. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Scaling Bank Logs. Springhill, above Fredericton Bottom Makers at Work, Douglas Boom. Two Scalers, Scaling Joint, Douglas Boom 15 feet on the American side of the river. About 75 men are em- ployed at this gap and they sort over 150 million feet of logs, of which forty million stay at Van Buren for the St. John Lumber Co. St. John River Log Driving Company's Operations The first shear booms are hung at Crock's Point, called the Crock's Point Shears, which
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Scaling Bank Logs. Springhill, above Fredericton Bottom Makers at Work, Douglas Boom. Two Scalers, Scaling Joint, Douglas Boom 15 feet on the American side of the river. About 75 men are em- ployed at this gap and they sort over 150 million feet of logs, of which forty million stay at Van Buren for the St. John Lumber Co. St. John River Log Driving Company's Operations The first shear booms are hung at Crock's Point, called the Crock's Point Shears, which is the head of the works. It is not like a single log boom, hung with the current, but is four logs wide, with hinged fins and cables on the back of them so they can be worked in and out by means of a winch, and men are stationed there day and night to open and close them for navigation. The upper boom is adjustable, shearing across the river into Sugar Island or with a less slant across the river into Douglas boom for sorting and rafting. These booms are arranged between two is- lands on the eastern or channel side. The lower boom is below Fredericton. It is not often necessary to feed these lower booms directly by leaving the upper shears free so that logs may go down, since there is such a passage of rafts, boats and steamers of different kinds during the day that in the openings and closings enough logs pass down river to supply the lower sorting booms. In the first case the logs are all allowed to run in the open- ings when the shears are open. Any logs that go through go down below the city of Fredericton and with shears are turned into the Mitchell, a rafting boom, but not of large capacity. If this boom becomes more than full, its logs can be turned into the Gill or Glacier boom which is a holding boom below Fredericton. Putting on Loaders with Parbuckle, Douglas Boom not always to be trusted. They are an assistance in sorting, but the axe mark is the one by which the
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