Title: Canadian forest industries 1886-1888
Identifier: canadianforest188688donm (find matches)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
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^6 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN.
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A big tree was recently cut at Moore & Tan ner'a camp on the Au Sable riverr It was cut into a stick 108 feet long, which measured 27 inches at the top and contained 10,300 feet. THE CANADA BERMAN Q§VQTEB T® THE LUMBgR AND TIMBER INTERESTS OF THE DOMINION. PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BV THE Peterborough Review Printing and Publishing Company (Limited), Peterborough, Ont. Terms of Subscription s One copy, one year, in advance . $2 00 One copy, sis months, in advance........ ... 1 00 Advertising Rates s Pa line, tor one year..................... 80 90 Par line, for six months ." 60 Per line, for three months. 30 Per line, for first insertion .... 10 Per line, for each subsequent insertion to 3 bio's. 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Communications to insure in- I sertion (if accepted) in the following number, should fee in the hande of the publishers » week before the date of the next issue. The Cakada Lumbbrman is filed at the Offices of Mbssss Siwtbl Deacon &Co., 164 Leadenhall Street, Loudon, England, who also receive advertisements and subscriptions for this paper. A young man named Addison, of Minden, had his thigh bone broken recently in one of the Parry Sound Lumber! nt; Co.'s camps by a log rolling down from a skidway, over a sleigh, and striking him. The Emery Lumber Company of Bay City have about 15,000,000 feet of logs skidded on one of the branches of French River. The timber is said to be of superior quality and will be taken to Tawas for manufacture. Messrs. Folsom & Arnold, of Eay City and Albany, are owners of very valuable timber on the Spanish river and have a saw mill at its mouthâthe first mill there. Their cut the past season was about 12.000,000 feet, averaging about ten per cent, to uppers. American pitch pine appears to be as much a pet of the German revenue system as Amer- ican hog products. Besides a duty of 30 per cent levied upon the importation of American pitch pine, the railroads of Germany, which are under governmental control, make an almost prohibitory discrimination against it. If any part of a car load is pitch pine the whole load is classed as such. As much at it has been predicted that walnut would be hustled aside by other woods, says the Northwestern Lumberman, it is Btill in the ring as vigorous as ever. Good walnut lumber finds ready sale in any of the leading markets, and buyers from both home and foreign markets aie busy looking it up. Any other wood that grow * will have more than it bargained for if it at tempts to satisfactorily take its place. * the new supply, are on a restricted Bcale, and consequently all are being held for improved prices. The shipments for the past ton years from Miramichi, given in superficial feet, were t follows : - Sup. Ft, 1876 116 000,000 1877 150,000,000 1878 : 106,000,000 1879 114,000,000 1880 155,000,000 1881 128,000,000 1882 117,000,000 1883 149,000,000 1884 108,000,000 1885 ...» 87,000,000 The distribution of the shipments in 1885 was as follows :âTo Great Britain, 47,239,692 sup feet; Ireland, 24,984,538 ; France. 10,223,213 Australia, 1,534,672 ; Africa, 2,262,198 ; Italy 1,005,715 ; total, 87,250,028. The shipments from St. John to trans-Atlan tic ports for the past 8 years were as follows Pine. 2,493 3,237 2,441 1,734 3,332 3,883 3,836 3,686 PETERBOROUGH, Ont, FEB, I, Michigan parties have recently bought a single birth on the Spanish River for a consider ation of $120,000. New buildings to the cost of $2,300,000 were ©rested in Montreal, Ont, during the past year, 1 The Kingston & Pembroke Railway Company has purchased the car works at Kingston, Ont. , for $20,000. Moses Ballah, while chopping near Essex Centre, Ont., was instantly killed by a falling limb. In some parts of northern Michigan cedar ties have advanced from 16 to 18 cents each, and posts from 5 to 6 cents. A reliable authority makes the statement that there will be six hundred miles of new railway completed in Missouri the present year. Since the recent sale of newly offered berths by the Crown Land Department,says a Toronto report, there has been greater activity in Algo m i timber sales than