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Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1912
Identifier: canadianforjanjun1912donm (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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2 8 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKEE Notable Ontario Pulp and Paper Plant Operations of the Spanish River Paper and Pulp Mills Limited at Espanola— Prominent Lumbermen Interested in the Industry THE nature of the pulp and paper making industry is such that it has a particular interest to lumbermen. Of late years the making of pulp and paper in Canada has developed more rapidly than any other single line of industry. Many factors have combined to bring about this result, not the least of them being the increasing scarcity of pulp wood in the United States which has caused the consumers of that country to investigate closely the possibility of securing their supplies in Canada. Tariff matters also have played a considerable part in the development of the pulp and paper industry in Canada. The policy of various Canadian gov- ernments in forbidding the export of pulp wood in an unmanufac- tured state has fostered the growth of the pulp and paper industry and to-day there are many large plants devoted to this work while numerous others are in course of erection. One of the best known of these companies in Ontario is the pany arc splendidly located. The Spanish River runs through the heart of the timber and its tributaries reach practically every por- tion of the six thousand square miles which comprise the company's holdings. The town of Espanola, where the plant is located, is 40 miles west of Sudbury on the Soo branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway and 38 miles cast of Sault Ste. Marie. The company is therefore provided with excellent facilities for the shipment of its product. It expects during the present year moreover to secure the advantages of competitive rail rates, when the Algoma Pastern Rail- way, which is in course of construction, is completed. This will connect the plant with water transportation and also with the Cana- dian Northern Railway at Sudbury. The woods operations of a pulp wood consuming industry of this nature are pretty well understood by lumbermen. They are conducted in the winter and spring in a manner similar to the oper-
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Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills, Espanola, Ont.—General View of Plant Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills Limited at Espanola, Ont., a company which was organized something over a year ago and which has behind it in the way of raw material no less an area than 6,000 square miles of richly wooded land in Northern Ontario. This com- pany and its operations and holdings are of special interest to On- tario lumbermen on account of their proximity to the great white pine district along the North Shore of the Georgian Bay from which much of the finest white pine that has ever been manufactured in Canada has been secured and which continues to turn out annually great quantities of splendid pine lumber. Another source of interest in this company for the lumbermen of Ontario is the fact that the personnel of its members and offi- cers includes a number of well known Ontario lumbermen. The president of the company is Mr. W. J. Sheppard of Waubaushene, Ont., well known to Ontario as the President of the Georgian Bay Lumber Company; J. B. Tudhope, Orillia, Ont., whom lumbermen know as the President of the Tudhope Carriage Company, Limited, and Mr. T. II. Sheppard, another well known lumberman of Orillia, are members of the Board of Directors of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills, Limited. From an operating point of view the timber limits of the com- ations of a lumber company. The raw material of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills, Limited, is driven by the Spanish River and its numerous tributaries, direct to the company's booming grounds. The company pays no ground rent or taxes to the government. Its dues are paid only after the timber is cut. Cruisers who have esti- mated the timber on the company's limits report that its supply of wood is assured for all time. The timber lands are covered with spruce, jack pine, balsam and poplar. For power purposes the com- pany is also fortunately situated. By constructing a dam between two rocky promontories on the Spanish River it has secured a sixty- foot head of water. The manufacturing process in connection with the making of pulp and paper is most interesting. When the logs leave the boom- ing ground they are in lengths varying from eight to sixteen feet. From the booming grounds they are conveyed on an inclined table to a sixteen-foot slasher contained in a solid brick building, far above the level of all the other buildings comprising the pulp plant. The slasher cuts all the logs into two foot lengths. The logs then drop directly into a cable storage conveyor which is 600 feet long and 60 feet high. From this conveyor the wood is piled in heaps where it is left until it is required in the mill. A great supply has

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