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Lumbermen In Trouble

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
June
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Lumbermen in this state aro imich exercised over the news from Ottawa, Ont., that the Canadian government bas advanced the export diity on pine saw-logs from $1 the $2 per 1,000 feet. The effect ol this advance in the export duty will be to materially injure the saw mili industry ol eastern Slichigan Parties in this state i own about l,O),OO0,O0O feet of pine timber [ in the Georgian Bay district, the great bulk of which was purchased in the expectation of cutting the logs and sbipping them to Alpena, the Saginaw river and other points for manufacture. The Emery lumber company of Bay City alono own 100,000,000 feet, and cut last winter 55,000 pieces scaling j about 15,000,000 feet, whioh they were expectine to bring to Kast Tawas and Saginaw this season. Hun. Ralph A. Loveland oí East Hiiginaw, a member of the oompany above referred to, left for Toronto iramediutcly u pon the receipt of ai disoatch announcing the decisión of the j minister oi ctmouiai io lowK ttitcr cheir ia terest, and others will follow at once. Mayor Hill of tëaginaw City, is interested in the matter, lt is of course, generally conceded that the object of the Canadians is to prevent the exportation of ■ logs to American points for manufacture, hm compel Atnericans, who have 1 chased timber liuiits in Canada to erect milla in Canada.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat