. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXV. Number 3. } TORONTO. MONTREAL, WINNIPEG. MARCH. 1905 (Terms, $ Per Year \ Single Copies, 10 Cents THE RAT PORTAGE LUMBER COMPANY. One of the largest manufacturing concerns in Western Canada is the Rat Portage Lumber Company, which was organized in the year 1896 to take over the properties of the Ontario and Western Lumber Company, which was a combination of the Western Lumber Company, the Minnesota and Ontario Lu
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXV. Number 3. } TORONTO. MONTREAL, WINNIPEG. MARCH. 1905 (Terms, $ Per Year \ Single Copies, 10 Cents THE RAT PORTAGE LUMBER COMPANY. One of the largest manufacturing concerns in Western Canada is the Rat Portage Lumber Company, which was organized in the year 1896 to take over the properties of the Ontario and Western Lumber Company, which was a combination of the Western Lumber Company, the Minnesota and Ontario Lumber Company, the Safety Bay Lumber Company, Cameron & Kennedy and Ross, Hall & Brown. The company commenced operations with a capital of 8500,000, but have expanded the amount of business originally done to such vast propor- tions that to-day the capital invested amounts to the sum of $2,000,000. They own mills at Rat Portage, Norman and Rainy River in Ontario, Winnipeg, Mani- toba, and Vancouver and Harrison River, The eight mills operated by this company have a com- bined capacity of over one hundred and twenty five mil- lion feet annually and con- stitute one of the largest lumbering plants in Canada. The Rat Portage mill is 182x56 feet, with a wing 48 X35 feet, and boiler house 48x46 feet, containing seven boilers and one 30x48 Cor- liss engine. The engine has a 24x30 inch cylinder, which is equipped with Crow's Nest condensers, enabling the water to be pumped back into the boilers at a temperature of 200 degrees. The mill is equipped with one Prescott double cutting band, manufactured by the Wm. Hamilton Manufacturing Company, of Peterboro, one Waterous band single cutting 40 inch Wickes gang, driven by 14x16 engine, and two edgers, one being very heavy and from the Diamond Iron Works, of Minneapolis. The log deck is equipped with steam kickers, loaders and niggers, the carriages being worked by a 10 inch steam feed. The planing mill and sash, door and box fa
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