Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1912
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1912donm (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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CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Pioneer Lumbering Firm of Chatham, N.B. J. B. Snowball Go. Limited One of the best known lumber manufacturing companies in the province of New Brunswick is that of the J. B. Snowball Co., Ltd., of Chatham. The industry was established by J. B. Snowball in 1872 when he constructed a mill at Chatham. In addition to occupying a prominent position as one of the chief lumber manufacturers of the province, the late Mr. J. B. Snowball took a great interest in public affairs. He was at one time member of Parliament for the County of Northumberland and also occuoied at successive periods the positions of Senator for the Dominion and Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Brunswick. The J. B. Snowball Company prospered from its inception and on December 13, 1899, it was incorporated as the J. B. Snowball Company, Limited, under which name it has continued ever since. The late Mr. J. B. Snowball occupied the position of President of the company and Mr. W. B. Snowball was its secretary-treasurer. Upon the death of the former president, Mr. W. B. Snowball be- came president and his brother, Mr. R. A. Snowball, secretary-treas- urer. The company handles annually about 30,000,000 ft. of lumber, most of which is shipped to British markets in the form of deals, boards, and scantlings. The output of shingles and lath is prac- tically all ^shipped to markets in the United States. Of late years a market has opened in Montreal and other Quebec and Eastern On- tario points for pine and spruce boards, as well as for low grade stock to be used in box making. This is all shipped to Montreal by rail. The principal mill of the J. B. Snowball Company, Limited, is located in the town of Chatham and is one of the most efficiently equipped to be found in the Maritime Provinces. The equipment includes an 8-ft. single cutting band mill, manufactured by Clark Bros. Co., Belmont, New York; 7-ft. band resaw, twin rotary, manu- factured by William Hamilton Co., Ltd., Peterboro, Out.; a large gang saw which is used when there is a heavy rush of business, 2 circular resaws for taking bolts out of slabs, a 2 saw trimmer, edgers, a 5 saw bolter manufactured by the Diamond Iron Works, Minne- apolis, Minn., and 2 lath machines of 60,000 and 40,000 daily capacity. A box manufacturing plant is also conducted in connection with this mill, the equipment being as follows: one Perkins automatic splitter, one Fisher heading machine, one Berlin equalizer, one Ber- lin jointer and a cutting-up saw. This plant is equipped to manufac- ture all kinds of rqiigh shooks for the fishing industry. The mill and box plant are run by steam power, the equipment including an inclined double engine capable of producing about 450 h.p., a horizontal double engine capable of about 250 h.p., a bat- tery of 6 boilers 18 ft. long and 72 in. in diameter, dutch ovens and a refuse kiln at the end of the dutch ovens. A covered burner is installed with a brick chimney 400 ft. from the mill. Conveyors Carry Stock to Yards One of the most interesting features in connection with this will is the conveyor system by means of which lumber is carried to the yards. Lumber is taken from the mill by conveyor running the full length of the yard. The conveyor makes a right angle turn and carries part of the stock across the street where it is also piled. All,of the lumber is piled according to widths. After it has passed the turn in the conveyor it is selected by hand and dropped to the different piles. Portable runs are used for conveying the lumber from the piles to the vessels. The J. B. Snowball Company, Limited, also operates a mill about a mile up the river from Chatham. The equipment consists of 2 boilers 5 ft. in diameter and 16 ft. long, a Leonard engine of about 200 h.p. capacity, rotary saw, edger, trimmers, slasher saws, 2 shin- gle machines, a Berlin planer, and a lath machine. The output of this plant is about 30,000 ft. of lumber, 15,000 lath and 26,000 shingles per day. A third mill operated by the J. B. Snowball Co., Ltd., is known as the Derby mill. This is still further up the river and has prac- tically the same equipment as the mill previously described. At Tracadie, about 45 miles down the river, the J. B. Snowball Company, Limited, operate a mill equipped with a live gang saw, with capacity of about 50,000 ft. per day. A rotary of the same capacity, edger, trimmer, wood cutters, 3 shingle machines with total capacity of about 42,000 per day, a Goldie McCulloch planer, etc. The power plant consists of a double inclined engine with capacity
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