. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. White Pine Lumber Company—Loading Logs on to Cars. fact that it enables the company to get out a much greater quan- tity of logs per camp than would be possible under other condi- tions. With no more than three camps the company take out each year from 15,000,000 to 16,000,000 feet of logs. Railroading in a timber limit would not of course be feasible under all conditions. It requires especially, that the country should be fairly level. This condition is fulfilled in
. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. White Pine Lumber Company—Loading Logs on to Cars. fact that it enables the company to get out a much greater quan- tity of logs per camp than would be possible under other condi- tions. With no more than three camps the company take out each year from 15,000,000 to 16,000,000 feet of logs. Railroading in a timber limit would not of course be feasible under all conditions. It requires especially, that the country should be fairly level. This condition is fulfilled in the limit of the White Pine Lumber Com- pany upon which they log by railroad. In a distance of 15 miles of road there is no grade over 4 per cent. One of the illustrations accompanying this article shows one of the improvements which facilitate the logging operation of the White Pine Lumber Company. The log chute shown is 400 feet long and has a drop of 63 feet. Another similar improvement which is located higher up the river has a length of 500 feet and a drop of 62 feet. The mill operations and the woods end of the work are looked after by Mr. R. W. Wells from Blind River. The United States end of the company is known as the J. W. Wells Lumber Com- pany of Menominee, Mich. The mill operated by the company at Menominee was destroyed by fire a couple of years ago and they are now building a large new mill of steel and concrete which is to be equipped with about the same variety of machinery as that at the Blind River mill, with the exception that instead of a cir- cular a band saw will be installed. It will also include a shingle and a cordwood mill. The equipment of the Blind River mill con- sists of one single cutting Waterous band, one circular, a 52-inch Wickes gang, and horizontal resaws manufactured by the Dia- mond Iron Works of Minneapolis. The output of the mill is 135,- 000 feet in a ten-hour day. The lath mill which is run in con- nection with the saw mill cuts abo
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