. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 26 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Equipment of a Modern Saw Mill Plant Splendid Electrical Installation of the Canadian Western Lumber Company at Fraser Mills, —Development of one of Canada's Greatest Lumber Industries When the output of a British Columbia saw mill averages 350,000 feet every ten hours, and is capable of being speeded up to 450,000 feel at a pinch, the fact stands for an immense plant and a superb equipment representing every aid that mechanical
. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 26 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Equipment of a Modern Saw Mill Plant Splendid Electrical Installation of the Canadian Western Lumber Company at Fraser Mills, —Development of one of Canada's Greatest Lumber Industries When the output of a British Columbia saw mill averages 350,000 feet every ten hours, and is capable of being speeded up to 450,000 feel at a pinch, the fact stands for an immense plant and a superb equipment representing every aid that mechanical genius has devised and made applicable for the speedy and economical trans- formation of forests into merchantable lumber and kindred products. Such a plant is that which the enterprise and wealth of the Canadian Western Lumber Com- pany, Ltd., formerly the Fraser River Lumber Company, have created on the banks of the Fraser River, about two miles above New West- minster. Here is to be found what probably is the most modern saw mill plant on the American continent, together with a model town compris- ing the homes of the five hundred employees and the various company buildings—office, stores, hotel, club house, post office, etc. The town possesses both water and electric light systems, and at night the brilliancy of the illumination betokens a flat rate and an abundance of cur- rent. The immense three-storey saw mill stands on the river bank, adjoining 1,200 feet of deep water dockage having a depth of 100 feet. Here ocean vessels take on cargo for all parts of the world, while on the land side a few feet away are spur tracks for the shipment of lumber by rail to the prairies and eastern Canada. From morning until night, week in and week out, a never-ending procession of huge fir, hemlock, spruce and cedar logs passes up the jack-ladder at the north end of the mill. The logs groan and shudder as they meet the remorseless, keen-toothed saws, to emerge farther on as a multitu
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