasterers, &c. American lumber.—Imports,:
63,088 ft. w. p. t. and g. ceiling; shelving and
clear pine, nil, A fair arnount of business has
been carried through at auction at prices fully
sustaining last months quotations. W. p. t. and
g. ceiling realized £10 2s, 6d. to £9 10s, ; w. p,
shelving, £11 17s. 6d. to £0 17s. 6d. ; 1 in. clear
pine, £13 178, 64, to £13 10s, ; 14 in, do,, £15 tp

£14 15s. ; 1h in. do. £15; 2in. do., £15 to £14
108, ; 3and 4 in, do., £15 17s. 6d., 14 in. Can-
ada do., £12 12s, 6d. ; 14 and 2 in, do., £12 17s,
6d.%; 1} and 2 in, Michigan do., planed both
sides, £14 12s. 6d. to £14 2s, 6d. per M. feet
super. If shipments are moderate, prices will
advance, as the trade is not heavily stocked.

FOREST REPRODUCTION.

The Northwestern Lamberman says :—On
October the 7th some comment was made in the
Lumberman on a quotation in Prof. Sargent’s
article in the Worth American Review, in which
quotation it was inferred that the Prof. held
that the forest lands of the entire northern half
of this country but slowly reproduce timber
where once it has been destroyed. In a private
note he informs us that his views coincide with
those of the Lumberman in regard to eastern
forest lands—namely, that they do rapidly re-
produce tree growths. But he holds that in the
more arid regions inclosed within the Sierra
mountains of California and eastern range of
the Rockies, and where the rain-fall is too small
and irregular to produce a vigorous forest
growth, reproduction is slow. So far as the
Atlantic region is concerned the whole argument
of the article is based on the power of the forest
to reproduce itself anywhere when the rain-fall
is copious and regularly distributed. All that
is necessary to preserve the magnificent forests
of the country east of the prairies is to guard
them against forest fires.

Lumbering Operations.

Tue Belleville Intelligencer says :—We have
already established a shanty in Methuen,” said
Mr, Callahan one of Rathbun & Son’s foremen
in reply to a query of a representative of the
Intelligencer last night, ‘“‘and we employ 140
men there” he added. ‘‘ For the present,” he
went on, ‘‘that gang will operate in Methuen
and Faraday, and its cut will be put into Potash
Creek and be sent down the Otonagon River.
“Ag time advance” he continued, ‘‘ the. force
of men will be increased and after the first hard
freeze the force will be largely addedto. There
are already five shanties in operation in Tudor
and Grimsthrope and over 140 men are engaged
in them. Of course this number will be aug-
mented before winter for we expect that the
Moira will carry down a very large cut. We
also have two shanties on the Napanee river
and we are going to send 25 men up the Salmon
river to start a shanty in a very short time.
Several jobbers are already at work for the firm
and the prospects are that the coming winter
will be a lively one.”

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Lumbering Operations of the Future.

The four Atlantic pine states, including the
whole of Florida, contain less than twenty-four
billion feet of pine. The most accessible tim-
ber situated along the stream and railroads has
already been removed, and much of the remain-
der has been injured in the manufacture of
turpentine. Alabama and Mississippi contain
great bodies of pine, but the the three pine
states west of the Mississippi pine forests, in
which the sound of the logger’s axe has never
been heard, extend over tes of thousands of
square miles. Here during the next twenty-
five years will be seen, we believe, the great
lumbering operations of the continent—if in-
deed these forests can supply during twenty-five
years the demand which will be made upon
them. It is not easy to forsee how great these
demands will be. The population of an enor-
mous territory must procure its building
materials from these transatlantic pineries.—
Boston Bulletin,

The Reason. :

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—The induce-
ments for Canadian labourers, who have flocked
to Michigan to work in the lumber woods here-
tofore, to stay at home are such that compara-
tively few are coming over, It is explained in
¢he following item from Montreal, in the
Toronto Mail of the 18th :—

“Between three and four hundred men left
here to-day for the Ontario lumber regions.
Their wages range from $1,50 to $2 per day with
board,

This is better than paid in the Michigan pin,
erles, ‘

LUMBERMAN.

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THE U. 8. TARIFF. and good of the people of the United States to | petition with American lumber at twice the cost | Canadian lumber. A proposition to ask that the —
duty on merchandise and material used in the

The Chicago Northwestern Lumberman says :
Pursuant to appointment at theyprice list
meeting, September 27th, the lumbermen of:

this city met at the exchange, on Tuesday, Oct.
10th, to further consider the tariff question.

The business of the meeting was to receive the
report of a committee appointed at the meeting

on September 27th, and act on it for or against.

Mr. Dean took the floor, and, as chairman of
the committee, made a verbal report, reciting
that the majority had adopted the address made
by Mr. Dean at the previous meeting, advocat-

ing the removal of duties on Canadian lumber,
and giving the reasons therefor. He said that
the committee had given the address careful
consideration, and had adopted it as a whole,
recommending that a copy after having been
certified to by the trade, be forwarded to the
tariff commission. A minority—A. G. Van
Schaick and Addison Ballard—had objected to
the conclusions of the majority, and had made
a@ minority report. Mr. Dean, in conclusion,
moved the adoption of the committee’s report,
with a request that the secretary certify to a
copy, and forward it to the tariff commission,

A. G. Van Schaick, in behalf of the minority
of the committee, then obtained the floor, and
proceeded to read a report, which was as fol-
lows :—

Mr. Presrpent :—As a member of the com-
mittee I desire to enter my protest to the
adoption of the report now before the meeting,
and, if in order, I will endeavor to present
good and sufficient reasons in support of my
position, i

My first and principal objection arises from
the fact that the committee does not include
representatives from all the branches of the
lumber trade of this port, while to arrive at
correct conclusions in any matter of importance
and mutual interest, all should be fairly repre-
sented. But three of the seven departments of
the lumber business were included, and four of
the committee are dealers, who numerically
control the vote of the mecting.

The committee was called together by its
chairman, and at its first meeting, in the ab-
sence of Mr, Anderson and Mr. Martin, sol-
emnly proceeded to read from the columns of
the Northwestern Lumberman the appeal to the
tariff commission, which they presented to-day
as their report ; although the same paper was
read to a meeting held in this room August 27,
and by that meeting ordered referred to a com-
mittee. The majority of the committee pre-
sent adopted it as their report to this meeting,
without addition or alteration, and with a full
knowledge that it was the ideas of one member
of the Chicago lumber trade.

While I have a high regard for the ability of
the author of the report—and his judgment
and experience may exceed that of the six other
members of the committee combined—I am
compelled to question the correctness of same of
his arguments and conclusions,

I submit, therefore, that a report which ad-
vances the views of but one member of the
Chicago lumber trade will not be sure to con-
vince that portion of this meeting whose busi-
ness it assails, and unless fully three-fourth of
this meeting concur in adopting the report after
adding some important amendments, it will be
greatly to the interest of all present that no
action be taken, but that it be laid upon the
table. With these preliminary remarks, I will
proceed to review the report of the majority of
the committee.

From a careful study of the paper I gain some
valuable information, and commend it to the
attention of lumbermen generally. I also
notice apparent contradictions, and an inten-
tion of concealing some important facts that
bear directly on the statements made, and the
suppression of collateral facts that could weaken
the author’s theory. While under the screen of
an apparent interest in the direction of supply
ing the west with cheap building material, the
author takes occasion to urge measures that will
injure his rivals in the local lumber business,
without showing that any benefit will accrue to
any but Canadian timber owners. J'rom the
first paragraph of the report I quote the fol-
lowing :—

“We believe most earnestly that the time has
come when it would he greatly to the interest

remove the present import tax upon lumber,
which may conveniently be brought to them
from the Dominion of Canada. In support of
this argument we would say that the wonderful
growth of the United States, and especially the
development of that portion lying west of the
lakes, has been due to the readiness with which
cheap dwellings, barns, fences and graneries
were obtainable through the plentifulness of a
cheap building material, such as is found in the
white pine lumber supply.”

The committee and eyery one present are
aware that the cheap building material that has
been such a important factor in supplying the
cheap homes,.barns, fences and granaries in the
West, was almost wholly supplied from mills in
the United States. They also know that during
25 years past less Canadian lumber has passed
the Straits of Mackinaw, bound to ports of
Lake Michigan, than the single port of Alpena

pocket.
ed to the list, and must, therefore, dissent from

the report.

report :

of the standing pine. It is believed by many
Americans that an imported article has merit
that warrants extra cost and more trouble in
securing it, and wine, fine clothing, jewelry and
many kinds of merchandise, are imported to
gratify luxurious tastes and add to the happi-
ness of the consumer, at the expense of his
I fail to see why lumber should be add-

The next, and to me most important state-
ment coutained in the report, alludes to the
cost and value of standing pine timber. In
mentioning the timber of the United States
now owned by all classes of citizens, it is stated
as having been donated to its present owners by
the government, or having been purchased at
$1.25 per acre, and I again quote from the

‘Tn support of the first proposition, we assert

has consigned westward during six years past ;
and to this time the lumbermen of the United
States have fully met the demand for cheap
lumber, and made the West the cheapest lumber
market in the whole world.

I believe that every manufacturer present
will endorse the sentiment of the committee
that cheap lumber should be supplied to con-
tinue the vast improvements yet required to
develop the territory west of the lakes, but they
are amazed at the recommendation of the com-
mittee that it should be imported from a foreign
country, which the report states cannot supply
and land lumber at western ports as cheaply as
similar lumber can be supplied by American
mill owners.

I again quote from the report :

The capital invested of necessity in pursuit of
this industry is greater in Canada, in proportion
to the extent of work performed, from the ne-
cessity to acquire the large land limits, which
alone can be obtained from the Canadian Gov-
ment ; the American Goverment selling as low
as 40 acres at a cost of not over $100, while
nothing less than a township is dis, ored of by
the Canadian Government. The number of
men employed is not less, per thousand feet
produced, in one country than in the other, and
the capital employed in saw-mills will bear the
same comparison. It would be folly to assert
that greater intelligence enables the Canadian
laborer to preform a greater amount of work in
the saw mill than does the American, while it is
a fact that by improved methods and machin-
ery, more generally adopted in this country
than in Canada, the cost of producing lumber
in Canada is greater than in the United States.
In the matter of transportation the Canadian
again labors under a disadvantage in being, in
the main, and especially in the western portion
of the province, whence must come a majority
of the timber, at a long distance from markets,
whereas the American operator can utilize lake
or rail transportation at his pleasure, and with
but short lines and a low freight rate, The dis-
advantages under which the Canadian operator
labors we assert. to be more than the equivalent
advantages he may possess, so that if may with
positiveness be assumed that Canadian liumber
laid down upon the docks of Chicago, or any
other large distributing centre, will have cost
the Canadian as much, if not more, than the
same quality of stock has cost the American
manufacturer at the same point. :

We assert that this timber has cost, and do
cost, those who control it for utilization a larger
sum per thousand than was obtained by the
United States Government from those to whom
the timber lands of this country were disposed ;
that the cost of manufacture in Canada is not
below the cost to the American manufacturer ;
and that the average cost of transportation of a
majority of that portion of the present Cana-
dian pine which would naturally reach the Unit-
ed States market, is considerably in excess of
the cost of placing the native product in the
hands of the consumer,

An increased demand from the markets of the
United States for Canadian lumber, and the in-
creased cost to produce it, on account of dimin-
ishing supply and less accessible timber, will
naturally advance prices, and it becomes a
mystery to me how cheap homes, barns,ete.,can
be constructed to advantage from this timber,

that cannot be landed at western ports in com-

that the liberal policy of the American Govern-

ment has permitted the timber lands of this

country to be purchased in fee-simple at from
$1.25 to $2.50 per acre. These lands are estim

ated in general to yield 5,000 feet of timber per

acre, while a large preportion of them have and
will yield from 10,000 15,000 feet per acre.
The standing timber, therefore, has been sold by
the government at an average probably less

than 25 cents per thousand feet, including the

ownership of the Jand, which in many cases
sells at from $5 to $10 per acre after being de-
nuded of its timber, such Jand being found in
many parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Min-
nesota, to be unsurpassed in value for agricul-
tural purposes.

The American Government has virtually pre-
sented to the lumbermen of this country each

section of pine land, together with the timber

on the same, of a value of $14,400, for the mere
nominal sum of $1,600, or, as he can readily re-
alize that sum for the stripped lands, has made

him a gift of the timber for his labor in clearing

it.”
It will be observed that throughout the re-
port of the committee the value of American

pine is stated at the price current 15 to 20 years
ago, allowing nothing for taxes or for interest

on capital, or any loss by fire, windfall or flood,

while the value of Canadian pine is given at its

current price in the hands of present owners,
and is always placed at its highest known value,

and an outside estimate to cover its manufacture

and transportation. Every member of the com-
mittee knew that the present value of timber in

both countries would be considered by the tariff

commission if taken into account by them, and
they would accept the statement in this report

that the value of pine stumpage in the West is

not far from $4.50 per thousand, as stated in

the report of the committee. Each member

also knew when he voted to present this report,
which speaks of donations, etc., that of the
whole amount of lumber that will seek the
markets of the West in 1882, but a small pro-
portion was cut from lands purchased direct
from the United States by the manufacturer.
I regret that this spifit of unfairness is shown
in the statements contained in the report, and
believe the report should be amended to correct
omissions and add facts. I regard the report as
a special plea in the interests of Canadian lum-
bermen, and if the lumber of Canada cannot be
sold in the markets of the West at lower prices
than American lumber, why should the people
of the West consume a commodity produced in
a foreign country, with forcign labor, provisions
and capital, in mills built with foreign machin-
ery with money drawn from the consumers of
the United States, who are having all the bene-
fits enumerated above, and buying cheaper lum-
ber manufactured by Americans ?

Such a report should not be adopted, and it
cannot receive any favor from the tariff com-
mission or from Congress, In their proposition
to ask the removal of the present duty on Cana-
dian lumber, the committee ask no reciprocal
action by the Canadian legislature, or an act to
repeal the present larger tax levied on lumber
shipped from Wisconsin and Minnesota into the
British possessions, which is a tax of 20 per
cent, on undressed lumber and 25 per cent, on
dressed and manufactured lumber, based on the
actual cost of the lumber, and nearly double the
present import duty of the United States on

manufacture of lumber by Americans, in case
lumber was placed on the free list, was not con-
sidered by the committee, whose apparent de-
sire was to place the whole burden upon the
manufacturers,

I have faith in the good judgment of Chicago
lumbermen who are present, and believe they
will not indorse any report which assails the
business of one class of Jumbermen and shows
no advantage to any class of citizens. I shall
not believe that in Chicago, the only port in the
West that contains a majority of lumbermen
without mills and pine lands, that an effort will
be made to injure the business of lumber man-
ufacturers without stating a single benefit that
will accrue to lumber dealers or consumers.

To this time I have proceeded on the assump-_
tion that the position taken by the committee
was by them supposed to be troe—that Can-
adian lumber will actually cost more, delivered
at the ports of the United States, than Ameri-
can lumber, but what evidence have they
presented that their statements are correct?
In the matter of labor I cannot concede that the
report is correct, and when horses are brought
to this city every week from Canada, and 25 per
cent. duty paid on them, I know they are
cheaper in Canada, and I challenge any mem-
ber of the committee to state, of his own know-
ledge, the prices of lumber supplies in Canada.
The report was adopted, with little or no
knowledge of the statements it contains, and
no candid man present will cast his vote for the
adoption of the report unless he can assert that
he knows its statements are correct. 7

Iron costs much more in the States than in
Canada, and it enters largely into the product-
ion of lumber. Matches, sugar and many
similar articles cost more, and whoever by his
vote indorses the report, certifies to that of
which he really has no personal knowledge, and
which the committee have assumed to be facts
without having tested the Canadian market to
verify. :

Passing to that portion of the report which
suggests that, as the supply of American pine is
rapidly decreasing, and will soon be exhausted,
and the consumers of the United States should
draw upon the supply of Canada to eke out the
remainder of American timber, I submit that if
the amount of timber is correctly understood,
and the supply limited, there is no good reason,
when the stock of both nations can be drawn
from at will, why that portion from the great
increase of population and extension of railway
lines across the country, that cause numerous
forest fires, should be allowed to remain, while
the portion situated in an isolated and sparsely
settled country, whose changes are slow and do
not involve risk of fire and destruction, should
be placed first upon the markets of the country,
especially when it is claimed that it must be
done at a greater cost—which, however, I do
not believe. Besides, Canadian timber is, to
some extent, carried by the government at a
much smaller cost for taxes and interest than
American pine timber, and if either is to be cut
early it should be that which is most likely to
suffer loss, which will prevent its being made
useful in developing the country which re-
quires more than can be supplied.

If the members of the committee who recom-
mendits adoption, have indorsed the sentiments
it contains, were philanthropists, they would
advise the use of iron, slate, brick and tile, and
material that is used in the older countries of
the world, to prevent the use of two much lam-
ber. These articles can be produced in their
own country, and thereby add greatly to its
prosperity and wealth, and at the same time
employ its population to advantage. Or they
should assist in removing one-third of the pre-
sent supply, and by that means add to the
value of the remainder, and as the value in-
creased, the iron, brick and stone would be sub-
stituted for lumber, and in this simple manner
the lumber supply would be preserved a far
greater length of time. If they desire to per-
petuate the supply of timber for any reason,
they should also also assist Canada in holding a
reserve, and not open a door that will lead to
its rapid destruction. I do not regard the com-
mittee as philanthropists, and when I know
they have endorsed and present to this meeting

a report, and state as facts matters of which
they have little if any personal knowledge, I
can only believe that, knowing that the class of
merchants they represent are in a majority in
Chicago, they have allowed their supposed per-
sonal interest to place them on record as hostile
to the interests of lumber manufacturers, with
whom they cannot successfully compete.

But, Mr. President, if numbers and capital
are to decide the future of the lumber business
of the West, I am prepared to meet it squarely
and on its merits, and will abide the result, and
should this meeting, after due deliberation,
adopt this report, it remains for the manufac-

turer to call upon the seven lumber Exchanges
of the west to join the minority of this meeting!

in bringing the question before the tariff com-
mission.
If this meeting by its vote to-day shall adopt

the report now before it without amendment,
I will gladly turn the majority over to the ten-)

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

ern point on competing lines at Chicago rates.
Lake freight is less from Canada to any of these
ports than to Chicago, and I cannot see what
will prevent the rival markets getting the
majority of this Canada lumber that the com-
mittee seems to desire so much for the cheap
homes, barns, etc, Or, if the vast amount of
timber the committee state exists in Canada,
which they give in the following language, but
which I cannot believe :

“ Aside from the supply in Wisconsin, Mich-
igan and Minnesota, which the census commis-
sioner fix at 81,000,000,000 feet, in the Dominion
of Canada there exists a quantity equal, accord-
ing to the opinion of many éxperts, to that
remaining in the United States,”

If this timber exists there must be some
central point in this vast aggregation, that will
warrant the railway magnates who control the
vast railway system of the United States,
to build connecting lines to this timber and

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TJTAMES HAGUE.

transfer the Chicago lumber market and its ex-
pensive surroundings bodily to Canada, which
would be both possible and probable. They
certainly will need no Chicago lumbermen
there, nor the army of men Chicago lumbermen
employ, and pay millions of dollars annually to
conduct the lumber business of this city.

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Gummed and Hammered on Short Notice.

der mercies of the manufacturers of Michigan,
who, from past experience, are fast learning to.
protect their interest, and whose increasing |
capital, gained by their enter] rise and improved.
business methods, has virtually placed them
where, if they cannot approve the action of this

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Shop in Sewrey’s Foundry, BARRIE, Ont.

meeting they need not fear those who have as-

sailed their business with no hope of benefit.

I will pass the question of the extent of the
Canadian timber supply by simply stating that
if the amount equals the supply of the United
States, very little of it can be transported to the
markets of the West from its distant location,
and evidence of this is the small quantity re-
ceived at western ports, when the markets are
so favourable. The product of the mills near
Georgian bay, and that of the mills located on
the north shore of Lake Superior, finds a better
market in Winnipeg and Pembina at present,
and will continue large shippers to that timber-
less country, and the lumber seaward from
Niagara cannot supply western ports under any
tariff, no matter how favorable.

I have already occupied too much time, but
before ending my protest I desire to suggest
changes that are likely to occur in the lumber
trade of Chicago should the plan suggested in
the report be adopted ; that is, if Chicago re-
mained an important lumber point :

First.—I have noticed that in cities where
Canada lumber is freely consigned, the class of
merchants known as lumber dealers are not re-
quired, as the thrifty sons of the Dominion
have usually carried their lumber, even in Am-
erican ports, with the cheap money of the banks
of Montreal and Toronto, and in Troy and Al-
bany they allow their lumber to blacken with
age before sacrificing it. They do not rush
lumber to distant markets beyond their ability
to carry and hold for favorable sales. The
business is conducted by firms of long standing,
and companies of large means, that are accus-
tomed to consign to the markets of Great
Britian, and sell on six months’ time, and renew
the paper, if desired, at four to six months more,
at 4 per cent. interest, and consider that good
business, A cargo of boards was consigned to
Messrs. Loomis & Ludington, in this city, by
Messrs. Gilmour & Co., of Quebec, in 1857, and
many present will recall the fact that those
boards were actually held on shipper’s account
until 1862, when they were sold at a profit,

The favorable terms upon which the crown
timber limits are sold, allow the lumber manu-
facturers a free use of their large capital to carry
lumber after iis manufacture, if necessary, to
properly market the product of their mills, As
this new element that the committee desire to
have enter the lumber business of the West to
replace those now engaged here, have no docks
or local interest in Chicago, they would natur-
ally seek American markets and ports more ac-
cessible to them, and where a saving of 50 cents
to 75 cents per thousand feet can be made in
handling the lumber they consign to western
markets. At this time lumber can be landed
and sold in Milwaukee, Racine, Michigan City,
Toledo and Sandusky, at fully 50 cents per
thousand less than in Chicago, and the trade of
the entire west can be supplied from any of
these ports at precisely Chicago railway rates.
The Milwaukee & St, Paul and the Chicago
& Northwestern lines make Chicago rates for
for Milwaukee, and the Wabash system will
ship lumber from Lake Erie ports to any west-

is made in the present duty on Canadian lum-
ber all duties on merchandise consumed by lum-
bermen and their employes should be modified

lumbermen of Chicago present at this meeting,

Canadians hold vessels cheaply and would

employ no American vessels, if they are to
divide the American lumber business in the
future, and fully one-half of the present ton-
nage of American lumbermen must seek other
employment, or turn the sailors to other pur-
suits.
United States, and the surplus capital of lum
ber manufacturers can take the place of the pre-
sent class of dealers, or divide the field with
them, Manufacturers will then have sufficient
capital to yard and distribute all the lumber

No new mills will be required in the

manufactured in the western states. Isee more

possibility of loss to the present class known as
dealers, than to any other, and am willing to
take any chances with the manufacturer, as a
competitor with Canada.

In conclusion, Mr, President, I will again

state that I can see no good result as likely to
come to any class of Americans by any proposed
change in the tariff on lumber, not even to the
consumers, who are really the most interested.
Certainly no action should be taken to remove
the present duty while the tax remains on lum-
ber shipped from the United States into the

British possessions, and that when any change

in the same degree.
Tam willing to trust to the fairness of the

if they will carefully weigh the question now
before then, I appeal to their sense of right ;
their experience in the past and the success un-
der the present order of business ; and I cannot
believe that they will vote to commit this
meeting to any policy that does not promise
lumber as cheap as it is now supplied, but open-
ly claims that the Canadian product will cost
more landed at western ports. I thank you
gentlemen for your attention.”

When he had finished thg report, he moved
that the majority report be laid on the table,
and called for the ayes and noes.

A. A. Carpenter seconded the motion, and
supported it by a few remarks,

After a long and vehement discussion the
motion to lay the anti-tariff report of the
majority on the table was carried.

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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. NOV. 1, 1882.
——

Mr. O. Latour, has sold in Quebec his entire
output of timber, averaging about 50 feet in
length, for asum in the neighborhood of $99,-

000.

BrsipgEs pine lumber, shingle and lath ship-
ped from Manistee, Mich., this season, 195,000
feet of elm lumber, 1,925,000 feet of timber and
2,148 sawdust bales have been shipped.

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Axour a fortnight ago 10 car loads of portable
houses were shipped from Ottawa to the North-
west for the use of the mounted police. Ten
more carloads are now ready for shipment,

SS

Tua Wisconsin lumbermen are making pre-
parations for a big winter’s work, and standing
pine is changing hands at high prices. A few
days since 2,500,000 feet changed hands at
Neillsville, the consideration being $12,200.
The haul is for miles. Good No. 1 logs are
worth $9.50, and No, 2 $7.50.

————EE————e

Tur Canadian Manufacturer says:—It does
not seem to be a bad thing for Canada to hear
from Ottawa that, owing to the good wages
paid to lumber hands this season in Canada, the
usual number have not gone to the Western
States and Michigan: lumbermen there, in
consequence, are very shorthanded,

RT TE

Tur Northwestern Lumber Company at Eau
Claire, Wis., -will add a sash, door and blind
factory to the planing-mill now being built.
Plans for the machinery are now being made by
Benjamin, Fisher & Mallery, of this city, and
the planing-mill will be ready for operations by
next March, the sash and door department to be
completed later.

A New BRUNSWICK correspondent complains
that so much of the lumber trade in that Pro-
vince is exported in the rudest form of sawed
stuff, whereas it might just as well be manufac-
tured into forms for which the price obtained
would be very much more. A little enterprise
and the necessary machinery would do it ; and
we should be glad to hear of planers and moul-
ders being more extensively used on lumber
for export,

tiv

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Tur Kingston Whig says :—Messrs, Rathbun
& Sons, of Deseronto, having already 300 men
engaged in cutting timber. Some are located in
Dunganon and Faraday townships, others in
Tudor and Grimsthrope. There are two shanties
on the Napanee river, and another force will be
sent to the Salmon riverina few/days. Jobbers
are also beginning operations,

gation, on the North Saskatchewan, Northwest
Territory, there are two steam saw and planing
mills, and a mill on Sturgeon river, in the
vicinity. There is no pine in the section, but
spruce grows to a large size, and plenty can be
had from the Beaver Hills. There are two
steam saw-mills at Prince Albert, another im-
portant place on the river, that promises to be
the largest town in the section.

THE latest advices from the Black river, Wis.,
are to the effect that there is a good stage of
water in the stream and all its tributaries, and
that the logs are driven out cleaner than they
have been for the last 16 years. The amount
that will reach the boom is estimated at from
20,000.000 to 35,000,000 feet. The boom at La

00| Crosse will be opened and all the logs rafted out

if the weather will permit, It is now expected
that the mills that have shut down will start up
again this season,

Tuer New Brunswick Land & Lumber Com-
pany recently helda meeting at Woodstock, N.
B., and elected the following directors for the
current year: Lord Elphinstone, Hon. Isaac
Burpee, Hon. D, A. Smith, Hon. Sir John
Maeneill, George Stephen, Samuel Thorne,
J. K. Tod, O. H. Northcote and R. E. Burpee.
At a subsequent meeting of the directors, Lord
Elphinstone was elected president, Hon. Isaac
Burpee, vice-president, and W. T, Whitehead,
secretary -treasurer,

Tur Ottawa Citizen says:—Mr. OC. Logan,
who, in connection with J. D, O’Doherty, has
been carrying on the manufacture of portable
houses, had an interview on Saturday with
Mr. Darley Bentley, Consul-Governor in Can-
ada for Brazil, who was in Ottawa with a view
to seeing what could be done in the way of es-
tablishing a trade between Canada and that
place in these articles. Messrs, Logan &
O'Doherty have for weeks past been at work
for the Government on portable barracks and
stables for the North-west mounted police, suf-
ficient to accommodate 300 men and horses.
They have lately been shipping them off at the
rate of ten car loads per week, and will con-
tinue at that rate until the whole order is filled.

THE Timber Trades Journal says :—Concern-
ing spruce deals it would appear that the con-
ditions which caused the recent advances in
value remain in full force. It is quite possible
that the limit of the advance has not yet been
reached. .High freight and imsurance rates,
together with the difficulty in securing ship-
room even at the stiff rates ruliny, the compar-
ative scarcity of stock at the west coast ports,
and the fact that the stocks inland are being
rapidly reduced, are all existing features which
point to the likelihood of prices being still
higher. If the present conditions affecting
spruce deals remain in force but a short time
longer, we shall, in all probability, see a decided
change in the market occur. The course of
trade at Liverpool during the next three or four
weeks will be watched with much anxiety by all
the large inland buyers of spruce, and our cor-
respondents weekly report will doubtless be
perused with no small degree of interest,

THE MURRAY CANAL.

WE beg to call attention to a letter from a
correspondent on a very {important subject,
namely, the practicability of the new Murray
Canal for drams of timber, The short eut
which the canal will afford, and the means of
escape thereby presented from the dangers of
rounding the coast in that neigborhood, will
make it a public boon, Buta great portion of
‘this benefit will be needlessly sacrificed if
bridges are permitted to be thrown across it of
such a design as to prevent the passage of drams

AT Edmonton, situated at the head of navi-'

of timber. The work has not yet progressed

too far for the required changes to be affected,

and we feel convinced that an appeal to the

Minister of Railways and Canals will be suf-
ficient to secure the necessary relief, It should
be remembered, however, that those interested
would do well to make their voices heard before
it is too late, It is far easier to prevent damage
from being done than to remedy it after the mis-
chief has become an accomplished fact.

MURRAY CANAL.
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman.

My Dear Sir,—I have just recently ascer-
tained that the Murray Canal, if constructed on
the designs and specifications which are at
present under contract, will not afford any facil-
ity for the passage of timber in lake drams. As
this is a very large and important industry it
only requires the attention of the Minister of
Railways & Canals to be called to the subject, to
have such alterations made in the designe of the
five bridges which cross this canal, as will per-
mit all the advantages of the canal being
accessible to timber operators, whose rafts are
to pass through Lake Ontario, For the infor-
mation of those operators whose attention
has not been called to the very great
importance of this subject, it may be well to
mention that four common road bridges and one
railway bridge will cross the canal; and the
present designs of the spans of these bridges
would not permit of a dram of timber passing
through them, the net width of the opening
being 54 feet and with the timber guard booms,
which is also part of the designs only 48 feet.
The channel of the canal is enlarged at the
bridges referred to, and it is thus apparent that
a dram of timber 250 feet long, (which is the
usual length) could not pass through, if of a
greater width than about 35 feet. This pre-
cludes the possibility of the canal being used
for timber purposes, A petition is being drawn
out to be presented to the Minister of Railways
& Canals asking his favorable consideration for
such a change in the designs as will aeccommo-
date the timber trade, and it is to be hoped
that the different operators will give their as-
sistance in seeing that this matter receives that
attention which it deserves,

Yours truly,
BOARD PINE.

NATIVE FORESTS.

While there is much said and written in re-
gard to forest tree cultivation, we find very
little attention paid to the preservation of
native forests. In the timber sections we have
been too busy trying to get rid of the timber to
think of any method of preservation. Yet in
some sections that were formerly timbered there
is now felt to be a scarcity of timber, particu-
larly of that kind which is useful in manufac-
tures. The only remedy mentioned is the
planting of forest trees for this purpose, but this
is a work that we are hardly prepared for in
this state, and it is probable that only necessity
will compel artificial planting. The time seems
too long to wait for an investment of this kind
to begin to pay, and there are very few who
will undertake the work, At least very little
as yet has been done in this line, At the
Agricultural college an experimental arboretum
of four acres has been growing a few years ; and
a farmer in Monroe county has this year set
1,500 black-walnut trees with a view to grow
them for timber,

Would it not be well to study more closely
the possibility of improving the timber lands
that still remain. The woods still standing con-
tain a vast amount of material which is suscep-
tible of development in far less time than
would be required for the planting and
growth of new forests, the neglect of which
furnishes a striking proof of the general
ignorance of forest culture, The timber js
ruthlessly cut from many places that are nearly
useless for cultivation after, and would be
worth far more for growing timber than for any
other purpose, more beautiful to the eye and
more profitable. In many instances the native
woods have been so much neglected or so mueh
injured as to be past redemption, yet there are
still large areas of forests and smaller groves
and wood-lots now yielding no revenue which
might be developed into timber forests of very

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great value and at the same time
nual crop of firewood in the ‘ .

Cut out the dead and least valued timber for
firewood, preserve the small growing trees that
are of the best varieties for timber. It will be
necessary for the best care of the forest to keep
stock from running in it, as they will totally
destroy all small growth. In almost every
tract of woodland may be found more or less
of trees of the best varieties for timber mingl-
ed with a great variety that are worthless or
only fit for fuel. In many cases they have
been neglected and cannot be improved, but
in most cases intelligent work in thinning and
pruning will be followed by profitable result,—
Detroit Post.

yield an an-

SWEDEN.

The Stockholm correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal says :—The vanguard of the
autumn fleet has now arrived, and commenced .
loading at the ports in the north of Sweden un-
der most favorable atmospheric conditions.
The dearth of sailing tonnage under 150 stand-
ards still continues, and business for the year’s —
shipment may therefore be considered as
closed. ,

The statistics of shipments from Sweden up
to the end of August having now been publish-
ed, we can form a pretty shrewd idea as to
whether my prognostications earlier in the season
of an unprecedented heavy export this year are
likely to be realized or not. The figures for the
first eight months of this year and last year are
as follows, viz :—

1881.

1882.
Sawn and planed wood..
Square and partially Li Pare

square timber....,. 11,287,313 7,946,325 c. ft

These totals bear out all I have written this
season, not only respecting the probable export,
but also the extent of the production. One
would imagine that all saw mill owners were
running a race as to which one would have his
wood cleared out first, so suicidal is the present
enormous production for prices. Notwithstand-
ing an all-round consumption larger than ever
before, and an export commensurate with this
consumption, we are staggering under heavy
stocks at the close of the shipping season,

—_—_—_
Forests and Streams.

A French writer tells of two exactly similar
pieces of land, one cleared and the other wood-
ed, where the wooded piece yielded ten times as
much water as the open, and besides that the
open piece had a very irregular flow, while the
woodland yielded an even regular supply. Still
another fact is given, this time relating to
America. A stream, which for years and years
without failing, had supplied several mills with
power, finally gave out. It not only failed to
fill the ponds but it actually dried up, _An in-
vestigation showed that the woods through
which its course flowed had been cut down.
Subsequently these woods were allowed to grow
up again, and for the past ten years in spite of
droughts and other troubles, the stream has
flowed without any interruption.

Sales of English Timber.

On the 6th of Oct, Messrs, Shouler, Sons &
Walker sold by auction a quantity of trees,
poles, and arms, comprising oak, elm, ash,
chestnut, spruce, etc., the property of his Grace
the Duke of Rutland. The small better qual-
ity elm made from 8d. to 10d. per foot ; the best
timber from Is. to 1s. 4d. ; oak, middle size and
quality, 1s. to 1s. 8d. ; one large tree containing
120 feet, fetched £27 10s. ; Spanish chestnut, of
middle size, 1s. to 1s. 4d. ; larch, 1s. ; poplar,
6d. to 1s. ; spruce fir, 6d. to 8d. : elm and other
grains fetched 4d. to 6d. per foot. An evident
demand for large oak of first quality was notice
able. A large and respectable company at
tended.

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BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
The following are the returns issued by the
Board of trade, for the month of Sept., and

for the first nine months of the year :—
MONTH ENDED 318T SEPT., 1882.

Quantity. Value.
Timber (Hewn). Loads. £.
Russi& ..--+ vee Webi ves seanve vevse 49,476 102,888
Sweden and Norway....-++ Se bias ite 99,013 166,236
Germany...-++--++* peel se swme 48,653 133,006
United States.....--.-- ewicainat<Luais 11,548 40,998

British India......++++++ aleoaaitatsed 92 932
British North America.....--.+++++- 26,492 125,710
Other Countries........+-+ ore? oo 30,506 42,424

teal cidmiscis «saris ccecoevecete 204,077, 612,194

Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).

Russia..... GesedWebisnesee euueveus 248,529 638,741
g weden and Norway....- doeeviessess 248,423 591,691
British North America... -«+++++++s 73,792 193,377
Other Countries...... ma lap eaisje isis 24,0866 75,949

Motels. ibd. eles lee ceneees 694,810 1,499,758

Staves, (all sizes).....+-.-- prajuinsel> ipis'®! 18,489 83,493
Mahogany (tons)....- ACEC 8,457 34,067
Total of Hewn and Sawn.......-+--- 859,687 2,111,952

NINE MONTHS ENDED 318T SEPT., 1882.

Timber (Hewn).

Russia... sescvce wcrecsveeereeesee 227,702 475,393
Sweden and NOrway...erersereeee-s 494,108 773,298
Germany.......ccserereeeeeeeeesees 224,992 656,875

United States...... Aiiajanin ca eases 140,648 656,375
British India......-.+++ Stateline wfehe ie 30,664 885,182

British North America.......----+++ 151,187 715,129

Other Countries.....+-++s-seeeee , » 266,982 344,089

Potal. ces vsaecesrseess aye pints 1,536,283 3,827,711

Timber (Sawn or Split,

Planed or Dressed).

PRUSTHA ces cece eter nes meee veees 920,110 2,320,281
Sweden end Norway ....-- See 1,271,281 3,219,225
British North America ....---0--++ 626,543 1,630, 551
Other Countried..sssesessees And aec 289,486 923,941

Total..... bid Gate do cthiabina omeinra 128,4075419 8,093,998

Staves (all sizeS)......-+e2--ereeee +. 94,967 474,447

Mahogany (tons)....-+---- sehen ecee 21,675 205,280

Total of Hewn and Sawn....++++-++ 4,643,702 11,921,709

—e
CLOSE OF NAVIGATION.

The Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich.,
says:—The season of navigation is rapidly
drawing to a close, and shippers are exhibiting
considerable anxiety to move what lumber they
have yet to go forward, as they are becoming
considerably nervous about freights taking an
upward turn, A prominent shipper remarked
in the presence of the writer that he had a few
million yet to be put afloat, but was fearful he
would be unable to do so before the advance of
freights took place. If the vessel men, how-
ever, exhibit the same lack of shrewdness that
has characterized them during the entire season
thus far, there is little probability that they
will avail themselves of the opportunities which
may present themselves. The demand for ves-
sels on the part of the men who must move their
lumber which is contracted for, may possibly
accomplish for the vessel owners what they
themselves have been unable to accomplish dur-
ing the entire season, which has been a very
unprofitable one thus far.

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Old Timber.

The so-called submarine forest at Hastings is
a portion of the wood that once surrounded the
Priory of Holy Trinity, founded in the time of
Richard I. The Priory, being built on the low
ground, was exposed to those inundations of
the sea which have so ravaged the coast Eussex,
and which eventually drove the monks to
establish themselves at a new Priory further
inland. The wood surrounding the Priory was
part of the vast forest of Anderida, which must
in BRichard’s day have come close up to
Hastings. At low water, when the “forest” is
left dry, and exposed to view, it is found to
consist of a black looking deposit in which
timber of a large size is found embedded,
Through this the course of a thick hedge has
been distinctly traced, and hazel nuts are oc-
casionally found there, with their shells ina
most perfect state. This subterranean timber
is sound enough to be capable of being worked
up into tinkets, which form ready articles of
sale,—The Oracle,

ET ES
OMEMEE.

Kingain’s Mitt Buaxgp,—On the 26th Oct.
sbout 2,00 om, Mr, John Kincaid’s steam

saw and shingle mills were discovered to be on

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

fire. The flames were fanned by a strong north
west wind, so that nothing could be done
towards saving the buildings, which, with all
their contents, were completely destroyed in a
very short time. Mr. Kinesid’s loss is about
$6,500, which is only partly covered by $1,400
insurance. A number of men are thrown out of
employment. It is supposed the fire was the
work of an incendiary, as when first seen it was
at the north end of the buildings, that is, the
opposite end to where the engine-room was
situated. ‘Two or three buildings were set
on fire by the falling embers, but fortunately
were noticed in time and no damage ensued.
—————
Tree Planting.

In the season of 1881-2 more than 3,000,000
trees were planted in Great Britain, out of
which number Scotland claims about 2,000,000,
England 600,000, Ireland 300,000, and Wales
40,000,

Henne nn eeentineaaananiiand

Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from active practice
having had placed in his hands by an East In-
diana Missionary the formula of a simple veg-
etable remedy for the speedy and permanent
eure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrb,
Asthma, and all Throat and Lung affections,

also positive and radical cure for General
Debility and all nervous complaints, after hav-
ing thoroughly tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, feels it is his duty
to make it known to his fellows. The recipe,
with full particulars, directions for preparation
and use, and ail necessary advice and instruc-
tions for successful treatment at yourown home,
will be received by you by return mail, free of
charge, by addressing with stamp or stamped
self addressed envelope to
Dr. J. C. RAYMOND,
164 Washington Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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A Reliable Witness.

Mr, Whyte, late proprietor of the Mansion
Saloon, King street, Toronto, writes as follows
about Dr. Carson’s Stomach and Constipation
Bitters: “I have used Dr Carson’s Stomach
Bitters for nearly two years, and I believe it to
be the best medicine in the world. I would not
be without it for anything. I have induced scores
of people to try it, and when taken according to
directions, I have never known it to fail. T call
the Bitters, “’The Doctor.” It has certainly
been my family doctor even since I first used it,.
and will continue tobe as long as it acts the
same as hitherto. I strongly advise all my
friends and the public generally, who suffer
from any affections of the Stomach, Bowels,
Liver and Blood, such as Dyspepsia, Indiges-
tion, Liver Complaint, Headache, Dizziness.
Costiveness, Impurities of the blood, Rheuma-
tism, Neuralgia, etc.. to buy a bottle of “The
Doctor,’ and I am certain that not one will re-
gret having done so. I do not think there is any
medicine in the whole world equal to Dr. Car-
son’s Stomach and Constipation Bitters.”

g, JAS. WHYTE,
Sold in large Bottles at 50 cents at J. D,
Tully, druggist.

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for many years a sufferer with liver complaint
and a serious complication of diseases, Ina
recent letter she says she has only taken two
bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters, and has near-
ly recovered her health, and authorizes us to use
her name in advertising to suffering humanity,

SS |S

Wanted.

A PARTNER that understands the SAW MILLING
BUSINESS, with capital. For information address
JAMES B, DICKSON, Pembroke, Ont. 216

WANTED.

ed

BLACK ASH PLANK

Sound, Square Edged and largely clear of knots ; 3x8
to 18 inches wide, 10 to 16 feet lengths, Can use it
green. Quote for 3 to 5 cars per manth, delivered at
Boston, Mass.

ROBERT C. LOWRY,
Wholesale Lumber,

65 Pine Street, New York,

CURRIE BOl

Mrs. B. M. GirrorD. of Port Rowan, was’

LER WORK

ESTABLISHED 1852

MANUFACTURERS OF

STHAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery

on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

111

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A Syndicate of Limit Holders

Represented by the Undersigned, offers

FOR SALE

On the Upper Ottawa,

600 Square Miles Virgin Forest of Pine,

comprising 13 Licenses, nearly all Front

Limits, on the main stream of the River
Ottawa itself, on reasonable terms.

The Proprietors will sell either the whole, or, if
preferred, a part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
ward towards Manitoba, the establishment of steain-
boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this property,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving the lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only half the distance away, but forced
to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
the large volume of the ‘‘ Grand” River itself to float
it to market.

Full particulars will be promptly sent on
application to

E. J. CHARLTON,

QUEBEC, P. O.

AUCTION SALE

OF VALUABLE

TIMBER LIMITS.

Situated on the Rivers Ottawa,
Gatineau and Jean de Terre.

1716

The following limits, if not previously disposed of, will
be offered for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION,

At the RUSSELL HOUSE, OTTAWA,
on Thursday, Nov. 30th next,

AT TWO O'CLOCK P.M.

Miles.
River Gatineau,—License Number 176 for 1881-2—46}
do do 177 do £0
do do 178 do 50
do do 179 do 50
do do 180 do 50
do do 181 do 50
do and Ottawa do 182 do 28}
do and Jean de Terre 183 do 48
do do 184 do 46
do do 185 do 42
do do 186 do 50
do do 187 do 50
do do 188 do 1
do do 189 do 46 9-10
do da 190 do
do do 191 do 50
da da 192 do 50
da da 193 do 313
do do 194 ° 50
da do 195 do 39 6-10
do do 196 do 21
do do 197 do 60

Terms and conditions made known at time of Sal
Further information can be obtained by application to
R. C. W. MacCuaig, Auctioneer, or Crown Timber
Offices, Ottawa.

R. C, W. MacCUAIG,
Auctioneer ~ Real Estate Agent,

Sparks Street.
Ottawa, 1st September, 1882. c

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

S.S. MUTTON & Co.,

Wholesale Lumber Dealers
TORONTO.

We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY, BUT-
TERNUT, BASSWOOD, &e.

&P.S.—A SET OF TUB MACHINERY FOR SALE,
CHEAP—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER. iutf

J. L. Goodhue & Son

-MANUFACTURERS OF

Leather Belting !

—aAND—

Patent Lace Leather.

aoa DANVILLE, P. Q.

IRWIN & PHILP

Commission

Lumber Dealers,

FORWARDERS,
ShippingsGeneralAgents
PORT HOPE.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

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spars from their works supply to a large extent
the New York, Boston and other, seaport

OTTAWA.
From our own Correspondent.

Oot, 10.—Saw mills hereabouts are running
regularly yet, and will continue until the last |
The cutting season this year has been
of the longest duration for many years past.
Although no correct estimate can be made of
the cut of the year before the mills close, it can
safely be asserted that the number of feet will

moment,

be far greater than
THE OUT OF 1881, -

and in fact greater than any previous year. The
yards now present a fresh appearance all being
filled with green timber, the old stock having
been shipped early in the spring. Large quan-
tities of fresh cut lumber are being daily ship-

ped, the demand being s0 lively that no time can
Boats

be given the stock to dry in the yards.
are enabled to take paying loads. The
HEIGHT OF THE WATER
being favourable,
P. R. leaving the city twice a week for the ac

commodation of lumbermen is crowded to the
utmost every trip. Besides this a great many are
sent up the river to the shanties on the regular
The lumbermen and jobbers are pre-
paring for a heavy winter’s work. No com-

trains.

plaints are heard of a
SCARCITY OF SHANTY HANDS,
but all who come along are promptly engaged.

This year nothing is heard of the exodus of
lumberers to the Michigan shanties, which oc-
curred during the fall of the past few years,
The wages paid, by the Canadian firms, given
in the last correspondence, are as high, if not

higher, than those paid
AOROSS THE BORDER,

More logs will be taken out this winter than
It is doubtful if a great deal will be
done with square timber, as the Quebec market
the past while has not been as good as expected.
There is no very great demand for the square
This may, however, be the periodical

Not

usual,

timber.
stagnation which generally takes place.

many
SALES OF RAFTS

have been reported lately. There is one more
raft coming down the Ottawa, which will be the
The timber slides at the
Chaudiere here are to undergo extensive repairs
and improvements after the drive isover, A
large force of men will be employed during the

last of the season.

winter doing the work.

Mr, E. B. Eddy, the well-known lumberman
of Hull, who has been for some time in a dan-
gerous condition, suffering from a tumor in the
Mr. Eddy’s
friends, who are legions, earnestly hope that his

stomach, is recovering slowly.

recovery will be rapid and sure.

MODERN LUMBERING.

The Detroit Marine News says :—In 1868
Moore and Alger commenced lumbering in
northern Michigan, and were succeeded by

Alger & Co. in 1874, the firm at that time being
composed of General R. A, Alger, M.S. Smith
and George W. Bissell, who continued until
1879, when R. K. Hawley & Co., of Baltimore,
Md., purchased the interests of Mr. Bissell, and
soon after the firm incorporated as R--Alger &
Co., with a capital of $1,000,000. In 1881 the
capital stock of the company was increased to
$1,500,000, and the company became known as
Alger, Smith & Co,, with officers as follows :—
R. A. Alger, president; R. K. Hawley, vice-
president ; M.S. Smith, treasurer ; J. C. Me-
Caul, secretary, and J, Millen, superintendent
at Black River, Mich., the stock being all taken
by the gentlemen named, The office and gen-
eral business of the company is carried on at
Detroit, Mich,, and the works are at Black
River, Alcona county, Mich., where they own
50,000 acres of land and have 600,000,000 feet of
pine timber standing on these lands. In ad-
dition to this very large amount of timber the
company own 50,000,000 feet of standing pine
on the upper Peninsula of Michigan. It may
be said without question that Alger, Smith &
Co. are the largest producers of pine timber,
spars and masts in the world. The pine timber
of Mich. is being cut very rapidly, and it will
be a matter of only a few years ere the supply
is exhausted, especially that class of timber
suitable for timber, spars and masts, and it is
generally conceded that this company own and
produce the best of these timbers, Masts and

The special train on the ©,

Fe

production,

markets, i ‘> &
Tn 1876, in order to indice ‘the

it was found necessary to build a railroad to
these lands, aud now the company has 25 miles
of railroad, three and one-half feet gauge, laid
with steel rails, with four locomotives (of which
the largest one, the General Sheridan, weighs

65,000 pounds) and 100 cars, ~
The cutting and skidding is of course the
same as at any lumbering camp.

skidded to and loaded on the cars at once.

into the water and rafted down the same day.

These rafts are put in tow of one of the com-
pany’s steam barges or tugs, and delivered at
Tonawanda, Buffalo, Cleveland, Sandusky, Tol-

edo, Detroit, and Port Huron.” Quite/recently
Messrs, Alger, Smith &°Co. had four rafts on

Lake Huron at one time, the four” containing
The large number of

8,000,000 feet of timber.
chains necessary to the business would surprise
many, and it might incidentally be mentioned

that the company have $40,000 invested in these
rafting chains alone, and over $110,000 in steam
barges and tugs used in towing timber. They
have just built a large barge, the Manis-

tique, which is used for the double purpose of
towing and carrying freight,an unusual thing in
the business.

The annual, product is 70,000,000 feet board

measure of long timber and 10,000,000 feet
short logs.

The company will commence in 1883 the man-
ufacture of lumber at Manistique, Mich., in

addition to their business of long timber, on a
large scale.

This company employs 600 men at work at
Black River, and the business of getting out
rafting timber is managed by their very efficient
Superintendent, Mr. John Millen, who is also

a stockholder in the company,

LUMBER OUTLOOK.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—The principal
reason that the expected October rush did not
put in an appearance as anticipated, in the lum-
ber centres of the country, may be accounted
for from the fact that the low prices of cereals
and other farm products has inclined the far-
mer to hold on to his grain, and consequently
defer any projected improvements which he
may have had in view. - This ‘tardiness on the
part of the principal customers of the western
retail dealers has disinclined the latter to stock-
ing up very heavily until they can see what is

to be the result. This tardiness, of course,

affects the manufacturing districts and large
lumbering centres, and although there may be a

steady call at these points tosupply actual pre-

sent demands, the rush to stock up in the retail
yards in the country in anticipation of future

trade is delayed for the present at least. This
has inclined some people tothe opinion that the
lumber business thoughout the country is on
the wane. The facts, however, do not warrant
the opinion, Although the anticipated rush has

not put in an appearance, there has been a

steady inquiry, not only on the Saginaw river,
but at the other heavy manufacturing points,
as well as at’ Chicago, That this demand will

be constant there is no room for doubt, as it isa

demand to supply actual necessities. The crops
have been unusually heavy, and the grain and
other products are in the country, and so soon
as the holders thereof conclude to dispose of the
same and move them forward, the anticipated
improvements and consequent increased demand
for lumber will make its appearance, It is pos.
sible, and even probable that these improve-
ments will be delayed until next spring, and at
that time a boom in the lumber trade may
reasonably be expected, as we shall then, as
stated by us last week, reap the benefit of the
success and prosperity of the agriculturalist the
present season. Reports from all over the
country show that the prices for lumber remain
firm, which is an indication of a steady and
constant demand. Had the price of farm pro-
ducts remained high, there would undoubtedly

have been an almost insatiable call for lumber

this month. The outlook, however, is fayour-
ble for a brisk opening and a heavy demand

The trees as

soon as fallen are stripped of their bark and
The

work is done very rapidly, the logs being put

next spring, and unless some unforseen obstacle
intervenes a boom in the lumber business at the
commencement of another season may reason-
ably be anticipated, with a steady demand in

the meantime.

VALUE OF TIMBER.

The market value of timber lands in the lake
region has doubled since the publication of the
census bulletin maps, in which the startling
fact. was set forth that the white pine supply of
the country would be completely exhausted ina
This fact would seem to indicate

dozen years.
not only that the accuracy of these statistics are

accepted without question, but also that the
most provident lumber dealers had failed to
comprehend how swiftly the devastation of the

pine forests was going on. No other wood on

this continent is so easily shaped by the tool of
The redwood

the workman to such varied use.
of California approaches it more nearly in

quality than any other, being a light, durable
and fine-grained wood which works smoothly

and splits true. But California is a long way

from the eastern markets, and in a recent bull-
etin the amount of ‘accessible redwood standing
in the census year along the coast range from
Oregon to Santa Cruz is estimated at less than
26,000,000,000 feet board measure. At the same
date 29,000,000,000 feet of merchantable white
pine was standing in the lower peninsula of
Michigan alone, so that the relief we can hope
for from the Pacific coast is comparatively
It should be added that California en-
terprise has not been behind the older states in
devising means for obliterating their timber
They have ever been more wasteful in

slight.

trees,
their methods of sawing and working.

It is not uncommon to see a redwood tree
containing about 15,000 or more of lumber left
to decay on the ground, or to feed the next fire
that sweeps through the forest, simply because
a slight twist in the grain prevents it from split-
ting readily and squarely into railway ties,
Animals which gnaw and browse are turned
loose to help devouring fires sweep away not
only the timber but the soil itself, for in no
other country do the conditions which produce
destructive torrents more generally prevail,
Here are mountains, high, steep, and covered
To strip
their flanks of protecting trees and shrubs is to
encourage floods to wash every particle of loose
earth into the valleys and scour the rocky
skeltons of these long ranges bare.—New York

yearly with unknown depths of snow.

Tribune.
THE INFUENCE OF RAILROADS.

The vast and rapidly increasing extent of the
American railway system, which at the present
moment can scarcely be less than 100,069 miles,
has a most important bearing upon the question
of our forest supplies. This effect is not limit-
ed to the vast consumption that they occasion in
supplying ties and other materials for the new
constructions and renewals that are constantly
going on, These roads are every where penetra-
ting the timber regions of the country, many of
them being built for the express purpose of get-
ting out the timber that was before inaccessible
by the old methods of floating upon the rivers

or hauling in winter by teams, It is but a com-
paratively recent period since this feature in
lumbering was introduced, and its direct and
speedy effect is to hasten the exhaustion of these
supplies, that were going off too fast for the
needs of the present and of the future. The
obvious effects of this will be to keep up the
supply at the mills so long as there are- forests
from whence it can be obtained. They will
distribute the manufactured lumber over a
wider area and to greater distances to meet the
wants of regions that have already used up
their own forest resources, and they will doubt-
less extend for a little while the time of appar-
ent ‘‘abundance” and of ‘inexhaustible sup-
ply.” But while they are doing this, they will
be every day equalizing the ruin that must in-
evitably follow this vast and rapidly increasing
destruction, that will happen to the country in
the near future, unless seasonable and adequate
measures are taken to meet these future wants
by extensive and judicious planting, and by
effectual measures for economising our remain-
ing supplies, We shall be soon admonished of
this necessity by the rapidly gaining prices of

our timber ; but it is not wise to wait for this
extremity until it is directly upon us. We
should anticipate these wante; for it takes
many years for a seedling sprout to become a
tree fit for timber and boards. The duty before
us is a most important one, and it presents two
principal points for consideration, namely : first,
as to how farand in what manner the General
Government can withdraw its remaining timber
lands from entry under existing lawe and place
them under regulations calculated to secure the
greatest benefit to the present in the use of tim-
ber that is now fully mature, and that shall at
the same time have due regard for the require-
ments of the future ; secondly, as to how we
may most thoroughly impress upon the owners
of land the importance of planting, and as to
how far and in what manner it is the duty of
Congress to encourage thie object. "The first of
these is a complex question, and one that must
be carefully considered in all its bearings before
we can adopt a definite policy concerning it.
Upon inquiry of the author of this report, I
learn that he has given the subject much atten-
tion, and that suggestions are made as to the
measures that may be adopted. Until the re-
port is before us no opinion can be expressed as
to the feasibility of these plans, and they may
require a further study before action can be had
npon the subject. There can be no doubt but
that property of this kind under the care of
persons who have an interest in its protection,
and the law for their support, would be better
cared for than if exposed, as it now is, to the
plunder of everybody. The second point is of
gréater importance, because it affects the whole
country and applies everywhere alike to the
owners of the land. We find in our country
conditions of ownership that are in general very
different from those that. prevail in Europe.
We have no lands belonging to the government
scattered here and there all over the country, to
be reserved for timber growth, and eared for by
skilled foresters.-Our-towns,-cities and villages
own no lands for common usage; our public
institutions have no landed estates that need the
special care of Government; we have no great
hereditary domains belonging to titled owners,
and we have no privileged classes. Almost the
whole of our lands, excepting what remain un-
der the care of the General Land Office, belong
to farmers in actual possession, under absolute
titles that assure perpetual ownership. We
cannot require them to plant trees, nor prevent
them from cutting off their woodlands—at least
not under the present state of public opinion ;
and nothing but sad necessity alone could ever
hereafter so change this opinion as to justify
and support restrictive legislation upon this sub-
ject. We cannot dictate in this matter. We
certainly can never plant woodlands upon
private property at the public expense, unless
in the exceptional and local instances where
this becomes a public necessity for the protect-
ion of some other interest, It has been shown
by long experience in Europe that timber can
be grown with profit upon lands suitable for no
other kind of use, and that by careful and in-
telligent management a permanent supply may
be maintained, It has long since been found
that nothing will so effectually restore fertility
to worn-out lands as a crop of trees, with the
accumulation of organic materials that is con-
stantly forming under them from the air and
the soil. It is also proved by the experience of
every careful observer that groves of woodland
afford protection to the surrounding fields in the

cooling and equalizing influence in mitigating
the extremes of heat and cold, and bya percep-
tible and often decided effect in preventing in-
juries from drought. They afford resting places

for insectivorous birds, and thus promote the
destruction of insects to the profit of our grain

and fruits. They screen us against the hot and

dry winds of summer and the sweeping and

piercing storms of winter that are some times

so severely felt, especially in the prairie regions

of the West. There can be no doubt but that

timber can be grown within the United States

sufficient for all the wants of its own inhabi-

tants, but we must learn to regulate these wants

and to guard against waste. We must diligent-

ly study the methods of cultivation that lead

to most profitable results, and the kinds of trees

that produces the most thrifty growth and the

most valuable products, In short, our first and

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greatest duty is to impress upon the owners of
the land that it is in their interest to devote a
portion of their land to the planting of groves
of trees. We should establish experiment
stations for the careful study of the require-
ments and capabilities of soils and different
kinds of trees; and we should publish the
results of these observations in a form partic-
ularly calculated to impress the importance of
these measures and to teach the plainest and
simplest rules for securing their success. If we
rightly read the signs of the times, public at-
tention is already awakening upon this subject,
and we should lead this question, and not wait
to be driven by it, in whatever measures may
appear necessary for the promotion of this
object.—Jotrnal of Forestry.

SPRUCE IN ENGLAND.

The London Timber Trades Journal of Sept.
30th, says:—The spruce market on the west
coast practically remains unaltered. Thestrength
of the market is reported to mainly lie in the fact.
that very little spruce has for some weeks been
sent inland ; consumers have therefore had to
work almost entirely from stock. Some of the
inland stocks\are already said to be greatly re-
duced, and should any considerable arrivals
shortly come forward, it is thought there will be
plenty of demand for them. At the recent sale
an unusual quantity of ends were offered, and,
as will be seen, good prices were realized.

Spruce is a class of wood that is not likely to
remain long unshipped, and with the wind up
of the season it is possible we may have very
little difference to record between the stocks of
last year and this,

In England, as in this country, considerable
whitewood is made into pulp for paper making.
Redwood is not suitable for pulp, as it does not
impart the proper color. The English pulp is
made from the timber of Norway and Sweden.

Tue Duke of Athole has planted 2,000 acres
of forest since the begining of the year. Thus
his grace répairs such accidents as that of the
“Tay Bridge ” gale, which uprooted 80,000 trees
thoughout the wide possessions of the ducal
forester.

THE new main river dam on the Menominee,
a few miles above Chalk Hills, Mich., has been
completed, costing the boom company $15,000.
It has six 11-foot gates, and on the first trial the
full head was raised in nine hours, the flow
being four miles back.

Tue Timber Trades Journal says :—One of the
natural effects of wood being at high prices is that
all sorts of experiments for procuring cheap
timber are resorted to, Thus, now that spruce
deals have so much advanced in value, we find
Riga whitewood sleeper blocks are beimg freely
dealt in at the west cost ports. It rarely indeed
happens that whitewood of any description, or
form of manufacture can be brought into com-
petition with spruce, Nor are we inclined to
believe at the present juncture that Riga white
sleeper blocks at their relative market value
compete in points of economy with spruce deals.
Presuming, for instance, that the blocks can be
sod at 20s. per standard lower than spruce
deals, it is yet difficult to believe that they cost
less to the consumer,

A MINNEAPOLIS correspondent of the Worth-
western Lumberman says:—The weather has
been very dry of.late, and logs scarce. Quite
a number of the mills have shut down. The
demand for lumber throughout the Northwest is
unabated. Logs are selling in the Black river
at from $2 to $3 per thousand higher than last
year. J, L, Gates sold a couple of days ago 4,-
000,000 feet, banked on the upper Black, to B.
B. Healy, of La Crosse, Wis., for $9.25. The
same grade of logs sold last year for $6.50, In
fact there but few logs for sale on the Black
river. Chippewa lumbermen are offering logs,
and claim they will cut the coming winter 1,-
000,000,000 feet. I think 200,000,000 feet will
be put in on the Black. George H. Ray, agent
for A. Cobbun, of Maine, has sold the Cobbun
tract of pine land, on tne Eau Claire, to the
Eau Claire Lumber Company, for $600,000,

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Ohips.

Tuk Parry Sound Lumber Company’s barges
Lothair, Corisande and Van Straubanzee were
all caught in Lake Huron, off Sandy Beach, in
the storm which wrecked the Asia, but they
weathered the gale, and reached Sarnia withont
the loss of a board,

Sratistics furnished to the tariff commission
show that the entire lumber districts of the Un-
ited States give employment to 90,000 persons
in the mills and 135,000 in the forests, who earn
$50,000,000 a year. In Michigan the men are
employed 200 days in the year in the mills, and
140 in the forests, the average daily wages being
from $2.05 to $2.10.

Tur Lumberman’s Gazette says :—Minnesota
lumbermen have hard work in finding enough
oxen for the lumber camps, and they come high
too. Prices range, in the country up north,
where they are purchased, from $175 to $400,
the latter figure being for a seven foot nine inch
yoke. In Minneapolis the oxen would be worth
from 20 to 30 per cent more,

Cops & MircHELu’s new logging railroad
from Cadillac, Mich., to a point on section 7,
Missaukee county, is fourmileslong. To reach
the elevation where the camps are located at
the eastern terminus of the road an ascent of
about 200 feet to the mile is made. Active log-
ging operations will soon begin, and it is antic-
ipated that 14,000,000 feet of pine will be taken
to the mill over this road. Camps are now
being erected,

THE Lumberman’s Gazetie says :—Three hun-
dred million feet of logs embraces a large amount
of money, and when they are not available it
means just so much dead capital. It is now es-
timated that three hundred million feet of logs
will be hung up this year on the Muskegon.
The mills will probably get an early start next
season, and if no labor difficulty presents itself,
a heavy season’s cut may be counted on, as the
winter’s logging will be fully up to the average,
and the indications are that it will exceed those
of former years.

THE Buffalo Lumber World says :—Mountain
forest fires in California did a great deal of dam-
age during the past month, Large quantities
of standing redwood were destroyed and houses,
mills, etc., went up in smoke. Some time,
owners of timber land will be awakened to the
necessity of adopting adequate preventive meas-
ures against such wholesale destruction. Of
course it would hardly be possible to entirely
prevent the occasional occurrence of such con-
flagrations, but the majority of them result in-
directly from the carelessness that is little less
than criminal.

THE Monetary Times of Oct. 6, says :—Spruce
deals are in active demand in Quebec, according
to advices of Monday which state that 300,000
Quebec Standard was sold in three days of last
week, These were bought by R. R. Dobell &
Co, and were the manufacture of Ross Ritchie’s,
Roche’s, Atkinson’s and Breakey’s mills, the
prices were ; $38 to $40 for first quality, $27 to $29
for second quality, and $24 for third quality,
with 30 per cent. oddments and 70 per cent.
regulars. Other houses are expected to follow
suit. Manufacturers are, however, adds the
despatch, at an advance on foregoing juotations,

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The steamer Pembroke took down a large tow
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rafted up, being simply in a boom like saw logs.
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town near the residence of Mr. John Bell,
where it will be shipped on the railway to Que-
bec, A switch to facilitate this has been con-
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by. Several tows have yet to be brought down,
there being altogether 11,000 pieces of timber.
One raft, wé believe will be rafted up and taken
to Quebec by water, the unusual height of the
water this season making this an easy possibil-
ity. It will be remembered that it was origin-
ally intended to have put this timber on the cars
at Mackey’s station—the point of shipment last
year—but the high water permitted it to run
over the Des Joachims Rapids all right and it
was resolved to ship it from Pembroke instead,

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Market Reports,

MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

Oot, 25.—In the lumber trade there has been
a fair demand for both soft and hard woods
neither of which are in excessive supply just
now, although arrivals are coming to hand
freely as lumber dealers are anxious to fill their
yards before the close of navigation. Birch es-
pecially is scarce while the demand for it is
active. From Ottawa we learn that large
quantities of lumber are moving to the United
States. One firm there has shipped this season
1,000 car loads by the C. P. R., to Quebec, and
that there is upwards of 2,000,000 feet of lumber
in Quebec to be disposed of. Prices here are
very steady and firm in the yards as follows :—

Pine, 1st quality, GAM cise scisielne ve cleo s $35 V0@40 00
Pine, 2nd e M.. . 22 00@24 00

Pine, shipping culls, # M +, 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, @ M 11 00@12 00

Pine, mill culls, # M......++e0e+-.seeeee 10 00@12 00
ES) ruce, # M Cecile rvcnne pecaecceens 10 00@13 00

emlock, @ M.....cercsesreeeeteeeeeees 9 00@10 00
Ash, run ‘of, log culls out, ABM icles +) iwleye 20 00@25 00
Bass, GA Mele inel inelale» 17 00@20 00
Oak, BM....cccceeeeeen crete eee een cans 40 00@50 00
Walnut BM ....ccc cece eect eter eee e ene 60 00 100 00
Cherry, @ M..cescccsseee cosseees ves «. 60 00@00 00
Butternut, @M......-csseeeres eee eneeee 35 00@40 00
Birch, 8 i OE eee Soua tenes Oqodne sees 20 00@25 00
Hard Maple, SBM), . comilainectlele sleielsine new 25 00@30 00
Lath, ®M..........5 GpNond vOO8 tos evnen 1 80@1 40
Shingles, Ist, @M..... ceecceeenne .... 38 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, APNE pfetcia ieee tere) slavereXele sels 2 560@ 0 00

SHIPMENTS,

Shipping has been going on briskly since the
date of our last report, five vessels having
cleared for Buenos Ayres, one for Montevideo,
and one each for Glasgow and Liverpool, The
last engagement of freights to the River Platte
was at $10, which may be taken as the present
The shipments from this port since the
9th inst. were as follows: ‘To Buenos Ayres,
1,220,025 ft.; to Montevideo, 292,594 ft.; to
Glasgow, 152,460 ft. ‘The total shipments to
the River Platte since the opening of naviga-
tion till date was 19,440,679 ft., against 11,510,-
891 ft. for the same period of 1881, being an
increase of 7,929,788 ft. This increase, it is ex-
pected, will yet be largely augmented, as there
were only three clearances afterthe same date of
1881,

rate.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

Latest dates by mail report imports moderate
with fair consumptive demand. Quebec pine
has an upward tendency, spruce deals, the
stock is only about one-half of what it was last
year and on which there has been a sharp ad-
vance. The market is overstocked with pitch
pine, The following are the Liverpool quota-
tions for Canadian timber. Quebec square
white pine, 1s. 7d. @ 2s. 5d. per ft. ; do. waney
board pine, 2s. 3d, @ 2s. 8d. ; Quebec red pine,
1s. 3d. @ 1s. 8d. ; Quebec oak 1st quality 2s.
10d. @ 3s. 1d. ; do. 2nd quality, 2s. 6d. @ 2s.
9d. Deals, 1st quality Quebec pine, £21 @ £22
p. standard; do, 2nd quality £15 @ £16 ; do.
3rd quality £9 10s. @ £10 p. standard.

CORDWOOD,

The high price of cordwood checks the de-
mand. Prices are steady and stocks are by no
means heavy and from all appearances wood
will only be brought in as it is required. There
is no change to note on quotations and we quote
ex cars and on the wharf.

