. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXVIII. Number «. } TORONTO. MONTREAL - MAY. 1907^^1^1^^ CANADIAN SAW AND PLANING MILLS EQUIPPED WITH SWED- ISH MACHINERY. A saw milling establishment which is some- what unique is to be found at Nordin, New Brunswick. This place was by name unknown until about two years ago, when certain capi- talists from Sweden, recognizing the great future for the lumbering industry of Canada, decided to establish a saw milling enterprise on
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXVIII. Number «. } TORONTO. MONTREAL - MAY. 1907^^1^1^^ CANADIAN SAW AND PLANING MILLS EQUIPPED WITH SWED- ISH MACHINERY. A saw milling establishment which is some- what unique is to be found at Nordin, New Brunswick. This place was by name unknown until about two years ago, when certain capi- talists from Sweden, recognizing the great future for the lumbering industry of Canada, decided to establish a saw milling enterprise on the Miramiehi river a few miles from New- castle. Here a thriving settlement has sprung up. and the postoffiee has been given the name of Nordin. The gentleman at the head of this Cana- Terms, $ Year Single Copies, io Cents two engines, one engine being used for oper- ating the electric light plant and for furnish- ing electric power. All the deals and boards are butted in the yard by electric power after the lumber is dried, so as to prevent splitting at the ends. Two gangs, two edgers, and a re- saw comprise the principal machinery in the saw mill. The planing mill department is carried on under the name of the Swedish Planing Mills Company. ;llso capitalized at $75,000. Mr. H. E lledilius, who resides in Stockholm, Sweden, is president, while Mr. O. W. Nor- din is manager. This mill has been equipped with special planers of large working capacitv I would certainly install a circular mill, as the logs mentioned are of a small average and therefore small saws could be used "which would permit of thin guage saws, which would draw the line of saving in kerf quite close to that of the band saw, and more particularly if the stock mentioned had to be manufactur- ed into squares as heavy stock, which I would judge the jack pine and red pine would be to a great extent. "The fact that a great many mill opera- tors lose sight of is the proportioning of their saw
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