. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Office of the Fassett Lumber Co., Fassett, Que. Many towns throughout the Dominion of Canada owe their existence to the lumber industry, and nowhere is this more forcibly shown than in the case of Fassett, Quebec. Situated on the Ottawa River, midway between Montreal and Ottawa, this town, possessing now a population of over 1,000, stands where five years ago only a solitary farm house was to be seen. About that time the Fassett Lumber Company, Limited, decided to loc
. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Office of the Fassett Lumber Co., Fassett, Que. Many towns throughout the Dominion of Canada owe their existence to the lumber industry, and nowhere is this more forcibly shown than in the case of Fassett, Quebec. Situated on the Ottawa River, midway between Montreal and Ottawa, this town, possessing now a population of over 1,000, stands where five years ago only a solitary farm house was to be seen. About that time the Fassett Lumber Company, Limited, decided to locate their mms there. Possibly nowhere in Eastern Canada could a better location be found for saw mill operations. The mill buildings are situated about a quarter of of a mile from the Ottawa River, and only fifteen miles distant from the company's 68,000 acres of timber limits, which are all situated on lands adjacent to the Ottawa Valley. Directly connected with these limits', is the Salmon Eiver & Northern Railroad, a standard gauge rail- road, owned and operated by the Fassett Lumber Company, Limited, which conveys the logs, direct from the woods to the mill pond. The railroad equipment consists of three Shay-geared Locomotives, one of fifty-five tons, one of sixty-five and one of seventy tons, besides one saddle tank switching engine of twenty-five tons, two Bernhardt steam loaders, forty-five logging cars, and twenty-six flat cars. By the use of this railroad and a hot pond 400 x 150 feet, adjacent to the mill, which is kept open during the winter months by means of exhaust steam from the mill, the company are in a position to carry on operations throughout the entire year. This 16, as far as we are aware, the only mill operating continuously in eastern Canada. The claim of the Fassett Lumber Company that they are in a posi- tion to turn out manufactured lumber cheaper than any other concern in Eastern Canada, is well backed up by an inspection of the mills, which cont
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