. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. S OM E 75 miles east of the city of Quebec on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River a traveller on the In- tercolonial Railway will come to the picturesque village of St. Pa- come, one of those delightful l-Vench-Canadian s e t t 1 e m e nts where the habitant and the lum- berjack have been living peace- fully for generations past and where one finds much of the at- mosphere of the old regime still preserved by the descendants of the early settler
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. S OM E 75 miles east of the city of Quebec on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River a traveller on the In- tercolonial Railway will come to the picturesque village of St. Pa- come, one of those delightful l-Vench-Canadian s e t t 1 e m e nts where the habitant and the lum- berjack have been living peace- fully for generations past and where one finds much of the at- mosphere of the old regime still preserved by the descendants of the early settlers. The River Ou- elle flows through the Village of St. Pacome on its way to the St. Lawrence, and during the summer time are borne upon its stream vast quantities of spruce and ce- dar logs which have been cut in the timber limits further up the river, by the River Ouelle Pulp & Lumber Company. The Offices and principal mills of the River Ouelle Pulp & Lum- ber Company are located at St. Pacome. Sawmilling at this point commenced about one hundred years ago, although operations were only commenced upon an extensive scale about fifty years ago, by a Mr. MacDonald, who drove his logs upon the River Ouelle and stocked them for a brief time, after which he sold out to Mr. Charles King. Mr. King erected a water mill with an upright slabber and straight line gang. In those days nothing but pine was cut. A day's operations, involving the work of four shifts, which lasted for six hours each, resulted in the cutting of about 30,000 feet. Mr. King subsequently formed the company known as King Bros., which was followed some time afterwards by King Bros. Limited. The firm W. Gerard Power. Managing Director continued operating until 1903, when the River Ouelle Company bought them out. King Bros., Limited, operated two mills; the one referred to above and a sec- ond which they erected later. The latter mill was a circular with an edger and trimmer. The River Ouelle Pulp & Lumber
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