. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXVIII. Number io. } TORONTO. MONTREAL — OCTOBER. 1907 — WINNIPEG. VANCOUVER /Terms, $ Year { Single Copies, 10 Cents A NORTHERN ONTARIO MILL. The great interest which has been taken in Northern Ontario for some time past has been centred chiefly upon the great mines. How- ever, the mining interests are not, by any means, the only ones in this district. There is also great timber as well as mineral wealth. Several mills h
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXVIII. Number io. } TORONTO. MONTREAL — OCTOBER. 1907 — WINNIPEG. VANCOUVER /Terms, $ Year { Single Copies, 10 Cents A NORTHERN ONTARIO MILL. The great interest which has been taken in Northern Ontario for some time past has been centred chiefly upon the great mines. How- ever, the mining interests are not, by any means, the only ones in this district. There is also great timber as well as mineral wealth. Several mills have sprung up through the country, but until last March, when Mr. Cle- ment A. Foster completed his establishment at Haileybury. there was no mill in the dis- trict thoroughly equipped for handling a large cut. Mr. Foster is a mining man, but sees the pos- The mill is a No. 2 circular, with a Kendal circular gang, having a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, and the machinery throughout was furnished by the Wm. Hamilton Manufactur- ing Company of Peterboro'. The mill has srunshot feed, with canters and loaders. There is a lath mill in connection. The whole plant is first-class and strictly up-to-date. Tn addition to the saw mill, there is a plan- ing mill with an independent engine of 60 horse-power, operating a double surfacer, matcher, moulder, corner block machine, turn- ing lathe, an automatic rip saw and grinding machine. This machincrv was furnished bv CIRCULAR SAWING AND POWER. I have read some time and somewhere (re- cently ) of the power required to drive circular saws of various diameters. The note is as fol- lows :— "Three and one-half driving 18 in. saw will cut up to 6 in. deep for fencing and firewood; 5 and 6 1-2 driving 24 in. saw will cut up to 8 in. deep or 9 in ; Now this is a very vague and indefinite account of the capabilities of an engine or of a circular saw. The amount or depth which a saw is able to cut does not
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