. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The recent rains have sufficiently raised the water in the streams for water power mills that have been idle since early last spring to resume operations. I. & C. Prescott's mill at Albert is running full time, as is also the mill of A. & G. Bray at Curryville. Each of these mills have a large quantity of logs in the stream for sawing. Lumbering operations in Albert county this season will be conducted on a larger scale than last year. John F. Milton has
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The recent rains have sufficiently raised the water in the streams for water power mills that have been idle since early last spring to resume operations. I. & C. Prescott's mill at Albert is running full time, as is also the mill of A. & G. Bray at Curryville. Each of these mills have a large quantity of logs in the stream for sawing. Lumbering operations in Albert county this season will be conducted on a larger scale than last year. John F. Milton has bought up a large amount of timber in the vicinity of the shiretown, and will operate very exten- sively there this winter. It is said there will be at least four mills at work at the Cape the coming season. BITS OF LUMBER. George Vaughan, of Sussex, has purchased the old Stewart mill at Black Brook, Miramichi, and will operate it next season. He has contracted with Mr. Welch to get out 9,000,000 logs this winter. Thi G. &. G. Flewelling Co., of Hampton, have their saw mill illuminated with a 175 light dynamo. The plant was supplied and installed by James Hunter, electrician, of St. John. St. John, October 24, 1896. on wheels, and a 30 h. p. engine, connected to a set of saw irons, bull wheel, single edger, slab saw and shingle machine. The building, it will be seen, is only a temporary struc- ture, as the mill is very readily moved as occasion demands. This is a medium sized portable mill built by the above firm, who build smaller ones down to 12 h. p., and larger ones up to 100 h. p., as will be shown by the fact that on the 13th of March last they received a cable from England closing for one of their largest portable saw mills for South Australia, including a 70 h. p. engine with locomo- tive boiler, heaviest saw frame with top saw attachment, taking a 72" lower saw and 40" upper saw, and girder steel carriage to carry logs 6 ft. diam., 25 ft. long, of the hea
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