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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1912
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1912donm (find matches)
Year: 1912 (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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84 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Paper Making In the Saguenay District Price Brothers and Company's New Mill at Kenogami, Quebec—Splendid Equipment Installed — Operations to Commence Early This Fall EARLY this autumn the new pulp and paper mills at Keno- gami, now being erected by Price Brothers & Co, Limited, will be in operation, making the second plant in the Saguenay District of the Province of Quebec to transform the log into news print paper. The first plant of the Jonquiere Pulp Company on the same river has been in operation a number of years and for some time back has been controlled and operated by Price Brothers & Company. Mr. Wm. Price, president of Price Brothers & Company, is well known to every lumberman in Canada. He enters, in this enterprise, a field almost new to him, though he has been connected with the pulp and paper cardboard business for a number of years and the firm's lumbering operations have been as wide as the pro- vince. Mr. Price's right-hand man in the paper end of the business has been Mr. O. A. Porritt, the general manager of the Kenogami Paper Mills, and also vice-president and manager of the Jonquiere Pulp Company. Becoming connected with Mr. Price at Rimouski ten or twelve years ago in the operation of the pulp mill there, Mr. Porritt was later placed in charge at Jonquiere/ and the credit for this new development lies largely at his door. Imbued with a keen appreciation of the great future which the manufacture of news print holds in store for this section of Can- ada, he threw himself body and soul into the work of building this fine plant, and it stands to-day a monument to his genius for or- ganization and his ability to handle a great undertaking. Location of Mill and Limits The new mill is situated one and a half miles from Jonquiere, a little above the point where the Riviere aux Sables enters the Saguenay, the site being one of great natural beauty. In the vicinity there has already grown up the thriving little town of Kenogami. This town and the mills are named after Lake Kenogami, which serves not only as a storage reservoir for power, but also, on account of its depth, forms a natural settling basin, ensuring a continuous supply of clean water for use in the actual manufacture of the paper. Back, or south of the lake, are some of the timber limits owned by the company, which have been cut into in a small way in the last few years, and which provide a portion of the spruce used. Other limits are located on the Belle Riviere and the Metabetchouan, flow- ing into Lake St. John. The cut on these rivers is boomed at the lake and transported by the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway to the mills. Then, across the Saguenay, a little east of the mill site, is the mighty Shipshaw River and the vast limits of the company tributary to it, some of them not yet explored. In all there are about 4,000 square miles to draw on, giving enough timber to supply the present consumption of 225 cords per day twice over for all time to come. The extent of this territory is so great that the ground is not cut clean, but enough seed trees are left to secure continuous reproduction without resorting to replanting. It will be readily understood that to cut and drive enough logs to supply a daily consumption of 225 cords involves considerable work and no small capacity for organization. Mr. J. Mc.I). Grosart, who has been in the employ of Price Brothers & Company a great many years, is in charge of this work. Starting with the company as a junior clerk, on his arrival from England, where he was born, he has steadily made his way upward, proving by his ability and capa- city for hard work, his fitness to take charge of this immense stretch of limits. During the season just ended there was cut and driven by the company 30,191,022 ft. board measure of spruce and balsam, all Sl/2 ft. and 13 ft. logs, averaging 7 inches in diameter. For future years the cut is estimated at a minimum of 45,000,000 feet board measure. The drive was a particular success this year, taking only about twenty-one days to complete, and was not marred by accident of any kind. The spruce is of a very good quality, free from knots of any kind, which prove so troublesome to the pulp maker, and the per- centage of balsam is small. No hemlock was cut, there being none of this wood in the limits. A fire patrol of twenty-five men with telephonic communication has been organized to form the nucleus of a fire fighting force to cover in course of time all the limits, and as a further protection to the company, Lloyds, of London, have writ- ten a policy to cover serious fire losses in the woods.
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New Pulp and Paper Mill at Kenogami, Quebec—Price Brothers and Company, Limited

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