. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 16 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN August, 1902 I ®~ DEPARTMENT \ i WOOD PULP THE SAULT STE. MARIE PULP MILLS. The pulp mills of the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp and Pa- per Company at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., are capable of turning out 170 Ions of dry pulp every twenty-four hours, the operators working in two shifts. The mills are exceedingly handsome buildings, of mottled sand- stone blasted out in the construction of the power canal. Mill No. 1 is 600 x 80 feet, and Mill No. 2 3
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 16 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN August, 1902 I ®~ DEPARTMENT \ i WOOD PULP THE SAULT STE. MARIE PULP MILLS. The pulp mills of the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp and Pa- per Company at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., are capable of turning out 170 Ions of dry pulp every twenty-four hours, the operators working in two shifts. The mills are exceedingly handsome buildings, of mottled sand- stone blasted out in the construction of the power canal. Mill No. 1 is 600 x 80 feet, and Mill No. 2 300 x 100 feet. Somewhere around $2,000,000 was expended in the construction of the two buildings and in equipment. A view of the grinder room is shown on ibis page, and below is given some particulars of the process of manufacturing mechanical pulp there adopt- ed. The wood is cut along the line of the Algoma Central Railway, brought to the Soo on cars and thrown into the bay beside the mill. Here it is ready for the sawyers, who drag it out of the water, saw it into lengths of twenty-four inches, which are thrown into a tank that extends half the length of the mill, and from this the men who run the bat king machines pick out the blocks. They strip the wood of its covering, which is immediately blown by an ingenious device to the boiler room. The stripped blocks are then thrown into endless carrying channels and these convey the blocks to the floor above, where they are piled on little cars which run to all parts of the building. From these cars the men running the grinding machines help themselves. The grinder is an iron case containing an ordinary grindstone fifty-four inches in diameter and twenty-six inches wide. On eai h --ide of the grindstone is an iron wheel clamped to the s one to keep it fiom flying to pieces when it gets hot. Tj overcome this difficulty a stream of water is also kept going on the stone. Hydraulic cylinders, adjusted in position about the circumfere
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