. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Carload of wany white pine tim- ber taken out last winter by Wm. Milne & Sons, Nortn Bay, Ont., at Tomiko Lakes on the T. & N. O. 26 miles above North Bay, and sold to a Quebec firm of exporters. Wm. Milne & Sons logged about 35,000 cubic feet of white pine timbers last season and the average running length per stick was 45 ft. Gravity railway 4900 ft. long with 690 ft. of a drop, built on spruce logs 3 ft. gauge track laid with 24 lb. rails.
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Carload of wany white pine tim- ber taken out last winter by Wm. Milne & Sons, Nortn Bay, Ont., at Tomiko Lakes on the T. & N. O. 26 miles above North Bay, and sold to a Quebec firm of exporters. Wm. Milne & Sons logged about 35,000 cubic feet of white pine timbers last season and the average running length per stick was 45 ft. Gravity railway 4900 ft. long with 690 ft. of a drop, built on spruce logs 3 ft. gauge track laid with 24 lb. rails. The line of steel was built by 69th Co. Canadian For- estry Corps, in Vosges Moun- tains. The gravity railway was designed and completed under the supervision of Lieut. -Col. W. H. Milne, North Bay, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
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