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Title: Canadian forest industries 1897-1899
Identifier: canadianforest189799donm (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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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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TM CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XX. Number 4. TORONTO, OfVNfkDf\, fVPRIL, 1899 J Terms,$1.00 Per Year, i Single Copies, 10 Cents. REGULATIONS OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION. The Canadian Commission for the Paris Exposi- tion of 1900 have issued a booklet giving regula- tions, classification of exhibits, and general information for intending exhibitors. The accompanyingplan, which isherewith reproduced, shows the arrangement of the Exhibition grounds and buildings, and will no doubt be found of interest. The Exhibition will open on the 15th of April and close on the 5th of November. The Colonial building will be situated on the Tro- cadero grounds overlooking the Champs de Mars, not far from the Great Eiffel tower, and will cover 36,000 square feet, of which 27,100 feet has been allotted to Canada. Forms of application for space must be return- ed to the Canadian Commission, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, not later than June 1st, 1899. It is the desire of the Commission to secure the best possible exhibit of Canadian goods, and there will be no charge to exhibitors for space. Accepted ex- hibits from Quebec, On- tario and the west must be delivered at the ex- hibitor's expense at Mon- treal or Quebec not later than November 1st, 1899, and exhibits from the Maritime provinces at Halifax, N. S., not later than November 15th. These will be shipped to Paris by the Commission free of charge. Exhibi- tors are expected to dis- pose, in Paris, of their exhibits when these have a commercial value, as only valuable collections of objects of special char- acter will be granted free return transportation. The exhibits are divided into eighteen groups, which are again sub- divided into numerous classes. The Forestry exhibit is placed in Group nine, which includes forest, sport, fishing and gathering wild crops. There are two sub-divisions relating to forestry, and numbered classes 49 and 50. Class 49 in- cludes appliances and processes used in forestry, as follows : Collection ofseeds; specimensof indig- enous or exotic forest products; special imple- ments for gathering, preparing, testing and preserving seeds; drying-houses; implements for nurseries; appliances for tree cultivation and forestry; processes of nursery culture; processes of the cultivation and management of forests; forest topography; forest works, keepers' houses, saw mills, means of removing cut timber, drain- age, re-planting; terracing; planting with trees, turfing, etc.; planting for arresting the shifting of dunes. Class 50 includes products of the cultivation of forests and of forest industries, namely : Specimen of all kinds of forest products; wood for cabinet work and for construction purposes ; wrought wood; staves and cask wood; lath wood, wood for dyeing purposes; cork trees; bark for textile purposes; tanning, fragrant, resinous substances, etc.; products of forest industries; turnery, basket work, esparto manufacture; wooden shoes, wood wool, corks, dried woods, charcoal, raw potash, etc. Group 14 and class 88 includes materials, plant and processes for the manufacture of paper. In this class are placed apparatus and processes for making pulp; mechanical wood pulp, grinding, purifying and drying; chemical wood pulp, semi-chemical pulp, etc. Group 4 and class 22 includes wood-working plant, such as saws for cutting trees, for cutting
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Plan of Exhibition Grounds and Buildings—Paris Exposition up timber with the bark on, for shaping, etc; machines for squaring timber, planing machines, lathes, drilling and slotting machines; machines for making tongues and grooves, tenons and mortices; shaping and copying machines, machine fittings; machine and hand tools specially used in wood-working; machine tools which do not come under any special classification. A curious instance of dwarfism in pines is recorded by C. E. Bessey, of the University of Nebraska, who states that on Green Moun- tain, near Boulder, Col., he found in a crevice of the rock at the summit a pine tree less than 3 inches high and 1/5 inch in diameter. It had no branches, and bore a single tuft of needles at the top. Nevertheless, it showed 25 distinct annual rings, making it presumably 25 years of age. THE NOVA SCOTIA LUMBER COMPANY. The Nova Scotia Lumber Company, whose office and mills are at Sherbrooke, N.S., is about the largest operator east of Halifax. Over one year ago their saw mill was burned, and during last winter they rebuilt, and have now a very finely equipped plant for the manufacture of lumber, everything except the boilers (which were good and not injured by the fire) being new and up-to- date, thus enabling them to manufacture a greater quan- tity of lumber at less cost than under the conditions previously existing. The engine is a 350 h.p. Brown auto- matic cut-ofF, supplied from four large boilers about 50 feet long. The mill contains one live gang, i.e., for saw- ing the log in the round without first slabbing, a circular saw rig, patent edger, and the necessary trimmers, picket and lath machines and planer and matcher. The sawdust, bark and mill refuse are taken by a chain about 400 feet away from mill, where it is burned. This chain is arranged and carried through the mill so that the refuse from any part of the mill can be delivered to it directly from the different machines, in this way saving labor and keeping all parts of the mill clean. The capa- city of the gang is above the average mill. On August 4th it cut 105,640 superficial feet in nine hours, and on September 13th 58,025 feet was sawn in the afternoon. The circular has a capacity of 30,000 superficial feet per day, and lath machine from 50,000 to 60,000 pieces. The company had some 5,000,000 feet of logs held over from last year, and their output in the winter of 1897 was about 10,000,000 feet, which gave them a fine stock, but ow- ing to the depressed markets for spruce lumber they only sawed last season about 12,- ooo,ooofeet, preferring to hold some stock for early spring sawing. They employ in the neighborhood of 100 men in their mill and yards. Equip- ped as they are with gang and circular, they can saw deals, timber, planks and boards to any specification. This year they have sawn principally English deals. The company own exten- sive limits of the very best spruce on the St. Mary's river and its tributaries. They also own some fine hardwood timber, which eventually, if not in the near future, will be very valuable. In addi- tion to the limits referred to, the company own a large limit at Economy and have large interests in Cumberland county, near Shulee, which they are not operating at present. The company is composed of financially strong men, and some of them are the most practical and successful lumbermen in the eastern provinces. John W. Seaman is the manager and G. K. Prescolt assistant. Hon. W. T. Pipes and Dr. Hewson, of Amherst, John Gillespie, manager of Prescott, Gillespie & Co, Shulee, and Job Seaman, Barronsfield, are members of the company. Sherbrooke is about 140 miles east of Halifax, and very prettily situated, 6 miles up the St. Mary's river. The nearest railway station is Antigonish, 40 miles distant. IT IS GOOD VALUE. Mr. John Stanford, of Chester, Nova Scotia, writes regarding the Canada Lumberman: "The weekly number is worth the amount to any one in the busi- ness."

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