Long Mi aple. peldelel aos ecvovncceeivive socccecanne $7 50
Short © w.cecsces sialelelelepmeselelejeioele,sisiaivloleiuamnlsle 7 00
Long Birch.......s.cseseeseeeeccereeeeeserenes 6 50
Short: S wccvecceccevvecsereccsevvvetessessce 6 00
Long Beech. ..........+++5% aineidharalereieieleisureceisiecasie 6 50
Short ‘6 ccacccecsecesceuee We vceucuesiosscvees 6 00
Tamarack. ..sseeseveeseese rede sice calvedecme 5 00
———_¢—___—_-
OTTAWA.

From our own Correspondent.

Oor. 23.—The saw wills here are begining to
close down their night watches, two of them
haying already done so. About the middle of
November the most of the saw mills will close
down for the season. Great difficulty is exper-
ienced in securing sufficient men to operate
them, the usnal hands having mostly left for the
woods. Eddy’s mill has not been running very
regularly of late owing partly to this fact, and
also to shortage of logs. In reference to the
latter, some trouble has arisen in connection
with the Upper Ottawa Improvement Co.
Two mill owners have complained that their
logs are not sent down to their mill ponds by
the company in sufficient quantities to keep the

mills running regularly, while all the mills on
the south shore are well supplied.

Large numbers of shantymen leave daily for
the woods. They are pouring into the city by
every train from Quebec Province and elsewhere,
and all hands are engaged immediately, the
demand for labour being almost unprecedented.
Owners of shanties not a great distance in-
wards, have secured nearly all the men they
require. Wages paid are very good, but falling
slightly.

Quotations of sawn lumber haye remained
almost the same throughout the summer. They
are as follows :—

1x12 inch, good stock, per Ms seeves
Bbinping culls, per M....«.. see
Good 1x10 inch stock, per M.. cone
phipping culls 1x10, per M.....
Good inch sidings, per M,.,...++++++
Good 1}, 14 and 2 inch sidings, per M

1 inch shipping culls siding, per M °

1}, 13 and 2 inch shipping culls siding, perM.. 12 00
14 and 2 inch good strips, per M..+++e++s+++e- 19 00
Culled strips, per M..ssee eescresevesesesercs 7 00
Good shorts, per M.......-eceeereveseveeee «+. 1600
Culled shorts, per | og cecmeese a eecceeseoceeens 7 00
Lath 1 inch, ‘per M.. teers eeraseaeerteaees a

Tree ee errr ee eee ee

Butternut hihinber| board measure, per M...... 15 00

Shipping operations are not carried on to as
gieat an extent as they might be, owing to a
scarcity of boats, and rates aregoing up. $4.25
per thousand feet is paid to New York ; $2.25
to Whitehall, and $3.50 to Troy.

No sales of limits are reported,

The shipments by rail from Pembroke direct
to the Quebec market continues. The British
Canadian Lumbering Company who were the
first to ship their square timber in this manner,
expect to send 1,000 car loads of lumber this
season to Quebec. ;

Very few rafts are now being navigated down
the Ottawa from the limits, A raft of 110 cribs
owned by the British Canadian Lumber Com-
pany is at present running the Chats Lake, and
will reach this city next week.

9,000,000 feet of square lumber have been sold
on the Quebec market this season, and about
2,000,000 feet remain to be disposed of.

In the Supreme Court which opens Monday,
the 24th, the famous case of McLaren vs Cald-
well, will be again tried. A synopsis of the
case will be found in the next number of the
CanaDAa LUMBERMAN,

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TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Oct, 23.—Sales from the various yards here are
now as brisk as could be desired, in fact all the
dealers with whom I have come in contact seem
perfectly satisfied with the present condition of
the retail trade, and prices hold firm, at the
docks the same may be said as of the retail
trade, Vessels are hard to obtain, and rates
have again advanced and now rule at $1.50 per
M, to Oswego, and dock hands are receiving 25
cents per hour. The great difticulty in the way
of rapid shipments is want of sufficient car ac-
commodation and vessels to carry the lumber
away ; this scarcity of cars seems to exist on all
the railroads leading into the city, and extend-
ing westward. There is now a large demand for
lumber in western Ontario, but for want of
sufficient rolling stock orders cannot be filled
with any promptness. The N. & N. W. R. R.
Company use all their efforts to supply custom-
ers with cars, but it is evident that in cases of
emergency, like the present, they have not
enough rolling stock to meet the demands made
upon them.

Several sales of mill run lots have been made
to American buyers since I last wrote you, Such
sales are usually made with the express under-
standing that the delivery shall be made F O B
vessel here and according to Canadian inspec-
tion, although we really have no rule of inspec-
tion here, when I state this I do so advisedly,
but let me ask any who doubt my assertion
suppose half a dozen inspectors are sent to in-
spect a mill run stock, will the inspection of
those six men be alike, not at all, each one fol-
lows his own particular method, another puts
on a pair of magnifying glasses in order to de-
tect the slightest appearance of shakes, the
next one passes over many shaky boards, but
has a deadly enmity to rotten knots, and pitches
all such out without merey, and so it is with all
the six, no standard of inspection being laid
down to guide them each one follows his own

particular bent,and the truth of the matteris mill

men have a decided aversion to those two words,

mainder of their stocks either until freights

Albany inspection, and when times are good | decline or prices of deals advance in England.

more especially they will not allow those two
words to be inserted in the contract of sale and
purchase, but insert instead the words Canadian
Inspection, which simply means any inspection
that may be agreed upon by the seller and in-
spector from time to time in the progress of the
inspector’s work as it goes on. Now, I inaintain
that it would be much better, and more satis-
factory to all concerned, if a uniform rule for
inspection was made so that buyer and seller
would know exactly what they were buying and
selling. If the sales were made in all cases by
the manufacturer to the American dealer the
case would be somewhat different, but in nine
cases out of ten it goes through the hands of
the middleman, and he finds it difficult to satis-
fy his customers with the inspection he has had
to take from the manufacturer. Much the bet-
ter way would be to buy and sell by grades
according to a uniform standard of inspection,
as by the present method many mill men receive
for their stocks cut from an inferior class of logs
within a small fraction of as much as another
whose logs were much superior, This is often
the case when times are good, owing to the
practise of buying the stock before it is cut out,
in other words, to greater or less extent, buying
a pig in a bag, a homely proverb often quoted
but no less true in this respect.

This difference in inspection is often obser-
vable on our local markets, a dealer will sell a
car load of what he terms cut up plank, and on
examination it proves to be mostly flooring
quality and totally unfit for the purposes
for which it was bought. I may in a
future letter refer more fully to this matter
and hope this letter may elicit some remarks
from others on the subject,

Prices at the yards are as follows :—

QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling...............++: $10 00

Shipping cull pce promiscuous widths....... 12 00

peewee ener etmerascsesecestees 14 00

Scantling ith: jolt, UP $0 16 fb. cs wsscowencoare 14 00

18 ft. secs ureeecevees 14 50

~ = = 2) fbn ec nwccravesaccvtce 15 00

ae a on 22 ft. wrccces eceveseees 15 50

in e ne PD See re oer 16 00

a - = 26 ft... ciceccccesecenn 17 00

x3 - is BB BE... ce cecetcccccnes 18 00

“ bs a 80 fb. vecccvencrveveces 20 00

= *, * B2 fb... cevcccccvevecse 21 00

oe ae 3 BA OW. i Tiisse 5 dab ware 22 60

¥ a o BB Pb. sinedeupawsvanecns 26 00

si we " SB £6... .. susie capemeeas 30 00

Gatti 4 * me 40 to 44 ft......... . 86 00

tting up planks todry.. 22 50

e boasts a3 . 20 00

Sound dressing stocks. .........:0eeeeseeeee eee 18 00

Picks Am. inspection...... 30 00

Three uppers, Am. inspection... 40 00
B. M.

1}-inch flooring, Aressed....ecereseceesen eeenee 32 00

1 TOUGH ......cccsevesccwccsacecs 16 00

paras as drowsed 5. sveecewasee pan saunas 26 00

ae ee VUNGTERBEd . v00-. pereseerevcnces 16 00

erie at) GROMIE 55. 5. vynccmpewenebennes 28 00

eS . TA EOENO. 2... ks Kanes hie naman 17 00

pate Sheeting, dressed.......-.....-008 was.0, a2 DU

neces 3 Gressed 2... es ce weeeseuc veveves 14 00

sawn tingles, @M 3 00

xx. sawn shingles. .......ceeeeeereceesecseneece 2 00

Sawn Taath.......cccscscveccnscccnecsscseccesee 2 25

HALIFAX, N.S.

The lumber business of the present year, since
the opening of the season, has been of about
the same proportion as that of 1881. The
shipments to the United Kingdom and Europe
by Halifax firms in the trade have been about
equal to those of last season, and prices realized
on the whole were about the same. Upto the
present date some 97 vessels have been loaded
at Halifax and lumber ports lying to the east
and west of this by three city houses, T. L.
Dewolf & Co., J. H. Mathers (for Francis
Carville & Son, London G. B.) and Wm. Chis-
holm, which have been taken to the United
Kingdom, France, Spain, Holland, and ports in
other European countries. About 37,000,000
feet. Sixteen vessels, four of them at this port,
are now being laden with lumber for the other
side, and will take between 8,000,000 and 9,000, -
000 feet at the commencement of the season, in
spring the average price realized was 55s. per
standard. Lately there has been an increase,
and the average is now 70s, but the rise in
freights has swallowed up what extra profit
might have been made by merchants.

———
ST. JOHN, N. B.
From our own Correspondent.

Oot. 24.—Freights are dull and shippers ap-

pear to have determined to hold over the re-

There is about 25,000 standards of deals on
hand here at present besides a large quantity of
logs yet to be manufactured, but the stock is
nearly all in second hands, and two-thirds of it
is held by two firms alone. There is therefore
not the amount of opposition in chartering
vessels which there usually is with such a stock
on hand.

Deals are held firmly at high rates, and higher
rates than ever are still being asked for log in
contract to be delivered next season. Freights

to-day may be quoted as follows :— is
Liverpool ....+< .s«+: 708. c. d.
Bristol Channel .....678. 64. c. d.
Treland csccoe stecoe 708, Od. to Tos. c. d.

SHIPPING.

The following is alist of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of
freight :—
Vendome, (new), 1,400, Liverpool, 78s. ¢. d. ,

Vanduara, (new), 1,400, “72a, 64. & a,

John Bryce, 1,908, “ Tis. 34. 6. & ,
Hugh Cann, 1,074, “ 70s. ¢. d. “*
Traveller, 814, “ %s.¢. 4.

Canali, 1,091, * Inet.
Assyria, 729, * %s.¢, a.

Anna P O'Dell, 380, Avonmouth Dock, 71s. oe a
Blanco, 344, Newry, 72s. 6d. c, d.
Kate Crosby, 696, W. C. England, 72s. 6d. c, d,
Landsen, River Mersey, 72s, 6d. c. d.
Finland, 537, United Kingdom,
Ashlow, 639, Bristol Channei, 70s, c. d,
Clandeboye, 872, Belfast, 70s, ¢, d.
Rebekka, 569, W. C. England, 72s, 6d, c. d,
Clara, 801, United Kingdom,
Light Brigade, 1,220, United Kingdom,
Wm. Wright, 748, United Kingdom.
COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 187. JANUARY 70 DATE.
_ 1882,
M.S. ft. Tons. Tons. M.S. ft. Tons. Tons,
170,416 805 4,153 147,678 1,082 3,890
VESSELS LOADING THIS DATE.
1881. 1882.
Ships. Tons. Ships, Tons.
18 15,648 14 10,596
nlite

ALBAN ¥.

Quotations at the a are as follows :—

Pine, clear, @ M.. '
Pine, fourths..........++-+ @desessccanc .

1881. .
Deals. Pine. Birch.

eee eee eee eee eee eee eee

e, good box
Pine, 10-in. plank, each..
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. .
Pine boards, 10-in........ Decebas
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls
Pine, 10-in. boards, Ly ft. “eM
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16

Pine, 1

Pine, 1 in. siding common. .

Pine, 1-in. siding, select...

Pine, inch siding, common
each

Spruce, wall strips, each... .. oe
emlock, boards, each... ......<ss+s0+ ‘
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.........+s.s00+
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each . ee as
Hemlock, at Len 2x4, each. pakecmnnen
Ash, good, @ .
Ash, Sans quailty, Wik ck TTT sions
Cherry, good, # M
Cherry, Se Dine wecccasuperucte
Oak, good,
Oak. second
Basswood, ?

Maple, Tain, @M..
Maple, American, per M.
Chestnut, @ M ovesccweseee

“2 poe yo pine.
a clear, = mead maihey
= cedar, mixedl.....o0x0ccseeeeee
- hemlock. ....+ so0ssceeeel ee
Lath, hemlock, ® M..
Lath, spruce,

_€

eee eee eee eee eee rer

The Northwestern Lumberman of Oct 21, says :
During the week the cargo market has each day
been well supplied, the offering being rather
larger in proportion than for some weeks past.
The ruling indications have been a continuation
of the dullness and neglect which have been the
text of our report for the past month, perhapsa
little more intensified. Shippers, realizing that
the season is drawing to a close, manifest a
strong inclination to get their stock to this side
of the lake, although a large amount of piling
at the mills is reported.

The first of this month showed the largest
stock ever known in the history of the trade at
this or any other distributing point in this
country, and with the full yards which this
would indicate, buyers are indisposed to pay

®
anything which approaches to fancy prices, and
are not hungry to add to their stocks, even at
the reduced rates now ruling. While it is to be
said that good stocks hold their own on the
inarket, in the main, it is also true that they are
not taken with eagerness or avidity, and proba-
bly sympathise with the dullness in coarse
stock, so that it is not much out of the way to
assert that the whole market is 25 cents lower
than a week ago. One cargo of stock which
sold a few day ago for $20.25 after being upon
the market for two days, was taken to a storage
dock on owner’s account in default of a better
offer than $20 made on Wednesday, and not re-
moved on Thursday. Thursday’s offerings
comprised a fleet of 30 vessels, of which 14
were shingles, and of the total 21 remained un-
sold at noon, Short length dimension, 16-foot
and under, is fairly quotable at $10, while it re-
quires a good addition of longer lengths to bring
$10.25. Boards and strips are quotable 25 cents
lower than last week. Shingles have shown a
disposition to increase in quantity of late, but

we can hear of no concession in price. The}

large offerings of Thursday, however, will have
a tendency to try the market severely, although
no break is reported at this writing and holders
talk firmly.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green...... s.e.....0- $10 25@10 25
Long Gimension.../... wescceccce- neces 11 75@13 00
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock.......... 11 75@13 75
No. 1 stocks. Wasabiewbes a biases da ieoks 15 00@22 00
No. 1 log run, culls out. 17 00@23 00
Standard shingles. 2 60@ 2 65
FAR ea a= 2 70@ 2 95
Clear...

Lath.. ve

Receaaey and stock on Basi of lumber,
shingles, ete., for the week ending October, 19,
as reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange:
RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.
ROE inn oi dnie enlist are esa meron 55,291,000 24,733,000
TRGI: siti wee OT a 69,175,000 21,321,000

FROM JANUARY 1 TO OCTOBER 21 INCLUSIVE.

RECEIPTS.

Lumber. Shingles.
+. 1,716,902,000 706,686,000
.. 1,562,358,000 682,937,000

oe Oe ee eS Cavccccarsvcce 154,544,000 24,749,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO OCT. 18.
dE Oe ae Roe 1,507,865,000 643,761,000
STOCK ON HAND OCT. 1.

1882, 1881. - 1880.
Lumber...,......660,118,942 541,768,015 467,966,545
Shingles.... .... 265,189,150 241,455,200 173,753,000
Lath ..ssseeeeeee 62,267, 333,925 48,755,681
Picketsiss.00% .. - 3,368,270 2,788,430 2,193,317
Cedar posts 161,719 211,048 67,006

—__—___4@_..
BUFFALO.
We quote cargo lots :—
OPC. ces anes eae PAM soesee +. 946 00@48 00
COU eae ele aisle s\eis pists bak ty =i - 18 00@19 00
Ca aaa Air nm acini diainiy se siass /o) x Aslece ie ale - 13 00@14 00
es
OSWEGO, N.Y.
No change in market since our last ; market

is dull, stocks are heavy and accumulating;
freights advanced $1.35 from Port Hope and
Bay ports; canal rates, $2.25 to Albany and $3
to New York.

DREGE UN ailrialcadind «x0 onyuis 00's 's s)« $42 00@45 00
WiGMARP Ree era tr ell vo cicc.scle cise +++. 32 00@35 00
PG, MTGE 3 oon re wd nese-ercnces. ae 20 00@25 00
COMMON ee sere oases scasvescendssccies 16 00@18 00
lenders or oins « anvies sie cene 12 00@14 00
Millrnm lote...........cs0c000.. 17 00@22 00
Sidings, selected, 1 inch 30 00@37 00

ae 2 Sa POOPEr. 30 00@37 00

+ 16 00@20 00

TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
Three uppers....++
Comm:

Culls....... Goes

, 12 00@14 00

BOSTON,

The Journal of Commerce says :—There is a
good steady demand for almost all desirable
kinds, Lumber is arriving pretty freely but it
is mostly on orders, and is pretty soon taken up.
Very little remains on the market. Wholesale
dealers are pretty firm in their views, and
dealers are stocking up in view of winter rates,
which will soon go into effect. Spruce and
hemlock are in good demand and light supply
wad priges arg firm, Shingles are also quite

about previous prices.
largely but mostly on orders.
rather stronger.
sirable grades, although culls are rather neglect-

te)
oo
Nar

BOOK- BINDING.

Our facilities for BOOK-BINDING enables us to execute every description of work as well as it can be
done in the cities, and at current CITY PRICES.

Blank Books and Account Books of any size Ruled to any pattern desired, and bound in the
most appropriate and durable manner.

Books taken out in parts, Bibles, Works of Art, Illustrated Works, Music Books,
Magazines, Perodicals and Newspapers bound in any style desired.

Old Books, Albums, &c. Repaired and Rebound.

a Maps, Pictures, &c. Mounted and Varnished.
Names Lettered in Gold Leaf on Presentation Books, Bibles, Purses, &e.

THREE FIRST PRIZES FOR BOOK-BINDING AT
THE CENTRAL EXHIBITION.

{‘TOKER & Co.

Printers, Bookbinders, &c., PETERBOROUGH, Ont.

firm, Eastern pine is arriving fairly aud is
steady. Yellow pine is moving fairly and at
Hardwoods are arriving
Ash is looking
Walnut is firmly held for de}

ed.
CANADA PINE,

Selects, Dressed........... cece eee e ce eee $48 00@50 00

Shelving, Dressed, USHS3 Spa een amor 2 40 00@42 00
PU wonedanvengsesee 33 00@35 00

Dressed Shippers........0++-seeeeeeeees 27 00@29 00
Dressed Box..........ceeese Spleenensioi > 18 00@20 00
Sheathing, Ist quality.........-.+seseuee 42, 00@45 00
* Bo oe Oe ye abr aes Soper, 34 00@35 00

———_—__—__——_-
LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal of Oct. 7, says :—

The arrivals of timber ships in the port of Lon- }
don this week show an abatement in point of |:
numbers, as compared with the week before, |:
being no more than 56, of which steamers |;
‘formed one-half, and out of the rest ten are |:
from Canadian waters, all sailing vessels. Thus
the winds that check arrivals from the Baltic
favor ships from America, and on this account
‘there is seldom any considerable fleet from both
directions at the same time.
since shifted again to the north-east, we may
expect a further access of Baltic vessels to be
reported before our next issue,

As the wind has

——_—__@___
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal of Oct 7, says :—
During the past few days the arrivals of timber-
laden vessels have been somewhat more numer-
ous than we have been accustomed to”recently,
and as soon as they get fairly to work the quays
will again assume a busy aspect, which has
certainly not been the case for the past two or
three weeks.

There is no change in the condition of this
market ; prices remain without alteration,
whilst the demand is still quiet though steady.

The list of imports, consumption, and stock
of timber, deals, &c., in Liverpoo! and Birken-
head made up to the end of the past month is
of great interest and shows some curious
features. Thus, for instance, the consumption
of spruce deals appears to be only 1,162 stand-
ards, or say about three ordinary cargoes, whilst
the import has been 2,463 standards, or more
than double the apparent demand. This is
really not so, as a large proportion of 2,463
standards were sold by auction, at the end of
last month, and will nearly all go direct into
consumption as fast as the vessels discharge.

The demand for Quebec yellow pine, es-
pecially for good qualities, continues fair, a large
proportion of what has been taken during the
month being waney board pine, of which some
prime parcels have been recently landed.

———————————
BRISTOL.

Messrs. King Brothers’ October circular con-
tains the following :—Trade has been fairly
maintained throughout the whole of the past
month, and there now appears to be a better
ton¢ in the demand, We note a decrease in the

| made of steel and iron), The import of pitch sa

JONES & SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

Qak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber. Pine Deck Plank and
Ship Stock Generally.

LT

importation as compared with the correspond-
ing month of last year. Quebec goods.—Yel-
low pine timber—The arrivals so far have been
entirely for railway purposes outside the general
market. Waney board pine is inquired for, and
fresh arrivals will meet a ready sale. Red pine
—None. Oak remains very dull of sale. Birch,
ash, and walnut—All are much wanted, stocks
being exhausted. Deals.—There appears to be
a fair inquiry for third quality, but lsts and
2nds are neglected. Great difficulty is exper-
ienced in obtaining tonnage, only one cargo
having arrived this season. New Brunswick

pine to the Clyde this year has, however, been
to a fair amount, the tonnage employed in con-
veyance summing up at date to 39,000, a total
which, though about 9,000 tons under that of
the same period of 1881, is considerably in excess
of previous years.

An auction sale of Quebec pine deals took
place here on the 4th inst., Messrs, Singleton,
Dunn, & Co., brokers. The following were the
prices obtained, but the bulk of the goods
catalogued was withdrawn, prices offered not
being satisfactory to the brokers :—

Qnebec lst pine deals—

goods—Spruce deals have again risen in value, | 12it. 18/22x3...... fecvnenecces 8s. 6d. per cubic ft.-
but the demand is languid, and prices current | 12 “ ITX3 weeee see ee ee ee es 3s. 4d. "3
here are not nearly equal to those received at fC TONS amass ssaekeron= wae pea
at the chief ports. Pine deals—No arrivals. - x = Pecan dee ces eee 3s. re “
‘ meat ff 2 XB. cecccceccceceesee 3s. 1 *~
Birch appears to be in very fair demand, 19 « 1Sxe ke heme Qs. lid. “

——_____——.

12°“ ADK Btespamepansvececcec 2s. re

GLASGOW. sce

The Timber Trades Journal of Oct 7, says :— | _ = -
Several parcels of Quebec deals per steamers 17 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE.

soars ts of Amarin wave ings od HOWIE'S DETECTIVE AGENCY

also various lots of American walnut logs and
oak planks, &c., and a large cargo of Picton
Orricss, 32 Kine STREET East,
TORONTO ONT.

birch timber (say 1,100 !ogs), which should meet

the present wants of trade, the market being
All legitimate Detective business attended to for Bankss,
Fire and Life Insurance Co's, also for private parties.

bare of Lower Port birch. At Greenock there
This agency does not operate for reward, lyL>

has been a very light import. It is to be noted

that at that port the arrivals from Quebec this
year (which include all the Quebec log timber

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &e:,
WAN TED,

imported to the Clyde) show.a marked falling
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO:

off compared with the corresponding period of
1881. As represented by the tonnage employed

SHORE & DAVIS,
Head Odiice, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

in conveyance, the figures are: 1882, 26,000
tons; 1881, 46,000 tons. This decrease is at-
tributed to the continued dulness in the house- |
building trade, and partly to the increased em- |: !
ployment of iron and steel in shipbuilding
(decks, masts, yards, &c., being now largely

332

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

‘MILLS AT THUNDER IBAY.

The Prince Arthur’s Landing Sentinel says

the Thunder B: “Tiumber Co. is the name’ “tT
carry-

The company

firm recently orga nizéd forjthe purpos
ing on the umber business there.

own, andit is there intention to cut:the pine on
the Indian reserve in the township of Neebing ;
2,000,000 feet board measure will be logged this
winter, and it is their further intention to have
completed and in running order by June next a

saw mill with a capacity of 25,000 per diem.
Also shingles, lath and planing mill; the whole to
be built between the line of the Canadian Pacific
Railway and the Bay shore, near the town limits,
The importance of this enterprise in the future
of the town cannot be over-estimated. It is,
you might say, the pioneer manufacturing in-
dustry of Prince Arthur's Landing, and nothing
so surely tends to the development and growth
of any business as the successful carrying out
of enterprises requiring a large amount of
labour.

Mr. Thos. Marks is going to erect, during the
coming winter, on the property adjacent the
‘O’Brien Addition,” a large saw mill with a

capacity of 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 feet per Bea-

son,
Mr. Mona Lesser will be at Prince Arthur’s

Landing in a few days for the purpose of making
arrangements for the working of the mill sit-
uated on Park Lot No. 1. . The proprietors have
decided'to work this asa flour mill, and it is ex-
pected that there will be nodifficulty in securing
a sufficient supply of corn from the Northwest,
over the ©. P. R., during the winter, to keep
them} in constant working. |
et, ———— L «(
OTTAWA LUMBER TRADE.
The following figures represent the quantity
and value of the sawed lumber exported from
Ottawa and vicinity for the last fiscal year :

Month. Ft. Board M’s Value.

Evy sonaadons . . 24,299,000 $ 284,500
August .. 28,634,000 816,196
September . 21,261,000 287,508
October 19,677,000 249,446
November. + 15,207,000 201,364
December 8,358,000 82,895
January... 1,887,000 24,114
February ..eeesee cence neneeee 1,535,000 20,353
March ... sevseeseesereeeeere 2,533,000 83,193
April .. cc ccccees sec eenceeees 2,340,000 38,866
Mayne eicees spineless 18,184,000 297,860
SUITE sayin shel veloiare:eye.e olfazeyet ajaiarele 30,200,000 416,036
INO LAlterereareyencaeie sere riael= 168,055,000 $ 2,202,229

The figures for each month of the previous
year:

Month Ft. Board Ms. Value.

JULY vc crccvecnarecsveerseeene 23,226,000 $ 246,637
AUBUSt. cc cese cere ee rer eeeeree 25,086,000 278, 167
September ...ssceeeeeseeeeeed 29,674,000 322,786
October, ...cceverssneresssecis 20,318,000 232,612
November,.....0-s.eeeeeeees » 19,650,000 222,850
December... seeeeeeeeeees 745,000 10,599
January ..++. 10,479
February .. 17,797
March .....- ‘ 28,839
Aprilaccecsereces vr mmrscecene 2,581,000 $1,573
MAY sc cccesece cocccevecscawes 22,198,000 278,886
TUNG Ree Malate oreaooteinitens 24,324,000 282,180
TOtAL: vale cle cleeaviernety a: 173,797,000 $ 1,956,324

——— een!

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
‘The following is a comparative statement of
"Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c,
measured and culled to Oct. 13 :—

1880, 1881. 1882.
Waney White Pine.. 2,081,344 2,611,796 2,473,010
White Pingctmieetiel 3,875,628 6,541,678 7,488,596
Red Pine.... ssse+-- 1,017,177 1,874,730 1,419,054
Dale aven yonistierstaasteo’s 1,461,787 2,686,159 1,149,306
TELLYaa Gre ininrpiniw/euatelscnisiacai » 982,784 1,009,496 701,026
ASH isvises sve ee eita pins 236,815 397,041 263,196
Basswood ......+.++5 363 3,676 1,273
Butternut........5-- 645 2,991 2,839
TaMarac...eeseees o> 80,726 24,416 61,482
Birch & Maple.:..... 561,815 161,742 268,333
Masts. vesnessnen Aste 4 pes 26 pes 33 pes
Spars. ..cevevseveres 23 pes — pes 61 pes
Std. Staves....c.... 68.3.2.28 368.7.2.29 362.6.2.13
W.I. Staves... sess. $81,1.2.21 446.4,2.20 1134,8,0.6
Brl. Staves. ....+5 seve 10.8.2.10 ~~. weanee 76.4,2.29

JAMES PATTON,

Cuebeo, Oct. 13. Supervisor of Cullers,
_

BEATING RAILWAY COMPANIES.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
following account may evince the gullibility of
Russian railway managers, but the scheme
would hardly work with American railway
men :— -

A sly timber merchant of Odessa, so a Euro-
pean correspondent says, got the best of a couple
of Russian railway companies a little while
ago. He made a contract with them for the
delivery of a large quantity of timber within a
given time, and deposited 10,000 roubles as

load teached the oF

# “y. a}
successively declinin

more timber of an objectionable description,
which the wily trader invariably disposed of to
local merchants. The freights alone represented
a fortune ten-fold the amount of his cash de-
posit, and having realized he coolly threw up his
contract, allowing the companies to divide his
security.

JEFFERSON’S SAW MILL.

The following story is told of President Jeff-
erson, and it has a good point in it :—Jefferson
was a great man, but he was far from practical
in some things. When he was in France he
was very much struck with the utility of wind-
mills, He thought they were wonderful insti-
tutions, and cost so little to run. He owned a
large quantity of timber on a mountain much
higher than Monticello, about a mile off, He
purchased in France a wind-mill and the ma-
chinery for a saw mill at the cost of $13,000,
and had it taken to the top of the mountain.
He had for a neighbour a bluff old fellow named
Cole. One day Cole came to see him, and
Jefferson took him upto where he was having
the mill built. It was as much as they could
do to climb the steep ascent. When Cole re-
covered the breath he had lost getting up the
mountain, he said, ‘‘ Mr. Jefferson you have a
splendid saw-mill, and it is a splendid place to
catch the wind, but how are you going to get
the logs up here to saw from?” The author of
the ‘‘ Declaration of Independence” started like
& man suddenly awakened from a delightful
dream, and quickly said, ‘“‘ Hey, Cole, how?
What?” And then, relapsing into abstraction,
led the way down the mountain toward Monti-
cello, The wind mill was never completed, and
years after the machiney was sold for old iron,

ARRIVALS IN LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal of Sept. 30th,
says :—There were no less than 77 vessels with
whole or part cargoes of wood reported for
London during the week, from the 21st to the
27th ‘inclusive, most of them with full, and
many with cargoes of various descriptions ; 37
of this fleet are steamers, and with very few
exceptions the cargoes were from Iuropean
ports, one only being from the Canadian side ;
for the present the London market seems chiefly
occupied with the Swedish and Finland ship-
ments, which are, to say the least of it, suf-
ficiently abundant to ensure that there shall be
no want of similar goods when the navigation
closes, In/all this heavy list not a single cargo
is reported from Quebec or from St. John, N.
B., neither from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or
from any of the pitch pine ports of the Southern
States which is something remarkable ; yet tim-
ber from these latter are still a drug in the mar-
ket, and Pensacola hewn logs of good average
at Thursday’s sale, with diticulty realized 67s.
6d., some going as low as 52s, 6d. a load.

WOOD CARVING.

Wood earving in Schleswig is being carried
on by Herr Christopher Magnussen, who a few
years since established a school for wood-carving
there. The name of Magnussen as a distin-
guished painter must have become familiar to
many, but hereafter it will be better known as
that of the reviver of the art which we have
just mentioned, We say reviver advisedly, in-
asmuch as that Schleswig and the adjoining
states supplied carving for the decoration of
English homes several centuries ago, and ship-
loads of useful and ornamental work were
yearly transmitted across the German ocean,
The school is now in a must promising condition,
having already made great strides in technical
and artistical knowledge under the experienced
guidance of its master. Besides modeling
natural forms, such as leaves and tendrils, the
more advanced among the students have at-
tempted to represent the human form, This
disinterested undertaking is so praiseworthy,
from an artistic and material point of view,

security to carry out his agreement, por the
understanding that the companies would convey
the merchandise gratis. Train load upon train
l stations, the companies
the timber as not being
| equal to what was contracted for, Fresh orders.
were sent out by the merchant to his agents for
a better quality, and more train loads brought

is

widest publication.

we warmly wish the undertaking prosperity. ~

PRICES FIRM. » =
The Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich.,

says :—There is this singular fact in connection
with the lumber market, that, opening at a fair
figure in the spring, it advanced in price not
only against the prognostications of the buyers
and commission men, who looked confidently to
a break in prices, but much beyond the calcu-
lations of the most sanguine among the manu-
facturers, and present figures seem even more

solid than were the figures of April. Pine tim-

ber has also sympathised with the raise in lum-

ber, and the figures of some of the recent
transactions would haye been regarded as wild
less than a year ago, The same quality of lum-
ber and at same point on the river brought in

April $7.50, $15 and $36 per M., and early the

present month $9, $18 and $38 to $40 per M.,

and it is quite as firm at the latter as at the
The rise in value in the pine
lands owned by one individual who operates
largely in this city aggregates something over a

former figures,

million and a half of dollars.

FOREST PRESERVATION.

The Bay City, Lumberman’s Gazette says :—

The preservation of our forests, as we have re-

peatedly urged, is a matter that has been too

long neglected. Public health and the preser-
vation of our present climatic condition demand

that something should be done quickly to stop

the destruction of our forests. After all, the
cost of tree-planting is so trivial that, if the

importance of this matter were brought before

the public, they would doubtless do much to
assist in this matter by planting more shade
trees about their houses, along the country
roadsides, and whenever land was available for
this purpose. So important is this matter that
it demands legislative action on the subject.
Some laws ought to be devised—and enforced—
to prevent the present destruction of trees, and
to encourage the planting of young timber.

Putting the Chief on his Feet.
The Hamilton, Ont., Fire Department, under
the training and supervision of Chief A. W.
Aitchison, is not excelled in efficiency by that

of any other city in the Dominion. Chief
Aitchison, by the way, met with a very severe
accident in driving to a fire not long ago. His
head, shoulders and back were injured in a ter-
rible manner. Being asked how he accounted
for his rapid recovery, he replied: ‘‘* Simply
enough ; St. Jacobs Oil can put any man on
his feet, if there is any life in him all. I used
that wonderful medicine from the start, and the
result is, that I am to-day in prime health and
condition. St. Jacobs Oil, the panacea that
comes to the relief of the Fireman for rhen-
matism, burns, ete., served me in my trouble
and cnred me quickly, completely and perman-
ently. It is the standard medicine here in the
Fire Deparment.”

BAXxtTeER’s MANDRAKE Brtrers never fail to
cure Costiveness and regulate the Bowels.

TEABERRY whitens the teeth like chastened
pearls, <A five cent sample settles it.

Sure, safe and effectual, that old remedy,
Downs’ Elixir, for the cure of Coughs and
Colds.

ONE dose of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters will
relieve Sick Headache. One bottle effects a
cure. Price 25c, per bottle.

‘“* AnD Foots who came to scoff remained to
pray.”—We receive many letters from those
having tried while doubting, yet were entirely
cured of dyspepsia and liver troubles with
Zopesa, Clergymen write us earnestly as to its
wonderful effects.

Exxcrriciry and magnetism when properly
passed into the blood, brain and nerve produces
the most wonderful effects. We are told that
these elements are perfectly blended in the
medicine known as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine,
advertised in another column, and the good
which has resulted from its use cannot be com-
puted in dollars and cents.

A healthy man never thinks of his stomach
The dyspeptic thinks of nothing else. Indiges-
tion is a constant reminder. The wise man
who finds himself suffering will spend a few
cents for a bottle of Zopesa, from Brazil, the
new and remarkable compound for cleansing
and toning the system, for assisting the diges-
tive apparatus and the liver to properly perform
their itis in assimilating the food. Get a ten
cent sample of Zopesa, the new remedy, of your
druggist. A few doses will surprise you,

that it deserves the strongest support and
The town of Schleswig has
given its hearty support and countenance, and

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To MILLMEN!
| HODCSON’S

‘Patent Saw Grinder

i Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and
4H is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
saws of every description. Wheel is moved along the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and can be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
umber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

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HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Linite

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September 28th, 1882.

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Spalt and Shingle Mill,

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and can give the best of references,

am fa or Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

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PETERBOROUGH, ONT., NOVEMBER 15, 1882. _

NO. 22.

DISTRIBUTION OF FOREST TREES.

The paper of Mr. Bell, of the Geological
Survey, on “ The northern limit of the principal
forest trees of Canada, east of the Rocky
Mountains, is embodied in the seventh report of
the Montreal Horticultural Society: The law
by which this distribution takes place has not
been clearly traced or ascertained. ‘‘ Therange
of any species,” Mr. Bell says, ‘‘ isnot governed
entirely by the mean annualtemperature. The
extremes of heat and cold in the west, as com-
pared with the milder winters and cooler sum-
mers of the east, with about the same mean
temperature for the year, appear to be the chief
cause of the marked difference in the character
of the woods in the two regions, since there is
not a sufficient disparity in the amount of the
annual precipitation to account for it. A great
difference in the moisture of the air in the two
regions, otherwise resembling each other in
climatic conditions, has a powerful effect on the
growth of forests ; and the dryness of the air in
the western prairie and arid regions is, no doubt,
the chief cause of the absence of timber.” Mr,
Bell adds that ‘‘ difference in the composition of
the soil ayypear to have a local effect upon the
distribution of forest trees.” Nearly half a
century ago, Dr. Richardson made a similar re-
mark. He attributed to the nature of the soil
what he called, perhaps on insufficient data, the
sub-arctic vegetation on the northern shores of
Lake Superior, while farther north was found a
vegetation suited to a more southern region.
There may, however, be other causes that affgct
the local distribution of forest trees. It is well
known that where one kind of forest tree is
destroyed by fire another takes its place ; and it
is therefore reasonable to conclude that forest
fires have played a part in the local distribution
of forest trees. So constant is the tendency for
oné kind of trees to displace another that, in
some countries of Europe, the bogs have em-
balmed a regular succession of trees, each above
the other.

In ‘contrast with the great variety found in
the United States, one is struck by the small-
ness of the’ variety of forest trees in Canada;
three hundred and forty against ninety. Some-
times, however, fifty varieties are found on a
single farm. And of this ninety some of the
best—notably the black walnut—are becoming
almost extinct. Here is a reason for planting,
not only valuable native trees which are in dan-
ger of extinction, but also several foreign trees
which thrive well in our climate. It is really
astonishing to what a small extent this has been
done. Let any one visit the Horitcultural
grounds, at Toronto, and he will be astonished
at the negligence there displayed. It issoin
out parks, and with few exceptions in private
grounds.

Mr. Bell’s paper, with the accompanying map,

"may be taken aa fairly indicating, in a general

way, the distribution of the forest trees of the

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country ; though it is probable that a necessity
for correction in several particulars will here
after be found. Of the distribution of the Tulip
tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) he says: ‘At
Niagara Falls, and in some localities westward
near Lake Erie.” This tree is found nearly two
hundred miles north of the Falls of Niagara,
north of the southern shore, on Foote’s Bay,
Lake St. Joseph. And even this may not be
its extreme northern limit. The flowering Dog-
Wood, which is abundant on the flats of the
Humber, is spoken of by Mr. Bell as extending
only as far as Dundas. And it is found more
than 100 miles north of the Humber, and the
farther north the larger it grows. To the But-
ternut, Mr. Beil scarcely assigns a sufficiently
wide range on the north. We have no doubt
that, as observation extends, other corrections
will have to be made. 3

The same report contains a paper by the Hon.
H. G. Joly, on ‘The Returns of Forest Tree
Culture.” Some authorities say that an acre of
black walnut, thirty years old, is worth $20,400.
This asumes that 680 trees can be grown to the
acre; and we agree with Mr. Joly that the
number is too great. Mr. Joly has gone into the
experiment of tree-growing himself; and we
trust that his example may be followed by many
others ; ‘‘ they have,” in the words of Mr. Joly,
“no idea what source of pure enjoyment they
will be creating for themselves.” This enjoy-
ment may grow to an absorbing passion, and it
is gratifying to know that its indulgence would
be of great benefit to the country.—Monetary
Times.

PAPIER-MACHE FOR BUILDING.

A trade journal has the following regarding
papier-mache :—It may claim to rival iron in
the multiplicity of its industrial applications.
In Europe it is employed to a considerable ex
tent in architecture, from a complete church
building in Bavaria (capable of seating 1,000
persons), having columns, walls, altars, roof and
spire of papier-mache, to the finest traceries of a
Gothic screen. Some of the most tasteful halls
in Britian and on the continent are finished in
it, in preference to wood. The mantels, and
the mirror frames they support, are of its com
position ; and, strange as it may seem, the very
chandeliers, in their gilded elegance, are of this
humble material. Its use in architecture can
literally have no limit; for no one to-day can say
what may not be made of it. In toys, tables,
bijouterie of all kinds, we have examples of its
extensive uses, and suggestions of its future ap
plications. Papier-mache never cracks, as wood,
plaster, terra-cotta, etc,, will do. In the same
articles it can be made, if required, far lighter
than plaster, terra-cotta, metal, or even wood,
Neither heat nor cold affects it ; it can be saw-
ed, fitted, nailed, or screwed, quickly adjusted
or removed, gilded, painted, marbleized, or
bronzed, It can he madelight as cork, or heavy

as stone ; never discolors by rust, as will iron ;

is not affected by temperature or oxygen, as is |

even zinc. It can be made for a given thick-
ness stronger than any white or rare marbles,
and is even tougher than slate, quite as hard,
and will not chip corners nor crack off in strata.
One of the great advantages of papier-mache is
that it can be produced very cheaply. In archi-
tecture it can be supplied nearly at plaster price,
and, taking into consideration the price of put-
ting up, costs no more, and sometimes even less.
This depends on the size of the ornament, the
larger being cheaper in proportion. It can be
made to imitate the rarest marbles, as it takes
a polish superior even to slate, and costs not
half as much as the preparation of plaster of
Paris, known as scagliola, while it is infinitely
stronger, Pedestals, columns, newel-posts,
vases, clocks, and multifarious other articles are
made of it in elegant and durable forms.
Possibly, as a recent writer remarks, when the
forests of the globe are regarded as curosities,
and the remaining groves are preserved with
the same care that has guarded historic trees,
the cast off rags of mankind, and _ the
otherwise useless weeds, reeds and grasses of
marsh and swamp, will take the place of timber
in construction, and many will welcome the
change, if for nothing else than that it will ob-
viate much of the nuisance of frequent repaint-
ings.

SUPERSEDING THE STEAM ENGINE.

Israel R. Blumenburg, of Philadelphia,
claims to have invented a motor that will sup-
plant steam. It is claimed that the practical
utility of his invention has been demonstrated
to the satisfaction of experienced engineers and
scientists, and a company has been formed to
introduce it in manufacturing establishments.
Mr. Blumenburg claims ‘to utilize a principle
long known to scientists—the reactive force of
bi-sulphide of carbon. The heretofore insuper-
able difficulty was to devise means to control
the power ; and this was the inventors first task.
Having accomplished this, anew obstacle arose.
It was found impossible to make a joint so
mechanically perfect as to hold the vapor, which
is much more penetrative than steam. A suit-
able joint-packing became necessary ; the in-
ventor hit upon it, andthat forms a material
part of his invention, making the success com-
plete. The chief advantages shown for Mr.
Blumenburg’s device are cheapness and safety
of operation. A leading manufacturing chemist
of Cleveland, who has watched the progress of
the motor with scientific interest,says the inven-
tor will be able to give manufacturers a very

economical and efficient power, doing away with |

boiler explosions and the consequent destructien
of property and life. From an experience of
many years in handling bi-sulphide of carbon
he is prepared to say that with Mr, Blumen-
burg’s apparatus much less danger is to be ap-

arotionded than from the ordinary steam en-
gine. The economy of the machine consists in
| its capacity to produce, with a temperature of 180

degrees Fahrenheit, the same power as is
| obtained by steam with a temperature of 350
| degrees. Mr. Pedrick, the company’s president,
| says he will run his establishmens with this new
|motor within 60 days, and that it will make
| steam worthless except for heating purposes.

CURIOSITY OF TREE GROWTH.

An interesting observation on tree rings is
|recorded by Prof. Bachelart in La Nature.
| During a visit to the ruins of Palenque, Mexico,
/in 1859, M. Charney caused all the trees that
|hid the facade of one of the pyramids of the
| place to becut down. On asecond visit in 1880,
he cut the trees that had grown since 1859, and
he remarked that all of them had a number of
concentric circles greatly superior to their age.
| The oldest could only have been 22 years of age,
but on a section of one of them he counted 250
| circles. A shrub, 18 months old at most, had 18
| concentric circles. M. Charney found the case
|repeated in every species, and in trees of all
sizes. He concluded that in a hot or moist
climate, where nature is never at rest, it may
produce, not one circle a year, as with us, but
onea month. The age of a monument has often
been calculated from that of trees that have
grown on its ruins. For Palenque, M. Larain-
zar calculated 1,700 years, having counted 1,700
rings ina tree. M. Charnay’s observation re-
quires the number to be cut down to 150 or 200
years, making a considerable difference, a mat-
ter of 1,500 years. Prof. Bachelart asks whether
M. Charnay took account of certain colored
rings which some tropical trees present in cross
section, and which are to be distinguished from
the annual circles.

JOINERY FOR ENGLAND.

The Timber Trades Journal says :-—Further
information has reached us respecting the intend-
ed importation of American yellow pins
mouldings and joinery work. There can be no
doubt but that a vigorous effort will be made
next season to create other forms of American
manufactured wood. Some novel forms of
manufacture will be introduced, and, from
| what we can gather, every effort will be made
to introduce them to the favourable notice of
the trade here. The best recommendation
which American joinery has is the really
splendid quality of the material of which it is
usually made. Few home made articles at all
approach it in this respect.

When examining a pile of ready-made doors
from the States we frequently turned over door
after door without finding a blemish. For
moulding and architraves it may be quite poss-
ible to create an active demand, and with res-
pect to pine doors, it may be said that this now
exists,

538

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

PROSPECTS IN THE STATES.

Active preparations for work are being made
en eyery logging stream. With a favourable
winter the cut of logs will be heavier than in
any previous year, and it will be very large no
The high
prices which have ruled during the past two or

matter what the winter may be.

three years will stimulate the mill men to pro-
vide for all the logs that the saws will cut, re-
gardless, we fear, of the fact that the outlook
for the coming year is not particularly bright.
There are some conservative manufacturers who
see that there is a great deal of lumber in the
country at present, and that a large cut of logs
for the season of 1882-3 is not desirable, These,
however, are few in number. The majority
will use their greatest efforts to make the big-
gest showing on record.

The cost of logging cannot, in most cases, be
accurately computed until the close of the sea-
son. When there is heavy snow the wear and
tear on horses and cattle, harnesses, and sleds,
is considerably greater than when it is just
enough for convenience. As the logging outfit
of the heavy concerns have a value of from $50, -
000. to $75,000, this percentage of loss, in a sea-
‘son of deep snow, is one that cannot be disre-
garded,

In some districts there is an advance in stum-
page that must be considered. On the Men-
ominee there is no advance. Onsome of the
Wisconsin streams stumpage is from 50 cents to
$1 higher than it was a year ago. Inthe Du-
Iuth region it has advanced somewhat, and

nearly everywhere in Michigan a small advance
may be counted on, There are many instances
where such prices have been paid for timber
that if the purchaser makes any money out of it
he may consider himself fortunate, but these
fancy prices, when the lumber business is con-
sidered generally, should not count.

Wages, on the whole, will not materially vary
from last season. A scarcity of men has been
talked of on some streams, but such talk is usual-
ly heard every season, and this fall there is no
excuse for it. Hor years men for the woods have
not been so readily obtained in Chicago as now,
owing doubtless, to the fact that there is a gen-
eral lot-up in railroad building. On one stream

- in Wisconsin cooks are in great demand at pre-

sent, and as high as $60 has been offered. Last.

year they were obtained at from $35 to $45,
But such an exception proves little, for as soon
as it is known that cooks are wanted there will
be a supply at less than $60 per month.

Horses and oxen are higher than they were
last fall. The disposition grows every year to
put none but the best of draught horses in the
woods. Such horses are high, ranging in price
from $250 to $800 each. Twenty spans were re-
cently sent to the upper peninsula from this
city, for which $520 a span was paid. Last fall
$500 would have bought them, Oxen are pro-
portionately higher, and good ones are selling
at from $175 to $200 a yoke.

Last fall hay was not plenty, but this fall itis
abundant, and sells at $3, and in some locations
more than that amount less than it did a year
ago. Pork is higher, and beef about the same,
Beans are cheaper. Corn is high, but oats are
being bought at eight cents under the prices of
last year.

The opinions of several careful operators bear
a striking similarity. One peters the cost of
‘logs for the coming year at 5 per cent over the
cost last year, another at 7 per cent., while
another says 50 cents on the thousand, which,
considering the price of logs in his district,
amounts to about to about 6 per cent. It must
be borne in mind, however, that these estimates
are made on the supposition that the winter will
be an average one.—Worthwestern Lumberman,

CULTIVATION OF FOREST TREES.

There is no mystery in the scientific cultiva_
tion of forests, so far as concerns the tillage of
the crop. All that is needed is to observe the
action of nature in the forest, and follow it, or
utilize it advantageously when that can be done,
The object of the. cultivation should be to ob-
tain the utmost possible advantage from the
soil by keeping it always covered with a growth
of trees, and when the trees arrive at maturity
to remove them in such a manner that the
smallest possible interruption may be caused
the productive works of nature, When the

time has come for the removal of the timber,
the ground should on no account be any where
all cleared of trees at once; but a commence-
ment should be made by felling a tree here and
there, and so breaking the thick cover of the
forest as to allow sufficient light or air to reach
the ground, and cause the seed which has fallen
to germinate. In this way one-fifth of the
mature trees should be removed every five or six
years, never by making large gaps in the cover,
but taking a tree here and there, and always
leaving the finest and most vigorous trees till
the last, so that in about thirty years the whole
of the trees will be cleared off, and a new forest
established in their place. Thus the seeding of
the wood will be effected by the agency
of the finest trees, which will be them

| selves all the while increasing in bulk, and the

productive power of the soil will be utilized to
the fullest possible amount. It is not only in
the removal of the timber and the reproduction
of the forest that we ought to study the action
of nature, but it is equally necessary that we
should do so in felling for improving the grow-
ing crop, or, as it is commonly called, the thin-
nings. The competition between trees after
they reach the full height, at half their full age,
is for space to spread their heads, and from this
time until they arrive at maturity they go on
always augmenting the diameter of their stems,
but at the same time decreasing in number. It
iscalculated that if 1,600 trees of 4 inches in diam-
eter can stand and thrive on an acre of ground,
there will not be more than 400 of them when
the trees have grown to eight inches, 200 when
they have reached 12 inches, and between 100
and 140 when they have attained 16 inches in
diameter. Little more is to be done in the earlier
stages of a forest’s growth than to keep the
heads of the most valuable species from being
overtopped by those which stand near them ;
this can be done best, not by removing the
others, but by cutting off or breaking the tops,
for it is desirable at this stage, for the sake of
natural pruning, to have the trees growing as
thickly together as possible. At : Inter stage
thinning can be judiciously arranged so as to
pass through the entire forest at intervals of
from 10 to 15 years, enabling the whole area to
be operated on in turn. In executing these, the
most difficult of all forest operations, it will be
well to remember that the object is to give room
to the head of the trees, and not to their stem,
for the stem will never be too close together as

.| long as the heads have room properly to develop

themselves. The favouring of the most promis-
ing trees, and the removal of the weaker ones,
tegether with the preservation of the continuous
shade to the surface of the ground, while all the
trees have sufficient room to grow, should be the
particular ends aimed at.—Popular Scientiyic
Monthly.

TIMBER.

In examining the transverse sections of the
stem of a tree, it is shown that it consists of
three parts, namely, the bark, the wood and the
pith. Around the pith the wood appears to
to circle in rings. The external rings are not so
hard and possess more sap than those which
closely twine the pith, forming what is termed
the heart-wood. These rings are also crossed
by rays called the medullary vays, which reach
from the centre of the stem tothe bark, In
structure the tree is made up of minute vessels
and cells, the sap circulates upward in the tree
through the vessels, and in its descent is convey-
ed to the leaves through the wood, and during
he life of the tree the wood performs the func-
tions of nutrition and secretion. The solid parts
of atree consist almost entirely of the fibrous
parts composing the sides of the vessels and
cells. It has been learned through various ex-
periments th.t in the spring of the year the sap
begins to ascond through the small vessels in
the wood and descends through the bark to the
leaves, and having passed through them, is de-
posited in a changed state between the bark and
the last year’s wood, forming a new layer of
bark and sapwood, the old bark being pushed
forward. As the annual layers increase in num-
ber, the sapwood ceases to perform its original
functions, the fluid parts are evaporated or ab-
sorbed by the new wood, and the sides of the
vessels beiny pressed together by the growth of
the latter, t 1e sapwood becomes heart-wood or

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perfect wood, and until this change takes place
it is unfit for the purpose of the builder. The
vessels in each layer of wood are largest on the
side nearest the centre of the stem, and small-
est at the outside. This arises from the first
being formed in the spring, when vegetation is
most attive. The oblong cells which surround
the vessels are filled with fluids in the early
growth ; but as the tree increases in size, these
become evaporated and absorbed, and the cells
become partly filled with depositions of woody
matter and indurated secretions, depending on
the nature of the soil, and affecting the quality
of the timber. Thereis a great difference in
the character of the annual rings, in different
kinds of trees. In some they are very distinct,
the side next the heart being porous, and the
other being compact and hard, as the oak, the
ash and the elm. In others the distinction be-

tween the ring is so small as scarcely to be dis-
tinguished and the texture of the wood is nearly
uniform, as in the beech and the mahogany. A
third class of trees have the annual rings very
distinct, and their pores filled with resinous
matter, one part being hard and heavy, the
other soft and light colored. All the resinous
woods have their character, as larch, fir, pine
and cedar. The medullary ring, are scarcely
perceptible to the naked eye in the majority of
trees, but in some, as the oak and the beech,
there are both large and small rings, which
when cut through obliquely, produce the beauti-
ful flowered appearance called silver grain.

In preparing timber for the uses of the builder,
there are three principal things to be attended
to, namely, the age of the tree, the time of fell-
ing and the seasoning for use. If a tree be fell-
ed before its full age, whilst the heart-wood is
scarcely perfected, the timber will be of inferior
quality, and from the quantity of sap contained
it will be very liable to decay ; on the other
hand, if the tree be allowed to stand until the
heart-wood begins to decay, the timber will be
weak and brittle ; the best timber comes from
trees that have nearly done growing, as there is
then but little sapwood, and the heart-wood is
in the best condition,

The best time for felling trees is either in
midwinter when the sap has ceased to flow, or
in midsummer, when the sap is temporarily ex-
pended in the production of leaves. An ex-
cellent plan is to bark the timber in the spring
and fell it in winter, by which means the sap-
wood is dried up and hardened ; but as the bark
of most trees is valueless, the oak tree (whose
bark is used in tanning) is almost the only one
that will pay for being thus treated.

The seasoning of timber consists in the extrac-
tion of or evaporation of the fluid parts which
are liable to decomposition on the cessation of
the growth of the tree. This is usually effected
by steeping the green timber in water, to dilute
and wash out the sap as much as possible, and
then drying it thoroughly by exposure in an airy
situation. The time required to season timber
thoroughly in this manner will of course much
depend on the sizes of the pieces to be seasoned,
but for the general purpose of carpentry, two
years is the least that can be allowed, and, in
seasoning timber for the use of the joiner, a
much longer time is usually required.

Properly seasoned timber placed in a dry
situation, with a free circulation of air round it,
is very durable, and has been known to last for
several hundred years without apparent deter-
ioration.

This is not, however, the case when exposed
to moisture, which is always more or less _pre-
judicial to its durability.

When timber is constantly under water, the
action of the water dissolves a portion of its
substance, which is made apparant by its be-
coming covered with a coat of slime. If it be
exposed to alterations of dryness and moisture,
as in the case of piles in tidle waves, the dissolv-
ed parts being continually moved by evapora-
tion and the action of the water, new surfaces
are exposed, and the wood rapidly decays.

Where timber is exposed to heat and mois-
ture, the albumen or gelatinous matter in the
sapwood speedily putrifies and decomposes,
causing what is called rot.

The rot in timber is commonly divided into
two kinds, the wet and dry, but the chief differ-
enee between them is, that where the timber is
exposed to the air, the gaseous products are

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freely evaporated ; whilst in a confined situa
tion they combine in a new form, viz: the dry
rot fungus, which, deriving its nourishment f
the decaying timber, often grows to a length of
many feet, spreading in every direction, and in-
sinuating its delicate fibres even through th
joints of brick walls.

In addition to the sources of decay above
mentioned, timber placed in sea water is very
liable to be completely destroyed by the perfor.
ations of the worm, unless protected by copper
sheathing, the expense of which causes it to he
seldom used for this purpose. a

The best method of protecting woodw. ork
from decay when exposed to the weather is i
paint it thoroughly, so as to prevent its being
effected by moisture.

It is, however, most important not to ap
paint to any woodwork which has not b
thoroughly seasoned, for in this case, the e
poration of the sap being prevented, it decom
poses, and the wood rapidly decays.—TZimber
Tradés Journal. M

TAR ROOFS.

The London Builder says that the German
Government has on several occasions pointed _
out to farmers and others interested in agricul-—
ture that too great an expenditure of capital on
buildings isa mistake. With a view of illus-
trating the application of this principle of econ-
omy to roofing, the Cologne Gazette points out
that the system of using tar for roofing purposes —
is at the same time economical and suitable for
agricultural buildings, and what is said may
serve as an answer to a recent inquiry infour
own pages. The framework of the roof can be
of relatively slight construction on account of
the nature of the covering it is intended to sup-
port, and the perpendicular height of the roof
can be one-eight or one-tenth of the entire depth _
of the building. The distance of the rafters is
arranged according te the width of the cavering
material; the scale being that from the middle
of one rafter to the middle of another. The —
distance should be 28 in. less than that the
width of tar roofing sheets. -

Immediately upon the rafters come boouclay
and upon these (exactly in the centre of the
separate rafters) are placed strong laths, about
2 in. wide and 1§ in. thick, the upper edges be-
ing taken off. The roofing sheets are now plac-
ed so as to cover the spaces between the Jaths,
and are nailed. Over the laths are placed strips
of paper, 5 in. to 6 in. wide, fastened with nails
at intervals of 23 in,

In order to make the sheets lie smoothly upon
the boarding, it is suggested, in case they are too
dry, to soften them by immersion in water. It
is recommended that the workmen should not
wear heavy-nailed boots, and also, that if the
rain comes on, the roof should not be walked up-
on immediately after. When the entire surface |
of the roof is covered with sheets, the strips of |
paper (or caps) already named, as well as joints,
are painted over with a hot mixture of coal tar
and pulverized lime. Pure dry sand is at once
sprinkled over this coating, and particular care
must be taken that all the nail heads are well
covered. When the paint is dry the whole sur
face of the roof is once more coated with the
same mixture, and is sanded. ‘

The object of this careful method of overlay-
ing the roof with several coatings of specially
prepared solutions is to preserve inthe tarthose _
oleaginous and fatty properties which it soon
loses if exposed to the air, and the retention of
which is an indispensable condition of its resis- a
tance to water. Clay and sand do not afford
sufficient protection, and they are removed by
violent winds,

Refererence is made to various systems of
coating the tar roof with protective substances,
for the purpose indicated. One of the mostsuc-
cessful methods consists of a mixture of cow —
dung and thin white lime, which is spread over
the entire surface of the roof. If sucha
is not applied the tar paint must, during the
first four years, be annually renewed, which en-
hances the cost of the roof. If the last named
productive composition is used, and renewed —
every two years, the coating of tar and lime can
be dispensed with. Particular mention is, how-
ever, made of a coating of tar mixed with sts
land cement, the tar being well heated and v

cane Et — dense
i

of cement.
stirred during the preparation, and should be
- applied as soon as made, ‘This particular
method has been tried in many cases in Ger-
_ many, and, accordfg to the journal quoted
from, its satisfactory results have caused its
adoption upon ascale of progressive importance.

SWISS FOREST PRESERVATION,

Rey. Dr. Wheeler, of the Methodist, writes
from Chamouni :—‘‘ The Swiss land is mostly
economized. The mountain side that is nearly
perpendicular in not a large acreage ; the moun-
tain side that is very steep and yet will, with
the help of roots, hold soil, is valuable for the
growth of wood. Hemlock and beech are the
chief forest trees ; and the cultivation and pres-
ervation of forest land is vigorously regulated
by law. If an owner clears a piece of timber
land he must replant it. In some cantons he
cannot cut a tree without a permit. The sound
practice prevails of clearing small plots at once
—not cutting a few trees here and there through
a wood as with us.

of the branches being saved for wood), and then
the space is replanted (usually from nurseries)

thinned as they may require. In this way

having no coal beds for its fuel, keeps up an
abundant supply of timber and wood on the
strictest principles of economy. ‘The Swiss
Alps are covered with wood ; and the immense
timbers which the traveller sees by the wayside
are all the fruit of cultivation on a good system
regulated by law. We Americans will have to
learn in this matter of the Swiss and Germans.
The native forests which we have been squan-
dering for a hundred years will hardly last into
the next century. Already I see that a conven-
tion has been held in the west to devise plans
for preserving the remnants of our great woods.
We shall have to come down to system and re-
gulation—and produce our wood and timber as
methodically as we “make” corn and pork.
I ought not to pass over the economy of the
land, which is shown in the absence of fences—
which haye taken so much money from the
pocket of the American farmer—and the culti-
vation of every corner ; or the excellence of the
macadamized roads, which are also economically
narrow. The woodgrown sides of our rural
highways will by-and-by disappear, and three of
the four rods of their width will be taken into
the bordering fields. After we have made these
little economies and learned the arts of irrigation
and timber culture, the greatest country in the
world will be still more worthy of our patriotic
devotion.

NORFOLK (VA.) VIRGINIAN.

Yes, sir, it is all that it is claimed to be. I
have tried it, and have advised and witnessed
its trial on others. I tell you its effects are sim-
ply wonderful. It gives a cure, and without
much trouble at that. I had been suffering a
great deal for over a month with very severe
pains, contracted from acold. I first experienc-
ed the pain in my side; and from its peculiar

f nature, I thought that it might be the premoni-
I tion of paralysis. My friends were fearful ; but
after it shifted about, from one side to the other,
from arm to leg, shooting through my body ina
most infernally torturing manner, I knew that
it was rheumatism that had me, and I sought
remedies of different kinds, without effect, un-
F til I chanced to see the advertisement of St.
Jacobs Oil, and read of its wonderful cures,
when I resolved to give it a trial. That was
about two months ago, and I had then been suf-
fering 2 month of considerable agony. Secur-
ing 4 bottle of the oil, I applied it to the parts
Z affected, and that night I had the first good
’ nights rest that I had since the commencement
of my attack. I gave two other applications
and became perfectly cured—not suffering from
rheumatism since—and that has been two
months ago.

This was the story of his cure by St. Jacobs
Oil as told by Capt. Jack McLean, who for fifty
years has been a resident of Norfolk and Ports-
mouth, and who is as well known in Norfolk

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The mixture should be kept well

A small plot is cleared, the
stumps and brush entirely removed (every twig
and the new trees cultivated, trimmed out or

Switzerland, using much timber (its rural and
village buildings being chiefly wooden), and

our reporter, who had heard of his remarkable
cure, as well as of others that through Mr. Mc-
Lean’s instrumentality, had been brought about
by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. After he had
told the story of his own case, we asked him
about the others, and he did not hesitate to re-
late them.

One was the case of a druggist from Warren-
ton, North Carolina, who, while on a business
trip to Norfolk, during the recent snowy and
sleety spell, had the misfortune to fall on the
ice and bruised himself very severely, so much
so that he was confined to his room at his hotel.
Mr. McLean happened to visit the hotel when
he heard of the accident, and having formed the
acequaintance of the gentleman injured, advis-
ed him to give St. Jacobs Oil a trial. The drug-
gist consenting, Mr. McLean brought him some
of his oil, which he applied, with such a happy
result, that he was enabled to.go on his way
home rejoicing. Another case, was that of Mr.
Walter Howard, a well known fish and oyster
dealer in our city. Mr, Howard had also during
the recent sleety spell fallen and injured him-
self. Being intimate with Mr. Howard, Mr,
McLean says he sought him, and finding what
his injuries were, he recommended the use of
the oil. The result as in the previous case was
acure—and athorough cure. Mr. Howard is
now a firm believer in the curative properties of
St. Jacobs Oil.

But a more remarkable cure than all of the
rest—and which our reporter had heard of be-
fore having any knowledge of Mr. McLean’s
connection with the case—was that of a vener-
able lady about seventy years of age, who,
some two weeks ago, while seated at the supper-
table, was stricken with paralysis, the whole of
her left side being afflicted. Her speech was
even affected. The family physician was sent
for, and he at once prescribed the usual reme-
dies, but without effect. The old lady was a
family connection of the wife of Mr. McLean,
and Mrs. McLean on hearing of her affliction
visited the house, and learning that no relief
had been secured from the physician’s remedy,
recommended the use of St. Jacobs Oil, relating
its effect upon her husband. | The oil was pre-
cured and applied. The afflicted side was well
rubbed and partial feeling was restored. The
second day after the first application the aftlict-
ed lady was able to sit up, and the third day
she was well enough to sew. Since then she
goes about the house apparently as well as she
ever was, and she considers that she owes her
life tothe great curative virtues contained in
St. Jacobs Oil. These statements of cures com-
ing to our notice from our interview with Mr.
McLean, brought to our recollection a state-
ment made to us by Prof. G. B. Cromwell, who
last February exhibited in our city his beautiful
“Art Illustrations ” at the Opera House, which
each night attracted crowded and cultivated
audiences. It was in connection with his
recommendation to a gentleman who was
suffermg a great deal from rheumatism,
and who on that account had been unable
to attend the exhibitions. Prof. Crom-
well advised him to try St. Jecobs Oil—even
urged him to do so—and at last bought him a
bottle of the oil, that he might have no excuse
for not using. The gentleman, however, was
then under the treatment of his physician, and
did not use the oil. In explanation of the de-
sire on his part why the oil should be used,
Prof. Cromwell stated that he had some year or
so before suffered excruciating torments from
rheumatism, and that he had tried all kinds of
medicines and so-called cures—all without effect.
He heard, however, of St. Jacobs Oil, and re-
solved to give it a trial, which he did, and he
stated that its effect on him was almost magical,
A complete cure was effected, and since then
he had never suffered from rheumatism. Bus
in order that he might be at all times prepared
for the enemy, henever travelled without carry-
ing in his trunk a bottle or so of St. Jacobs Oil.

While the above facts relate to the very re-
markable curative properties of this Great Ger-
man Remedy, it appears, judging from what
our druggists say, that the belief in its virtues
is wonderfully strong among the people of all
classes, and that they secure it as a sure relief
from pain. No patent medicine, it is asserted,
has ever had the sale that St. Jacobs Oil has
had. No doubt much of this has been due to

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

the extensive use of printer’s ink, in the way of
advertisements, almanacs, posters, sign bills,
cards, puzzles, and everything in the’ printing
line, But the many and many of certified cures
and the interest which they have excited has
had a vast deal to do with its popularity. It is
sought by all, and isa boom to our druggists.
Yesterday we detailed a reporter to visit the
different drug establishments and to learn from
them some facts regarding the sale of the oil.
He visited, among others, the house of Walke
& Williams and saw Dr. Walke, who informed
him that the demand for the oil
simply wonderful. He stated that it had ex-
ceeded the demand for any patent medicine he
had ever handled, and this was saying a great
deal, as Dr. Walke has been engaged in the
drug business for many years, and the business
of his house is very great. He next
ed on the old and well-known drug house of M.
A. & C. A. Santos. The senior of the
was not in, but his son was approached, and he
said in reply to the inquiry of our reporter, that
the sale of St. Jacobs Oil was tremendous—
never anything like it. He next visited the ex-
tensive establishment of J. W. Burrow, and
finding that gentleman present, asked him :
How about the sale of St. Jacobs? His reply
was: ‘“‘Splendid ; the demand is very great. I
make large sales of the oil.” The drug store of
Dr. H. R. Vaughan was next sought, and in
answer to our reporter’s interrogatory, Dr. Vau-
ghan readily answered: ‘‘My sales have been-
remarkable. The oil goes fast.”

We only conclude after the above statements
of cures and sales, that there is a great deal in
St. Jacobs Oil—and that where the benefactions
have been so great, the Messrs. Vogeler & Co.
may well be classed as benefactors—deserving
the blessings of the multitude who have been
cured,

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Non-Inflammability of Redwood.

A quality of California redwood is its ready
absorption of water when heated, which for a
time makes it almost fire-proof. The San Fran-
cisco Call says that the quickness with which
fires are extinguished in that city has often been
remarked, and the celerity with which blazing
buildings are often transformed into charred
remnants is greatly facilitated by the entire lack
of the resinous element in the redwood lumber,
Resin, familiarly known as ‘‘ pitch,” is not only
highly inflammable, but is insoluble in water
and will burn while being drenched with the
element, with which it will not mix. At a re-
cent fire in that city the advantage of redwood
over other lumber in the construction of build-
ings became apparent. The moment water
struck the side of the building or roof timbers it
not only quenched the flames but the wood ab-
sorbed water as a sponge would, and it became
incombustible.

Artificial Gastric Juice.

