Title: Canadian forest industries 1886-1888
Identifier: canadianforest188688donm (find matches)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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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
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10 THE CANADA. LUMBERMAN. EXTRA HEiVT PLANER AND MATCHER. WE illustrate on this pane an Extra Heavy Planer and Mat- cher, manufactured hy the Egan Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is one of the beat &rd most improved machines of its kind made, and the detail of i s construction for strength, strain and convenience, is of the most improved and advanced ideas for building first-class machines. All the latest points are embodied, and many new advantages specially peculiar to our machine, and covered by our exclusive patents. The Frame is cast plain, and is thoroughly braced and ribbed on the inside, giving great strength and presenting a very smooth and even face on the ou'side. Tne edges are gracefully curved so as to nearly double the strength of the castings. The Head is of cast steel and slotted on all four side», and the cylinder is double belted. Any kind of a knife can be placed on this he >d, as the double pressure bars on each side of knife are adjustable to or from the knife. Mouldings, patent siding, cove siding, ship lap, beading, and work of that clsss can be done on it to the best advantage. The Patent Adjustable Pressure Bars are placed on each side of knife and inside the feeding rolls, holding the lumber firmly as it is being planed. These bars are adjustable at will of operator, so as to accommodate irregular knives and allow a full clearance. The Feed is powerful and consists of four 6 inch feed rolls.gear- ed in a superior manner; there are two changes of speed, viz : 45 and 65 feet pfr minute. The machine is of large range, planing 24 inches wid*. 6 inches thick and matching 14 inches wide. Our patent adjustable box is a very ingenious contrivance, allowing the roll to adapt itself to any bo»-H of uneven thickness, thereby bers suitable for Carriage Building," in the course of which he suggested that if a timber bureau or exchange were organized in connection with the contemplated Imp-rial Institute, dealers mikht be made aware of the anticipated wants of consumers, and producers could be instructed accordingly. The following is a summary of Professor Macoun's paper:— "Commencing with a sketch of the lumbering centres of New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, the Profes- sor showed that there need be no uncertainty about the supply. Were there (he suggested), a timber bureau or exchange organ- ized in connection with the contemplated Imperial Institute, dealers muht be made aware of the anticipated wants of con- sumers, and producers could be instructed accordingly. There need be no fear of the supply of spruce and larch, and of the coarser kinds of pine lumber, giving nut, as Canada had immense tracts, unfitted for agriculture, covered with this class of timber. It was true that fires did great damage every year, but that applied more particularly to pine forests, as these grew on dry and generally sandy soil. Fire passing through a Canadian forest simply means the re-covering of the land with a different variety of tree, as pine lands, if the soil be fairly good, seldom become covered with pines again. Proceeding then to speak of the sug- gested School of Forestry for England, Professor Macoun went on to treat the real object of his lecture. The elastic woods valu able for carriage building included the shell bark hicko-y, bitter nut hickory, white-heart hickory, pie-nut hickory, white ssh, black ash, rim or red ash, chestnut, cherry or black birch. Elas- ticity he considered to be a property of youog wood, and the greater the exposure the more it is produced. Should this be a considered of no value, as there is no demand for it. ToU is the class of wood they want but cannot get in Eogland, because their own country does not produce enough of it. Brituh dealers re- jected Canadian forest-erown wood and say it ia of second-class quality, and that Canadian woods are far inferior to British. Yet they could get the wood they desire by changing their mode of purchase. Let any competent man go out to Canada and have a lot of young oak, ash. elm, and hickory sawed up into plank of the size wanted, let it be partly seasoned, and then ehipped direct to the manufacturer. Then they would get good cheap raw ma- terial, and with machinery and skilled workmen there was no reai-on why they could not build carriages of better quality and more cheaply than they did at present. The Professor then went on to treat of the need of Canada for a Forest Department, and spoke of their hardness, resistance to wet the beauty of m»Dy Canadian woods for cabinet making and furniture, as well as their uspb for cooperage and the possibilities of the import of wood pulp. The paper indeed dealt exhaustively with the whole sub- ject and was well received throughout. LUMBERING IN MANITOBA. This winter promises to be a brii-k one in lumbering circles, the past season having been a very good one. "Wecould easily have handUd 2,000,000 more feet than we did," said a member of a well known lumber firm. " During the past summer the cut of last year has been all lawn and dispo-ed of and tbe stocks of sawn lumber and lo»;e on band have had large inroads made into them. If the demand next Bummer is to be met, there will have
