Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1922
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1922donm (find matches)
Year: 1922 (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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of an aggregate capacity of 250 h.p. housed at the south end of the mill. A very efficient blower system of the Arlington & Curtis type for collecting and distributing the shavings and sawdust is installed. The debris is collected direct from the machines by means of two main collectors on the roof. The chief use of the sawdust and shav- ings is for fuel for the boilers, this being fed direct into the boilers from three collectors on the roof of the boiler room. At nights and on Sundays, when the mill is not running, the boilers are fed from a vault in the boiler room, where a large reserve stock is kept. The boilers, however, do not consume all the sawdust. Part of the sur- plus—three to five cars >a week—is therefore sold. By a special arrangement the collectors on the roof of the mill discharge the saw- dust direct into the cars on the tracks, thus saving considerable handling. Besides this the company sell sawdust in bags, retail. This is stocked in a detached building, the sawdust being conveyed from the collectors on the roof of the mill in pipes erected on iron trestles. It sometimes happens, however, that a surplus is still left and in this case the sawdust is used for filling inside the wharves. The supply and store room and the superintendant's office are located on the south end of the mill. In the former a very large variety of supplies are kept and distributed, while all the tools of the employees are given out and returned to this room. A word as to the ample precautions taken for fire protection. The mill is fitted with sprinklers supplied from an immense water tank of 30,000 gallons capacity. Besides this there is an artificial reservoir containing 200,000 gallons which can be used in case of a ifire when the tide in the river is low. In addition to the pumps in the power house, a Worthington pump, a vertical boiler and a supply of coal, together with two feed pumps, are contained in a detached brick pump house. Capacity of Dry Kilns is Large tracks, totalling 3,500 feet, connected by a spur with the main line of the C.N.R. It will be seen that the company has excellent facilities for receiving and discharging lumber and its other products both by rail and water, the loading and discharging being facilitated owing to the rail lines running through the centre of the property. Three offices are located in different parts of the plant in order to check the reception and distribution of the lumber purchased by the company and of the lumber to be planed and dressed for customers. One office is on the wharf and deals with all goods received by boat; another attends to all the car shipments; and a third looks after the retail business. These offices are equipped with telephones. The milling in transit lumber is taken direct from the cars to the mill after having entered into the books at the head office, where the necessary recording has previously been made from the milling and shipping instructions received from the numerous clients. Under the system invariably adopted it is almost impossible for a mistake to be made in the way of getting the lumber of the different cus- tomers mixed. A shipping order is made out in triplicate, this con- taining the Gravel Co's. own number, the car number, date, the name of the customer, the milling operation to be performed and the des- tination. This order accompanies each load; after the lumber is milled the order is attached to the load, which is shipped generally in the same car in which it arrived. If a customer desires a tally of the goods a charge of 25 cents per M. ft. is made. How Lumber is Taken Care Of In the case of lumber purchased by the company, on arrival it is sorted, entered in a stock book and piled, each pile bearing a number, the name of the shipper and the date. W;hen any lumber is used or sold, the transaction is entered into the book opposite the original entry, so that track is kept of every piece of lumber. Each pile is protected from the rain by a double covering of lumber. The company has always from 25 to 30 cars waiting to be un- loaded or to be loaded. All lumber requiring to be milled in transit or to be manufactured for the company's own purposes is received at one side of the mill and shipped out at the other side, thus saving a considerable amount of handling. The firm has a total of nine warehouses, some of them for stor- ing shooks, mouldings, hardwood flooring, etc. One of the largest contains shooks and shingles, a portion being devoted to hardwood flooring. This latter section is lined to prevent the heat escaping and in winter the temperature is kept at 60 degrees. Then there are other buildings for storing mouldings and dressed lumber. In addition to these the company has a machine shop, equipped for doing a great variety of repairs; a scale house; reel house; black- smith forge for shoeing horses;-two lunch rooms, fitted wtih a stove; store house for heavy supplies; stables for ten horses; oil shed, and garage. The method for registering the men's time is worth special men- tion. An office 40 by 24 ft. is devoted entirely to this purpose. It is

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