A WoNDERFUL
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remarkable digestive
power of Maltopep-
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Two doses (30 grains),
| of Maltopepsyn | will di-
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a hard boiled egg in a
bottle of water, in from
3to4hours. Howmuch
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stomach assisted by that
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water (distilled water is best, though soft water will
do), then add the finely cut white ofa hard boiled egg,
then add two doses (30 grains) of Maltopepsyn and
shake bottle thoroughly every 15 or 20 minutes, keep
the bottle warm, as near the temperature of the body
(100° fahrenheit) as possible, and in 3 to 4 hours the
egg will be entirely dissolved or digested, r

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TORONTO

TREE CULTURE.
¥rench authorities have awakened to the ad-
vantages of tree culture and have ordered that
trees should be planted on barren spote belong-
The reason assigned is
Here

is one more good example to which those inter-

ing to the government.
the growing scarcity of timber in France.

ested in the timber protection and culture move-
ment can point with pride. It is further report-
ed that tree planting is prospering in emoky
London, and in Tooley strset—which is deserib-
ed as a metropolitan ravine, a sort of abyes in
brickwork, savored of
green fields and pathless woods would appear
the unéavory
neighborhood called Bermondsey, it is reported
that of eighty-four trees there planted only
twelve have died, while the remainder are flour-
ishing. This leads the Standard to refiect how
much better it would be to employ the charms
of nature to relieve the ugliness of the town
than to put up statutes at which everyone shud-
ders. There is a good deal of sound sense there.
—The Luinber World,

where anything that

impossible—a thoroughfare in

ARRIVED AT QUEBEC.
The Chronicle gives the following list of rafts,
etc., arrived at Quebec :—
Oct 25—King Bros,
Docks.

D D Calvin (2), oak, pine, &c., sundry cover.

Collins Bay Co, oak, &c, Bridgewater cove.

Flatt & Bradley, staves, sundry coves.

S WRae & Co, do. do.

A Gilmour & Co, deals, do.

G Samson, deals, Indian Cove west.

Oct 26—Flatt & Bradley, staves,
coves.

Larkin, pine, etc, Dobell’s cove.

Oct 30—J & B Grier, hemlock, &c, Russel’s
Dock, Levis.

British Canadian Lumber & Timber Come
pany, white and red pine, St Michael’s cove.

Novy 2—Simon Wigle, staves, Woodfield Har-
bor.

Sundry Lots, staves Union Cove.

Guy Bevan & Co, deals, Hadlow Cove.

deals, St. Lawrence

sundry

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LUMBER

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WANTED,
STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg. Man.
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THE GREAT PINERIES.

The Chicago correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes as follows :—Of the rather more
than 2,000,000,000 feet of white pine lumber that
yearly reaches the docks and yards of Chicago,
nearly all comes from the western half of
Michigan, the northern peninsula of the same
state and the Green Bay districts of Hastern
Wisconsin. Of the total amount, as much as
1,200,000,000 is derived from a dozen places
along the Eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
Muskegon alone in 1881 furnished 491,824,000
feet, and 25,715,000 shingles, while Manistee
sent forward 151,130,000 feet of lumber, and
357,000,493 shingles, the latter place being the
greatest shingle manufacturing place on that
shore. The chief district of lumber manufacture
on the upper peninsula is at the mouth of the
Menominee River, which empties into Green
Bay and divides the States of Michigan and
Wisconsin. The mills are located at Menom-
inee, in Michigan, and Marinette, Wisconsin.
A large proportion of the lumber stock that
goes to make up the reside of Chicago’s 2,000, -
000,000 feet is produced at these two points.
The Menominee district in 1881 furnished 265, -
917,000 feet of lumber, and this year it is
thought the amount will reach over 300,000,000
feet. The other Green Bay and Upper Penin-
sula ports of importance in 1881 shipped as
follows :—Peshtigo, 52,260,000; Ford River,
25,724,000; Hscanaba, 5,680,000 ; Oconto, 7,-
210,000. Of Saginaw lumber in 1881 37,573,-
000 feet were received, but it probable that much
more will haye arrived at the close of the pre-
sent season, on account of the unusual reaching
about after stocks this year. Alpena, on the
Huron shore, in 1881 supplied Chicago with 9,-
439,000 feet, and: more than that will arrive
from that port this year. Some is furnished
from other Lake Huron points, Latterly the
Lake Superior region has produced considerable
lumber, most of which has reached the Chicago
market, the arrivals from Ashland in 1881
amounting to 20,995,000 feet, and from Onton-
agon to 1,360,000. The lumber industry of that
section is being greatly developed, and the time
will soon come when the output along the south
shore of the great lake will swell the yearly
total to 250,000,000, but a large part of it will
no doubt go to supply the markets of the
new Northwest by way of Duluth and the three
Northern Pacific railroads.

It is impossible to estimate the influence the
pine of Michigan and Wisconsin has had in the
development of the Northwest and of the en-
tire country. An important factor in this great
agency is the fact that a water way existed be-
tween the forests and the prairies. White pine
is a light and portable timber, eminently adapt-
ed to the wants of new settlers, easily worked
by partly skilled labor. It has furnished a

- material for the building of houses, the improve-

ment of farms, the sudden growth of cities and

- villages, and by its means an empire has been

created, as it were, in a day, Comparison is the
most conclusive argument; and if one com-
pares white pine with the yellow or pitch var-
iety of the south, it will be seen that if the
northwest had been dependent upon the weighty
and hardly worked pine of the southern sections
of the country, the progress of the prairie states
would have dragged far behind its present ad-
vanced condition. Even to this day, when
railroad facilities from south to north are quite
ample, the weight of yellow pine amounts to
almost an embargo on shipments to the north-
west, though strenuous efforts are being made to
overcome this difficulty by cheaper freights.
The estimate placed on the standing pine of
the northwest by the Federal census forestry
bulletins, however much they may be criticised,
has served to awaken much interest in the pre-
sent and prospective pine supply. Ten years
ago it was claimed in the Saginaw Valley that
the available pine in that section would be used
up in ten years; yet the yearly product since
then has steadily increased, and last year the
output was greater than ever before. The same
Ys true of the Lake Michigan districts. This at
first blush seems an inconsistent proposition,
but being better understood, it appears more
reasonable, When the first estimates of Michi-
gan pine were made, the operators took into ae-

* eount only such timber as was accessible to the

streams, and was of certain proportions, For

THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

instance, the time was when a pine less than
fourteen inches in diameter was never cut. Now,
such has become the insatiable demand that
trees no more than eight inches in diameter are
sacrificed to the greed of the lumbermen ; and
it is a common joke among the red-shirted bri-
gade that sawed sticks 6x6, are often seen with
all four corners ‘‘ waney.” In the early days of
the industry Michigan lumbermen penetrated
the forests no further than would make a short
haul necessary to bring the sticks to stream,
After timber became scarce on short hauls, long
hauls were undertaken. At length operations
had become so thorough tbat teams could no
longer bring the logs to bank, and there was a
pause and a consideration of further appliances.
At each stage of denudation the pine was said
to be exhausted. Estimates of standing pine
were always made with reference to the oper-
ator’s ideas of what constituted available tim-
ber, both as to size and distance from water.
When lumber was cheap it was, of course, im-
possible to put too much expense into logging.
The cost of stumpage came in for consideration.
At first it was worth nothing but the value of
the land on which the trees grew, which was
obtainable at Government price. In process of
time, as the demand for lumber increased,
stumpage began to rise in value, and passed
through the scale from 25 cents a thousand to
its present average Michigan price of $4.50;
that is, the trees are worth that much a thous-
and as they stand on the stump, or two-thirds
the average price of sawed lumber fifteen years
ago. Stumpage in Michigan is now often sold
at $5, $6 and $7 a thousand, according to quality
and accessibility.

Recent estimates of the quantity and value of
standing pine have become very different from
what they were ten or twelve years ago. Now
estimates are made as to quantity on a basis of
eight inches in diameter and upward, and all
the standing pine is reckoned, be it never so far
from stream or lakeside. The demand for lum-
ber has wrought the change in reysord to size,
and the new method of logging by pole and
iron railroad has brought the remotest pine
within reach of mills and market.

Tn the earlier days of the lumber industry of
the north snow was relied upon for moving logs
from the stump to the stream or lake, and is
still to a large extent. But in Michigan the de-
mand for raw material to feed the mills has he-
come so urgent that snow and frost are elements
too fickle to base a year’s operations upon, In
the old days the loggers operated near streams,
had an investment of a limited capital, were
supplying a rather profitless demand, and did
the best they could with ice and snow. In open
winters they brooked the loss of idle men and
teams and unfulfilled contracts as best they
could, Latterly lumbering has become a pro-
profitable enterprise, Vast capital is invested
in lands, stumpage mills and outfit. The yearly
demand calls for 7,000,000,000 feet of lumber,
and it must be met by a supply. The energy
of money has grappled the logging industry,
and dispenses with the agency of frost. Log-
ging railroads have largely taken the place of
the sled for long hauls. Pole roads are used for
shorter hauls, and together they furnish a means
whereby logging is carried forward in the snow-
less season as well as in the winter. The log
supply no longer depends on the character of the
season, as was once so much the case. The re-
quisite nnmber of sticks can be put in to keep
the mills running in any event.

The pole road is a simple tramway of poles,
flattened for the car wheels, and placed end to
end along the surface of the ground. Broad
flanged wheels run on this rude track, and bear
up immense loads of logs and convey them from
the stump to the water with a great saving

The cars are drawn by horses, mules
This kind of road is much used in the

of power.

or oxen.
south. But the iron or steel track logging rail-
way is triumph of modern forest industry, By

its agency vast forests of splendid pine in the
interior of Michigan have been penetrated, and
their crude wealth brought out to the manufac-
turing centres. But for this means the annual
forest product of Michigan would have been
one-third less than it is to-day, but regions that
are now denuded would still have been clothed
with a heavy growth of pine. Still it must be
be said that the logging railroad has saved a

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vast amount of timber wealth from destruction
by fire. It is well known by those familiar
with forestry that in all the pine regions, es-
pecially in Michigan, devastating fires annually
sweep over wide areas, and a large proportion
of the most valuable timber is scorched and
kilied before the lumbermen can reach it. If
pine is not cut and put into the water during
the winter following its being killed by fire, the
succeeding season it becomes worm-eaten and
““powder-pasted,” and nearly or quite useless
for sawing into lumber. Immense amounts of
pine were formerly lost in this way. But since
capital and enterprise have promoted the build-
ing of logging railroads, a great saving of burn-
ed timber has been made. A pine owner nowa-
days would be considered considerably lacking
in enterprise if he permitted a large tract of
burned pine to go to waste by neglecting to
penetrate it with a railroad. The construction
of railway lines like the Grand Rapids and In-
diana, the Flint and Pere Marquette, the De-
troit, Mackinac and Marquette, and others,
through northern Michigan, has greatly devel-
oped the lumber industry of the State, by
furnishing facilities for conveying the product
to market. Like railroad facilities are being
extended through northern Wisconsin, and are
bringing the remotest timber resources of that
State within reach of the lumbermen.

THE LUMBER INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED
STATES.

The census department has issued a bulletin
upon the lumber industry of the United States,
from which we have compiled some interesting
figures. The number of establishments for the
entire country is 25,798, having an aggregate
capital of $181,186,122, and employing 148,000
hands, During the census year the value of
lumber used by these mills was $139,836,869,
and the value of the product, after being sawed,
was $233,367,729. Over $31,000,000 was paid
out in wages. According to the value of
products, Michigan ranked first, with $52,449, -
928; Pennsylvania second, with $22,457,359 ;
Wisconsin third, with $17,652,347 ; New York
fourth, with $14,336,910; Indiana fifth, with
$14,260,830; Ohio sixth, $13,864,460: Maine
séventh, 7,933,868 ; and Minnesota eighth, $7,-
366,088. The statistics for the southern states
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While these figures show that there is a large
lumber business at the south, yet at the same
time, they give some idea as to how very small
itis with what other sections do, or when com-
pared with the amount of standing timber in
the South. A few comparisons may show the
force of this. During the census year the value
of the lumber cut in Michigan was over $52,-
000,000, against $3,600,000 for Texas; but the
latter state now has 67,000,000,000 feet of pine
standing, while the former has 35,000,000,000
feet. Louisiana has 48,000,000,000 feet of pine
standing, and the value of he lumber products
for the census year was only $1,754,640, while
Wisconsin has 41,000,000,000 feet standing, and
her lumber product was valued at nearly $18,-
000,000.

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beginning to attract the attention they deserve,
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the mill owners are now looking to the south —
with a view of transferring their operations to
that section. In some of the southern states,
especially Florida, the demand for lumber for
building purposes is very active, due to the
heavy immigration, and this must continue for
many years.—Baltimore Journal of Commerce.

THE SAWDUST CONTROVERSY.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Not-
withstanding the result of the investigation of
the Minneapolis Minn., sawdust committee on
the navigation question, the St. Paul opposers
are as aggressive as ever, and propose to clean
out the Minneapolis interests on general prin-
ciples, whether they are injuring or benefitting
navigation. Ignoring entirely the subject-mat-
ter of the committee’s report, the irrepressible
Chamber of Commerce of St. Paul proceeds to
‘* resolute” the Minneapolis mill men out of ex-
istence, as follows :—

Resolved,—That this Chamber of Commerce,
in behalf of the citizens of the state of Minne-
sota and the entire Northwest, respectfully
requests the attorney-general of the United
States to ask for an injunction restraining all
saw mills in the state of Minnesota from de-
positing mill refuse and sawdust in the Missis-
sippi and Rum Rivers, and other navigable
rivers of this state, as recommended by Col.
Farquahar, United States engineer, formerly in
charge of the improvement of the Mississippi
at and below St. Paul, and by Maj. Mackenzie,
now in charge of the same work, in his recent
report to the chief engineers, the deposits being,
in the opinion of the government engineers and
steamboat men, the fruitful cause of obstructions
to navigation, and injurious and destructive to
the works of the government now in progress.
The above was unanimously adopted.

There is one feature about the sawdust con-
troversy, which is to be deprecated. The mat-
ter has been utilized as political capital to furnish
the basis for continued agitation. St. Paul and

‘pine land rings,” and its journals pour out
gall and warmwood in endless quantity, as tonic
bitters for their river neighbour. For this rea-
son much that is said on the sawdust question
is apt to be the product of prejudice, and
largely political fustian. That is no way to
treat an important question. If the agitators
have any real grounds for complaint, and can
disprove the assertions of the committee that
has reported in the premises, they should go
about their work intelligently and prove what
they allege. The milling interest is a heavy
one, contributing in an enormous degree to the
general prosperity of the Mississippi valley, and
navigation as a whole is of immense importance
likewise. To warrant inconveniencing the for-
mer interest it is necessary to show that navi-
gation will suffer the most by the alleged evil.
While very radical in their assertions the
agitators are decidedly meager in their demon-»
stration, and it is an important fact that nearly
all the volcanic wrath’ on the subject has eman-
ated from the jealous rivalry of sister cities, the
general cominunity having rested very easy on
the question. .
The Pioneer-Press is inclined to believe that
the hullabaloo that has been raised up is with-
out much ground, and produces the following as
probable proof that the St. Paul agitators are
on the wrong track :—

““Canada furnishes an interesting contribution
to the current discussion of the sawdust question

made in 1873, by Hon. Wm. J. Alpine and
Prof. D. M. Greene, civil engineers, on “‘ Wood
and Sawdust Deposits in the Hudson and
Ottawa rivers.” The points considered are :
“What are the causes that induce the formation
of bars.and obstructions in navigable and other
streams? What material usually compose such —
hars and obstructions? What are the specific —
gravities of these materials? What velocities
of current are necessary totake up and trams- —
port these materials to a point of final deposi- —
ition in the bar?’ The conclusion reached,
cord with the facts found by the committee of
the Minneapolis board of trade in their recent
investigation of the channel of the Miss
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Duluth are red-hot after Minneapolis and its

river between Minneapolis and the head of
Lake Pepin. They find that ‘a current voloc-
ity considerably less than one-fifth of a mile per
hour sufficies to take up and transport slowly
coarse, saturated pine sawdust ; that a velocity
of one-fifth of a mile per hour produces a very
decided movement down stream of such parti-
cles, and that a velocity of one-fourth of a mile
per hour sufficies for their entire and instan-
taneous removal,” and the general conclusions
were that ‘‘ saturated pine sawdust will be per-
manently deposited in water when the velocity
of the current exceeds twenty-five-hundredths
of a foot per second, or one-sixth of a mile per
hour, and that bars of sand and sawdust com-
bined will not be formed under any circumstan-
ces unless there exist expansions of the river
below such sand-bars sufficient to make a cross
section more than double that at the site of the
bar.” ‘These conclusions are the more impor-
tant from the fact that they are based upon in-
vestigations in streams where sawdust has been
annually deposited in vast quantities during the
last fifty years.

SOUTHERN LUMBER.

Several Grand Rapids lumbermen have in-
vested in pine lands and organized the Pasca-
goula Lumber Company. The Eagle says :—

“These parties have been for some time
quietly examining and estimating timber
through a large portion of the pie belt of the
Mississippi. Much of the work has been done
by members of the company and the remainder
by men of known experience whom they have
employed for that purpose since March, 1881.

Instead of hastily locating whatever they
found vacant, they have taken time to examine
a large portion of the available lands in the
state in order to make the very best selections
possible. The result is, they have obtained,
partly from the government, and partly from
private parties, a choice tract of 50,000 acres of
the long leaf yellow pine, chiefly located on the
. Pascagoula river and its tributaries, where they
can reach inland markets by rail and also have
the facilities of river floating, and manfacturing
where they have seaport navigation to almost
any part of the civilized world, and they will
immediately commence active operations in the
manufacturing of the timber into lumber.—
Lumberman’s Gazette.

PRODUCE OF CROWN FORESTS.

The sixtieth report of the Commissioners of
the Crown Forests, Woods, and Land Revenues
has just been published, from which we gather
that the amount received from all sources for

_ forest produce, during the year ending March
31st, 1882, was £36,619 14s. 4d. This was divid-
ed as follows :—Windsor park and woods, £6,-
119 9s. 6d.; New Forest, £12,222 10s, 6d. ;
Dean Forest, £7,984 5s. 9d.; Highmeadow
Wood, £3,798 7s. 7d. ; Alice Holt Woods, £1,-
190 6s. 9d.; Woolmer Estate, £3,354 19s. 8d. ;
Bere Woods, £1,255 1s. 6d. ; Parkhurst Woods,
£643 13s, 1d.

In addition, the revenue from Crown Estates
for timber during the twelve month was as
follows :— .

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Windsor (Berks) ........-.00:sssvacerers _
Delamere (Chester) ....-.--2++.0-e2-055> 611 611
Chopwell (Durham) .....--sssseesseeee 7. “32.6
Eltham (Kent) ...... -...+0- esessresoes 308 4 2
Torver (LANCS)........--ceser seeereseee _
Hazleborough and Salcey (Northampton) 966 i5 8
Manor of St. Briavels (Gloucester) ...... 03 0
Carisbrooke (Hants) ......00+ ++eteeeene 060
Billingborough and Gedney (Lincoln).... 9310 0
Egham and Esher, &c., (Suraey)........ 90910 6
Poynings (Sussex.....--.--++++eeeeceees 42 8 2
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WANTON DESTRCUTION,

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—Timber des-
truction of the most wanton description is among
the great evils which threaten the lumber indus-
try of the country. Vast quantities of hem-
lock and oak are being destroyed for the bark
alone, where the timber might be put to prac-
tical use. Untold thousands of feet of hemlock
have been destroyed in Michigan alone in this
manner, notwithstanding the growing impor-
tance and value of the wood, and still the work

of destruction is continued, Young trees which, The American Hotel,

in a few years would come into the market are
slashed down with the most shameful and waste-
ful extravagance, and larger trees are left to rot
in the forest after having been stripped of the
bark. In California, one of the handsomest
trees in the state, known and designated as
chestnut oak, is being sacrificed in the same
ruthless manner, This slaughter is being ac-
complished in both cases to satisfy the demand
for bark for the purpose of tanning. The
leather business has been unusually good for a
few years past, and the consequence is that
over large districts in different states, oak and
hemlock is being sacrificed in the interest of
present pecuniary gain, the trunks being peeled
and then left to decay. Some action to prevent
such wanton destruction is demanded,

Russian Export Duty on Wood,

The following appears in the Timber Trades
Journal :— ;

Sir,—Can you inform me what foundation
there is for the rumor that a duty will be put on
all timber exported from Russia next season ?
My Cronstadt representative writes me, under
date October 7th, that nobody there knows any-
thing about it. However, asthe Russian Cus-
tom House has this season compelled us to
specify the value of goods exported by each ship
in the declaration now required by them, and
the Gild Papers Commission, in going their
rounds, are requiring from each shipper a
schedule of his last year’s exports, with values,
&c., there may be some truth in the report.—I
am, &c., J. R. Boyce,

Granite Wharf, Wapping, E., Oct., 19th.

[We have no further corroboration of the
above report since our last notes on the subject ;
but, as there is no smoke without a fire, we may
conclude that something of the nature referred
to by our correspondent is on the tapis. The
large increase in the trade in timber with Russia
the last ten years has no doubt been taken into
consideration by those in authority as a means
of increasing the revenue.—(Ep. 7. 7. J.)

Duluth Business.

In speaking of the increasing importance of
the lumber business at Duluth, the Bee, of that
city, is very exuberant, as it is probably war-
ranted in being. It says “‘there will be between
seventy-five million and one hundred million
feet of logs come down the Nenadji river next
season. There have been contracts for that
amount made already. This is a good instance
of the growth of the lumber interests of Duluth.
This amount would almost cover the entire cut
of this season here, while last year only about
one-third of the supply came from that river ;
should the supply from all the other sources in-
crease as on the Nenadji there must necessarily
be a very large increase in the lumber business
in Duluth next summer.”

Veneers and Panels.

The enterprising and wideawake city of
Grand Rapids, Mich., is to have a new wood-
working establishment in the shape of a veneer
and panel manufactory, which will answer to
the name of the Grand Rapids Veneer & Panel
Company. The building, which is already up,
is a large one, and new and heavy machinery
will be used. The veneers will be cut from the
log, and will be an eighth of an inch thick. For
panels these veneers will be glued together.
The stock of the company is owned principally
by the furniture men.

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Tur cut of the N. Ludington Company, at
Menominee, Mich., will be 30,000,000 feet by
the cloge of the season.

ST

Tux head office of the Keewatin Lumbering
and Manufacturing company has been transfer-
red from the Lake of the Woods to Hamilton,

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Woop worms in woodword can be destroyed
with benzine. When used in proper quantities
it kills off the insect as well as the larye and

eggs,

Iv is said that at Evansville, Ind., more
hardwood lumber is cut than in any locality of
of the same size in the world. There are four-
teen saw mills running which are capable of
cutting 100,000,000 feet a year.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says :—Hlisha
Pike, of Bayfield, Wis., offers to denote a large
and well located mill site on Pike’s Bay to any
one who will erect a first-class mill thereon,

This winter 5,000,000 feet of logs will be bank~

ed on the bay.

A ynkmw pulp mill has been built at Great
Works, Me., to utilize the poplar growing in
that section. The new demand will permit
many of the farmers to realize on a wood that
has been of little value, either for fuel or lum-
ber, the variety not being desirable for the lat-
ter purpose,

-Cuicaao, being the great centre of the lumber
trade, is naturally well supplied with organs for
that special industry, The Lumber Trade
Journal of that city is a new aspirant for the
patronage of the trade, and should obtain a large
share of it as it, seems ‘to be carefully edited and

compiled, and its “‘get-up” is excellent.
EE

Iv appears that government land, in Dakota
especially, is being covered with fictitious tim-
ber claims, Land agents file these claims in the
names of non existent persons, and then when
a bona fide settler comes along, the agent sells
him a relinquishment of his claim, at as great a
price as he can obtain, The law should certain-

ly be changed so as to head off these pivates,

Tak CANADA TUMBMEMEN °°
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AN Ottawa correspondent writing on Noy. 6th,
says :—Owing to the high price of pork lumber-
men are dealing extensively in beef, Three
hundred head of cattle were shipped to-day for
the shanties of the British Canadian Lumber
Company.

ONE morning recently about 2.30 o’clock Mr.
John Kincaid’s steam saw and shingle mills,
Omemee, were discovered to be on fire. Mr,
Kineaid’s loss is about $6,500, on which there
is only $1,400 insurance. A number of men are
thrown out of employment by this disastrous
fire, which is supposed to be the work of an in-
cendiary,.

For the first time in several years there has
been a clean drive in the Eau Claire, Wis.,
river. All the mills of the Hau Claire Lumber
Company are turning out their full average
product, but the log supply exceeds what can
be sawed by the close of navigation. There
are 13,000,000 feet in store. The company will
have 10 camps, half of which have been started.

Tun Buffalo Lumber World says :—From all
quarters come reports that every indication is
for a very busy season among the loggers.
Many of the prominent lumber firms have de-
cided to largely increase the output of logs dur-
ing the coming winter and it seems probable
that more logs will be banked than ever before,
It might be well to remember that there is such
a possibility as ‘getting too much of a good
thing.”

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In the course of a few years the Northern
Pacific railway will run through an avenue of
shade trees hundreds of miles in length. This
extensive tree planting is being done to protect
the road from storms and snowdrifts. In ad-
dition to having a ‘large gang of men at this
work between Fargo and Bismark, in Dakota,
the officers have distributed immense quantities
of seedlings and cuttings to the farmers settled
on the land grant, and offered prizes for skill in
forestry. )

Wr have received from the office of the
Northwestern Lumberman a neat little pamphlet
which is a detailed prospectus of that great
organ of the trade. Among its contents are
some valuable and very clear colored diagrams,
eight in number, showing at a glance the
estimated quantity of white pine and the long
and short leaf yellow pine in the various states,
the quantities of lumber and shingles supplied
for the last twenty years and the prices for ten

years past.

Tue Carson river, in Nevada, is almost
choked for miles by a heavy cordwood drive,
The sticks lie low in water, giving evidence of
being thoroughly. soaked. The wood comes
from the mountains, as far as 60 to 100 miles
from Carson. Under ordinary circumstances a
good drive costs but 15 cents a cord, but the
present one will cost 10 times that. Just as the
wood started the water fell, and instead of
reaching its destination in June last, the drive
was delayed till now, incurring heavy additional
expense.

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We have received the American Journal of
Forestry, the new organ devoted to the interests
of forest tree planting, the formation and care of
woodlands and ornamental plantations general-
ly, and to the various economies therein con-
cerned. It is edited by Franklin B. Hough,
Ph. D, Chief of the Forestry Division of the
United States Department of Agriculture, and
is published by Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincin-
nati, Ohio. It seems admirably fitted to adyo-
cate the interests for the benefit of which it is

published,

A St. Paul paper says:—The Big Woods of
Minnesota are rightly named, for they cover
5,000 square miles, or 3,200,000 acres of surface.
The Big Woods contain only hardwood growths,
including white and black oak, maple, hickory,
basswood, elm, cottonwood, tamarac, and
enough other varieties to make an aggregate of
over 80 different kinds. This hardwood tract
extends in a belt across the middle of the state,
and surrounding its northeastern corner is an
immense pine region covering 21,000,000 square
miles, or 13,440,000 square acres.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette says :—Visitors to
the field of lumber operations in Michigan or
Wisconsin pineries, on viewing the destruction
and wanton waste of timber that is being added
to that already in existence to feed the fire fiend
in case of an outbreak in a dry season, would
hardly believe that forestry congresses are being
held throughout the country having in view the
prevention of the very thing which is being
accomplished so steadily and persistently.

Tux Grand Rapids Democrat says that dealers
in oak, maple, cherry and other varieties of
Michigan timber, who attempted to follow the
lead of the pine manufacturers by crowding up
prices, overreached themselves. Furniture
makers found it impossible to buy the timber
mentioned and at the same time compete with
those who cut their own timber. The outcome
has been that a number of Grand Rapids furni-
ture men are investing héavily in the splendid
hardwood lands of northern Michigan. Other
manufacturers, who purchased sufficient lumber
when it was cheap to carry them through for
several years, ‘‘ will probably be forced to go to
the woods for supplies” when stocks are gone.

——
OUR CROWN LAND POLICY.

THERE is no subject with which the Ontario
Government and Legislature has to deal of
greater importance to the people than that of
our Crown Lands, and there is to-day no sub-
ject which requires the earnest and immediate
consideration of our public men more than this
one. That the Crown Land policy of this
province since confederation has not been what
it should have been will be generally conceded
by every one who has any knowledge of the
subject, no matter how much they may differ as
to what our policy should be. In this, as in
most other things, it is much easier to point out
defects than to suggest practical remedies—to
pull down than to build up, especially when in
the up-building one will be brought face to face
at every turn with interests created by our past
policy, which no honest and just man dare ig-
nore. But, great as are the difficulties in the
way of a remodeling of our Crown Land policy,
they will have to be faced at no distant day,
and the sooner the better, if we desire to avoid
much the same awakening as that which awaits
the spenthrift when he, all at once, discovers
that he has spent his last shilling, This
province, like him, is unquestionably spending,
if not its last shilling, its timber patrimony, at
a rate which will soon bring it to grief if we do
not speedily change our present wasteful policy,
Great as will be its loss to the province asa
revenue producer, its disappearance must prove
a much greater loss to the people by reason of
the enhanced price which they will have to pay
for every board and stick which they consume
and the loss of employment which its decreasing
manufacture will entail. About the certainty
of these results we apprehend there will be no
dispute, we will therefore pass on to the consid-
eration of the principles which seem to us as
necessary to the attainment of the object which
we assume all claim to have in view.

In the first place let us say that we look upon
our crown domain, with all either growing upon
or lying beneath it, as the property of the people,
to be managed so as to yield the largest possible
return to the owners, and in the second@lace
that we are of the opinion that the great defect
of our past and present administration in this
respect consists in the attempts to promote set-
tlement and protect the timber for the lumberer
in the same districts and even upon the same
lots—an attempt which we venture to assert has

standing in order that the greatest possible in- 4
ducement may be held out to the purchaser to
husband the timber ; if on the other hand it be
decided that the township is so well adapted for —
settlement that its lands will be generally taken
up for bona fide agricultural purposes, notwith-
standing the inducements now held out to such
settlers to go west, then no license to cut timber
in such a township should be granted, but the
timber which may be therein should pass to the
settler with his location ticket subject to certain
restrictions and to the payment of arate of dues
which would be equal to the current value of —
the timber at the stump. So far as the lands, —
already not opened to settlement, or already not -
largely surrounded by townships in which set-
tlers have been located are concerned, we can
see little difficulty in adopting some such policy —
as that which we have indicated, but the ac-
complishment of anything practical and sub-—
stantial in the same direction in those districts cov
ered by lumbering licenses,and opened for settle-
ment and already partially settled, will be a mat_
ter of very great difficulty, although we should —
hope not an impossibility with the right man in
the Crown Lands Office. Vested rights, and —
both the licensee and settler are in possessionof _
vested rights, must be respected, no matter —
what the consequence may be. The Province
cannot afford to break faith with those with
whom it has entered into engagements, and
upon the faith of which private individuals have
invested there means, perhaps their all, but
that is no reason why, even in these districts,
an honest effort should not be made to bring
about a change which would put an end to the
present strife between lumberman and settler,
and to that destruction of valuable property
which is occasioned more or less by their antag-
onism,—Peterborough Review.

LUMBERING IN WINNIPEG.
To the Editor of the Canada Lumberman,

Dear Sir,—The idea of pretty extensive
lumber manufacturing in the capital city of
the Prairie Province, may appear to many a8
somewhat singular ; but such is the fact. The
immense lumber market is manifest at one —
glance, but the material is nowhere to be seen.
The logs from the mills at Winnipeg are obtain-
ed chiefly in Minnesota; being raw material
they pay no duty ; they are principally white
and red pine with a small quantity of oak.
Spruce and tamarac are obtained around Lake
Winnipeg and are generally sawn there. :

“There are three first-class circular mills which
have commenced operations this falland fully as
many more second rate mills. All are busy.
The Rainy Lake Company have a large two ~~
circular mill with engine and machinery prin-
cipally from Stearns, The edger andtrimmerswe __
observed were from Sewrys, of Barrie, Ontario.
This is a good mill with large cutting capacity,
but we think not the kind of mill that has earn-
ed for Stearns & Co, their enviable reputation.
Messrs. Jarvis & Berrige’s mill has been remod-
dled this past summer and an excellent gang
added. However, their motive power, though
apparently ample, is not equal to its demand,
so the gang hangs up its music,

The latest, and as repects quantity of mach-
inery the least,is Mr. D. E. Sprague’s single
circular mill, it is the only thoroughly Cana-
dian mill of the three. It, however, asks no
favours of the critical lumberman, One of
these made the apt remark that the mill was
built by men who knewn what was wantedand __
knew how to make it. It was planned by Mr.
Charles Elvidge, of Newmarket, Ontario, the _
boilers, engine and machinery were built by Mr. ;

lost to this province more revenue, and to the Wm. Hamilton, of Peterborough, and placed in
people of the country more employment, than | position by W. H. Trout of the same town, and
we have gained, or can gain for years to come, | is now ably superintended by S. C. Saunders,
from the settlers which have gone into, or will | formerly of the Thompson Smith mills, Brad-
go into our free grant districts, for the purpose | ford, Ontario.

of agriculture. However, there is no usecrying| The boilers and engine deserye special men-
over spilt milk 3 the question is, what should | tion, the boilers being of steel well set in good
now be done? Speaking generally we should | brickwork with neat, durable and convenient
say that it is the duty of the Provincial Govern- | fronts, and an excellent arrangement of heater,
ment, before another license is granted or pump, &c. In the engine Mr. Hamilton sur-
another township is opened for settlement, to | passes his well known good reputation. Itisa —
ascertain whether the townships proposed to be | a slide valve engine, 18x24, runs 120 revolutions —
licensed or settled are more valuable for their | per niinute, got up somewhat in the direct and —
timber or for settlement. If the former, then’ effective style of the Corliss, has the valve bal-
they should not be opened for settlement, and | anced and it can be adjusted to cut off for any

the licenses should be sold upon that under-| required work, Has the Judson governor ; bag

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LUMBERMAN.

large wearing surfaces, and seems to be got up
on liberal principles thoughout. It performs its
duty with an egse and grace of motion that is
pleasant to see; an engineer must surely take
pride in it. We regard it as about the ne
plus ultra of saw mill engines.

The building is a genuine modern lumber
factory quite different from the shedlike struc-
ture we mentally associate with a saw mill.
this is a completely finished pbuilding ; men can
work in it comfortably in all weather. Appar-
ently the logs come up from the Red River and
enter the mill on their own account and after a
brief career of merciless cutting they are
metamorphosed into boards and found shooting
out through a smallopening in the opposite end,
meanwhile special machinery takes care of the
refuse, all of which is valuable here, the better
part of the slabs being made into the usual
lath, pickets, &c.

Millmen in Winnipeg have one great advan-
tage over those in other places—they are in their
market, and the most of their stuff is cut to or-
der, consequently the immense piling grounds
and large tramway systems, so common at the

- Jarge lumbering mills of Ontario, are not requir-

ed here, as the lumber goes direct to the
customer.

At Mr. Sprague’s mill there is a large elevat-
ed platform, cn which the lumber: is assorted,
and from which it is loaded on to specially made
waggons and delivered up town or in the yard
as required. These waggons deserve a passing
notice. They are arranged to be loaded with-
out the team being kept waiting. Winnipeggers
know the value of good horseflesh and the value
of time, so they provide two or three pairs of
hind wheels to one pair of front wheels, then
with the help of asimple tressel,the hind wheels
are loaded, teamster backs the front wheels un-
der, readily couples up, and is away. To un-
load he generally uncouples, draws out the front
wheels, turns aronnd, catches on to the back
end, and draws out hind wheels, then couples
up again and returns to repeat the operation
on another load. _

Much the greater part of the lumber used
here comes from St. Paul. It is also noticeable
that in this trade we do not get what we give.
In the east we furnish the Americans full di-
mensions, that is 14 for one inch, &c. In the
west we get gths for one inch, and all dimen-

sions scant.
Yours truly,

ONTARIO.

Winnipeg, Oct. 28.

———————
FORESTRY.

The subject of American forestry at this
moment possesses a broad and sweeping signifi-
cance, and in view particularly of the results of
a long series of investigation and experiments,
as presented and discussed at the two great for-

_ estry meetings, held in Montreal and Cincinnati

during the year, should not fail to impress its
importance upon the minds, not only of those
directly interested, but the consideration of the
public generally. There is no object of interest
to the farmer that should engage more of his at-
tention for deliberation, discussion and earnest
action than the resources whence he is to draw
his building material, and in tbe nature of its
durability and economy. For years past our
extensive white pine forests, whose magnitude
in the early years of colonization might well
haye challenged the unwelcome prophecies of
to-day have been pillaged, destroyed and neg-
lected, right and left, without a consideration
giyen by those who controlled them to the neces-
sity of surplanting the devastated lands with
new growth, or of protecting the standing tim-
ber from the ravages of forest fires.

The Eastern States afford the best evidence
of this monument of self-aggrandizement, and
closely following come the States of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, with their resources
predicted by good figurers to fail within a few
years. Of course it cannot be expected that
men eager to become rich and powerful would
give much thought to the fact that they were
under some little obligation to shield and repair
as well as destroy. It is, however, the special
province of others interested in the science of
forestry, with doubtless some degree of philan-
trophic desire, and ites practical demonstration
in a large sense, to present to the judgment

and understanding of our general government,
as well as those of the various states in which
there is still left evident reason for attention to
the matter, the necessity of immediate steps in
the direction of retrieving—hefore it becomes
too late—a few at least of the neglected oppor-
tunities consequent upon the indifference and
inattention of individual corporations.

With an apparent and undeniable demand for
timber in the future progress and growth of the
country, and unquestionable evidence that these
lands which once teemed with the best white
pine in the world are again nurturing 4 similar
growth, it is to be hoped that no measure may
be overlooked that will secure early encourage-
ments in regard to the means to be employed
and adequate provision from the numerous au-
thorities appealed to for the required aid and
action.

Several estimates have recently been made
as to the quantity of standing white pine, and
if there is any correctness in the figures, it only
points to the rapid consumption of the past and
present, and creates an anxiety as to the future
destiny of every other kind of timber standing
in the states. Men may conjecture and specul-
ate upon the wonderful invention of the future,
which is to be the substitute for an exhausted
timber supply, but the light which falls upon
the subject from the careful study and investi-
gations of many able scientists, reflects the as-
surance that the best substitute is a new crop of
timber.—Zimber Trades Journal.

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PORTABLE HOUSES.

The Lumberman’s Gazette, of Bay City,
Michigan, says :—The construction of portable
houses which was commenced at Ottawa, Ont.,
some time ago, on asmall scale, has reached
great dimensions and the investors in the enter-
prize have secured a veritable bonanza. The
cheapness and adaptability of these novel
buildings, and the ease and quickness with
which they can be utilized, is their chief recom-
mendation. Itis an old and true saying that
necessity is the mother of inventions. The
progress of the growth of Manitoba and the
northwest, and the demand for comfortable
shelter for the thousands of newly arrived im-
migrants there, was the necessity in this case
which aroused the ingenuity of man to supply
an absolute and imperative want. A bright
idea flashed across the brain of one of those who
realized the necessity and also the fortune for
him who should immediately supply the de-
mand. Houses could be constructed by mach-
inery, in sections, ready for occupancy as soon
as put together, much cheaper than the lumber
could be transported and the houses constructed
with the rude available appliances. The idea
no sooner presented itself than it was acted on
and the result is that the business received an
impetus by the continued emigration to the
northwest, and has reached mammoth propor-
tions, and the novel buildings are not only being
utilized in the new settlements, but a demand
has arisen for them in other quarters. An Ot-
tawa dispatch says that these houses are being
shipped off at the rate of ten carloads per week
for the demands of a single line of railroad. It
is also stated that the manufacturer has inter-
viewed the consul-general to Canada from
Brazil, with a view of establishing a trade with
that country in these buildings, and the busi-
ness commenced with small beginnings to sup-
ply a present want is now one of the important
industries in the capital of Ontario, and the
inventor has not only furnished employment for
an army of laborers, but is reaping a handsome
reward for his shrewdness. It is said also, that
these buildings are desirable not only because
of adaptability under pressing circumstances,
but that they are absolutely preferable to the
ordinary cheap class of building in the rural dis-

tricts because of their comfort and convenience.
——

A GREAT FOREST.

In the Century for October, E. V. Samley
gave another of his sketches of a journey ac-
cross the continent on the line of the Northern
Pacific railway, in which he describes the great
forest in the region of Lake Pend d’Oreille.
This timber belt, probably 200 miles in extent,
east and west, lies west of the Rockies, and
covers the D’Alene and Spokane mountains,

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ranges that are not so high or rugged as to pre-
clude lumbering operations. The district is

watered by Pend d’Oreille and Spokane rivers, |

streams adapted for logging and mill sites, and
Lake Pend d’Oreille, an irregular body of water
of considerable size lies in the midst of it.
This foiest stretches quite across the Panhandle
of Idaho, and laps over on the eastward into

Montana, and on the westward into Washing- |

ton territory. The Northern Pacific road sweeps
through it in a curve, bending northward to-
ward the British line, because a passage over
the Rocky Mountains had to be sought to the
southward of the direct shoot of the line from
east to west. A few small mills have been
started along the Pend d’Oreille and Spokane
rivers and on the lake for the purpose of sawing
lumber and timber for the railroad. The road
is being graded in the neighborhood of the lake,
2,000 or more Chinamen being employed in the
work. Six hundred miles of roadbed is to be
finished, and the track laid before the Pend
d’Oreille forest will be opened up to east and
west traffic. When the road is opened through,
grand rush of lumbermen to these primeval
woods will surely follow. A great drawback on
operations will be the Flathead Indian reserva-
tion that lies in the midst of the region. But
the Indian will have to go when the lumberman
puts in an appearance. Mr. Smalley’s descrip-
tion of the region, though more rhapsodical
than business like, is graphic and interesting,
and exhibits the country as one not only rich in
forest growth, but beautiful to the eye of the
lover of striking landscape views, and capable
of profitable husbandry.

A Curt Yor HeapacHe.—Thousands are suf-
fering martyrs to this distressing trouble. If
you have pure and properly vitalized blood
coursing through your veins ; if the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels act rightly, vou will
never experience headache. Burdock Blood
Bitters will effect this desirable condition, if
properly used. ‘Try it.

‘THERE is no better cough medicine in the
world than the preparation known as ‘* Pecto-
ria.” It promptly cures all throat, lung and
chest affections. Its good effects can be felt
after the first dose. It soothes, warms and
penetrates the bronchial tubes, affording imme-
diate relief and a speedy cure. Have you gota
cough or cold? Then try it. For sale every-
where, price 25 cents.

Wanted.

A PARTNER that understands the SAW MILLING
BUSINESS, with capital. For information address
JAMES B. DICKSON, Pembroke, Ont. 21L6

WANTED.

BLACK ASH PLANK

Sound, Square Edged and largely clear of knots ; 3x8
to 18.inches wide, 10 to 16 feet lengths, Can use it
green. Quote for 3 to 5 cars per month, delivered at
Boston, Mass.

|
A Syndicate of Limit Holders

Represented by the Undersigned, offers

| FOR SALE
On the Upper Ottawa,

600 Square Miles Virgin Forest of Pine,

comprising 13 Licenses, nearly ail Front

Limits, on the main stream of the River
Ottawa itself, on reasonable terms.

The Proprietors will sell either the whole, or, if
preferred, a part interest to Capitalists who will
furnish the requisite means to work this Valuable
| Property on an extensive scale.

The extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway west-
ward towards Manitoba, the establishment of stearm-
boats on Lake Temiscamingue, Upper Ottawa, and
other recent improvements, have made this propertr,
formerly considered remote, very accessible to the
operator for the United States as well as the European
markets, both as regards getting in supplies and in
driving tae lumber to market. A raft of large board
pine timber cut in the immediate vicinity of this
property reached Quebec this year long before timber
cut on limits only half the distance away, but forced
to rely on the precarious height of water of creeks and
subsiding streams, while the timber on this tract has
the large volume of the ‘‘Grand” River itself to float
it to market.

$F Full particulars will be promptly sent on
application to :

E. J. CHARLTON,

QUEBEC, P. O.

AUCTION SALE

OF VALUABLE

TIMBER LIMITS.

Situated on the Rivers Ottawa,
Gatineau and Jean de Terre.

1716

The following limits, if not previously disposed of, will
be offered for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION,

At the RUSSELL HOUSE, OTTAWA,
on Thursday, Nov. 50th next,
AT TWO O’CLOCK P.M.

: : : = Miles.
River Gatineau,—License Number 176 for 18$1-2—46}
do do 177 do at)
do do 178 do 50.
do do 179 do 50
do do 180 do 50
do do 181 do 50
do and Ottawa do 182 do 283
do and Jean de Terre 183 do 48
do do 184 do 46
do do 185 do 42
do do 186 do 50
do do 187 do 50
do do 188 do 18
do do 189 do 46 9-10
do do 190 do 50
do do 191 do 60
do do 192 do 50
do do 193 do 31
do do 194 do 50
do do 195 do 39 6-10
do do 196 do 21
do do 197 do 50

Terms and conditions made known at time of Sale.
Further information can be obtained by application to
R. C. W. MacCuaig, Auctioneer, or Crown Timber

ROBERT C. LOWRY,

Wholesale Lumber,

21n4 55 Pine Street, New York,

Offices, Ottawa.
R. C. W. MacCUAIG,
Auctioneer and Real Estate Agent,
58 Sparks Street. —
Ottawa, Ist September, 1882. 4L13

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of the first dry, and then finish with one coat of | while the tree he fosters may beautify, bade
the last. or turn the wind, it is not likely to be of any

To Prevent Wood from Cracking.—Place the | value to speak of for lumber. It is no news to
wood in a bath of fused paraffin heated to 212 | any one acquainted with the forests that the
deg. Fahr., and allow it to remain as long as | trees best suited for lumber grow surrounded
bubbles of air are given off. Then allow the | by other trees. Shaded on every side, in ord
paraffin to cool down to its point of congelation, | to get the sunlight they reach up after it, and
and remove the wood and wipe of the adhering | consequently grow tall. When there are ne
wax. Wood treated in this way is not likely to | surroundings to shade them the limbs spring
crack, out close to the earth, and the trees grow more

Comparative Value of Different Woods,|to top than trunk. Neither will the desired r
showing their crushing strength and stiffness :— | end be gained by planting trees as thickly as
Teak, 6,555; English oak, 4,074; ash, 3,571; | nature planted them in the woods which supply
elm, 3,468; beeck, 3,070; Quebec oak, 2,927; | our saw logs. It seems to be a law in nat re,
mahogany, 2,571 ; spruce, 2,522 ; walnut, 2,374; | if not in humanity, that the great should he
yellow pine, 2,103; socamore, 1,833; cedar, | forward the more feeble, and this is nowhere
700. better illustrated than in the growth of forest

Relative Hardness of woods.—Taking shell-| trees. The tall tree is always standing in the
bark hickory as the highest standard and calling | way of the sapling, and the latter, that it x
that 100, other woods will compare with it for | get the sustenance it needs from the light of
hardness as follows :—Shell-bark hickory, 100 ; | sun, shoots up.and up, and this sapling in turn
pig-nut hickory, 96; white oak, 84; white ash, | protects and urges forward the little staddle
77 ; dogwood, 75 ; scrub oak, 73; white hazel, | that starts its race of life under its protectic n. ’
72; apple tree, 70: red oak, 69; white beech, P
65; black walnut, 65; black birch, 62; yellow
oak, 60; white elm, 58; hard maple, 56; red
cedar, 56; wild cherry, 55; yellow pine, 54;
chestnut, 52 ; yellow poplar, 51; butternut, 43 ;
white birch, 43 ; white pine, 30.

Tensile Strength of Different Kinds of Wood,
showing the weight or power required to tear
asunder one square inch :—Lance, 23,000 lbs. ;
locust, 25,000 lbs. ; mahogany, 21,000 lbs. ; box,
20,000 Ibs. ; oak, African, 14,500 lbs. ; bay, 14,-
000 lbs. ; teak, 14,000 lbs. ; cedar, 14,000 lbs. ;
ash, 14,000 lbs. ; oak, seasoned, 13,600; elm,
13,400 lbs. ; sycamore, 13,000 lbs. ; willow, 13,-
000 lbs. ; Christiana deal, 12,400 Ibs. ; mahog-
any, Spanish, 12,000 lbs. ; pitch pine, 12,000
lbs. ; white pine, American, 11.800 lbs. ; white
oak, 11,500 lbs.; lignum-vite, 11,800 Ibs. ;
beech, 11,500 lbs. ; chestnut, sweet, 10,500 Ibs ;
maple, 10,500 lbs. ; white spruce, 10,290! oak,
English, 10,000 lbs. ; pear, 9,800 Ibs. ; larch, 9,-
500 lbs. ; walnut, 7,800 lbs. ; poplar, 7,000 lbs. ;
cypress, 6,000 lbs.

PREVENTING DECAY OF WOOD.

The TLimber Trades Journal contains the
following contribution by M. Powis Bale, M.
I, M. E., author of ‘‘ Wood-working Machinery,
its Rise, Progress, and Construction,’ &c. :

Some woods decay much more rapidly than
others; but they will all, in some situations,
lose their fibrous texture, and with it their
properties, ‘To ascertain the causes which act
upon woods, and effect their destruction, is an
important object both to the builder and to the
public,

Al vegetable as well as animal substances,
when deprived of life, are subject to decay. If
the trunk or banch of a tree be cut horizontally
it will be seen that it consists of a series of con-
; centric layers, differing from each other in color
b and tenacity. In distinct species of trees these
| layers present very different appearances, but
in all cases the outer rings are more porous and
softer than the. interior. Wood is essentially
made up of vessels and cells, and the only solid
parts are the coats which form them. These
vessels carry the sap which circulates through
the tree, gives life and energy to its existence,
and is the cause of the formation of leaves,
flowers, and fruit. But when the tree is dead,
and the sap is still in the wood, it becomes the
cause of vegetable decomposition by the process
of fermentation. ‘There are five distinct species
of vegetable fermentation—the saccharine, the
coloring, the vinous, the acetous, and the putre-
factive. We are indebted to Mr. Kyan for the
discovery that albumen is the cause of putre-
factive fermentation, and the subsequent de-
composition of vegetable matter.

Something may be done towards the preven-
tion of decay by felling the timber at a proper
season. A tree may be felled too soon or too
late, in relation to its age and to the period of
the year, A tree may be so young that no part
of it shall have the proper degree of hardness,
and even its heartwood may be no better than
sapwood ; or a tree may be felled when it is so
old that the wood, if not decayed, may have be
come brittle, losing all the elasticity of maturity.
The time required to bring the several kinds of
trees to maturity varies according to the nature
of the tree and the situation in which it may be
growing. Authors differ a century as to the
age at which oak should be felled—some say 100
and others two hundred years; it must there-
fore be regulated according to circumstances,
But it is also necessary that the timber trees
should be felled at a proper season of the year ;
that is to say, when their vessels are least load-
ed with those juices which are ready for fhe
production of sapwood and foliage. The timber
of a tree felled in spring or in autumn would be
especially liable to decay, for it would contain
the element of decomposition. Midwinter is
the proper time for cutting away, between the
months of November and March, as the vege-
tative powers are then expended. There are
some trees the bark of which is valuable, as well
as the timber; and as the best time for felling
_ it is not the best time for stripping the bark, it

is customary to perform these labors at different
periods. The oak bark, for instance, is gener-
ally taken off in early sprivg, and the timber is
felled as soon as the foliage is dead; and this
method is found to be highly advantageous to
the durability of the timber. The sapwood is
hardened, and all the available vegetable juices
are expended in the production of foliage,
Could this plan be adopted with other trees, it
would be desirable ; but the barks are not suf-
ficiently valuable to pay the expense of strip-
ping. :

For the prevention of the ravages of worms
and insects in timber, Wvelyn recommends’ sul-
phur which has been immersed in nitric acid and
to distilled dryness, which, being exposed to the
air, dissolves into an oil. A solution of lime or
an infusion of quassia wood are also reeommend-
ed for the same purpose.

To cure dry rot in timber, subject it to a heat
of 300 deg., thus destroying all reproduction of
fungus. A solution of corrosive eublimate
(bichloride of mercury) makes aneffectual wash.
Chapman says an ounce of corrosive sublimate
to a gallon of water laid on hot; no other me-
talic solution should be mixed with it. A solu-
tion of sulphate of copper (commonly called
blue vitriol) in the proportion of about half a
a pound of sulphate of copper to one gallon of

water, used hot, makes an excellent wash, and
is cheaper than the preceding one. A strong
solution of sulphate of iron is sometimes used,
but it is not so effectual as that of copper, and
sometimes a mixture of the two solutions has
been used. Coal tar is said to have been found
beneficial, but its strong smell is a great objec-
tion to its use; where the smell is not of im-
portance it would assist in seasoning new timber
which had been previously well dried. Charring
new wood can only be expected to prevent
infection, a3 decay may begin at the centre,
and proceed without ever appearing at the sur-
face of the beam ; and therefore, if timber be
not well seasoned, no permanent good can be
obtained from charring.

A plan recently introduced into Belgium for
preserving wood from the decay produced by
the atmosphere, water, &c., is to fill the pores
of the wood with liquid gutta-percha, which is
said to effectually preserve it from moisture and
the action of the sun. The process employed
consists in exhausting the air from the pores of
the wood and filling them with a gutta-percha
solution, or by forcing the solution into the
pores. The solid gutta-percha is liquefied by
mixing therewith paraffin in the proportion of
about two-thirds of gutta-percha to one of
paraffin ; the mixture is then subjected to the
action of heat, and the gutta-percha becomes
sufficiently liquid to be easily introduced into
the pores of the wood. The gutta-percha
liquefied by this process hardens in the pores of
the wood as soon as it becomes cold. Railway
sleepers, telegraph poles, roofs, &e., treated in
this way are said to stand well.

The improved method adopted in France for
the preservation of wood by the application of
lime is also reported to give excellent results.
The plan pursued is to pile the planks’ in a tank,
and to put over all a layer of quicklime, which
is gradually slaked with water. Timber for
mining purposes requires about a week to be
thoroughly impregnated, and other wood more
or less time, according to its thickness. The
material acquires remarkable consistence and
hardness, and, it is stated, on being subjected
to this simple process, that it will never rot.
Beechwood prepared in this way for hammers
and other tools for ironwork is found to acquire
the hardness of oak, without parting with any
of its well-known elasticity or toughness, and it
also lasts longer.

Wood may also be preserved from rotting by
impregnation with paraflin, As this, however,
renders it more inflammable, it should be used
with care, and as protection chiefly against
water or acid and chemical fumes or liquids.
It may be further protected by an external var-
nish or silicic acid. | Wooden vessels which be-
come totally rotten in two months un-
der the action of acid and _ alkaline
lyes, willl last for two years when impreg-
nated with paraffin, The wood is prepared by
drying it in warm air for about three weeks,
and then by steeping it in a bath of melted
parattin, to which has been added some petro-
leum, ether, or sulphuret of carbon. Care must
be taken at this part of the process, as the bath
is exceedingly inflammable.

ITEMS ABOUT woop, &e.

Timber for posts is rendered almost proof
against rot by thorough seasoning, charring, and
immersion in hot coal tar.

Increase in Strength of Different Wood by
Seasoning.—White pine, 9 per cent. ; elm, 12°3
per cent. ; oak, 26°6 per cent.; ash, 44°7 per
cent. ; beech, 61°9 per cent.

Comparative Resilience of various Kinds of
Timber. Ash being 1, fir “4, elm ‘54, pitch pine
57, teak ‘59, oak °63, sfiruce ‘64, yellow pine
“64, cedar ‘66, chestnut ‘73, larch “84, beech ‘86.
By resilience is meant the quality of springing
back, or toughness.

To Bend Wood.—Wood enclosed in a close
chamber, and submitted to the action of steam
for a limited time, will be rendered so pliant
that it may be bent in almost any direction.
The same process will also eliminate the
sap from the wood and promote rapid season-
ing.

Fireproofing for Wood.—Alum, 3 parts;
green vitriol, 1 part ; make a strong hot solution
with water ; make another weak solution with
green vitriol in which pipeclay has been mixed
to the consistence of a paint, Apply two coats

EXTENSIVE LOGGING.
The Northwestern Lumberman says :—
every direction extensive logging preparatio ns
are being made, The indications are at present
that more logs will be put in the coming season —
than in any one season before. No man
tell why there should be, but the fact that he
cannot will have no tendency to lessen the cut.
Operations on the main Michigan streams will
be unusually heavy, and on several of those
streams will be left over an unusually large —
number of old logs. The Muskegon will hold —
in its icy embrace something like 300,000,000
feet, nearly half as many as the mills at that
point cut last season, and many will be winter-
ed in the Manistee. In Wisconsin and Minne-
sota the amount carried over will not be large.
Late rises in the streams have carried out many
that were supposed to have been hung up, and
the most of these that find their way down ©
stream at this late day will besawed. A heavy
manufacturer in referring to the extensive work
that is likely to be done in the woods remarked,
“the fools are not all dead yet.” There are a
few conservative saw-mill men, but when their
lumber yields them the profit that it has for two
or three years past the temptation to turn out
as much of it as possible is very strong. ‘

WESTERN LUMBER LANDS.

The statement was made in a recent issue of
a New Orleans paper that the lumber market of
Chicago had not a sufficient supply on hand to
meet the demand of the trade. The article
went on to say that the vast amount of building
which is now going on throughout the west, and
especially in Colorado, Kansas and New Mex-
ico, creates a constant demand for lumber, and
as for some time past Chicago has controlled the
trade, the west naturally looks to her for all the
building material it requires. Owing, however,
to the increased trade, and to the fact that the
terrible forest fires in. 1881 destroyed about 800
square miles of the best Michigan pineries, lum-
ber is becoming remarkably scarce in the north-
west. The agents of Chicago lumbermen are
said to be buying up pine lands in the south,
and it is rumored that 1,000,000 acres, well tim-
bered, have been purchased in Louisiana and
Mississippi. A reporter for the Times called
the attention of several Chicago dealers to these
statements, and Mr, Carpenter and others who
were s}:oken to agreed in saying that the supply
of lumber in the west would not be exhausted
for eight or twelve years yet. Moreover, the
demand was by no means as great as was repre-
sented. The farmers having generally held
their wheat for higher prices than were offered,
had not enough ready money to create a boom
in the lumber business. It will consequently
be a long time before the lumbermen of the west
will be forced to seek their supplies in the
southern forests. No foundation could be found
for the rumor that immense tracts had already
been purchased in Louisiana.—Chicago Limes.

Georgia Woods.

At the Boston fair the state of Georgia ex-
hibited the following list of native woods, which
is supposed to cover all the varieties: Georgia —
pine, which is used largely for car building ;
poplar cherry, which is well adapted for cabinet
work ; whitewood, laurel, beech, red cedar,
yellow poplar, maple, sycamore, red hickory,
cypress, black walnut, China wood (not very
well knowh), white pine, sassafras, dogwood,
post oak, black gum, white ash, white oak,
tight-eye (not unlike boxwood), sparkle berry,
crab-apple. apple haw, willow, scaly-bark
hickory, tupello gum, white elm, May cherry, —
black locust, osage orange, chincapin, cotton-
wood, red-bark, magnolia, black jack (resemb-
ling birds-eye maple), catawba, maple, red oak,
white holly, red bay, white bay, red elm, mul-
berry, ironwood, black-haw, persimmon and
parsley-haw.

Satisfactory Results in Montreal. 5
While Montreal is a model city in many
respects, it is not exactly a quarter section of
Paradise, as Capt Goe. Murphy, Chief of Gov-
ernment police, can testify. A reporter of a
Montreal journal waited upon this gentleman a _
short time ago, and~put him the following
query : ;

‘*Chief do you find the duties irksome
dangerous in your strange calling ?”

“ Irksome,” replied Mr. Murphy, “ I seldom —
find them; but that they are attended wi
danger is very true. There is danger to
faced, of course, from wind, weather and crim- —
inals, and the least of these dangers, is not thas
of exposure and bad weather. The hea
moist atmosphere that gathers over the wi
is very conducive to rheumatism, and m
my men suffer from that complaint more or
I believe that our danger from exposure from _
this time forward it past, as St. Jacobs Oil
applied in time in cases of rheumatism, has a
wonderful way of knocking that malady out of
people. It certainly relieved me of a severe
pain in my shoulders,” ;

A HINT TO FORESTERS.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—There
is a great deal said now-a-days about tree rais-
ing, but when the object of that industry—if it
can be called so—is to add to the lumber supply
of the country, there is a serious objection of
which the enthusiasts make no mention. These
enthusiasts teach that when there is place for a
tree, along the bank of a creek, by a fence, or
elsewhere, by all means plant one. That is all
right so far as it goes, but by all means let the
man who plants it understand at the start that

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Chips.

Ir is estimated, from a proper source, that be-
sides the lumber used for shelters at home, the
territory of Washington will this year send
hbroad 365,000,000 feet of lumber.

At Houlton, Me., an important business in
shingles and bark is done. F. Shaw & Co., of
Boston, are building large hemlock bark extract
works that will consume 20,000 cords of bark
per annum.

Some of the Manistee mills are engaged in
eutting piece stuff and piling it up, in the ex
pectation that it will bring twelve dollars in the
spring, when seasoned, or two dollars more than
it is worth at present at that point.

THE lumber business of the Pacific coast has
increased from a single saw mill in 1848, situated
near Bodega, Sonoma county, Cal., to over 350
mills at the present time, with a cutting capac-
ity of nearly 1,000,000,000 feet annually.

Bie knots seem to be the thing now a-days.
The Indianapolis VeneerWorks, of Indianapolis,
Ind., recently purchased a huge walnut knot
which, when cut and trimmed, weighed 7,000
pounds. It isa sort of big bonanza knot.

THE burning of the lumber and planing mill
of A. Backus & Sons at Detroit, was a severe
blow to the industrial community as well as to
the proprietors of the extensive institution. By
it over 250 men were thrown out of employment,
and property verging on half a million dollars
destroyed.

A NOTABLE timber industry is sang prosecut -
ed in Lincoln county, Mo., where a man has a
contract for getting out about 50,000 feet of
pecantimber. He has a large force of men at
work. The timber is to be shipped to St. Louis
on barges, where it is sawed into lumber for
making ice slides.

THE Wisconsin lumbermen are making pre
parations for a big winter’s work, and standing
pine is exchanging hands at high prices. A few
days since 2,000,000 feet changed hands at
Neillsville, the consideration being $12,200.
The haul is four miles. Good No, 1 logs are
worth $9.50, and No. 2, $8.50,

Luorp, Melrose & Polleys, of Neillsville,
Wis., will ship a saw mill, grist mill and cotton
gin from Ohio to southern Georgia, next month,
and get ready for businesss in 1883. ‘The gen-
tlemen mentioned own about 225,000,000 feet of
pine, and about 20,000,000 feet of cypress, oak,
red cedar and other woods, which they will
manufacture into lumber.

Tue Belleville Intelligencer says:—T. P.
Pearce & Co. will cut half a million feet of stuff
for jobbing purposes during the coming winter.
They will operate in the township of Marmora,
and will float their cut in Beaver Creek. This
firm has already sent a large force of men to
the woods and will largely increase the number
when the cold weather sets in.

_A NEW line is being surveyed in Wisconsin
that is intended to connect with the Chip-
pewa Falls and northern road, near Chetek or
Cartwright, striking the Chippewa near Big
Bend. The project is being engineered by, and
in the interests of luambermen, who desire to
form a supply and shipping line for the timber
country not now profitably accessible.

THE comparative cost of transportation by
rail and river is illustrated by the statement
that a short time ago the La Crosse Lumber
Company paid $1,860 for towing 3,000,000 feet
of lumber to Louisana, Mo. To have carried
the same amount of lumber by rail would have
required 400 cars, which, at $50 per car, about
the rate the railroads would give, wovld amount
to $20,000.

THE new line being built by the Wisconsin
Central road from Chelsea, a station on the
main line, to Rib Lake, a lumbering point 16
miles northeast, will probably be completed
next fall, at an estimated cost of about $200,000.
This project is said to be the forerunner of an
extensive system to be eventually constructed
by the Wisconsin Central to push into the
northeastern woods, at present undisturbed by
railway connections, and up through the iron
country. Next spring it is intended to begin
work on 4 branch from Winnebosha to run
along the iron range northwest into Michigan,
a distance of 40 miles,

THE CANADA

LUMBEBMAN.

THE Hudson River Power & Pulp Company
is building a dam and paper and pulp-mill, at
Mechanicsville, N. Y. The pulp-mill will pro
bably be finished in March, It will be of brick,
and consist of five connected building, besides
boiler and engine rooms, the whole covering a
surface of 35,376 feet, and fronting 400 feet on
the river. When finished it will grind 40 cords
of wood daily.

Jerome & Wititams, and Baton, Potter &
Co., of Saginaw, have purchased of the estate
of Jesse Hoyt and Hill Brothers 40,000,000 feet
of pine timber on the Chippewa, paying there-
for $175,000, $80,000 to Hill Brothers for lands
that cost them only four years ago $17,500, and
$90,000 to Hoyt estate for lands which cost
them much less a few years earlier. This timber
is all reached by a log railroad which brings it
to the Chippewa.

REGARDING the antiquity of the saw, it is in-
stanced that a frame saw is shown in a painting
at Herculaneum. The sawyers are at each end,
one standing and the other sitting. The bench
to which the timber is secured by clamps is
supported by four-legged stools. The saw blade
is strained in the middle ; the teeth stand per-
pendicularly to the plane of the frame. Frame
saws were common in Egypt many centuries
previous to this time.

THE Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich.,
says :—Reports from nearly all the lumbering
sections in the west and northwest are to the
affect that great preparations are being made to
secure a large stock of logs the coming winter.
Large numbers of the red sash brigade and vast
quantities of supplies and all the necessary ac-
compainments are being sent to the pineries,
where the ring of the woodsman’s axe will re-
sound, and the crash and roar of the giant
pines as they are levelled to the earth will be
the uninterrupted music in the forests during the
long months which intervene between now and
the commencement of milling operations in the
spring.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says :—Jerome
& William, of Saginaw, Mich., have purchased
the Wentworth logging railroad, eight miles
long, with a locomotive, 25 c4rs, and a complete
equipment. The road starts in town 16 north of
range 8 west, leading in a southwesterly course
to the banking ground near the forks of the
Chippewa. The purchase includes the banking
ground, dams, etc., and the new owners will
put in thereon 12,000,000 feet of logs during the
coming winter. After the 40,000,000 feet of
timber in the vicinity owned by Jerome &
Williams and Eaton, Potter & Co., are lumber-
ed, the road will be removed to the Au Gres,
and thereon will be handled the heavy body of
timber owned by Jerome & Williams in that
vicinity.

A GREAT storm has prevailed in western
California, which has seriously affected logging
interests, and reduced the intended output con-
siderably. The Eureka Times states that the
damage sustained will mount up into the hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars. In all the camps
large crews were at work, and efforts were being
made to get down to market before the rain set
in, so that a sufficient amount of logs to supply
the mills all winter would be at hand. The
storm lasted two weeks, and during that time
camps were shut down, and it is estimated that
the log supply will be 10,000,000 feet short of
the amount that would have been put into
stream had the weather been more favorable.
The mill men and contractors have suffered
great loss by reason of heavy expenses during
the storm,

A Boom in Pine Lands,

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :— Probably no
one circumstance or chain of circumstances bet
ter illustrates the peculiarities of the boom in
pine lands than the facts which have lately
come under our notice in regard to a tract of
pine on the Au Gres. About two years ago it
was purchased by a Saginaw party for $26,000.
Last spring the same tract was sold to another
Saginaw party for $35,000, A few months later
that party soldit to a Lapeer concern for $50,000,
and not long since this firm sold it to outside
parties for $90,000. A raise in less than eight
months of $55,000 and in two years of $64,000,
or a little short of 250 per cent. on a, figure that
was considered all that it was worth,

A. L. UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

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Market Aeports,

MONTREAL.
From our own Correspondent.

NovemBER, 8

and the supply of nearly all grades is fair.
demand still keeps good for all kinds of lumber,
There is beginning to be felt a scarcity of 1} in.

laths, the quotation for which is revised this
week, there have been some enquiries made for
them here for Ontario, but the order could not

be supplied, Hardwood is in good general de-
mand, and also cherry for local consumption.
Ash is in active request both for local and
United States account. Prices throughout our
list are still firm and steady. We quote prices
in the yards as under :

uality, B® M....-..00. vee . 8385 00@40 00
Bae pane ee % @Mvesese pec seen 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping a B Meat OCCU 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, BM ....+ «...-+ 11 00@12 00°
Pine, mill culls, @ M......+++- abanbendod 10 00@12 00
SE ie Pre pay Otis HAdnon bbobanwod 10 00@13 00 |
Hemlock, # M.....-s++e+e00+ Hae aesleia 9 00@10 00
Ash, run of log culls out, B M.. fonadta soho 20 00@25 00
Bass, @®M..... seve 17 00@20 00
Oak, BM... .cccecsereeerceesensrceeees 40 00@50 00
Walnut @M ...cvsseseesceees Sneec ah nee 60 00 100 00
Cherry, # M...... Metettstaisicrelti tae wes .. 60 00@00 00
Butternut, @M........+. Giovanna pooooean 35 00@40 00
BITCH gaylMsleatetetetsieleieleled te ein eteresielye sss» 20 00@26 00 |
Hard Maple, @M....+ oe . 25 00@80 00
Lath, ®@M.....0..66. Ad ai ae 1 40@ 1 50
Shingles, lst, @M .... ......+s apadadla 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, 2nd, BM....++e.--.s-ees sees. 2 560@ 0 00

SHIPMENTS.

