. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Bathurst Lumber Co., Bathurst, View of Mill creased from $100,000 to $1,000,000. The company will operate ex- tensively in hardwoods, bringing logs in by rail over the new North- ern & New Brunswick Seaboard Railway which taps a large portion of their limits. Mr. Angus MacLean, the well known lumberman, is General Manager of the Bathurst Lumber Co., with Mr. A. E. Loosen as local manager. JThe Bathurst Lumber Company commenced its operations in 1
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Bathurst Lumber Co., Bathurst, View of Mill creased from $100,000 to $1,000,000. The company will operate ex- tensively in hardwoods, bringing logs in by rail over the new North- ern & New Brunswick Seaboard Railway which taps a large portion of their limits. Mr. Angus MacLean, the well known lumberman, is General Manager of the Bathurst Lumber Co., with Mr. A. E. Loosen as local manager. JThe Bathurst Lumber Company commenced its operations in 1907 when it acquired the properties of the Sumner Lumber Com- pany. The old mill was destroyed by fire on March 31st, 1908. Less. Nepisiguit Mill, Bathurst,, N. B. Acquired by Bathurst Lumber Co. than ten months after the date of the fire the company had completed the erection of a new mill on the old site. The new mill, a picture of which is published herewith, is thoroughly modern in every re- spect and is absolutely fireproof. It is built of reinforced concrete and sheet metal and consists of the mill building, engine and boiler rooms. The boilers are set in steel casings, lined with brick, and are raised 7 feet above the floor by means of steel posts set upon concrete foundations. The engine room contains a 100 Robb- Armstrong engine and an electric generator which is used for light- ing purposes only. The foundations of the mill are of concrete and the first floor is supported by concrete pillars two feet square set upon rock foundations. The equipment includes two 8-inch band saws, one vertical resaw, two edgers and a number of smaller ma- chines. The mill is splendidly situated on the inner harbor and has good facilities for shipping either by rail or water. The output of the mill averages between 125,000 and 150,000 feet per day and has amounted at times to 175,000 feet in a day. The mill of the Nepisiguit Lumber Company which has been added to the Bathurst Lumber
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