. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Saw Mill of the St. Maurice Lumber Company at Three Rivers, Que. Echron, president ; G. F. Underwood, vice- president and manager ; and N. B. Sprague, secretary-treasurer, all of Glen Falls, N. Y., where they are interested in the Glen Falls Pulp and Paper Company. The St. Maurice mill, which is under the local management of Mr. Robert F. Grant, contains two band saws, two edgers, two resaws, one lath mill, and six machines for barking spruce slabs, the machinery
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Saw Mill of the St. Maurice Lumber Company at Three Rivers, Que. Echron, president ; G. F. Underwood, vice- president and manager ; and N. B. Sprague, secretary-treasurer, all of Glen Falls, N. Y., where they are interested in the Glen Falls Pulp and Paper Company. The St. Maurice mill, which is under the local management of Mr. Robert F. Grant, contains two band saws, two edgers, two resaws, one lath mill, and six machines for barking spruce slabs, the machinery being supplied by the Waterous Company, of Brantford. The capacity a magnificent size, which will run three logs to the thousand feet. The mill, which has recently been completed, is fitted with a Carrier, Laine & Co. double saw, rotary, re-sawing machine (for boards, with a capacity of about twelve thousand per day), two planers, double edger and clapboard machines. PULP MILL AT PARRSBORO. The town council of Parrsboro, N. S., has decided to grant a bonus of $10,000 to secure the erection in that. Interior View of St. Maurice Lumber Company's Mill, Three Rivers, Que. of the mill is 160,000 ft. per 24 hours, and they have been running day and night all summer. The cut this season, when finished, will be about 26,000,000 ft. , manufactured chiefly into 3-inch deals, pine and spruce. The logs are made on streams in the St. Maurice territory and driven down the St. Maurice river to Three Rivers. Exterior and interior views of the mill are shown. town of a sulphite pulp mill of thirty tons capacity daily. Mr. Thos. Allison, the well-known pulp mill designer, has made a report to the town, in which he states that the site is an excellent one. Parrsboro is an open port, which permits of shipments being made to all countries the year round. Abundance of wood can be secured, and coal can be put into the boiler house as required at a cost of one dollar per ton, thus doing
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