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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1915
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1915donm (find matches)
Year: 1915 (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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December 15, 1915 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER SI Huntting-Mcrritt Company's New Shingle Plant The Huntting-Merritt Lumber Company, Limited, erected re- cently, one of the most modern shingle mills in British Columbia, on the North Arm of the Fraser Fiver, about a mile west of the town of Eburne. The accompanying illustration shows the layout of the plant. The mill buildings occupy a site 500 x 400 ft., the latter figure representing the waterfrontage. The contract was let to the Heaps Engineering Company, Limited, New Westminster, for a lump sum to cover speedy erection and equipment. Work was commenced July 23rd of last year, and 90 days later the plant was turned over to Mill Designer D. B. Campbell, of Vancouver, for the finishing touches and final adjustment of the machinery. The shingle mill is 106 x 36 ft., two storeys, built parallel with the waterfront. The upper floor contains eight Schaake machines in line, and a roomy filing room in the north-east corner; at the south-west end space is reserved for three or four additional machines which will be installed when the trade calls for an increased output. The packing of the shingles is done on the ground floor, where the engine room is also located. At the easterly end of the mill an "L" projection 24 x 60 ft. in size forms the wood preparing room; it contains the steam log-haul, steam log stop, 84-inch swing cut-off saw, power splitter, knee bolter and auto- matic grinder for cut-off saw. As the sections are sawn from the log they fall upon chains and pass along to the overhead steam splitter where with rapid strokes of the powerful chisel they are halved and quartered and any sapwood cut away. The blocks are then carried forward to a cross conveyor passing in front of the shingle machines, from which they are fed to the block tables of the operators by th'e employee in charge of this work. The surplus blocks pass on to the westerly end of the conveyor and drop down a chute to the water for future use. One of the economies arranged for was that, with the plant operating under a 20-hour schedule, the crew in the wood pre- paring room could be dispensed with on the night shift, thereby sav- ing the wages of three men. The machines are then fed from the sur- plus supply of blocks cut during the day and stored in the pond be- low, delivery being made by a block conveyor at the easterly end of the machine room which connects with the main feed chains. In the shingle packing room on the ground floor the bundles are loaded on cars for the trip down an inclined platform to the dry kilns. three in number, located 150 ft. to the north. The shingles remain on the cars until properly dried and then pass on to the storage shed for loading into B. C. E. R. cars as orders require. The engine room on the ground floor is 24 x 26 ft. and contains a Lane & Bodley Co. twin engine, 13 x 17 in., 160 h.p. capacity, fitted with coil feed water heater. The boiler house, about thirty feet away, is 26 x 40 ft. It contains one Vulcan Iron Works return tubular boiler, 72 x 18 in., and one Vancouver Machinery Depot boiler 66 x 16 in., the latter being used for supplying steam to the dry kilns. Both boilers have Dutch oven fittings for automatic stoking. A brick-lined steel burner, which is located east of the boiler house, consumes the mill refuse. It stands 100 ft. away from the mill on a concrete foundation, is 16 ft. diameter, 40 ft. in height, and is a fine example of Vulcan Iron Works efficiency in this line. Particular attention was given the question of fire protection. A complete system of waterworks was put in by the Walsh Construc- tion Co., and connection made with the Point Grey supply system. The main pipe, of 6-in. diameter, feeds seven hydrants using 2-in. hose located inside the buildings, and five two-way hydrants using 2J/2-\n. hose at outside points of the mill site. In addition, the various buildings are further safeguarded by a sprinkler system installed by the Automatic Sprinkler Co. of America, the work being done under the personal supervision of the Pacific Coast manager, Philip Gear- hart, of Seattle. The gravity water supply is taken from a 25,000 gallon tank erected by the Vancouver Wood Pipe & Tank Co., Ltd., which stands on a tower 75 ft. in height. The unique feature of the plant, apart from the arrangement of the buildings for manufacturing purposes, are comprised in the steam log stop, steam splitter and system of block storage for night use. The belting used throughout was furnished by the Consolidated Rubber Co., Ltd., and Taylor Belting Co., Ltd., Vancouver. Mr. Huntting reports a brisk demand for the output of the plant: At the beginning of the season the orders could be filled by operating the eight machines on a ten-hour schedule, but a little later, when the American dealers had tested out the quality of shipments sent forward, repeat orders were placed for large quantities, and since then the mill has been cutting night and day.
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