. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. -- The extensive plant of the Shevlin - Clarke Co., Limited, at Fort Frances, Ont. The annual capacity is 125,000,000 feet of white and norway pine lumber. Busy Activities of Progressive Lumber Firm The Shevlin-Clarke Company's twin sawmills at Fort Frances, Ontario, are giving employment to some 400 men. Last year the mills began operating on the 25th of March, or three weeks earlier than this year, but it must be remembered that the Spring of 1920 was
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. -- The extensive plant of the Shevlin - Clarke Co., Limited, at Fort Frances, Ont. The annual capacity is 125,000,000 feet of white and norway pine lumber. Busy Activities of Progressive Lumber Firm The Shevlin-Clarke Company's twin sawmills at Fort Frances, Ontario, are giving employment to some 400 men. Last year the mills began operating on the 25th of March, or three weeks earlier than this year, but it must be remembered that the Spring of 1920 was very favorable for early lumbering. Both mills will operate during the day and one of them will continue with a night shift, which means that they will produce to about 75% capacity. The company have suffi- cient logs in storage at the mill; with what additional logs will be rail- ed in from Flanders, to keep the plant going until the tows begin to arrive. The large boarding house, owned by the company, on Scott Street, is filled up and nearly 200 men are located there. The Shevlin-Clarke Co. have taken over the retail operations of the Corona Lumber Co. and are disposing of their product direct to the consumer by retail as well as wholesale. A large proportion of the coming season's cut south of Flanders and on the borders of the Quet- ico River will be brought to the mills by water. It is stated that the distance which these logs have to be brought means that some of them may not reach the boom at the mill before late Summer and a consid- erable proportion will not arrive until the Spring of next year. Speaking of the prospects of lumber production and demand for the coming season, J. A. Mathieu, M. , vice president and manager, recently said that lumber was one of the last commercial products to rise in price, due to the war, and one of the first to drop. There has been very considerable reduction in lumber prices fom the peak market and it is improbable that any further
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