for years and the value of stumpage has considerably appreciated Transactions in limits appear to be on the basis of from $1 to $2 per thousand feet for white pine. In some cases the Algoma birch is a very valuable item, but account is rarely taken of the Norway or spruce in fixing values. Ezra Rust, of Saginaw, Mich., sold this week 30,000,000 feet of pine on Tobacco river to A. A. Brockway, of the same place for $200,000. The brig Adria, from St. John, N. B., for New York, with lumber, put into Vineyard Haven, January 13th, having lost part of her deck load in a heavy gale. Gow & Majo shipped 1,100 tons of sawdust from Muskegon to South Chicago last year for terra cotta manufacture. Next year they pro- pose to ship 100 tons a week. The boom in Muskegon river, above Newago, broke loose lately and 500,000 feet of logs went down the river. The logs belonged to the Newaygo Manufacturing Company, and will have to be sawed at Muskegon, MIRAMICHI. J. B. Snowball's wood trade circular for the year 1885 has been received. It states that ti e depression which existed during 1884, and which was supposed to have reached bottom, has continued through the year 1885, now closed. The advisability of the Provincial Government continuing its present policy in regard to the tax on the timber supply is ques- tioned. It is pointed out that while in 1884 the tax represented only about 20 cents per thous- and superficial feet, it is now increased until the direct tax and land tax (the tax is levied in two forms) amount to $1.40 per thousand superficial feet. The shipments from that port for the year show a falling off of 20 per cent from last year, and last year's was 27 per cent, less than the year 1883. The total shipments from the Province show a shortage of 12 per cent. There would have been a much greater reduc- tion, says the circular, were it not for the ex- cessive quantity of Nova Scotia goods shipped from St, John this season, which passed as St. John production. Nova Scotia shipments, however, show an increase of 5,277 St. Peters- burg standards, the figures being 40,221 stds. in 1885 against 34,944 standards in 1884. The only ports in New Brunswick that show any increase are Sackville, Shediac and Cocagne, all ports bordering on Nova Scotia. The stock being wintered is estimated at 17,000,000 superficial feet, against 26,000,000 last year and 40,000,000 in 1883. The amount of work being done in the forests is small, much less than for many years pact, and this with the very small stock being held over, will make next season's shipments show a still further reduction, which must continue as long as the present unremunerative prices prevail. The stock being wiutered at St. John, and also Sup. ft. Deal*. Birch. 1878 188,168,610 7,989 1879 153,279,357 11,548 1380 215 485,000 16.035 1881 210,281 730 5,134 1882 201,413,717 7 576 1883 181,517,932 11,778 1884 164.829,825 14 006 1885 152,543 026 13,769 Dalhousie and Campbellton, in 1885. shipped 13 796,950 super, feet deals, scantling and end and 5,267 tons timber ; Richibucto and Buc touche, 11,909 050 super, feet; Bathurst, 10, 160,242 feet, 29 tons birch and 588,140 pieces palings; Shediac. 5,797,035 super feet; Cara quet, 2,231,787 super, feet, 56 ton* timber and 111,000 pieces palings ; Sackville, 7.117,000 super, feet. The total lumber shipment of New Brunswick in 1885, compared with 1884, was as follows: 1884. 1885. No. of vessels 595 519 Tons 390,185 343.988 Sup. ft. deals, etc .333,191,893 291 747,383 Tons timber 26,939 27.738 The shipments from Nova Scotia in 1885 were as follows :âNo. of vessels, 172; tonnage, 92, 087; sup. feet deals, etc., 79,647,765 ; birch timber, 8,389 ; palings, 13,346. The shipments of deals from Nova Scotia to trans-Atlantic ports in the years mentioned were :â 1882 85.752,000 1883 77.918 000 1884 69,159,000 1885 : 79,647.765 The shipments of deals, etc , given in super ficial feet, from the Nova Scotia ports mention ed, weie as follows:âGuysborough, 2,061,642 Shelbourne, 704,880; Pictou, 300,795; Yar mouth, 2,516,250 ; Parsboro, 31 383,000 ; Port Medway, 525,000; Margaret's Bay, 2 000 000; Amherst, 16,124,947 ; Halifax, 12.155,251; Ship Harbour, 1.500,000 ; Sheet Harbour, 6,000,4)00; Liscomb, 752,000 ; Bridgewater, 3 624,000. THE PINE TREE OF KARASATE. A few miles from Otsu, Japan, is Karasate, a little point of land running into the lake, where a Shinto temple has stood for centuries. The shrine is covered by the arms (of