Shipping is pretty nearly closed for the season,
there being only one vessel now in harbour to
load. Since the date of our last report four
vessels with lumber have cleared for South
America, and one to Liverpool. Shipments

from this port since the 25th ult., have been as |
To Buenos Ayres, 649,209 ft, and to }1

follows :
Monte Video, 1,142,998 ft. ; to Liverpool, 470
standard deals. The total shipments to the
River Platte since the opening of navigation to
date, was 21,232,886 ft., against 12,880,396 ft. in
the same period of 1881, being an increase of

8,352,490 ft.
CORDWOOD,

Most of the cordwood barges have now ar-
rived and the quantity is smaller than what has
been usual at this season of the year, and there
is very little coming in by rail. Prices on the
wharf keep steady. ‘There is a fair demand for
long maples and the price is likely to advance,
We quote ex cartage from the cars and on the
wharf :

8.—Merchants have been fully

occupied filling up their yards for the winter,
The

Long Maple.,....+ saenoddedpdacoonnsd wee senues $7 50
Shoot OT Sanonan AOU PUOL-OICI Ope SDC OCDOMP One 7 00
Long Birch... ss cece esses eee ee cee nee nes peed 7 00
Chloris Cae \daqnacn omdododou ObdeboDcnudon oudod 6 50
Dong Beech: ......s. esses UNE en ae iaieis, © Wh cnleye ea 6 60
SOT seae la aietescke vous alaredsteialevoneia et sialeLese/esuiolejevaleyelnlelnye 6 00
Tamarack....++ nasonedingos oui Mdlno GOUaemoGdDNon 5 00
—___@___—_-
TORONTO.

From our own Correspondent.

Novemper, 9.—Since my last letter a brisk
trade has been done over the docks, and theR.R.
Companies, over whose lines the shipments of
lumber has to pass, have been taxed to the ut-
most to supply the increased demand for cars,
and it is quite impossible to obtain one-third of
the number required for the western Ontairo
Vessel owners are now sharing in the
general prosperity, freights having steadily ad-
vanced and now stand at $2.00 per M. to Os-
wego, and will doubtless continue to advance
for the remainder of the navigable season,
There has never been. any doubt in my own
mind for the last two months, as to our having
a rushing fall trade, and my predictions in for-
mer letters are now being fully verified, and by
the close of the season I think the total quantity
shipped will exceed that of last season, and
althongh the prices at present ruling cannot be
considered as being low, yet, it is quite certain
manufacturers will not be able to market the
crop of 1883 at present figures, and leave them
suflicient margin, owing to the increased cost of
production, this I think may be taken as a set-
tled fact, but unfortunately past experience
proves that the unalterable law of supply and
demand comes in and regulates prices irrespect-
ive of the wants or wishes of the lumberman,
It is therefore much to be desired that the de
mand for the season of 1888 may be brisk. On
visiting the various yards in this city I found
most of the dealers in the best possible humor,
and the only complaint’ I heard made was on

account of not being able to procure suttigignt | Lath, pine,

> a, le ree |

‘THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. _

BOSTON.
CANADA PINE,

dimension stuff of some kinds to meet the
wants of customers, this want is more especially

Sheathin » 1st uality. .
few inillions. In former years few laths have 7 and « i

been shipped to the American market, but the
demand this year has been exceptionally good
for shipment to American ports. If the present
fine open weather should continue up to the end
of the present month considerable Jumber will
yet find its way over the docks, and at the close
of the year I will endeavour to give you re-
liable figures, or as near as it can be got at, of
the entire quantity shipped from this port, but
the quantity sold on the local market will be
difficult to obtain, owing to the fact that only a
few of-the dealers keep accurate account of the
quantities sold. Prices at the various yards
remain at last quotations :
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS.

BUFFALO,

We quote cargo lots :—

Wpperssciesucscs
Common,........... pains
Cull

———————e
JHICAGO.

dozen being the most.

Cutting up planks COUT ee ee veeseseeenes tease ee Bp gered around the docks very long being the
DOATGS ~~ Wisin sie ce vcierecsccwees acne .
Sound dressing stocks. .......-+:++++. a. s Meas 13 00 | &xception,
Picks Am. inspection....%. ss ewseee .. 27 00@30 00 CARGO QUOTATIONS,
Three uppers, Am. inspection Minas Gare eiahe 35 00@40 00 | Short dimension, green. cvenee os Cuets tr $10 50@11 00
B. M. pets dimension . 11 00@15 50
In 9 6 ea
1h- inch flooring, dressed. . diac aslete sy ee tte Be O0 re Se Rp. ‘ BEE, : a oon =
" you Mes ats Wee pagegh: udhess 16 00 | No. 1 log run, euils out ’ 17 00@23 00
a me TOSSCG cence cnet nrssertetesees } Standard shingles. 3 2 60@ 2 6b
14 UUNGTESREd Wy ions ave. oss owielqvisw va 16 00} «ax. 2 70@ 2 95
Lis hig BF SAU ANGSREG |. ieie bine vinias ectaitip esis, 28/00)! Glaar. = se) 0 oe 8 95
A ig F (RERUN AKSSSEC. dea ciate Memtepiiet.« 6 alee 700) eh ck ie a ee eee 0 00@ 2 25
ane Sheeting, dressed..............06 eieAse) ee (DO! pee ec eed ne Rb DES parte Sete v
Sy cena creed derera’e alkvesa RTD oie siehra es 14 00 STOCK ON HAND OCT. 1.
Sawn shingles, PoM...cecssecscececveeves 3 00 g 3 g
Xx sawn shingles........ vieidele «ger sthkes Ap ieap as 2 00 — may —
(Sawn TAthwtcerenat hom oe tense ie eon | +... 2 25| Lumber........:. 660,118,942 541,763,015 467,966,545
Shingles.... .... 265,189,150 241,455,200 173,753,000
ee ee eo al Lee svevceseseee 52,267,802 $8,333,925 48,755,681
, ICKGEE: wchice once 3,368,270 2,788,430 2,193,317
QUEBEC, Cedar posts. ...... 161,719 211,048 67,006
NovrEMBkER 7.—Allan Grant’s lot of white pine pe ee ee

timber, containing about one million feet, is re-
ported to have been sold at 28c. per foot.

The spruce deal market continues firm, for
next season’s sawing, ‘The following sales have
been made :—Jirst quality, $40.50; second do.,
$33.50 ; third do., $24.50; fourth do., $20. All
per Quebec standard hundred, with the usual
shipping and half-culling charges. It sl:iould be
stated that the above sale includes 20 per cent.

OSWEGO, N.Y.

Stocks held here are larger than usual ; trade
has been dull for the past two weeks ; prices of
the coarser grades of lumber have declined from
one to two dollars, which it is thought will
work off the surplus. ae freights have ad-
vanced from $1.00 to $1.75 from Port Hope

which has had a tendency * check receipts.

: ‘ i Be. [LD EOE QIDDOFS iv, «20k GtWinvianan Vasant $42 00@45 00
of eleven inch board, a size decidedly prejudi- pidiinge if stay) ante pea Eerie crcl: Care "32 o0@ss 00
cial to the manufacturer, and which will account | Fite, common... 0... vee e rewire eee oe 20 00@25 00
: . COMMONS. same Neck sinters wwe, sees pistes -- 14 OO@16 00
to a great extent for the strong prices obtained. | Culls.......cccecccecccecccce secccevccce 11 00@138 00
There is a rumour of a heavy sale of Hamil: | Mill ran lots....... dale Aa abe De Peltcd yo. 17 00@22 00
: z : f Sidings, selected, Linch. .............0.08 30, 00@37. 00
ton’s floated pine for next season’s delivery, but Ay Ino. ssc. hens geeks ae Oe 30 00@87 00
the price and other details have not transpired. ee
ot Strips, 1 ‘and Re inch millrun......++. aa 00
5 > Gullpivvachs eet 10 00@13 00
ALBANY. 1x6 selected for clapboards...... «+... ++. 25 00@35 00
Quotations at the yards are as follows :— Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine... - con ; an
ceicws memes NC
Pine, clear, % M...ses.seaes Su aben Sts RvGaTON $57 00@64 00 eee 18 inch, cod ar. wevees 3. 25@ 8 50
Ping MPOUTENG.% «iva sicuialawi an eleva inne - 57 00@59 00 pO, GMa MRE eet ee PS ys 2 80@ 2 50
PINE; SQlCCES 0c on os visive cre eels nis viele eiRielslse 52 QO@S4 (00i) Leith A tenis sa vnate ve eS pw bib ctctce Meera 1 9@ 2 00
PING OGG DOX van maitamietnierent ese k arne wia ete’ s 22 00@35 00
Pine, 10-in. plank, each... ease ereeaee 00 42@00 45 ¥ + =
Pine, 10-in, plank, culls, each. ...+.. +++++ 00 22@00 25 TONAWANDA,
Pine boards) LO=IM. vv.cce ewes wes wninne sc 00 28@00 82
Pine, 10-in, boards, culls. . .... 00 20@00 21 CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION,
Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., we M. .-.. 380 00@85 00 A
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft. ......eeseeee ees 30 00@34 00 | Three uppers.....+....sseeeeees tees $43 00@46 00
De 04 aS ait 7 =f Common... (ive ccak scp ake Greet ees Ones 18 00@24 OU
Pine, 12-in. boards, Tey Ap OBS oma, vases. 27 00@29 00] & *
Pine, 1} in. siding, select.......... weeves 46 00@47 00 CUT, «5.x ,c.ciiece se anny ace Sep esis ORI leis 12 00@14 00
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common 18 00@20 00 —E—————————
Pine, l-in. siding, Selectssccccesestesyees 45 00@47 00
Pine, inch siding, common.... ... 4s... 18 00@20 00 LONDON,
Spruce, boards, each......... OE. Maal ad 00 00@00 16 : &.
Spruce, plank, ‘Li in., CAC. ....sseeeee4s+ 00 00@00 20] The Timber Trades Journal of Oct, 28, says :
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each. ....seee. «sees OO 0O@OO 30 hn : ‘ . >
Soyice rel Toes, Lhe eee ** 00 12@00 12 The shortness apparent in the pine and spruce
Hemlock, boards, each .. ........0eeaee 00 00@00 14] Stocks, as far as regards the outports, seems
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, GACH cece bieniasicn 00 00@00 88 |}; - . < ae
Hemlock, Joist, Qkx4, cach .... ce sewceen 00 00@00 14 likely to be made up yet before the shipping
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each. ......... 00 O0@00 11 | Season terminates, and the information to hand
Ash, 200d) QM. i reese sce ewewee unr 40 00@43 00 “ae ae 8 . x Jack) Ss ran
Rah iscoorid Guniiseh cant Scene 25 00@B0 00 (to w hich we referred in our last) implies that
Cherry, 200d), iM. tc ce ns weet eens enn 60 OO@85 00 | large shipments of spruce are on their way, and
Cherry, common, M+ sees... ss... 25 00@35 00} though we do not anticipate there will be very

--. 40 00@43 00
. 20 00@25 00

Oak, good, ®M..........
Oak, second quality, <

Basswood, YM 5
Hickory, Mo...
Maple, ‘Canada, RM
Maple, American, per M. .

large additions to the stocks in London, yet we
often find November prolific in cargoes from the
westward, the tail of the fall fleet generally
dropping in towards the end of the year.

26 00@28 00

Shingles, tee pine, eM "9 toe 6 bo At Messrs. Churchill & Sim’s sale on Wed-
fe ong a, enwed, pit oe . oD nesday there was nothing specially worth re-
cs see sea ee 0 00@ 3 60 | cording; the prices were weak thoughout.
iy Sean ze! web ah a8? vA o.0ee 3 . Though the few spruce lots submitted went
«hemlock... 0 00@ 2 50 | fairly well, still there was nothing like an ad-

0 00@ 2 00
0 00@ 2 25
9 00@ 2 50

Lath, hemlock, ® M..

Lath, spruce,“ vance traceable in what they fetched on this

occasion when compared with recent sales, The

“e
Cet eeeweeeerreerneee

felt in the matter of 2x4 scantling and sawn | Selects, Dressed...........s20.000000000s $48 00@50 00 buyers do not in a general w fa
- : ? aoe oeeve ay look 80 far
lath, the latter will now command $1.60 per M, | Shelving, Dressed, Me is Weg Sn 00| ahead. Should the spruce stocks be: largely

at the mills in bulk lots, and possibly just at | Dressed Shippers............ seutenleele pane 27 00@29 00
the present time $1.70 might be obtained for a Dressed Box.......... Hacarercresnoesees e Goa 4

sips oP men me men ee 34 00@35 00

seveseesees 846 00G48 00
- 18 00@19 00

The Northwestern Lumberman of Noy. 4, says :
The season’s cargo business is beginning to
taper off. For several days, up to last Thurs-
day, the arrivals were very light, a half dozen
cargoes being a fair average array at the docks,
with only two or three, part of the time and a
The falling off was very
marked, making the receipts the lightest of the

Mill cull boards and scantling..............s+++ $10 00

Shipping eull boards, promiscuous widths. ...... ae ra season. On account of the low freight rates,

Scantling and joist, up to 16 fees se cL, 1d 00 | Many. vessel men are taking their crafts from
¥ f + A Hi Peet ee seer scteeees if Ag the lakes. With the receipts meager, there was
“ “ “ 29 ft..... sco ce sees... 15 60 | Baturally a free movement in what was offered,
is “ 24 it, Viens et een eene es ue ne The cargoes were readily disposed of at firm and
“ “ «og gt. 227.7 77""" ag 99. | enhanced prices. Lumber and shingles have
Ss i i Bp pa Ween rete eeees oo be been in sufficiently good demand to take all that
« “ “ 284 ft........ 1... 92 50 | Came, nothwithstanding there is plenty at the
S ‘ “4 e uy Pee vee ebeeee eens a a district. The cargoes have generally been
“ “ “ 40 to 44 ft............. 35 00 | Placed in short order, the vessels that have lin-

| intelligence of large stocks on their way m
have had its influence on prices, though s

added to it, is very problematical if the fresk
supplies would be immediately put under th
hammer.

EE

LIVERPOOL,
The Timber Trades Journal of Oct. 28, says
The prevalence of westerly winds has brought
up a rush of timber-laden vessels during the
past few days, and for a short time we may ex-
pect our quays to show a brisk and lively con-
dition of business,
With regard to spruce deals, the railwa: waye an
canals will have sufficient work to employ tk
for some time to come, as a large proportion of
the cargoes, especially those from lower ports,
will go to fill contracts and engagments e
into early in the season, and will in velit
little effect upon the stocks on hand, or affect i
any way the future position of the market.
There is a fair business doing in all kinds o
timber, and the last imports of Quebec goods
are going into consumption steadily. From the
latest advices from Canada, those who

chiefly interested in getting out timber and con
verting it into logs, deals, boards and other
marketable shapes look for high prices for n

season’s wood ; the cost of labor, provisions and
other expenses promise to be higher than have
been experienced hitherto. This appears to b®
anticipated ina marked degree in reference to
hardwoods of all sorts from the Canadian —

provinces,
———_>—_—_

GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of Oct. 28, says :
The Clyde timber market has been firm during
the week, As reported below an auction sale
was held at Port Glasgow on the 19th inst.
and one here on the twenty-fifth instant.
These were well attended and a fair business
done, A large cargo of Picton birch at the
sale here was disposed of rapidly, with spirited
bidding, prices ranging from 17}d. to 203d. per
cubic ft. The wood was of good quality.
Several cargoes of deals,Quebec pineand lower _
port spruce, have arrived at Glasgow withinthe
week, and a cargo of Tabasco mahogany pal
Santa Anna, which is to be exposed at auction by
Messrs. Wm, Connal & Co., in Yorkhill Yard,

on the 7th prox.

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NEW SAW MILLS AT EMERSON. -

The Emerson Express says :—Besides the Em- _
erson Agricultural Works, which is soon to
pass into the hands of a joint stock company
with a capital of $100,000, Belfour & Co. have —
commenced the erection of their extensive saw-
mills, which are to occupy the whole block, in- —
cluding the river frontage between Morris and
Dufferin streets, They have already delivered
at their mills over six thousand saw-logs, which
they will commence work on as soon as the
machinery is in position. The capacity of the
mill will be 20,000 feet per diem to commence
with, but will be increased as the demand for
lumber increases, The firm will give employ- _
ment to twenty-five men. There is every pros-
pect that the Government will, during the
coming winter, remove the duties from limber,
which will give our saw mills the benefit of the
markets of both countries. With the opening
of the Pembina Mountain branch, there is but —
little doubt that the lumber suppply for all —
Southern Manitoba will be cut at Emerson. —
This spring more than 12,000,000 feet of white
pine from the Minnesota pineries was floated —
down the river in front of our doors, to be
sawed into lumper in Winnipeg, and from the —
preparations now being made, it is estimated by rn
Minnesota papers that fully twenty million feet —
of logs will be put down the Red River next —
spring.

ha

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MIDLAND.

The Free Press says :—The steam barge Te
cumseh is loading 750,000 feet of lamber at #
B. C. L. & T. Co’s dock to be consigned to par
ties in that land of promise, Manitoba.

Mr, A. Paxton has secured the contract fe
building a large steam saw mill on Sepent Ri
for the American Lumber Co., capacity 80,000
feet per day, A part of the work, we under
stand, is to be done in Midland, x

BELLEVILLE.

The Intelligencer says :—If the pr edictions of
those who are engaged in lumbering operations
in this locality are fulfilled the prospects are
‘the coming season will be unusually active.
Thus early the advance parties of several firms
have established quarters for operations during
the winter and locations for work are now being
sought after by others. Gilmour & Co. expect
to perform some very lively work in the woods
this winter and the force of operators they will
send out will astonish the remnant of the abori-
gines who dwell in the woods. They will esta-
blish four shanties and give a show for nine live
jobbers to make a substantial living by their
work on Beaver Creek, north of Millridge, in
the township of Tudor. Deer River will be
more than lively, as three shanties and six job-
bers will make it the scene of their labors.
(Each of these parties will number 400 men.)
Six shanties and eight jobbing gangs will oper-
ate on the “‘ Scoot ” ; there willbe one shanty in
the township of Harvey, one in the township of
Lake, near Clear River ; one in Tudor, near the
Moira River ; one on the North River, in Meth-
uen ; and each will give employment to fifteen
men. The cut will come to the front by the
Trent and Moira Rivers, and will embrace 300, -
000 logs, besides ash, cedar, tamarack, spruce,
and fioats. The product, it is confidently ex-
pected, will be as large as that of 1881.

FORESTS REPRODUCED.

Many people entertain the idea that remuner-
ation for forest culture during the lifetime of
the persons engaging therein is an impossibility,
but facts are frequently furnished which dem-
onstrate that this idea is incorrect. In illustra-
tion the following from a Virginia correspondent
is quite pertinent: ‘‘ We would like to have
some of the forestwise people—wise from a
European, but not from an American stand-
point—who are croaking about the destruction
of our forests, and predicting that we will have
a treeless country in a short time, see how
rapidly and how beautiful Culpepper and other
counties along the Virginia Midland,-that were
almost deforested during the late war by the
great armies that camped and wintered there,
are now becoming afforested in the lifetime of
half a generation. We noticed a few days ago
fuel and fencing being cut where Mead’s army
burned up every tree in the winter of 1863-4.”

GOVERNMENT PROTECTION.

The commissioner of the general land office at
Washington has issued a circular to the timber
agents throughout the country, instructing them
to protect public timber from waste and de-
struction by fire, by every means in their power.
It refers especially to the danger arising from
leaving tree tops and branches to dry upon the
ground after the timber has been removed, and
closes with the following significant sentence :—
“A failure on the part of woodsmen to utilize
all of the tree that can profitably be used, and
to take reasonable precaution to prevent the
spread of fires, will be regarded by this office as
wanton waste, and subject them to prosecution
for wanton waste and destruction of public tim-
ber.” If the instructions be complied with,
much good will result and forest fires,on govern-
ment land at least, will decrease both in num-
ber and destructiveness.—The Lumber World.

NORTHERN LIMIT OF THE HEMLOCK.

The Abbe Provanche, in his Flore Canadienne,
corrects an error in the statement of Michaux,
and copied by the Abbe Brunet, concerning
the northern limit of the hemlock tree.
In the pamphlet entitled ‘‘ Voyage d Andre
Michauz en Canada,” p. 18, it is remarked,
that this tree begins near the Hudson Bay, and
that around Lake St. John it forms whole for-
ests. The writer cited affirms that he has never
met the “‘ Pruche” in those regions, and that it
is wholly unknown both on Lake St. John, and
on the Saguenay. He assigns its northern limit
at Cape Tourment, north of Quebec, although a
few specimen may occur in Charlevoix county.

According to Dr. Bell, (Geographical Distribu-
tion of the forest trees of Canada), the eastward
and northern limit of this species is at the Bay
of Chaleur. It is scarce near the eastern coast
of New Bronswick, but very abundant in the

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St. Lawrence a little below Quebec, extending
further down on the north than on the south
side. Thence it reaches the north end of Lake
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A TIMBER SsvIT.

The following case was decided at the recent
assizes at Barrie, according to the report of the
Midland Free Press :—Prentiss v McGirr. The
Omtario Government sold some land to the
Dominion Government on to which the Oka In-
dians were removed from the Province of Que-
bec. Prior to this sale the Ontario Government
had sold the’right to cut all the timber to the
Georgian Bay Lumber Company, who, in turn,
sold their right to Mr. Prentiss, the plaintiff in
the present action. Mr. Prentiss, not thinking
that anything was wrong, put in a gang of men
last winter, who cut a considerable quantity of
timber. As the men were about to draw it
away the defendant, who is one of the officials
connected with the Indian Department, forbade
the removal of the timber, which was seized by
the Dominion Government as belonging to the
Indians. The plaintiff failing to get redress
from the Dominion Government, brought this
action against their official, who prevented the
timber being taken away. His Lordship, at
the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, nonsuited,
holding that the defendant only acted as order-
ed by the Department, and could not therefore
be held responsible personally. Plaintiff’s
remedy, if any, would lie ina petition of right
or in the justice of the Government. Strathy
for plaintiff; Martin @. C., for defendant.
This case seems to be a hard one, as the plaintiff
expended a large sum in the manufacture of the
timber which is now lost to him.

Increased Use of Sawdust.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—A large
amount of sawdust is being used in a profitable
industry, which, if it grows in the future as it,
has in the past, may solve the Minneapolis prob-
lem, and cause the St. Paul Chamber of Com-
merce to eternally hold its peace. Boxes, of all
sorts of sizes, containing sawdust, are daily sent
out all over the country, and sometimes there is
tall kicking on the part of the recipients, who
paid their money for something else. The
secret of the transaction is that the sawdust
crowd answered a counterfeit money advertise-
ment, and got sold, aud, considering their de-
sign, they have little to kick about. If the fools
continue to increase, an immense amount of
sawdust will be required for this one line of
enterprise,

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Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
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The veneer thus prepared can be used with the
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

DISASTROUS FIRE.

Ovawa, Nov. 2.—The most disastrous fire
which for years has visited the vicinity of
Ottawa occurred this evening, and in the course
of three hours laid in ashes nearly $1,000,000
worth of property, temporarily thrown over 1,-

000 hands out of employment, and for a time

destroyed industries which have taken over a

quarter of a century to build up. Among the
many hard-working men who have converted

wooded wastes about the ‘‘ Big Kettle” into a

hive of industry, who in most cases starting un-
known and with comparatively little capital to
back them, but who’ with undoubtable energy
and untiring perseverance have built up the
lumber interests of Ottawa and Hull, it is no
discredit to the others to say that she name of
E. B. Eddy stands in the front rank. His
name for years past has been identified with the
best interests of Ottawa and Hull, and no mis-
fortune which overtakes the vast industries
which he controls can fail to be felt by the
whole population. The fire alarm sounded last
evening at 6:11 from box 21. This is one of the
boxes considered dangerous by the brigade, and
the whole force at once turned out. When the
alarm was first heard there was no sign of any
particular danger. It was also a time when
most persons were at their supper, and as the
public are now pretty well used to see the fire
drowned out in a very few moments, little at-
tention was paid to is.
Tn less time, however, than the reels could
reach the point indicated, a bright light spread-
ing over the whole north-western sky indicated
that a more than ordinary blaze was in progress,
In less than ten minutes from the time the
alarm was first given the ruddy glare was 60
bright over the whole city that the smallest
print was easily readable in the worst lighted
streets. The exact locality of the fire was not
known, and in Ottawa was first discovered by
those who flocked to vantege points on Victoria
street and the Government Hill. Then the
news spread lightning-like, ‘‘ Hddy’s is on fire,”
and soon a stream of pedestrains and vehicles
were rushing to the scene of the disaster. Those
from the centre and lower portion of the city,
~ no matter how raid their progress, only reached
the place in time to find the suspension bridge
and the Hull causeway crowded with anxious
spectators, while around the burning building
hundreds of hardworkers crowded, doing their
best to fight the unconquerable fire which raged
with fearful fury from the outset. From one to
another of the great area of the factory build-
ings the flashing tongues of flame leaped laugh-
ing at the puny efforts of the poor streams to
stay their progress, and in less than an hour
some ten acres of ground were covered with the
debris of what had in the early part of the even-
ing represented a handsome fortune. Such a
rapid destruction of property has probably

“never been seen about Ottawa before, not
even on the wild windy Triday night when
the villages of Bell’s Corners and Chelsea were
swept away, when the fire devastated the whole
Ottawa valley.

It was not possible to ascertain the origin of
the fire this evening. Those who were best able
to speak about the matter were too busy at work
to give any reliable information. It is, however,
pretty certain that it originated in the north-
western part of the large saw-mill.
the mill is only running day time, and all hands
had left at six o’clock. There was no light
about the place but what was furnished by elec-
tricity, and the general opinion is thatit was by

The rapid spread of the fire was al-
most incredible. The big mill was almost in-
stantly in flames. From that the fire spread in
every direction, taking in the stone offices on
one side, and the sash and door factory and the
pail factory, and other building on the other.
It next licked up the woodon arch which span-
ned the causeway, and laid hold of the match
factory, all of these falling victims to the fury
of the flames.

The Union Fire Company turned out and
did excellent service. One of the firemen re-
mained so long on the second story of the match
factory that He had to leap for his life, and
broke one of his legs. Many others had narrow
escapes. All the water that could be reached
was utilized, but it was insufficient to stay the
fury of the flames. The fire burned itself out

friction.

At present,

QUEBEC.

The Chronicle says :—Timber transactions are
about drawing to a close. The shippers here
having pretty well stocked themselves. But
the few rafts remaining for sale are held at good
prices, A raft of white pine, of about 52 feet
average, was placed at 27 cents; 47 feet at 24
cents, and a large parcel of 47 to 48 feet aver-
age, at 29 cents. A choice parcel of waney
board, and two or three other rafts, have also
changed hands at prices which have not yet
transpired,

Red pine is rather dull of sale, common and
ordinary being worth about 14 to 16 cents.
Good and Superior 17 to 18 cents, in the raft.

Oak is in good demand if of choice quality ;
but inferior wood is difficult of sale.

We hear of no sales in elm.

westward, while the efforts of Eddy’s own ap-
pliances, the Chaudiere fire-engine, of Ottawa,
and all the other appliances that could be had
from the various lumber men, kept it from
spreading eastward. Had the wind been
‘blowing southward the probability is that not a
house would be left standing in Hull. In ad-
dition to the buildings already mentioned being
burned, McCormick’s flour mills were also des-
troyed. The loss is generally estimated at
from $500,000 to $700,000. It is partilly cover-
ed by insurance. Mr, Eddy, who has been ill
for some time past, is at present in Boston.
The fire at the time of writing (1nidnight) is still
burning, but entirely under control.

Mr. Eddy’s loss will in all probability reach
$750,000, on which there is said to be an insur-
ance of $225,000. Mr. C. B. Wright owned the
flour mill. He estimates his loss at $30,000, on
which there is an insurance of $4,000, The oc-
cupants of the mill, McCormack & Co., lose
about $7,000 ; insurance, $3,000. Mr. Eddy has

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.

The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.

been very unfortunate during the pastsix years, | measured and culled to Oct. 27 :—
suffering extensively from fire, but through un- 1880. 1881, 1882.
dauntable pluck and energy has succeeded in| Waney White Pine.. 2,180,389 2,637,935 2,786,225
keeping his head above water. Within that bite Pine......... 8,902,168 5,604,356 7,680,997
time he hag wiped out a liability of over a mil- Bed Pines seen-neees a 072,00 1 OS eee sepa
lion dollars ; and this year, had he been fortun- Dips erspere sens g pi ee cr om ca
rae, ae LO ORE AR an ine 4 « 932,950 1,010,395 701,026
ate enough to carry out his programme, would] Ash................. 238,416 399,625 263,481
have placed half a million dollars to his credit. | Basswood ........... 363 3,939 1,348
Much sympathy is felt for him, and the feeling | Butternut........... 645 2,991 2,839
prevails that he will at once commence rebuild- | Tamarac............ 30,863 24,577 51,798
ing. Birch & Maple....... 575,464 151,742 268,333
THE INSURANCES—THE ANTICIPATED LOSS, Masts.....+........, 4 pes — pes 33 pes
The Montreal Witness says :—The fire at Hull | SP98-++++++++++ ++ 23 pes 25 pes 51 pes
hase eroatedae good deal "of foxcitemient here; Bet, Eieves siento asain s 195,7.1.1 368.7.2.29 352.6.3.12
The rooming in A libt'of ieaghanton de the maa bg ER 1 ee ae 485.4.1.5 467.6,0.10 1150,9,0.12
f 8 4GCY | Brl. Staves......++.+. IOC BAO «eee 75.4.3.23
property :— JAMES PATTON,
Leto ar SoanraO toad Wooo Jeman abet ve $ 33,000] Quebec, Oct. 27. Supervisor of Cullers.
Fire Insurance Association.....+seeereeesee 22,000
TD AI Sisie'cin n nin eve stn, eieiorcinss el@ RiniC bis Wiikiele(elers 16,500 A Windtall.
The Hartford, SPaaicretm a etetathaa tenn ethan eco leseiate 16,500! The library of Cornell University received,
British American wivin trae) s/avauate # niece eianalais atest 11,000 not long ago, by the will of a friend an estate
Commercial Union. edecemew hue aee sucht aese 11,000 : . .
Oval TCarininny.\«,ciainie Ws accla’s 1 ta dtalee dele k wel 11,000 which at the time was believed to be of only
The ITEM: catnjaisjataieVere Weinusraisia/e(elelaislaiein! ta ofele ins 11,000 moderate value. It was found, however, to be
North British & Mercantile..........ss+eee. 11,000 | Chiefly invested in Wisconsin pine lands, and
FOTIA HATAOLICHML. are atetnis Siento ete slpieisine Rea ge 11,000 | turns out, at the present price of such property,
Oibizenis uses s os siete cittipicfenasniesiene visvenie eels 5,000| to be worth something over $2,000,000 in hard
Quebec wmmidie tacit Mesleceraty cewletaiieienanine 5,500| money. This is an addition to the $5,000,000
Niagara. Pee eee eee e eee eee e teen eee ee tee 5,500 | that Cornell has derived, or will derive, from
(CONIC CULOT Gite ere ately ialnvathlave'atets, STC NTN) st ie/sisleiprsipa = 5,600 the sale of her scrip pine lands in the same
$176,000 | state.

The larger amounts are well re-insured. The
insurance companies do not anticipate a loss of
over sixty per cent of the above amounts, About
half the property was burnt. The west half on
which stands the match factory was simply in-
jured.

Incendiarism is supposed to have caused the
fire. The managers suspect a certain individual
who was discharged a short time ago for steal-
ing. Incendiarism suggests itself by the fact
that the fire burst out in a place convenient to
the public highway and at the time when there
were few men around the premises. It was also
a dark night and the watchman was in the other
mills a quarter of a mile distant. Word has
been received to-day that Mr, Eddy is lying
sick in Boston.

Advertising by the Car Load.

The Wisconsin Central railroad management
is collecting a car load of samples of northern
Wisconsin timber, gathered from points on the
line from Stevens Point north. The ear will be
sent through southern Wisconsin, Illinois and
other sections, and the samples exhibited at
manufacturing towns for the purpose of showing
what varieties of timber can be found in north-
ern Wisconsin, The scheme will be under the
direction of A. J. Perkins.

New Forests.

Several small prairies, which were common in
the Wabash Basin at the time of its first settle-
ment, have been transformed into woodland,
and the area of the forest has increased of late
years. Extensive woods of oak and hickory,
more than 80 ft. high, and with trunks nearly
2 ft. through, are now growing upon what was
open prairie within the memory of some of the
present owners of the land.

Wooden Water Pipes.

In an account given in the London Daily
Chronicle respecting the recent opening of the
first portion of the innercircle extension of the
Underground Railway, the writer says :—‘‘ Not
the least interesting feature was the antiquarian
discoveries which have been made. Besides a
a singular collection of Roman pottery and
other things, a large portion of the old London
wall was found between the Crescent (in the
Minories) and Trinity Mews. The wall was 8
feet thick, composed of Kentish ragstone, and
gave the employees no little trouble. Among
the debris lying near the shaft in Trinity Gar-
dens was a piece of rotten timber about a yard
and a half long. On examination this proved
to be a portion of the wooden piping first used
by the New River Company early in the seven-
teenth century.”

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Tree Planting.

In the season of 1881-2 more than 3,000,000
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Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO. Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. | TORONTO.

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
” PETERBOROUGH, -- DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. oy

352 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EMERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUMMING,

\ In order to remove the difficulties connected with the importation
: vo of TANITE GOODS in small quantities, and to bring such goods
| | within easier reach of

ss Sy CONSUMERS IN CANADA,

we have arranged with the well-known firm of

IVI & INT OE OR ES A Ke,

To take our sole Agency for the Provinces of ONTARIO and QUEBEC. By this means consumers
who want only single wheels, or goods in small quantity, can supply themselves easily and avoid
the trouble of special importations, while dealers can secure the most liberal terms, fully equal
to those they could obtain by buying of us direct.

Messrs. Frothingham & Workman will carry a full stock of TANITE EMERY WHEELS,
and a sample line of Machines, and can fill all orders promptly.

ihe Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pa.

September 28th, 1882. lyl3

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

BY THE USE QF

Gey Brown's Patent Spalt and Shingle Mill,

for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Staff, &c., from spalts, board

trimmings, slabs, and mill waste generally, turning material otherwise

worthless Into valuable products, I have made arrangements with the

patentee to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; have made and sold

a geod num ber of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction
and can give the best of references,

Qur Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

is now the Best Feed where Steam Is the motive power. It is easily

operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely to wear out; sixteen

16 ft. boards, or eighteen 12 ft. boards, have been cut by it in one minute.

It is the established feed for steam mills; I make a specialty of its manu-
facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

Qur Patent Twin or Span Circular,

with Steam Feed for Steam Mills, and Rope or Rack Feed for Water
Mills is fast coming Into general estimation and is used in place of Gang
Slabber in our best Canadian Mills, One of our Span Circulars which
will slab logs 25 inches in diameter down to7 and 8 inch stocks, will do
the work of three slabbers, with an immense reduction in first cost, run-
ning expenses and labour. Twoof these machines can be seen at work
in Messrs, Gilmour & Co’s Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's
Mill, Waubaushene and Port Severn. ga "lam also introducing a new
style of Mill Engine, neat, substantial and simple, with Corliss’ Frame
and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made.

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Covel's Automatic Saw Sharpener,

is now well-known and highly appreciated, when placed at work in the
mill it sings out its own praise; I Keep it constantly on hand, ready for
immediate shipment.

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Qur Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

are too well Known to need any reference, any further than to say that I
spare no pains or expense to have my work all first-class and give satis-
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wanting a First-class Mill will find it to their advantage to give mé a call.

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PETERBOROUGH, ONT., DECEMBER 1, 1882. ,

NO. 23.

THE TRUE REGULATORS.

WHILE we cannot but regret, in the interest
of our own St. Lawrence route, that the people
of the State of New York have declared in
favor of free canals, and that as a consequence
all tolls on the Erie Canal will at once be abol-
ished, yet we cannot deny that the decision at
which they have arrived is eminently in their
own interest and that of the people of the north

- western states, and, to a certain extent, in the

interest of the producers of lumber and barley
in Ontario. As our readers are aware, the
REVIEW, even when it was laughed at for so
doing, maintained that the best if not the only
satisfactory regulator of freight rates was our
water ways, and the events of each succeeding
year have only served to confirm this conviction
and to prove that those whoare most intimately
concerned in this matter are coming more and
more to the same way of thinking. Certainly
in adopting an amendment to their constitution
providing for free canals the people of the em-
pire state and the chief commercial city of the
continent, have given the most substantial evi-
dence in their power, and that too, in spite of

- the opposition of their powerful railway corpor-

ations, that they are of the opinion that the
water ways are an important, if not the best
freight regulator. In Great Britain too, we
find the same feeling gaining ground, notwith-
standing that country has more miles of railway
to the square mile than any other country in the
world.

During the last or rather present session of
the Imperial Parliament a select committee was
appointed to enquire into the subject of railway
rates and fares, and as a result of their investi-
gations they presented a report recommending
among other things “‘ That Parliament do not
sanction any further control, direct, or indirect,
of canal navigation by a railway company.”

To understand, and fully appreciate this
recommendation, it is necessary that the reader
should bear in mind that nearly all the canals of
that country are at present leased to, and
worked by, those railway corporations with
whom they competed, and that if the recom-
mendation of the committee be acted upon the
canals will return to their natural and proper
position of competitors with the railways for
the carriage of heavy freight as soon as the
present leases expire. That such a result would
have a beneficial effect upon freight rates cannot
be doubted, seeing that the railway companies
in order to secure control of them have leased
them at rentals which pay the owners thereof

higher dividends than the railways pay their |

own stockholders, and that they (the railways),
find it profitable to maintain these canals even
where they run side by side with their own
lines. .

Under circumstances such as those to which
we have just referred, we need scarcely say that

time.

avail themselves of every available Lnoceanity
of developing and improving our water ways
whether they be in our older or newer provinces.

While a ‘‘free” Hrie is no doubt calculated
and intended to injure the St. Lawrence route,

we have little fear of the ultimate result now

that our own inland and natural competitor
with the Erie Canal is fairly under way under
the name of the Trent Valley Canal. Takenin
conjunction with the recent action of the State
of New York, and in conjunction with the de-
plorable results which have followed the attempt
to use vessels adapted to the wants of the Well-
and Canal on our great lakes, itis clear that it
is the duty of the Dominion Government and
Parliament in the interests of humanity, as
well as of the St. Lawrence route, to push the
Trent Valley Canal on to an early completion.
—Peterborough Review.

FOREST FIRES.

The American Journal of Forestry, the first
number of which has been published at Cincin-
nati, contains an interesting paper on forest
fires by Mr. Putman, of Wisconsin, which, it is
stated, was written for the forestry Congress,
but delayed, owing to the absence of its author
on the Pacific Coast. The forest fires in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, are said to be
the results mostly of carelessness on the part of
explorers, or timber hunters, haymakers and
others having either business or pleasure in the
woods, who leave their camp fires burning,
where they have cooked a meal or spent the
night. July and August are the months in
which they generally occur, when the pine
leaves and branches from the last winter’s cut-
ting are dry and like tinder liable to burn from
the dropping of amatch or a stroke of lightning.
The author of the paper thinks it absolutely
necessary that proper laws should-be passsed
and enforced for the punishment of this crimin-
al negligence, and does not believe that it would
be hard to detect offenders. Most men, he
says can be traced even in the pineries, and if
fires result from their acts they should be pun,
ished by imprisonment or fines. The practise of
lumbermen is, when the tree is felled, to cut off
the branches, which are left scattered on the
ground and in the following summer become
dry and like powder. A match thrown away,
an emptied pipe, in fact anything with a spark
of fire, will start the burning. It is suggested
that there should be a law requiring the lumber
men to employ an extra man in the woods to
pile in an open space the green branches and re-
fuse, so that all may be burned at a proper
The opinion of the author is that the
fires are not the result of carelessness of the In-
dians, who are careful to extinguish their camp-
fires. He advocates the appointment of for-
esters, to collect and distribute information and
advice as to the manner of cutting timber.

we hold it to be the duty of our statesmen to! Probably as much timbor or as many trees in

number are destroyed each year eee ignor- |

ance and carelessness in cutting the pine timber |

for sawlogs as are cut and really used or taken to
market. The author states that he has recently |
visited the forests on the Pacific coast, and finds
there more danger from fires than in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan. Terrible fires, he

says, are raging on Puget Sound, Coast Range | ,.< peen resorted to.

and Cascade forests.

| National Car Builder,

TIMBER FOR RAILROAD USES.

The moisture of the soils in the South, says the
is very destructive to
woods employed as the bed for railway track,
|and managers have been troubled to known
| whats is the most economical method for obviat-
ting loss resulting from this cause. Creosoting
Several works with aan

He saw one of 100 miles | o,),ital have been established in St. Louis for

by 10, and of 75 by 2 to 20 miles in extent, all | the treatment of wood by the creosote process,

the result of pure carelessness, and which might |
have been prevented. He thinks that 1 ,000 |
trees may be saved where one can be raised,
and after 30 years’ experience in forests he)
thinks that if he had educated his timber ex-

plorers to be careful of fire he could have |
saved millions. Such is the information given
by a Wisconsin lumberer.—Zumberman’s
Gazette.

THINNING OUT TREES.

Henry Hemming, Esq., Quebec, contributed
the following to the Forestry Congress, Mon-
treal :—‘‘ As I do not see upon your programme
of subjects to be discussed, any reference to the
important question of ‘‘Thinning out Forest
Trees” at various periods of their growth, I
write in the midst of other engagements just to
callyour attention to its importance. In a pine
forest, if the trees are placed so wide apart as
to admit of the branching out to begin low down
on the stem, you will get a collection of orna-
mental trees, but not areal timber tree amongst
them. On the other hand if the trees are grown
in a plantation so thickly that the ground is en-
cumbered with five or ten in the space that one
ought to occupy and yet be sufficiently confined
to be restrained from side-shoots—in this case
also you have no timber forest, but are only
growing firewood. Now, I have an impression
that this. subject.has been pretty thoroughly
studied in the great timber producing countries
of Europe. Itis certain that there they have
an extensive literature on forestry of which we
hardly know the names in North America.
Between giving the trees room and restraining
them from lateral branching, the degree of
“thinning out” is brought to something of
anicety. Properly effected, the productiveness
of our forests might be multiplied many times
over. Even the cutting of good trees by the
lumberman does not thin out effectually. No-

thing will do that but chopping for the very |

purpose in view at various steps of the growth
of the plantation. What are those periods ?
How many ‘“‘thinnings” in all will be made? I
am quite unable to reply to those questions, but

the Congress, in its stores of forest knowledge, |

may be able to help on a solution,”

SEVERAL lumber-millowners have been prose-
cuted for throwing slabs and other refuse in the
St, John River, New Brunswick, and hays keen
fined $20 each,

| season for sawing.
/has been Very large, as all the mills have been

and in Texas the treatment has been applied -
along the lines as construction was pushed for-
ward. This method, however, is considered
rather too expensive. Some railway men have
concluded that the ailantus and catalpa will
prove to be the cheapest and most durable wood
for tie and bridge timbers. One company,
whose road extends chiefly over prairie lands, is
having a large plantation seeded for these trees
in equal proportions. Both the catalpa and the
ailantus are readily propagated from the seed,
and bear seed-pods abnndantly. Another com-
pany, whose road enters Texas, is arranging to
plant several hundred acres of these trees in
that state. Even the Iron Mountain Company,
that probably owns more heavily timbered land
than any other in the country, has contracted
for the cultivation of a catalpa farm near one of
its stations in Missouri. On this road are cat-
alpa ties that were laid nearly 15 years ago and
are apparently as sound as ever. It is authen-
ticated that in southern Ohio, where one species
of catalpa is indigenous, there are posts and
timbers of this wood that have been in thse
ground a full century and yet show no signs of
decay. Although the ailantus is an importation
from China, still it and the catalpa seem to find
in the soils of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas
just what they require to thrive upon.

A Rush for the Woeds,

The St. John, N. B., correspondent of the
Montreal Gazette says :—The rush for the woods

|is greater this fall than it has been for years.

Every train that goes up the St. John towards
the lumber regions of that part of the Provinces
carries supplies, men and teams, bound for ths
forest, and there is equal activity on the north
shore. This is not because of a scarcity of logs,
as the stock is not yet exhausted. Last winter
was an exceptionally good one for hauling, there
being plenty of snow and fast-frozen swaps,
and the stock was large at the beginning of the
The production of lumber

run constantly, many of them day and night.
Some of our mills are preparing, by the accum-
ulation of logs, to saw during the winter, as the
prospects for good prices next spring are consid-
ered favourable. Mr. Gibson, the King of the
Nashwaak, will have a regiment of men and hor,
ses in the woods, and several other heavy opera:
tors will haye a large fores there,

_ well calculate that instead of the present sup-

354

FORESTRY,

The following sensible editorial appears in
the Stratford Beacon from the pen of Dr, A.
Eby, of Sebringville, in the county of Perth :—

“The recent meeting of the Forestry Con-
gress brought out prominently some facts that
should receive the serious consideration of the
people of this province and of our Government.
The first point that we wish to bring out is that
the timber* supply of this continent is nearly
exhausted, At the present rate of cutting, it is
estimated that the pine timber now standing in
the different states and provinces will last as
follows: Georgia, 75 years ; Florida, 30 years ;
Alabama, 70 years; Mississippi, 150 years ;
Minnesota, 10 years; Michigan, 7 years ; Wis-
consin, 20 years ; Louisiana, 540 years; Penn-
sylvania, 5 years; Arkansas, 325 years ; Cali-
fornia, 100 years; South Carolina, 27 years;
Maine, 16 years. At the present rate of
consumption only six of these states have a
practically inexhaustible supply, but when we
consider that the total production is 3,623 mil-
lion feet annually in tie United States alone,
and divide that into the 264,759 million feet,
estimated total of standing timber, we find that
even at the present rate of consumption it will
all be exhausted in 70 years. As it will take at
Jeast 70 years to grow a new crop, it will be
seen that the total amount of timber now stand-
ing is only sufficient to last until a new crop can
be grown, if it is planted at once, but if plant-
ing is delayed for a few years a scarcity will
ensue before some now living will be gathered to
their fathers.

Let us now look at Canada and its supply.
According to Mr. Ward, of Montreal, who is
doubtless well informed on the subject, Canada
has 50,000,000 acres of timber standing. This
according to the present rate of cutting, will
last us 50 years. But we must not forget that
the demand both in Canada and the United
States will be immensely increased within the
next ten years. The new settlements in Canada
hitherto obtained the supplies from local sources.
Within even the last decade immense quantities
of pine have been exported from the older set-
tlements of Ontario, but these resources are
nearly, if not entirely, exhausted, and lumber
will soon have to be carried to districts that for-
merly exported it. Take the township of Ellice.
Hitherto there were in it eight or ten mills run-
ning the greater part of the summer, but the
supply is now practically exhausted, and that
township will have to import more lumber in
the next 20 years than it exported during the
Jast decade. ‘There are many other places in
the same position. They will have to draw
their supplies from the great public forests in-
stead of getting them from local sources as here-
tofore. But while the older provinces had local
supplies for the most of their wants, such is not
the case with the provinces now being settled.
Manitoba and the Northwest will require more
lumber than all the rest of Canada has stand-
ing. Even sparsely settled as it is, lumber is
even now carried from Montreal to Winnipeg.
What will be the demand when the settlers will
once be able to erect permanent dwellings for
themselves and stables for their cattle? But
while the demand in Manitoba will increase
immensely, that of the older sections of the
country will not diminished, so that we may

ply lasting 50 years it may last from only 30 to
35 years.

The same holds good for the United States.
States like Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania
and even Maine, will in a few years have to im-
port instead of exporting as they do at present.
Then the immense settlements that are now
taking place on the treeless prairies of Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and other States and
territories will increase the present enormous
demand, Taking all this into consideration, we
may well ask if the present supply will last 50
years instead of 70 years.

This is a matter of serious consideration, not
the less so because the evil is remote and will
not be materially felt by the present generation,
It will come as certainly as time goes on.
Though the evil will not strike the present gen-
eration, it isits duty to provide for future
necesssities. Many municipalities are incurring
heavy liabilities on the principle that the next
generation should assist in paying for improye-

are large tracts of country in diflerent parts of
the province that are practically unfit for agri-
cultural purposes.
obtained at a low price they should be secured

the owners, and take measures to have them
planted with some suitable, valuable timber.
To do this properly will require the organization
of a forestry department altogether apart from
the Crown Lands Department.
department all rocky, barren lands unfit for
agricultural purposes should be turned over to

ready covered by forests should be put under
such regulations as would best answer the pur-

use,
lumbermen, by fire or otherwise, should be re-
seeded or replanted as soon as possible and be

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

ments of which it will reap the benefit, Sothis
generation, while it uses the timber of natural
growth, owes it to future generations to prepare
a supply forthem. It is our duty to increase
instead of diminish the chances of life to our
successors. It ill becomes our wisdom and fore-
sight to live on regardless of the future, it is our
duty to provide for the future, knowing that if
we ourselves shall not reap the havest others
will. Men lay up wealth not because they take
the money with them when they go hence, but
as a store for their children. In the same way
we should prepare a supply of fuel and timber
for future generations,

But while this holds good for individuals it is
especially true of Governments. Governments
have noend. The king never dies. One Min-

istry may be succeeded by another, yet it is the

same Government. The aim and object of the
Government should be the welfare of the coun-
try as a whole, not of any particular section of
it, nor at any particular period, but its con-
tinued welfare. When the Government makes
an improvement it should be so made as to be
permanent. So the Government should prepare
for the welfare of its future citizens as well as
those of the present day. It is the duty of the
Government to see that the resources of the
country are not wasted and the chances of life
and happiness of its future citizens are not en-
dangered or made unnecessarily laborious.

It has been the experience of Europe that a
supply of timber can be best secured under the
control of the Gevernments. While each indi-
vidual strives to benefit himself, the Govern-
ment has no selfish or personal object to serve.
While individuals cannot expect to reap the
fruit of a planting or seeding that requires 50
or 100 years for its growth, such is not the case
with the government. It can as certainly reap
the harvest in half a century as in five or ten
years. The Government alone can afford to
wait the time necessary for the harvest and
when its forests have once been put in order
and the harvest time comes it cen reap a rich
revenue for its foresight. It will be a continued
seeding and planting for many years to come,
but when the harvest is once reached it will be
as continuous a harvest as the seeding had been,
Governments only can exercise the necessary
oversight and control of so large forests as will

be required to keep up the necessary supplies.

Woe will not undertake to say just what our

Government should do in the premises, but we

will point out what ought to be done. There

Wherever such lands can be

by the Government, where they are not already

To the forestry

be managed as public forests. Such as are al-

poses of revenue and the conservation for future
Such as have been denuded either by the

kept under the supervision of properly trained
foresters. This would doubtless increase the
expenses of the Government, but it would be
investing money in such a way as to return a
good revenue in the future. A moderate outlay
in this way will bring a sure return in the
future. While we believe the Government is
acting in the interests of the public by selling
the leases of its forests to the highest bidder, it
should also take the necessary steps to keep up
the supply. Full grown trees do not increase
in value by letting them stand. They should
be removed to give room for fresh timber to
grow. Care should, however, be taken that
young and growing trees are not removed or
damaged.

Tue Orillia Packet says :—Mr. James Had-
den, lumber and shingle manufacturer, at Fox-
mead, on the Midland Railway, is building a
tramway from his mill to the timber limits,

Mr. Hadden will not be dependent on snow for
his stock,

diameter. and 182 years old. The next largest

THE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN WOODS
AT THE CENTRAL PARK MUSEUM.

The Directors of the American Museum of
Natural history are now preparing for exhibit-
ition in the arsenal building, in Central Park,
one of the finest collections of native woods
ever brought together. When rendered complete
by the addition of 26 specimens that are expect-
ed to arrive before winter sets in, the collection
will embrace specimen blocks from each of the
420 trees indigenous to this country, and most
of which have some economic or commercial
value. As is usual in collections of this kind,
each specimen-block is saw longitudinally, diag-
onally, and transversely, so as to show the
characteristics of the wood,

Among the many curious specimens in the
collection now being prepared for exhibition,
says the New York Times, one which will ex-
cite the greatest curosity is a specimen of the
honey locust, which was brought here from
Missouri. The bark is covered with a growth
of thorns from one to four inches in length,
sharp as needles, and growing at irregular inter
vals. The specimen arrived here in perfect con-
dition, but in order that it might be transported
without injury, it had to be snspended from the
roof of a box car, and thus make its trip from
Southern Missouri to this city without a change.
Another strange specimen in the novel collect-
ion is a portion of the Yucca tree, an abnormal
growth of the lily family. Thetrunk, about two
feet in diameter, is a spongy mass, not suscepti-
ble of treatment to which the other specimens
are subjected. Its bark is an irregular, stringy,
knotted mass, with porcupine quill-like leaves
springing out in place of the limbs that grow
from all well-regulated trees. One specimen
of the Yucca was sent to the museum two years
ago, and though the roots and tops of the tree
were sawn off, shoots sprang out and a number
of handsome flowers appeared. The tree was
supposed to be dead and thoroughly seasoned
by this fall, but now, when the workmen are
ready to prepare it for exhibition, it has shown
new life, new shoots have appeared, and two
tufts of green now decorate the otherwise dry
and withered log, and the Yucca promises to
bloom again before the winter is over. One of
the most perfect specimens of the Douglas
spruce ever seen is in the collection, and is a
a decided curiosity. It is a recent arrival from
the Rocky Mountains. Its bark two inches or
more in thickness, is perforated with holes
reaching to the sapwood. Many of these con-
tain acorns, or the remains of acorns, which
have been stored there by provident wood-
peckers, who dug the holes in the bark and
there stored their winter supply of food. The
oldest specimen in the collection is a section of
the Picea Engelmanni, a species of spruce grow-
ing in the Rocky Mountains at a considerable
elevation above the sea. The specimen is 24
inches in diameter, and the concentric circles
show its age to 410 years. The wood much re-
sembles the black spruce, and is the most val-
uable of the Rocky Mountain growths. A
specimen of the nut pine, whose nuts are used
for food by the Indians, is only 15 inches in diam-
eter, and yet its life lines show its age to be 369
years. The largest specimen yet received is a
section of the white ash, which is 46 inches in

specimen is asection of the Platanus occidentalis,
variously known in commerce as the sycamore,
button-wood, or plane tree, which is 42 inches
in diameter, and only 171 years of age. Speci-
mens of the red wood tree of California are
now on their way to this city from the Yosemite
Valley. One specimen, though a small one,
measures five feet in diameter and shows the
character of the wood. A specimen of the en-
ormous growths of this tree was not secured be-
cause of the impossibility of transportation, and
the fact that there would be no room in the
museum for the storage of such a specimen, for
the diameter of the largest tree of the class is 35
feet and eight inches, which represents a cir-
cumference of about 110 feet. Then, too, the
Californians object to have the giant trees cut
down for commercial, scientific, or any other
purposes,

To accompany these specimens of the woods
of America, Mr. Morris K. Jesup, who has
paid all the expense incurred in the collection
of specimens, is haying prepared as an accom-

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panying portion of the exhibition, water-col
drawings representing the actual size, colon at
appearance of the fruit, foliage, and flowe
the various trees. Their commercial prod)
as far as they can be obtained, will also b
hibited, as, for instance in the case of the |
leaved pine, the tar, resin, and pitch, for whic
it is especially valued. Then, too, in a he
ium fruits, leaves, and flowers, are preserved
nearly as possible in their natural state. Whe
the collection is ready for public view ne»
spring it will not only be the largest, but th
only complete one of its kind in the country
There is nothing like it in the world, as
is known ; certainly not in the royal mu
of England, France, or Germany.—
American.

FRENCH RIVER MILL.

The Midland Free Press says :—“Last Friday
the schooner Nett Woodward was loaded t
Cook’s dock here with the machinery for th
American Lumber Company’s will at French
River, and a finer lot of machinery, it is said, is
not to be found in any mill on the bay. The
six large boilers, the powerful engine, and
heavy shafting are from the Joseph Hall works
of Oshawa. The stock forthe machine shop
including engine and boiler, plane, lathe and
drill are from the works of Morrison Bros.,
Toronto. The improved edger, with four saws
was made at Wm. Hamilton’s works, Peterboro’.
All the steam feed circular machinery was
manufactured in Stearn’s establishment, Erie,
Pa. On this lot alone the Company paid in
freight and duty $1,125, There were also fifteen
sets of sleighs from Ramsay’s carriage iad
Orillia,

The machinery taken tothe French River
mill is guaranteed to cut from 80,000 to 90,000
feet per day, but gangs will be put in next sea-
son and the output of the mill increased to
150,000 feet aday. It is calculated that all the
lumber manufactured at this mill will be ship-
ped to the North-West.

We can give but a faint idea of the extent of
the operations of the American Company, -
under the energetic management of Mr. John
Dollar. Three hundred men are now employed :
at French River, in getting out 15,000,000 feet
for the mill there. They are also taking
out a large quantity of timber from 40 to 80
feet long, which is rafted and taken to Detroit
where it is cut up for railway purposes. Men
are also engaged in making 500,000 cubic feet
of square timber which will be brought to Mid-
land and shipped over the railway to Port —
Hope. At that place it will be made into rafts
and taken to Quebec. They are also taking out
of Muskoka 15,000,000 feet to be eut at the
Company’s mills at Midland and Gravenhurst—
8,000,000 for Dollar’s mill here and 7,000,000
feet for Gravenhurst.

Mr. D. C. Keane, is here looking after the
machinery and supplies and attending to the
business outside of the mill. He is an active
young man, and looks well after the interests of

the company.

NATURAL METHOD OF TREE PLANTING.
For some years back we have advocated
through your columns the planting of the nuts
of nut-bearing trees and the stones of peaches
where the trees are going to stand, becausé
these trees have great tap-roots running down
into the ground, which in transplanting have to
be cut off, thereby greatly weakening the natural
strength of the tree, making it short-lived,
easily blown over in storms, and preventing it
from attaining the size and vigor it would
otherwise have if grown in the natural way.

Within the past year w-iters on forestry and
horticulture have been taking up this subject,
the tide having turned in favor of planting seeds
of all nut-bearing and stone fruits where the
trees are to stand.

But the great mass of the public, who should
be interested in the subject, know very little
and care less about these matters, and either |
don’t plant or do it in the old way, buying —
from so-called tree-agents, who cheat them
nearly every time ; but as they are told high-—
flown stories about the trees sold them, they
rather like to be cheated than otherwise. “~3

It is to try and enlighten them on this sub- _
ject, and eitey es ch

‘THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

er way, that this article is penned by a nursery-

man who has had forty yeas’ experience in the
business.

In the American Forestry Congress, recently
held at Montreal, a paper was read by Dr.
Warder, from Robert Douglass, of Waukegan,
TIL, on the “‘Three Motion System of Planting.”
As you copied this article into the Witness last

month I need not repeat it here; suffice it to

say that it gave a greatly improved method of
planting trees over what had ever been practised
before, and cheapened it so much that two men
and a boy could plant 4,500 one year-old-trees
inaday. In addition to this cost there would
be the expense of raising them in the seed bed,
lifting them at one year old, trimming the roots,

and conveying them to the place of planting,:

nearly all of which could be saved, with the ex-
ception of one year’s extra cultivation of the
land, by adopting the natural method of tree-
planting, while the trees at three years old
would be much larger and worth two of the
trees transplanted at the same age by the Doug-

_lass system and at no greater expense than

planting corn would be.

For forest tree-planting on the prairies, as
described by Dr. Warder and others, all that is
necessary is to have the land thoroughly
ploughed and prepared in fall, so that water
will net lie upon it during winter or spring to
solidify it.

Tf to be planted in the fall the land should be
thoroughly harrowed, rolled, and marked the
same as for planting—in rows four feet apart
each way,—planting the nuts or seeds at the in-
tersection of the rows and placing two nuts or
three or four seeds in every hill, only
the strongest of which should be allowed to
grow.

If spring planting is preferred the nuts or
seeds shonld be kept in moist sand or earth
during winter and planted out the first thing in
spring. If the land was ploughed in the fall and
has got hard during the winter, it should be
deeply cultivated, harrowed, and rolled in spring
before marking out.

By the Douglass method one-year-old trees
are planted with the roots more or less trimmed
and laid in a slanting position. By this, the
natural method, the tree would stand erect from
the start, with its tap-root going straight down
and its roots springing out all around, forming
natural braces for its support.

Besides, some of the most valuable trees, such
as the hickory and black walnut, more espec-

_ ially the former, could be planted in this way

which cannot be transplanted. The hickory has
no rootlets and very few fibres near the crown
of the root, merely a very strong tap-root, with
a few fibres here and there from which it draws
its sustenange ; when this is cut off in trans-
planting, there is nothing left to sustain
the tree, and if it lives at all, it is weak and
worthless.

A hundred acres of hickories planted in this
way would prove a fortune, as the thinnings
from time to time would be very valuable and
eyen command a high price for exportation to
England, where hickory poles are in great de-
mand, but cannot be had in sufficient, if any,
quantity, while the nuts and wood of the grown
trees will always command ready sale at high
figures. The black walnut would be ultimately
more profitable on account of the great value of

wood. But this is not all; why should not the

apple and the pear be planted in the same way
as the nut-bearing trees ?

The present way of propagating the apple is
by getting the seeds from cider mills, taken
from all kinds of trees, healthy or unhealthy,
sowing in seed beds or in broad rows, where
they stand a year or two according to their
strength, when they are taken up and root-
grafted during winter with the desired variety,
the tap-root is cut up in two to four sections,
according to its size, and a graft inserted in
each, wrapped around with waxed paper, and
packed away with moist saw-dust in boxes or
barrels till time for planting in spring.

This is 2 very cheap way of propagation but
far from a good one, as the most valuable part,
the tap-rovt, is sacrificed never to be renewed
by after growth.

The pear seed is usually imported from France,
and the young trees are generally treated dif-
ferently from the apple (though some root-graft

them also). At one or two years old they are
removed from the seed-bed and planted in nur-
sery rows, where they are budded the same
year. The tap-root has to be cut off and the
other roots trimmed previous to planting. At
two or three years old those that grown well are
fit for sale, but, as the roots of the pear run
naturally deep into the ground, with but few
rootlets near the surface, in lifting the greater
parts of the root has to be cut off, as the tree
could not be planted again with them at full
length ; so that in looking at the roots of the
tree as planted it has been a wonder to me that
it could grow at all.

By sowing the seeds, several together, as pre-
viously described, in the place where the tree is
permanently to stand, all these difficulties would
be avoided, and fine, healthy, long-lived trees,
probably in a great measure free from blight,
would be obtained.

Any farmer or fruit-grower could plant in
this way ; he could obtain his seeds from some
strong healthy trees—those from natural seed-
lings are preferable (the best French pear seed
is all from natural seedling trees), and plant it
in hills from twenty-five to thirty-five feet apart
placing a stake at each hill as a mark. The
field could be planted with corn, potatoes, or
other hoed crops (but not with small grains of
any kind, as these exhaust the land), which
should be well cultivated and all weeds destroy-
ed round the young trees; of course all the
seedlings should be pulled up but the strongest
trees, which could be budded the same season
or the following, and all that did not take could
be grafted the following spring with the varie-
ties required.

By using the hand corn-planter, properly
guaged for planting nuts or seeds, as the case
might be, a large field could be planted by one
or two men in avery short time, talking care
to plant the seed at the proper depth for ger-
minating, which is about four diameters of the
seed, and seeing that it is properly covered with
fine earth, to be pressed down with the ball of
the foot as the planter- goes along.—James
Dougall in New York Witness.

REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES.
(Seward (Neb.)} Reporter.

Mr. B. S. Crane, manager and treasurer of
the Alvin Joslin Comedy Company, struck
Cheyenne the other day upon business connect-
ed with the appearance of that splendid com-
pany in this city at an early day. A reporter
called upon Mr. Crane at his rooms at the Inter-
Ocean and spent a few pleasant minutes in con-
versation about the coming attraction. Mr.
Crane assured the writer that the personnel of
the company is all that could be desired and
that the public may look for even better perfor-
mances this season than last. Noticing that the
manager looked a little pale the writer remark-
ed upon the fact, but received the reply that he
was in good health.

“ But,” continued Mr. Crane, ‘‘I did have a
a pretty serious time of it last summer in New
York.”

‘What was the trouble.”

“T had a very sharp attack of rheumatism.
The disease attacked my left leg and left arm,
and for a time I could neither walk upon the
one nor raise the other to my head. I suffered
horribly. Did you ever have the rheumatism,
sir !” addressing the reporter. ‘‘If ever you are
stricken with it there is one thing which I can
recommend as a pretty sure cure, and one which
will probably give you quicker relief than any-
thing else you can employ. I refer tothe Great
German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil. I am aware
of the prejudice which many entertain against
advertised medicines. I felt thus about the St,
Jacobs Oil and thought my aveision was too
deeply rooted to be dissipated. But a man will
sometimes catch at a hope as it flies. I purchas-
ed a bottle of it, when I found nothing else I
applied would give relief, and commenced apply-
ing it. It proved a most effectual remedy, and
the use of three bottles cured me,”

** And you are now quite a devotee of St,
Jacobs Oil?”

“That is, perhaps, drawing it too strongly.
I certainly do believe it « fine specific for rheu-
matism, and as my belief is based upon person-
al experience, I don’t mind commending its use
to others,” ’

In the office of the hotel, the reporter met
Mr. Geo. A. Dunlap, who is the popular and
efficient representative in Cheyenne of the Chi
cago firm of Wood Bros., live stock commission

merchants. Happening to mention the inter
view with the manager of the Alvin Joslin corm
pany and what he said about St. Jacobs Oil,
Mr, Dunlap replied that he wax not surprised
at the narration of the circumstances, for the |
Great German Remedy was a good medicine

and he could also commend its virtues.

“Are you struck on Oil, too, Mr. Dunlap?’

“ Well, I don’t exactly put it that way, but I
believe it a good remedy all the same. My ex-
perience with it is somewhat limited, but of suf-
ficiently recent date to make me vividly remem-
ber what it has done for me. While superin-
tending the loading of cattle this autumn, I fell
from a car and seriously hurt my left knee. I
believe a blood vessel was ruptured and the
muscles severely strained. I could not walk
for several days, and do not know that I would

be capable of active locomotion now, were it not |

for the kindly offices of St. Jacobs Oil. Its
powerful healing and stimulating properties
put me right on my feet. It did, for a fact, and
you can use the information if you so please.”

‘‘Almost everybody,” remarked Mr. A. C.
Stayart, representing Weber, Howland & Co.,
wholesale dealer in hats and caps at Denver,
“uses St. Jacobs Oil where I came from, I
once had a very sore foot and very naturally em-
ployed the Great German Remedy. It cured
my foot in a very short time. I also can recom-
mend it.”

“Are there any other gentleman present, who
would like to endorse this wonderful specific !”
said the reporter. ‘‘ It has assumed the impor-
tance of a public question, and I intend to
write it up for the benefit of others who may
need the offices of this medicine.”

‘* Ves,” replied Mr. Wm. H. Dunlap, repres-
enting the great coffee house of Jewett, Sher-
man & Co., Milwaukee, ‘‘ put me down as an-
other believer in St. Jacobs Oll. I had rheu-
matism and St. Jacobs Oil cured me. You can
just bet on it every time.”

‘« Gentlemen,” remarked the reporter, ‘‘ this
is a remarkable coincidence. Two Mr. Dunlaps,
each of whom never met the other, both endors
ing St. Jacobs Oil, followed by another gentle-
maninthe room. It is a regular experience
meeting. It will not be paralleled soon in
Cheyenne.

The reporter was subsequently informed by
one of the prominent druggists in the city that
Father Hayes had also used the Great German
Remedy for rheumatism, and, having been cur-
ed, commended its employment to his people.

The above is a true bill, and may be relied
upon.

PAS She aN ee)

SAW and GRIST MILL

For Sale by Auction, at

COATES AUCTION ROOMS

IN THE

; CITY OF TORONTO,

ON

Saturday, December 9th, 1882,

AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON.

These mills are situated onthe Gull River, in the
village of Norland, County of Victoria.

