. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 CANADA LUMBERMAN Making Red Cedar Into High-Class Shingles How Raw Material is Handled With Speed and Accuracy in Modern B. C. Mill —Twenty-two Machines Buzzing Merrily—The Bands Stained Bright Red Built for business, not for show, the big shingle mill of the Shull Lumber & Shingle Co., Ltd., on the Arm of Fraser River, in Burnaby, could very well be taken as a model shingle plant. In design, arrangement of machinery, and in construct:on as
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 CANADA LUMBERMAN Making Red Cedar Into High-Class Shingles How Raw Material is Handled With Speed and Accuracy in Modern B. C. Mill —Twenty-two Machines Buzzing Merrily—The Bands Stained Bright Red Built for business, not for show, the big shingle mill of the Shull Lumber & Shingle Co., Ltd., on the Arm of Fraser River, in Burnaby, could very well be taken as a model shingle plant. In design, arrangement of machinery, and in construct:on as well as hi the manner it is conducted and operated, lV Mg mil is one which well repays a visit of in- speccion. To see, under one roof, twenty-two shingle machines buzzing merr ly away, clipping off high- class red cedar shingles from the finest of blocks, is an experience which cannot be duplicated. To add d'stinction the shingle bands are stained a bright red. and this striking band has been copyrghted as the trade mark of the mill It was in 1914 that construction was commenced on this modern shingle plant, though it was not finally completed and put in operation until 1915. The lo- cation, with deep water frontage on the North Arm of the Fraser, is adjom ng the Electric Railway's Eburne-New Westminster line, which affords direct rail connection to every transcontinental route. The buildings are all of substantial character, on concrete and pile foundations, and set well apart on the large area occupied by the company. The main mill is in two decks, the shingle machines being located on the upper deck and the packing rooms below, with convenient system of conveyors on both decks. The arrangement of the machines is in two ranks, with a central system of conveyors bringing the shingle blocks from the saws right through the mill, so that the operatives have a con- stant supply coming right to their hand. The raw material is now .taken entirely from cedar logs, thou
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