. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Government Lumber Flume and Piles, Ottawa. the advocates of shafting overhead, with loose belts and "swing tighteners, and while I concede that there are some very excellent reasons why a shaft under the floor is desirable, as a general thing it is a close place and a tight fit all around. One of the strong claims was low cost as com- pared with the overhead system. That doesn't hold good all the time, for this one reason : This plant is on the side of a hil
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Government Lumber Flume and Piles, Ottawa. the advocates of shafting overhead, with loose belts and "swing tighteners, and while I concede that there are some very excellent reasons why a shaft under the floor is desirable, as a general thing it is a close place and a tight fit all around. One of the strong claims was low cost as com- pared with the overhead system. That doesn't hold good all the time, for this one reason : This plant is on the side of a hill, with an incline of six feet in fifty, and as the plan showed bents of framing in the foundation, it required 17 exca- vations, 54 feet long, averaging 48 cubic yards of earth, that had to be wheeled two hundred feet away from the mill site, and to make room for the shafting, engine, edger, countershaft, cut- off saw and cut-off counter, required an addition- al 620 cubic yards. The building is at the ground level on the upper side and the floor level is 34 inches above the car floor level on the loading side. This of itself is not a fault, as down loading is preferable to level or up-grade loading. That is speaking from a loading view of the matter. But as all of the lumber comes to the mill in the rough, and is dried, ripped and dressed, and has to be un- loaded from the same track level, it begins to look .as if it might not be so handy. More par- ticularly is this the case when the lumber to be dressed will be large dimensions, car sill or timber. It has been suggested that the track could be higher, but the railroad people will not put cars on a switch that has a down grade to the main line, so that is entirely out of the question. Nor would it do to have the mill machinery in a pit in a country where rain sometimes falls so fast that it will almost flood on a hillside and the soil is so sandy that it it puddles over ever so little, will wash off in a body. As to cost, I
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