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Title: Canadian forest industries 1910
Identifier: canadianforest1910donm (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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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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26 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER and the early part of the present year, but as they have good crops and business is in a healthy condition in that country we anticipate a return to normal con- ditions and the usual demand the coming year. The local consumption of lumber in Nova Scotia has materially increased in the last ten years, and to-day we believe there is as much used within the Province as there is exported, while the exports show no dimunition. This means a larger annual cut, but with the rapid growth in this province it is to be hoped we are not cutting more than the increment. One chief difficulty perhaps in the situation is that many of our lumbermen friends in this province decline to accept a reasonable figure for their product, and prefer to take their chances of securing sonfething better by shipping their goods to the market untold. This practice we regard as most reprehensible, and we believe the sooner our friends get around to this view the better it will be for all concerned. If we could ship a cargo of lumber either to the United States or West Indies to be sold on consignment and have the receivers there load the vessel again with a cargo of their products to be landed at our wharves in Nova Scotia and sold as thev sell ours, to the highest bidder, the matter would adjust itself, but this condition does not exist. They offer inducements in the way of price to encourage shipments by consignment, but when we want to buy molasses or sugar and any other commodities produced in either of the countries named, we find we can only secure same by paying the price asked by the parties who have the goods to sell. Applying the same principle to the lumber trade will not result in an accumulation of stocks in either New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, but will result in reducing the output to the actual demand and lay the foundation of a permanent and profitable business without entailing the loss which now occurs both in the waste of our forests and in the loss to individual operators, which will continue to occur as long as these consignment shipments are made. John G. Hall & Co., Wholesalers, Boston, write as follows: It is a usual thinf for the lumber markets in New York and Boston to be depressed in August, that°being a month when people are taking their vacations, and business generally A Progressive Nova Scotia Firm Oxford Foundry and Machine Company's Good Record —An Indication of the Province's Substantial Growth One of the most modern and complete foundry and machine plants catering to the saw mill machinery trade in the Dominion is to he found in Oxford, N.S. The Oxford Foundry and Machine Company, Limited, whose products can be found in sawmills from coast to coast, and whose business is increasing steadily year by year, owe their success to the superior class of machinery they are turning out. The foundry business in Oxford was first started in 1883, and passed into the hands of the present company some fifteen years ago. In February, 1910, the company was formed into a limited liability com- pany, capitalized at $80,000, of which Mr. A. M. Hingley is president and Mr. C. C. McNeill managing director. The company owes its success largely to these two men, whose business and mechanical ability, coupled with their integrity, industry and general dispositions, are passports to still greater success and prosperity than they have already attained. When they first took over the business there was a staff of five hands employed. Now they have about 40 men, and with their continued increase of business will need still more. The firm year ending August, 1910, was the biggest in the history of the company.
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is quiet and buyers aro always scarce, but this year was much duller than usual. However, notwithstanding the low prices prevailing in August, we do not think there is much cause for alarm, and think we shall see a fairly good trade this fall, the only thing to interfere with it being the general uncertainty as to politics. Trade in the different yards has not been too bad, and you must remember that prices on spruce the last two years have been very high, and there is a general feeling in the markets for all articles that there must be a stop to the advance in prices. W. M. Crombie & Co., Wholesalers, New York, write as follows: We do not consider that any bad slump has taken place in the New York lumber market. The last month or so has been a dull period of the year, and on some kinds of lumber the supply has been somewhat ahead of the demand, particularly in Southern Yellow Pine, and to some extent in Canadian Spruce lumber. As to Canadian Spruce, the ruling prices have been about the same as last year, though we know of some instances of sizeable lots selling for less than last year's prices. As to Canadian White Pine, prices on the medium and high grades have been fully sustained, and on the low grades, if anything, prices have been a little less than a year ago, but the quantity of lumber moving of low grades, on the whole we think has been fully up to or ahead of a year ago. Business with the yards in the metropolitan district compares very favorably with that of a year ago, and it looks to us as though there will be a fair amount of buying this Fall. The Fox River Lumber Company, Fox River, N.S., write as follows: At present the market is not up to its average, on account of some very heavy shipments arriving, which kept it overstocked. But at present, shipments are not so heavy, and we think that in the near future the market will be fully as good ss usual and trust to see it better. Donald Fraser & Sons, Fredericton, N.B., write as follows: Except shingles, our business has not been much affected by the depression, and there are evidences of improvement in the market. The foundry has a railway siding from the main line into its build- ings; and in connection with the rear of the machine shop is a large eight-ton crane for heavy work. The buildings are heated throughout by steam and are lighted by electricity from the company's own dynamo. The plant is a most up-to-date one, and new machinery is being added to it constantly. Two fine working lathes are noticeable, one for engine being 22 inches by 14 feet, and the other, a shafting lathe, 60 inches by 22 feet. All heavy work is handled by moveable cranes. One remarkable feature of the plant, which shows the loyalty of the firm, is that every machine is made in Canada. The firm have just completed a handsome suite of offices adjoining the foundry. Besides the large general and private offices on the ground floor they have installed an up-to-date bathroom for the use of em- ployees, which will be generally appreciated by the latter. The line of sawmill machinery turned out by this firm is extensive; among their products are found gang edgers, portable trimmers, frame carriages, double saw beds, double edgers, engines, and many other lines. One of their lines we illustrate here, a heavy double edger. Tin is undoubtedly one of the best edgers found on the market. It is specially adapted for large mills, as it will do the work of two ordinary edgers. It will edge for a gang on one side and rotary on the other, cutting any different thicknesses of stock on either side, and going through edger at same time. Both tables are supplied for the edger, but in the illustration the back one is not shown. As has been mentioned, the products of this company are found from ! 5 e r is

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