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preventing any undue strain to gearing and giving equal pressure to each side of board. The Patent Side H^ads, with their spindles, are adjustable horizontally or vertically from the working side of machine. When side heads are set for a certain width, a hand nut locks it and no slipping can take place. The machine can be changed from a planer to a matcher and vice-versa in one minute, and the mechanism for changing heads out of the way so as to surface full 24 in. wide is the most perfect and reliable yet put on any machine. The bick feeding rolls are weighted and the front ones have springs and we think experts will appreciate the change. Tnis machine will stand up to any kind of heavy or light work ash, oak, yellow pine, white pine or hard wood, ai d is specially adapted to large mills requiring a variety of work in both planing 24 in. wide and Gin. thick, also for flooring, ceiling, patent siding, moulding, &c, &c, and we can recommend it in every way to be well bui t, and the material the beHt adapted for the purpose. The L. and T. pulleys are 14x8$ and should run 960 revolutions per minute. For cuts and prices of this or any other Improved Wood-Work- ing Machinery, address the manufacturers, the Egan Company, 165 to 185 West Front St., Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. CANADIAN TIMBER. At a largely attended meeting of the members of the Institute of British Caniage M inufacturers, held in the Westminster Town Hall, London, Eng., Professor John Maooun, F. L. S., Botanist to tbe Canadian Government, read a paper on " Canadian Tim. EXTRA HEAVY PLANER AND MATCHER, fact, there was no reason why Canada could not produce all the ash and hickory for every variety of agricultural implement and vehicle required in England. Canada bad millions of acres of waste lands growing up with young wood, which to-day were of no value, but which in twenty years, if merely let alone, would fully supply the English market as well as the Canadian. The Canadian woods noted for toughness were basswood, common or white elm, rock elm, slippery elm, beech, hornbeam, ironwood, walnut, bitter-nut, white oak, blue oak, pin oak, grey oak, scya- more, red maple, whittwood, Cottonwood. Toughness, the pro- fessor showed, was fouud at all ages of the wood. The three Canadian elms, common or swamp elm, rock elm, and slippery elm, are in their young state so tough that in many cases it was impossible to split them. He had seen thousands of young elms ranging from six inches to eighteen inches cut down close to Can adian railways and burnt upon the ground because they were so tough that they were almost useless for firewood, aod not worth the labor of converting into firewood. Did English purchasers and Canadian producers understand their business better, these small trees would be cut up in Canada of the required size, or merely cut into plank and shipped to England when partly dried. Or, better still, English capital, managed by competent men in the interest of the manufacturer or dealers in England, could pro- duce just what was wanted and forward direct, so that the heavy charges now paid to middlemen could be dispensed with. There was now in Canada, around the old settlements, in fence corners and in the forest, cut manj years ago, an enormous quantity of young wood ranging from twenty to sixty years of age which is to be a much larger cut than last season ; we as only one of man? firms, will increase our cut by three millions of feet.' Other lumbermen spoken to corroborated this view of the case. During the past season there has been a heavy demand for good lumber for railway bridge purposes, and three times as great a quantity was used for this work as there was in 1SS5. From Winnipeg and all points of the Northwest there has been a de- mand for lumber, which indicates that building operations have been heavily carried on during the past summer. All the mills have been rushed to their greatest capacity. Prices are s'iffening and are now from §14 to §15 per thousand feet f. o. b. at Keewatin, and from §17.50 to §18.60 at Winnipeg. They are expected to range still higher next summer if the market is not gutted by too heavy an output. One dealer estimated that there was yet 30,- 000 feet of sawn lumber remaining over from past years when the output was far in advance of the demand : if this winters cut was not so large, next season would relieve the dealers of the stocks on their hands, and place the business on a firm foundation again. A good many lumbermen did not get all their last wioter's cut down to the mills last summer, the drives sticking owing to tbe lowness of the water. There are probably three or four trillion of feet at present on the rivers waiting for the spring freshets to bring them to mills. The season now openirg promises to be a mast active one : and lumbermen are consequently in good spirits. Gangs of men are already being sent to Lake Winnipeg and the Lake of the Woodi districts, and a week or two will see operations in full swing.— Free Press.

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