. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 42 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER February I, I'. Panoramic view of the plant of the St. Lawrence Pulp & Lumber Corporation, Limited, Chandler, P. Q. Important New Plant at Chandler, Sawmill With Capacity of 125,000 feet per day and a 110 ton Sulphite Pulp Mill Erected by St. Lawrence Pulp & Lumber Corporation, Limited SOME time in the month of March of this year one of the most complete sawmills and sulphite pulp mills in Canada will com-
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 42 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER February I, I'. Panoramic view of the plant of the St. Lawrence Pulp & Lumber Corporation, Limited, Chandler, P. Q. Important New Plant at Chandler, Sawmill With Capacity of 125,000 feet per day and a 110 ton Sulphite Pulp Mill Erected by St. Lawrence Pulp & Lumber Corporation, Limited SOME time in the month of March of this year one of the most complete sawmills and sulphite pulp mills in Canada will com- mence operations. This is the plant of the St. Lawrence Pulp and Lumber Corporation, Limited, situated at Chandler, , on a bay of the Gaspe Peninsula. The buildings are now practically finished, having been constructed by the Aberthaw Construction Com- pany, of Boston. The capital is entirely American, and the promoters have spared no money in securing the very latest form of mills and equipment; the plant is, in fact, the last word in saw and pulp mill construction and practice. It comprises nearly twenty buildings, with arrangements for a further extension of several of them, should occa- sion arise. The limits, of 640 square miles, and an old mill, were purchased from the Grand Pabos Lumber Company, owned by American capi- talists. The limits comprise balsam and spruce, with a little birch and cedar. The mills will have excellent shipping facilities, by rail and water; transportation by rail is obtained by the company's own double track line running right through the plant, connecting with the Atlantic, Quebec and Western Railway, which has connection with the Intercolonial, while, to facilitate shipping by water, the Federal Government will build a deep water wharf, 1,500 feet long, giving 27 feet of water at low tide. The plant, which covers, together with the lumber yards, about 16 acres, is separated into two parts, one comprising the saw mill, rossing mill, and hot
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