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Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1912
Identifier: canadianforjanjun1912donm (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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Lake Jolly Mill and Yard—Looking South LAKE Jolly, Digby County, N.S., is the location of an ex- tremely interesting sawmilling plant owned by Messrs. Clarke Bros., and W. E. Miller, of Bear River, N.S., men who are widely known in the lumber business of the Maritime Prov- inces and who have established for themselves an enviable record, both as business men and employers. The accompanying panoramic illustration gives a splendid idea of the plant and its surroundings. On the extreme left of the illustration is to be seen the blacksmith's shop, next to which is shown the shed for drying staves. At the far end of the shed, the roof of the carpenter's shop is just shown. The building in the left foreground is the dry kiln, behind which is located the fire pump house. In the right foreground are shown the mill and the boiler house. The boiler house stack which is 4 ft. in diameter rises to a height of 90 feet. The small building in the foreground on the right is the hose house. Behind the mill is shown the waste conveyor and beyond that, a large quantity of logs in the lake which the company keep on hand for manufacturing. The illustration shows at a glance how compact and complete a plant the company have at this point. The logs in the lake are only a small portion of last winter's cut. The power plant consists of three 14-ft. x 48-in. return tubular boilers furnished with improved Dutch oven furnaces, each of which has a grate area of 32 sq. ft. The boilers are tested to carry the pressure of 100 lbs. of steam but only 80 lbs. is carried, being all that is necessarv for the operation of the plant. The boilers are fed by a Northey duplex pump, feeding through a closed exhaust heater. A Penberthy injector is also connected up for feeding. The engine room contains three engines, the principal one of which is 18 in. x 24 in., and runs at 145 r.p.m. The second engine is 10 in. x 24 in. running at 160 r.p.m. The latter engine drives the stave machine and other small machinery. The third engine, 3 in. x 8 in., drives the saw grinders, emery wheels and machine lathe. The 10-in. x 20-in. engine exhausts through the dry kiln or direct into the atmosphere as desired. Live steam can also be used through the dry kiln if necessary. The sawmill is equipped with a spur chain haul-up with live rollers in the bed, a kicker and a steam jump-saw. The carriage is operated on friction feed which is con- nected with steel rope. The sawing equipment consists of 52-in. diameter saws which are operated at 800 to 850 r.p.m. Four 18-in. saws make up the edger. These are run at 1700 r.p.m. A pony gang carrying 18 saws 1 in. apart, 3 ft. long and running at 380 with a 14-in. stroke completes the lumber machinery, with the exception of slash and shim saws and trimmer. The equipment of the mill also includes a horizontal shingle machine for cutting shingles and heading from large slabs, a lath machine, stave machine, 2 heading machines, 26-in. planer, 12-in. x 12-in. matcher and moulder, a self-feed rip saw table, apple box machine, cherry box machine, buzz planer and a spoke lathe. It will be seen from this description of the equipment that the mill is excellently provided for turning out a wide variety of pro- duct. It was built in the fall of 1899, Mr. Thos. Wright being fore- man of construction and having occupied the position of millwright since that time. The machine superintendent, Mr. Warren S. Wright, a nephew of the former, assisted in the installation of the steam plant and has been attending to its operation and doing the machine work since the completion of the mill. The Messrs. Wright are men of long practical experience and have been largely responsible for the excellent working of the plant. With their assistance and with such a well equipped mill, the owners have been able to con- duct a very prosperous business. They have a reputation as being among the finest men in the lumber business in Nova Scotia to work for. As a result they have been able to establish, among their em- ployees, a most commendable spirit in securing skilled labor and are able to conduct their plant in an economically and general successful manner. Exports of Canadian forest products during the fiscal year end- ing March 31st, 1911, were valued at $45,439,057. With the excep- tion of the year ending March 31st, 1910, this was larger than the amount exported in any one year previous. The exports for the previous year were valued at $47,517,033. The imports of wood and manufactures of wood during the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1911, were valued as follows: free goods, $12,647,533; dutiable goods, $4,589,839.
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Sawmilling Plant at Lake Jolly, N. S., owned by Messrs Clarke Bro's. and W. E. Miller

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