The Saw Mill has two large circular saws, one butting
saw and one edger, with an extra supply of belting.
The Gull River affords a means of bringing down tim-
ber for 100 miles north of the mill, The Grist Mill has
two run of stones. The dam is maintained by the
Government of Ontario. There isa never failing of
water. The property consists of 240 acres of land,
more or less. "

One tenth of purchase money at time of sale.
Terms for balance will be made known at time of sale,

For particulars apply to
JONES BROTHERS & MACKENZIE,
Solicitors, &c.,
5 & 6 Canada Permanent Buildings,

1123, Toronto,

commissioners

A LORD OF THE FOREST.
The Lord Mayor of London, with the other
of Epping Forest, have been
visiting the Duke of Portland’s Welbeck estate,
which is widely known for the grandeur of its
Some of the timber grown in the park
building St. Panl’s
Cathedral, and at the Abbey there is still pre-
served a letter written by Sir Christopher Wren,
who, communicating with the Duke of New-
castle’s agent in 1695, sends the dimensions of

trees.

years ago was used in

the beams he requires for the roof of the edifice,
and adds that he * expects this season but ten
of the great trees.” The Greendale oak in
Welbeck Park is called the Methuselah of
Trees, and writing of it it in 1790, in his ‘‘ Des-
criptions and Sketches of remarkable oaks at
Welbeck,” Major Rook said the tree was then
thought to be 700 years old. In 1724, an open-
ing was made in this oak large enough to allow
a carriage, or three horsemen abreast, to pass
through it. At that time the girth of the
ancient tree above the arch was nearly 36 feet.
the height of the arch was 11 feet, and the top-
most branches were 54 feet from the ground.
Although crippled with age and some rough
treatment, the Greendale oak still flourishes.
It has, like some old men, to be propped up ;
but its boughs are yet green, and its foliage
bright. The timber taken from the tree’s heart
was in 1724 made into a cabinet for the Countess
of Oxford, and this cabinet, which is now at
Welbeck, contains several inlaid pictures, one
or two of which represent a former Duke of
Portland driving a coach and six horses through
the cavity cut in the old oak’s trunk. On the
estate a story is told that His Grace, in an
after-dinner frolic, made a bet of 1,000 guineas
that he could drive a coach and six through the
body of the tree without touching the bark, and
that he accomplished the feat and won the
guineas. The cabinet, which is quite a work of
art, also bears the following quotation from
Ovid’s ‘‘ Metamorphoses :”

Oft did the Dryads lead the festive dance

Beneath his shade, or hand in hand enclose

The orbit of his trunk, full fifteen yards ;

Whose head above his fellows of the grove

Doth tower, as these above the sward beneath,

A great many mills throughont Minnesota
and Wisconsin are shutting down. In some
cases there is a lack of logs, and in others there
is feeling on the part of the mill men that thers
is enough unsold lumber in their yards.

THe Merrill, Wis., correspondent of the
Northwestern Lumberman says that most of the
mills at that point are shut down, having cut all
their logs. The river will be clearer than ever
before. Men are going to the woods very fast.
The weather is cold, and some snow has fallen.
With a good winter there will be more logs put
in than in any one season before.

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“THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

marsh, and sands, that had furnished but a
meagre pasture of inferior herbage, which are
now put in the way of producing a grand forest
by the planting of five hundred acres with
timber trees.

The situation, too, is one than can not fail to
attract the attention of travellers on the Chicago
and Milwaukee Railroad, which courses along
the base of the bluff, on the western side of the
plantation, and commands a view across the
flats. ‘

Some forest trees planted on the upland are
also worthy of note. A large nursery, well
stocked with pine and larches, became unsale-
able by their size during a period of depression,
and have now grown into a bit of forest cover-
ing twenty-four acres, and they show what the
larch can do on such land. They are already
twenty-five to thirty feet high, and many of
them three to seven inches thick at the base,
and would be available for hop-poles, fencing,
and for many purposes.

Having named the locality as at Waukegan,
Tllinois, it will be unnecessary to add the name,
Robert Douglas & Son, familiar as household
words to all western tree-planters, and known
indeed in all civilized countries whither the
public mails have transported so many of their
dollar-packages of little or baby forest trees,
that have enabled men to gratify their desire to
experiment in tree-planting, even in the utter-
most isles of the sea, and upon the jungles of
India, wherever civilization has sent the mail_
bag have ‘‘these presents” gone as worthy
pioneers of advancing and progressive Ameri-
can Foresty—a Yankee suggestion and far-
reaching as thought.

356

are thrown into dunes and changed in form
from year to year. The depressions between
the ridges are clothed with native grasses on
their sides, with typha, rushes, and other
aquatic plants where they are deeper and cover-
ed with water—here, of course, there are accu-
mulations of vegetable debris, but the bottom
is everywhere firm sand. In these depressions
wooden growth is rare, and consists of button-
bush (Cephalanthus) and some willows, until
you reach the last depression under the bluff,
where the black-ash of small size is found.

Such a tract of land would seem to be rather
unpromising to the tree-planter ; being on one
part too wet for tree growth, and on the other,
composed of pure sand to receive the scorching
rays of a midsummer sun and liable to reach a
temperature of more than 100° Fahrenheit in
the daytime, alternating with cold, at night, of
perhaps 50°, as a result of radiation, and ex.
posed to very low temperature with the trying
winds of winter,

Notwithstanding the unpromising, even for-
bidding aspect, the. natural indications were
such as to encourage the attempt, which was
made, and which has been made successfully, to
clothe this waste with a profitable crop.

Great encouragement was given to the enter-
prising planter by the results of his observations
upon the plans Nature had adopted to enable
the spontaneous growths to protect the sands
from the baking heat and biting cold—and thus
to secure a more temperate stratum of soil near
the surface for the feeding roots of the trees,
The scanty herbage of the grasses could do
little in this way. The trailing-junipers, how-
ever, soon covered the surface and caught the
drifting sands that formed cumuli about them
—on other spots of the dunes a close carpeting
of the Urva ursi concealed the sand, making it
possible for tree-seeds to germinate and to sur-
vive the summer heats, and so the arboreal
vogetation gradually spread over these ridges.

The most interesting forestal study here was
the behaviour of the Pinus strobus on these
sands. Feeling the necessity for 1» cooler soil,
the upward growth of the young trees was
arrested, and the lateral branches were extended
quite near the surface, until, in some cases, they
had reached a diameter of a rod or more, when
at length an aspiring leader would shoot up-
ward, and the growth of that tree was assured,
Planting, under such conditions, was a very

LARCH-MERE.

The following paper by Dr. John A. Warder,
of North Bend, Ohio, appears in the American
Journal of Forestry :—‘‘ In this age and coun-
try, where so much is accomplished by the
assumption of merit, and by boastful claims of
praise for works said to have been performed,
but which too often fail when they are subjected
to close serutiny, it is truly refreshing, in our
rambles over the country, to meet with a tree-
planter who does not boast of millions as the
result of his labours, which, when seen, will con-
tain only a few thousands ; and instead to find
a man who, without any bragadocio, quietly
and thoroughly does something that is worthy
of notice and report.

Fast as trees imay grow in this country, and
their rate of increment is said to be much great-
er than in European forests, still the work of
growing a productive forest that shall yield re-
turns within the lifetime of the planter appears
to most men problematic. Some fast-growing
trees, like the cottonwoods, willows, chestnuts,
locusts, and a few others, with very brief rota-
tion, may be cited, bui, as a rule, Forestry is
and. must be slow in its cash returns.

But to a brief description of Larch-Mere—
where our worthy friend has undertaken to
clothe a vast amount of waste, sandy land with
valuable timber. Not content with the usual
boast of so many who are styled foresters and
forest-planters, who can show but a few acres
at the mast, we here find many hundreds de-
voted to this crop. The planting is of course
progressiye, and spread over several years, but
it is done by a private citizen who has other in-
terests to look after, and who must also provide
for his daily wants.

From the great railway corporations who pos-

sess larger means, and on account of their own
deep interest in forestry, that would enhance
the value of their extensive landed estates,
granted as subsidies by the government, we had
expected, before this time, some grand results
that would be worthy of record. But what have
these wealthy bodies to show, after long years,
as the result of the florid anticipations that
were published to the world some years ago !
Let them look to their laurels, or it may happen
‘long before the close of the century, that private
individuals of moderate means will have greatly
outstripped them with absolute results of grow-
ing timber,

THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN TESTING
TIMBER.

An interesting paper on this subject was re-
cently read before the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, by Mr. R. Grimshaw, C. E.
Whilst disclaiming any intention of suggesting
that the elastic limit, or even the breaking
strain, of structural materials can be definitely
determined by the microscope, Mr. Grimshaw
insisted very strongly on the advantages attend-
ing its use in preliminary investigations, to as-
certain whether materials are or are not worth
the expense of testing further. If the micros-
cope condemns the sample it is not worth fur-
ther outlay. The larger the specimens requir-

The plantation which is now to be described

is situated on the low shores of Lake Michigan,

on its western coast, near the little city of
Tilinois, close to the Wisconsin
at an elevation

Waukegan,
State-line, in latitude 42° 30’ N.,
of six hundred feet above the level of the sea.

The surface is slightly above the level of the
lake, except where, from the continued action
of the winds ard waves, the sands have been
thrown into dunes of some fifteen to twenty feet
The whole territory, extending for
some miles along the shore, appears to be the

in height.

delta of a small stream called Dead River, which

here finds its embouchere after cutting its way
through the elevated bluff of glacial clays that

forms thé original boundary of the lake, and
rises thirty or forty feet above the water.

The surface of this extended plain is made up

of a succession of narrow, low, flat ridges, sepa-

; rated by shallow depressions, usually containing

water—these are generally but a few rods wide,

‘and their trend is parallel to the coast o* the

lake ; they seem to bo old shore-lines, liko the

‘higher ridges along Lake Erie in Ohio. At

present there is little or no arboreal vegetation,
though there are evidences of some ancient
forest growth, and an occasional white-pine
tree still standing gives proof of an ability to
produce trees, The dry ridges have a scanty

covering of inferior grasses and other herba-

ceous vegetation, with here and there patches of
shrubby growth, consisting of bear-berries, low
willows, aspens, cornels, spireas, and on those
yoore eleyated a few white pines, with the more
abundant, but very scrubby black oaks and
some other trees and bushes, among which are
junipers, notably the trailing form of Juniperus
sabina, and known as the ‘‘ Waukegan-Lrailing.”

Tm many places, however, and wherever the
herbaceous covering is disturbed and the sur-
face is exposed to the action of the winds, par-
ticularly near tho lake, broad areas are perfect-
ly bare, and composed of drifting sands, that

simple affair.
wheels was sufficient.

in pits or by notching, according to their sizes.

sands, the transition was more than they could

Pinus Strobus.

The Scotch pines seem to have become recon-
ciled the soonest to their new home, and grew
off beautifully. The robust Austrian promises
well, but the Pinus rigida and table-mountain
pine have not done so well.

A recent report from the plantation (July 29)
is very satisfactory.
few Austrian, and many white pines are now
eight to ten feet high—some ferclics are twelve
feet. Where the trees stand close, they run up
about as fast as on good lands, but single trees
have to spend some years in making laterals to
shade the ground and then they shoot upward.
My Larch-Mere plantation is really a study.”

The trees are exposed to inroads of teams,
skating parties, cattle and fires, and yet “they
are far ahead of those on Cape Cod or any other
barren-land plantations I have seen. 4
If the ailanthus would stand our climate, it
would be tke tree to cgver all these wastes rap-
idly, and it would not be so liable to be burned
as the conifers. Of course spruce, balsam-fir,
arbor-vits, and red cedar will not grow in blow-
ing sand, or in any very sandy land, but the
white, red, and Scotch pines will grow as rapid-
ly here as in good upland without cultivation,”

Hore are six hundred acres of forlorn waste,

On the sand, the mark of wagon-
Furrows were plowed
on the dry ridges and the trees were set either

The species selected are mostly coniferous—the
common pines and larches prevail, while some
ailanthus and catalpas were also planted. All
seem to be doing well in their new homes, with
some failu-es, of course, in removal from the
upland nirsery grounds to these flat sandy
lands, and from the shelter of the close rows to
their more scattered stations on the exposed hot

bear until Nature provided the necessary shade
by lateral branches as observed in the native

“Many Scotch pine, a

ing to be tested the greater will be the gain the
microscope will effect in avoiding the cost of
further proof, or the risks of using without such
proof.

Mr. Grimshaw exhibited samples and micro-
photographs of American bridge timbers which
had proved faulty after being built in, but
which a preliminary examination with the
microscope would have promptly thrown out.
The timber from which these poor specimens
were taken was a fragment from a railway bridge
wrecked in 1879-80. The timber formed a por-
tion of the sill of a draw bridge, consisting of
two 12 in. sticks lying on upon the other. The
turntable casting being somewhat too small,
these 24 in. of timbers had to support one of
the A frames of the bridge at a distance of 12 in.
outside the bedplate. After a few days’ service
the strain became so great that, when an empty
truck was passing, the A frame sheared the 24
in. timbers, wrecking the bridge entirely. The
timber was so excessively poor that, on mount
ing a specimen on the plate of the microscope,
its weak and porous nature was at once apparent,
The annual rings appeared about three times as
far apart as they would be in good wood of a
similar kind, the medullary rays were few in
number and short in length, whilst in good
wood, on the contrary, they are of considerable
length and so numerous that tangential sections
present the appearance of a series of tubes
seen endwise, or a number of parallel chains.
After once seeing and comparing samples of
good and bad wood, it is easy to recognize the
difference with a pocket magnifying glass,

The trunks and limbs of exogenous trees, as
is well known, are built up of concentric rings
or layers of woody fibre, which are held together
by radial plates acting like treenails in a boat's
side or “bond” in brickwork. The rings repre-
senting successive years’ growths, are composed
of tubes, the interstices of which are filled with
cellulose, The slower the growth of the tree, |

the thinner these yearly rings, and the de
and harder the wood—other things being 4
Not only is the closeness of texture an i
tion of the hardness and strength of the t
but the size, frequency and distribution of
radial plates which bind the annual ;
gether may be taken as a very close illustra
or sign of the character of the wood ;
ability to resist strains, especially a bi
stress. The microphotographs of goodie d
timber show that in the See ¢
centric layers are close in texture and narrow
width, and the radial plates bumerous, } wv
long, and stout, while in poor stuff the or pc
characteristics prevail.

The practical application consists in hay
such enlarged photographic sections, longitu
al and transverse, of standand pieces of tim!
bearing a certain known maximum or minim
strain, and réjecting any piece which thea
ed eye detects to have fewer rings per inch
tree diameter, fewer fibres, or fewer ra¢
plates per square inch of section, or to use sy
pieces with a greater factor of safety.

The advantage of the method is that it allc
every stick in a bridge or other structure to
tested before use.

Mr. Grimshaw concluded with some remark
on thé application of the same test to metal
work in structures.—TZimber Trades Journal.

AN ENGLISH WALNUT.
A reader of the Builder’s Weekly Report

England, sends that paper an old and quain
account of a walnut tree, dated Novy. 17th 1817.
It was as follows:
“Dimensions of walnut tree bought by
Thomas Jones, gunsmith, Wrexham, of Miss
Ormsby, for £60, October 15, 1809. It grew on
a rock of limestone at Llanddyn farm, r
Llangollen ; its height was 25 yards, and i
boughs covered a space of ground about
yards diameter; its contents in sound timbe
was 646 cubic feet 10 inches, besides what
crushed in falling, which was considerable. Si
tons of strong boughs was used for Goal prop
and about two tons of faggots. The plar cs
were all nearly sound, and converted as fullo
viz., 1,630 gun stocks, 71 pair of pistol stocks,
and wood for 232 chairs. When sawed, the fi
cut was nearly eight feet across. Several piece
were given to diflerent gentlemen for tables
small pieces of furniture. According to a sto
in the neighborhood, this tree was very old. A
man 95 years of age said that he remembered a
bough of it being broke by the snow when he
was a child, and that his grandfather used to
tell the family that, in olden times, fairies used
in the dead of night to celebrate their ms :
under this walnut tree. In sawing this bes the
cross roll over the saw pit broke and killed one
of the sawyers. -

Pine Lands Weakening.
The Northwestern Lumberman says :—In some
parts of Wisconsin there is a weaker feeling re-
garding logs and pine lands. Both capitalists
and’ lumbermen are beginning to realize what
the Lumberman has said for the past year, that
it is risky to buy pine at prices that have been
paid. Pine, timber has a positive value, and
this value should not be confounded with one
that is speculative. In Michigan pine has been
purchased at prices that are not likely to make
the owners any money, but on the contrary, in
case of a financial depression, these owners
would surely be crushed. These fancy prices
were due, to some extent, to the idiocy of the
forestry bulletins, which have sadly deceived
everybody who was not acquainted with the
amount of pine there is standing.

Hardwood Wanted.
Hardwoods, of all kinds, of good qnality, are
wanted in all the leading markéts. In Boston
ash, cherry and oak, are in demand, and good
hardwood of every quality is called for in Ni ew
York. The Lumberman predicted two year
ago that the time would never come again when
there would be an oversupply of good hand-—
wood lumber, and there is hardly a possibility
but the prediction will prove trae. Withan |
increase of manufactories for the ‘consumption
of hardwood, and a décrease of standing tim-
ber, it cannot be otherwise. Every year the

percentage of poor lumber grows ES

2 SPRUCE IN ENGLAND.

“There has occurred no change yet in the
market for spruce deals,” may be taken to mean
this much ; that so long as the present shortage
exists importers of spruce will be reducing their
stocks. With many it is said that this reduc-
‘tion has nearly approached its lowest limits. It
js certain that the stocks of spruce now held by
nearly all the inland merchants must have
reached a low state. If no heavy arrivals come
into the west coast ports during the next month
or so, we shall, in all probability, see the occur-
‘rences of an active demand and a limited supply
facing each other. The result of this can hard-

ESE a i ae

ly be otherwise than that prices will be again
‘forced upwards. Lower port deals especially
“may be expected to be dearer, as, if for no other
reason, it will be largely for this sort that an
active demand may be anticipated to arise,
But there are other well-known reasons for the
‘supposition that lower port deals will be more
than proportionately dear. Of course, sooner or
later, the reqirements of the market will be met,
and plenty of spruce deals will reach this side.
But what proportions will the forthcoming sup-
ply assume? is the all-important question of
‘the moment. Probably four-fifths of the spruce
-puyers inland are ‘‘in the market” for stock at
this moment, and the number of buyers who are
“open to buy,” naturally enough, increases
every day.—Timber Trades Journal.

an

RESTORING FORESTS.

It has been urged that the native pine forests
in New England may easily be restored to a
dignified importance by a systematic effort. All
over this region are found great tracts of light
soil, on plain and hillside, that is not worth cul-
‘tivating for farm products, but which can be
qade available for pine-growing. Experiments
recently made on the Shaker settlement in En-
' field, Conn., have had gratifying results, seed
planted in sandy soil in 1869 having produced a
dense growth of trees that are now 12 to 16 feet
high. If there are conditions under which the
growing of forests can result practically it is in
such sections as that described above. Where
the land is naturally adapted to the growth of
timber more than for other purposes, it is strange
that efforts in the direction of tree-growing were
not made earlier, so that results could have been
had at atime when they would be the most ac-

ceptable.—Lumberman’s Gtazette.
——

WOOD STAINS.

Herr Leo, pharmacist, ot Benshein, Germany,
recommends the following stains for oak, pine,
beech, poplar, etc.

1. Yellow stain.—Wash over with a hot, con-
* centrated solution of picric acid, and when dry
polish the wood.

2, Ebony black.—Wash with a concentrated
aqueous solution of extract of logwood several
times, then with a solution of acetate of iron of
14 degrees, Raume, which is repeated until a
deep black is produced.

3. Gray.—One part of nitrate of silver dissol

ved in 50 parts of distilled water; wash over
twice, then with hydrochloric acid, and after-
wards with water of ammonia. The wood is

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allowed to dry in the dark, and then finished in
oil and polished.

4, Light walnut.—Dissolye one part of per-
manganate of potassium in 30 parts of pure
water, and apply twice in succession, and after
an interval of five minutes wash with clean
water, and when dry oil and polish,

5. Dark walnut.—Same as for light walnut,
but after the washing with water the darker
veins are made more prominent with a solution
of acetate of iron.

6. Dark mahogany.—Introduce into a bottle
15 grains alkanet root, 30 grains aloes,
30 grains powdered dragon’s blood, 500
grains 95 per cent alcohol, closing the mouth of
the bottle with a piece of bladder, keeping it in
a warm place for 3 or 4 days, with occasional
shaking ; then filtering the liquid. The wood
is first mordanted with nitric acid, and when
dry washed with the stain once or oftener, ac-
cording to the desired shade ; then the wood is
dried, oiled and polished.

7. Light mahogany.—Same as dark mahog-
any, but the stain being only applied once.
The veins of true mahogany may be imitated by
the use of acctateof iron skillfully applied.

TT
A Sensible Definition of Forestry.

Mr. Bernhard E. Fernow, of Slatington, Pa.,
defines forestry as follows :—‘‘ As the idea con-
ected with the term forest is vague and unde-
fined, I am desirous to clear the conception of
what may or ought to be called a forest. When
we speak of a forest in connection with the
science of forestry, we do not mean a mere col-
lection of trees, a wood, or a park, a plantation,
but an aggregate of trees or woodlands which
are intended and so set aside for the production
of timber or lumber. If we speak of planting
and cultivating forests, we do not mean the
laying out of parks or groves, which have a
very different object in view, which “present
very different conditions of tree growth, and
require, in consequence, very different methods
of culture. Forestry has nothing to do with the
planting of fruit or ornamental trees, nor, in-
deed, with single trees—just as agriculture does
not consider the individual wheat plant. The
object of forestry is a financial effect, which is
represented by the highest rent from the soil
through the cultivation of the same for timber
growth.—WNorthwestern Lumberman.

Laid on the Shelf.

Mr. Thos. Claydon, Shelburne, Ont., writes :
‘©T have been suffering with a lame back for the
past thirty years, and_tried evreything I heard
of without success. Not long ago I was per-
suaded to try St. Jocabs Oil. I purchased a
bottle,and,strange to say, before I had used it all,
I was perfectly cured. 1 can contidently recom-
mend it to any one afflicted. No one can speak
too highly of its merits.” Mr. W. E. Weekley,
also of Shelburne, thus mentions a matter of
his experience: ‘I have been a sufferer with
rheumatism far years. I was laid up witha
severe attack a short time ago, and I can truly
say that St. Jacobs Oil produced the quickest
relief that I ever experienced. I cheerfully
recommend it to every sufferer.”

Onz dose of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters will
relieve Sick Headache. One bottle effects a
cure. Price 25c. per bottle.

the month of Oct., 1881 and 1882 :—

LIVERPOOL STOCKS.
We take from the Timber Trades Journal the following Comparative Table showing Stock
of Timber and Deals in Liverpool on Sept. 31st, 1881 and 1882, and also the Consumption for

| Consumption | Consumption
Stock, Oct. 31st.|Stock, Oct. 31st.\for the month of\for the month of
1882. 1881. Oct. 1882. Oct. 1881.
bec Square Pine....-....--cseeerecseees 377,000 ft. 460,000 ft.
2 oS 2 Fe ae 340,000 ‘« 290,000.“ AUENUUD 345,000 ft.
St. John Pine......--...---eecrecccsnecsece Nile Ae 5,000 ‘* 36,000 *< 5,000 ‘*
| Other Ports Pine.........- --- eee eeccceeeens 52,000 ‘* 89,000 ** 10,000 ‘* 20,000 ‘*
D Bed Pine. ... 2-2 2c cece ccccee cscs csc reecrcons 60,000 ‘* 53,000 ‘‘ 9,000 ‘° 8,000 **
| Pitch Pirie, Hewn..-..--eeees cevecreseeee oe 759,000 ‘‘ 619,000 “* 127,000 ‘‘ 159,000 ‘*
SRNR Pilea vec cco 1 810 ¥ Cian 7 aa 589,000 ‘* 372,000 ‘* 73,000 ‘ 129,000 **
RRR Iles giale.o «<2 wsrie oclns ve ciaenee adv, RIDEO0OE 65,000 ‘* 11,000 “‘ 23,000 ‘*
Dattizig, Sc., Bir -..--- 2-20-02 oes cereecnnee 47,000 “« 56,000 “‘ 35,000 “ 27,000 “
Sweden and Norway Fir......+----++-+++++:- 16,000 ‘* 5,000 ‘* 2,000 ‘* bis
pe Ce SC a OED ve» 357,000 “ 410,000 < 51,000 “ 131,000 <«
CEP ay cece rc sorccesccrevcrnsan 86,000 ‘* 129,000 ‘‘ 53,000 ‘* 33,000 ‘*
Ca. ER a a We a ee. cla 45,000 * 68,000 “< 3,000 ‘¢ 4000 “
PUN pie oor civ tdon sos dic red p ens cscs ccsscreerae 71,000 *< 47,000 ‘* 22,000 ‘* 15,000 **
Maeno iNew sirade's «o Me ope dis ss gic. e\ac’as 22,000 ‘* 23,000 ‘* 12,000 “ 22,000 **
LS 2 Se oe ee ie abe 54,000 ‘ 96,000 “ 36,000 * 59,000 «
Kast India Teak............6+ Be ase et} 34,000 * 25,000 <4 19,000 “ 2,000 «
heart -- Aes Parr ais p58 126,000 ad 34,000 “ 2,000 “« 5,000 *
- NN. BS. SPTUce VDEAIS. .ccwcssersssrnces 2 ye
> il: aera eee src MEG} tae) Nei te} 6,882 stds] 8,078 stds
Pine & Spruce Deals.... « ot OEE 6,641 ‘ 9,827 ** 3,198 *< 2,829 ‘
Aer ce Dis ts de he Cenete- sees 4,177 * 8,781 ‘ 1,392 ‘ 1,104 **
oS ESS “9S See 664 “ 260 « 213 «« "43 «
Boards FIOOrINg..+-.-sssee- sosees 2,455 2,080 “* 908 ‘¢ 639 <*

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JAMES HAGUSB.
Circular, Cross-Cut & Machine Saws

Gummed and Hammered on Short Notice.
8124
Shop in Sewrey’s Foundry, BARRIE, Ont.

A. L, UNDERWOOD

WHOLESALE DEALER IN
White Pine, Basswood & Hardwood,
82 King Street East,

TORONTO, ONT.

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BILL STUFF CUT TO ORDER. |
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Wholesale Lumber Dealers
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We have for Sale a large quantity of PINE, OAK,
WHITEWOOD, ASH, CHESTNUT, CHERRY BUT-
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Made simply with boiling water or milk. Seld in
tins and packets only (4-ib. and ib.) by Grocers labell-
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Tur Thunder Bay Sentinel says :—A tug with
two schooners in tow carrying 1,000,000 feet of
lumber for the Winnipeg market, is on the way
from Georgian Bay.

SN

Ir is estimated that the United States an-
nually consumes about 1,700,000 tons net, of
charcoal, 60 per cent of which is employed in
the manufacture of iron.

——————

Mr. A. Grant’s raft of square timber, which
was coming down in tow of the tug Canada, has
been placed in winter quarters at Sorel. The

timber coves are now all closed for the season,
LE ee

ENGRAVERS are finding it difficult to procure
good boxwood. ‘The box forests of Turkey,
upon which the bulk of the supply depends, are
being wastefully cut, and few trees are planted.

wT ec aS

Active preparations for a big log crop are
being made in the Duluth, Minn., district, and
the prospect is that there will be a heavy in-
crease over former seasons in the put-in, Men
are reported scarce.

_———————————————

Tur Northwestern Lumberman says :—lor-
estry experiments in the East have dethonstrated
that planting the seeds is successful where
transplanting fails. Several small groves have
been produced in that way, and pines are being
introduced in a fragmentary way on many worn
out farms,

———— ania

A LocAL paper says that at Bay City, Mich.,
though shipments of lumber have been heavy
throughout the season, a large amount is
piled on the docks, and that if November
should be an open month, so that the
mills continue running, there will not be room
enough to pile the output.

WE have to apologize to the Chicago Lumber
Trade Journal, for having inadvertently at-
tributed two articles, one on ‘‘ Timber,” and the
other on ‘‘ Forestry,” which we reproduced from
it, to the London Timber Trades Journal, instead
of giving the credit as was due to our Chicago

confrere, The similarity of name caused the

mistake,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. Mah et

says :—Our Quebee correspondent telegraphs
to day :—Several sales of spruce deals have
taken place lately, aggregating upwards of 400, -
000 standard. The prices haye not transpired,
but they are supposed to be in the vicinity of
$40 for firsts, $27.50 for seconds and $24.50 for
thirds, 20 per cent. oddments, all next season’s
cut,

ENGLAND imports some 10,000 tons of cork per
annum, and the quantity is yearly inceasing,
notwithstanding the introduction of many stop-
pers and substitutes for corks, such as plugs of
wood, whose fibres have been specially softened
for the purpose, India rubber and other mater-
ials. The French Government is giving special
encouragement to the plantation of the cork oak
in Algiers, and the same thing, no doubt, will
be done in Tunis. It is said that the tree will
grow equally well in India, Central America,
the West Indies, many parts of Africa and
Australia, and in the South Sea Islands, and the
foundation of a profitable industry might be es-
tablished by introducing these tree, and starting
their systematic cultivation.

H. B. Rarupun & Sons (limited) seek incor-
poration under the Joint Stock Companies Act
to enable the company to carry on in Canada,
Great Britian, the United States, and elsewhere
the business now carried on by the firm of H.
B. Rathbun & Sons in all its branches as manu-
facturers, millers, shipbuilders, vessel-owners,
merchants, traders, carriers, and otherwise.
The chief place of business shall be at Deser-
onto. The applicants are Hugo Burghardt
Rathbun, manufacturer, &c.; Edward Wilkes
Rathbun, manufacturer ; Frederick Sherwood
Rathbun, manufacturer ; Herbert Burt Rath-
bun, gentleman, and Louise Rathburn, spinster,
all of Deseronto. ‘The first or provincial di-
rectors of the Company will be Hugo Burghardt
Rathbun, Edward Wilkes Rathbun, and Fred-
erick Sherwood Rathbun.

EXPERIMENTS made by IF’. E. Kidder, and re-
ported in the last issue of the Journal of the
Franklin Institute, show that Spruce beams
loaded to one-half to two-thirds their breaking
strain, finally break after a long and steady de-
flection, which continually increases until the
final rupture occurs. If substantiated by fur-
ther experiments, this fact will go far toward
explaining the frequent falling of mill and ware-
house floors, under loads supposed by the build-
ers to be perfectly safe. The floors of all such
buildings should be sufficiently strong to carry
at least three times the weight that can, by any
possibility, be put on them, and at least five
times as strong as the ordinary load. Where
there is running machinery in the building
which is likely to produce jar or tremble, these
figures must be exceeded, as the effect of a con-
tinuous jar and strain combined is very destrue-
tive to the buildings in which they are found.

LAKE WINNIPEG TIMBER.

We take the following extract from an account
of the country about Lake Winnipeg as pub-
lished in the Toronto Glebe :—

“* Lake Winnipeg is larger than Lake Ontario,
although its waters are not nearly so deep. Its
shores on both sides are clothed with dense
forests of fine timber, chiefly poplar, birch, and
tamarack. Its surface is dotted with innumer-
able islands, especially on the western shore.
These islands, like the banks of the lake, are
covered with timber down to the water's edge.
A sail through these islands in the summer time
is delightful.

“There are very few settlers on the shores of
Lake Winnipeg as yet, but large tracts of land
are being taken up towards the south on free
grant and pre-emption principle. Large timber
limits are also being taken up. There are only
two places of any size on the lake, Fort Alex-
ander on the East and Gimli on the West.
There is little of interest around Gimli, which is
an Icelandic settlement. Fort Alexander is,
however, a good-sized place, there being about
400 persons, whites, Indians, and half-breeds,
living there. The fort stands on the Winnipeg
River, a fine stream, which is navigable only
eight miles up on account of the falls. There
are two saiv mills, one at the mouth of the river

A TELEGRAM from Quebec dated Noy. 21st

owned by Walkeley & Burrows, and the other
eight miles up, owned by Adams & Schneider,
Each mill turns out about 3,000,000 feet per an-
num. The mill at the mouth of the river is run
by steam power, that up the river by water
power, The lumber when ready for the market
is taken up the Red river in barges. Between
the hands at the mills and those employed on
the barges and at Colville landing, where the
lumber is transferred to-the cars, not less than
400 men are employed. That number will be

company are to be congratulated on having
cured such an industrious and hard working
crew of mill hands and the successful issue of
the season’s operations.
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MIDLAND, ONT.

New Miru.—The Free Press says :—Mr.
Paxton with a force of carpenters and mill- _
wrights has commenced work on framing the
timbers for Cook Bros. mill at Algoma. '

greatly increased next year.

the river.

“‘ A great many small limits have been taken
up along the shores of the lake, and some of

them go far back. On the small limits the cost

of lumber to the party taking it out is from 12c¢
In cases where the limits are
ten miles square or over, the cost is not over

to 15c, per cord.

half what is stated above. The wood is dense,
the yield being from seventy to eighty cords to
the acre,

““ As the lumber interests of the lake district

are being gradually developed the country will

be better known and its beauties and wealth
laid bare. Some idea can be formed of the en-

ormous wealth of timber on the shores of Lake

Winnipeg when it is stated that an estimate put

it as being large enough to supply the whole

provice with timber and fuel for three gener-
ations to come.”

LONGFORD MILLS.

The Orillia Packet says :—Both the mills of

the Longford Lumbering Company have been
closed down for the season, on the 10th and 11th
of November respectively.

full crew of abont 100 men, and the season fin-
ished without as many changes as was anticipa-

ted at the outset from the prospects of scarcity
The mills for the full season were
fully manned every day owing largely to the

of men,

good feeling always existing at this place be-
tween the company and their employees ; no
breaks of any size occurred from start to finish,

the lost time on any account would not amount

to a full day’s work altogether. The quantity
sawn was over the average, the two mills to-
gether sawing 174 million feet, The large mill
was in charge of Mr. Robert Calderwood, with
Mr. D. J. Boothwick as engineer ; and the small
mill was in charge of Mr. Wm. F. Morrison,
with Mr. James Bell as engineer, to which

officials the success of the season was largely

due. On the 7th of November the company
made it known that the mills would be closed
on the 10th instant, and on that evening the em-
ployees would be the recipients of a supper and
on entertainment-
at once to invite a number of their friends to
partake of their festivities. On that evening
each man called at the office and received in an
envelope the balance of his wages, with an extra
amount of 5 per cent. added to it from the 15th
day of August. Every man in the employ ex-
pressed himself as being perfectly satisfied with
the treatment he has received, and many were
the expressions of thankfulness to the comrany.
At 6 o’clock p. m. the supper bell rang and the
men from both mills filed into the spacious din-
ing hall of the large boarding house, where four
large tables were overflowing with all the good
things of the season, got up in the usual first-
class style by mine host and hostess Mr. and
Mrs. Cox. Among those present on the occas-
ion were Wm. Thompson Esq., President of
the Company, Mr. George Thompson, director,
and Mr. Maxwell Hall, Secretary, with every
employee, numbering 120 persons. After ample
justice had been done to the good things pro-
vided, the tables were taken out of the spacious
hall and splendid music provided, the visitors
arriving at intervals, swelling the crowd to fully
300 persons; dancing and merrymaking being
kept up till day break next morning, without a
single improper word or act to mar the pleasure
of the party. On Saturday the bulk of the men
were re-engaged by the secretary to work in the
company’s camps, Where they have now about
300 hands and 35 span of horses actively en-

gaged making logs for next year’s cut, The| accommodation higher up, and also ta the fact

The work of
transhipment will be done chiefly at this
town next season, as the landing place for the
Selkirk and Winnipeg Railway will be far
more convenient than that on the east side of

On the 17th day of
April last steam was get up in the mills, with a

Arrangements were made

MEN For THE Busu.—Alf. Green has again
turned up from Lower Canada with 120 good
able-bodied men for the bush. These men have
come all the way from Gaspe, induced by th 2
high wages paid for work in this lumbering dis-
tricts.

Stitt Runninc.—We hear it is the intention
of all the mill owners to run their mills
“Jack Frost” shuts them down with a snap
80 severe that the small boys will blow their
fingers, their grandfathers hug the fires, and the _
aborigine poke his moccasins in the ashes for
warmth,

Loosinc a Boom.—On Saturday night Nov.
11th, the cedar boom at McLeod’s mill was cut
loose by some miresable miscreant—result—
cedar scattered all over the bay. We don’t
often favor lynch law, but believe if the rascals
are caught this is a case in which it might be
resorted to with beneficial results. The law
usually wholesome and effective would fail to
strike with sufficient force. We recommend a
rope and a tree.

EXTEeNsIvVE Lumper SHipMENT.—On Tuesday
morning, Nov. 6th, there left the dock of the
British Canadian Lumber and Timber Co., the
steam barge Tecumseh, with her consort, the
Dot, laden with about one million feet of lum-
ber, consigned to Mr. W. C. Wells, of Duluth,
for Winipeg. These were probably the two
first loads of lumber that have been despatched
to the North West since that market has opened
for Canadian lumber and were carefully select-
ed by Mr. Frank Weston, agent of J. & F. N.
Tennant, Toronto, who was assisted by Mr.
Wells himself during the progress of loading.
Mr. Wells intends to ship largely from here the
coming year, and on his return to purchase we
shall gladly welcome him to our village.

MONTREAL NOTES.
The trade in deals has been unusually heavy
this year from this point, 45 vessels having
cleared against 27 last year. This business un-
til very recently was monopolized by Quebec
shippers. It is explained that the cause of the
old capital losing it is the difficulty it had in
meeting the demand of the “longshoremen of
the Ship Labourers’ Union, whose charges for
labor are so exorbitant that shippers prefer this
port. Deals from Three Rivers are sent to this
port by rail in preference to Quebec. The above
is the principal reason given by the shippers.
The lumber trade this season appears to have
been the best done since 1872-73. It has been
steadily going on since the opening of naviga-
tion, most of the cargoes have been for the
River Platte and other South American ports.
In May the first vessel sailed, and this month
the last of them leave. So far no fewer than 49
vessels have cleared. The manner in which
Montreal has been absorbing the lumber trade
may be guessed when it is shown that from other
ports on the St. Lawrence, including Quebec,
only 2,607,480 feet were shipped, all of which
was spruce. The whole quantity of lumber
shipped from the St. Lawrence ports to the
River Platte is 19,590,930 feet of pine, 4,653,995
feet of spruce, 79,100 pickets, and 508 spars, or
in all 24,419,827 feet—an increase over last year
of 8,000,000 feet, of 14,000,000 as compared with
1880, 16,000,000 as compared with 1877, and 21, -
000,000 as compared with 1876, when the trade
had reached its lowest point.

SHIPMENTS TO SOUTH AMERICA.

The Montreal Witness says :—Canada’s most
important export trade outside of grain and
and diary exports, 1s that of lumber and timber,
Next to our fertile lands, our magnificient pri-
meval forests are our greatest source of wealth.
Few people have any idea of the large share
which Montreal as a port does in the export
trade of lumber. Owing to the want of wharf

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lumber trade,the wharves devoted to lumber are
‘below the St. Mary’s current at Hochelaga.
The visitor to the harbor who may gain some
idea of the immense trade we do in grain by the
sight of the many busy elevators and barges at
work alongside of the stately ships, sees nothing
of the-great lumber hills that are constantly
miles
below. Some idea of the lumber trade may be
formed from the shipments of Montreal to the
River Platte in South America alone. There
are only two of the many lumber firms engaged
in the trade, namely, the “ Export Lumber Co.
Jimited,” and the ‘‘ Shepard and Morse Lumber
Co.” The trade commences late in June, and
ends early in November, being thus confined to
a period of a little more than five months. The
trade increases during the months of July and

August reaching its highest point in September,

and then falls off greatly during October. In
May 1 vessel loaded with lumber for the River
Platte cleared, in June 9 vessels, in July 11 ves-
sels, in September 16 vessels, in October 11 ves-
sels and in November 1 vessel. In all 49 vessels.
The crafts engaged in the trade are sailing
-yessels, carrying from 160,000 feet to over 800, -
000 feet of umber. A vessel seldom appears
twice during the same season. Judging from
their names, such as Ariete, Malilamo, Wawo-
leneh, Piskatagua, Beaver, Suga, Preciosa, &c.,
there are crafts of all nationalities represented
in the trade.

The total number of feet of lumber shipped
to the River Platte was 21,627,460, besides 95, -
000 pickets, which are not included. Of this
amount over 19,590,945 feet was pine lumber, of
the trade in which from the St. Lawrence with

South America Montreal possesses the lion’s

share. The remainder was spruce, of which
2,046,515 feet were shipped.

From other ports on the St. Lawrence, inclu-
ding Quebec, only 2,607,480 feet were shipped,
all of which was spruce. From Sault au Co-
chon 1 vessel sailed, from Chicoutimi 2, from
Grand Bay 1, and from Quebec.

A recapitulation of the whole trade shows
that there was shipped from the St. Lawrence
port to the River Platte 19,590,930 feet of pine,
4,653,995 feet of spruce, 79,100 pickets, and 508
spars, or in all 24,419,827 feet of lumber. This
is an increase as compared with last year of 8,-
000,000 of feet, of 14,000,000 as compared with
1880, 16,000,000 as compared with 1877, and 21,-
000,000 as compared with 1876, when the trade
had sunk to its lowest point. The following
shows the shipments during the last thirteen
years :—

F SHIPMENTS.
ieee 25,145,182 Teh Pierre 8,787,928
ile 332705 16,005,935 Cy See eee 10,855,246
PSDs aja 28,234,968 AS yOba tanec 12,476,150
36,073,919 Hh Gomes 10,420,080
16,262,293 5 a 16,147,941
1875.....++»- -10,123,000 GTP aioe 24,419,817
{ee 3,437,000

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MANITOBA’S WOODS.

At this season of the year, when the mos-
quitoes have disappeared, a quiet walk in the
woods of Manitoba is exceedinly interesting to
anyone who loved a stroll in the great forests of
Ontario, and a close observation as to the dif-
ference which exists between the trees of this
country and those of the great timber belt of
the eastern province must ever afford matter
for agreeable contemplation. In Ontario the
woods are usually composed of maples, elms,

beeches, basswoods, with a proportion of ever-
greens, the hemlock and balsam being the most
common, except where the pine flourishes. The
underbrush is mostly of the same species as the
larger trees, unless on low ground, where blue
beech may be discovered.

Tn this country, as much of the land is wholly
destitute of timber, nature seems totake delight
in crowding together along the rivers and lakes
an infinite variety of trees, bushes, and vines.
The water helps to protect them from the great
fires which periodically sweep the plains, and
the thickness of the grove enables the trees

_and bushes to give each other shelter from the
cold winds and intense frosts of winter. As
the traveller advances towards the woods he
will notice the wild fringe of hazel, wild cherry,
emall poplar, buffalo berry, and scrab oak which
encircles the trees that compose the larger for-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
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est. At this season of the year the hazel bushes
are loaded with nuts of good size and fine flavor,
and in many spots a two bushel bag could be fil-
ledin a very short time. When the wanderer en-
ters the thicker shade amongst the larger trees
he will everywhere observe the heavy
rich red clusters of the high bush cran-
berry, the fruit being in such profusion that a
large basket can be filled in an hour. A pecul-
iarity of these berries is their readiness to hang
in bunches on the bushes long after the winter
sets in, the juice and flavor being improved by
the frost.

The principal tree in the Manitoba woods ig
the poplar, the next in importance is the oak,
and near the rivers will be noticed large elms.
A very beautiful tree is the ash-leaf maple. Its
fresh, green leaves open out early in the spring,
It isa most vigorous grower, and bears trans-
planting remarkably well. Were its qualities
known it-would be valued as an ornamental
tree in any northern country. Inthe spring the
ash-leaf maple yield a sweet sap, from which
excellent sugar can be made,the chief trouble be-
ing that at the time the sap flows the flooding of
the river makes it difficult to reach the trees.
On the shores of the streams which enter the
Red river, and especially near their mouths,
basswood grows in great abundance, and iron-
wood of a large size can be met with, In this
district these trees are not found, although
sometimes good ash can be discovered ; a few
white beech occupy a place in the woods, and
occasionally grow to a good size, but the tree is
not common. Partridges, rabbits, bluejays,
chick-a-dees, chipmunks, and red squirrels are
plentiful in the bush, and, excepting the chip-
munks, are to be noticed even in the winter
months. Black squirrels are not found in
Manitoba.—Pilot Mound Signal.

A. CHarD, of Sterling, in a recent letter
states that he met with an accident some time
ago, by which one of his knees was severely _in-
jured. A few applicatiens of Hagyard’s Yel-
low Oil afforded immediate and complete relief.

Important Auction Sale

VALUA BIE

Timber Limits

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McTIERNAN VS. FRASER.

In the High Court of Justice,
Chancery Division.

Pursuant to the order for sale made in this action
dated the 25th day of October, 1882, there will be sold
at Public Auction by and with the approbation of
William Marshall Matheson, Esquire, Master at Ottawa
of the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario, at the
Grand Union Hotel, at the City of Ottawa, on THURS-
DAY, the 21st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1882, at 2 o’clock
p. m., the following Timber Limits :—

ParceL No. 1.

Limit on the River Dumoine, License No, 300 for
season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands Department of
Quebec, area 30 square miles. This limit is in the Pro-
vince of Quebec and is situate along the east shore of
the River Dumoine, about 42 miles from Des Joachims
on the Ottawa River. It is easy of access and has q
good road leading toitfrom Des Joachims. It contains
a large quantity of white pine of excellent quality and
for the most part of large size; there is also some
red pine of good quality. Timber cut thereon can be
easily driven through Mason Creek and North River,
(both well improved stieams), to the River Dumoine,
and thence along the River Dumoine to the Ottawa
River. The distances for hauling timber vary from
one-eighth of a mile to five miles, but generally less
than three miles. With this limit there will be sold
the right to use the farm and depot used in connection
therewith known as North River Farm, and situate
about the centre of said limit. The farm consists of
about 100 acres of land, cleared. The soil is a sandy
loam. On the farm are the following buildings, viz. :
A good log house about 20x26 feet, one storey and a
half ; one log barn well finished, about 30x40 feet ; good
store house, about 26x36 feet; also horse stable, cow-
stables, hen house, root house and other sheds and
outbuildings.

Parcen No. 2

Limit on West side of Black River, License No. 238
for season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands Department
of Quebee, area 50 square miles.

This limit is in the Province of Quebec, is situate
along the west side of Black River, and is about five
miles in a north-easterly direction from the north-east
corner of parcel No.1. It is easily reached by road
leading from Des Joachims through Dumoine Limit,
It contains a large quantity of white pine of very good
Ji pa fi Timber cut thereon can be driven without any

ifficulty through two good Creeks, known as Coughlin
Creek, and upper West Branch Creek, to Black River,
and thence along Black River to the Ottawa River,

—

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CURRIE BOILER WORK

BSTABLISHED 1852

MANUFACTURERS OF

STHAM BOLLERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery

on Hand and for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co.

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

Ibly

The distance for hauling timber will average about 24
miles. With this limit there will be sold the right to
use the farm and depot used in connection therewith,
known as Hope Farm. This farm is situated about
15 miles from said limit, and connected with it by a
good road on a limit owned by Millar and Grant. It
consists of about 200 acres of land, cleared. The soil is
loam. On the farm are the following buildings, viz.:
double shanty, about 26x52 feet, two log barns, with
shingled roofs, two log stables capable of accommodat-
ing 32 and 14 horses respectively, store house, granary,
cow house, cow sheds, hen house and root house.

PARCEL No. 3.

Limit on East side of Black River, License No. 303 of
season 1881-2, issued by the Crown Lands Department
of Quebec, area 50 square miles.

This limit is in the Province of Quebec, and is situate
along the east side of Black River, opposite parcel
No.2. The timber thereon is white pine of very. good
quality. Timber can be driven without difficulty
taroueu Cavreau Creek and Black River to the Ottawa

iver.

With this limit there will be sold the right to use the
farm and depot used in connection therewith, known as
the Cavreau Farm, and situated on the edge of a lake
on Cavreau Creek, about 34 miles from Black River.
This farm is on the limit and consists of about 100
acres, cleared. The soilisgood loam. On the farm are
the following buildings, viz.: Log house about 20x26
feet ; two cedar log barns, one about 30x40 feet, the
other about 26x36 feet, one stable capable of accommo-
dating about 20 horses, cow house, blacksmith’s shop,
hen house and root house.

Parce. No. 4.

Limit on Black River and River Coulonge, License
No. 242 for season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands De-
partment of Quebec, areal5square miles. This limit
is situate along the Eastern line of parcel No.3. It is
well timbered with white pine of fine quality. Timber
can be easily laid on either Bruce Lake or Bruce Creek
and driven to River Coulonge, and thence along the
Coulonge to the Ottawa River.

All the said limits are easy of access, being a conveni-
ent distance from the Ottawa River. |

The said limits will be sold subject to reserved bids
fixed by the Master in parcels as above mentioned.

All hay, goods, chattels and shanty rigging on each
parcel belonging to the partnership of McTiernan &
Fraser, may at the option of the purchaser of each par-
cel be taken at a valuation to be subsequently fixed by
the said Master.

TERMS OF SALE —The purchase money is to be
paid as follows :—Ten per cent. to be paid to the ven-
dors’ solicitors at the time of sale ; afurther sum suffi-
cient to make up 25 per cent. thereof within twenty
days from the day of sale, to be paid into Court to the
credit of this cause, and the residue thereof to be paid
into Court at any time within four months from day of
sale with interest thereon, at the rate of seven per cent.
per annum from the day of sale.

All conveyances, searches, transfer fees, etc., payable
to the Crown, are to be at the expense of the purchaser.

In all other respects the terms and conditions of sale
will be the standing conditions of the Chancery Divyi-
sion of this court.

Further particulars may be had from Messrs. Scott,
MacTavish & MacCraken, or Messrs. Pinhey & Christie,
Solicitors, Ottawa.

Dated this 14th day of November, A. D., 1882.

: W. M. MATHESON,
Master at Ottawa.
SCOTT, MacTAVISH & MacCRAKEN,

Vendor’s Solicitors,

Wanted.

A PARTNER that understands the SAW MILLING
BUSINESS, with capital. For information address
JAMES B. DICKSON, Pembroke, Ont. 216

2123

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BLACK ASH PLANK

Sound, Square Edged and largely clear of knots ; 8x8
to 18 inches wide, 10 to 16 feet lengths. Can use it
green. Quote for 3 to 5 cars per month, delivered at
Boston, Mass,

ROBERT C. LOWRY,

Wholesale Lumber,

214 655 Pine Street, New York,

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WANTED,

STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Head Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. om O,rna

THE ENGLISH LUMBER TRADE.

Liverroon, Noy. 1.—Westerly winds of late
have brought forward an excessive number of
vessels, and the import, therefore, will look lar-

ger than usual in comparison, and, with the ex

ception of spruce deals, every article has fairly
maintained its firm value, and when those ar-
rivals have been cleared away a firmer feeling
will take place, as at the present price only loss
can be the result of nearly all shipments, seeing
the high rate of freight and autumn insurance ;
otherwise trade is generally sounder, and the

present stock will not be more than the require-
ments, as shown by the tables. Money is
easier,

‘ CoLontaL Woops.—Of white pine the stock
is firmly held. Several cargoes of Quebec have
been sold at full rates, small good fair average
square realized 2s, 2d. to 2s. 24d. per foot, and
prime waney 2s. 74d. per foot. A cargo of
Newfoundland pine has been sold at 23d. per
foot. Red. pine has been sold, but prices have
not transpired. Ash has changed hands at
from 2s. 2d. to 2s, 3d. per foot. Elm is worth
2s. to 2s, 1d. per foot and walnut from 5s. 6d. to
63s. 7d. per foot, according to size. Oak has
been sold at 2s. 11d. to 3s, and 1d. per foot.
Oak planks of prime quality realized 2s. 8d. to
2s, 10d. per foot, and inferior 2s. to 2s. 5d. per
foot. Birch isin fair demand ; New Richmond
realized 17d., and 516 logs from St. Margaret’s
Bay realized at auction fully 18d. per foot.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia spruce deals,
strange to say, in spite of the light import and
enhanced cost of bringing them to market, have

receded in price from the rates paid early in the

month, which were fully 5s. to 7s. 6d. per stan-
dard higher than lately. This is owing to the
forced auctions, as more could have been ob-
tained privately, viz, St. John, £8 5s, to £8 10s ;

other ports, $7 18s. 9d. to £8 5s., while at

auction sales St. John, per Henry, averaged £8
os. 6d. per standard, and later, per Kate Burrill,
38 2s. per standard. Yesterday two St. John
cargoes were sold by private at £8 per standard
ex-quay. Several cargoes are no seeking buy-
ers at the out ports; Dalhousie have realized
£8 53.; Miramichi, £8; Bridgewater £8 2s,
6d., and Halifax £8, all c.i.f. terms. Pine
deals have been sold at auction—for Miramichi,
Ist quality, £13 per standard (2nd quality not
sold), and 8rd quality, £7 15s. ; Dalhousie, Ist
quality at £13, but for 2nd quality £8 only was
offered. Quebec pine deals have come forward
chiefly on timber merchants’ account ; Ist and
2nd quality are in good demand; they are
quoted at £23 10s. for 1sts, £17 for 2nds, and
£10 10s. to £10 15s, for rds Ottawa. Quebec
pine and West India staves are without any
change. Palings have been sold at 70s. per 1,-
200 for 4 feet x #inch. Laths and lathwood ;
No sales.

The following is a statement of stocks on
hand on Oct. 31st :—

1882, 1881. 1880.
Yellow Pine—
Quebec....... cubic ft. 377,000 460,000 520,000
Waney,..... alr ss 340,000 290,000 170,000
St. John, &c., es 62,000 44,000 65,000
Total Yellow pine, c. ft, 769,000 794,000 755,000
Red pine...... cubicft. 60,000 53,000 18,000
Baltic &c., Fir“ 63,000 61,000 265,000
Oak,Canadian,&e, ‘* 357,000 410,000 312,000
Baltic, “ 45,000 68,000 ~—-40,000
Planks, Can., &c. ‘* 86,000 129,000 no ree,
PRUTIAtavvefen cicisteleie oe 71,000 47,000 27,000
BBSIFCHinistelelefen ceils a 64,000 98,000 187,000
Pitch pine, hewn, c. ft. 759,000 619,000 318,000
Pitch pine, sawn, c. ft. 689,000 372,000 116,000
Pitch pine, planks c. ft. 91,000 65,000 14,000

Total pitch pine, ¢, ft. ..1,439,000
Jas. Smith & Co.’s Circular,
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THE DOCK STOCKS.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 4, says:
The usual monthly statement of the dock stocks,
which we publish in this number of the Journal,
will doubtless be studied with a good deal of
interest by those who watch the market atten-
tively at this critical juncture, As relates to a
comparison with last year, Baltic stocks gener-
ally are a great deal heavier now than they
were at a similar period twelve months back.
This we were to some extent prepared to wit-
ness, for it was out of the question that, with

1,056,000 448,000

such a heavy balance of stock standing over in

the spring of the year, the additions made dur-

ing the summer and fall should not bring the

totals at the termination of the shipping up to
figures largely in excess of 1881, There were
hopes that the demand might be more than
usually active this year, and some thought that
the war in Egypt would stir up trade, and in
that way give a fillip to the consumption, and
so help to carry off the heavy additions that
were daily arriving; but such expectations
were suddenly dashed to the ground by the ab-
rupt termination of the Egyptian campaign,
and, though freights were not affected as some
anticipated, there was nothing to come to
the relief of the maket to prevent its over-
stocking.

Colonial goods, we are glad to see, are not
overdone, nor are the additions to the stocks of
spruce very considerable, though amongst the
cargoes not taken into stock it may be found
that the stocks of lower port deals figure some-
what prominently. Up to the present time,
however, stocks of last year of pine as well as
spruce are much heavier than the present. The
additions made to the stocks of Baltie goods
during the month of October amount to some
80,000 pieces of deals and 54,000 battens. Ends
have decreased during the interval named, pine
deals have also undergone a considerable reduc-
tion, notwithstanding the fact of several large
cargoes arriving during the month; the same
with spruce ; but till we know what the bulk
of the cargoes not taken into stock on the 31st
consist of, it might be erroneous to jump to a
conclusion that stocks of white deals are run-
ning out. According to the dock statement on
all the principal American stocks the consump-
tion appears to have exceeded the supply, for
we find smaller stocks now of pine and spruce
as regards the various items of deals, battens,
ends, boards, &c., than we did on the 30th of
September ; this is satisfactory, and should en-
sure good prices during the long interval be-
tween now and when further additions can be
made to the stocks of these goods.

The greatest reduction during the month,
however, has been on the stocks of prepared
boards ; these latter, which stood on the 30th
of September at 4,248,451, are now 3,722,561, or
less by half a million pieces than they were a
month ago, This coupled with the fact that
the cargoes not taken into stock of this deserip-
tion do not form a fourth of what they were a
twelvemonth ago, seems to point to a much im-
proved state of things in respect to goods of this
class, and those who hold large flooring stocks
need have no cause for uneasiness, for if we in-
elude the cargoes not taken into stock when the
returns were made up, and put them side by
side with those of last year, we make out there
are actually less prepared boards now in the
Surrey Commercial Docks than there were this
time twelvemonth. When it is recollected that
not so long ago there were over 6,000,000 pieces
in stock at Rotherhithe, the rapid fall consum-
ption can be better appreciated. The dock
stocks are the best index to an active state of
business, as the difference there represented is
not apparent when goods merely change hands ;
hence we may safely infer that the deliveries are
a true reflex of the brisk trade that has evident
ly been carried on in goods of the kind describ-
ed during the past two months. The reduction
of the stocks has exceeded a million pieces a
month, notwithstanding cargoes from the
shipping ports have been added from time to
time.

The deductions to be drawn from this brief
summary are that on pine, spruce, and flooring
boards we are likely to have a good market, but
in respect of Baltic deals and battens we shall
have depressed prices for a considerable time to
come. It is an open question whether in view
of the weak values of north of Europe deals,
pine and spruce can be upheld. When we note
that Archangel as well as ohter White Sea
goods feel the effects of the large stocks of
Swedish goods, we are prepared to see Colonial
goods share to some extent in the depression.
Flooring boards also, owing to the heavy stocks
of battens now in the docks, and hkely to be
considerably added to from day to day, will not
jmprove as rapidly as the greatly reduced stocks
would at the first blush lead us to imagine, but
as they have kept firm hitherto we count on
more improyement in respegt to flooring than on

any other kinds. The consignments on their
way are not said to be heavy, and there is no
reason to believe that we shall have at the con-
clusion of the year as much in the docks as we
had December, 1881, though at one time double
the quantity was apprehended. Altogether the
dock stocks do not read so unfavourably, and if
we include Colonial goods in our tot-up, we do
not find the market so seriously overburdened
after all, though there are still over 1,000,000
pieces of deals, battens, boards &c., in excess of
last year’s stocks. The chief cause of uneasi-
ness appears to be the heavy additions now said
to be on their way. ,

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GROMOFF
STOCK.

The Timber Trades Journal says :—“ From a
St. Petersburg paper we learn some further par-
ticulars of the recent fire at the late Mr. Gro-
moff’s yards. These large timber yards, extend
ing one verst in length and 4 verst in width,
close to the banks of the Neva, were on the
23rd October, in less than twelve hours, destroy-
ed by fire, together with all the saw frames and
labourers’ cottages, The damage is estimated
at millions of roubles.

The fire commenced at two in the morning in
a stable situated in the centre of the yards,
spread itself from thence to a planing mill, a hay
rick, and a warehouse containing twenty casks
of petroleum, and then on to the timber stacks,
which were soon in one immense flame, the heat
being so intense that nobody could approach.
It now became apparent that it was impossible
to save any of the timber, and the work of the
firemen was instead directed to the salvage of
the adjoining houses and the ships on the Neva,
in which they were successful. Together 28 en-
gines were on the spot, andthe Finnish steamer
in St. Petersburg rendered valuable assistance.
The danger of the fire spreading was very great
at one time, but at three o'clock it was apparent
that the fire would not go beyond the yards, and
at six o’clock all danger was over.

The immense stock —3,000,000 deals, battens,
and boards, 200,000 timber stocks, 7,000 cubic
feet firewood, 80,000 pud coals—as well as a saw-
mill with engines of 130 horse power, planing
mills, and workmen’s houses, belonged to the
late Mr. Wladimir Ralkow Roshnow, the heir
of the late timber exporter and millionaire, Mr.
Gromoff, who had left the former all his fortune
on the understanding that Mr. Roshnow, for
the next six years pays to the widow of the late
Mr. Gromoff 300,000 roubles per annum, be-
sides which a country mansion was left to the
widow.

The damage caused by the fire is estimated at
2,000,000 roubles, of which only part—not quite
1,000,000 roubles—was covered by insurance in
several companies ; viz., 550,000 roubles in a
Russian company of 1827, the mills in another
Petersburg company, and the rest, 400,000
roubles, in an English company. Three thou-
sand labourers and 300 foremen are through the
fire thrown out of employment.

——— —

NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTS.

The following paper was contributed to the
proceedings of the Forestry Congress at Mon-
treal, by Edward Jack, Esq., Fredericton, N.
B, :—‘‘ For more than twenty years I have been
engaged as land surveyor and timber explorer in
New Brunswick and have followed the white
pine down to the mountains of North Carolina
and East Tennesse and from my experience in
the subject of forestry can say that the neglect
of forestry in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,

as well as in the Province of Quebec, is really

lamentable. In New Brunswick we make no
distinction between timber and farming lands,
allowing and encouraging settlers to locate
themselves upon spruce and hemlock lands, the
damaging result of which policy can be esti-
mated by the loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, while the unfortunate settler often finds
himself very much worse off at the end of ten
years than he was at the date of settlement.
A study of New Brunswick Forestry and a
proper map accompanied by a written report
would show intending settlers where to place
themselves ; as our spruce and pine lands as
well as the greater part of our hemlock lands
are unfit for settlement purposes, being poor and
requiring mugh manure to render them produg-

tive. One third of New Brunswick is in the
millstone grit formation, this was once covered
with spruce, pine, and hemlock, being well
adapted to the growth of these trees ; and had
we proper forestry regulations the growth of
these woods on the dry and sandy plains of the
millstone grit district might be made a constant
source of profit and revenue to the Province _
Much of this district was destroyed by the great
fire of Miramichi in 1825, and in order to show
the growth of the sapling pine I may mention
that four or five years ago I saw good pine logs
cut on land which had been burned at that date,
Tamarac roots and timber have also been cut
which have grown since the date of the above
mentioned fire. We have in- New Bruuswick
very valuablejtracts of hard wood lands (black
birch and maple, etc.,) near railways, as well as
in some localities near the sea, but we hare no
printed information concerning their extent or _
position. I think we should first find out from q
the explorations of competent and reliable per-
sons in what part of the Province our valuable
timber (hard as well as soft) 1s found, and after
the matter has been well discussed, determine
on what conrse of action toyursue. Until this _
be done it is of little use to attempt the forma-
tion of any scheme for forest preservation.”
——_—_—_—_—_—_O— ’

MINNESOTA LAND FRAUDS.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—The
Commissioner of the general land office is exert-
ing himself actively and determinedly to root
out the pre-emption fraud in the Duluth and
St. Cloud land districts of Minnesota, There
is a ring operating there which he proposes to
break up. He proposes that while his tenure of
office lasts not another acre of land shall be il-
legally obtained. Since the removal of the re-
gistrar and receiver at Duluth, the commission-
er ordered hearings in a large number of sup-
vosed fradulent pre-emption cases. Hearings
in 55 cases were had before the land officials,
none of the original pre-emptors appearing.
Parties who claimed to be innocent purchasers
from the pre-emptors, appeared and cross-ex-
amined the witnesses for the government. The
testimony showed that the pre-emptors had not
attempted to comply with the law in the way of
settlement. The emphatic action of the depart-
ment has alarmed many of the swindlers, and
in later pre-emption filings, where the parties
had public notice, they failed to appear and
make proof of their entries. The department
will hereafter cancel entries where false affida-
vits have been made. This course will have a
direct effect on the parties who advance funds
to the tools for the accomplishment of the fraud,
and they will be the heaviest losers. It is the
intention to indict for violation of law and for
perjury those persons who have been found in
the hearings to have filed the fradulent proofs.

KS

QUEBEC CULLERS’ OFFICE.
The following is a comparative statement of
Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c.
measured and culled to Nov. 27 :—

1880, 1881. 1882. ~
Waney White Pine.. 2,233,680 3,015,504 1,104,548
White Pine......... 4,238,087 5,640,029 7,961,695 |
Red Pine... <sasone 1,045,997 1,921,868 1,456,850 :
ORK... cs: cences teaeee 1,708,403 2,948,295 1,313,109
DIN ssn enc neteabeel + 936,324 1,097,459 714,549
PX: Oe ee a 239,272 408,582 310,769
Basswood ..........5 363 3,939 1,471 id
Butternut........... 645 3,033 2,639
TAMAR ss 5 S400 wow nk 30,863 27,150 51,975
Birch & Maple......, 585,464 151,742 269,661 —
Masty.. . csnccusseeee 4 pes 25 pes 33 pes :
SpAXS. «<tss0skeca uae 23 pes —pes 51 pes
Std. Staves ...scswcxes 195,7.1.1 404.9.1.2 513.7.0.6
We BSR ana kek 487.7.0.8 499.0,1.10 1298,8.3.98
Bri. Staves. ...scsees. 10.8.2,10 weneee §=FERBVE

JAMES PATTON,
Quebec, Nov. 10, Supervisor of Cullers.
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CHAPMAN Brothers are operating in the north-
ern part of Bay, near the Ogenaw county line,
Mich., employing 140 men, and intending: to
cut 16,000,000 feet of logs.

Iv is stated some of the mills at Manistee,
Mich., are cutting and cross-piling piece stuff,
expecting to realize $12 on it itin the spring, $2
better than the present price.

RussELL, Brown & CHISHOLM, at Livermore
Falls. Me., are making improvements in their
wood pulp-mill to the extent of $20,000. The
mill is being moved and new machinery put in.

Ir is stated that 25 years ago a man of Win-
chester, N. H., sowed a worn-out pasture to
pines. Now there are on the land 25,000 pine
trees, ranging from eight to twenty inches in
diameter. _

THE cargo of walnut, ex schooner Jesse
Drummond, from Chicago was sold on arrival
at Quebec at $1.10 per foot. Messrs. Dobell &
Co. and Messrs. Ross & Co. were the pur-
chasers. -

THE \agent of the New York and Lake Cham-
plain Transportation Company has shipped
from Ottawa during the past season to the Uni-
ted States on American barges 16,954,571 feet
of lumber.

ground, all under one roof, employs 500 hands,
and when running at full capacity, turns out
300 cars per month, and 120 wheels daily. :

Tue Kirby-Carpenter Company lately sold

northern Iowa and southern Minnesota.
most of it was shipped to Sleepy Eye, Minn.

A

formation of a timber trade’s association.

purpose of constituting such an association.
The secretary of the committee is S. H. Big-
land, with offices at 57 Grace Church street,
London, E. C.

Messrs. H. B. Rathbun & Son, of Belleville,

have secured the contract for furnishing ties to
the Grand Trunk Railway Company for that

part of their line between Montreal and
Toronto. The number of ties required is 200,-
000, a large part of which will come down the
Moira, Trent, and Salmon rivers,

Aw East Saginaw despatch of Nov. 9th says:
John McCormick, employed at Smith & Adams’
lumber camp on Cedar river, was killed yester-

day while at work at a skidway by logs rolling

over him. The body was brought to East Sag
inaw and shipped to the county of Grey, Ont.,
where his people reside.

THE Winnipeg Times of Nov. 11, says :—
Nearly 150,000 feet of lumber has been brought

into Selkirk from the lake within the past few

days, exclusive of that required for barge and

boat building, and there is more on the way up.

If this supply should prove insufficient for the
demand more can be brought from Colville

Landing as soon as the river is frozen.
A. B. Lone & Son, cut recently from one

tree, in Mecosta county, Mich., eight 16-foot
logs, and one 12-foot log. The firm since last

May has built five miles of railroad, and put in
six near-by lakes 2,000,000 feet of logs. It is
calculated that the tract will cut 60,000,000 feet,
8,000,000 feet will be put in this winter.

Since the establishment of charcoal works at
Sharbot lake a number of similar factories have
been erected in the United States, and they are
getting the benefit of the local factory’s early
experience. The factory is now making 4,000
bushels per day. There are 3,500 bushels ready
to be shipped to the Kingston market. The price
is 13c. per bushel.

Tue Southern Lumberman says :—The best
quality of charcoal is made from maple, oak,
beech and chestnut. Wood will furnish, when
properly charred, about 20 per cent of coal, A
bushel of coal from pine weighs 29 Ibs,, a bushel
of coal from hardwood weighs 30 lbs. ; 100
parts of oak make nearly 23 of charcoal ; beech,
21; apple, 237: elm, 23; ash, 25; birch, 24;
maple, 22°68; willow, 18; poplar, 20; red pine
2210; white pine, 23,

Tue Car Manufacturing Company, at Terre
Haute, Ind., whose works cover 25 acres of

the Northwestern Railway Company 350,000 ft
of lumber, consisting of 2x6 stuff, and No. 2
fencing, te be used in building snow sheds in
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LUMBERMAN.

Tue St. John, N. B., Mews says :—Wm.
Richards is one of the chief operators on the
Restigouche this year. He will probably aver-
age 3,000,000 feet of logs. Messrs. George and
Robert Moffatt, J. Souberry, James Reed, and
others, expect to cut more logs than last year,
and the total cut on the Restigouche will fall
little short of 15,000,000 feet.

THE Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 4, says :
There has been a considerable import of mis-
cellaneous wood goods to Clyde this week per
steam liners from the States, and several cargoes
of Cahdian timber and deals. The large ar-
rivals of Quebec pine deals to this port during
the past five weeks (amounting to about 2,500
standards) have brought the stock up to about
the same quantity as was held a year ago.

