. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August 1, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 49 Railways Call for Many More Creosoted Ties Large Wood Treating Plant Under Construction at Sudbury -Preservative Methods Extended to Other Lines of Timber—Conserving the Supply A new creosoting plant is being erected by the Canada Creosot- ing Co. at Sudbury, Ont., and good progress is being made in con- struction work. In 1912 the Canada Creosoting Co. established a jilant at Trenton, Ont., with an annua
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August 1, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 49 Railways Call for Many More Creosoted Ties Large Wood Treating Plant Under Construction at Sudbury -Preservative Methods Extended to Other Lines of Timber—Conserving the Supply A new creosoting plant is being erected by the Canada Creosot- ing Co. at Sudbury, Ont., and good progress is being made in con- struction work. In 1912 the Canada Creosoting Co. established a jilant at Trenton, Ont., with an annual capacity of about a million and a half of treated railway ties. The new undertaking at Sudbury will be in operation in July next and will give steady employment to about 200 men. The loca- tion is between Sudbury and Copper Clif¥' on the Soo branch of the C. P. R. The industry will be larger than the one at Trenton and will have an output of two million ties a year, all of which will be used by the C. P. R. The buildings will be 175 ft. long and 40 ft. wide, constructed entirely of brick. There will be- two huge cylindrical retorts each 150 ft. long, and 7 ft. diameter, inside meas- urement. There are yard facilities for 2,094,000 ties, which is over double the storage accommodation of the yard at Trenton. The head office of the Canada Creosoting Co. is at 1006 C. P. R. Build- ing, Toronto, Mr. R. V. Look being the president of the company and W. E. Doan, secretary. The principal kind of ties treated are beech, birch and maple and jack pine. Canadian railways are every year using more creosoted ties, which treatment, it is estimated, adds from four to five times to the durability of the timber. It may be asked why so many sleepers undergo preservative treatment at the present time, and the an- swer is not difficult to 'furnish. Wood is becoming increasingly valuable as those who have to purchase lumber and building ma- terials realize. In the days before the war, an ordina
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