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Title: Canadian forest industries 1905-1906
Identifier: canadianforest190506donm (find matches)
Year: 1906 (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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June, 1905 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 17 At Cranbrook I met Mr. A. A. Carney, tim- ber inspector for east and south-east Kootenay. Mr. Carney is very optimistic as to the British C olumbia forestry product. He thinks that the prices asked for limits are very reasonable and will be called "snaps" in a few years. Manners' mill is situated about four miles west of Cranbrook, making- a small cut. A. E. Watts' mill is further west and is running steadily, cutting over twenty thousand daily. Before reaching Moyie our train ran into a rocky slide. Mr. Alex. Leitch, President of the East Kooteney Lumber Company, was on the train and we congratulated each other on our "chuted" into the pond from the top of the Yahk mountains. This company have some fine holdings along the Crow's Nest Pass route. Near Creston a great lot of posts had been delivered at the side of the rails by a contractor who had cut them on the top of the mountain. There appeared no feasible way of bringing them down and still leave a profit, so he built a two-board V flume, which was held in place by uprights wherever necessary in crossing gullies, and into this a mountain stream was turned and the posts half floated and "chuted" to the track for shipment. three planers going. A. N. Winlaw is the manager of this very complete outfit. Mr. Winlaw, sr., is very active and keeps things up-to-date and "on the go" continuously. When I reached Slocan City the town was "resting." All the mines, excepting one em- ploying a couple of dozen men, were closed down. The fine shingle mill plant of the Ontario Slocan-Company was lying idle. Mr. D. St. Denis, the energetic manager, said that, owing to the bad year of 1904, they had put in no logs and would not reopen until next winter. They make the famous Crown brand of red cedar shingles, so well liked in the East. Three
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BRITISH COLUMBIA MILLS, TIMBER AND TRADING COMPANY'S HASTINGS MILL Entrance to yard, showing offices. 2. Company's horses used in their local business. 3. Dry kilns. 4. Company's exhibit, Labor Day. stovewood. 8. Lumber yards "A" and "B". 9. Record loa. lumber, consisting of 6,007 feet of ceiling, io. Car-loading scene Company's store, Vancouver. 6. Lumber yard "C". 7. Pile ot split escape from being hurled over the precipice and taking a forced plunge in the cold waters of Movie Lake. With slight damage to the engine and some excitement the line was clear- ed of the fallen rock and Moyie was reached. Here the Moyie Lumber Company's mill is situated but at present not running—awaiting a purchaser. A little further on is Ryan, where one of the 1 Sast Kootenay Lumber Company's mills is locat- ed. The mill is going full blast with a great Wop of logs in the pond. These logs are J. B. Winlaw is operating at Winlaw, about midway between Nelson and Slocan City, on the Slocan river. Here he has erected a very nice permanent mill, using a 56-inch circular saw, "Gunshot" Waterous steam feed carriage, with double dogs. They are sawing western pine, fir, cedar, larch and some spruce. They have also cut a small amount of hemlock. The probable cut this year will be between three and four million feet. They also make lath, but like most of the Kootenay mills, do not make shingles. In the planing'mill they have fine Letson & Burpee shingle machines and an Orillia Clipper combine to furnish a capacity of one hundred thousand shingles per day of ten hours. The company's limits are on Bonanza and Wilson creeks, where they are rafted and towed to the mill at the foot of the Slocan Lake by their own tug. The mill site is a splendid one covering twenty-five acres, the limits be- ing 21 miles in extent. The fire-proof boiler house, dry kiln that holds 300,000 shingles, machine shops, &c, are very complete and kept in fine order.

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