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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 19 NEW OWEN SOUND MILL. The Carney Lumber Company, Limited, commenced building their new mill in Owen Sound on April 1st. It will contain two band and gang saws, edgers, trimmers and slashers, the entire equipment being most modern. The machinery will be the same as used by H. Whitbeck & Company, Marinette, Wis., of which company Carney Bros, were the "con- trolling stockholders. This machinery has already reached Owen Sound, having been opportunity is presented. The entire output of lumber of this season has been sold to the Edward Hines Company, Chicago. MICHIGAN HARDWOODS. There were manufactured in the State of Michigan last year 618,000,000 feet of hard- wood lumber. In 1903 the total product of the state was 475,453,066 feet, and in 1902 it aggregated 438,000,000 feet. While the total intended for decoration as might be supposed, but are used for a highly practicable purpose. The saws just finished ranged in size from 60" to 75" in diameter and are to be used for sawing stone. They have proven very satisfactory wherever used. This style of saw is known as the "Scotch saw" and is specially designed for machines made in Scotland. Instead of being fitted with sharp teeth like the ordinary saw, these "saws" are large discs with about 150 sockets deep by y2" wide and j </" apart around the outer circumference, into which are inserted little steel blanks or teeth which project about from the edge of the blade. In the top surface or edge of each
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_.. . BRITISH COLUMBIA MILLS, TIMBER AND TRADING COMPANY'S HASTINGS MILL 7. snipping scene, a. Company s pile-driver. 9. Scow-loading scene. put on barges and towed there direct. The equipment of the Whitbeck Company's mill has always been kept up-to-date and the same will be done in the new mill at Owen Sound. They expect to be operating by July 15th next. The limits of the Carney Lumber Company are located on the Spanish River and the logs will be towed from there to Owen Sound. They cut about ten million feet this year and expect an annual cut of about 15 to 18 million after this season. The timber limits already owned by the company will stock the mill for ten to twelve years and will be added to as lumber production in Michigan in 1904 was 276,000,000 feet less than it was in 1903, the hardwood output has steadily increased. It is likely to continue to do so for some time, as hardwood is being sought with more eager- ness than a few years ago, and there are large tracts of hardwood timber yet to be developed in the upper peninsula. SAWS STUDDED WITH DIAMONDS. E. C. Atkins & Company, the enterprising saw manu- facturers of Indianapolis, Indiana, hi\e recently been turning out some large circular saws studded with diamonds, a comparatively new departure in the saw line. The diamonds, while rather expensive, are not tooth is imbedded a black diamond about one-half karet in size. These diamonds are set in various regular positions, that is, in one tooth the diamond would be at the right edge, in the next tooth about the centre, in the next at the left edge, in the next in the centre and so on. Being set in this manner the diamonds take the place of teeth in the ordinary saw and when in contact with the stone will saw a kerf about wide. The diamonds used in these saws come from the South African diamond mines and cost about $6 each, and the value of each completed saw is in the neighbor- hood of $1,000. James Sparling, Meaford, Ont, is making neces- sary improvements by enlarging his mill 36x40 feet, two stories. He has also doubled the capacity of his dry kiln.

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