Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Free Lumber. [ARTICLE]

Free Lumber.

A dispatch from Detroit tells of some of the benefits the country is getting from free lumber: Placing lumber on die free list brought a tremendous boom to American sawmills. Millions of feet of Canadian logs are being rafted to this side of the line, and die voice of the merry buzz sawis heard throughout the land. Alger, Smith &. Co. will raft 50,000,000 feet of logs to Detroit and Ecoilrse From Black river and will also send 20,000,000 fed from Georgian Bay o Cheboygan, to be manufactured there. Brownlee &Co will raft 3,000,000 feet from Cheboygan to hei ’ mills at Kiver Bogue. 'fhe Delta Lumbei C i. hag puichased the Moffatt mdl and will raft 4,000,000 feet from Georgian Bay and vicinity and 12,000,000 feet from Manistique. These are sam« pies ot work that have’ heretofore been impossible to do economically in the United States. If the mills boom American labor must get the benefit, and if lumber is plentiful and cneap more building will be done. This in turn will give more work for mechanics and better homeland more comforts for the people. Then, too, our already scanty forests will be preserved longer, which will be of immense benefit to agriculture. The Democratic tariff is talking for itself.