. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 THE NEWS J —G. T. Browning- is about to erect a planing- mill at Aurora, Ont. —A. Mains will establish a sash and door factory at Hartney, Mf, on both sides of the river, but below the line, there is a belt of long, straignt fir timber, 1,500 feet wide, averaging 18 to 36 inches, which will cut as high as 60 M. to the acre, of good merchantable timber. This belt of fir timber is fringed with a line of sound hemlock of large dimension
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 THE NEWS J —G. T. Browning- is about to erect a planing- mill at Aurora, Ont. —A. Mains will establish a sash and door factory at Hartney, Mf, on both sides of the river, but below the line, there is a belt of long, straignt fir timber, 1,500 feet wide, averaging 18 to 36 inches, which will cut as high as 60 M. to the acre, of good merchantable timber. This belt of fir timber is fringed with a line of sound hemlock of large ; —A large mill for the manufacture of cooperage stock is being established at Sand Point, Ont., by S. O. Church & Bro., of New York, who have two other mills in Canada and three in the United States. The head- ing mill at Sand Point was completed last spring, and the stave and hoop mill will be finished at an early^late. The roof of the heading mill is covered with galvanized iron. The power equipment includes an Osborne & Kelly engine of 65 horse power. The dry kiln was furnished by the Standard Dry Kiln Company, of Indianapolis, and uses live steam from the boiler. A siding 1,100 feet in length from the track furnishes shipping facilities. The timber used is elm, ash, basswood, soft maple, butternut, poplar and balm of gilead, the product being shipped largely to the sugar refineries in Montreal. The manager of the mill is T. H. DeCew, late of Fenelon Falls, who has been engaged in this line of business for many years and is well qualified for the position. TRADE NOTES. Attention is directed to the advertisement of the Hart Emery Wheel Company, Limited, of Hamilton, Canada, in this issue. The company is one of the most progres- sive ot our Canadian manufacturing firms. Rapid progress is being made with the new works of the Owen Sound Iron Company at Owen Sound, Ont. The main building will be 337 feet long. South of the main building will be the bo
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