. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. J. E. Baechler, Goderich, Ont. The man who is frequently re- ferred to as the "Henry Ford of Goderich" is j. E. Baechler, in that he keeps his plant in the hardwood lumber line going in season and out of season. The war made no difference to him. He still went on manufacturing hardwood lumber for which he found a market. He turns out about four million feet a year and buys up tim'ber anywhere within a radius of a hundred miles. Mr. Baechler is
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. J. E. Baechler, Goderich, Ont. The man who is frequently re- ferred to as the "Henry Ford of Goderich" is j. E. Baechler, in that he keeps his plant in the hardwood lumber line going in season and out of season. The war made no difference to him. He still went on manufacturing hardwood lumber for which he found a market. He turns out about four million feet a year and buys up tim'ber anywhere within a radius of a hundred miles. Mr. Baechler is a busy man, who has been in the lum- bering game all his life and likes the business. A great deal of the timber is brought into Goderich by motor truck, trailer and tractor and from three to four hundred cars annually by rail. One load of hardwood logs was recently drawn by a tractor from Watford to Goderich, a distance of 68 miles. The same machine also hauled 4, 281 feet on another occasion. Mr. Baechler, who operates under the name of the Goderich Manufacturing Co. Limited has seven team of horses, two National, three and a half ton trucks, a Fordson tractor and three trailers for haulage purposes. Among the different kinds of wood that he cuts up in his busy sawmill at Goderich are soft and rock elm, hard and soft maple beech, birch, white and red oak, hickory, cherry, bass- wood and ash. The largest quantities, however, are maple, elm and basswood. "'; Baechler was born in Sarnia, the son of Xavier Baechler who built a sawmill in that city now owned and operated by the Cleveland-Sarnia Sawmills Co. Ltd, which they acquired in 1901. Baechler, Jr., continued to work for the new proprietors until 1905 and got a thorough grounding in all departments of the mill. Then he launched out for himself at Camlachie, fifteen miles from Sarnia where he operated a hardwood mill for seven years. Associated with his brothers he acquired in 1909 the well-known plant of the God
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