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Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1920
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1920donm (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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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144 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER September 1, things, that while jack pine would make rather inferior booms, it would, in point of strength, make excellent props. Thq Use and Scope of Laboratories. Examples of this kind of work at the Laboratories could be mul- tiplied, but it is only necessary, at the present time, to indicate a few of the ways in which they have been and can be useful to the timber using industries of Canada. Sometimes an inquiry may be answered at once from the results of tests already made, but if not, the laboratories are always ready to make new tests and establish new reliable information. Already they have dealt with such ques- tions as: Are certain grading rules satisfactory for Douglas fir? Can red and black spruce be used in certain building construction where formerly hard pine was used, and if so, what rules should govern their use? What woods are suitable as substitutes for oak and black walnut in the construction of telephone sets. Can Sitka spruce be used for tanks? What may be used instead of southern pine for implement poles? Ls any other wood, so far as is now known, suit- al)le for gun stocks instead of black walnut? So hundreds of examples might be quoted. The Forests Products Laboratories of Canada are not an experi- ment. For ten years their exact counterpart has existed in the United / .1 ! T-
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A mine prop tested in the Emery Hydraulic Machine Tests of this kind showed that Jack Pine makes strong Mine Props States, and yearly grown in importance and value to American indus- tries. India has its Forest Research Institute which is this year being greatly enlarged. Australia and England are undertaking the same kind of work. Canada, the Empire's greatest timber producing Dorninion, should lead in the development of the economical and efficient use of her vast forest resources. Nothing can help so much in gaining and holding this lead as efficient laboratories. In conclusion, on the eve of my departure from them to continue the same work in India, permit me to make a plea for these labora- tories. They are not widely enough known to the wood-using indus- tries. They have been established with a great deal of effort, and at a considerable expense. They are meant to serve all the wood-using industries. Hundreds of problems arise that the dealer and the manufacturer have not the time nor the facilities to solve. For just these problems the laboratories are maintained. Unfortunately the man with the problem often does not even know of the existence of the laboratories. He must work without the information, and, in so doing may incur serious loss which might have been avoided. I have .suoken here of the work of only one of the four divi.sion'- 1 he ot three are equally important to the country, and what I would m in this: tha! every effort to be made to inform all branches of CanaH mdustnes directly or indirectly concerned with the utilization of for products, that here is an in.stitution—their own institution—wh work IS to help in the solution of their technical problems, that thev may get in touch with and co-operate with the Forest Products Labor- atones of Canada, Department of the Interior 700 University Street Montreal. ' ^ The Biff Drive in Order of the Hoo-Hoo The annual convention of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-I •viil be held in the Statler Hotel. St. Louis, on Wednesday, Thur^ .^00 annually, as the former levy has not been sufficient to permi the Concatenated Order to conduct its affairs and to maintain properl Its prestige. ^ "I'^w The present dues are decidedly insufficient to enable the orean ization to develop and to put into effect features that have been planne •o increase its usefulness. The Supreme Nine and members of the Hou.se of Ancients t whom the matter was entrusted by the 1919 Annual, announce throue -Snark of the Universe, R. A. Hiscox, their decision to advance th dues, effective for the en.suing year, to five dollars per annum Th advance does not apply to members past the age of sixty-five thei dvics remaining at $2.40 per annum. After September 9, 1920. candidates for reinstatement will b required to pay one year's dues ($5.00) in addition tc the $5 00 rein statement fee. Further restrictions to reinstatement are prospective i he order has new plans for the future, and among the chanee contemplated are:— ^ Placing greater restrictions upon the qualifications for member ship. I'lacing greater restrictions upon members in arrears for rein statement. Dividing each state into small districts. To develop and promote in each district Hoo-Hoo clubs. To compile and furnish ideas and plans for activities of clubs t I rng the rnembers and lumbermen together more often, other tha C oncatenations. Establishment of Hoo-Hoo headquarters in each of the principal cities. Jo provide a bureau of information in each Hoo-Hoo hotel for the benefit of members in good standing. To revise rituals to conform to present conditions. To revi.^e Junior Book and add cross examinations for the different branches of the industry, such as will have a moral and will promote education. To provide new additional equipment for initiation. These are suggestions of just a few of the many definite, thor- oughly-planned and entirely practical activities that will put Hoo-Hoo on a new basis in 1921. It will be lifted entirely out of the "joiners" type of organization.s. Membership in it will rightfullv be deemed a privilege. No More Money to Loan for Houses Over one thousand new homes will be erected this season under the orovincial housing scheme throughout Ontario, and no less than $4,000,000 will be spent in this direction. The points most directly concerned in this effort to provide homes at a reasonable cost are Windsor, Ford City, Niagara Falls, London, Guelph and Ottawa. About sixty new houses are being erected under the scheme in the Township of York, where about $250,000 will be spent on the work this year. Twenty houses are being erected in the Township of Etobicoke, where about $100,000 is being spent on the work. The best work in the province, according to the authorities, wai done in New Toronto, where about sixty houses were put up at a cost of about $200,000. New Toronto is, however, not doing anything this year. Most of the money loaned under the Provincial housing scheme was to men owning their own lots. The Provincial Commission, which received $8,750,000 from Ottawa, loaned $4,000 for brick houses and $3,500 for frame houses. The builder gave his deed for the land as security and the Housing Commission of the municipality in return gave back an agreement for sale. The local Housing Commission in town deposited its debentures with the Provincial Housing Commis- sion as collateral. The Provincial Housing Commission has no more money to loan.

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