. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Frank Blais, Amos, Mr. Blais' boat conveying logs to the mill at Amos, Que. cars of oats annually until construction on the railway was com- pleted and the business in this line ran about $200,000 a year. In 1912 Mr. Blais built another sawmill at Doheny station, 25 miles east of LaTuque on the Transcontinental railway to Quebec, which has a cutting capacity of 40,000 feet a day. He has there 20,000 acres of patented land covered with a splendid gr
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Frank Blais, Amos, Mr. Blais' boat conveying logs to the mill at Amos, Que. cars of oats annually until construction on the railway was com- pleted and the business in this line ran about $200,000 a year. In 1912 Mr. Blais built another sawmill at Doheny station, 25 miles east of LaTuque on the Transcontinental railway to Quebec, which has a cutting capacity of 40,000 feet a day. He has there 20,000 acres of patented land covered with a splendid growth of red birch and spruce. Two years later he erected a fourth sawmill at Amos of equal capacity to the one at Doheny and has since pur- chased sixty square miles of timberland consisting principally of spruce. There is about a million feet of pine on the land, the re- mainder being black spruce, the stand of this being estimated at 30,000,000 feet. The subject of this reference conducts a planing mill and a shop for mill repairs. He also manufactures shingles and, in his planing mill, during the past summer, dressed three quarters of a million feet of lumber. He also owns a large general store for supplying the many workpeople that he employs with the necessities of food and raiment. All logs are hauled by an alligator, a steam boat and two gaso- line launches and are driven by booms to the various mills. His out- put of spruce, pine and birch is marketed chiefly in New York state, since the work on the Canadian f}ovcrnment Railways was com- pleted. The accompanying view shows one of Mr. Blais' boats draw- ing logs. Mr. Blais is a busy man conducting all these operations alone but he has a large number of competent employees, who have co-operated with him in building up his business to its present grati- fying proportions. Northern Spruce Mills Sold Up To Saw Frank W. Gordon of Terry & (iordon, Toronto, who visited all the producing centres in the Sunset Province during
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