Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-02-03
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS.
Changes Being Made I'm the Mil Of the
ChebOygan Lumber Company.--A
New Engine Received this Week.

ChebOygan Lumber COmpany.--A
New Engine Received this Week.
Important Improvements are being
made this winter in the saw mill Of the
ChebOygan Lumber company which will
add very much to its capacity for manu-
featuring lumber, and render the work
much easier, as several convent
ences for handling logs and lumber are
being put in. As stated sometime since,
a new circular mill is being put in on
the east side of the mill, with a daily
capacity of $4,000 to 10000 feet. I'm
provements have been made to the jack
ladder. Two large nigger-heads have
been put in to throw the logs from the
slide, one for each circular; flippers have
been added which takes the cants as
they come from the circular saws and
throws them over in front of the gang.
New carriages and saw frames have
been built, and the new circular is pro-
vided with steam feed and live rollers,
same as the old mill. The edger has
been rebuilt and several Improvements
added. In fact the whole of the ma
chinery is being overhauled and made
as good as new. The basement is per-
feet labyrinth of posts, pulleys,s belting,
&C., and is a curiosity itself. The addi-
ton of the new circular and other I'M
prOvements made it necessary for in
creased power, and to secure this q con-
tract was made with the Phoenix Iron
works of Port Huron for a 200
horse power stationery engine. The
engine complete, according to the
freight bill, weighs ten tons, and
the model was made by Henry Burton
craftsman for the Phoenix iron works.
One of the special features of this engine
is the cylinder setting low in the frame,
the center line being only four inches
above the bed, which gives greater
strength. Experienced engineers who
have seen this engine pronounce 1t one
of the best in the market. The engine
reached here the first of the week and
Wednesday was drawn from the depot
down through the Main street and over
to the mill. 1t WIS pOnderOus affair,
and was drawn on sleighs by four horses.
A short distance from where they turned
off. near the boarding house, to go to the
mill the runners cut down through the
snow, and they had to dig quite a hole
before they could resurrect 1t. From
this point it went all right until they
got to the jack ladder, at the south end
of the mill, when the sleigh broke down,
and from there they had to take it by
hand around to the north end of the
mill. The cylinder Is 24x24 inches, four
inches in diameter larger than the old
one, which was taken out last fall.
The fling room, which formerly occu-
pied the southeast corner OF the mill,
has been removed to a large room up
over the mill. To give additional light
i'm the mill and in the filing room it is
the Intention TO build two cupolas on the
roof, the sides of which will be of glass.
Piles have been driven for bridge, run
ming from the north end of the mill east
across the slip, which will make it much
more cOnvenient,to cart away the sur
plus sawdust, and other offal. gJohn
Clark, the efficient foreman of the, conn
pany, is having the improvements and
changes made under his own supervision.
When completed, we predict that there
will not be smarter mill, tor its size,
In the state. Ia ~ -rr-YT'yg' n II