. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March, 1905 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 500000000000^ JOTTINGS BY THE WAY Leaving Toronto, I went direct to St. Thomas, and I was pleased to see the town so full alive and pro- gressive. It certainly boasts of wide-awake lumbermen and up-to-date planing mills. The new planing- mill belonging to Harry Lindop is one of the best I have ever seen and is the result of years of experience learning what a modern planing mill should be. The building is composed of concrete ceme
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March, 1905 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 500000000000^ JOTTINGS BY THE WAY Leaving Toronto, I went direct to St. Thomas, and I was pleased to see the town so full alive and pro- gressive. It certainly boasts of wide-awake lumbermen and up-to-date planing mills. The new planing- mill belonging to Harry Lindop is one of the best I have ever seen and is the result of years of experience learning what a modern planing mill should be. The building is composed of concrete cement blocks right up to the roof, with a magnificent driveway through the centre of the building. The latter has a frontage of 90 feet and a depth of no feet, to which another addition of 30 x 60 feet is to be added. Despite the fact that -Mr. Lindop has had two or three disasters (the last of which was a complete burn-out last May), he has proven equal to the task, and his modern establishment speaks for itself. I should call Harry Lindop a young old man of the progressive type. In taking me through the building he spoke modestly of his disasters and of how he arose again each time with renewed energy for the work. A 75-horse power engine provides the motive power for some of the latest improved machinery. Harry has a mill in the Parry Sound district which supplies him with his lumber, and he very kindly gave me a photo showing himself inspecting a log " dump " at his mill. Among the lumbermen who are now importing extensively the southern yellow pine is J. M. Green & Sons, Limited, of St. Thomas. They were among the first Canadians to bring this lumber into Canada. Young Mr. Green, who escorted me through their establishment, is a young lumberman of brilliant ideas and is the active manager. He states that they are using more hemlock for building purposes than ever before. I was particularly struck with the excellent manner in which their dry kiln, storage sheds,
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