. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER •9. Fraser River Lumber Co., Limited View of Filing Room. Chalmers double cutting band with 60-inch four block three track car- riage. The two double cutting band mills have "Hill" niters. The edger capacity consists of one 00x10 six saw edijer, and one 84x10 ten saw broken roll double edger, both Albs-Chalmers make. The slasher is 50-foot long and built to cut either 4 or 4%-foot slabs. This slasher was built by the Sumner Ir
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER •9. Fraser River Lumber Co., Limited View of Filing Room. Chalmers double cutting band with 60-inch four block three track car- riage. The two double cutting band mills have "Hill" niters. The edger capacity consists of one 00x10 six saw edijer, and one 84x10 ten saw broken roll double edger, both Albs-Chalmers make. The slasher is 50-foot long and built to cut either 4 or 4%-foot slabs. This slasher was built by the Sumner Iron Works, of Everett, The sorting chain tables are 750 feet long and on them is located a 72-inch Mershon band re-saw and two Stetson-Ross "ready ; The chain is in eight sections, any section of which can be stopped instant- aneously, when necessary for removing lumber. The transmission ma- chinery was all furnished by the Sumner Iron Works. The mill was de- signed by Mr. Arthur B Pracna, of Everett, Wash., and Mr. L. S. Tucker, of Everett, was superintendent of mill construction. All lumber for cargo shipment is handled on cars, each car earning from two to three thousand feet of lumber. The wharf is 1,200 feet long and 112 feet deep, with a minimum depth of 31 feet of water, low tide, the entire length. The ctry kiln capacity consists of six standard dry kilns 20 x 120 feet, capable of drying 150,000 feet of lumber per day. The shed for storing dry lumber is under construction at the time of writing, and is 1,000 feet long by 100 feet wide. This should have a capacity of between fifteen and twenty million feet. At present in the yard there are tramways and pile bottoms with a capacity of twenty million feet and available piling ground to increase this capacity to fifty million. The planing mill at present has seven matchers, a band re-saw and sizer. II is operated by t 22x42-inch Corliss engine, steam for which is taken from the sawmill boilers. For fire pr
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