. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN ' Volume XX. I Number 5. / CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S SAW MILL AT COAL CREEK, B. C. One of the largest saw mills yet built in Canada has recently been completed at Coal Creek, on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, in the province of British Columbia, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Some illustrations and particulars of its construction are given below. The main mill building is 60 feet wide and 310 feet long, with a lath and shingl
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN ' Volume XX. I Number 5. / CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S SAW MILL AT COAL CREEK, B. C. One of the largest saw mills yet built in Canada has recently been completed at Coal Creek, on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, in the province of British Columbia, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Some illustrations and particulars of its construction are given below. The main mill building is 60 feet wide and 310 feet long, with a lath and shingle mill annex 41 feet wide by 48 feet long, besides an engine and boiler house 44 by 71 feet. The building of the mill was no easy task, owing to circumstances not usually met with. When the Wm. Hamilton Mfg. Company, of Peterboro, who had the entire contract, sent their men out to com- mence the erection of the building, nothing was done save the clearing of the site and the placing of some of the timber on the ground. They immediatelyset toworkand got out the whole of the timber, which entailed much labor, as it had all to be taken from the forest near at hand and the trees cut down and hewn to shape. All planking required in the construction had to be whip-sawn, as there was no way of hauling such a large quantity of timber to the mill site, the rails of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway not being laid at that time to within fiftymiles of the site of the mill. The first illustration shows the mill building completely framed, which will give our readers an idea of the dimensions of the mill, which is designed to cut logs 5 to 6 feet in diameter and. Fig. 1.—View of Mill Frame, Mill. 80 to go feet long, and turn out lumber in first class condition. The logs are hauled to the mill by rail and dumped into the pond formed by the breakwater and dam shown in the accompanying illustration, Fig. 3, the dam being at the lower end. The jack ladder leading to the mill, and up which t
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