. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. June,1898 THE LUMBERS &M our knowledge of electrical matters, it is not wise to pre- dict what may or may not be done in the next few years in the way of electrical heating, but we do know that water power will not develop heat without its transforma- tion into electrical energy ; so that unless this transfor- mation is made, a water power plant will have to be sup- plemented by a steam heating plant in all cases where heat is required. If not a steam heating
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. June,1898 THE LUMBERS &M our knowledge of electrical matters, it is not wise to pre- dict what may or may not be done in the next few years in the way of electrical heating, but we do know that water power will not develop heat without its transforma- tion into electrical energy ; so that unless this transfor- mation is made, a water power plant will have to be sup- plemented by a steam heating plant in all cases where heat is required. If not a steam heating, then hot air, stoves, &c, which all mean fuel. Now, if steam is to be used at all, it might just as well be used as economically as possible, and to raise steam to a high pressure costs less proportionally than it does to generate a low pressure. If, therefore, high pressure steam be used in steam engines, and their exhaust be availed of for drying or heating purposes, it might very well be that the expense incurred would compare very favorably with the total interest and other expenses of a combined water power and steam heating plant. And the comparison would be all the more favorable to steam as steam became necessary in larger quantities for drying and less comparatively for power. There are other in- dustries again which necessarily produce combustible refuse, which they must consume in some way, such as tanneries, planing and saw mills, and other wood-working industries. Unless they have some local demand for such refuse it becomes very necessary to burn it up to get it out of the way. In all such cases it is questionable whether water power would have any value at all. In aopraising the comparative values, therefore, of a water privilege in relation to steam working, it becomes necessary to regard the whole question from a slrictly commercial standpoint. The total first cost by the two methods must be reliably estimated, with their probable maintenance and operatin
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