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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1920
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1920donm (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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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CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER (Jctuber I, )M20
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/ //A V// If Iron, Steel and Wood Could Talk During the Cold, Rainy and Stormy Seasons Proper Protection of Farm Machinery 'I'he fall rains will soon be here and it is time that the farmer had all his equipment under shelter. The barnyard, the open field, or even the shade of a tree are not places for s/toring the binder, the mower, the cultivator, the disc harrow or the sulky plough. The total exjienditurc of this equipment represents much money and the damage done by the elements during the fall and winter season is incalculable. Rust and decay get in their work, nuts become loosened, gears get out of play, and the whole wood and steel frame of each machine probably suffers more damage through being left out m several weeks of rain and snow, hail and sleet than it would sustain through the operation of two or three years. The ordinary farmer will take mighty good care to see that his automobile is proj^erly housed, that his tractor is under cover, that his stock is well stabled ; but when it comes to exjjending a few hun- dred dollars for the erection of a first-class im))lement or storage shed, he calls a halt. Anything will do for the farm machinery. The work it is called upon to do is of a strong, hard nature and, therefore, the equipment itself should be able to withstand any attacks made ui)on it by the elements. It is well known that valuable machines soon rust when left outside, and it has been declared time and time again that imi)le- ments will last twice as long if i)rotected with a suitable shed. The accom))anying cartoon shows what would ))ossibl)' be said by the different pieces of machinery .if steel, iron and wood could talk. So much has been said upon the subject of farmers having suit- able accommodation for their farm implements that little new infor- mation can be presented. We learn more and retain more through the sense of sight than by any other faculty, and that is the reason the cartoon arouses so much interest and keen a))))reciation today. The ))icture on this ))age tells very forcibly why a retail lumber dealer should get in touch with their rural customers and more esjjecially those who have not suitable implement sheds, and urge upon these residents to spend a few dollars in such structures in the interest of economy, thrift and self-protection. An Aerial Survey of Labrador Some details of the aerial survey of southern Labrador, made by an expeditionary party about a year ago, were given yesterday by Major Daniel Owen, who was a member of the expedition and who was recently in Montreal. The steamer which was commissioned for the expedition was equii)i)ed with airplanes and a hydroplane, and' manned by men ex))erienced in land survey and timber lore, aerial ))hotography and other re(iuirements of the work in hand. In reviewing some of the work of the party Major Owen stated that they took 15,000 photographs, and elaborated estimates, based on checks and measurements made on the earth, over 2,500 square miles of territory around the basins of the Alexis, Gilbert and St. Mary's rivers. They found that the rugged and barren coast line was but a fringe of some twenty miles in extent, and that beyond it there lay one of the most generously forested countries in Canada. Sufificient faith had been previously given, Major Owen observed, to lead to a project, backed by European capital, and countenanced by the Royal Bank of Scotland, to suggest practical development of the timber areas within these regions. The scheme, however, was overtaken by the financial discouragement of the war and went into abandonment. Following the evidence brought forth by the aerial survey—the first of its kind ever undertaken—a new ccmipany has been organiz- ed, known as the Southern I>abrador I'ulp Paper Co.. in which American capital has been enlisted, with the idea of installing a -KX)- ton i)ulp mill, with four saw mill units of 50.000 feet per day capacity, to exploit this great Labrador timber preserve, and bring its produc- tivity into the markets of the world. AFajor Owen says that there \< assurance in the statement that operations will be begun there next year. The scheme provides for the location of the pulp mill on the Alexis river, with power developed from the falls of the (iilbert river, which also flows through the territory. Mr. James Munroe. president of the Canadian Cordage Co., and director of the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Newfoundland, is a member of the new company, which has been promoted by W. F. O'Connor, formerly chairman of the Board of Commerce. Major Owen, in speaking of the Labrador timber area involved in this project, said that the old superstition of barren lands had been dissipated by the aerial ex))edition, which he accompanied. Once beyond the rocky belt of the shore line, the area is all virgin timber, without a barren spot. It is estimated that there is sufficient forest to keep the proposed \ni\p mill going in peri)etuity. Ninety per cent, of the timber is spruce, w^hich. owing to natural conditions, is harder and firmer than the spruce of more southerly latitudes, and yields more pulp to the ton. He says that every conceivable test has been a))plied to determine the (piality of the timber, as well as its quality, and that American anaylists have pronounced the Labrador spruct equal to producing the finest pulp in the world. Another point elucidated by the aerial expedition was as to the adaptability of the soil of Labrador to agricultural pursuits, the fact being more generally promulgated that the .soil and climate of these; comparatively unknown regions are capable of producing vegetables in variety and of yielding a very fruitful return for labor exj)ended in cultivation. The Alexis, St. Mary's and Gilbert rivers. Major Owen says, are navigable for st-eamers for thirty-five miles from the coast Clearingr Hardwood Bush Near Gait Quite a dent has been made in Cowan's bush close to the Canad- ian Pacific track on the Roseville road near Gait, Ont., a couple of acres of wh'ch have been devoured by the portable saw mills. Pine, oak and maple trees are being felled, all of which are being converted into building material for houses, shops and bridges. The material so far through the mill is of excellent quality.

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