. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 22 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN July, 1902 MR. D. E. SPRAGUE. Mr. D. E. Sprague, lumber manufacturer, of Winnnipeg, is a native of York county, Ontario, and before going west was for some time connected with the Georgian Bay Lum- ber Company of Waubaushene. In 1872 he removed to Winnipeg with W. J. Macauley, and ten years later, in 1882, he established his present lurmber business on Higgins Avenue. From time to time he has added such new saw and planing mill machinery a
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 22 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN July, 1902 MR. D. E. SPRAGUE. Mr. D. E. Sprague, lumber manufacturer, of Winnnipeg, is a native of York county, Ontario, and before going west was for some time connected with the Georgian Bay Lum- ber Company of Waubaushene. In 1872 he removed to Winnipeg with W. J. Macauley, and ten years later, in 1882, he established his present lurmber business on Higgins Avenue. From time to time he has added such new saw and planing mill machinery as the growth of the business justified, until at present he has one of the best equipped saw and planing mill plant in the province. The saw mill consists of a circular saw, edger, trimmer, slab-table, lath and shingle mills, etc. Last year Mr. Sprague added a two-hundred foot sorting platform of the most improved pattern, equipped with endless chains and automatic wagon loader. He also put in a cordwood cutting machine, the in- vention of M''- Rowe, his millwright, with which he purposes to saw from five thousand to ten thousand cords of wood per year. This machine is a miuiature saw mill in itself, having a carriage, fiiction feed, kicker, etc., and is pronounced by all who have seen it to be the most efficient machine for the purpose yet devised. In addition to the saw-mill Mr. Sprague has two well equipped planing mills, containing two matchers, two surfacers, three self-feed rip saws, a large circular re-saw, a moulding machine, two swing cut-off saws, and the necessary blowers, shaving vault, etc. This year, a new boiler was added to the larger planing mill in order to supply power for the. Rafting Operations of Mr. D. E. Sprague. many machines that have been put in since the factory was first built. Mr. Sprague has also one of the newest and most approved dry kilns, wkh a capacity of forty-eight thousand feet. This is the only up-to-date dry kiln between Port Arthur and
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