A RICH body of cork pine, estimated at 100, -
000,000 feet, is being opened up by the building
of a logging railway, 12 miles in length, from
Antigo, Langlade county, Wis., on the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway.
The tract is owned by S. Bryant, of Milwaukee,
Louis Sands, of Manistee, Mich., and J. H.
Weed, of Oshkosk, Wis. The logs cut on the
tract will be carried over the new railroad, and
cut at J. H. Weed’s mill, at Antigo.

THE St. Regis Falls Lumber Company pro-
poses to build a logging road from the plant it
is putting in at St. Regis Falls, N. Y., south
into the forest. This line will undoubtedly be
eventually extended so as to strike the Adiron-
dack railroad. There are various rumors and
conjectures as to how the company intends to
“get out of the wilderness” at the north, but
the Malone connection with the Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain road seems to be the favorite.

THE Winnipeg Times says :—The saw-mill at
Brandon, which has just closed operations for
the season, has gone through an amount of
work which is surprising. Saw logs represent-
ing nearly 2,000,000 feet of lumber, were floated
from the limits at Shell river last spring. Lum-
ber has been cut at the rate of over 15,000 feet
per day, and as high as 14,000 feet have been
turned out in five hours. The total cut of this
season has been over 1,800,000. Mr. Russell
expects to bring to Brandon next spring saw
logs sufficient to turn out 4,000,000 feet of lum-
ber.

Tue Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 4, says :
Out of the fifty-five timber laden ships arrived
in London this week, thirty-one were steamers,
that continue to outnumber the sailers, which
lay up now for the rest of the year after dis-
charging. Out of this fleet the Canadian and
spruce ports furnish only six vessels, while four-
teen are from Cronstadt alone. Mahogany and
furniture woods are also well represented in the
arrivals, with a plentiful supply of deals and
battens. They do not consider the importation
at all excessive at the docks, and even say they
do not expect the stocks will be as heavy at
Christmas as they were last year.

THE Timter Trades Journal says :—Spruce
deals at Liverpool are still reported to continue
firm in the market, nor can we sce any likeli-
hood of thsir cheapening much for some months
to come. Judging from the aspect of affairs on
the west coast, we should say that heavy arri-
vals must come forward before any fall will be
experienced, and a considerable time must al-
most necessarily elapse before such an event can
occur. In estimating the strength of the mar-
ket at Liverpool cognizance must, however, be
taken of matters at the neighboring ports of
Barrow-in-Furness and Fleetwood, into both
of which places heavy importations of spruce
are received,

THE Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 4, says:
The continuance of westery winds has brought
up a good portion of the fall fleet, and all the
quays are for the present wearing a busy aspect ;
but when this batch is cleared off there will re-
main only a comparatively small quantity to
come forward, especially from the St, Lawrence.
There has been a fair business done during the
past week, but the pressure tou make sales from
the ship’s side rather than put the goods into
yard has weakened prices so far as spruce deals
are concerned. On the other hand the import
of Canadian timber is held very firmly for stiff
prices, owing to the moderate stocks here and
the continued firmness of the attitude taken by
shippers in Canada, who will without doubt

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Market Reports.

TORONTO.
From our own Correspondent.

Nov. 22,—The unusually fine weather of the
last two weeks has had the effect of prolonging
the shipping season, and vessels are still actively
employed loading at our docks here, so. that
more lumber will be got away than was former-
ly anticipated, and consequently less stock will
The demand
for XXX 18 inch shingles and lath for shipment
has been quite brisk and prices renumerative to
The latter
will now net the seller fully one-third more per
M than at the same period of last season, and

have to be wintered over here.

manufacturers and dealers alike.

mill men can now manufacture lath at a profit,
which has not been the case formerly, many

prefering to burn up their slabs sooner than

manufacture at a loss.

The retail yards are doing a good trade and
few complaints are to be heard, and no surplus
of stocks is to be found in any of the yards.
A new retail firm has just started in the adjoin-
ing municipality of Parkdale, namely, that of
I. & J. Lennox. The senior member of this
firm has had ample experience and is a live
pushing man, and as the business is entirely
conducted by him success will doubtless follow
his efforts.

The junior member of the firm of Davidson &
Malcolm has retired, having been bought out by
Mr. Davidson,who continues the business alone,
and being a thoroughly energetic man his busi-
ness is spreading out, and from personal obser-
yations I should say there is no yard of the
same dimensions in thls city where more lumber
goes in or out, or a safer business is carried on,
Inspecting the various yards on my walks
through the city I noticed also that the yard
owned by Hillock & Kent carried the largest
stock to the square foot of any yard in the city,
and I should judge from appearances that they
would be able to fill any order brought to them-
Most of the other yards were low in stocks with
the exception of the three mentioned. The de-
mands of the local trade has been better
met by the Railway Companies during the last
week or two and it is probable most of the

yards will have full stocks in after the close of |

navigation, but should the present mild weather

continue for some time longer stocks at the

mills and yards will rapidly deplete.
QUOTATIONS, FROM YARDS,

Mill cull boards and scantling.....-...ssseesees $10 00
Shipping cull boards, promiscuous widths. ...... 12 00
SHOCKS... 02 cceccetererersteeveters 14 00

Scantling and joist, up to a8 iS DOCHUID TOG eeeeee 14 00
serebsleis(sisvecereleterja/eieis 14 50

ih! Ro £8 oe Dicisivisihiatelpieiefels 15 50

re sf Be Q2Etrcreree wooo eeseaes 16 50

ns Be UG DALE. wrrreceecereseren 17 60

se vel st QB Lb... ceveeecvevevens 18 60

sf oy it 28 ft..... denverecevese 19 50

" af he BO fi. vesecevevsiveenacs 20 50

us oe a BQ iti ccceveeseeceveces 22 00

oe ae “ DARE rit ira s wlaslaisfatooeis 24 00

ss ie <s SBiLG. ca cccceenseceenns 25 60

. “s se S8Ftiee) civeen ne 27 00

big Lig we 40 to 44 ft.. 32 00
Cutting up peu to us Raeisietafarelsteteie 24 00
ards Ann 18 00

Sound avadeine stocks..... hee

Picks Am. inspection...... SO Heejaivie we visions 30 00
Three uppers, Am, inspection........++- 35 00@40 00
B. M.

1}- inch flooring, Aressed /..seceesserneeee coveee 32 00
if TOUGH... ...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 16 00

0 £0) | SAMESSED). Soc ewer vee stetrvee 26 00
i ss ae UNAressed. .ies. cera veseeeees 16 00
se Wt dressed .......0ce.es aio /eleln(atelne 23 00
We SO) UNGresSed sh. cc swe ce eens 17 00
1 Beaded Sheeting, dressed....... sss... eee elnels, 22 50:
Clapboarding, dressed .....sssserceeeees neers - 14 00
XXX sawn shingles, BM..ecewescsseseeeeceeens 3 00
KX sawn shingles. .......eeeeeveveeeeveveveence 2 00
Sawn Tuathessecscecccveenccccceeucetvevceseence 2 50
cede
MONTREAL.

From our own Correspondent.

Noy, 25,—Navigation has now closed for the
‘season and stocks are generally well assorted, ex-
cept in some of the bettergrades of first class lum-
ber which are being held at high prices, The de-
mand for hardwood is good. Ash is still en
quired for by local and American buyers quite
freely, and as there is only a limited quantity in
first hands it will likely advance in price, There
is a great scarcity of laths in the city and
Ottawa manufacturers have noneon hand, The
American demand at this moment is quiet, but
prospects are favourable for a good winter’s
trade both home and foreign, We note an ad.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

vance in the price of lath. We quote prices in
the yards as under.
Pine, 1st quality, 2 - Nalpca tree a teeeeees «$35 00@40 00
Pne,2nd “ #M....... otra pape 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping Bed r Mi vice ois» rinin’stiie ss (olsie 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, BM ..... «..s- 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, @M......ceeee+seeseeere 10 00@12 00
Spruce, PM....ceececeecsscceseeeereees 10 00@13 00
emlock, 4 M......csccessecevsessseres 9 00@10 00
Ash, run of, log culls out, aD WL, aie sia iaeteleee 20 00@25 00
Bass, Rope. to 17 00@20 00
Oaks: Mo. ccs cccscvseeverveeseercrcnne 40 00@50 00
Walnut @M .........+.. ... 60 00 100 00
Cherry, # M.....ss0-6 he .. 60 00@00 00
Butternut, eM F . 85 00@40 00

- 20 00@25 00
25 00@30 00

Hard Maple, # M
Lath, @M....... 1 75@ 0 00
3 00@ 0 00

Shingles, 1st, BM.
Shingles, 2nd, BM. 2 50@ 0 00

LIVERPOOL MARKET FOR CANADIAN LUMBER,

The latest advices from Messrs., Alfred
Dobell & Co., of Liverpool, state that imports
during September have been on a more liberal
scale, but are not excessive and prices have been
well maintained, except for spruce deals for
‘which lower prices haye had to be accepted,

By private sale spruce deals from St. John
sold at £8 10s. down to £8. Quebec waney 2s.
4d, for small average girth up to 2s, 8d. for lar-
ger sized wood,

By auction sales,—Spruce deals £8 5s, 6d @
£8 2s,

te eeene

CORDWOOD,

There are few barges at the wharf, but quite
sufticient for the present demand, the high
prices are driving wood completely out of the
market, to be*superseded by coal in the near
future. The dealers yards throughout the city
were never so bare of stocks at this season of
the year as they are at present, every one who
can either buy, beg, borrow, or steal a coal
stove are doing so. Prices are firm but not
quotably higher. We quote ex cartage from
the cars and on the wharf :

RAG
Long Birch
Short “

Long Beech
Short ‘
TOMATACK is e/asie sc sles vistas lowien delist s/> tee

OTTAWA.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Novemser, 10,—A severe blow to the lumber-
ing industry in this locality has been caused by
the destruction by fire of E. B. Eddy’s large
saw mills in Hull, on the evening of Thursday,
the 2nd instant. These establishments have
been damaged and burned a great many times,
but the last conflagration was by far the most
serious, and is considered the greatest calamity
that has befallen Hull for many years. The
premises covered a large area, and the fol!owing
buildings were destroyed :—Large sash, door
and blind factory ; two large saw mills ; paper
pail shop and smithy ; head offices ; pail factory
and machine shop; dressed lumber house ;
storage and packing warehouse; oil and ice
house ; horse stables, and pump house.

Besides the above there was destroyed a large
grist mill owned by CG. B. Wright, and operated
by McCormack & Son. Eddy’s loss is estimated
a} $225,000. The large saw mill itself was val-
ued at $80,000. The insurances amounted to
$153,000.

The loss is 50 per cent of the policies. The
origin of the fire is not very well known, but it
is supposed to have caught under the large saw
mill, from the heated shafting. The large
match factory was saved, with the exception of
the top story of the store house. Operations in
it were recommenced yesterday, and business is
again booming in that particular branch. The
pail factory machinery, was partly saved and
removed to another building. That por-
tion of the machinery was immediately
replaced by new machines and the manufac-
ture of pails was begun two days after the big
tire. Mr, Eddy’s enterprise is so well known
that it leads people to believe that before many
months tall chimnies will be rearing their heads,
Pheenix-like, out of the ruins of those burned,
thus forming monuments that will creditably
redound to the enterprise of Mr. Eddy. The
insurance appraisers began their work of estim-
ating the damage done on Monday last, but
have not vet completed their labours, Not un-
til they have finished can anything in the line
of rebuilding be done. The necessary timper
for the machine shop and large mill is being
taken out, and these building will be commenced

a

first. It is not known if the sash factory will be
rebuilt. Mr. Eddy was in Boston on the night
of the fire. He returned on the following even-
ing. He had been unwell for some months and
took a trip, thinking the change of air and re-
laxation from the monotony of his labors, would
prove beneficial. He is keeping as well now as
could be expected under the circumstances.
Your correspondent saw him in his temporary
office on the morning after his return. He was
hard at work in the midst of telegrams and let-
ters answering his correspondence. He was not
in a position to state his intentions at the time.

An item appeared in the last issue in reference
to some trouble in having the logs of a number
of milling establishments navigated to their res-
pective ponds. A reflection was cast upon the
Upper Ottawa Improvement Company. This
was an error arising out of unreliable informa-
tion. The company were not in the least to
blame.

The celebrated case of McLaren vs Cald-
well has not come up as yet in the Supreme
Court as was anticipated. Steamboats, brigs,
and barges are lying up around here. Shipping
operations are nearly at an end for this sea-
son Mr. M. J. Huntley, agent for the New
York & Lake Champlain Transportation Com-
pany shipped from this city during the past
season 1,695,457 feet of lumber; average per
load, 152,743. The first gang of men that left
this locality this season for the American
shanties started to-day from this city for Pots-
dam N. Y. They were sent by Mr. Bedouin
Renaud.

George W. Hotchkiss, Secretary of the Lum-
berman’s Exchange, Chicago, who is at present
in this city was waited upon at the Russell to-
day by your correspondent. During a conver-
sation Mr. Hotchkiss explained the nature of
the operations carried on in the Exhange, which
is something after the nature of the Corn Ex-
change, but timber is not sold in the open mar-
ket, but privately if at all. The association
consists of about 200 members. They meet
regularly and revise stock lists, which regulates
the retail price all over the North West.
2,100,000 feet of lumber will be imported into
Chicago this year. Mr. Hotchkiss finds the sys-
tem of grading here very similar to that of
Chicago, but on an ayerage of $3 better price,
owing, probably, to this place being nearer the
Atlantic than they are. There is little dimen-
sion lumber here which forms the greater part
of the trade in Chicago. One thing he said
which will develop into a great source of wealth
here is our cedar, for posts, railway ties, and
shingles. 35,000 cedar ties were received in
Chicago a week before he left and also 3,000,000
cedar posts.

The estimated cut of the saw mills in the
Ottawa Valley for this season is 800,000,000

feet.
—_————

ST. JOHN, N. B,
From our own Correspondent.

Nov. 11.—The Lumber market is very quiet
at present, most of the stock being in second
hands, having been bought some time ago at
prices ranging from 10 to 12 dolJars per M.
Freights are duller than what they were, owing,
no doubt, to the fact that shippers are deter-
mined to hold what stock there is here until
freight either falls or prices advancein Engiand.

Freights to-day may be quoted as follows :—

Liverpool.......... 67s, 6d. c. d.

Bristol Channel . 67s. 6d. c, d.

Treland....cse seeees 70s. to 76s. c. d.
SHIPPING,

The following is a list of the vessels in port,
with their tonnage, destinations and rates of
freight :—

Kambira, 2,000, Liverpool, 71s, 3d. c. d.

J. H. McLaren, 764, Liverpool, 71s. 3d. c, d.

Flying Foam, 1,284, do, 70s. c. d.

Marabout, (new), 1,497, do, Tis 3d.c _
Lizzie Burrill, 1,185, do, 72s. 6d.c. d.
Endora, (new), 1,142, do, Tis. 3d. c, dy

Goy. Langdon, 1,127, United Kingdom,
Althea, 376, Ireland, a/c. c. d.

Douglas Castle, 675, United Kingdom,
Brothers, 537, E. C, Ireland, 72s, 6d. c. d.
Neophyte, (new) 1,050, Cork Quay, 65s. c. d.
Progresso, 487, W. C. England, 67s. 6d. ¢, d.
Lady Blissington, 1,123, United Kingdom.
Pleona, 656, Carnarvon, a/c. ¢, d.

Uno, 824, United Kingdom.

Wenona, 522, New Zealand, a/c, o. d,

Her Majesty. 1,341

COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS 187. JANUARY TO DATE.

1881.
Deals. Pine. Birch.

M.S. ft. Tons. Tons. uot. Tone. Pon.
183,318 1,290 4,308 169,072 2,154 6,936
VESSELS LOADING ZHI8 DATE.

1881. , 1882.

Ships. Tons. Shipe, Tons.

15 14,625 17 «16,540
—_>——__-
CHICAGO.

The Northwestern Lumberman of Novy. 18,
says :—The lumber trade at large is settling
down into a steady going habit, indicative of
approaching winter. One after another the
mills are shutting down, and operators are be-
coming absorbed in providing the next log crop.
Stocks of white pine are large at all the supply
points east and west, though it is asserted that
at Saginaw the stock of choice lumber has been
nearly all picked up, leaving plenty of the coar-
ser kind. It is undoubtedly true that the man-
ufacturing season closes this year with a heavier
surplus on hand, proportionate to the current
and prospective demand, than there was at the
close of the season last year, and greater than
was expected by the trade. The extraordinary
demand that was counted on has not been real,
ized, and for that reason the increased output
which was to supply such demand remains over
asa surplus. Still there is nothing in the present
appearance that should indicate that this sur-
plus will remain as a drug in the hands of the
owners. The demand that has prevailed
throughout the season has been healthy, and no
amount of urging and cajoling on the
part of manufacturers and holders of heavy
stocks has been sufficient to force a speculative
tendency.

Lake receipts fairly closed on December,
1881; the receipts of the first half of that
month being 40,000,000 feet of lumber and 17,
000,000 shingles, while from November 15 to
December 15 the receipts aggregated 128,337,000
feet of lumber and 63,573,000 shingles. Present
indications are no less favorable than at the
same time last year for a continuance of navi-
gation to the middle of December. As is al-
ways the case at this time in the season, many
vessels are withdrawing to winter quarters, and
lake freight rates are tending upward.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, green.....+ e«+e++--- $11 O0O@11 50
Long dimension. .....++ «+-seseesseees> 12 50@14 00
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock cons swikwaie 12 25@14 50
Now 1 StOCK. o00s0-cnppsnsnn a0useenekabe 15 00@22 00
No. 1 log run, culls out .........+++ «-.. 17 @@23
Standard shingles Ste a .- 26@2
TAP on oc pensnect 50s oi pe Reena aphahone 2 70@ 2
Clear. ....ccccecccvcsccesussaucsssnseee 0 W@ 3
Lath. ...<<ss00e2 Perr 0 00@ 2

Receipts, and stock on hand, of lumber,
shingles, etc., for the week ending Noy., 19,
as reported by the Lumberman’s Exchange:

Lumber. Shingles.
ISRS nh cs sccesnscavabee nee 48,271,000 30,162,000
1GBL is sue see eee 48,617,000 20,390,000
FROM JANUARY 1 TO NOVEMBER 21 INCLUSIVE.

RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
TESS oie ven ncxcousen selene 1,916,502,000 $26,623,000
USS] .: Pic i, punceces soneeeee 1,756, 315,000 774,928,000
ING! <ua.00 vacsics ncubentnnen 157,187,000 52,595,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO NOY. 15.
TRAD Oo Scan 1,668,301,000 745,077,000
ISSL.. ..sececesengesmavensnn 1,559,779,000 674,433,000
STOCK ON HAND oct. 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber.....see8: 660,118,942 541,768,015 467,966,545
Shingles.... .... 265,189,150 241,455,200 173,753,000
TaAGh ick vcnoancu an 52,267,802 333,925 48,755,681
Piokets....s5 secs 3,368,270 2,788,430 2,193,317
Cedar posts. .....- 161,719 211,048 67,006
———_—_—-
BUFFALO,
We quote ae lots :—
Uppers. . canes
Common
Gols. s. conus es
Three uppers. .......c.scveescesesenenes $42 00@45 00
Piokings... 2.005.505 Leeeks ss eee 82 00@35 00
Fine, common ..........-0+0 ceceeess a= 20 00@25 00
Common. ..... ces encceecnvetee scans ‘ 14 00@16 00
Galls; .o4< SN UpNONASSNS's 11 00@13 00
Mill run lots............+ « 17 00@22 00
cae — linch . 30 0O@S7 00
1d Tob... sens cues . 30 0O@37 00
Mill run, 10, 12 inch. - 16 00@21 00
selected Sui <s.s vee ek gene . 2 25 00
Strips, 1 and 1} inch mill run. - 14 WEIS 00
=< ~ « eulls. 10 W@1S 00
1x6 selected for clapboards........+..+-- 25 00@35 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pime...... .....- 4 00@ 4 40
x Sg AS 3 W@ 3 40
XXX, 19 inch, cedar Li. 8 B@ $ 50
sz Se w wadn'on bantam 2 30@ 2 50
TAD er eccsecens Reh cAb eeacaceeeue severe 1 9@ 2 00-
\ ‘ 3
, 3

¥

Jp etait

ALBANY.
Quotations at the yards are as follows :—
Pine, clear, # M. $57 00@64 00

sete etew ter eene

Pine, fourths............ecereeneeneeees ~« 57 00@59 44
Pine, selectS....... sees teeeeenreeseeees ae onaes oy
Pine, ZOOd DOX... 1. eee eeeeeeeer ere reeees oe ae
Pine, 10-in. plank, each.«-- sees ee eeees 00 ee a
Pine, 10-in. plank, culls, each. ..+... sess 00 22@0 26
Pine boards, 10-in........eeeeeeeceeeeere 00 28@00 i
Pine, 10-in. boards, culls.....+-++-.-+++++ 00 20@00

Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 ft., @M.........- 30 00@35 of
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft.......-...2+++++ 30 00@34

Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft......+.++0+% ieee 27 00@29 00
Pine, 1} in. siding, select... .....-++e++../ 45, 00@47 00

Pine, 1}-in. siding, common
Pine, 1-in. siding, select....

Pine, inch siding, common 18 00@20 be
Spruce, boards, each...... 00 00@00 xe
Spruce, plank, 1}-in., each........+.00++ 00 00@00 a
Spruce, plank, 2-in., each.. Bia saes 00 00@00 s
Spruce, wall strips, each..........6..-0++ 00 12@00

Hemlock, boards, each...../....+.-+-+-- 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.........:--+.+- 00 00@00 33
Hemlock, joist, 24x4, each .+....eeeeee- . 00 00@00 14
Hemlock, wall strips, 2x4, each........-. 00 00@00 11
Ash, good, 8 M......0.eseeeeeeeeeeee «+» 40 00@43 00
Ash, second quality, @ M...+..-...--e008 25 00@30 00
Cherry, good; @ M. ..F . = seec vee tenes s 60 00@85 00

Hickory, @M......... 40 00@40 00
Maple, Canada, # M... 28 00@30 00
Maple, American, per M. os oe 00@28 00
Chestnut, @-M........0.05-vccen genes »..535 00@40 00
Shingles, shaved, pine, @ M..... ... p++ ++. 0 00@ 6 50
a 2nd quality.....2...+...-65 ++» ~ 0 00@ 5.00
“* extra, sawed, pine....:.......5* 0,00@. 5 00
Es clear, ees s, AAR - 0 00@ 3 60
ss cedar, mixed........::.:- 0 00@ 3 60
i Gedar, XEX sos hee «.. 0 00M 4 00
«hheralock...... .. Bod tg hee fa. 0 00@ 2 50
Lath, hemlock, GoM: <. 00 20500 ee ce ie ce oe 0 00@ 2 00
Lath, spruce, “© .2.ds4%-. 2 ok Bes ae 0 00@ 2 25
Lath, pine, CaP S Rie eb Abeer 0 00@ 2 50
+. ;
BOSTON. |
CANADA PINE. ee

Selects: Dressed. wh, 0.02 -.h. <. can -s-s 6 3 $48 00@50 00
Shelvi Dressed. 1sts. .ic..jc0c. 5. f-5.. 5 40 00@42 00
1 Lica eee 33 00@35 00
Dreier Ip PCIs soko Ne dscns chp san os 27 00@29 00
Dressed Bown Pee eas alam inna ot 18 00@20 00
—Sheathing, Ist quality...........sseseees 42 00@45 00
iS 2) ao 3 Rese 34 00@35 00

ad

TONAWANDA.
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

BRS PEAIPPEIA sale ve lcm cists cela sani weenie. <: $43 00@46 00
Gaunt. Be Pils the) s 5 aaiaiele W ofs/clola, eas oe ='5 18 00@24 00
(87711 eee es eee ceceres cas Lo CU@LE. 00

Sooo

LONDON.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 11, says:
The arrivals in London this week do not furnish
any formidable addition to the supply of tim-
ber, though thirty-eight vessels, of which
twenty were steamers, brought forward quite as
much as the market has at present any occasion
for. About a third of the fleet is from Russia
and Finland, several large ships from Quebec
and the lower ports, and a cargo of pitch pine,
which is rather a novelty of late. For the rest,
deals and battens form the staple article; but
there is also a cargo of flooring from Christiania.
Spruce is hardly so firm as it was a short while
since, and the Miramichi parcel, ex Coban, in
very attractive sizes, did not realize by 5s. to
10s. a standard what similar goods fetched a
month ago. The heavy arrivals from the lower
ports with whitewood have caused a slight de-
pression in the spruce market.

———— eee
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 11, says:
The import from Quebec may be considered as
nearly over, comparatively few vessels remain-
ing now to complete the year’s work. . Prices
continue high, and are likely to do so for the
remainder of the season, and from latest advices
from Canada there appears every likelihood
that stiff prices for next year’s production will,
again be the rule, as the great cost of labor and
the increased value of timber lands in Canada
become more and more apparent eyery year.
Sales of quantities of oak, pine, and other kinds
of wood have been made recently by private
treaty at extreme prices. _ .

eens
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 11, says:
There has been a light import of wood goods to
Clyde ports during the past week. This year’s
total arrivals from Quebec will, it is evident, be
considerably under the average quantity. The

_ falling off isin log timber, particularly yellow

pine logs, the import of which is about 17,000:

pieces under last year.

The stock of American spruce deals in Clyde
ports at present is light, but the large supply of
white deals at Grangemouth (imported from the
Baltic) has a depressing effect on prices,

44

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

U. 8. LUMBER INDUSTRIES.

The Brooklyn Eagle says:—In volume of
lumber production the States stand in the fol-
lowing order: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wis-
consin, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Maine,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinios, Georgia,
California, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Ten-
nessee.

There are 25,708 lumber manufacturing estab-
lishments in the country, employing a capital of
°$181,186,122 and 141,564 male hands above the
age of 16 years, 325 female hands below the age
of 15 years, 5,967 children and youth. The

‘value of the logs was $139,836,869 ; the mill

supplies were valued at $6,318,516; the
wages paid during the year amounted to $31,-
845,974 ; the amount of lumber manufactured
(board measurement) was 18,091,656,000 feet,
producing 1,731,788,000 laths, 5,555,046,000
shingles, 1,248,226,000 staves, 146,523,000 set of
headings, 34,076,000 feet of spool and bobbin
stock ; value of all other products, $2,683,668 ;
total valve of all products, $233,367,729.

New York State has 2,822 manufacturing es-
tablishments ; capital invested, $13,230,934 ;
hands employed, 17,509 ; value of logs, $8,628, -
874; value of mill supplies, $490,389; wages
paid during the year, $2,162,972; feet of lumber
manufactured, 1,184,220,000 ; number of laths,
79,399,000 ; number of shingles, 305,711,000 ;
number of staves, 62,645,000 ; number of set
headings, 22,136,000; feet of spool and bobbin
stock, 1,003,000 ; value of all other products,
$285,263 ; total value of all products $14,356,910.
New Jersey ranks thirty-second in the produc-

‘Ing area of the States.

For Winnipeg.

The Thunder Bay Sentinel says :—Coal is
selling to-day in Winnipeg, the metropolis of
the ‘North West, at $13.25 delivered. Only
three weeks ago the same coal was fetching
$18.75 per ton,and this time last season,from $19
to $23.50. This great change is brought about
by the opening of the Thunder Bay branch of
the C. P. R., and the consequent reduction in
freight rates thus giving one of the greatest
boons to both rich and poor of that city that has
yet been conferred upon them, and no doubt
but that next season as good an effect will be
produced in relation to lumber, as those engaged
in supplping the lumber from the Georgian Bay
markets are fully alive to the great advantages
offered them, and are making arrangements for
the shipment of large consignments at the
opening of navigation. Mr. Geo. Graham is
foremost on the field in the matter of supplying
this lumber to the western market. He will
have between two and three million feet here
before the close of the season, all of which he
will get over the line of the C. P. R. during the
coming: winter.

Leather Belting.

We are pleased to notice that Robin & Sad-
ler, of Montreal, have again taken first prize
for leather belting and leather copper riveted
hose, at the Provincial Exhibition, Montreal.
This is the third year in succession that they
have carried off first prize against all comers.
This firm has acquired an enviable reputation
for making large double driving belts. They
have supplied a 36 inch double belt for the

»Hadson’s Bay Company ; the same width of belt

for the Winnipeg mill, of Messrs A. W. Ogilvie

_& Co.,and the Stormont Cotton Mill Co., be-

sides a great number of other large belts for
various miils and public works. They are now
making 32 inch and 26 inch double belts for the
St. John Cotton Mill Co., and Wm. Parks &
Son, St. John, N. B. The United States used
to claim the chief merit for producing these
large belts, but now this Canadian firm bids fair
to outrival any United States production in
their line of business.

———
Logging Railways.

The Northwestern .Lumberman says :—Be-
sides the eight miles of logging railway connect-
ing the mill with the timber belonging to the
Shell Lake Lumbering Company, in Wisconsin,
the seven miles of road being built by R. M.
Forsman and W. T. Price, to tap 70,000,000
feet of pine on the Eau Claire, and the road of
NN. C. Foster, of Fairchild, the Mississippi
River Logging Company and the Chippewa

363

J

ONES & SO

N,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers
39 Broadway, NEW YORK.

(ak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally.

Pine Deck Plank and

L7

a a a
Logging Company are building another. It | over production. Should the operators in loge,
will run from the Chippewa, near Amacon Jake, | and manufacturers pass the bounds of prudence
six miles above Big Bend, into the timber re- | in the output of 1883, it is to be hoped that the

cently purchased from the Cornell University,
which embraces about 600,000,000 feet. The
haul will be seven miles. The two companies
have united in this enterprise in preference to
improving Potato creek,the Soft Maple branches

and other small tributaries, for the road is the |

most certain means of getting the logs to the
main river. The rail is rapidly superceding the
old methods of logging.

NOVEL TIMBER RAFT.

An improved method and apparatus for
coupling gangs of logs for timber rafts, so that
they may be easily and effectively bound to-
gether in a raft, has been patented by Mr.
Robert E. Terry, of Bay Minette, Ala.
end of each log is bored through near its end
for the passage of an iron rod, that may be of
any desired length. It is provided at its ends
with nuts for holding the side logs upon the rod.
The opposite ends of the outside logs are then
bored for the passage of asimilarrod. This rod
when it is placed passes through the ends of the
outside logs and over the ends of the inner logs,

and when in this position one end of a small |

rod or wire is secured to the rod and then wrap-
ped around each log and over the rod, and
finally secured to the rod. A raft of logs form-
ed in this manner binds all the logs firmly to-
gether, obviating all danger of the loss of logs,
and is not expensive, as the rods and wire are
not snbject to wear, and may be used over and
over.—Scientific American.
———EEE
Free Canals in New York-
The Northwestern Lumberman says :—Thejre-

sult of the late election in New York insures |

free canals in that state. This is of great signi-
ficance to the lumber trade of the Saginaw dis-
trict, and all points in the East, as well as to
the trade of Canada.

will cheapen freights, and thereby reduce the
price of pine lumber in Albany, New York,
Boston, and all places east that depend on
Michigan pine. Indirectly it may have a good
effect on Chicago trade, for the Saginaw and

eastern Michigan lumbermen were making ready |
for working some of their coarse lumber into |

the Chicago market, for the reason that Cana-
dian lumber of the coarser grades has become a
damaging competitor in the eastern markets,

and the Saginaw men desire a western outlet |
for their inferior stock, which is now increasing |

in the annual percentage of their output.
ee

The Prospects.

year as it has been during the present one. But
it will not be so large but that the supply could
be made to exceed it. Here lies the principal
danger in future operations.
gers are going into the woods this fall, and new
mills are being erected, a possibility exists of

One|

The abrogation of tolls |
on the Erie canal and its collateral water-ways |

|

| two weeks.
It seems almost certain that the demand for |

lumber will be as large, or larger, the coming |

| and
At the rate log- |

trade at large will play with the bait till the
season opens next spring before they take it in,
hook and all, as they did last fall and winter.—
Northwestern Lumberman.
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ARRIVED AT QUEBEC.
The Chronicle gives the following list of rafts
etc., arrived at Quebec :—
Nov 7—McAllister & Kelly lot, black walnut,

| Point-au-Pizeau.

J McRea & Co., oak, elm, &c, Point-au-
Pizeau.

McArthur Bros, staves, New London Cove.

John McRae & Co, staves, Point-au-Pizeau.

Nov. 13—McArthur Bros, staves, New Lon-

don cove.
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Buried Forests.

It is stated that the geological examinations
of the Deltas of the Mississippi now show that for
a distance of about 300 miles there are buried
forests of large trees, one over the other, with

lie bie
jinterspacesofsand, Ten distinct forest growths

of this description are said to have been obser-
ved, which is believed must have succeeded each
other. Of these trees, known as the bald cy-
press, some have been found over 25 feet in
diameter, and one contained 5,700 rings. In
some instances, too, huge trees have grown over
the stumps of others equally large. From these
facts, geologists have assumed the antiquity of
each forest at 10,000 years, or 190,000 for all,_—
Northwestern Lumberman.
————___

An ADMONITION.—To neglect a cough er cold
is but to invite Consumption, that destroyer of
the human race. Hrgyard’s Pectoral Balsam
will cure the cough and allay all irritation of
the bronchial tubes and lungs, and effectually
remedy all pulmonary complaints, such as
Asthma, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, etc.

A Bic INvEstMENT.—G. M. Everest, of For-
est, states that Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam still
holds its own amongst the many cough medi-
cines in the market. He says that he has sold
it for nearly sixteen years, and the sales are-
steadily increasing. One family has purchased.
over 50 bottles for various members and friends..

Davy & Crark, Druggists, Renfrew, date of
June 3rd, write:—‘‘Burdock Blood Bitters,
though comparatively a new preparation, has:
taken the lead in this locality as a blood puri-

| fier, our sales of it being equal to that of alt

other medicines used for the
last year.”

Puysicians and druggists have been in the
habit of charging patients and customers more
than many of them are able to pay. Weare
glad to inform our readers that Mack’s Mag-

purpose during the:

| metic Medicine is sold at the low price of fifty

cents a box, a quantity sufficient to last over

Read the advertisement in another
column.

A Srcret.—The secret of beauty lies in pure
blood and good health; without the one the
other is impossible. Burdock Blood Bitters is
the grand key that unlocks all the secretions,
opens the avenue to health by purifying
and regulating all the organs to a proper action
Tt cures all Scrofulous Diseases, acts on the
Blood, Liver, Kidneys, Skin and Bowels, and
brings the bloom of health to the pallid cheek.

364

BOY INVENTORS.

The Christian Advocate justly considers that
_ a boy’s elders are guilty of a foolish act to snub
| him when he says or does something which
they don’t understand. A boy’s personality is
entitled to as much respect as a man’s, as long
as he behaves himself. In the following anec-
dotes wise and foolish elders are exhibited—one
class respecting, and the other despising a boy.

Some of the most important inventions have
been the work of boys. The invention of the
valve motion to the steam engine was made by
a mere boy.

Newcomen’s engine was in a very incomplete
condition, from the fact that there was no way
to open or close the valves, except by means of
levers operated by hand.

He set up a large engine at one of the mines,
and a boy, Humphrey Potter, was hired to work
these valve-levers; although this is not hard
work, yet it required his constant attention,

As he was working the levers, he saw that
parts of the engine moved in the right direction,
and at the same time he had to open or close
the valves,

He procured a strong cord, and made one gnd
fast to the proper part of the engine, and the
other end to the valve-lever ; and the boy then
had the satisfaction of seeing the engine move
with perfect regularity of motion,

A short time after the foreman came around
and saw the boy playing marbles at the door,
Looking at the engine he saw the ingenuity of
the boy, and also the advantage of so great an
invention. 'The idea suggested by the boy’s in-
ventive genius was put in a practical form, and
made the steam engine an automatic working
machine.

The power loom is the invention of a farmer’s
boy who had never seen or heard of such a
thing.

He whittled one out with his jack-knife, and
after he had got it all done, he, with great en-
| thusiasm, showed it to his father, who at once
kicked it to pieces, saying that he would have
| no boy about him that would spend his time on
| such foolish things.
| The boy was sent to a blacksmith to learn the
| trade, and his master took a lively interest in
him, He made a loom of what was left of tho
_ one his father had broken up, and showed it to
_ his master.

_ The blacksmith saw he had no common boy
’ as an apprentice, and that the invention was a
valuable one. He had a loom constructed un-
der the supervision of the boy. It worked to
| their perfect satisfaction, and the blacksmith
' furnished the means to manufacture the looms,
andthe boy received half the profits,
' Tn about a year the blacksmith wrote to the

boy’s father that he should bring with him a
_ wealthy gentleman who was the inventor of the
- celebrated power loom.

You may be able to judge the astonishment
at the old home when his son was presented to
_ him as the inventor, who told him that the loom
| was the same as the model that he had kicked
_ to pieces but a year ago.

Our Patent Office shows many ingenious and
_ useful inventions made by minors and women,
and the above list of important inventions made
' by boys might be largely increased did space
permit.

HE BUCKED.

- THE DANGER OF RIDING TEXAS PONIES—GREAT
EXCITEMENT ON MONTGOMERY STREET—A HAPPY

THOUGHT AND A HAPPY MAN,

(San Francisco Evening Post.)

It is a fact beyond dispute that the average
Texas pony is uncertain, As a general thing
a Texas charger can be relied on, sooner or later,
| to indulge in his little act, popularly known on
the plains as ‘‘ bucking.” You can’t cultivate
_ the pony sufficiently to induce him to forget it,
It isin his blood and he sticks to it by the
power of heredity. He would probably go
without his hay for a whole day sooner than
throw away a good opportunity to ‘‘ buck.” It
is a part of his life, and the chief article in
his creed. In short, a Texas pony which won’t
buck is not a Texas pony at all. He is a non-
descript and unworthy to be credited to the
Lone Star State. Mr. George Ridgeway, re-
siding on Jefferson street, Oakland, will pro-
bably endorse the above heartily, At any rate

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

the accident which befell him this morning
would seem to be a sufficient guaranty for such
inference in the minds of observers, for Mr.
Ridgeway narrowly escaped death. As it is
well known, this gentleman is a finished horse-
man, and is fond of riding spirited animals,
This morning about 8 o’clock he rode up Mont-
gomery street at a very rapid pace. When op-
posite F. Garcia & Co.’s. restaurant, popularly
known as ‘ Frank’s,” Mr, Ridgeway suddenly
checked his horse and attempted to wheel. But
the pony grew obstinate and refused to obey the
will of the rider. Mr. Ridgeway attempted to
force the horse, but the perverse product of the
pampas declined to be enforced, and then en-
sued a struggle for the mastery between horse
and rider. True to his instincts the pony final-
ly prepared a coup d'etat, and won the victory.
Jumping into the air, the devilish creature
stiffened his .legs, humped his back until he de-
ascribed an inverted U, came down on the street
with all four feet at one time, plunged his head
between his forelegs, and the act was complete.
Mr. Ridgeway struck the ground about six feet
in front of his horse, He was insensible. A
large crowd of excited people was attracted to
the spot. Kind hands tenderly lifted the un-
conscious sufferer and carried him into Frank’s,
A messenger was despatched for a physician,
In the meantime restoratives were applied, and
every means known to those present resorted to
for his resuscitation. In a short time Mr,
Ridgeway showed signs of returning conscious-
ness, and moaned in great pain. Regaining the
power of speech the hurt gentleman said: ‘‘For
God’s sake do something to relieve this horrible
pain in my shoulder. It is killing me. Have
you a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil in the house ?”

“Just the thing !” said Mr. Garcia, ‘I have
some of the oil conveniently at hand.”

The sufferer was denuded of his clothing, and
his right shoulder was found to be badly bruis-
ed. Quick hands applied the great remedy
which is now creating such a sensation on the
coast, and in an incredibly short time Mr,
Ridgway began to show signs of satisfaction.
Soon he said that the pain was greatly selieved,
and the application of nearly a whole bottle
took away all the pain and reduced the swelling
which had commenced when they began apply-
ing the Oil. Examination revealed the fact
that Mr. Ridgeway had not sustained a fracture
in any of his bones, and he remarked sub-
sequently as he was sipping a glass of ‘‘ imperial
punch,” that St. Jacobs Oil had doubtless saved
him great and protracted suffering. Calling at
a neighboring drug store, Mr. Ridgeway secur-
ed several bottles of this wonderful healing
substance and went home. The doctor arrived
too late to see the patient.

The exhibition of such wonderful power by
the St. Jacobs Oil set all tongues wagging, and
many gentlemen present expressed astonishment
at the amazing result of its opplication, Mr,
Garcia explained that the Oil was reputed to be
almost miraculous in its action in some cases:
and the incident of this morning was simply a
verification of what he personally knew of it, as
well as what was stated of it by persons of his
acquaintance. He thought so highly of its
splendid curative properties in all cases of pains
and hurts that he never failed to keep some of
it on hand. Mr. Ridgeway would doubtless
feel a little shaken up by his fall fora few days,
but several more applications of the remedy
would undoubtedly place his shoulder all right.

The reporter was greatly interested in what
he had witnessed and resolved to learn more
about the performance of the great remedy.
Meeting M. Robert Young, a printer in the
Mercantile Agency, and residing at No. 320
California street, the question of the healing
power of St, Jacobs Oil was introduced. Mr.
Young immediately and emphatically bore
strong testimony in its favor. ‘‘ Why, sir,”
said he, ‘‘ I had been troubled a long time with
stiffness of the neck. It was especially severe
when I took cold, I had also suffered with
rheumatic pains in my shoulders. It is, there-
fore, with feelings of gratitude that I say that
the St. Jacobs Oil relieved me of every pain and
ache, I most heartily recommend it as a
superb relievant.”

During the morning the reporter’s duties
called him to North Beach. While there he
met Mr, Charles Schwartz, proprietor of the

THE new mills at Portneuf en bas are being
erected by the Dominion of Canada Freehold
Estate and Timber Company, limited. They
are pulp mills, three in number. A new saw
mill will be erected next year. The machinery
is from Messrs. Carrier, Laine & Co.

North Beach Chowder House, No. 2,209 Powell
street. The following conversation ensued :

‘* Mr. Schwarz, do you known anything about
St. Jacobs Oil?”

Well, I should say so! It is just the grand-
est remedy for rheumatism ever made !”

“ Have you used it, sir?”

“Used it! Yes, it has been a standing remedy
in my house for two years. There is nothing
like it. We could not well get on without it.
lt cures my people of rheumatism, burns, bruises
and every kind of ache or pain, Then my
neighbors use it too. I always have several
bottles in my house, and it frequently happens
that persons call for it in sudden emergencies.
Only a few days since a drayman got badly
hurt, and I sent out a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil.
They rubbed it on him and it took away the
pain. The man was very grateful and said it
was the best stuff in the world.”

The reporter stepped in at the popular phar-
macy of A. Adolph Boyken, the corner of Ninth
and Mission streets, and asked the proprietor if
he had much call for the St. Jacobs Oil. Mr.
Boyken replied :

“The Great German Remedy, St. Jacobs
Oil, has been having a big sale with me lately,
and my customers are high in their praises of it
as a conqueror of pain.”

AN AGED SYCAMORE.

The Sears farm at Harlem, Ohio, is located
on both sides of a creek, and in clearing the
field of debris from the floods, recently, prepar-
atory to sowing the fall wheat, a big sycamore
log, 50 to 60 feet long and five feet in diameter,
was sawed into several pieces. About 15 feet
from the point where the tree had apparently
broken off, from being girded, the initials W.
G. and E. S., were found carved in the wood
with the date of 1718. The letters and figures
were perfectly legible, and the wood has no evi-
dence of decay. The tree is supposed to have
stood along the banks of Second Creek, in Clin-
ton county, having been washed down on the
farm by the heavy floods. Allowing that the
person doing the carving was honest in his in-
tentions, and did not misrepresent the period in
which he lived by substituting for it that of his
forefather’s, the matter is considerable of a puz-
zle to the natives of the region. Giving the
date the benefit of the doubt, the tree is 164
years old, while the earliest settlement in the
state of Pennsylvania was not made till 1788,
and Clinton County was not settled till several
years after. Unless somebody has lied, the car-
ving evidently was the work of some white man,
and one who knew how to make letters pretty
well. The tree in its growth, after the carving,
did not obliterate them, which shows that the
carving was deep and intended for a purpose,

———$—$

RHEUMATISM,

Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Phest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell-
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Sca/ds, General Bodily
Pains,

Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other

Pains and Aches.

No tion on earth equals Sr. Jacons Ort
as a safe, sure, sin and cheap External
Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively
trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one suffering
= palo can have cheap end positive proof of iw
elaims.

Directions in Eleven Languages.
80LD BY ALL DsUGGISTS AND DEALERS

IN MEDIOINE.
A. VOGELER & CoO.,

Baltimore, Md., U. 8. As

CONSUMPTION

POSITIVELY CURED.

All sufferers from this disease that are anxious to
be cured should try Dr, Kisamer's Celebrated
Consumption Powders, These powders are the
only preparation known that will cure consuny
and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs—indeed,
so strong is our faith in them, and also to convince
you that they are bo humhug, we will forward to
every sufferer, by mail, post paid, a Free Trial Box.

We don’t want your money until you are perfectly
satisfied of their curative powers. If yourlifeis worth
saving, don’t delay in giving these Powders a trial,
as they will surely cure you.

Price for large box $3.00, sent to any part of the
United States or Canada, by mail, on rece!pt of price.

Address
ASH & ROBBINS,
360 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. ¥.

Height of Buildings.

In the Insurance Cyclopedia, Mr. Walford
mentions the Swedish law which came in force
in 1875, and prohibited the erection of buildings
in cities and towns of a height more than five
feet above the width of the street on which they
are built. A wise precaution, says the Ameri-
can Exchange, to secure proper ventilation and
avert the spread of conflagrations, and which
somewhat qualifies Capt. Shaw’s rule that the
safety or saving of the individual ignited build-
ing is indirectly in the ratio of the height to
area or cubic content under equal combustible
conditions otherwise. This is part of the ques-
tion, whether we shall in the future build cities,
or continue, as in the past, to build capricious
individual structures,

20L24

A CURE CUARANTEED.

MACK’S MAGNETIC MEDICINE.

Brain and

For Old and Young, Male and Female.
Positively cures Nervousness in all its stages, Weak
Memory, Loss of Brain Power, Sexual Prostration,
Night Sweats, Supermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness,
and General Loss of Power. It repairs Nervous
Waste, Rejuvenates the Jaded Intellect, Strengthens
the Enfeebled Brain and Restores Surprising Tone
and Vigor to the Exhausted Generative Organs mm
either Sex. ga With each order for TWRLYR packages,

accompsnied with five dollars, we will send our Writ-
ten Guarantee to refund the money if the treatment
does not effect a cure. It is the Cheapest and
Best Medicine in the Market. £4£@ Full particulars
~ our pampulet, which we desire to mail free to any

Russian Floors.

The finest floors are said to be seen in Russia,
For those of the highest grade tropical woods
are exclusively employed. Fir and pine are
never used, as, in consequence of their sticky
character, they attract and retain dust and dirt,
and therefore soon become blackened. Pitch
pine, too, is liable to shrink, even after being
well-seasoned. The mosaic wood floors in Rus-
sia, are often of extraordinary beauty. One in
the Summer Palace is of small squares of ebony
inlaid with mother-of-pearl. A considerable
trade is done in Dantzic and Riga by exporting
small blocks of oak for parquet floors. There is

eats Magy ytic Medicine is sold by D
at 50 cts.per box, or — boxes for 82.50, or will be eeed

an active demand for these in France and Ger- on See aere a SICINE OO. Windeon Ont™ ;
many, but none in England, Sold by all Druggists in Canada, L2s

To MILLMEN!
HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and

shut is equally well adapted to grinding long and round
Wheel is moved along the length, and in the depth of the tooth, and van be placed
just were wanted as easily asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
lumber, and costs no more than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. It is patented in
United States and Canada, and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few
inches from the saw. The cast steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.
Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days
without cutting a shim. Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

ee ee ey T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTA.

SAW MILLS!

Having POLE ROADS to their Timber keep up the Mill Stock and run
the year round.

Pole Roads are Cheap, Durable and Speedily built. The Cars can be
built by any handy man in a couple of days, and will carry 2,000 feet
of Hardwood Logs at a Load, drawn by one Span of Horses.

The Wheels are adjustable on the Axles to accommodate themselves
to any bend in the poles.

The Iron Work complete, including Bolts and Washes, with a dia-
gram of Car, are supplied by the undersigned. Prices on Application.

As to.cost and utility of Pole Roads we will refer without permis-
sion to BE. WATT, Gesto, P.O.; W. EDGAR, Kilroy, P.O.; DUNSTAN &
IRWIN, Essex Centre, and JAMES NAILOR, Oil City, who are now
running respectively 10, 8,5 and 8 miles, and are stocked with our Cars.

C. NORSWORTHY & CO,,

ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO.

Patentees and Manufacturers of Moore’s Improved Taper Cone Feed Saw ae
L

(5,000 IN USEIZ/TS EPILEPSY

FALLING SICKNESS

Permanently Cured—No Humbug—by one
Month’s usage of Dr. Goulard’s Celebrated
Infallible Fit Powder. To convince sufferers
that these powders will do all we claim for them we
will send them by mail, post paid, a free Trial
Box. As Dr. Goulard is the only physician that has
ever made this disease a special study, and os to our
knowledge thousands have been permanently cur-
ed by the use of these Powders. We will guar-
antee a permanent cure in every case or refund
you all money expended. All sufferers should
give these powders an early trial, and be convinced of
their curative powers.

Price for large box $3.00, or 4 boxes for $10.00, sent
by mail to any part of the United States or Canada on
receipt of price, or by express, C. 0. D. Address

ASH & ROBBINS, ,
360 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. W.

EARS FOR THE MILLION

Foo Choo’s Balsam of Shark’s Oil

Positively Restores the Hearing, and is the
only Absolute Cure for Deafness known.

saws of every description.

Tu24

20L24

This Oil is abstracted from peculiar species of small
White Shark, caught in the Yellow Sea, known as
CARCHARODON RONDELETII. Every Chinese fisherman
knows it. Its virtuesasa restorative of hearing were
discovered by a Buddhist Priest about the year 1410
Its cures were so numerous and many so seeming-
ly miraculous. that the remedy was officially pro-
claimed over the entire Empire. Its use became so
universal that for over 300 years no Deafness
has Existed among the Chinese People.
Sent, charges prepaid, to any address at $1.00 a bottle.

Hear What the Deaf say!

It has performed a miracle in my case.

I have no unearthly noises in my head and hear
much better.

I have been greatly benefited,

My deafness helped a great deal—think another
bottle will cure me.

JOSEPH HALL Mfg. Co.,

(ESTABLISHED 1851.)

OSHAWA, ONTARIO

MANUFACTURE THE CELEBRATED
JAMES LEFFEL’S -

Double Turbine Water Wheel,

All Sizes of Stationary and Portable Engines
and Boilers, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers,
Gearing, latest improved English
and American Gangs.

“Its virtues are UNQUESTIONABLE and its CURATIVE

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Macuine O

P.O. BOX 556.

The Stearn’s Circular Saw Mills with Fractional Head
Blocks and King of Dogs—this Mill is acknowledged
in the United States and Canada to be superior to all
othere—aleo a very complete Circular Saw Mill with
fron Frame and cheaper Head Blocks for Small Mill
Saw Mill, Flour Mill, Paper Mill and Water Works
Machinery 4 Specialty.

QP Fox tarther particulars address,

JOSEPH HALL Manufacturing Co.,
122 OSHAWA, ONTARIO

CHARACTER ABSOLUTE, AS THE WRITER CAN PERSONALLY
TESTIFY, BOTH FROM EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION.
Write at once to HayLtock & Jrnngy,7 Dey Street,
New’ York, enclosing $1.00, and you will receive by
return a remedy that will enable you to hear like any-
body else, and whose curative effects will be perman-
ent. You will never regret doing so.”—Editor of
Mercantile Review.

£2770 avoid loss in the Mails, please send money by
REGISTERED LETTER,

Only imported by HAYLOCK & JENNEY,
(Late Haytock & Co.)

SOLE AGENTS FOR AMERICA. 7% Dey St., New York.
; Lil-w22-ly

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McCOLL BROS. &

TOR ean. ©,

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN |

Co.

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them

in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SEND FOR PRICES, HTC.

AMERICAN HHAVY

5124

Oak Tanned Leather Belting

Rubber Belting, | Rubber Packing,
Rubber Hose, | Linen Hose,
And Cotton Hose: |

A Full and Complete Stock always on hand.
Write for Prices and Discounts.

|. WiclI.ROWV. Jr

WAREHOUSE—10 & 12 King Street East,
TOR ODT 5en

ss aaa eng, Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines
0. -Horse Power 2
PS a z WITH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER
peor ee 16 zz. P. if soordered. Weare testing an Engine
CHAM PION 20H. P. every day. Intending purchasers are

invited to call at our Works and thor-

oughly examine the Champion. We use

ERUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,
Every plate tested.

I: Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water

SAWMILL

ENCINE
i

wars en yi’ pressure.
SECTIONAL M, OVER 600 SOLD
“4 in 5seasons. The favorite everywhere.
SAFETY It has no
BOILER. equal.

The sectional safety boiler is ‘manufactured expressly for = ;
“North West” trade. This boiler is so arranged that it is readily taken apart in sections
enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it and prevent burning out.
We know from experience this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the great
Western Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the iarge Colo-
nization and Ranche Companies. f

ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA,

Send for New Circular,

TALTICS.

366 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton

President. Secretary-Treasurer. Superintendent.

—ie

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
DE TRoxTT

EMERY ani CORUNDUM WHEELS

» And Specially Adapted

For Saw Gumming

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, JAMES ROBERTSON, ESQ.,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO., Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & OO.
ST, CATHERINES. TORONTO.
WE ALSO REFER TO
WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,

Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. =

LUMBERMEN'S STATIONERY,

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and
Offices at City Prices. —

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THE RINGS OF TREES NO INDEX TO
THEIR AGE.

The London Zimber Trades Journal says :—
An important discovery appears to -have been
recently made, that is calculated to upset a
theory which has hitherto been accepted as
furnishing an authentic rule for ascertaining
the age of trees.

We take the following from the CANADA
’ LuMBERMAN, a very well conducted paper,
which seems to take particular care to keep its
readers well-posted up as to the state of timber
ber trade in the British Isles. Itis published at
Peterborough (capital .of the county of that
name, in Ontario), and claims to be ‘‘ the only
newspaper devoted to the lumber and timber
industries published in Canada.”

“« An interesting observation on tree rings is
recorded by Professor Bachelart, in La Nature.
During a visit to the ruins of Palenque, Mexico,
in 1859, M. Charnay caused all the trees that
hid the facade of one of the pyramids of the
palace to be cut down. On a second visit, in
1880, he cut the trees that had grown since 1859,
and he remarked that all of them had a number
of concentric circles greatly superior to their
age. The oldest could only have been twenty-
two years of age, but on a section of one of
them he counted 250 circles ; the tree was 60 to
65 etm. (about 2 English feet) in diameter. A
shrub, eighteen months old at most, had 18 con-
centric circles.”

““M. Charnay found the case repeated in
every species and in trees of all sizes. He con-
cluded that in a hot and moist climate, where
nature is never at rest, it may produce, not one
circle a year, as with us, but oneamonth. The
age of a monument has often been calculated
from that of trees that have grown on its ruins.
For Palenque, M. Larainzar calculated 1,700
years, having counted 1,700 rings in atree. M.
Charnay’s observations require the number to
be cut down to 150 or 200 years, making a con-
siderable difference—1,500 years. Prof, Bachel-
art asks whether M. Charnay took account of
certain coloured rings which some tropical trees
present in cross sectlon, and which are to be dis-
tingushed from the annual circles.”

If this be so—and it must be observed we
have only one witness yet—the learned in ar-
boriculture, ancient and modern, have been at
least doubtful, if not false, teachers. And if
this deviation from the old rule is peculiar to
“hot and moist climates,” where shall we draw
the line? There must be some intermediate
stage of average barometrical temperature at
which this perplexing change commences in the
development of tree growth, or is the whole
hypothesis imaginary, and no rule at all?

This important question cannot be allowed to
remain in its present unsatisfactory state. The
asccount given by M. Charnay, as recorded by
Professor Bachelart, will have to be either con-
tradicted or confirmed ; and a very pretty con:

troversy among adepts, or, as is now the fashion
to call them, experts, is likely to result from it.
The able and experienced authorities who in-
struct us on the peculiarities of vegetable
growth in the pages of our very useful contem-
porary, the Journal of Forestry, will doubtless
take up the subject and sift it to the bottom.
It seems almost impossible that two theories so
opposite to each other can both be true ; and, if
there be found a connecting link between them,
how shall we know to which side of it our speci-
men may belong? Hitherto these ‘‘ concentric
circles ” in trees were as religiously believed in
as the revolutions of the planets. Are we now
to unlearn all we have been taught about them ?

FORESTS AND CLIMATE.

A paper has been prepared by Dr. Schom-
burgk, the Director of the Botanical Gardens at
Adelaide, on the influence of forests on climate.
The object of the author is to prove that the
destruction of forests usually has the effect of
reducing the rainfall, while, on the contrary, the
planting of trees broadcast over a country is one
of the best metnods which can be adopted for
ameliorating its climate and increasing the an-
nual fall of rain. It cannot, indeed, be proved
that the climate of South Australia is altering
for the worse in this respect. In fact, a com-
parison of the meteorological records will show
that the annual average rainfall for the colony
during the past ten years has been 21°1 inches,
as compared with 20°1 inches for the previous
ten years. The fact is, that in the agricultural
districts of the colony, and especially in those
which were not originally timbered, the bring-
ing of the land into cultivation has had the
effect of slightly favouring the fall of rain.
Plowed land attracts moisture to a much greater
degree than unbroken soil. In considering the
effect which the removal of the forests per se has
in altering the climate in South Australia, the
only direct test that could be taken from the
records issued by the Government Astronomer
is the experience of the neighborhood of Ade-
laidé. If the time is divided which has elapsed
since 1839, the year in which observations were
commenced, into two periods, there is found for
the first an average rainfall of 22°8 inches, and
for the second one of 21°7 inches. It will thus
be seen that, on the whole, the rainfall at
Adelaide is diminishing, though very slightly,
and perhaps the diminution in the amount of
timber may have something to do with the
change. Dr. Schomburgk, in searching for illus-
trations of the effect of trees on climate, goes
further afield, and brings forward some striking
instances, in which it is evident that loss of for-
est means loss of rainfall, and vice versa. He
recalls how the Russians, by burning down
gome of Transcaucasian forests at the time of
the struggle with the Circassians, converted the
country from a fertile land into a desert, simply
through the outting off of the supply of rain,

Similar instances of rain having deserted a
country denuded of forests have occurred in the
Mauritius, in Jamaica, the Azores, and, it may
be also added, to a still more remarkable extent
in several of the smaller West India islands.

No sooner had the forests of these places been |

destroyed than the springs and rivulets ceased
to flow, the rainfall ‘became irregular, and even

the deposition of dew was almost entirely check-

ed. On the other hand, it is generally accepted
as afact that Mehemet Ali increased the fertil-

ity of Egypt enormously by planting trees. He |
alone planted some 20,000,000 on the Delta ; his |

successors followed up the work, and it is a
noteworthy circumstance that the rainfall rose
from six to forty inches. Planting has also, it
would seem, produced remarkable effects in
France and Algiers. Extensive regions have
been planted with gums and other trees, which,
for the most part, grew to about 30 feet or 40
feet in height, and it is noticed that the quanti-
ties of rain and dew which now fall on the ad-
jacent land are double what they formerly
were.— Architect.

WINNIPEG LUMBER INTEREST.

The Winnipeg Commercial of the 21st of Novy.
has an article on the extent of the local lumber
trade during the past season and its prospects in
the suceeding one, in which, after warning its
readers that its ‘‘ figures only respresent sawed
and dressed lumber, which has been or is being
used for building and such purposes,” it goes on
to say :—

‘Tn local manufactures only one saw mill has
has run steadily during the season, and its pro-
ducts since the opening of 1882, amount to 9,-
000,000 feet, 1,000,000 of which was oak. Other
two manufacturers who have only run for a
small portion of the season, haye produced 4,-
500,000 feet, making the total product 13,500,-
000 feet. The lumber purchased at other mills
in the North West and handled by parties in
Winnipeg figures.up to 12,500,000 feet making
the gross trade in domestic lumber for this city
during the present years 26,000,000.

In reaching figures on lumber imported from
Ontario and the United States, we have con-
sulted the lumber dealers and manufacturers of
the city, and their aggregate importations for
the season reach 29,500,000 feet. The heaviest
importer of the twelve has a gross of 10,000,000
feet, and the lightest was 750,000 feet. The
amount imported by private parties we can only
approximate, but we believe we are safe in fix-

ing the figures at 3,000,000, which would bring |

the gross imports of the season up to the pre-
sent date to 32,500,000 feet. In these figures we
do not include importations made by the Cana-
dian Paciffe Railway direct, and the aggregate
of these which have passed through Winnipeg
must reach several million feet for building pur-
poses, not to mention the millions of ties and

other rough lumber, The total lumber trade |

for Winnipeg for 1882, up to the present date,
|is somewhat in the neighborhood of 58,500,000
| feet, when we confine ourselves to purely com-
mercial parties, and it must be remembered
| that the importations for the year are not com
pleted, and when they are the figures will pro-
bably reach 65,000,000 feet.
| Accepting these figures as representing the
lumber business of 1882, let us look ahead and
see what the prospects is for 1883, The local
dealers and manufacturers have arrangements
made for getting out the following quantity of
logs during the present winter. For the use of
the mills of the city about 16,000,000 million
feet to which must be added 7,000,000 feet now
on hand, with which to commence operations as
early in spring as possible. Thus a total of 23,-
000,000 feet of logs will be at the disposal of

| city manufacturers, which is within 3,00,000 ft

of the capacity of their mills. There are seven
mills who have contracted their products for the
Winnipeg market for 1883, and the gross capac-
ity of these for the season is somewhere near
70,000,000 feet. Arrangements have been made
to get out for these mills during the winter over
57,000,000 million feet, or within 13,000,000 feet
of their capacity. These figures give a grand
total of 78,000,000 feet of lumber manufactured
in the North West, which will be available for
the Winnipeg market during 1883. Should the
importations from the United States and Ont-
ario for that year show a corresponding increase
over 1882, they would reach over 97,000,000 feet,
which would raise the total lumber trade of
Winnipeg for the coming year to 175,000,000
feet, or nearly three times as great as that of
the present. There is reason to believe, how-
ever, that the imports of 1883 will not increase
as rapidly as local manufactures. The milling
capacity of the North West has made rapid
growth during the present year, and railway
communication has, and is still opening up lum-
ber districts of the country which have hitherto
been closed to the Winnipeg market. Making
a liberal allowance for the gain which local
monufacturers will make on imported goods
there is every reason to believe that the supply
of lumber available for the Winnepeg market
|in 1883 will not be less than 130,000,000 feet.
These figures seem almost fabulous, but they
are based upon carefully collected statistics,
and are certainly not exaggerated.. The lumber
trade of a new city is one of the most reliable
indexes to its prosperity, and with the fore-
going figures before us we may with safety
challenge any city on the Americen continent,
or in fact in the universe, to show such unmis-
takable signs of rapid growth and develop-
ment.”

AxsotT 140,000,000 feet of logs were rafted the
past season at the Penobscot boom. The logs
rafted at the Bangor boom amount to 18,000,000
fret,

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370

TREE PLANTING.

The following article appears in the Montreal
Witness over the signature ‘‘ Rusticus ;”

‘* Almost all the readers of the Witness already
know that the American Forestry Congress
held its last annual session in Montreal in
August, at which a number of interesting papers
on forestry were read and discussed. The pro-
ceedings of the various meeting held during the
session were published in sheet form, and Mr,
William Little, of Montreal, Corresponding
Secretary of the American Forestry Congress,
will be happy to furnish copies to any one who
is about to engage in forest culture. I regret
that the proceedings were not published in
pamphlet form so that every farmer in the
Dominion, who hasa taste for tree-culture, might
get a copy, for it would be most interesting and
useful reading matter to pass the time, during
the farmers’ leisure hours, pleasantly and profit-
ably. Even such farmers as those who, like
myself, have spent many years in successful
warfare against Canaliin forests, might now
“‘turn over a new leaf” with advantage, and
derive much greater pleasure, if not profit, from
re-planting with trees a portion of the land
they so often watered with the sweat of their
brows while chopping, logging, burning and
stumping it. There can be no doubt but large
areas of the cultivated lands in the Dominion
would be much more valuable at present if they
were still clothed with the primeval forests which
adorned them previous to the woodman’s in-
vasion, and on many rough and unfertile places,
the best paying crop that could be raised
would be a crop of timber, while many a dreary
prospect might thereby be changed into one of
rare beauty. There are many places all over the
country where the roads in winter are in a semi-
impassible state, at least for heavy loads, owing
to the large drifts of snow which are piled upon
them by every storm ; yet if small belts of trees
were planted alongside the roads in the more
exposed parts they might become most delight-
ful drives in winter or summer. These “ drift-
ing places” on public roads are an annual source

of serious loss to the travelling public, amount- |

ing in some cases to more than sufficient to
purchase a strip of the adjacent land and plant
it with sufficient trees to prevent all future
driftings there. Evergeen trees, such as pine,
spruce, cedar and balsam, are the best to plant
for shelter to roads, orchards or gardens, and it
is generally admitted that the best time for
transplanting these trees is in the month of
August, when most farmers are busy with har-
vest work. In many places they can also be
successfully set out in the fall when the young
treés are growing within a moderate distance
of where they are wanted. The following plan
has been successfully practised in transplanting
evergreen trees in the fall, or any other kind of
forest trees that are of too large size to be
transplanted in the ordinary way. If possible,
select such trees only as grow naturally upon
dryer soil than the place where they are to be
planted, and such only as were not shaded by
other trees, so that they may have low bushy
tops. Before the ground freezes up dig a small
trench around them forming a circle of about
four feet in diameter and leave them thus until
the frost has penetrated in the soil to a depth
of six or eight inches when the tree with the
frozen earth around its roots can be drawn
away ona stone-boat or low sled to where it is
to be planted. To save extra labor a sufficiently
large hole will have to be dug before the ground
freezes to receive the tree with its accompany-
ing mass of frozen earth. Two or three days
spent before the ground freezes much, and a
week or ten days more, after there is more-or
less’ frost and snow on the ground, would be
sufficient to plant quite a strip of ornamental
and. useful trees of considerable size in the way
above indicated. When in Great Britain and
Ireland, I was surprised to see how much tree-
planting is being done there now and for some
years past. It seems to me that they are over-
doing the thing there, for the country, which
was always inclined to be moist, has lately be-
come much more so, causing the work of har-
vesting tho croys to become very tedious, and
in many places rather precarious, and no doubt
the increasing area of tree plantations for the
gentry, and the unburnt heather for the breed-

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN,

increased humidity. The Scottish Arboricul-
tural Society at its recent meeting in Edinburgh
awarded some six or seven silver medals and a

| number of other prizes to the writers of success-

ful essays on the various subjects connected
with tree-culture. We ought. to have Arbori-
cultural societies and writers of prize essays on
tree-culture in Canada, where they are much
more needed than in Britain with its abundant
supply of cheap fuel. Almost every farmer is
aware how valuable second-growth white ash is
in making and repairing farm machinery, yet
few of them have ever planted a dozen ash
trees. There are many patches of low, wet,
poor land throughout the country which origin-
ally were tamarac swamps and which might
again be replanted with the same kind of treers,
which would become a source of wealth to their
future owners. While travelling in the North-
West in the spring of 1879 I observed groves of

|ash-leaved maples which sprang from seeds

deposited by the flood of 1852, yet these young
trees had already become useful in the produc-
tion of maple sugar. These beautiful ash-
leaved maples would readily grow in any part
of Ontario or Quebec, and plenty of the seed or
young shoots could be got from Manitoba.

SAVE THE HARDWOOD.’

The Big Rapids, Mich., Pioneer is trying to
stir up the citizens of that town to the desir-
ability of more manufactories there that employ
wood as a raw material. The advice is timely ;
but judging from efforts in that direction that
have come within our own experience, the only
way to promote manufacturing at any given
point is to make somebody who has capital see
that money is to be mace by it. Nobody is
going to invest money in Big Bapids, or any-
where else, for the sake of building up the town,
unless, perhaps, he has an eye to a real estate
speculation. But, really, if there could be a
large increase of manufactories of wood goods
of great diversity in Northern \‘'chigan, it
would be of vast benefit to that porion of the
state ; and for thisreason: Farming population
is rapidly settling on the hardwood lands, and,
if local manufactories are not established so as
to give these settlers a market for their maple,
elm, birch, ash, etc., quite near home, they will
do as all settlers in a forest country have done,
slash down the trees and burn them, as the
easiest way to get rid of the incumbrance. But
if hardwood saw-mills and factories for working
up the various kinds of hard timber are put in
proportionately with the rapidity of settlement,
the local value of the forest growth will become
such that it will be considered folly to slaughter
and waste it. Northern Michigan and Wiscon-
sin are remakably well situated to profit by their
hardwoods if their citizens did but know it.
They are right in the heart of the most popu-
lous part of the country, with a timberless area,
including several states to the westward, that
are developing apace. The conditions of these
two timbered sections are vastly different from
the eastern timbered regions, where there was
at the time of the settlement but little market
for hardwoods. It is to be hoped the sacrifice
to agricultnre will not go far before the money
interest will arrest it.—Worthwestern Lumber-
man,

THE LUMBER TRADE.

