. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mill of Emile Stehelin at New France, N. S. Fig. 6—Pole Railway—The Locomotive " Firefly. a saw milling business. This gentleman was including equipment in this case, was about $3,000 siderable difficulty was experienced in adjusting Mr. Emile Stehelin, by means of whose efforts a thriving settlement has been founded at New France, about sixteen miles from Weymouth. At this place Mr. Stehelin built a gang mill, situated on Long Tusket Lake, and driven by wat
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mill of Emile Stehelin at New France, N. S. Fig. 6—Pole Railway—The Locomotive " Firefly. a saw milling business. This gentleman was including equipment in this case, was about $3,000 siderable difficulty was experienced in adjusting Mr. Emile Stehelin, by means of whose efforts a thriving settlement has been founded at New France, about sixteen miles from Weymouth. At this place Mr. Stehelin built a gang mill, situated on Long Tusket Lake, and driven by water power. It has a capacity of 15,000 feet of lumber per day, and is also provided with the planing, shingle and lath machinery necessary for a complete equipment. An electric light plant is also installed, which furnishes light to his mill and to the village as well. Three miles from New France, at Doyle Lake, Mr. Stehelin erected a portable mill ot the same capacity as the one above referred to. The lumber cut at these mills during the first few years was consumed in the erection of houses, barns, and other necessary accommoda- tion, but when these were completed, attention was given to the export trade. Now Mr. Stehelin manufacturers annually one million feet for the South American market and 500,000 feet of deals for the English market. He owns about. per mile. This included grades of three to six per the parts of this engine, but it was finally got to cent., a number of bridges and several embank- run very satisfactorily, and is used for hauling logs to the saw mills. V* The "MariaTheresa" is an entirely new loco- motive, built expressly for the line by a Nova Scotia firm. It has four cylinders of twenty horse-power each, driving two trucks of four wheels each. (( In operating a line of this kind, one of the greatest difficulties to be contended with is the amount of friction developed by the wheels, which do not run on the wooden rails with at all the same e
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