Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — AMERICANS SUE ONTARIO. [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS SUE ONTARIO.

Lumbermen Claim Damages Under the New Titnbsr Kegulntione.

Don M. Dickinson of Detroit has filed a big bill of damages against the province of Ontario at Ottawa, on behalf of Mich-" igan lessees of Ontario timber lands for violation of the crown timber licences. Ontario now requires all these lessees to manufacture the logs Into lumber in Ontario, and ns a consequence several mills in Michigan have had tojshut down. The claims reach the total of $936,500. The constitutionality of the Ontario statute is now feeing tested in the courts, but the case will not likely reach the final court of appeal, the British privy council, until next November.