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Title: Canadian forest industries 1901-1902
Identifier: canadianforest190102donm (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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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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34 August, 1900 TIMBER PROPERTIES FOR SALE. Mr. Thomas Coolican, timber broker and financial agent, Quebec, Canada, is authorized to offer for sale a large lumber establishment con- trolling nearly 700 square miles of timbered lands, water powers, saw mills, stores and other equipments. As there is an inexhaustible supply of spruce and balsam on this property, it offers unequalled advantages for starting pulp and paper industries. The shipping facilities are ex- cellent, being favored by railway and ocean transport. Mr. Coolican has also on his list other valuable timber locations, quarries, sea- island moss for upholsterers, etc. His announce- ment will be found on page 7. THE NORTH PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY. Prominent among the large manufacturing firms in British Columbia is the North Pacific Lumber Company, of which Mr. J. M. Foitrais is the general manager. The mills being located mill. After the new mill is built the old one will be used exclusively for a shingle mill. The company own about three hundred and fifty square miles of limits on the Rimouski river. Mr. Seale is general manager of the company's mills on the lower St. Lawrence. John Fenderson & Company, Sayabec, have been improving their yard facilities by building elevated plat- forms. The lumber is taken up from the mill by carrier chains and deposited on a table, where it is sorted on two wheel trucks and then run out to the respective piles. The firm have also put in a very complete system of fire protection ; two inch iron pipe was laid through the yard, with hose connections where convenient, the whole system being operated by a powerful steam pump. They are now running to full capacity on lumber, shingles and lath. Mr. Charles Fenderson is superintendent. J. & P. Nadeau, Port Daniel, P.Q., have a new shingle mill equipped with three " Dunbar" machines, and are turning out good stock. Thos. J. Caldwell, New Carlisle, P.Q., has a saw and shingle mill seven miles out of town, but is not operating it during the summer. He is building a planing mill in the town and expects to have it ready for work by 1st September. R. J. Miller, Carleton West, P.Q., has a steam saw and shingle mill which he operates in the summer F. R. Mooneault & Co., Sayabec, have purchased a limit at St. Moise and intend building a saw and shingle mill there this season. They will remove the machinery of their mill at Sayabec and add to it, making: three shingle machines and a rotary. King Bros. & Co., Ltd., Cedar Hall, have added a shingle plant to their saw mill, and are now running four " Dunbar " shingle machines. Cedar Hall is a pretty village on the westerly side of Lake Metapedia, about midway its length, which is fifteen miles with a width of about two miles. It was on this lake, within sight of the mill, that the lamentable boating accident occurred a few weeks ago in which Mr. James King, president of the company, lost his life. Of a party of six people in the boat not one was saved. Mr. Nowlin is manager for the company at Cedar Hall, and his wife and only child were in the party. The company have saw mills in a number of places throughout the province of Quebec, and are also largely interested in asbestos mining at Thedford Mines. Their head offices are in Quebec city. CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. The report of the first annual meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association, held at Ottawa March 8th, 1900, has been issued. It contains a complete report of the
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Mills of the North Pacific Lumber Co. at Barnet, B. C. at Barnet, on Burrard Inlet and the Canadian Pacific Railway, affords the company excellent shipping facilities. A view of the mills is shown on this page. The output of the mills is very large, and con- sists of fir, cedar, and spruce lumber and timber, both rough and dressed, a specialty being made of dressed dimension timber. The timber plan- ers face up to 24 inches by 30 inches. The com- pany are also in a position to supply car and ship material, box shooks, sash and door stock, and other manufactures of timber, and solicit corres- pondence from buyers. Their announcement will be found on another page. LUMBERING OPERATIONS IN THE EASTERN PROVINCES. (Correspondence of the Canada Lumberman.) Price Bros. & Company, Quebec, have purchased the timber limits and mills of the Rimouski Lumber Company at Rimouski, and are preparing to build a large steam saw mill just below the Intercolonial Railway bridge, at the mouth of the Rimouski river. The mills of the Rimouski Lumber Company are run by water power and are situated about two miles up the river. There are eight shingle machines, a rotary saw and a planer in the season. He has a winter mill at New Mills, N.B., also. New Richmond Lumber Co., Limited, New Richmond, P.Q., are taking out only about three million feet of spruce lumber this season. They also supply cedar for three shingle machines run by James Starrak. Mr. Wardeoper is manager of the mills. R. H. Montgomery, New Richmond, has a rotary saw mill and will saw about three million feet during the season. He has fine timber limits on both Grand and Little Cascapedia rivers. Nadeau & Sons have a steam saw and shingle mill at Grand Cascapedia—seven miles up the river. Their sash and door factory was burned, and as yet they have not decided on rebuilding. George McKeen, of St. John, N.B., has a fine steam saw and shingle mill at Nouvelle, P.Q. The mill is a rotary and has a capacity of thirty thousand feet per day. There are five " Dunbar " shingle machines with a combined daily capacity of eighty thousand shingles. C. B. Dever built the mill the past winter. Mr. W. K. Mc- Keen is superintendent. David Richards, Campbellton, has made a number of changes and improvements in his mill. During the win. ter he added three " Dunbar " shingle machines and also an engine to run them. He now manufactures lumber, lath, shingles and clapboards. The mill is very con. veniently arranged. George Moffatt, Dalhousie, has added a rotary to his gang mill, for sawing timber and dimension stock. proceedings of the Association, a st of the officers, and some excellent forest scenes. The objects of the associa- tion are also fully set out. Persons interested in forestry should identify themselves with this association, which promises to do much towards the preservation and per- petuation of our timber supply. Applications for mem- bership should be sent to Mr. R. H. Campbell, treasurer, Department of Interior, Ottawa. By September the sulphite mill of the Riordan Paper Company at Hawkesbury, Ont., will be turning out eighty tons of pulp per day. Shipments are now being made to England as well as the United States. Persons interested in the timber trade who are not al- ready subscribers to the Canada Lumberman are re- minded that the subscription price throughout Canada and the United States is only one dollar per year. The price to foreign countries where extra postage is charged is two dollars per year. For this sum both weekly and monthly editions are given. A subscription form will be found in each paper for the convenience of persons who wish to become subscribers. Attention is also directed to the " Wanted and For Sale Dapartment " of the weekly edition, which has been found of great service to those who have availed themselves of it. It is an ex- cellent medium for persons who have lumber or second- hand machinery for sale, or desire to purchase same, and almost invariably brings results.

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