a pine tree, wnose trunk is more than four feet in circumference, and the branches, trained out on supports, cover over an acre of ground. Of all the wonders of this part of the world, this old pine tree of Karasate deserves a first men- tion, and one wanders amazed under the great canopy of long drawn out, interlacing branches, and studies the intricate way in which the limbs of the Bturdy old pine have been twisted, loop- ed, tied and braided, as if they had been so many sticks of candy. The ends of the branch- es reach out over the water on either side, and a heavy stone wall on the lake front protects the venerable tree from ever being washed away by storms or floods. There is a tiny little box of a shrine up among the branches, and the pil- grims look strangely enough when they clap their hands loudly and stand with clasped palms, turning their faces up to the branches overhead. All the small children in Karasate followed us about as we wandered uuder the gnarled branches of the pine tree, half of the small boys and girls carried a smaller brother or sister on their backs. One dear bright-eyed little rascaJ capered about most bewitchioglv, and hardly left my elbow. When I sat down he sat down a id kicked his sandalled feet against me. He leaned over and read the same page of the guide book with me ; discovered my watch, held i: in hia hand to hear it ticking, and made him- self at home in the most betwiching, half timid and polite way. The other children, drawn up ia a silent array before us, wondered no less at fie foreigners themselves than at the favor or audacity of their young companion. When we finally rose I picked up a few cones and the empty shell of a skin from which some locust had lately flown. A sweet shy little girl saw me doing it, and ran to gather more and present them with many bows, the head of her baby brother on her back bobbing and rolling around alarmingly as she did it. The present of a big copper cent made her bow more than ever, and in a second the whole troop of young- sters were off over the sand and up the tree hunting for cones and locust shell.â St. Louis Gl*tU-Democrat. LONDON TRADE OF 1885 The annual circular of Simson & Mason, of London, says : Since the year 1881 the wood trade of the port of London has been most un- satisfactory, alike to shippers and importers. 1885 has closed, and resembles for the most part the previous years. All branches of in- dustry throughout the country have continued depressed, and the wood trade has been in sym- pathy. Until there is a better tone in the gen- eral trade of this country it would appear that the wood trade is not likely to show much im- provement. The recent fall-off in consumption is, in a large measure, due to the suspension of building operations in the metropolis and its s iburbs ; from this large and active source of consumption the demand has been for some months past gradually falling away. London has been overbuilt and requires some period of rest Although there are no immediate signs of a better state of things, yet there is concurrent opinion that prices have seen their lowest and any change must be for the better. Money was made and lost during the spring of the year through a " war scare " which soon sub- sided, and this has been the only exception to the monotony of dullness which has character- ized the past year. Freights have ruled exceed- ingly low from all ports, and some wood charters have been closed, j-erhapa, at a cheaper rate than ever previously known. ' The total import amount to 806 000 tons, being a reduction of 40 000 tons on 1804, and 30,000 below the average of the last five years. The total consumption, as indicated by the deliveries from the Surrey Commercial and Millwall Docks in sawn and planed wood, has been 205,050 Petersburg standards, against 232.000 Petersburg standards in 1884 being a fall-off <if 12 per cent. Compared with 1883, the fall off is 13* per cent , with 1882 15 per cent., aud with 1881 18 per cent. The fall-off as against last year equals about 500 Petersburg standards per week. Of hewn wood, excluding leeps, the consumption, as indicated by the Surrey Commercial Dock deliveries, has been a fair average one, amounting to 69,000 loads against 68,000 in 1884. WHY WILL YOU oough when Sullochis Car* will give give Immediate relief Price loots 50 el*, and $1. for sale by Ormond A Wais» drugglsLs, Peterborough. 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