VOL. IV. JANUARY 15, 1916 NO. 12 EDITORIAL CHAT Τ PROSPERITY HERE seems to be little room for doubt that the momentum already attained by the wave of business activity in America is sufficient to insure its continuance independently of external conditions. The conflict abroad furnished the initial impulse, the recognition of which fact is neither sordid nor mercenary. Any effect that this appalling calamity to humanity might have on our commercial affairs was purely incidental and had not the slightest weight in the development of conditions abroad. The stimulation of the injection of more than a billion dollars into this country was by no means confined to the producers of the finished product which the money bought. It reached in turn producers of all material and equipment entering into the final manufacture, from raw material up. And this condition has continued until the wage-earner now has the money to buy the products which in normal times keep the manufacturer busy. This, again, means more wages and still greater impetus to business. And so on. Thus the European War was the battery on which our industries picked up speed until they could switch to the magneto of internal demand. 177 Quality Jelle O PPOSITE are shown views of the Davison Lumber Company's three mills. Two of these are of the old waterpower type. Mill No. 1 has a live gang equipment with a small stock gang. The capacity of the mill is about thirty thousand feet per day. The company contemplates replacing the stock gang with a circular mill. Mill No. 2 has a stock gang and circular mill and cuts about fifty-five thousand feet per day. Both mills have the usual edgers and lath mills. The pictures marked No. 3 and No. 4 are both of the Springfield Mill. This is fitted out with modern saw mill machinery consisting of a singlecutting 14-inch band mill, band re-saw, twin band slabbers with fast feed, and one large stock gang carrying forty-one saws, edgers, box machinery, lath mill and planer. This is one of the largest and best fitted plants in Eastern Canada. When operating in firstclass timber it cuts three hundred thousand feet per day. The Springfield mill is located on a very fine lake and the company spared no expense in the arrangement of a hot water pond. This enables them to run in the winter when most of the Canadian mills are compelled by the cold weather to shut down. The company's equipment includes logging engines and about fifty miles of standard gauge track leading into the forests of Nova Scotia Pine, Spruce, and Hemlock. They have also a small circular mill for cutting hard wood. The logging camps of the company are up-to-date and in normal times accommodate about thirteen hundred men. Each camp is connected by telephone with the head office at Bridgewater, N. S., operating under a private system with the privilege of long distance connections at Hastings. Mr. Hastings, the prime mover in the firm, lives during the summer months in Bridgewater, and in the winter in New York City, where the main office and selling force of the company are located. The fine equipment of the filing rooms will be noticed in the illustrations. Mr. Fred Armstrong, under whose able supervision the gangs and bands are filed, is seen in picture No. 5. In picture No. 6 is seen Mr. Fred Gilmore in the center, who is assistant to Mr. Armstrong. He has served several years with the Fraser Lumber Co., at Plaster Rock, N. B. Both Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Gilmore are staunch friends of DISSTON SAWS, which brand is used exclusively in all their mills. HENRY DISSTON & SONS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Gentlemen: Louisiana. Several of my filer friends have had a discussion as to why one band saw in a lot of two or more would crack in operation, while the others did not. Will some of the more experienced filers among the Crucible readers answer this question for us. Very truly yours, B. S. C. |