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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1912
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1912donm (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fallers at Work, Showing Springboards Barker at Work on Fir Log Typical Small B.C. Logging Operation Description of the Methods Employed in Taking Out Logs in a Camp of Twenty Men -Costs of the Work Bv G. H. Prince Logging operations in British Columbia are a very different proposition from those in eastern Canada. The great size of many of the trees, the different climatic conditions and the employment of Hindu, Chinese and Japanese laborers all combine to make the logging business an entirely new experience for anyone who enters it after being accustomed to the conditions in other parts of Canada. Readers of the Canada Lumberman are already fairly familiar with the principal points of difference, but will be interested nevertheless in the following description which was written by Mr. G. H. Prince, a member of the class of 1912 in the New Brunswick school of for- estry. Mr. Prince had the good fortune to visit and study the oper- ations of the Timberland Lumber Co., Ltd., whose head office is at New Westminster, B.C. The site of the logging operations, which he describes, was at Craig's siding, about twelve miles from Van- couver on the line of the British Columbia Electric Railway to Chilli- wack. The land which was being operated was fairly level and not more than one hundred feet above the sea. In spots it was very swampy, the water was boggy and highly colored and quite unfit for drinking, although suitable for using in the engines. The Timber- land Lumber Co. was under contract with the British Columbia Elec- tric Railway Co. to clear entirelv, for a distance of two hundred feet on each side of the track, several miles of railway. The object of the clearing was to prevent wind-falls from breaking the wires as these breaks were very costly to the company, the lo<^ often amount- ing to $1,000 in time for repairs, burnt out fuses, etc. This section of the country had never been logged over before, hut forest fires had swept over it about one hundred and sixty years ago, remains of the old stumps and scars on some of the oldest trees bearing unquestionable evidence of this fact. The average age of the trees upon these limits was from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty years. About 70 per cent, of the timber was red fir; 10 per cent. Western red cedar; 10 per cent. Sitka spruce; 5 per cent, western white pine and 5 per cent, western hemlock. The aver- age production of the land was about 45,000 feet b.m. per acre, and tlie trees averaged up to 60 in. in diameter, breast high, and con- tained an average of two hundred feet of merchantable length. The fire protection upon the property was attended to by the Dominion Government fire ranger, who visited the region and traversed its length once a week. In case of fire he was empowered to employ the necessary number of men to extinguish the flames. The nature of the stand of timber was such that nearly all of the trees were larger and suitable for saw timber and for ties. The

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