. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XXIV. Number 9. } TORONTO AND MONTREAL. CANADA. SEPTEMBER. 1904 /Terms, $ Per Year (Single Copies, 10 Cents THE RAINY RIVER LUMBER COMPANY. The Rainy River Lumber Company, Limited, composed of American capitalists, have recently completed what is doubtless one of the most modern saw and planing mill plants in America. The location is at Rainy River, Ont., a divis- ional point on the Canadian Northern Railway, 155 miles east of Winnipeg.
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XXIV. Number 9. } TORONTO AND MONTREAL. CANADA. SEPTEMBER. 1904 /Terms, $ Per Year (Single Copies, 10 Cents THE RAINY RIVER LUMBER COMPANY. The Rainy River Lumber Company, Limited, composed of American capitalists, have recently completed what is doubtless one of the most modern saw and planing mill plants in America. The location is at Rainy River, Ont., a divis- ional point on the Canadian Northern Railway, 155 miles east of Winnipeg. The construction of the mill was commenced in October, 1903, and finished May 1st last, operations being commenced ten days later. The main saw mill building, shown on fol- lowing page, is 220x62 feet; the lath and shingle mill 120x32 feet ; the filing room 46 x 32 feet. The main equipment of the saw mill consists of two large double cutting band mills, one 52-inch gang and two mammoth edgers, each fed by two men. The saw mill power house is 76 x 54 feet, saw ; 54 inch band resaw ; one cut-off saw ; one timber planer, capable of handling tim- ber 24 inches square. The power house for the planing mill is 54 x 46 feet, and is equipped with a 20 x 42 Corliss engine and a battery of two boilers 72 inches by 18 feet, with automatic feeds. The smoke stack is 172 feet high, and the burner 22 feet by 120 feet. The capacity of the saw mill is 500,000 feet in twenty-four hours, and of the planing mill and shipping department 400,000 teet. The company have a very complete lighting system,the saw mill being lighted by a 50 direct connected generator driven by a 12 x 12 Ideal engine, and the planing mill by a 30 belted generator and a 10 x 12 Ideal engine. Shipping facilities are provided by two spare tracks leading from the main line of the Cana- FROM TREE TO CAR. From the tree to the car loaded with lumber is not a very far cry generally, if measured in miles and compared with t
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