. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Exploits River Dam, Rapids and Falls. this bin small chutes run to each furnace and the coal is thrown auto- matically into the fires, while the grates, moving up and down mechan- ically, stoke themselves and drop the clinkers to the bottom of the ash-pit. One noteworthy building in the plant is that termed the "save-all," through which all the water from the pulp and paper-making appa- ratus passes, and any pieces of pulp remaining in the water are secured
. Canadian forest industries 1910. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Exploits River Dam, Rapids and Falls. this bin small chutes run to each furnace and the coal is thrown auto- matically into the fires, while the grates, moving up and down mechan- ically, stoke themselves and drop the clinkers to the bottom of the ash-pit. One noteworthy building in the plant is that termed the "save-all," through which all the water from the pulp and paper-making appa- ratus passes, and any pieces of pulp remaining in the water are secured by a screen, so that nothing is absolutely lost. Any oil, refuse or other material that would spoil the quality of the paper is eliminated by the "save-all" machinery. Many interesting facts and figures could be brought out in connec- tion with this plant. In the construction of the dam and the various buildings over 70,000 barrels of cement have been used. The sewer from the mills to take off the waste water from the various processes has a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons per day. To guard against con- tingencies incident to such an enterprise an accessory steam plant is provided to generate electricity and also to work the pumps when the turbines are shut down. Besides the "mechanical" pulp, two large digesters turn out 100 tons of "sulphite" pulp daily, and. at the present time 800 tons of paper are being shipped weekly by the company's steamers to England. Planned and designed by Mr. G. F. Hardy, the eminent New York engineer, the Grand Falls mills have given to Newfoundland the claim to possess absolutely the finest and most up-to-date pulp-paper plant in the whole world. The logging centre for these great mills is at Millerton, about twenty miles from Grand Falls, and connected by the company's own railway Millerton lies on the shores of Red Indian Lake and is the centre of a huge watershed running into the Exploits River and pos- sessing some
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