. Canadian forest industries July-December 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. In the Planer Room—Rhodes, Curry Company, Limited, Amherst, N. S the plant was first opened. At the outset the plant had a capacity of 5 to 6 car loads of dressed stock per day. The whole mill is operated by electricity, each machine having a separate motor. The fast feed planer and matcher, No. 404, 15 x 6 in. referred to above, which was furnished by the S. A. Woods Ma- chine Company, Boston, Mass., is equipped with the Woods patented double profiling
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. In the Planer Room—Rhodes, Curry Company, Limited, Amherst, N. S the plant was first opened. At the outset the plant had a capacity of 5 to 6 car loads of dressed stock per day. The whole mill is operated by electricity, each machine having a separate motor. The fast feed planer and matcher, No. 404, 15 x 6 in. referred to above, which was furnished by the S. A. Woods Ma- chine Company, Boston, Mass., is equipped with the Woods patented double profiling attachment and is capable of matching stock or dree- ing sidings of any commercial pattern, up to 300 lineal feet per min- ute. The machine is fitted with patented automatic feeding table, so that the lumber can be fed in continuously without difficulty, at 200 feet per minute, or faster if necessary. The fast feed double surfacer No. 450, 24 x 6 in. which was also furnished by the S. A. Woods Company will work up to 200 lineal feet per minute and is used for surfacing one or two sides. Its capa- city is similar to that of the No. 404. Murray & Gregory, St. John, Murray & Gregory, Limited, St. John, , one of the largest manufacturers of wood products in Eastern Canada, are as well fitted as any company in Canada to handle wood goods orders which may arise out of the demand created by the war. This company have long specialized in portable houses, in fact they are the originators of the portable house in their part of the country. They have built and sup- plied large numbers of these buildings. In fact, they have the facili- ties for building or assembling portable houses on a large scale. In the .first place, they have their own sawmills from which they can secure at all times such schedules of lumber as they may require for work of this kind. In their factory at St. John, they are equipped with every class of machinery required for the drying and dressing of
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