. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A log loader in Trois Pistoles Pulp and Lumber Co., Trois Pistoles, P. Q.—View of Upper Mill. Improvements at Trois Pistoles New Equipment Adds to Output of Two Mills Operated by Progressive Company The Trois Pistoles Pulp & Lumber Company, Riviere Trois Pistoles, P. Q., have recently made many improvements to their saw mills, which are now in operation and are among the finest and most efficient in the province of Quebec, The limits are located on the R
. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A log loader in Trois Pistoles Pulp and Lumber Co., Trois Pistoles, P. Q.—View of Upper Mill. Improvements at Trois Pistoles New Equipment Adds to Output of Two Mills Operated by Progressive Company The Trois Pistoles Pulp & Lumber Company, Riviere Trois Pistoles, P. Q., have recently made many improvements to their saw mills, which are now in operation and are among the finest and most efficient in the province of Quebec, The limits are located on the Riviere Trois Pistoles and its trib- utaries, and are from 12 to 35 miles from the town. The yearly out- put of the plant is about 20,000,000 feet of spruce lumber, cedar shingles and lath, and 1,000 cords of pulpwood, the product being dis- posed of in the United States and Canadian markets. The company also turn out a quantity of railroad ties. Employment is given to about 250 men in the mill, 350 on the drives and 1,500 in the bush operations. The equipment of the company's upper mill includes a Waterous band saw; Long circular and gang; 7 Dunbar shingle machines, made by the Smith Foundry Company, of FYedericton, N. B.; 5 Waterous rossing machines, for rossing pulpwood, and one for barking; Water- ous edger and cedar cut-off band mill. The new capacity of this mill is 40,000 feet of spruce lumber per day, 130,000 shingles, 25,000 lath and 30,000 cords of pulpwood. The equipment of the lower mill includes a Waterous circular; Kendall circular gang, supplied by the Waterous Engine Works Com- pany, Limited; Waterous lath machine and edger; 10 Dunbar shingle machines, furnished by the Smith Foundry Company of Fredericton, N. B.; one Waterous cedar barker; two Waterous pulpwood barkers; one Sherbrooke Iron Works barker; one Sherbrooke Iron Works cedar cut-off saw ; 350 boilers and engines and a Westinghouse H plant supplying electric light to the whole system. The present
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