Canadian forest industries 1894-1896 (1896) (20338303770)

Title: Canadian forest industries 1894-1896
Identifier: canadianforest189496donm (find matches)
Year: 1896 (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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THE CEDAR MILL —DESERONTO. This mill was started in a small way in 1872 to meet a demand from the L'nited States for cedar timber cut to suitable shapes for railroad sleepers, fence posts, shingles, etc., and for pine, hemlock, etc., cut long lengths for structural purposes, and to saw plank and other stuff for the company's ship work. It is a two and three story structure of wood, the outside walls being lined with brick, with stone partition walls. The size is 60 x 180 feet, with an addition of 30x85, fitted with automatic sprinklers and steam force pumps. The boiler and engine room is fire-proof. This mill is fully equipped with the best class of machinery for the economical manufacture of this class of material and is operated the year round. Its power equipment is a single engine with condenser, and backed by five boilers of 375 horse power. In place of the usual refuse burner, the company erected furnaces over which were placed four steam boilers capable of providing 100-horse power each, utilizing the steam thus produced at the flour mill, and supplying the chemical works and town water works pumps at a fair paying rate. Wet bark, rotten stuff, some sawdust and all "the holes" make a hard looking lot of fuel, but all goes. In connection with this steam plant, on a