Lumber shipment by water being now over
for the season, we have made some enquiries,
among the firms and companes represented here,
as to the character of the season’s trade and the
prospect for the coming cut. All agree that the
business of the year has been renumerative. A
good demand has prevailed and good prices
have been obtained for lumber of all kinds,
The stock to be wintered over in the Peninsula
and on the Georgian Bay will probably be
smaller than last year. At some particular
points there may be more, but upon the whole
the supply will be less.

It is too early, as yet, to discuss the probable
inake of logs during the season of 1882-3. The
mills have titis season cut just as much as they
could do, «nd whatever favoring weather
may permit to be done in the way of!
logging this winter, it will not be possible for |
steam mills to cut more lumber than they did
this present year, unless, of course, their ree

ing of moor-fowl, help materially in causing the | ber is increased, and we hear of only one impor:

tant addition, that on French River. The
disposition appears to be to restrict the cut.
And that this is the feeling in the United States
is shown by the circumstance that one firm of
operators in Michigan, who last season got out
60,000,000 feet of logs are getting out this sea-
son only 40,000,000 feet. The argument being
that if excessive quantities are produced the
price will be weakened, which, having regard to
the increased cost of labor and logging plant, is
a matter which manufacturers do not desire.
At country points in Ontario the demand for
lumber is steady ; at this point it is not specially
brisk, for there is rather a lull in building
which during the year has been decidedly
active, if not overdone, in this city and suburbs,
Prices continue firm, but will likly be unchang-
ed until the spring opens, or until the winter
season has so far advanced as to enable an in-
telligent forecast of the crop to be made.

On the south shore of the St. Lawrence, in
the Province of Quebec, the past season’s oper-
ations in lumber have been more encouraging
than for several years, although it is true that
till late in the fall there was but a light demand
for wood goods for the English market. A
firm of operators on the Chaudiere and St.
Francis rivers thus express themselves as to the
business :

“While business bas been much more active,
with higher prices ruling for most classes of
sawn lumber, there are several facts in connec-
tion with lumbering that must not be overlook-
ed. Wages have increased from 15 to 25 per
cent. in one year ; the prices of stapleprovisions,
connected with the lumbering industry, have
been very high, and the Crown (speaking of the
local Goverument of Quebec) has increased its
tariff of stumpage. The manufacturer does not,
therefore, immediately benefit much by the im-
proved state of things, though with the pros-
pects of a more favorable future the hoizon as-

sumes a brighter hue.”

The trade in hard-wood lumber is good. The
American demand is active, and appearances
indicate that there will be a market for all we
can furnish. Some kinds are growing scarcer
and prices may be expected to advance.—Mon-
etary Times.

NEW BRUNSWICK TIMBER SHIPMENTS.

The St. John, N. B-, Globe says :—“‘ The ship-
ments from the whole Province for 1882 will
show a falling off compared with 1881. The
totals for Chatham are :—1882: 100 vessels,
58,545 tons, 48,790,679 s. f. deals, etc., 3,536,726
pieces palings, 210 tons birch, 1,224 tons of pine
timber. 1881: 142 vessels, 71,374 tons, 62,892, -
000 s. f. deals, etc., 2,371,440 pieces palings, 1087
tons timber. The totals for Newcastle are :—
1882: 138 vessels 77,462 tons, 63,716,000 sup.
feet deals, battens and ends, 4,844,000 sup. feet,
boards and scantling, 524,000 pieces of palings
and laths, 583 tons birch, 728 tons pine timber.
1881: 142 vessels, 74,776 tons, 59,772,000 sup.
feet: deals, etc., 6,599,000 sup. feet boards and
scantling, 639,000 pieces of palings and laths,
452 tons birch, and 523 tons pine timber. The
totals for Bathurst are :—1882: 34 vessels, 20,-
242 tons, 17,412,806 sup. feet of deals, ete., 348,-
109 sup. feet boards, 55,869 sup. feet plank,
198,495 pieces lath and palings, 4,213 railway
sleepers, 12 telegraph poles. 1881: 40 vessels,
18,697 tons, 16,156,371 sup. feet of deals, boards,
ete., 125,954 pieces of palings and laths, 12,000
shingles, 218,000 pieces staves, 8,312 sleepers,
161 tons of timber. The totals for Dalhousie
are :—1882: 88 vesse!s, 20,687 tons, 15,552,566
sup. feet sawn lumber, 14,800 pieces palings, 64
cords lathwood, 4,011 tons timber. 1881: 41
vessels, 21,277 tons, 15,838,127 sup feet of deals,
ends and battens, 43,000 palings, 4,907 tons
timber.

We have not heard the amount of shipments
from Shediac and one or two other small ports,
A very good idea of the business of the year can
be gathered, however, from the above state-
ments,”

LUMBER SHIPMENTS FROM ST. JOHN, N.B.

The St. John Gloe says:—The shipments
from St. John for the year 1882 will probably
be somewhat under the shipments made last
year, For the eleven months ending 30th Nov,
they are twelve million feet less than in the
same period last year, the total shipments being

for 1882, 187,495,815 feet ; 1881, 199,533,621 feet,
We append particulars _

Port. . No. of Tons. Deals, ete.
. vessels. super. feet.
Australia, 1862.......... 2 Lee 14,840,009"
4 1984agr 7. -. 4 4,282 3,115,£1¢
Barrow, 1882 ..... 2A, 10 8,967 7,801,134
a Ts RL Ae fe 3 1,922 ¥,460,165*
Bristo] Channel, 1882.... 46 32,664 31,348,062>
se 1881.... 38 29,712 28,122,130
Continent, 1882...... vee» 26 19,656 17,950, 66"
6 Fi IA ot oh pate 43 25,194 22,932,305
Ireland, 1882.,......+.+- 72 39,083 36,411,042
ae! Pn eae 86 45,114 42,117,143
Liverpoo], 1882 .....-.++ 85 93,406 77,747,787
¥ ISSEY, sacar some Wb 82,088 71,526,872
London, 1882....-..-..- » & 4,008 3,085,460
Se 5 ba SMe aR 20 20,673 19,577,052
Scotland, 1882......-.... 8 7,685 6,568,712
Y SERA S os sien epee 13 - 8,770" 7,987,138
Wales; 1888, vs. oo. estes 4 2,006 621,087
SE SPM oe cayies penis 5 2,155 = 1,172,144
Snndry, 1882.5 4 <sccrewse 6 4,769 4,387,865
“, 9OB3. ses eit 3 1,467 1,462,815
Obes 1582 2. sce: an smaiine 265 214,182 187,495,815
Me IGEN obs, Soe; te 290 221,872 199,583,622
A. Gibson, 1882.......... 118 113,194 108,524,047
°4 OS aS 86 79,288 73,002,480°
W. M. McKay, 1882...... *35. 28,432 © 22,262,886
-: fa 20 22,093 18,321,285
Carvill, McKean & Co.,
1882.... 42 25,401 23,283,649
vid 1881.... 50 30,473 28,201,606
R. A. & J. Stewart, 1862. 31 22,783 19,729,572
1881. 73 54,518 40,056,166
Guy, Bevan & Co, 1882.. 19 10,450 9,806,247
«“ —-'1881.. 84 20,562 18,193,255
S. Schofield, 1882........ ll = 6,840 2,898,968
re EBL cccvcws 9 4,683 3,352,363
Sundry, 1882 ........00s. 1 4,142 6,019,396
eR | er ae 15-8847 6,980,087
McLachlan & Wilson, 1581 3 14,438 926,400
Total, “IB6B.. wn ccc 265 214,182 187,495,815
oe WBS . 3. os sane «+. 200 221,871 199,583,621

All the world knows of those articles of fur-
niture of a beautiful dead-black color, with
sharp, clear-cut edges, and a smooth surface, the
wood of which seems to have the density of
ebony. Viewing them side by side with furni-
ture rendered black by paint and varnish, says
the London Cabinet Market, the difference is so
sensible that the considerable margin of price
separating the two kinds explans itself without
need of any commentary. The operations
are much longer and much more minnte in this
mode of a charcoal polishing, which respects
every ‘detail of the carving, while paint and
varnish would clog up the holes and widen the
ridges. In the first process they employ only
carefully selected woods of a close and compact
grain ; they cover them with a eoat of camphor
dissolved in water, and almost immediately
afterwards with another coat, composed chiefly
of sulphate of iron and nutgall. The two com-
positions, in blending, penetrate the wood, and
give it an indelible tinge, and at the same time
render it impervious to the attacks of insects.

When these two coals are sufficiently dry,
they rub the curface of the wood at first with a
very hard brush of couch-grass (chiendent),
and then with charcoal of substances as light
and friable as possible, because if a
single hard grain remained in the charcoal this
alone would scratch the surface, which they
wish, on the contrary, te render perfectly
smooth. The flat parts are rubbed with natur-
al stick charcoal, the indented portions and
crevices with charcoal powder. At once, almost
simultaneously, and alternately with the char-
coal, the workman also rubs bis piece of furni-
ture with flannel soaked in iinseed oil and the
essence of turpentine. These pouncings, re-
peated several times, cause the charcoal powder
and the oil to penetrate into the wood, giving
the article of furniture a beautiful color and
perfect polish which has done of the flaws of
ordinary varnish, Black wood polished with
charcoal is coming day by day to be in greater
demand ; it is more servicable, it does not tar-
nish like gilding, nor grow yellow like white
wood, and in furnishing a drawing-room it
agrees very happily with gilt bronzes and rich
stuffs. In the dining-room, too, itis thoroughly
in its place to show off the plate to the greatest
advantage, and in the hbrary it supplies a capi-
tal framework for handsomely-baund books,—
Furniture Gazette,

}
POLISHING WOOD WITH CHARCOAL.

GRAVENHURST.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Dro. 6.—The mills here having all shut down
for the season, a few words about the past sea-
son’s work. and the prospects for next year may
‘be Of interest to your readers,

G. W. Taylor & Co have cut about five mil-
lion feet this season, principally for the Messrs.
Strickland. Most of this still remains at the
mill, but has been sold to S. C. Kanady & Co.,
of Toronto, and will be shipped early in the
spring. Mr. Taylor has sold his mill to the
American Lumber Co., of which he is a stock-
holder, and it will be operated by them next
summer under Mr. Taylor’s management, who
intends taking out seven million feet this win-
ter.

The Woodstock Lumber Co. have cut at their
mill here this season about 4,000,000 feet, which
was purchased by McCool & Oliver, of Toronto,
and a large portion of which has already been
shipped by them, This company are getting
out about 4,000,000 feet for next season’s cut.

Chas. Mickle, who last spring purchased the
mill formerly owned by Mr. Tait, has cut about
5,000,000 feet for Messrs. N. & S. Dyment, of
Barrie, and is getting out 5,000,000 feet to be
cut next season for the same firm. Mr. Mickle
added to the capacity of his mill last summer
by putting in an additional engine and pony
saw and he can now cut about 60,000 per day.

Mr. De Blaquiere is building a mill and ex-
pects to cut three or four million feet next sea-
son,

Mr. Cockburn has cut about three million
feet this season which was sold to J. & F. N.
Tennant, of Toronto, and most of which still
remains at the mill. Besides the above Mr.
Cockburn cut about a million feet for other
parties. He intends putting in about four
million feet this winter.

Thomson & Baker, of Hamilton, purchased
C. Mickle’s mill last spring, and after refitting
and improving it have cut about three and a
half million feet, and are getting out four million
feet for next season. This season’s stock is sold
to S. C. Kanady & Co., but very little has been
shipped yet. j

Messrs. Crone & Patton cut two and a half
million feet which was purchased by Bryce
Bros., of Toronto, and about two-thirds of
which has been shipped. They intend running
their mill during the winter in cutting bill stuff,
and are taking out three million feet for next
summer’s cut.

Mr. Tasker, whose mill is about six miles
from Gravenhurst, has cut about four million
feet durjng the past season. Mr. Tasker was
unfortunate in the early part of the season,
being shut down for several weeks on account
of his engine breaking, but after putting in a
new engine he has run day and night and man-
aged to cut all his logs. .

Mr. J. H. Hnll has sold his mill at Lethbridge
and part of his limits to Thos. H. Carr, of
Hendrie. Mr. Carr takes immediate possession
and is going to take out four million feet for
next season.

On the whole the season’s cut has been a large
one amounting to about thirty million feet, most
of which was sold, early in the season, at from
eleven to thirteen dollars per M. mill run.
Most of the saw mills have one or more shingle
machines, and these together with several small
shingle mills have manufactured about 60,000, -
000 shingles.

There is now about eighteen inches of snow
on the level, which is being increased by fresh
falls nearly every day. The lakes are nearly
all frozen over and the boats laid up for the
winter.

Where Some of the Hardwood Goes,

The census report states that there are in the
United States 1,942 establishments for the pro-
duction of agricultural implements. Of these
221 are in Illinois, 265 in New York, 220 in
Pennsylvania, 155 in Ohio, 143 in Michigan.
The total capital employed is $62,315,968;
amount paid in wages, $15,499,114; value of
timber used, $5,791,916 ; value of iron and steel,
$18,424,052 ; value of other materials, $7,878, -
202 ; total 22,094,107. The largest number of
persons eroployed during the year was 49,180,
The total value of all products was $68,373,086,
In 1880 the total product wae $6,842,611, In

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

1860 it was $17,487,960. In 1870, $52,066,875,
During the census year there were made 325,057
cultivators, 131,003 harrows, 280,654 dozen of
hoes, 212,147 dozen of shovels, 308,732 dozen of
hand rakes, 1,361,443 plows, 211,738 dozen of
hay forks, 1,244,264 scythes, 43,717 scythe
snaths; mowers, 72,000; seed-sowers, 20,289,
In 1850, 7,220 persons were employed ; in 1860,
14,8M ; in 1870, 25,249; and in 1880, 49,180,

MIRAMICHI WOOD EXPORT.

We find in lower province journals some in-
teresting statistics of the exports of lumber and
timber from the Miramichi region, New Bruns-
wick. It appears that the total quantity of
deals shipped from Chatham and Newcastle, in
1882 was 115,601,679 superficial feet. A feature
of the business is in recent years the falling off
in the exports from Chatham and the increase
in those from Newcastle. The following figures
show the deal shipments for the two ports in the
last five years :—

Neweastle. Chathan Total.
Sup’ ft. Sup'l ft. Sup'l ft,
ABA siete, Jaca 20,250,000 85,725,000 106,275,000
PTE eoers OOOO 17,580,000 97,089,000 114,639,000
ASSO sereiwaieyis +. 59,650,000 95,393,000 154,893,000
SETS a fa 66,200,000 71,374,000 137,574,000
1882.......... 63,716,000 61,885,679 115,603,679

The traffic was this season carried on by 237
vessels of 136,699 tons, as compared with 281

| vessels of 145,565 tons in the previous year.

All the palings, laths and square timber went
to the United Kingdom. A noticeable feature
of the shipments is the growth to a large extent
of the export to France, as will appear from the
following table. Shipments from the port of
Newcastle were made to the following ports :—

Vs. Ports. Deals, &c. Bds., &c.
100 U. Kingdom........... 46,869,000 3,451,000
25 France......+ .. 12,454,000 235,000
Sei Spaine seesaw ass 1,563,000 182,000
DE Titaliye asa ere alsa nianal ea 790,000 40,000
Se Atiicaniasenncs teurhuss 1,375,000 99,000
Ty AvStralidsisecsis cece vs 650,000
i Bas Welndiesstics ass. 15,000 460,606
Wa StateSacan scans gree 377,000
138 63,716,000 4,844,000

The Chatham Advance supplies the following
figures for both places—Chatham and New-
castle :—

S. F. Deals
Shippers. Vsis. de.

R.A. & J. Stewart......... ces eee MAG 34,217,000
Sao Bee SOW Daily tnisle + o.</cbe.e els aitisyeie o/s 52 23,558,263
Geom McWegdiecindeass + vicle sso Gnbnene 39 21,028,000
Guy, Bevan & Co.... ». covenones ve OL 17,505,416
D. & J. Ritchie & Co 7,994,000
Als MOUVISODNs sits sintiece 7,727,000
Geo. Burchill. ......6<.: 3,572,000

297 115,601,670
The palings and timber shipped were as
follows :—

: Timber Tons

Patlings, pes. Birch. Pine.

R. B. & J. Stewart 440,000 449 628

J. B. Snowball...... re, S78y712 148; 1,107

Guy, Bevan & Co............ 2,657,954 25

A MOriieOMales fa. ve ss Picco ccorton 62 91

D. & J. Ritchie & Co........ 69,000 124 vous
Geo, Burehill, (oie. ec cee wees 9,000 S660

4,054,726 783 1,852

Besides the above, says the St. John Tele-
graph: There were miscellaneous items, many
of which are now in our wood shipments for the
first time, such as 103,315 squares for spools,
106,156 broom handles, 1,163 cubic feet brush
backs, 2,471 feet cloth boards, 570,000 box
shooks, 727 slate frames, 19,000 slate laths, 40,-
980 lath, 32 spars, etc. The cargo of the bark
“Winona,” of 767 tons is to be added. This is
estimated at 650,000 deals.

Comparing the Miramichi shipments of the
last two seasons we find them as follows :—

S. F. Deals Palings — Tons.

Ves. etc. pes. Timber.

T8813. «2 +..281 128,290,875 3,148,853 2,043
TRB 2 iio ots ares 237 115,601,679 4,054,726 2,635

The port of Dalhousie, on the Baie des Chal-
eurs, shipped in 1882 no less than 15,552,000
superficial feet of sawn lumber, and 4,011 tons
timber, in 38 vessels of 20,687 tons. The prin-
cipal shippers from that point were Geo. Moffatt
& Co., R. A. & J. Stewart, and John McNair.

TWENTY-FIVE hundred acres of timbered land
on Sutton Mountain have been bought by a
company from the States. They are putting in
steam mills, and calculate ta employ a large
number of men,

A LARGE LOG CROP.

The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press makes
the following comments on the logging prepar-
ations through its section :—‘‘ The lumbermen
in the northwest are making extensive prepar-
ations for work in the woods this winter. Every
day there are numbers of Jumbermen in St.
Paul, having supplies, teams and logging out-
fits. Without exception those who have been
interviewed state that more logs will be put in
this winter in the pineries of Wisconsin and
Minnesota than have ever been cut in the north-
west during any one season, <A good deals de-
pends, of course, upon favourable weather—
hard freezing followed by a fair amount of snow
but now-a-days the lumbermen do not hang up
their axes and cross-cuts merely because there
are not good snow roads in the woods, for
experience has proved that tramways are about
as economical as any roads that can be main-
tained, So, whether there is plenty of snow or
not, a large log crop is certain. The lumber-
men from the Black, Chippewa, and St. Croix
rivers, in Wisconsin, who purchase supplies in
St. Paul, say that every dollar which can be
secured for logging will be used this winter.
The same is claimed by lumbermen who operate
in the Minnesota pineries. The general opinion
isthat, notwithstanding the certainty of a large
crop, prices next season will continue high, a
vero great demand from the northwest being
expected.

River Pirates.

Many of the mill men doing business on the
Ohio river see the necessity of uniform laws, in
the states bordering on the river, bearing on
timber stealing. Timber thieves are abundant
and the laws in many cases are inadequate for
their punishment. If a man enter the barn of
a lumber manufacturer and steal his horse, it is
a common understanding that he ought to be
punished, and laws are framed to that end, but
the same man can pick up logs belonging to
other parties, and, if detected, goes really scot-
free. This is all wrong, and known to be wrong
by the law-makers of the different states as well
as by the mill men themselves. It was proposed
by a manufacturer, who recently visited the
Lumberman, that a convention of the river ill
men be called and action taken to induce the
passage of the necessary laws in the legislatures
of the several states, and that the laws be uni-
form. Everything that these river pirates can
lay their hands on they spirit away. One gen-
tleman lost $2,000 worth of chains and ropes in
rafting, which is only a single instance of sever-
al that could be named, If the mill men would
move in the matter the results might well re-
pay them.—Worthwestern Lumberman.

Old Trees.

The oldest tree in the world, so far as any one
knows, is the Bo tree of the sacred city of
Amarapoora in Burmah. It was planted 288
B. C., and is therefore now 2,170 years old. Sir
James Emerson Tennent gives reasons for be-
lieving that the tree is really of this wonderful
age, and refers to historic documents in which
it is mentioned at different dates, as 182 A. D.,
223 A. D., and so onto the presentday. ‘To
it,” says Sir James, “‘ kings have even dedicated
their dominions in testimony of a belief that it
is a branch of the identical fig-tree under which
Buddha reclined at Urumelaya when he under-
went his apotheosis.” Its leaves are carried
away as streamers by pilgrims, but it is too
sacred to touch with a knife, and therefore they
are only gathered when they fall. The King
oak in Windsor forest, England, is 1,000 years
old

Port Hope Shipments.

The following is furnished us by Mr. Coch-
rane, harbor master, as the amount of lumber,
shingles, laths, cedar posts, railway ties, and
telegraph poles shipped from this port during
the present season :—E. S. Vinden—14,399,800
feet of lumber, 25,6643 M. shingles ; 9893 M.
laths ; 24 cords of cedar posts ; 37,725 railway
ties. Alonzo W. Spooner—25,146,266 feet of
lumber ; 1,2484 M. laths. Irwin & Boyd—14,-
058,451 feet of lumber. R. C. Smith—4,297,-
595 feet of lumber. J. Leverich—2,341,370 feet
of lumber ; 6,3804 M. shingles ; 6974 M. laths;
406 cords of cedar posts ; 1,218 telegraph poles,

571

WOODEN JOKES.

The following is published in the Queens’
College Journal :—

DEAK Sine,—A certain student received in an envel-
ope, which contained nothing following
had been cut from a newspaper.
vexation of epirit wrote

else, the
paragraph which
And out of sheer madness and
the following reply :

Because John Timber married Annie Pine, recently,
the Des Moines Registrar calls it a “‘ regular wooden
wedding to begin on.” We suppose they will board
while the honey-moon beams on them, for rafter thet
they will decide weather boarding or housekeeping is
preterable —Burlington Hawkeye. We hate to amber
up this column, but must really ask, will the firet boy
be a chip of the old block ’—New York News. We are

rejoiced to hear that they still adore each other. She
bangs but does nothing that wood-shed reproach upon
the household.—Yaweob Strauss. We hope their
children will be spruce and seldom require a shingle.—
Hubbard's Printers’ Advertiser. We pre fir knot to
say anything, but we would like to know if we maplease
inquire whether people can beecheerful under such cir-
cumstances ?—Oil City Derrick. Yew may take the
elm, as this has gone far enough.—Erratic Enrique.
Oak come, now, give the boys a chance and we willow
you our thanks.—Yawcob Strauss. We concedar that
one rod of this stuff would make about five and a-half
lumber yards.—Printers’ Miscellany. We opine the
boys mahugany of their daughters.—Welland Telz-
graph. If ever the girls get married, white wood be
the most appropriate dress and box wood be the nicest
color for trimming, and pulp making the best business
to engage in.

The person who wood send such a treemendous list
of wood be puns through the post to a student who is
a boarder ought to be ashamed of himself, and as for
the individual who framed the first, may the sun in the
firmament neverafter cast its beams upon him. May
the elments combine against him. May his palmy
days knot return, When dogs bark at him, may the
street boy call out sycamore! May he cedarkly and
pine away for his offence. I would feel rejoist if some
one wood bined him and pitch him into a hole, and
wood pile earth upon him. Or I stand treet toany one
who woodland him in limbo, where he might rail and
balsam, but I would say, let him stick, as it wood beech-
aritable to allow him thyme forrestimating his atrocity
fully, Finally maple-station cease, and let him be
berryed with the b-roots, where a dog-wood knot be

Yours truly,
JEU DE Mors.

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Artificial Lumber.

Another new process of manufacturing artific-
ial lumber is announced, this time discovered
by a German inventor. Common cellulose,
sawdust, starch, and wheat flour are the con-
stituents. The cellulose is reduced to a pulp in
water, the starch and flour added, and the
whole boiled till it resembles a glue. An equal
quantity of sawdust is then added, and the
whole shaped in iron moulds under enormous
pressure. The resulting product is said to re-
semble lumber, to be easily worked with saw or
file, colored, polished or covered with veneer,
and to be almost unaffected by the lapse of time,
except to become harder.—Bujfalo Lumber
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

THE CASE OF McLAREN V. CALDWELL.

Orrawa, Nov. 28.—When the judges took
their seats in the Supreme Court this morning
the Chief Justice, Sir William Ritchie, announc-
‘ed that they would deliver judgemnt in the case

_ of McLaren, appellant (plaintiff), against Cald-
well, respondent (defendant), before hearing
arguments on the cases remaining on the
docket.

LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CASE.

Vice-Chancellor Proudfoot bad granted an
injunction to restrain the defendant from inter-
fering wijh or using the improvements placed
by the plaintiff in certain streams of which he
claimed to be seized in fee'simple, and the user
of which, the defendant contended, was a com-
mon right under the common and statute law of
Ontavio. The Court of Appeal of the Province
by a majority reversed this decision, Chier
Justice Spragee and Justices Patterson and Mor-
vison concurring in over-ruling the court below,
and Mr, Justice Burton dissenting from their
view. The present appeal was from tee judg-
ment of the Ontario Conrt of Appeal, and was
argued at a former term.

THE CHIEF JUSTIORN’S RULING.

The Grier Justice said the plaintiff contend-
ed that the stream where it passed through his
property was by nature non-navigable and non-
floatable at all seasons of the year, but that he
had by artificial means placed upon his own
property certaiu improvements, which enabled
him to convey logs and other timber down the
stream. The main question at issue was, Had
the appellant the legal right to prevent the re-
spondent, as he sought to do, from driving his
logs through these improvements on the streams
which were the appellant’s own property ; or
were those particular streams merely a part of
the public highway, and therefore open to the
respondent in common with the appellant and
the public generally? It could not be disputed
that if the portions of the streams in which the
improvements were made were incapable of
floating lumber, and if the fee simple of the
streams was in the plaintiff, the public had no
right at common law, and the plaintiff had the
sole right to deal with the bed and soil of the
stream, and to place such improvements thereon
as he might choose. While it seemed to be
admitted that the public had no right to make
improvements on the plaintiff's property, it was
claimed that in Ontario, where streams of the
character mentioned were rendered capable of
being navigated by such improvements made by
the owner of the soil whereby lumber could be
floated, the public had an absolute common right
to use such improvements, and to deal with the
streams as if they had been naturally floatable
—that is, floatable without the aid of artificial
improvements ; and this right, it was also claim-
ed was conferred on the public by virtue of the
Act 12 Vie., cap. 87, sec. 5, which was repealed
by the Consolidated Statutes of Canada in 1859,
but practically re-enacted by cap. 48, Con-
solidated Statutes of Upper Canada,
secs. 15 and 16. There could, he apprehended,
be no doubt that statutes which encroached on
the rights of the subject, whether as regarded
person or property, should receive a strict con-
struction ; and if a reasonable doubt remained
which could not be: satisfactorily solved, the
subject was entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
In other words, he should not be injured in
person or property unless the intentions of the
Legislature to interfere with the one or take
away the other was clearly and unequivocally
indicated. If the appellant’s contentions were
correct, they were met at the outset with the in-
congruity of the Legislature enacting that it
should be lawful to float saw logs, &c., down
streams on which, from the nature of the streams
themselves, it was impossible that saw logs, &e.,
could be floated down. In other words, it seem-
ed most unreasonable to suppose that the Legis-
lature intended to legislate that it should be
lawful to do what, in the very nature of things,
could not be done. Was it not more reasonable
to assume that the Legislature was dealing witha
subject capable of being used in the manner in
which it was declared that it should be lawful
to use the same, and that its language had re-
ference to all streams on or through which saw
logs or other timber could be floated, either at
all times or during the spring, summer, or
autumn freshets ? In his ppinion the ebject of

the Legislature was, in the interest of the lum-
ber business, not to interfere with or take away
private rights, but to settle by statutory de-
claration any doubts which might exist as to

streams incapable of being navigated by boats,

&e., but capable of floating saw logs and lumber

at certain seasons of the year. Having estab-
lished this right, the Act went on to prevent
the obstruction of such streams, subject, never-
theless, to the restrictions imposed in respect to
erections for milling purposes on such streams.
It was not, however, intended to interfere with
private property and private rights in streams
which were not by nature floatable at any
season of the year. If the Legislature contem-
plated what was now contended, or intended
the enactment to apply to streams non-floatable
at all seasons, as there was no pretence for say-
ing that the Legislature had conferred any right
on the parties to enter upon private property
and make the non-floated floatable, and as they
could not be made practically floatable by the
operation of law, what was the precise legal
right conferred on the public by the statute?
Was it not obvious that the only effect
of the enactment could be in such case to
confer upon the public the right to use
private property and the improvements thereon
without making any compensation therefor ?
Was it then possible to infer any such intention
from this section? Had it been present to the
mind of the Legislature it should have been,
and, he thought, wuld have been, clearly and
unequivocally expressed. It was not possible
to attribute to the Legislature an intention
unreasonable and unjust, unless the language
was so unambiguous as to admit no doubt of the
construction. He could not appreciate the
force of the parallel drawn by Mr. Justice
Patterson in regard to public highways, which
appeared to him entirely to beg fhe question.
Dealing with the contention for the right to use
the improvements of a proprietor by which he
had made the stream floatable, the Chief
Justice said the proprietor of a non-floatable
stream who made it floatable for lis own use
did no more than if he made a canal through
his property. He did not interfere with his
neighbour; he took nothing from the public,
who could neither use the stream as it was nor
improve it, except by the permission of the
proprietor, and to whom, having no right or pro-
perty therein, the improvements of the proprie-
tor did no wrong.” It had been urged that to
allow an individual to shut up a stream 100
miles long because he might own small portions
of the stream not floatable because of its nature,
would be most unreasonable. But it seemed to
him to be forgotten that it was not the individual
who shut up the stream; it was closed by
natural impediments which prevented such por-

ments the owner might make or place thereon.
His Lordship cited the case of Horack vy. Wor-
ship (Best & Smith’s reports), and he pointed
out that he was strengthened in the conclusion
to which he had arrived by the weight of
judicial opinion in Ontario as expressed in the
Boyle case by Chief Justice Draper, Chief
Justice Richards, Justice A. Wilson and J.
Wilson; in Whelan v. McLachlin, and McLellan
v. Baker, by Chief Justice Hagarty and Justices
Gwynne and Galt ; and in this case by Vice-
Chancellor Proudfoot and Mr. Justice Burton,
while Chief Justice Spragge and Justices
Patterson and Morrison had overruled the
previous decisions on the point. There were
thus three Chief Justices and five Justices in
support of the conclusion at which he had arriy-
ed, and one Chief Justice and two Justices tak-
ing a different view. In 1877, in the Revised
Statutes, the Legislature, after all the decisions
to which he had referred in previous cases had
been given, re-enacted chapter 48 of the Con-
solidated Statutes of Upper Canada, passed in
1859, in almost the same words, as follows —
All persons may during the spring, summer,

and autumn freshets float saw logs and other
timber and rafts and crafts down all streams ;
and no person shall by felling trees or placing
any obstruction in or across any such stream,
prevent the passage thereof.
a convenient apron, slide, gate, lock, or opening
in any such dam or other structure made for the
passage of saw logs and other timbers, rafts,
and crafts authorized to be floated down such
stream as aforesaid, no person using any such
stream in the manner and for the purpose afore-
said shall alter, injure, or destroy any such
dam or other useful erection in or uvon the bed
or across the stream, or do any unnecessary
damage thereto or on the hanks thereof.” His
Lordship continued that considering then that
up to the time of the passage of this Act all the
decisions of all the judges, with no dissenting

In case there is

voice, from 1863 to 1876 placed upon this enact-

ment, the construction now contended for by the

plaintiff, if such construction was so clearly

contrary to the intention of the Legislature, so

.
opposed to the development of the Crown
domain, so antagonistic to the interests of the
public, and so disastrous to the lumber business
of the country as had been so strongly urged
before this court, could it be supposed that the

Legislature, in revising the statutes after such

a series of decisions, and only one year after the
latest decision, would not have corrected the
judiciary either by a declaration or by new
legislation, and have indicated in unmistakable
language that private improvements of non-
floatable streams should be subject to public use,
and more particularly so if such user was to be
without compensation ?

As they had not done

so, did not this case come with great force with-
in the canon of construction that where a clause
of any Act of Parliament which had received a
judicial interpretation, on account of competent
jurisdiction, was re-enacted in the same terms,
the Legislature was to be deemed to have
adopted that interpretation? In this case he
thought that there was unusual cause for treat-
ing a re-enactment of this nature as a legisla-

tions being used for floatable purposes, and as it
was admitted that the public had no right to
enter upon such portions, and make improve-
ments whereby the stream might in those parts
be made navigable or floatable, by reason of its
being private property, the stream was as
effectually shut up by the refusal to permit an
entry and improvements to be made as if the

proprietor had not made the improvements, and
had prohibited the use thereof by the public.
If the use of the non-floatable portions was as
necessary for carrying on lumbering operations
as had been urged, the obvious means to secure
the right to use the privileged improvements
would seem to be to obtain, by payment of an
adequate consideration, the proprietor’s per-
mission ; or if the streams were unimproved,
to secure from the proprietor the privilege of
making such necessary improvements; or, failing
the ability to accomplish this, if the develop-
ment of the public domain, the exigencies of
the public, or the business of the country was of
such paramount importance in comparison with
individual loss or inconvenience as to require
that private rights should give way to the
public interest, the remedy should be sought at
the hands of the Legislature, through the in-
strumentality of expropriation, with suitable
and full compensation under and by virtue of
the right of emin nt domain. There was noth-
ing to justify the conclusion that the Legislature
intended in this provision to exercise its right
of eminent domain, and expropriate the pro-
perty of owners of streams not by nature navi-

gable or floatable, er any property or improve:

tive approval of the judicial interpretation, and
for holding that such interpretation should not

be shaken, when it was considered that the Leg-

islature, from such judicial proceedings, must

have known that the property was purchased
and held and an investment made based on the

claim that by such judicial decisions private

rights and property had been established and

secured, As was said by Lord Ellenborough a

long time ago, it was no new thing for a court

to hold itself percluded in matters respecting
real property by former decisions, upon ques-
tions in respect of which if it were integral,they
would probably have come to a different con-
clusion ; and if an adherence to such a determin-
ation was likely to“be attended by inconvenience
it was amatter to be remedied by the Legislature,
Which was able to prevent michief in future and
to obviate all inconvenient consequences which
were likely to result from it as to purchases
already made. Tor all these reasons he was of
the opinion that the contention of the plaintiff
should be sustained, and that the decision of the
Court of Appeal of Ontario was not correct,
and the judgement of Vice-Chancellor Proud-
foot should be affirmed, His Lordship further

held that the Vice-Chancellor was right in re-
jecting evidence to prove that all sieams in
Upper Canada were non-floatably at the time
of the passing of the various Acts. He could *
find nothing to justify him in saying that the
Vice-Chancellor arrived at a wrong conclusion
from the evidence, and declared in reference to
the contention that the Attorney-Generay
should have been made a party to the suit that
if this was a private property’the Attorney-
General had no more tono with the question
than any other member of the community, and
there was no more reason why he should be
made a party than in any other controversy
between pfivate individuals as to the rights of
private property.

Mr. Justice Strong said it would be hope-
less to attempt from the evidence to impugn
the finding that the stream in question was not
floatable in the state of nature. The appellant’s
title to the lands, including the beds, had not
been seriously disputed, and had been establish-
ed by the production of his title deeds. The
question was therefore purely one of law,
whether under common law or under the - *
Revised Statues of Ontario, chapter 115,sections —
1 and 2, the respondent had the right of passage
which he claimed for his logs and timber
through the artificial waterways constructed
by the plaintiff on the streams in
question. As to the right under common
law, he reiterated the decision of Chief
Justice Macaulay in the Queen v. Myers,
3 U.C.C.P., 305; Mr. Angell on “The
Law of Highways,” and Chancellor Kent
in his commentory, but declared that in a case
like the present, where the owner of the bed
and banks of a private stream, which in the
whole or part of its course was i ient to
afford a passage even for logs or timber, had by
artificial means made it navigable, it did not,
for that reason, become liable to a servitude of
passage for the benefit of the public, as in the
case of a stream naturally adapted to such a use.
The principle upon which the common law had
made streams originally navigable liable to such
use was that a burthen was imposed for the
public benefit when the property was originally |
vested in their own and passed to other owners,
while if this were applied to streams which
were made navigable by artificial means the re-
sult would be to appropriate property to public
use without compensation, and this would be an
encroachment on private rights which the laws
not only never sanctioned, but sought in every
way to avoid, in the casé of positive written
laws, by adopting strict rules of construction.
He cited several American cases In support of
his view as to the right under chapter 115 of the
Revised Statutes. His Lordship was of opinion
that all streams did not embrace artificially con
structed private streams such as those in ques-
tion. To consider otherwise would be in direct
violation of the sound and well-recognized canon
of construction which had been acted upon,
from Barrington’s case down to the Western -
Counties Railway Company against the Wind-
sor and Annapolis Railway Company, namely,
that statutes were to be so constructed as to
avoid any infringement of private rights unless
by express words or necessary implication such
construction was unavoidable. To comply
with the first condition, streams in whole or in
part artificially constructed would have to be ex-
pressly mentioned, and they would not neces-
sarily be implied unless there were no other
streams to which the Act could apply. He
cited the case of Horrock v. Wiship, which he
said fully warranted the court in adopting a
construction so restrictive as to prevent the
statute operating indegradation of private rights
of property. He could not hold that
the, Legislature intended to authorize a
gross violation of the rights of private
property without giving compensation to its
owners, and he was therefore of the opinion
that the appeal must be allowed and the onder
of the Court of Appeal be reversed, thus restor-
ing the original decree of the Court of Chancery,
with costs to the appellant in all the courts.

Mr. Justice Fournier, Mr. Justice Henry,and =~
Mr. Justice Tascherean concurred.

Mr. Justice GWYNNE said it appeared to him
impossible to arrive at any other conclusion
than that which the learnd Vice-Chancellor had
come to, Without the improvements made by

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Court of Appeal must be reversed, the appeal
allowed to the judgment of the Court of Chan-
cery restored, with costs to the appellant in this
court and the courts below.

Jugment was entered accordingly.

the appellant in the streams referred to, none
of them was capable of being used, even in times
of freshets or high water, although one of them,
the Mississippi, below the place where the im-
provements were made, came within the char-

acter of a navigable stream. It was either ad-

mitted or sufficiently established in the evidence

that the appellant was seized in fee simple of

the lands on each side of the streams adjoining

the improvements, and though there was an at-

tempt to affect the absolute perfection of the

title, it was not disputed that he was in poss-

ession qua owner in fee at the time of the wrong-

doing. Tt is contended that though the
appellant was seized in fee of the lands where

the improvements were made, still the beds of

the streams were vested in the Crown for the

public use, and in virtue of such seisin in the

Crown the respondents were entitled to float

their logs by means of the improvements refer-

red to. There was, however, no reservation ot

the beds, which the grant of the lands abutting

on the streams carried with it, and he therefore

held that the appellant was seized in fee of the

beds of the streams. He cited the judgment of

Sir James Macaulay in the Queen v. Meyers,

which was given four years after the passage of

. the 12th Vic., cap. 87, on which the respondents
relied, but with a full knowledge of the inten-

tion of that, it never entered into the head of

that learned Chief Justice that private streams

which had been made navigable only by a large
expenditure of private capital on private pro-

perty were to be included in its provisions.

The Court of Common Pleas of Ontario had ex-

. pressed a similar view on two occasions, but the
Court of Appeal for Ontario had in this case

held that all these decisions were wrong. Apart

from the imputation of arbitary interference by

the Legislature with private property without

the compensation which such a decision invol-

ved, a careful investigation of the language of

the statutes and the decisions of the courts led

clearly to the conclusion that the decision of

> the Court of Appeal could not be upheld.
There has not been a judicial decision as to the

rights of the public at common law in streams

down which lumber might be floated before the

passage of the 12th Vic., cap. 87, and the object

. of that enactment was to estabiish the right to
float lumber down such streams, a right which
four years afterwards the Court of Common
Pleas, in the Crown against Meyer, declared
that the common law, applied to the peculiar
circumstances of Upper Canada, was suffcient-
ly elastic to secure jure naturali, and the de-
pending on the effect of user. It was impossible
that the Legislature could have designed to de-
clare that it should be lawful for all persons to
float logs down streams which had not sufficient
capacity to allow logs to be floated down, even
7 during freshets, or to prevent persons erecting
q improvements on streams which had not such
capacity. Neither could it be believed that
they intended to provide that if a person was to
make a stream not having that capacity capable
of floating logs, &e., the stream should at once
become open to the public, without the consent,

_ molestation, or interruption of the person who
= had expended his own property, and without
any compensation whatever to the owner of the

Ae ie

$ property who had constructed the works on his
} property which gave the stream its capacity by
‘ artificial means. It was impossible to apply such

an interpretation without an utter disregard of

; the plainest principles of justice. Other Acts
5 showed that the Legislature could have had no
such intention, as they, with scrupulous regard

for private rights, provided that no man should
: be interfered with in the enjoyment of his pri-

z vate rights without his consent, and without
full compensation. It was, therefore, imposs-
4 ible to hold that all persons were entitled to use
as public private works erected on private pro

i perty without the consent, and in fact against
= the will, of the person who had constructed
them. His Lordship was, therefore, of opinion
a that the plain, natural, and reasonable construc-
2 tion of the 12th Vic., cap. 87, was that the ob
q ject was simply to prevent any person, even
; the owner in fee, of the bed of the stream, by

: any obstruction erected across the stream, from
interfering with free passage down the stream
of such logs or timber as, but for the obstruc-
tion, could be floated down, although they could
be floated during freshets, The judgment of the

applied for leave to appeal to the foot of the
Throne.

the same answer he gave to all such applications.
The court could neither grant the leave nor re-
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. DEC. 15, 1882.

Art the shingle mill of Messrs. Gunter & Co.,
at Marble Cove, N. B., the daily production is

about 12,000, which will shortly be increased.

LUMBERING is active in

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| A Crnomnarr furniture maker recently re-
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veneers, and another firm in the same city cut

18,000 feet out of a French burl.

Messrs. McLachlan Bros.’ mills at Arnprior
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drying 50,000 feet of lumber per day.

Tur lumber mills of Mr, Peter McLaren at
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THE Lumberman’s Gazette of Dec. 6, says :—

ber daily, and the old mill 185,000 feet since
tarting up in the spring. On Wednesday, the

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196,000 feet of lumber. The effect of the late
lemocratic victory, perhaps.

Westmoreland
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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

Tur lumber sawing season just closed was
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on the St. Croix river, The low head of water
in the river during the entire fall was unprece-
dented. Several manufacturers were left with
important orders unfilled. The amount of lum-
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not exceed one-half the average of late years.—
Calais (Me.) Times.

Among the local industries of Bath, Me., is
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hanks, the last being the nautical name for the
rings confining the sails to the stays. The
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inch,

Tux London Timber Trades Journal says :—
Next years’ importation of American pine
joinery work will be watched with no small
amount of interest by those engaged in the
business. Several innovations are promised us,
planed boards and scantlings being among them,
It is said that some of the Swedish mills pur-
pose responding, and there can be no doubt that
next year will usher in a vigorous competition
in the joinery department. Already the Swed-
ish mills have been experimenting in new forms
of manufacture.

The London Limber Prades Journal says :—
The shipments of pine deals of well-known
brands, such as ‘‘Gilmour’s,” ‘ Eddy’s,”
* Booth’s,” &e., have come forward as usual
good in quality this year. Notably has this
been the case with the 8rd quality. Some other
shipments have, however, been most unfairly
bracked, and we have seen parcels of 3rds little,
if any, better than the 4ths should be. The
opinion is taking firm root amongst consumers
of pine deals that the difference in the quality
of 3rds and 2nds is not marked to the extent
that the serious difference in cost would sug-
gost,

Tue Lumberman’s Gazette of Bay City, Mich-
igan, says:—The lumber manufacturing and
shipping season has practically closed for the
season of 1882. All, or nearly all of the mills
have shut down, and the shipping season is also
over. Among the mills that have shut down
during the week are those of John G. Own,
Murphy & Dorr, Whitney & Batchelor, and the
Saginaw Lumber & Salt Co.’ Murphy & Dorr
cut between 19,000,000 and 20,000,000 feet ;
the Whitney & Batchelor mill about 31,000,000
feet ; the Crow Island about 20,000,000 feet,
and John G. Owen’s about 15,000,000 feet. A
commission dealer informs us that he has pur-
chased within the past 15 days about 15,000,000
feet of lumber to hold over, at $7.25@8,50; $15
@17, and $36@38.

Tur Moncton Z'imes says :—Peters Bros. next
spring intend erecting a large three story wood-
enware factory corner Queen and Wesley
streets, just above their present factory. They
have purchased the lot of land at the corner for
that purpose. The frame has been ordered.
The old building, or at least part of it, will be
used as a storeroom for lumber, ete. The im-
proved building has been rendered necessary by
a constantly increasing business. The firm are
now receiving large orders from all points north,
and as far as Nova Scotia. They are putting
together a large number of sashes for Campbell-
ton. There will be no cessation in building
operations by this firm this winter, except in the
most severe weather. Several buildings are
now under way and figures have been given for
seyeral others.

PRAIRIE TREE PLANTING,

The importance of tree planting cannot be
too strongly urged upon the agriculturists of
this country, where the supply of timber is al-
ready scarce and rapidly growing beautifully
less. Doubtless the length of time that must
necessarily be taken to produce profitble results
deters many from entering upon this branch of
industry, but in localities where timber is
especially scarce the next couple of years will

prove that this is a serious mistake,

ance of the homestead,

cost of investment.

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MEASURING LUMBER,
T'o the Editor of the Canada Lumberman.

GENTLEMEN,—Will you be kind enough to
give me the rule of the trade in selling 1, 14, 14,
Do we take
the surface and add the fraction, or add the

14 and 2 in. lumber of all widths.

fraction on each voard,
Your immediate reply will oblige,
Yours truly,
Clifford, Dec. 1, 1882. F. S. DOBSON,

[There is no 1}inch lumber reckoned as such,
As to the other dimen-
sions the fractions would be added to the super-
ficies, but in practice this is done by means of
board rules which give the quantities in each

unless cut expressly,

piece.—Ep, Canapa LUMBERMAN.]
$—_=_—_—_=_——

CULLING LUMBER.
T’o the Editor of the Canada Lumberman.

DEAR Srrs,—It would interest some of your
many subscribers if you would kindly, either
through yourself or some competent correspon-
dent, give us the correct definition of what con-
stitutes a mill cull, as there is a vague im-
pression amongst many mill men that only
defects, such as wormy timber, rotten or shaky
timber are about the only causes for which lum-
To put the matter
plainer, if a piece of lumber is rendered useless
for the purpose for which it is intended by bad

ber should be mill culled.

sawing, is it a mill cull ?

By answering this you will oblige many

readers.
Truly Yours,

Toronto, Dec. 9, 1882. LUMBERMAN.

[Such a defect in sawing as is mentioned
might cause its rejection as a mill cull or its
Some of the other
defects alluded to, such as worm holes, would
not necessarily place it in mill culls unless very
No absolute definition of mill culls is
generally recognized, and cullers’ judgments
may differ. We would be glad if any of our
subscribers would give their experience on this

being placed in a low grade,

bad.

subject.—Ep, Canapa LuMBERMAN,]
LSS

LUMBERING STREAMS,
The Buffalo Lwmber World says:—Over in

Canada the Supreme Court has just rendered a
decision in a case which is of particular interest

tolumbermen. It seems that the plaintiff, for
the purpose of floating logs and timber into a
river near Ottawa, made improvements in cer-
tain tributary streams which passed through his
property, and obtained from the Court of Chan-
cery an injunction restraining defendant from
making use of these streams, The case was ap-
pealed to the Court of Appeal of Ontario,
which reversed the decision of the Court of
Chancery on the ground that streams are a part
of the public highway, open to the defendant as
well as the plaintiff. Now the Supreme Court
unanimously confirms the decision granting the
injunction, on the ground that the streams in a
state of nature were not navigable or floatable,
and having been rendered so by the plaintiff by
artificial means, the defendant has no right to
their use, That is, the courts have decided

SSS

There are
several varieties of trees that grow very rapidly
in this country and wherever they have been
planted and received ordinary care the results
have been very gratifying. In the Little Sas-
katchewan district several farmers have com-
menced planting on a small scale with good
prospects of success, and one gentleman in the
county of Minnedosa has a plantation of young
soft maples of about three years’ growth which
have attained a remarkable size for such a short
period. The prairie farmer can make no better
investment than to purchase a liberal number of
young trees and plant them on his property.
They need very little care and after a couple of
years’ growth begin to afford shelter from the
sweeping winds, besides improving the appear-
Of course it would
be some years before they would return
any direct profit, but the advantages al-
ready pointed out would more than repay the
The agricultural societies
would be rendering a great service by taking
steps to urge this important subject upon the
consideration of the farmers.— Winnipeg Times.

that where a stream passing through private
property is navigable in its natural condition, it
is open to the public use; but when it is only
made navigable by improvements conducted at
the expense of the owners of the property, they
have the right to its exclusive use, This is
good sense as well as good law, and no doubt
the courts of the United States would adhere to
a similar rule,
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MICHIGAN OPERATIONS.

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—In conversa-
tion with a leading lumberman last week a
Gazette representative learned that’ extensive
preparations have been made by mill men this
fall for lumbering by rail from their camps in
the woods north, Owing to the shortage in the
Tittabawassee and other booms it will be im-
possible, he said, to supply the hundred or so
mills of the Saginaw Valley at the commence-
ment of the season, and consequently the M. C.
railroad authorities have been actively engaged
in putting side tracks into the camps in the
northern woods and making slips into the booms
of mills in West Bay City, in order to supply
by rail the deficiency left by the boom shortage.
Tracks have been laid into nearly all of Mosher
& Fisher's camps contiguous to the Mackinaw
division ot the M. C. railroad. Sage & Co., in
the vicinity of Beaver lake are doing the same,
and many of the east side mills which manufac-
ture at all extensively are following suit, Dur-
ing the last season the operations in logs and
lumber on the Mackinaw division have been en
ormous, compared with any previous season
since the road was built and the trade in that
line will be more than double in 1883, Lumber-
men anticipate a strong demand for dry lumber
during the winter and next spring, and the
winter shipments east will, in all probability,
far exceed those of any season for years past,

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RUSSIAN FORESTRY.

The Buffalo Lumber World says :—Russia has
a very complete system of forestry. There are
762 large Government Forestry stations under
the general charge of an equal number of edu-
cated Directors, most whom are college gradu-
ates who have taken lessons in the Forestry
Schools in a post-graduate way. These forests
contain over 300,000,000 acres without including
an acre of thesparsely covered tracts on the north-
ern Tundras. These are divided into 12,502
named forests, which are under the management
of the 762 Directors. A part of these Govern-
ment forests are of native growth, but all of the
central and southern provinces have immense
plantations of trees best suited to the somewhat
varied steppes. In some places the plantations
are almost exclusively of Scotch pine, in others
of oak, birch, basswood, elm, ete. Mixed
planting is not counted best asa general rule.
In the steppe sections the planting has been
done with the main idea of modifying the
climate, and new stations are now being organ-
ized in portions where the present rainfall is
only six inches per annum, and even drifting
sands are being planted with saliz acutifolia,
to be followed, as soon as the surface is covered
with pine.

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Tree Culture.

H. W. S. Cleveland, in his important pam"
phlet on “The Culture and Management of
our Native Forests,” says that we must learn to
imitate nature in our methods of cultivation if
we would grow new forests successfully. The
primary point is to keep the trunks of the tree
shaded. Nature does this by massing the plants
closely together in the forests, so that they
shade each other, or by giving a a wide spread
of limbs with low heads to trees in the open. It
also protects the cambium layer with thick de-
posits of old bark, and we endanger the health
of the tree when we scrape that off. Another
important point is to keep the roots well mulch-
ed, as nature does with old leaves, thick mould
and mosses in the forest ; and a third point is
to protect the trees well from the southwest
wind—the breeze which, with its drying heat,
is the most damaging to the vitality of the tree.
Th illustration of the vitality of this rule Mr.
Cleveland points to the greater luxuriance and
variety of plant life on the east side of seas and
lakes than on the west side,—Zwmberman’s
Gasctte,

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THE CANADA

THE TRADE OF ARCHANGEL.

From Messrs. Gribanoff, Fontaines & Co’s
annual circular, just received, we gather that
the total quantity of deals exported during the
\present year amounts to 306,478 std. doz.,
against 294,885 std, doz in 1881, and 420,250 std.
.doz. in 1880; the average of 1876 to 1879 was
equal to 322,661 std. doz. Of this quantity
"271,760 std. doz. of the deals were exported to
‘Great Britain and Ireland, and the remainder
—34,718—to various continental jorts. The
shippers of the goods this year, with the pro-
portionate quantity in std, doz, each shipped,
are as follows :—White Sea Company, 76,015;
F. Scholtz, 62,857; HE. H. Brandt & Co,, 61,-
592; N. Russanoff & Co.. 54,228; Gribanoff,

Fontaines & Co., 35,552; G. Pochinkoff, 7,734 ;
S. Lemiahoff, 5,660; and sundry firms, 2,840.

In anticipation of next year’s supply. Messrs.
Gribanoff, Fontaines & Co. remark in their re-
port that, ‘“‘judging by the supply of logs
brought down last summer, and now available
for winter cutting, next year’s shipments will
‘be about equal to those of the past season ; but,
as regards future years, prospects are far from
favourable, the Government having again im.
posed a considerable addition to the excise duty,
which exporters cannot afford to grant, and un-
less the difference is quickly adjusted, the mills
will have to be stopped next year.”

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BAPID GROWTH OF TIMBER TREES.

A writer in the Canadian Horticultural re-
ports that he has a field of black walnut trees
two feet in circumference. that are 12 years old.
From this the rapidity of growth of this wood
and their value for raising as timber trees can
be calculated.

The writer of this item knows a black oak
near his residence that is now 16% feet in cir-
eumference, that is about 26 years old.

Catalpas 3 years from seed and undisturbed
all that time, are now four inches in diameter,
others seven years old are 10 inches in diameter,
and 22 feet high. The speciosa or hardy catal-
pa has withstood a cold winter of 32 degrees
below zero, without a loss of even the tip of a
branch. The timber from this tree is of the
most enduring kind, it grows with equal facility
from seeds or cuttings, the flowers are very fra-
grant and beautiful, and the whole tree forms
a very desirable ornament to any plantation.

It is not a good sidewalk tree, though often
used for that purpose, and thrives best in groves
or special plantations, grown close, in cool,
moist bottomlands, though it wi'l do well in

upland soil.
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The Ottawa Valley Cut.

The lumbering operations the past season in
the Ottawa Valley have turned out most suc-
cessful, The Free Press gives the following as
the cut -—E. B. Eddy’s South Shore and Hull
mills, 100,000,000 feet ; J. R. Booth, 50,000,000
feet ; Perley & Pattee, 50,000,000 feet ; Bronson
& Weston, 60,000,000 feet ; Levi Young, 20,000-
000 feet ; Sherman, Lord & Hurdman, 20,000,-
000 feet ; Rochester’s 10,000,000 feet ; Mason’s
5,000,000 feet ; Gilmour & Co. 70,000,000 feet ;
McClymont, New Edinburgh, 50,000,000 feet ;
McLaren & Co., ditto, 50,000,000 feet ; W. C.
Edwards & Co. Rockland 60,000,000 feet ; J. A.
Cameron’s, North Nation, 25,000,000 feet ; Con-
ro@iPr0., Deschene, 25,000,000 feet ; McLaugh-
lin Bros., Arnprior,70,000,000 feet; Gillies Bros.,
Braeside. 55,000,000 feet; McLaren Bros.,
Buckingham, 65,000,000 feet; sundry others,
15,000,000 feet. Total cut, 800,000,000 feet.

ee

Braconnot’s process, as described in an Aus-
trian paper, consists in mixing sawdust careful-
with an equal weight of sulphuric acid, not al-
lowing the mixture to get hot; and after a
while diluting the paste mass with water and
heating to boiling. When decomposition is
complete, the acid is neutralized with carbonate
of lime, and the glucose thus obtained is fer-
mented in the usual manner by adding yeast to
it. Owing to the large amount of sulphuric
acid required, the results hitherto obtained do

_ not favor its introduction on a large scale. But,
on the other hand, the manufacture of spirits
Ll

may perhape be profitably combined with paper

making. '
_ Very satisfactory resylts were obtained by

Bochet and Machard by treating wood shavings
with hydrochloric acid under pressure. They
treated 4,000 pounds of wood with 8,000 pounds
of water containing 800 pounds of hydrochloric
acid for ten or twelve hours in wooden vats, the
mass being kept boiling by live steam. The
hot acid dissolves off the incrusting material
from the wood, which is thereby converted into
a dry mass that is easily converted into paper
after being washed with water. The acid liquid
contains from 20 to 22 per cent. of grape sugar
to 100 parts of the dry wood. The liquid is then
saturated with chalk, and fermented at 24° to
95° C. (75° to 77° Fabr.). One cubie meter of
pine avood weighing 435 to 440 kilos is said to
yield 780 to 790 liter per cent. of alcohol (equal
to 39 or 40 liters of 50 per cent. spirits), which
is worthy of consideration.—Scientific American,
ED
Antiquity of the Frame Saw.

A frame saw is shown in a painting of Her-
culaneum. The sawyers are at each end, one
standing and the other sitting. The bench to
which the timber is secured by clamps is sup-
ported by four-lezged stools. The saw frame is
square, and the saw blade is strained in the
middle; the teeth stand perpendicular to the
plane of the frame, Frame saws were common
in Egypt many centuries previous to this time.

A iieavy Sale of Pine.

S. Bryant, of Milwaukee, and Louis Sands,
of Manistee, Mich., recently purchased 6,000
acres of land in Langdale county, Wis., about
five miles from Antigo, on the line of the Mil-
waukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad. It is
estimated that on the land there are at least
700,000,000 feet of pine. ‘The purchase price
was $210,000, and Mr. Bryant, it is stated, is
interested in the sum of $180,000. The road
named above will lay a track for the purpose of
opening up the timber, and the logs willbe tak-
en to amill at Antigo which has a capacity of
70,000 feet of lumber and 120,000 shingles daily.
Besides the pine, there is a good assortment of
hardwood timber. ‘Track-laying on the spur
road was begun December 4.—Worthwestern
Lumberman.

A o1rizeNn of Grand Forks, D. T., returning
from the westward, reported that he saw on the

road to Devil’s Lake 50 teams in a string, all |

loaded with lumber, bound for the ‘ boomers’ ”
new paradise. The Devil’s Lake ‘Townsite
Company has been formed, with an alleged
capital of $3,000,000 and will proceed to plat
and boom the town, so-called,

Tue Detroit, Lansing & Northern road is
building a branch from Rodney, Mich., north,
seven miles, to a lake surrounded by hardwood
timber, and having a large body of pine ad-
jacent. After a time, it is thought, the branch
will be continued to Evart, and tap the Flint &
Pere Marquette road. The lake in question is
15 miles from Big Rapids, from which point it
also intended to build a connecting line.

THE crew of the Katahdin Iron Works at the
point in Maine named after that concern, is
now in the woods, and will get out about the
same amount of timber as on last year, or about
15,000 cords, which will produce 600,000 bushels
of charcoal. About 100 men are employed in
getting out maple, birch, ash and other woods.
In this section the timber supply is held to be
almost inhaustible, some kinds of wood growing
about as fast as cut.

Hr. F. T, GRarre, late of the Priuce Ar-
thur’s Landing Herald, is reported by the
Winnipeg Times as saying :—‘“‘At present
Prince Arthur’s Landing is without a saw mill,
but the erection of a large one is contemplated
by the Thunder Bay Lumber Company. At
the Carpe River, fifteen miles from the Land-
ing, a man named Carpenter has a mill and in-
tends putting up another this winter at the
same place. It is calculated that Thunder Bay
will send over two million feet of lumber to
Winnipeg next season, The Thunder Bay Co,
have over 100 men and 30 or 40 teams in the
woods, and each man receives $35 a month and
board. There is also some talk of erecting a
factory forturning raw material into woaden-
ware of various kinds,”

LUMBERMAN.

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CURRIE

LER WORKS

ESTABLISHED 1852

MANUFAC

TURERS OF

STHAM BOILERS.

NEW and SECOND HAND ENGINES and other Machinery

on Hand a

nd for Sale.

CURRIE, MARTIN & Co,

Esplanade, Foot of Frederick Street, TORONTO.

In the maintenance of French railways since
1877 there has been a daily use of 700 trees for
ties alone, and 5,000,000 cubic feet of timber
have been required yearly for rolling stock.

Cuinton, Me., forests will suffer considerably
this winter. J. M. Winn & Co, have a contract
for 2,000 cords of spruce, and 400 cords of popu-
lar for the pulp mill of Benton. They will cut,
besides, a considerable quantity of hardwood
logs and cordwood,

A Cure For Crour.—There is no better rem-
edy for Croup than Hagyard’s Yellow Oil taken
internally and applied according to speciai di-
rections, this is the great household panacea for
Rheumatism, Stiff Joints, Pain, luflammation,
&e,

Wanted.
A PARTNER that understands the SAW MILLING

BUSINESS, with capital. For information address
JAMES B. DICKSON, Pembroke, Ont. 2116

WY ALIN Fe

BLACK ASH PLANK

Sound, Square Edged and largely clear of knots; 3x8
to 18 inches wide, 10 to 16 feet lengths. Can use it
green. Quote for 3 to 5 cars per month, delivered at
Boston, Mass.

ROBERT C. LOWRY,

Wholesale Lumber,
55 Pine Street, New York.

Important Auction Sale

NZS I GOP 2G 8 S35 E43 Eh

Timber Limits

In the High Court of Justice, )
Chancery Division, {

21L4

McTIERNAN VS. FRASER.

Pursuant to the order for sale-made in this action
dated the 25th day of October, 1882, there will be sold
at Public Auction by and with the approhation of

of the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario, at the
Grand Union Hotel, at the City of Ottawa, on THURS-
DAY, the 2ist DAY OF DECEMBER, 1882, at 2 o'clock
p. m., the following Timber Limits :—

PARCEL No. 1.

Limit on the River Dumoine, License No. 300 for
|,season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands Department of
| Quebec, area 30 square miles. This limit is in the Pro-
| vince of Quebec and is situate along the east Shove of
| the River Dumoine, about 42 miles from Des Joachims |
on the Ottawa River. It is easy of access and has a
good road leading to it fom Des Joachims. It contains
a large quantity of white pine of excellent quality and |
| for the most Sek of large size; there is also some

| red pine of good quality. ‘Timber cut thereon can be |
easily driven through Mason Creek and North River, |
(both well improved streams), to the River Dumoine,

and thence along the River Dumoine to the Ottawa

William Marshall Matheson, Esquire, Master at Ottawa |

itly

River. The distances for hauling timber vary from
| one-eighth of a mile to five miles, but generally less
| than three miles. With this limit there will be sold
the right to use the farm and depot used in connection
| therewith known as North River Farm, and situate
| about the centre of i limit. The farm consists of
jabout 100 acres of land, cleared. The soil is a sandy
|loam. On the farm are the following buildings, viz. -
| A good log house about 20x26 feet, one storey and a
| half ; one log barn well finished, about 30x40 feet ; good
store house, about 26x36 feet; also horse stable, cow-
stables, hen house, root house and other sheds and
outbuildings.
| PARCEL No. 2

Limit on West side of Black River, License No. 23)
for season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands Department
| of Quebec, area 50 square miles.

This limit is in the Province of Quebec, is situate
along the west side of Black River, and is about five
‘niles in a north-easterly direction from the north-east
corner of parcel No. 1. t is easily reached by road
| leading from Des Joachims through Dumoine Limit.
| It contains a large quantity of white pine of very good
quality. Timber cut thereon can be driven without any
difficulty through two good Creeks, known as Coughlin
Creek, and upper West Branch Creek, to Black River
and thence along Black River to the Ottawa River.
The distance for hauling timber will average about 94
miles. With this limit there will be sold the richt to
use the farm and depot used in connection therewith
known as Hope Farm. This farm is situated about
15 miles from said limit, and connected with it by a
good road on a limit owned by Millar and Grant. It
consists of about 200 acres of land, cleared. The soil is
loam. On the farm are the following buildings, viz.:
double shanty, about 26x52 feet, two log barns, with
shingled roofs, two log stab!es capable of accommodat-
ing 32 and 14 horses respectively, store house, cranary
cow house, cow sheds, hen house and root house. <%

PARCEL No. 3.

Limit on East side of Black River, License No. 303 of
season 1881-2, issued by the Crown Lands Department
| of Quebec, area 50 square miles.

This limit is in the Province of Quebec, and is situate
along the east side of Black River, opposite parcel
No.2. The timber thereon is white pine of very good
quality. Timber can be driven without difficulty
| pu Cavreau Creek and. Black River to the Ottawa
| River
| | With this limit there will be sold the right to use the
| farm and depot used in connection therewith, known as
the Cavreau Farm, and situated on the edge of a lake
on Cavreau Creek, about 34 miles from Black River.
This farm is on the limit and consists of about 100
acres, cleared. The soil isgood loam. On the farm are
the following buildings, viz.: Log house about 20x26
| feet ; two cedar log barns, one about 30x40 feet, the
| other about 26x36 feet, one stable capable of accommo-
dating about 20 horses, cow house, blacksmith’s shop
| hen house and root house. :

PARCEL No, 4.

Limit on Black River and River Coulonge, License
No. 242 for season 1881-2, issued by Crown Lands De-
partment of Quebec, areal5square miles. This limit
is situate along the Eastern line of parcel No.3. It is
well timbered with white pine of fine quality. Timber
can be easily laid on either Bruce Lake or Bruce Creek
and driven to River Coulonge, and thence along the
| Coulonge to the Ottawa River.

All the said limits are easy of access, being a conveni-
| ent distance from the Ottawa River. ;

The said limits will be sold subject to reserved bids
| fixed by the Master in parcels as above mentioned.

All hay, goods, chattels and shanty rigging on each
| parcel belonging to the partnership of McTiernan &

Fraser, may at the option of the purchaser of each par-
cel be taken at a valuation to be subsequently xed oy
the said Master. 5 ;

TERMS OF SALE —The purchase money is to be
paid as follows :—Ten per cent. to be paid to the ven-
| dors’ solicitors at the time of sale ; afurther sum suff-
cient to make up 25 per cent. thereof within twenty
days from the day of sale, to be paid into Court to the
credit of this cause, and the eae thereof to be paid
into Court atany time within four months from day of
| sale with interest thereon, at the rate of seven per cent.
per annum from the day of sale

All conveyances, searches, transfer fees, etc., payable
to the Crown, are to be at the expense of the purchaser.

In all other respects the terms and conditions of sale
| will be the standing conditions of the Chancery Divi-
| sion of this court. i
| __ Further particulars may be had from Messrs. Scott,
| MacTavish & MacCraken, or Messrs. Pinhey & Christie,

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| Solicitors, Ottawa.
Dated this 14th day of November, A. D., 1882.
W. M. MATHESON,
Master at Ottawa.

SCOTT, MacTAVISH & MacCRAKEN,
Vendor's Solicitors,

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376 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

inches diameter ; 16 feet long, six feet three
inches diameter ; 18 feet long, six feet diameter ;
12 feet long, five feet 10 inches diameter ; 18
feet long, five feet six inches in diameter, It
will thus be seen that 180 feet of this remark-
able tree were converted into saw logs. As the
length and diameter of each log is given, the
reader can, at leisure, figure out the quantity of
inch lumber the tree contains. If, instead of
being cut into lumber, it had been worked up
into seven foot pickets, it would have afforded
fencing material to enclose a good-sized ranch.

The paper asks, ‘Can any of our mill men
in the East furnish us with statistics exceeding
those of the above described giant 7”

being examined in all its aspects. As {it pre-
sents itself to us it would seem that this offer
ensures the shareholders from an further
calls, and also admits of some small return of
paid up capital.

‘Should the Company continue to hold the
property, it is doubtful whether in the space of
three or four years, the expense not being able
to be met by timber revenue and sale of lands,
it would not be necessary to levy a call of un-
paid stock. And even after doing so, and
holding on, it is improbable the property
would enhance sufficiently in value to obtain a
better return to the shareholders than they
would under the present circumstances,

“Tt is true the taxes may be reduced and
some more railway debentures paid off so as to
reduce expenses, but still, looking at this in the
most favorble light, we fail to see that better
terms would even then be likely to be realized.

‘* Under these circumstances, after the oppor-
tunity we have had during the last two years of
thoroughly convincing ourselves of the value of
the property, we have no hesitation in recom-
mending to your Board the acceptance of Mr.
Ross’s offer.”

The following is an extract from a letter of
one of the solicitors of the Company in Tor-
onto :—

‘“The inferior pine and the hardwood left
would yield an income only by the Company
starting new industries, which would involve
an investment of fresh capital, and would be
successful only if looked after by men who
thoroughly understood the work. ;

‘‘T suppose the shareholders would hardly
risk any more money in a venture which would
be doubtful.

