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Title: Canadian forest industries 1911
Identifier: canadianforest1911donm (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORK KK 53 The Gatineau Industrial Company Limited, Hervey Junction, Que., has been incorporated with a capital of $200,000 to carry on business as manufac- turers and dealers in lumber, timber, paper, &c. The incorporators are Hugh Doheny, contractor of Montreal; D. S. Scott of Hervey Junction and M. J. O'Brien of Renfrew, Ont. The Canadian Timber Yards Limited, Montreal, Que., have been in- corporated with a capital of $1,000,000 to carry on business as manufactur- ers and merchants of timber, lumber, &c., saw mill proprietors, lumber yards, mills, storehouses, &c. The incorporators are Geo. V. Cousins, G. Penny, and S. T. Mains, all of Montreal. Western Canada The Crown Lumber Company of Calgary, Alta., will erect a lumber yard in the C. P. R. Industrial District. A. E. Watts, of the Wattsburg Lumber Company, Wattsburg, B. C, has applied to the city of Calgary for a site, near the junction of the C. N.R. and C.P.R. for establishing a plant. Messrs. Fetherstonhaugh & Company report that Canadian patents have been granted to F. Henschell, Strathcona, Alta., for saw setting machines, and to H. A. Underwood, Stettlin, Alta., for band circular saws. The Riverside Lumber Company, who already employ about 200 men in their plant, at Calgary, Alta., are applying for a site in the Manchester sub-division on which to build a sash and door factory and also a box factory. The Bellingham Bay Lumber Company, of San Francisco, Cal., has secured an Extra-Provincial license to carry on business in the Province of British Columbia. The head office for British Columbia will be at Van- couver. Bruce M. Farris is attorney for the company. The Phoenix Lumber Company, Limited, Transcona, Man., has been incorporated with a capital of $20,000, to carry on business as timber, lumber and pulp manufacturers, general contractors, etc. The incorporators are J. W. Morrison, L. J. Carey, J. Suther, and E. J. Tarr, all of Winnipeg. The Westholme Lumber Company have secured a contract for forty miles of grading for the extension of E. & N. Railway to Union Bay, B.C. The company are now sending in their camp along the right of way. They are providing for accommodating between 500 and 600 workmen whom they will have on the line before Christmas. The McLelan Lumber Company, of Vancouver, have taken tenders for the general contract on their new mill at Ladner's Landing, near New West- minster. The general contract includes wharves, mill, planer, dry kilns, decks, all machinery, in fact everything with the exception of one boiler. A small mill is located on the company's property, which will furnish all necessary lumber. M. Kellie, of Revelstoke, reports that a syndicate of Montreal and Otta- wa capitalists have purchased for $1,000,000 the timber holdings of the British Columbia Timbers, Limited, on the south fork of the Fraser river above Fort George. The right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific is said to pass through the timber. It is reported that the amount of timber on the Fraser river licenses is estimated at 4,000,000,000 feet. The formal opening of the Powell River Pulp and Paper company's plant at Powell River, B. C, is expected to take place during the present month. As soon as the plant is in operation it is reported that the com- pany will commence the erection of an addition which will double its ca- pacity. The addition is expected to cost about $1,000,000. It is the in- tention of the company ultimately to increase the plant till it has eight ma- chines. It is reported that a transfer of the large holdings of the Red Cliff Lumber Company, of Duluth, Minn., in the Alberni district of Vancouver Island, to a syndicate of German investors, has been completed. The trans- fer, which had been in process of consummation for some time, involved a purchase price of considerably more than $2,000,000. The property contains some of the largest and most prolific timber in the world, and lies in the heart of the famous timber district along China creek, Ash river and Sproat lake. The deal was arranged with the German syndicate through Mr. Alvo von Alvensleben by Messrs. E. O. Weston, R. Wilson Clark and Morse Davis of Victoria. The vendors' end was handled by Mr. Walter H. Prescott, of Alberni. Bloedel, Stewart & Welsh, Limited, who were recently organized with $500,000 capital under the laws of British Columbia have acquired the hold- ings of T. L. Shevlin amounting to 7,800 acres and the Gulf Lumber Com- pany 4,000 acres additional. They are building five miles of standard log- ging railway from Myrtle Point into their timber. They are equipping the railway with one Shay Geared locomotive and a number of donkey en- gines purchased from the Vancouver Iron Works at Vancouver, B. C. All of the material except the locomotive was purchased in Canada. For the present the corporation will operate as loggers only, selling their product to the saw mills of British Columbia located on tide water. At a later date it is their intention to build a saw mill at some convenient point on the British Columbia coast with a view of supplying the rapidly increasing demand for lumber from the prairies and also exporting lumber to foreign countries. The company maintain headquarters in the Winch Building, Vancouver, B. C, with main works at Myrtle Point near Van Anda, B. C. Trade Enquiries The Dominion Government Trade and Commerce reports contain the fol- lowing trade enquiries. Readers of the "Canada Lumberman" may obtain the names of enquirers by writing to the Department of Trade and Commerce and stating the number of the enquiry. 1227. Box shooks and boxwood cases.âA South African firm of indent merchants desires to be placed in communication with Canadian manufac- turers and exporters of box shooks and boxwood cases of all descriptions. 1251. Lumber; cedar shingles.âA lumber firm in Speightstown, Barba- does, would like to hear from exporters of lumber generally; and cedar shingles in particular.
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The Barnhart Log Loader ha,.* been in successful operation in all parts of the country fci1 twenty years and never caused a complaint. We are now manufacturing a new Barnhart Loader known as Model "12," which is specially designed for use in very heavy timber. This loader is built on the same lines as the old Barnhart Loader now known as Model "10 and which we still continue to manufacture. We are operating lum- bermen, producing 200,000,000 feet of lumber per annum and we use the Barnhart Loader exclusively. Could we afford to do so if it were not the best? Write us for prices. Goodyear Lumber Company, bTyL0, IXT'E will make especially low " prices on the following Dry Stock for immediate shipment: COMMON and DRESSING WHITE PINE (NO BOX) 50 M ft. 5/4 x 8- â in. and up 1 2 8-ft. 60 « ' 6/4 X (< < < t« 250 « ' 8/4 X H tt it «< 65 ' 3x4- â in. " " 6/11 -ft. 50 ' 3 x 4" â in. " u 12/18-ft. Has to be moved to close an account. Bone Dry. Let us give you further particulars. Thos. Mackarell & Co. Montreal Ottawa

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