106 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



To give some idea of the lumbering operations on the Trent waters 

 40 years ago, say 1872-73, an estimate of the pine lumber taken out 

 that season by the principal operators, may be compared with the 

 pine taken in same district during the past season. Gilmour & 

 Company had a mill at Trenton and their output for the season of 1872- 

 73 was about 22,000,000 feet B.M. Fowlds Bros, had a mill at Hastings 

 and their output for the season 1872-73 was about 1,500,000 feet B.M. 

 McDougall & Ludgate had a mill at Harwood, south side of Rice lake, 

 and their output for season 1872-73 was about 10,000,000 feet B.M. 

 Ullyott, Saddler & Company had a mill at Harwood, and their output 

 for season 1872-73 was about 12,000,000 feet B.M. The Dickson Com- 

 pany had a mill at Peterborough and their output for season 1872-73 

 was about 5,000,000 feet B.M. George Hilliard had a mill in Peter- 

 borough and his output for season 1872-73 was about 4,000,000 feet 

 B.M. John McDonald had a mill in Peterborough and his output for 

 season 1872-73 was about 1,500,000 feet B.M. James Z. Rogers had 

 a mill in Ashbumham, now the east ward of the city of Peterborough, 

 and his output for the season 1872-73 was about 1,000,000 feet B.M. 

 Boyd Smith & Company had a mill at Nassau, three miles north of 

 Peterborough and their output for the season 1872-73 was about 6,000,- 

 000 feet B.M. R. S. Strickland & Company had a null at Lakefield 

 and their output for season 1872-73 was about 4,000,000 feet B.M. 

 N. Shaw had a mill at Buckhom and his output for season 1872-73 was 

 about 2,000,000 feet B.M. W. A. Scott had a mill on the Mississauga, 

 2 miles north of Buckhom, and his output for season 1872-73 was 

 about 5,000,000 feet B.M. Mossom Boyd had a null at Bobcaygeon 

 and his output for season 1872-73 was about 10,000,000 feet B.M. 

 J. D. Smith & Company had a mill at Fenelon Falls and their output 

 for season 1872-73 was about 9,000,000 feet B. M. Hilliard & Mowry 

 had a mill at Fenelon Falls, and their output for season 1872-73 was 

 about 4,000,000 feet B.M. Green & Ellis had a mill at Fenelon Falls, 

 and their output for season 1872-73 was about 5,000,000 feet B.M. 

 W. M. Snyder formerly had a mill in Peterborough and took out about 

 3,000,000 feet B.M. , season of 1872-73, and had it sawn by contract. 

 A. H. Campbell & Company, former owners of the Nassau null, took 

 out about 4,000,000 feet B.M., season 1872-73, and had the logs sawn 

 by contract. Paxton, Bigelow & Trounce had a mill at Port Perry 

 and their output for the season 1872-73 was about 5,000,000 feet B.M. 



Besides the parties mentioned there were a large nuinber of small 

 operators taking out from 100,000 to 300,000 or 400,000 feet B.M. 

 each, generally cut on private lands. Also a large quantity of square 

 timber was taken out for the Quebec market by Gilmour & Company, 

 Mossom Boyd, T. Buck, John McDonald, Matthew Reid, and Thomp- 

 son & Cluxton. Not one of the parties mentioned above is engaged 

 in the lumber business at the present time. 



Compare that season's cut with the past season and you see how 

 the lumbering business has fallen off in the Trent district. Last season 

 the Cavendish Company took out about 8,500,000 feet of pine, which 

 completes their cut of pine and they retire from business, having sold 

 their other timber to the Peterborough Lumber Company. 



