. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr, Alfred Dickie's New Mill at Stewiacke, N. S. one hundred and fifty feet of the mill, which is only ten miles from the open sea. The dimen- sions of the mill are 130 feet long by 40 feet wide ; it has brick engine and boiler house 36 x 34 feet, containing three large tubular boilers and a 300 h. p. engine. The equipment consists of gang and rotary saws, patent edgers, lath machines, etc. The cutting capacity is 80,000 feet of lumber and 60,000 lath and palings
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr, Alfred Dickie's New Mill at Stewiacke, N. S. one hundred and fifty feet of the mill, which is only ten miles from the open sea. The dimen- sions of the mill are 130 feet long by 40 feet wide ; it has brick engine and boiler house 36 x 34 feet, containing three large tubular boilers and a 300 h. p. engine. The equipment consists of gang and rotary saws, patent edgers, lath machines, etc. The cutting capacity is 80,000 feet of lumber and 60,000 lath and palings per day. At present the equipment is being enlarg- ed by the putting in of a pulp plant for the pur- pose of grinding the offal of the mill into pulp. The machinery for this latter purpose will be KEENAN BROS. The firm of Keenan Bros., of Owen Sound, Ont., are extensive dealers in hardwoods. In making their purchases they cover the territory between Windsor and Montreal, and conse- quently are in a position to supply anything in tended the building of the new mill at Stewiacke, and then removed to Ship Harbor to superintend the construction of the new mill there. Mr. M. L. Killam, millwright for Mr. Dickie, has been in his employ about one year, and came from New York. He is thoroughly acquainted with millright work in every department, and has proven his ability beyond a doubt in the con- struction of the two mills at Stewiacke and Ship Harbor.,f "Portraits of Mr. Dickie, Mr. Gillis, and Mr. Killam are presented on this Mr. J. A. Gillis. their line. Their specialty is soft elm or orham wood, although they have recently placed them- selves in a position to supply maple flooring in long lengths, or flooring blocks, and solicit en- quiries for dimension stock in maple, birch or elm. They are prepared to quote prices on birch, bass- wood, maple, rock elm, black ash, or soft elm, delivered to any point in Europe. HYDRAULIC AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. Attention is called to
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