. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. View of Mill and Sorting Shed, Rainy River Lumber Company, Rainy River, Ont. to garner ideas from the leading specialists in the different steps and combine them. An idea that has had a more or less checkered career in connection with logging operations and still refuses to stay out of the game entirely is the traction engine. A case in point is fur- nished by A. P. Wylie, a cooperage stock manufacturer of Belle Center, Ohio, who recently bought timber in Tennessee an
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. View of Mill and Sorting Shed, Rainy River Lumber Company, Rainy River, Ont. to garner ideas from the leading specialists in the different steps and combine them. An idea that has had a more or less checkered career in connection with logging operations and still refuses to stay out of the game entirely is the traction engine. A case in point is fur- nished by A. P. Wylie, a cooperage stock manufacturer of Belle Center, Ohio, who recently bought timber in Tennessee and has equipped a plant down there. He has an 18 horse-power engine that was successfully used up in Ohio for hauling staves to the railroad, pulling a carload of staves at a trip on four wagons. Now he has taken this engine down to his Tennessee plant and proposes to haul logs with it with a confidence of getting good service from it during the summer season, when the roads are comparatively free from mud. And he will likely do just as well as he figures with it, for he knows his business thor- oughly in every detail and is well enough acquainted with this engine as a road machine from his past experience with it, to have a pretty well defined idea of what it will do. Then the question is, will the traction engine in its improved state become anything of a factor in southern logging? Its record in the past does not speak so well for it in that territory ; it has been used quite extensively and apparently very successfully in the north- west woods, its advent dating back quite a number of years, but its career in the south has been rather checkered—so much so, in fact, as to dampen what early enthusiasm it did create. Several mill men tried expensive experiments with it in one form and another, usually terminating in putting the engine under a shed and using it to drive a small mill or some other machinery. But maybe when it gets its second wind and we go at it with a wider kn
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