‘*T have not much confidence in the Company
being able to sell these lands to small buyers ;
not only are the surrounding free grant lands a
bar to this, but every one who wants land is
looking towards the North-West prairies to in-
vest.

“Tt seems to me that in view of the danger
of the decreasing revenue and the liabilities of
the Company, that they cannot afford to remain
inactive, and that either they must spend money
in making the small pine and hardwood pro-
ductive or sell.”

This subject is now under consideration in
England,

THR OTTAWA SEASON.

The Ottawa Citizen of Nov. 28, says :—One
of the most succtssful seasons that ever the lum-
bermen of this section of the country expe-
rienced, as far as the operations in their various
mills were concerned and the remuneration de-
rived from their labors in this direction, came to
a close yesterday. Everything seemed to com-
bine to make the work of the summer a grand
success, On the 25th of April last the different
mills in the vicinity commenced to run full
blast, to the great gratification of the thousands
of the toiling millions who derive a sustenance
from the lumbering business. Capital and
labor, which two often are antagonistic to each
other, seemed to be well satisfied under the aus-
picious circumstances which dawned upon the
event. Workmen were more than well pleased
at the fact that their wages were raised from $2
to $3 per week over the preceeding year, while
lumbermen did not by any means grudge the ex-
tra pay, seeing that the rise in lumber was more
than sufficient to meet the increased expense of
their pay sheet. This was not only the case
with the beginning of the season’s work, but the
same pleasant circumstances attended the doings
of employers and employees’ until the close of
the chapter yesterday. Prices of the article
were kept up, and wages instead of being re-
duced were, in not a few cases, increased. The
usual calendar of accidents happened, but very
fortunately these, too, were in nearly all cases of
not a very serious character. Slight delays from,
to use a common expression, *‘ the want of logs,”
or, more correctly speaking, the irregularity
with which they arrived, of course, as is usually
the case, did occur. But even these minor
troubles which, more or less are to be looked
for in such extensive operations which are con-
nected with the carrying on of the staple indus-
try of the capital, were fewer than is generally
the case. Low water neither annoyed the mill-
men nor their workmen to any degree worth
speaking of, and, viewing the whole business
trade impartially, it may safely be said that the
annoyance caused from temporarily ‘‘ shutting
down” was of very small magnitude indeed.
A Citizen reporter visited the Chaudiere and
Hull yesterday and observed that all the mills,
with the exception of Mr. Booth’s, had closed
for the season, and it was expected that Mr.
Booth’s mill would shut down last night, thus

other of this section of whitewood pines, ex
cepting the Quebec (Weymouth) pine, is brought
into the United Kingdom ?

I was once offered some ‘‘ whitewood” Balm
of Gilead (Picea balsamea) : is this an ordinary
article of commerce? and, if so, what are its
peculiar properties? is the wood of any other
silver fir (Picea) imported into this country ?

I think the ‘“‘whitewood” which is frequently
advertised in the Timber Trades Journal is not
of the fir tribe at all; I believe it is the produce of
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree), or Platanus
occidentalis (Western plane), or some such like
tree.

Should the Scottish Arboricultural Society be
successful in their laudable endeavors to hold
an International Exhibition of Forestry, it is
earnestly to be hoped that they will invite the
whole known world to contribute specimens of
every kind of wood, and see that the native
country, the common name, the botanical name,
and the name, if any, by which the wood is
known in commerce, be given ; this of itself
would make any exhibition a certain success,
and would be of everlasting benefit to mankind
in general, and particularly interesting to tens
of thousands besides.

BIRCH MILLS.

At Bethel, Me., William E. Skillings & Co.
are running eight sets of machinery for finishing
spools, and are extending their mill 50 feet, in
order to add four more sets, which will make
their capacity double that of any mill in the
county. The firm uses the product of seven
mills in the vicinity of Bethel, besides that of
its own, and has recently purchased 5,000 acres
of birch land in Gilead, on which a mill for
sawing strips is being erected. It will require
5,000 cords of birch to fill contracts already for
next year. Of this, 2,000 cords will be cut from
the Gilead timber, and the remainder will be pur-
chased of farmers, the price paid being $4 per
cord. A contract has been made to ship 1,000,-
000 feet of birch strips to the well-known thread
manufacturers, J. P. Coates & Co., of Scotland,
next spring. Eben Richardson & Son are run-
ning their mill to its full capacity on spool strips
and salt boxes,employing 10 men. John L. Swan
saws 200 cords of birch into strips during the
season at his water mill, and Hiram Hodgsdon
saws about as much. A. S. Bean is also an
operator in that vicinity.—Northwestern Lum-
berman.,

A Woop Man.

ENGLISH LAND COMPANY.

Under this heading the Bobcaygeon Indepen-
dent publishes the following correspondence in
regard tothe Canadian Land and Emigration
Company :—

Mr. Ross, of Quebec, has been for some time
past negotiating for the purchase of nine town-
ships of the English Company. His first offer
was refused, but the second offer was entitled to
more consideration. The following is a copy of
the letter addressed to the Company making

the offer :—
New York, Oct. 5, 1882.

“Drar Sirs,—I am instructed by James S.
Ross, Esq., of Quebec, to make the following
offer for the Canadian Land and Emigration
Company’s property, real and personal, in the
county of Haliburton,

The price offered is eighty thousand dollars
payable as follows: He will assume the De-
bentures and the interest from Ist July, 1882,
(amount exclusive of interest) $31,500. He will
pay cash on signing the papers $20,000. Balance

Nothing New.

There is nothing new under the sun; even
our forestry associations had their prototypes
in Pagan Rome and Moorish Spain. Al Mocta-
der, the caliph of Bagdad (1091-1117), also
planted millions of forest trees; and itisadis-
tressing fact that then, as now, many clear-
sighted men foretold the consequences of reck-
less forest destruction, and that their protests

bringing to an end, as already stated, the work
in that line for the present year. In conver-
sation with a lumberman it was ascertained
that the season’s cut would exceed any of for-
mer years. He considered, after adding up the
eut by each firm in the surrounding district,
that it would be a reasonable and fair total, in
the absence of the correct figures, to say that
the year’s cut in all the mills combined would
amount to about 550,000,000 feet of lumber. By
including all the mills in the Ottawa Valley
there certainly would not be much less than
800,000,000 feet. In his opinion it was the best
season that ever the Ottawa lumbermen or their
employees experienced. The business done was
in excess, the prices obtained greater, and the
time of running longer than have been the case
for a number of years. True the money ex-
pended for labor was more than heretofore, still
there was a balance of extra profits over pre-
ceeding years in favor of the mill owner. The
only real difficulty that the proprietors exper-
jenced was the scarcity of hands to perform the
work, It is truly gratifying to be able to re-
cord such glad tindings, as Canada’s most im-
portant export trade, outside of grain and dairy
exports, is that of timber. Next to our fertile
Jands our primeval forests are our greatest
sources of wealth. Few people, outside of the
capital, have any conception of the amount of
revenue derived from the lumber trade which is
carried on along the banks of the Ottawa.

WHITEWOOD.

The following letter appears in the London
Timter Trades Journal :—

Srr,—I shall be very much obliged to your, or
any of your numerous readers, if your or they
can or will tell me which is the softest white
(spruce fir) wood, and at the same time most
free from knots and easy to work, that is im-
ported into this country from any quarter of the
globe ; and also if wood of Pinus macrocarpa,
Pinus Lambertiana, Pinus monticola, or apy

t 0A SpA Mer

$28,500 in three equal annual instalments, viz.,
$10,000 twelve months from the date of signing
the papers ; $10,000 twenty-four months from
the date of signing the papers, and $8,500 thirty-
six months from date of signing the papers, all
with interest at the rate of 5 per annum, pay-
able semi-annually on unmatured amounts.

The property is all the real property of the
County of Haliburton, say in the nine town-
ships of Dysart, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn,
Eyre, Dudley, Clyde, Havelock and Bruton,
being about 336,688 acres, including all mills,
houses and other improvements in which the
Company have any interest, and personal pro-
perty of all kinds and descriptions in the County
of Haliburton. Also claims against settlers and
rights of all kinds, maps, plans, field notes, and
all other documents relating to the lands, also a
payment in advance by Booth of $3,309, and all
existing timber licences and interest thereunder
up to Ist of October, 1882, and thereafter, ex-
cepting amounts payable by Irwin & Boyd, and
Bronson & Weston on account of past timber
dues, say for 1881-2,

As soon as this offer is accepted the docu-
ments may be prepared for signature, and the
transaction carried out.

Yours, &e.,
P. S. STEVENSON.”

This letter was addressed to Major Evans of
Toronto, and his colleagues, the Company’s
Commissioners, who in forwarding the offer to
the members in England expressed their opinion
as follows :—

“We now forward you an offer we have ob-
tained from Mr. Stevenson, on behalf of James
S. Ross, Esq., of Quebec, for the Canadian Land
and Emigration Company’s property.

‘The offer may appear small, but when it is
remembered that it is very questionable whether
it is safe to anticipate the sale of lands in any
quantity, and the certainty of the timber rev-
enue coming to an end shortly, it seems advis-

Grasping the Grant.

The Northwestern Lumberman says :—By the

completion of the extension of the Chicago, St.

Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road from Superior
Junction to Superior City, Wis., 60 miles, that
company secures a clear title to what is known
as the north Wisconsin land grant, which em-
braces some of the most valuable timber land in
The same company has about se-
cured the title to the old Chicago Air Line rail-

Wisconsin.

way grant between Chippewa Falls and Super-
ior Junction, now having the road graded and
the iron nearly all laid between those points.
The latter grant is estimated to be worth about
$2,000,000. Within six weeks the Omaha com-
pany will have its Ashland extension completed,
and early next season a branch to Bayfield will
be constructed. Thus this corporation is cover-
ing the lumber region of northwestern Wiscon-
sin with a fan-shaped system that will monop-
olize the lumber and other traffic of that portion
of the state, and their land grants will help on
their monopoly. But the railroads will be a
great help to the lake towns, and will develop
the country rapidly,

A Big Tree.

Mr. W. L. Van Doren furnishes to a Califor-
nia paper the following description of a tree
that was recently cut in Sonoma county :—

The standing height of the tree was 347 feet,
and its diameter near the ground was 14 feet.
In falling the top was broken off 200 feet dis-
tant from the stump, and up to the point of
breaking the tree was perfectly sound. From
the tree 12 saw logs were cut of the following
lengths and diameters; Fourteen feet long, 9
feet diameter ; 12 feet long, eight feet diameter ;
12 feet long, seven feet seven inches diameter ;
14 feet long, seven feet six inches diameter ; 16
feet long, seven feet diameter ; 16 feet long, six
feet 10 inches in diameter ; 16 feet, six feet six

able that it should not be thrown aside without | inches diameter; 16 feet long, six feet four

had no appreciable influence in checking the
evil. The trouble seems to be that tree-felling
is directly profitable and only eventually injur-
ious, while tree planting is directly expensive
and only indirectly advantageous, Forest des-
truction has ruined our earthly paradise and
the scientific authorities of all really enlightened
nations have denounced it again and again ; but
before such arguments can influence the masses
they must cease to seek their paradise in the
clouds and their authorities in Palestine.—
Popular Science Monthly.

Lake Shipping.
It is probable that lumber carrying on the

lakes will, within a few years, be exclusively”
done by steam instead of sailing vessels. This
year, on account of the low freight rates, and
the competition of steam barges, the schooners
have had a hard struggle to pay expen:
While the sailing fleet is wind-bound at >»
port or another, the steamers continue to make
regular trips*and carry enormous loads. While
steam barges that have a capacity for from 500, -
000 to 750,000 feet of lumber have made money
this season—in some instances $15,000 a vessel
—schooners have scarcely paid expenses. In
seasons when rates are high they are able to do
fairly ; but in competition with steamers the
odds is so much against them that owners will
gradually dispose of that class of craft and in-
vest in a more modern kind.—WNorthwestern
Lumberman,

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THE CANADA

LUMBERMAN.

Chips.

Tr is estimated that there have passed through
the boom of the St, John (N. B,) River, this
season, about 126,000,000 feet of logs.

A Poprar tree recently cut in Clark county,
Ky,, was seven feet in diameter, 70 feet to the
first limb, and yielded 60,000 shingles.

Ir is stated by local authority that upwards
of 150,000,000 Peet of lumber are cross-piled at
the Muskegon, Mich., mills, and in some in-
stances there is not room enough on the docks
to continue piling.

Ir is told that in digging a well near Leitch-
ville, W. T., Charles Moore encountered, at a
depth of 70 feet, several fallen but well preser-
ved pine trees. Immediately under them was a
washed gravel bed, which upon being pierced,
gave a flow of water which rose in the well to a

eight of 25 feet.

At Oshkosh, Wis., last year there were 129,-
000,000 feet of logs rafted; this season the
amount has reached 135,000,000 feet. About
5,000,000 of the total were old logs that go to
the booms next season will all be new ones. It
is expected that the crop of 1883 will be about
the same in quantity as that of 1882.

A log was recently cut on the Skagit waters,
Puget Sound, which was nine feet in diameter
atthe stump. The first cut was 24 feet long,
and the next log 32 feet in length, and 76 inches
in diameter at the big end, while the third was
36 feet long, and measured 63 inches—in all
92 feet of logs, and an average diameter of over
five feet.

J. G. Patmer & Son, of Maine, have 100
men at work in the woods near the Gulf. Thus
far this season they have cut 1,500,000 feet of
poplar to be used by the Penobscot Chemical
Fiber Company in the manufacture of pulp. It
will probably be hauled to the Katahdin Iron
Works, and thence shipped by railroad to West
Great Works,

THE “ Deseronto Notes” of the Belleville
Ontario contain the following paragraph :—To
the ordinary observer sawdust is a very common-
place article, but a few minutes conversation
with Mr. Walker, the manager ot the Chemical
Works, will dispel such an illusion, as the num-
ber of products to be derived from it are appar-
ently legion. The evaporating pans disclose to
the visitor every conceiveable combination of
brilliant and changing colors.

T. & W. Murray, of Pembroke, have disposed
of one of their timber limits to H. & A. Mc-
Lean, of Eardley. The price paid was in the
vicinity of $41,000. The limit comprises 19
square miles of territory. A couple of years
ago the Messrs. Murray purchased this limit at
auction for $25,000. The same firm have also
disposed of another timber limit adjacent to the
one mentioned to David Moore, the well-known
lumberman. It is said the price is $1,000 per
mile for thirty miles of territory.

Tue Liverpool correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal of Nov. 18, says :—For some
days past it has been rumoured that a firm en-
gaged here in the timber importing business,
having their connection chiefly with the Lower
Ports in Nova Scotia and Norway, have been
unable to meet their engagements, and have
placed their books in the hands of accountants.
Nothing is known of the amount of their liabil-
ities, and it is understood that their principal
creditors will be the shippers in Nova Scotia.

Tue Timber Trades Journal says :—The value
of spruce wood for shipbuilding purposes has for
a length of time been fully admitted. Some fine
sailing vessels built in New Brunswick som&
years ago have been recently inspected, and the
inspection has proved the suitability of spruce
for shipbuilding purposes. It was the fashion
some years ago to loudly condemn spruce being
used for almost any purpose. As a matter of
fact, under anything like favorable conditions,
few woods are more durable than spruce. The
unfavorable character which the wood once
possessed still to some extent clings to it, but
the prejudice which once existed against its use
is now fast dying out, and the time will soon
arrive, even if it has not already arrived, when
the true value of the wood from a seviceable as
well as from an economic point of view will be
fully recognised,

Tur Midland Free Press says-—The engine
and lot of other machinery for the American
Company’s mill at French river is here and will
be forwarded by the schooner Nett Woodward
this week, The engine, which is a handsome
one, weighs ten tons and is about 270 horse
power. The machinery now lying here will
make a large boat load, Every piece of machin-
ery being put in this mill is new and has been
made expressly for the Company. With this
load Mr. D. C. Keene will send about twenty
more men to work at French River all winter.

ACCORDING to the Chicago Railway Age, a
railway running along for hundreds of miles
between rows of shade trees will soon be one of
the novel characteristics of the Northern
Pacific. This extensive tree planting is being
done to protect the road from storms and snow-
drifts. In addition to having a large force of
men at this work between Fargo and Bismark,
Dak., the officers have distributed immense
quantities of seedlings and cuttings to the far-
mers settled on the land grant and offered prizes
for skill in forestry—a commendable example
of foresight which ought to be more generally
followed in the treeless west.

Tue Times of Prince Albert, N. W. T’, says:
Messrs. Moore & Macdowell have erected a new
steam saw mill of increased capacity. The
machinery (which Mr. Mcdowell has gone
east to bring up) will include two large circular

saws, shingle machine, lath machine and com-

plete set of planers and moulders, This mill
will be capable of turning out 4 or 5,000,000 feet
of lumber in the season. A fine large new grist
and saw mill is also in course of erection by
Messrs. Thomas McKay, C. Mair and Captain
Hughes, which will be a valuable addition to the
industries of the place. Messrs. Hurd and
Baker intend building a new saw mill.

Tue Liverpool correspondent of the Timber
Trades Journal of Nov. 18, says:—Up to the
present time very little spruce has gone into the
yards, but, as was anticipated last week, four
cargoes are now being put into store, as the
owners hope for a recovery later on, All kinds
of Canadian goods maintain their full prices,
and buyers of the better classes of Quebec pine
timber and pine deals may abandon any hope
of buying their stocks of these goods at lower
prices than now asked. Consumers need not
be told that they seldom buy so well as when
the goods are landing and the storage charges
have not been incurred, and, as the import sea-
son is now rapidly closing, they should seize the
opportunity whilst they may.

THE Northwestern Lumberman says :—Some
of the lumbermen in Muskegon anticipate an
advance in the value of fine lumber after Janu-
ary 1, because that class of stock is in meagre
supply compared to the coarse grades, which are
overplenty. They claim that the finer grades
of next season’s cut are being bought up in ad-
vance. The same condition has been observed
at Saginaw, where good lumber is being pur-
chased to hold over, while the coarser qualities
are neglected. These incidentsin the Michigan
trade suggest that last year, on account of the
lack of snow, and the consequent difficulty of
getting heavy logs to stream, operators took al-
most anything they could get in the shape of
pine timber, and the result isan overproduction
of coarse lumber.

Tue Timber Trades Journal says :—Beyond a
slight, and it may only be a temporary, decline
in the value of spruce deals at Liverpool, the

‘| wood markets have during the last fortnight

undergone no material alteration, The weak
ness of the market at Liverpool is clearly trace-
able to the influx of spruce cargoes, which has
temporarily overstocked the market. The in-
land consumers, who draw upon Liverpool for
their supplies, have bought warily during the
whole of the year, and a general indisposition to
stock heavily has been apparent. It is not
thought that the stocks held inland are of a
weighty character, and any bettering of trade
would doubtless reflect at once upon the wood
markets at the ports, and especially at Liver-
pool. Some part of the falling off in the de-
mand may be put down to the fact that the wet
weather which has now so long prevailed has
seriously retarded the carrying on of outdoor
building work, At the east coast ports prices
are reported to remain unaltered and the mar-
kets are said to he steady in tone,

SAW M

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TORONTO.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Dec, 9.—The present spell of severe frost and
snow has hadthe effect of impeding building oper-
ations and as a natural consequence all the retail
yards are extremely quiet, and dealers are now
counting over their probable gains or losses on
their geason’s business. Trade will doubtless
continue dull until after the close of the holi-
days, when if the weather proves favorable
building will be resumed as briskly as in the
past.

Their is no change in prices to note and un-
less much larger stocks should be secured this
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ican side in the spring, I take it that prices will
rule on the reopening of navigation much the
same as at its close. Some small lots of good
pine and basswood are still coming forward for
spring shipment and will be winter piled on
docks here, and in my next letter I will en-
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ss. G4 At BOUT. iW sins/einpelaig'apninss's ale 25 60
re OY Gp FES SG IOBODOE Oso Joo 4 27 00
‘ ff 4 AO/TOAG LE), icleseysiswale 82 00
Cutting up planks todry........seescereeseenee 24 00
jeperfoleh CONS Gayaorine co.cc, sie we sha 18 00
Sound dressing: stocks. ........ccevesevccevaces 18 00
Picks Am, inspection...... Hb uisioine 80 00
Three uppers, Am. inspection........... "B6 00@40 00
B. M.
1}- inch flooring, GYESSED 6 occ cressncevece ev eeee 32 00
YOUGD..... cs ceveececceveersece 16 00
ae ce LESSEE aie jernie ovata slaves die)6i0 le la/s\e/aiaxe 26 00
i eC cS UNdressed sees. ..seseeernenever 16 00
Wb ss dressed ...... Diepele bets adn fesisieiere 28 00
Ci ss MUTATE SSE siayeceiaieials «lel eleteinrsleinle are 17 00
i Beaded Sheeting, dressed......e.sseseeeee eove 2a 50
Clapboarding, dressed .......sseeseeenss cesses 14 00
XXX sawn shingles, BM.cecewsssiveeeeeeeeeee 3 00
KX sawn SHInNg ES. 0.0... cesveepeereesessacee ce 2 00
SOW AUAT Neier cv ae cvtewee swine unifies tielye ns 2 50
aerial
MONTREAL,

From Our Own Correspondent. _
Dro. 9.—We have nothing this week to re-
vise in prices which remain steady all around.

‘Trade has been notably slacker since the close
‘of navigation.

The stock of lumber in the city
is quite large and fairly assorted, excepting
some kinds of hardwood, ash particularly is
scarce and is being inquired for both for local
wants and on United States account ; butternut
is also wanted. The demand for timber and
lumber, except for the retail trade, is likely to
be small during the winter. A great number
‘of men have been sent to the lumber regions
‘and if the weather is favorable it is expected
that a large quantity of lumber will be turned
‘out, all the mills have sawn most of the logs on
hhand and large quantities will be required for
next seasons operations, The tenders for the
new lumber basin in the Lachine Canal are to
‘be called for immediately, and the basin when
‘finished will supply a want which has been long
felt by the trade. We quote prices in the yard

‘as under :—

Pine, 1st quality, MMlefevara teres tecidiaractinvetesen $35 VO@40 00
P ne, 2nd Mi scien wee 22 00@24 00
Pine, shipping aug #M..... 14 00@16 00
Pine, 4th quality deals, #M . 11 00@12 00
Pine, mill culls, @M.......06 watever ... 10 00@12 00
Spruce, PMiscrecvecevecsrvecveseunrves 10 00@18 00
emi Ook tas Mi srenye etaferetereieitlereiatenieya/eruasen 9 00@10 00
Ash, run "of log culls out, 4 Mirae le. 8e ie hs 20 00@25 00
TSE Eo gpa ment RUB Tit ata ae 17 00@20 00
OBL aH OAML ofese a aya fetes cis eyadaicOviui sleyn leis tRleeisieretecnis 40 00@50 00
RVVIITU ice NDmeye cits erste (cixixvo kts Natale sievoniaiejeiere 60 00 100 00
Cherry, Bo Me cwccveercens: ceveenes ess .. 60 00@00 00
BUG HELM GR MDs csicretnis vince abpiepniais ste obieleiwiaep 85 00@40 00
DBITCNIy, Gens inie ik elle w eien aislals sisiels/vivieit evees 20 00@256 00
Hard Maple, 'h2 Minikis escent eaete semenae 25 00@30 00
Taba MSC tnt, Ce Meaoccmonwaactakine 1 75@ 0 00
Shingles, Ist, ®M.....-......08 meiseistas hy 3 00@ 0 00
Shingles, Bnd, BM ivvewvesevevianeevwnves 2 60@ 0 00

CORDWOOD.

Business is very slack just now, but after this
cold spell the demand is expected to be brisk.
There is very little coming in by rail, and the
~wharyes and canal bank are completely cleared.

The chief demand at present is for maple, but
no large contracts are being made, and present
prices are likely to hold on till spring. We
quote at the depot ex cartage :

Long Maple sie aielafslovelcloiefepicin gtrets ale siete Sgepiare sesee 97 50
SHOVE Oe crs cMvicicazelsin stalsisis cisirieinsinaeltin pines 7 00
Long Birch.......ssssesseceeerecsensssaseenene 7 00
SHOTE ET areeey alaernieinse’atiojeisialevalehnier# sisla\ain nly oik/atale 6 50
Long Beech.....s.s..s++e0eees 2. Mbabisaie osidety 20 BO
SON ere aig nisllsdpinaieabiie a aegis Walcuisehelemee 6 00
Long Tamarack......+++s.0eseeee semessteretes 6 50
Short £85 ON Yed sede jo peiteee te was day ee nthe 5 00

OTTAWA.
From Our own Correspondent.

Noy. 24.—A deputation representing the deal
merchants of Quebec waited upon the Hon.
Jonh Costigan, Minister of Inland Revenue, a
short time since and requested that a suit now
pending against an unlicensed culler of deals be
discontinued. The action was entered to pre-
vent the employment of any but licensed cullers.
The deputation represented that the staff of
deal cullers was altogether unequal to the
requirements of the trade. They also said that
any .estriction in the employment of cullers
would prove injurious to a very important in-
terest. The Minister heard their arguments
and submitted them to the Department of
Justice for a report upon the legal points invol-
ved. No decision has as yet been rendered.

Mr, A. Grant’s raft of square timber, which
was coming down in tow of the brig Canada,
has been placed in winter quarters at Sorel.

Not a great number of men are being sent to
woods at present, the firms having secured
about all they require.

Dec. 11,—A1l the saw mills in this district have
closed for the season. The cut has been unpre-
cedentedly large. In no previous year has
everything appertaining to the trade so favor-
ably combined to insure a highly successful
result as it has in the past season. The water
in the Ottawa and its tributaries has maintain-
ed a favorable height thoughout, and conse-
quently logs were easily navigated to the mill
ponds. The supply of legs was equal to the
demand and the mills kept running unremitting-
ly. No scarcity of men was experienced and
good wages were commanded by the hands this
season, The Chandiere mills ran regularly,
and the stock yards are now very full. The
following is a pretty accurate estimate of the
season’s cut in the Ottawa Valley :

OHAUDIERE MILLS,
Feet,
OAR syd hi Ch Scion Sends ROL aaOL Or 100,000,000
Te tkisOOUL Riv a usivielwin win dieivininivin wie teh eae NTR 60,000,000
Perley & Pattee... ....scecucecnceerssnvens 60,000,000
Bronson GAVestON .<cenesccusescusnsenns 60,000,000
TO VEIN OUNB oeinivinisin'c He hilsde a civielvieiv\pio‘e'saJsitiais 20, 600,000
Sherman, Lord & Hurdmian ,.....eeeees eee 29,000,000
RROCHERLER, «108.00 nti s SSIS SRie abn ip asa a alice 10,000,000
MERSON fo lass. Arpinte: actin oles Aide res wiotaya!@iutbieliplv vis Ik Wikis 5,000,000
ELSEWHERE

GUI MOUL TO i itiais asin ena eine win aay alten » ae 70,000,000
McClymont (New Edinburgh)..........00+ 50,000,000
McLaren & Co (do.) ..0..... Ri ahi Shhw on iene 50,000,000
W. C, Edwards & Co, (Rockland). .......... 60,000,000
J. A. Cameron (North Nation). ........+.. 25,000,000
McLaughlin Bros. (Arnprior)..........6056 70,000,000
Conroy Bros. (Desghenes)..........0e+eeees 25,000,000
Gillies Bros, (Braeside).........eeeceeeeeee 55,000, 000
McLaren Bros, (Buckingham)...........06 65,000,000
SUMATY “OMMOLS Tce xa atest eis Waren ete 15,000,000

Total Cut Helene c cerevinh wuksieiecismtrane 800,000,000

ON THE UPPER OTTAWA,

A. large quantity of logs and square timber
will be cut on the limits this winter. A large
number of jobbers intend operating. The ice
on the lakes has taken, and supplies can now
easily be conveyed to the shanties. The roads
are reported to be very good.

A TRYING TRIP,

Mr. Geo, Sparks, drover, left this city about
the middle of last month with a drove of 300
cattle for Allan Grant’s shanties 300 miles up
the Kippewa. Mr. Sparks had 18 men assisting
him. They arrived safe at the shanties without
losing a single animal. They were compelled
to undergo severe hardship on the trip. They
had to sleep out during the nights, and wade
through streams and marshes, etc.

CHICAGO,

The Northwestern Lumberman of Dee. 9, Says:
Manufacturers and wholesale handlers of lum-
ber are waiting for the figures that shall aggre-
gate the stock on hand at the leading markets

and in the country at large. The yard managers
and their clerks will be allowed to attend to the
current winter trade, while the wisdom and the
energy of mill companies and general operators
are busy with the coming log crop, which
promises to be as large, or larger, than that of
last year.

At the east the surplus does not appear to be
excessive. At Albany holders do not admit
that there is any more in the yards than there
ought to be. It is noticed there that, whereas
formerly dealers did not pretend to ship any-
thing during the winter, and did not even keep
their yard offices open, within two or three
years their office fires are kept burning, and
shipments are frequently made in the winter
time. This change has been wrought by the
increase in the Albany trade, Another notice-
able feature of the businees at that point is the
increasing importations of hemlock and spruce.
This season the demand for these kinds of lum-
ber has been active, and some descriptions of
them have been shipped as fast as they have
arrived. It is stated from one place in central
New York that hemlock lumber has advanced
$2 a thousand within a year in that locality.
In various places in that state there is a reported
scarcity of the coarse lumber that, up to a recent
time, was supplied from the native forests.
Good pine, in not only New York, but the New
England states, now has to be brought from
Canada and Saginaw—localities as remote from

places of consumption as many parts of the Ch

Northwest from their sources of supply. This
condition must be taken into account in estim-
ating the future of the lumber business.

CARGO QUOTATIONS.

Short dimension, greeN.....+ eeeserenes $10 50@11 00
Long dimension... .++.+ esese.eeeeeeees 11 00@12 50
Boards and strips, No. 2 stock.... «++... 12 00@14 00
NO. 1 StOCK. 2.0 cccenrcces sseccvesooes 16 00@19 00
No. 1 log run, culls OUt...--.+eeeeerees 17 00@22 00
a Cspae shingles rover dsiet aabae nee . 2 60@ 2 65

we slapd nle's aim > 04 of Rg kil DAV ENEMA Me «Rie 2 76@ 2 90
Cleat br cpa cnvnine ou rncne sebe On, Seb manne v 0O@ 3 25
Lath......-ssees. an” se dudes paeisn snake 2 26@ 2 30

Receipts, and stock on hand, of lumber,
shingles, etc., for the week ending Dec., 19,
as reported by the Lumberman’s Wibtinned?

RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
1882...0008 funditre dey nes e0G tone 19,923,000 16,301,000
LSBL wcccrcrveccccccccessersus 19,788,000 17,020,000
FROM JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 6 INCLUSIVE.
RECEIPTS.
Lumber. Shingles.
1882... rceccesswevceces «se +2,029,065,000 889,847,000
DESL... cvvercadeunqaeses suena 1,849,772,000 815,416,000
ING, . cicwe secccccascovccaca 179,298,000 74,431,000
LAKE RECEIPTS TO DEC. 7.
ISSR. . win cecehbesulnceae eam 1,778,811,000 798,007,000
eC Ree 1,783,012,000 732,230,000
STOCK ON HAND NOY. 1.
1882, 1881. 1880.
Lumber.....++ .». 706,625,450 599,525,483 553,459,941
Shingles.... «s+ 278,158,150 249,960,400 190,798,000
Lath .ccscccccces 63,527,227 44,156,792 57,006,630
Pickets..ccss cece 3,079,486 2,809,670 2,408,016
Cedar posts. ...... 160,835 211,297 50,783
———

OSWEGO, N. ¥.
From Our Own Correspondent.
No particular change in quotations ; demand
light, assortment good and prospects of a fair
winter trade,

Three UpperS.....ccceeeseeeceeeeeeeeees $42 0O@45 00
PickingS....ccereeeee seennncs ssncenes 82 00@35 00
Fine, COMMON ...... 6... eee e rene Wind Uns 20 00@25 00
Common... .ccsescescucccteccccceceess -- 14 00@16 00
ip | aa ern ee re 11 00@13 00
Mill yun Jot cu... da cce abun weetensaeh tis 17 00@22 00
ou a bs es linch.. a. 30 00@37 00
RE EAS Fee 30 00@3T 00
Mill ek crn WS Wale ccdavcdeweceeatn 16 00@21 00
selected re ee 20 00@25 00
Strips, 1 and at inch MUD) FUN.00 sccaenane 14 00@18 00
GUI. denne, Save 10 00@13 00
1x6 selected for clapboards...... ..+..+.- 25 00@85 00
Shingles, XXX, 18 inch, pine...... .....- 0 00@ 4 30
>. F Nt > EWE oe aah oeke 8 00@ 3 20
XXX, 18 inch, cedar........s00.- $8 40@ 3 90
xx vo eS 2 25@ 2 50
Lath, soveccscnss Soteuvecenccseansccucne 2 00@ 2 25
— ~~
BUFFALO,
We quote cargo lots :—
Uppers. cc. ccceeeeeesseeneneueeenenees $46 0O@48 00
CommMon,.....eecsue cuecuveeseencessess 18 00@19 00
COUDIB Sco ek pacts cn0e deah peep Reh eRe 18 00@14 00
———_>——__—_—_-
BOSTON,

The Cotton Wool and Iron of Dec. 9, says :—
There is a good steady business doing for this
season of the year, and the general tone of the
market is moderately firm. The upward ten-
dency of freights and the closing up of many

channels of navigation are among the elements
of steadiness in the situation, Pine, spruce and

hemlock are in very fair demand and fully hold
their own. Southern pine is in better inquiry
in a schedule way. Floor boards and step
plank are quite firmly held. Good hardwoods
are selling well at fair prices, but the market
for “ culls’ is a poor one. ©
CANADA PINE.
Fdadake's 000s tender Peene 45 00@50 00

Selects, gow

Attn eee

ALBANY.

Quotations at the ges are as follows
Pine, clear, #@M..

Pine, 10-in. oods ca

Pine, 10-in. boards, 16 -:
Pine, 12-in. boards, 16 ft
Pine, 12-in. boards, 13ft.....-...+-s++«0+
Pine, 1} in. siding, select....... se
Pine, 1}-in. siding, common.... .
Pine, 1-in. siding, select.......
Pine, inch ae common.
Spruce, boards
Spruce, plank, 1 in., each
Spruce, plank, 2- | each.
Spruce, wall strips, each. .

emlock, boards, each. .

Hemlock, joist, 4x6, each.
Hemlock, joist, 2x4, each
Bemlonk,' wall Laat 2x4, each

ee

Hane nnee

a hemlock.....0 sosscvwcns shh ane
Lath, hemlock, # M..
Lath, spruce, “ ..
Lath, pine, 66 oc nes neste eeneienen

eee ee eee eee eee

—

TONAWANDA,
CARGO LOTS—SAGINAW INSPECTION.

LONDON,

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 25th
says :—There is a sensible diminution in the
number of arrivals of timber-laden ships into
London this week, but forty-seven will, no
doubt, be considered quite a plentiful sprinkling
as times go. There are six cargoes from British
America, fourteen from Russian ports, and
about the same number from Sweden, while
Norway contributes a fair share. Steamers are
now the chief wood carriers, as out of this forty-
seven no less than thirty are steamships.

The difference between an open and a close
winter will be the strengthening of prices or
the reverse; and though many experienced
members of the trade are of the belief that
values will not improve with the turn of the
year, we confess to a leaning the other way as
far as the large ports are concerned, and, should
the winter be a hard one, it is quite likely
values would temporarily return to the high
standard at which they stood a couple of years
ago.

Stocks are not inordinately large, and if trade
revived a little the reductions made on them
would soon alter the present state of affairs,
though the knowledge that large stocks at the
shipping ports will be forthcoming next year
makes the trade place little confidence in any
lasting improvement.

EO
GLASGOW.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 25th
says :—The timber trade,so far as can be drawn
from deliveries of goods from the depots where
cargoes are stored at discharge discovers consid _
erable activity, but not to a point that causes
the market to take a decided rise in prices,
showing that, notwithstanding the large con-
sumption among our shipbuilders, stocks on
hand have not fallen so extremely low as to
produce strong competition at the public sales.
In the case of mahogany, a very animuted sale
of which we recently reported, it had to a great

i Ottawa yellow Pine deals—

tent been diverted to other markets, and the
port here, as a whole, was much smaller than
‘or many years.

_ There is an opening in this market for lower
ort birch; the last cargo offered met with
irited bidding, aud was cleared out and the
eater part is delivered.

3 Messrs. Allison, Cousland & Hamilton held

auction sale of American goods on 21st inst.
‘as noted below. There was a fair attendance,
but nothing transpired in the course of the sale
to give the idea of a decided improvement in
prices, y
= AUCTION SALE,

On 21st inst., at Glasgow, Messrs, Allison,

“Cousland & Hamilton, brokers :—

12 to 16 ft, 10x3 2s, 8d. per c. ft.
9) 816 Sf 7/10x3 2s, 1d. se
Do, Ottawa yellow pine deal ends—
a] 3 to 6 ft. 7/20x3 1s. 10d. se
2nd do, ends—
' 6 to 8 ft. 7/24x3 1s, 7d. a
3rd do deals—
: 14 to 16 ft. 16/20x3 1s.63d. ‘“
16 ft. 11x3 1s. 34d. 6
14 & 16 ft. 11x3 1s. 3d. SS
4th do. deals—
10 to 16 it. Miwa) ss, 1d’ ss
New Brunswick yellow pine deals—
9 to 16 ft. 7/15 x8 tad.
Do. tamarac—
10 to 16 ft OX Sie t is 66
—————
LIVERPOOL.

The Timber Trades Journal of Nov. 25th
says :—Up to the time of writing we have not
had any public sales of whitewood, but on
Thursday Messrs, A. F, & D. Mackay offer an
attractive lot of deals, both pine and spruce,
together with St. John, N.B., birch timber, &c.

The importation of spruce deals has been upon
amore moderate scale during the past week,
but we may naturally expect an increase during
the next few days, as the wind has again gone
around to the westward, and with the prevail-
ing strong gales vessels may be expected to
take rapid passages.

Up to the present time the stock in the yards
is within a moderate compass, and as most of
the orders that are being executed are taken
from the quays, there will probably be no
material increase at the end of the month,
when the stocks are made up, and should the
shippers in St. John, N. B., continue in their
present determination not to pay the high rates
of freight that have been current hitherto, we
may possible see a rebound in prices. Birch
timber continues in demand, and high prices
have been paid for several parcels by private
treaty, and by auction a lot of 657 logs of Dal-
housie, now landing, was sold on Thursday last,
by Messrs. Farnworth & Jardine, at their
mahogany sale at the following prices :—

19 in. and upwards deep 27d. per ft.
18 and under 19 in. * 224d. to 238d. “*
17 ve egies Saldato2igd,, ¢
16 ce 17 “e “e 20d. oe
15 Le 16 ‘‘ - * 193d.to 193d, ‘
14 ce 15 “ “ec 183d. “ec
13 be 14 ** ee tid, to: 174d, 1
under 13 inches sey ANd: 56

—o——__

= SWEDEN.

F The Stockholm correspondent of the Timber
Prades Journal says:—The mild weather with
which we have been hitherto favoured has now
given place to frost and snow. The ports in the
lower Gulf, such as Gefle and Soderhamn, hav
begun to be troubled with ice, we may fair
consider the shipping season as practical-
‘ closed when the vessels now under loading
away.
As millowners are just on the eve of sending
into the woods to commence the winter’s
itting, it will be well for them to look around
at the state of stocks and markets abroad be-
fore finally deciding on the extent of the “‘ cut.”
If they turn to the principal markets in Great
Britain they will find little to induce them to
ake a heavy ent. The position of the trade in
¢ English metropolis is sufficiently character-
by the late sale of the Bergwik goods,
re 3rd and 4th quality red deals are said to
fe been disposed of, delivered in London, at
more than prices ruling for the same goods
b, Soderhamn earlier in the season. The
three large ports for Swedish sawn wood
Hull, Grimsby, and West Hartlepool, re-

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done in the cities, and at current CITY PRICKS.

Blank Books and Account Books of any size Ruled to any pattern desired, and bound in the
most appropriate and durable manner, °

Books taken out in parts, Bibles, Works of Art, Illustrated Works, Music Books,
Magazines, Perodicals and Newspapers bound in any style desired,

Old Books, Albums, &c. Repaired and Rebound.

Maps, Pictures, &c. Mounted and Varnished.

Names Lettered in Gold Leaf on Presentation Books, Bibles, Purses, &c.

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port a somewhat better condition of things, but
at each of these stocks are said to be much lar-
ger than last year, The great Belgian entrepot,
Antwerp, is also supplied with more than an
average quantity, while prospects in France are
decidedly inferior to what they were a year ago,
insomuch that if becomes daily more apparent
that the pace at which public money has lately
been spent on public works will have to be dim-
inished if the credit of that country is to be up-
held. At home here stocks are a full average,
or are soon likely to be, if the arrangements for
winter sawing are taken into calculation.
Bearing the foregoing facts in mind I am de-
cidedly of the opinion that only a very moder-
ate cut of logs should be attempted in the
interests of millowners for the winter 1882-3.
Did I not hold the opinion that the consum-
ption of Great Britain is likely to be large next
season, the state of the market would warrant
even stronger language than above.
————
MIDLAND, ONT.

AsHoRE.—The Free Press says that the
steam barge Tecumseh, loaded with 600,000
feet of lumber, went ashore on Saturday morn-
ing at Flat Point, near Victoria Harbor. A
large number of men earned from 30 to 40
cents an hour unloading part of her cargo. She
was pulled off by the tug Minnie Hall on
Sunday, came to Midland, and left here Mon-
day morning for Windsor.

te

THE CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY.

The year now closing may be looked back
upon with some satisfaction by the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company. The track is now
laid to a point 539 miles west of Winnipeg,
Forty-seven miles more are graded, ready for
track-laying. This will be completed by the
end of the year. Beyond this point, that ia to
say on the other side of these 586 miles, some 15
miles have been graded in patches, and will be
completely graded before spring. Beyond that
again lie 45 miles of heavy work, cutting and
fills, in the coulees that run from the Cypress
Hills to the Saskatchewan. Upon this work
Langdon, Sheppard & Co.’s men will be em-
ployed all winter. Thus, before the end of the
year, the track wili be put down within 60 miles
of Leopold, the name of the town where the
railroad crosses the Saskatchewan. But above
and beyond this the line is permanently located
ten miles westward of the river, and, saving
revision, to Calgary, 190 miles westward of
Leopold. From Calgary to the summit of the
Rocky Mountains lies a stretch of 150 miles of
exceedingly heavy work. This leaves 390 miles
to be constructed next year, and apart from the
natural difficulties that will hamper the con-
struction men, their base of supplies, Winnipeg,
will be just 390 miles farther off. But beyond
any doubt the work will be done. The Syndi-
cate has gone through harder times than those
coming.

Since the beginning of the present year they
have laid 435 miles of track on the main line,115

JONES

39 Broadway,

miles on their Southwestern branch, 22 miles on
the new branch to Selkirk, 60 miles of side
tracks on the main line, three miles of side
tracks en the Southwestern—a total of 635 miles
of railroad. Nothing like this has been hitherto
known in the annals of railroading. Mr. Van
Horne and Mr, Egan have accomplished a task
which, at no remote period, would have been
regarded as impossible.

Track laying will be finished on the C. P. R.
Southwestern branch to Manitoba City, Pem-
bina Mountain, 101 miles from Winnipeg, to-
day, Dec. 5th. Mixed trains will henceforth be
run from Winnipeg to Gretna and return, on
Mondays. On Tuesdays and Fridays mixed
trains will be run to Pembina Mountain, re-
turning on Wednesdays and Saturdays,

The operations of the Syndicate from the first
have been marked by extraordinary energy, and
next year they purpose even to outstrip the
wonderful push that has marked their work
since they took hold of it a year and a half ago.
Mr. Stephen and his associates do not admire
more thoroughly than the people of Winnipeg
the masterly manner in which Mr. Van Horne
and Mr. Egan have shouldered and are carrying
the colossal burden assumed by the Syndicate,

—Winnipeg Times.
—————

The Way Aurthur Looks At It.

The President has been considering the sub-
ject of forestry, and sums his conclusions up in
his message as follows:—The condition of
the forests of the country, and_ the
wasteful manner in their destruction taking
place, give cause for serious apprehension.
Their action in protecting the earth’s surface,
in modifying the extremes of climate, and in
sustaining the flow of springs and streams
[is not well understood, and their importance in

& SON,

Wholesale Lumber & Timber Dealers

NEW YORK.

Oak, Ash, Cherry, Black Walnut, Poplar, Butternut

And all other Kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

White and Yellow Pine Lumber and Timber.

Oak Ship Plank and Timber.
Ship Stock Generally. :

Pine Deck Plank and

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relation to the growth and prosperity of the
country cannot be safely disregarded. They are
| fast disappearing before destructive fires, and
the legitimate requirements of our increasing
population, and their total extinction cannot be
long delayed unless better methods than now
prevail shall be adopted for their protection and
cultivation. The attention of congress is invited
to the necessity of additional legislation to
secure the preservation of the valuable forests
still remaining on the public domain, especially
in the extreme western states and territories,
where the necessity for their protection is greater
than in less mountainous regions, and where the
prevailing dryness of the climate renders their
restoration, if they are once destroyed, well-
nigh impossible.—Worthwestern Lumberman.
—

THE Winnipeg Times says :—Sales at present
cannot compare with those of last month.
There is a good stock on hand at present of all
grades of lumber and not much likelihood of
much decrease of stock until sleighing sets in.
The import trade by rail is very small just now
owing to the large stocks on hand.
ciation prices remain firm,

Seemann eee
ly YEARS’ EXPERIENCE.

The asso-

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THE CANADA

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
The following are the returns issued by the
Board of trade, for the month of Oct., and

for the first ten months of the year :—
MONTH ENDED 3187 OcT., 1882.

Quantity. Value
Timber (Hewn). Loads. £,
RUSSIA 1c cee veeee reer rie es” (Beg OO 78,206
Sweden and Norway......++ Pei see's HOIDSe 99, 582
Germany.....+.+-++8 De ee ate selene DOV OLo, 88,578
United States..........+ dno crag 5,925 23,761
Britiyh India......+++e+5 vee AORS OI 5,125 69,881
British North America,......+ secses 49,937 247,502
Other Countries 20,853 23,526
MGM son atau 210,005 630,956
Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed).
RUBSia nee su, snteciinetsisaeaemetelsielsisieieL CD00 421,467
weden and NOrway....sesssresees .198,220 475,998
British North America... ....+.++++ 161,785 450,874
Other Countries......+ pieislela nies 010 eis) 16,010 50,753
Wotalemveiersutetisremtetentslelersiece isle (os 541,091 1,399,092
Staves, (all sizes). ..s.+.-.+ aiiigiosetsveye 14,291 79,638
Mahogany (tons)....++ Bataortehernic heat 9,394 97,658
Total of Hewn and Sawn,.....++++++ 761,096 2,030,048
TEN MONTHS ENDED 31st octT,, 1882.
Timber (Hewn).
Russia.....++ crn onaseanouoog non sere’ Ts} 653,599
Sweden and NOrway..essereerearere 550,488 872,880
Germany.......++. Bondommoadacduacd 260,021 744,953
United States........-... Reni ite 146,573 501,996
British India.........+++ HOORTOODUNO 35,789 454,993
British North America.....-+++++0++ 201,124 962,681
Other CountrieS....serceseeees oo 287,835 367,615
ITO tAlllcterorstelsis svete’ 1s ate" ctelo/oNr adonn 1,746,288 4,458,667
Timber (Sawn or Split,
Planed or Dressed).
Russia....++ ee AR TAM ois vicars 0805180" 2) (ely nae
Sweden and Norway .....e+sserees 1,469,501 3,695,223
British North America ....+..+6+0++ 788,327 2,081,426
Other CountrieS.s.seecererereenrees 805,496 974,694
Total! cevsevwee covseane aoctodec 3,648,510 9,493,090
Staves (all sizes).......++++ Re ctaninere 109,258 654,085
Mahogany (tOMS)...ssersesee serenee 31,069 302,838
Total of Hewn and Sawn,...++++++ 5,394,798 13,951,767

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NORTH OF KINGSTON.

The Kingston Whig says :—A gentlemen
from the rear of this county was asked last
evening for information in regard to the lum-
bering operations, and reported that the work
now in progress was really enormous. There
has not been such activity for a long time, and
the cut promises to be the largest for many
years. The principal operations are in the
townships of Abinger, Denbigh, Anglesea,
Effingham and Barrie, and these are conducted
by the Gilmours, HeLaren and Caldwell.
There ave dozens of shanties and all are crowd-
ed with men, whose wages range from $18 to
$26 per month. A few receive more. When
the speaker left the township of Barrie there
had been but little snow. To make business
hum plenty of the beautiful is required, Some
of the lakes have been frozen over, and the ice
upon them is capable of bearing them, It is
wonderful the quantity of supplies that goes to
the camp, including cattle, hay and food, The
logs will be drawn to the lakes and streams and
in the spring floated to the mills. If the win-
ter be favorable the timber cut must be very

large.

———$—$—_———
A Plorida Enterprise.
The Northwestern Lwumberman
English company, called the Florida Agricul-
tural Company, of London, has purchased 27,-
000 acres of land in the southern part of Orange
county, Texas, of the Disston Company. The
lands are said to be among the most valuable
timber, sugar and fruit lands in the state. The
company will at once erect saw mills and begin
to plant out fruit trees. As soon as the lands
are in shape, the sugar interest will be developed
to its fullest. extent, Great expectations of
English settlement are based on this experi-

says :—An

ment,

Trees on the French National Roads.

Statistics have been published by the French
Department of Public Works relative to the
planting of trees along the high-roads of the
country. The total length of the Routes Na-
tionales is 39,938,126 meters, of which 23,731,-
928 meters may be bordered with trees. Of
this distance, 14,335,311 meters are planted,
while 9,496,617 meters remain to be done, The
number of trees used to form the welcome aye-
pues is 2,601,698,

LOGGING RAILWAY.

Logging by rail instead of hauling by sleds to
the different streams, is becoming fashionable.
The Shell Lake Lumber company have eight
miles of railway, which brings the logs to their
mill, On the Eau Claire river, Messrs. R. M.
Forsman and W. T. Price are constructing seven
miles, on which they intend hauling to that
stream 70,000,000 feet, most of which is to be
cut into long timber. N. C. Foster, of Fair-
child, is also building a logging railway which
will bring stock from the woods to his mill,
His track will connect with the ForSman and
Price one. And now comes the M. I, Company
and ©. L. & B. Company, with their intended
line from the Chippewa river near Amacon
Lake, six miles above Big Bend, into the timber
recently purchased from the Cornell University.
The last lot embraces about 300,000,000 feet,
and the haul will be seven miles. These cor-
porations consider it cheaper to do this than to
make Potato Creek, Soft Maple branches, etc.,
safe for log driving purposes, besides making it
certain that the logs will get into the main
river. It certainly looks as if the old modes of
logging would soon be superceded by the rail.—
Chippewa Herald.

——_—_——— NT
Sale of Timber Limits Postponed.

The following appears in the Globe of Nov.
the 30th :—This afternoon 970 square miles of
timber limits situated in the Province of Quebec
were put up at auction in Ottawa, in behalf of
Bronson & Weston and Levi Young. Before
the sale was proceeded with a proteet was en-
tered by Mrs. Bingham and W. McD. Dawson,
each of whom claim the ownership of one-
quarter of the limits. Mr. Gormully, the ven-
dors’ solicitor, disregarded the protest, and said
plenty of time had been given to protestants to
enter an injunction in Chancery if they wished
to do so and he ordered the sale to be proceeded
with. The nine hundred and seventy miles
which were offered en bloc are estimated to be
worth $500,000. The sale was further postponed
till the 21st December,

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New Zealand Timber.

According to Mr. Gilderoy Wells Griffin, who
has been United States Consul at Auckland, New
Zealand, since 1879, America imports from New
Zealand and the Australian colonies nearly as
much wood as she herself raises, but Kauri gum
is the only thing which is sent to the States di-
rect from New Zealand. About $1,000,000 worth
of it are shipped annually. The gum exudes
from a large tree known as the Kauri pine,
which is about 30 feet in circumference, and
grows to the height of eighty feet. It isa curi-
ous fact that this tree grows in no other part of
the world than the province of Auckland. The
gum is generally found in a fossilized state
around the roots of trees in extinct forests, and

has to be dug for.
|

Free Canals,

The Lumberman’s Gazette says :—Free canals,
which has just been voted in New York state,
will not be entirely devoid of significance to the
lumber industry on the Saginaw river, and to
other portions of the Saginaw Valley, as its ten-
dency will be directly to lessen the price of the
Saginaw valley product delivered at the eastern
markets, without injury to the manufacturer,
The removal of tolls from the New York canals
means more certain and increased demand for

Michigan lumber.
NT

Tur Norway correspondent of the Zimber
Trades Journal says :—Altogether it is very
satisfactory to note from the above statistics
that the forest produce of this country is turned
to better account year by year. I have often
heard elderly lumbermen express their dismay
at the small dimensions of the logs floated down
the rivers now-a-day compared to former times,
and these old folks have generally concluded
with a sad prediction, to the effect that before
long there would be no timber left large enough
to turn into a useful article of export. They
may perhaps derive some consolation from the
reflection that matches and pulp can be made
out of whatever is to small for converting into
deals, battens, and boards. The great thing is
this, that much of what was formerly left to rot
in the forests can now be made use of,

LUMBERMAN.

CHEMICAL INJECTION OF RAILROAD
TIES.

Some interesting data are published in the
German papers, showing the relative value of
different methods of injecting railroad ties. On
the route from Hanover and Cologne to Minden,
for example, the pine ties injected with chloride
of zine, required a renewal of 21 per cent. after
a lapse of 21 years; beech ties, injected with
creosote, required a renewal of 46 per cent.
after 22 years’ wear; oak ties, injected with
chloride of zinc, required renewal to the extent
of about 21 per cent. after 17 years, while the
same kind of ties, not injected, necessitated
fully 49 per cent. of renewals. The conditions
of all these cases were very favorable for reliable
tests, and the road-bed was good, permitting of
easy desication ; the unrenewed ties showed, on
cutting, that they were in condition of perfect
health. On another road, where the oak ties
were not injected, as large a proportion as 74.48
per cent. had to be renewed after 12 years ; the
same description of ties, injected with chloride
of zinc, required only 3.29 per cent. renewals
after seven years, while similar ties injected
with creosote involved, after six years, but 0.09
per cent.—Lumberman’s Gazette.

NEW BRUNSWICK EXPORTS.

The correspondent of the Montreal ‘azette
writes from St. John, N. B., on Nov. 27. -The
reports of the Custom Houses on the lumber
shipments of the season, are published, and it
appears that there is a considerable falling off

in the exports of the North Shore
ports as compared with those of last
year. This is, however, solely because

of the scarcity of vessels during the greater part
of the season. The spring fleet instead of re-
turning for second cargoes, found freights else-
where. Rates rose very considerable at the
time of the Egyptian war, and the steamers
that were expected failed to come. There was
great competition for all the vessels that did
come, and lumber freights reached a higher
figure than for some time previously. Deals
are piled up in a mountainous manner, and the
stock for spring shipments is larger than it has
been for years. There will, doubtless, be a big
fleet, including a much larger percentage of
steamers, here for deals at the opening of navi-
gation in the Gulf ports.

NORTH WESTERN TIMBER,

A reporter of the Winnipeg Zimes obtained
the following information from Mr. Thos. Cow-
an, of the Indian Department, who has just re-
turned from a survey of Indian Reserves in the
far west. Mr. Cowan said that there was
much being done in the lumbering business in
the localities visited by him. There is a saw
mill in operation at Calgarry, and another on
Mill Creek. In connection with the latter there
is a grist mill. The timber is mostly spruce,
but there is also considerable pine. The spruce
is large, in some cases quite as large as in any
of the eastern provinces, ‘' From what I saw
and heard I judge there is timber enough to
meet the demands of all the towns and cities
that may grow in the vicinity for many years
to come. I heard that there are great quantities
of pine of splendid growth up in the Crows-
nest Pass, but did not have an opportunity of
visiting the locality.”

ee

A. CuHarbD, of Sterling, in a recent letter
states that he met with an accident some time
ago, by which one of his knees was severely in-

jured. A few applicatiens of Hagyard’s Yel-
low Oil afforded immediate and complete relief.

UNpDoUBTEDLY the best medicine to keep on
hand for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis
and Pulmonary troubles generally, is Hagyard’s
Pectoral Balsam, It will not cure Consump-
tion, but it will cure those troublesome con-
ditions leading thereto.

Davy & Crark, Druggists, Renfrew, date of
June 3rd, write:—‘‘Burdock Blood Bitters,
though comparatively a new preparation, has
taken the lead in this locality as a blood puri-
fier, our sales of it being equal to that of all
other medicines used for the purpose during the
last year.”

A Bie Investuent.—G. M. Everest, of For- |
est, states that Hagyard’s Pectoral Balsam still

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Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
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Pains and Aches.

No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacons Ort
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—_ pain can bave cheap and positive proof of its
claims.

Directions in Eleven Languages.

SOLD BY ALL DSUGGISTS AND DEALEES

IN MEDICINE.
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CRATEFUL—COMFORTING.

EPPS $ COCOA

BREAKFAST.

‘‘By a thorough knowletige of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutri-
tion, and by a careful application of the fine properties
of well-selected cocoa, Mr, E has provided our
breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverage
which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by
the judicious use of such articles of diet that a consti-
tution may be gradually built up until strong enough
to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of sub-
tle maladies are floating around us ready to attack
whereever there is a weak point. We may escape many
a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with
pure blood and a properly nourished frame.”—Ciril
Service Gazette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in
tins and packets only (}-th. and ih.) by Grocers labell-

ed thus:
JAMES EPPS & Co., Homeopathic Chemists,
18Lly on, England.

ZUCCATO’S PAPYROGRAPH

is a new invention for
the rapid production of
fac-simile copies of any
Writing, Drawing, or
other work which can
= with pen and
ink.

Autograph Letters
Circulars, Music, ete.
are first written upon
a sheet of paper, in the usual way, and from this
written sheet
500 COPIES PER HOUR

may be printed upon any kind of dry paper, or other
material, in a common Copying Press.

This is the Most Simple, Rapid and Econo-
mical Process yet Discovered.

THOUSANDS are already in successful use in Gov-
ernment Offices, Colleges, Academies, Public and
Private Schools, Railway and Insurance Offices. Also
by Business Men, Lawyers, Clergymen, Sunday-school
Superintendents, Missionaries and others.

The Simmons Hardware Co., of St. Louis, says of it :
“‘QOur Papyrograph, purchased sometime since, gives
entire satisfaction. Would not be without it for $1,000
a year,

For specimens of work, price-list, ete, address

holds its own amongst the many cough medi- | With stamp.

cines in the market. He says that he has sold
it for nearly sixteen years, and the sales are
steadily increasing. One family has purchased
over 50 bottles for various members and friends,

THE PAPYROGRAPH CO.,
43 and 45 Shetucket Street, Norwich, Conn.
#2 LOCAL AGENTS WANTED. “8X

.

_ without cutting a shim.

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

To MILLMEN!
HODCSON’S

Patent Saw Grinder

Is a new, efficient, and exceedingly cheap machine and
is equally well adapted to grinding Jong and round

tions.

saws of every description.
just were wanted as easily
lumber, and costs no more
United States and Canada,

Hodgson’s Patent Monitor Shingle Machine

combines, at a moderate price, more points of excellence than any other. Jointer is built in machine, a few

inches from the saw.

Wheel is moved along the length, and inthe depth of the tooth, and can be placed
asa file. It is just THE THING for mills, cutting from one to five million feet of
than one-fourth to one-tenth the price of little better machines. —
and is made in Weisport, Pennsylvania, and in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

It is patented in

The east steel feed rolls are opened by a foot lever, and grip the block like a vice.

Traverse of carriage to suit large or small stock, is under control of operator when running. Will run for days

$100. Send for circulars to

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Warranted to cut, with one attendant, three thousand in an hour, under forfeiture of

T. HODGSON, AMHERST, NOVA SCOTA.

MACHINE OILS, ETc.
McCOLL BROS. & Co.

TORONTO:

MANUFACTURERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Machine and Illuminating Oils

Four (4) Medals and Three (3) Diplomas awarded to them
in 1881, by the Leading Exhibitions of the Dominion.

SEND FOR PRICHS, LH es

524

J.T. LAMBERT,

Lumber and Commission Agent.

ORDERS FOR DIMENSIONS AND ALL OTHER
KINDS AND GRADES OF

American Lumber

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

Timber Limits and the Square
Timber Trade a Specialty.

Office, Wellington Street, OTTAWA. lf

J. L. Goodhue & Son

MANUFACTURERS OF

Leather Belting |

—AND—

Patent Lace Leather.

an DANVILLE, P. Q.

* $500 Reward!

We will pay the above reward for any case of Liver
Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Indigestion,
Constipation or Costiveness we cannot’ cure with
West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are
strictly complied with. They are purely Vegetable,
and never fail to give gatixfaction. Sugar Coated,
Large Boxes, containing 30 Pills, 25 cents. For sale

all Druggiste. Beware of counterfeits and imita-
The genuine manufactured only by JOHN C
WEST & CO., ** The Pill Makers,” 81 & 83 King St.
Fast, Toronto, Ont. Free trial package sent by mail
pea receipt of a 3 cent stamp. ORMOND &

ALSH, sole authorized Agents for Peterborough,
Ont, w46d112122

LUMBER

Shingles, Doors, Sash, Flooring, &c.,
WAN THD,

STATE QUANTITIES AND PRICE TO

SHORE & DAVIS,

Bt see Office, 514 Maine Street, Winnipeg, Man.

CONSUMPTION

POSITIVELY CURED.

All sufferers from this disease that are anxious to
be cured should try Dr. Kissner’s Celebrated
Consumption Powders. These powders are the
only preparation known that will cure consumption
and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs—indeed,
sostrong is our faith in them, and also to convince
you that they are no humhug, we will forward to
every sufferer, by mail, post paid, a Free Trial Box.

We don’t want your money until you are perfectly
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saving, don’t delay in giving these Powders a trial,
as they will surely cure you.

Price for large box $3,00, sent to any part of the
United States or Canada, by mail, on receipt of price.

Address
ASH & ROBBINS,
360 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. N. Y.

Health is Wealth.

20124

Dr. E. C. WEST’S NERVE AND: BRAIN TREATMENT,
a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convul-
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Wakefulness, Mental Depression, Softening of the
Brain, resulting in Insanity and leading to misery,
decay and death, Premature Old Age, and Spermatorr-
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or over-indulgence. One box will cure recent cases.
Each box contains one month’s treatment. One dollar
a box, or six boxes for five dollars; sent by mail pre-
paid on receipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to
cure any case. With each order received by use for
six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send
the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the
money if the treatment does not effect a cure. Quar-
antees issued only by ORMOND & WALSH, sole
authorized Agents for Peterborough, Ont. JOHN C.
WEST & CO., Sole Prorpietors, Toronto, Ont.

ROBERTSON’S

LIGHTNING CANT-DOG

oe, tes ey ees 2 IN CF.
The Lightest, Cheapest and Most Durable Cant-Dog tn the World.

PETER ROBERTSON,

Chaudiere - - - Ottawa.

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Have been awarded Three Years in

succession at the Provincial

Fire-Engine
Hose, &c., &c.

and Dominion Exhibitions in
Montreal, First Prizes
for

Send for Price Lists

,

and Discounts to the Factory

MONTREAL.

12117

se recta Build 4 Sizes Fire-Proof Champion Engines
0. -norse Power
ae WITH PLAIN OR SECTIONAL BOILER
ue AST! i 16 A. P. if so ordered. Weare testing an Engine
Ri 20H.P.J every day, Intending purchasers are
CHAMPION weit TGs ie invited to call at our Works and thor-
SAWMILL Cex : ae oughly examine the Champion. We use

ERUPP’S CELEBRATED BOILER PLATE,

ENCIN E Every plate tested.
ei) lb, Every boiler tested to 160 pounds, cold water
attest ube a pressure.
SECTIONAL OVER 600 SOLD
. in 5seasons. The favorite everywhere.
SAFETY It has no
BOILER. oe

The sectional safety boiler is manufactured expressly for the =
“North West” trade. This boiler is so arranged that it is readily taken apart in sections
enabling purchasers to clean thoroughly every part of it and prevent burning out.
We know from ertence this is absolutely necessary with the alkaline waters of the great
Western Largely used by the Pacific Railway Company and all the iarge Colo-
nization and Ranche Companies. x

ADDRESS WATEROUS ENGINE WORKS CO., BRANTFORD, CANADA. —

TAUMiCS.

Send for New Circular.

382 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

We will supply anything in the line of BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and
Offices at City Prices.
Shanty Settlements Office Letterheads
Shanty Orders Office Noteheads
Shanty Receipts Office Envelopes
Shanty Time Books Office Cards
Shanty Log Books | Office Notes
Shanty Reports Office Drafts
Shanty Ledgers — Office Orders
Shanty Cash Books Office Receipts
| Shanty Way Bills Office Blank Books
| Drive Books Office Ship Account Books

And everything necessary to a complete office outfit.

All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Lowest Living Prices.

BOOK-BINDING of every Description got up in a very Neat and Superior manner.

Account Books Ruled and Bound to any desired Pattern.

For Schedule of Prices address, describing the kind and quality of work desired,

TOKER & Co,

“THH CANADA LUMBERMAN,”

PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO,

THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 383

HART EMERY WHEEL COMPANY, Limited

HAMILTON, CANADA.

Ls ee ©

GILBERT HART, Detroit, JAMES T. BARNARD, Hamilton, SAMUEL BRIGGS, Hamilton,

President. Secretary-Treasurer. F Superintendent.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED

EMERY ant CORUNDUM WHEELS

For Saw Gumming

D KC

These Wheels are
Wire Strengthened

Neither Animal nor Vegetable Glue or Gum being used in their composition, they are NOT LIABLE
TO HEAT, and give out no Odors, while

They Surpass All Other Wheels for Free Cutting and Durability.

We refer to the following well known Saw Manufacturers for Opinions as to the Quality of our Wheels :

Messrs. SHURLEY & DIETRICH, _ JAMES ROBERTSON, ESO,,
GALT. MONTREAL.
Messrs. R. H. SMITH & CO,, Messrs. JAMES ROBERTSON & CO.,
ST. CATHERINES. TORONTO. |

WE ALSO REFER TO

WILLIAM HAMILTON, ESQ, Messrs. H. B. RATHBUN & SON,
PETERBOROUGH, DESERONTO,
Manufacturer of the Covell Saw Sharpeners. Lumber Merchants. re

384 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.

EERY WHEELS FOR SAW GUNNING,

In order to remove the difficulties connected with the importation
4 of TANITE GOODS in small quantities, and to bring such goods

“Al ie I within easier reach of

Jf CONSUMERS IN CANADA, |

Me ime we have arranged with the well-known firm of

OTHINGHAM & WORKMAN

: WK © IT TE eA 1,

To take our sole Agency for the Provinces of ONTARIO and QUEBEC. By this means consumers
who want only single wheels, or goods in small quantity, can supply themselves easily and avoid
the trouble of special importations, while dealers can secure the most liberal terms, fully equal

to those they could obtain by buying of us direct.
Messrs. Frothingham & Workman will carry a full stock of TANITE EMERY WHEELS,

and a sample line of Machines, and can fill all orders promptly.

The Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. Pa.

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September 28th, 1882.

MILL REFUSE TURNED INTO MONEY

BY THE USE OF

Brown's Patent Spalt and Shingle Mill,

for making Shingles, Barrel Heading, Box Stuff, &c., from spalts, board

trimmings, slabs, and mill waste geperally, turning material otherwise

worthless into valuable products. I have made arrangements with the

patentee to manufacture and sell for the Dominion; have made and sold

a gcod number of these machines which are giving excellent satisfaction
and can give the best of references,

ss ° a ge . Our Steam Feed for Circular Mills,

rT

| ca Pe : is now the Best Feed where Steam is the motive power. It is easily

a CN operated, is simple, rapid, and seems never likely to Wear out; sixteen

\ 16 ft. boards, or eighteen 12 ft. boards, have been cul by it in one minute.

It is the established feed for steam mills; [ makea specialty of its manu-
facture ; will guarantee satisfaction,

Our Patent Twin or Span Circular,

pinay

a uN
i il Ki i

eT SUT a HS ning expenses and labour. Two of these machines can be seen at work

— SST in Messrs. Gilmour & Co's Mill, Trenton, and Georgian Bay Lumber Co's

Mill, Waubaushene and Port Severn. #1 am also introducing a new

style of Mill Engine, neat, substantial and simple, with Corliss Frame —

and Balanced Valve, all carefully designed and honestly made.

is I || | i) Wh Covel’s Automatic Saw Sharpener,
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Our Standard Circular & Gang Mills & Machinery,

— are too well known to need any reference, any further than to say that I
_— oy spare no pains or expense to have my work all first-class and give Satis-
faction, and as I make Heavy Saw Mill Machinery a specialty, any party
wanting a First-class Mill will find it to their advantage to give me a call.

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nacdenadk Foundry and Machine Works, PETERBOROUGH Ont,

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WILLIAM HAMILTO

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