The record-union., 1896-11-16

run, or 100000 feet in the twenty-four
hours, as the company intends to run
two crews of men. The company owns
thousands of acres of the finest sugar
pine on the Pacific Coast, and their
logging plant is complete with rail-
road, logging and bull donkey engines
yarding and loading logs that are
brought by railroad to the end OF
chute, down which they are sent to the
American River. This chute is a great
feature of their logging. 1t is very
steep but straight, and the log fails
half mile in twenty seconds. AT the
foot of the chute is a large dam, into
which the logs strike, very deep water
preventing any splitting or breaking
This chute is on the south fork or the
American River, forty-five or n1ty
miles from Folsom.
The logs are then driven down the
river to the Folsom dam, where tnere
has been built a very strong boom Oh
solid masonry piers, strong enough 10
withstand any flood. The logs are
taken from the boom as needed ana
fioated down canal to the mill,
distance of a mile and a half. inns
canal furnishes the water to drive the
electric generators. During the build
ing of this dam a log chute or by
pass was constructed SO that logs
could be taken from the boom and let
into the canal without interfering with
the State plant or any part of the
power plant The log basin will hold
1.000,0 600 feet of logs, and can be hiled
in one day from the boom. One very
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log basin is that before the winter
floods come the boom can emptied OF
logs and about 100000 feet can be
safely held in the canal and log basin,
enabling the mill to run until new
lot is run down the river. There is now
5000 600 feet Of logs ready for saving
at the mill
One of the great features of this mill
is the small amount of betting and
shafting required. The band mill, an
Allis, will be a 9-foot mill, 14-inch
saws, 81 feet long, and will be driven
by an electric motor direct through
cut gear, one spar mortise gear hard
maple filled 3S-inch diameter, 10-inch
face, one cast-iron pinion to mesh with
spur mortise gear, 21-inch diameter H.
inch face, teeth cut in milling machine,
and nicely fitted This motor will be
10 H. p. of the induction type. The
carriage and feed will be run by
a 80 H. P. induction motor, using
10-inch belt 26 feet long, which makes
the feet and gig. The overhead canter
is run from the same motor, using a
10-inch belt 36 feet long. The log haul
is double-geared, with endless chain
using chains and spurs and is run by
a 80 H. P. motor attached direct. The
motor runs a fan for blowing saw
dust to a house built for its reception.
One 6-inch belt runs the fan.
The gang-edger is driven by a fifty
horse power motor running / 200 revo-
lutions per minute and attached direct
on the saw arbor, using six twenty
four-inch saws. There will be no belt
ing or shafting on the edger. A thirty
horsepower motor drives a twelve
saw gang trimmer, two sets of live rolls,
conveyors from live rolls to edger, and
a thirty-four-foot slab conveyor to
convey lumber from trimmer to rolls
on platform, where the lumber will be
sorted on four different cars, thus leav-
ing very little sorting to be done in the
yard. This conveyor will be driven by
gear attachment to trimmer shaft.
There is also a slab conveyor running
across the end Of the mill, run by belt
from the trimmer shaft, which takes all
the refuse, slabs and waste of all kinds
from the mill, the short pieces dropping
down from the end of the conveyor. All
the slabs and refuse that can be car
bonized viii be used. From this motor
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one feet long to drive the slab saw.
This is the only piece Of shafting in the
mill outside of what comes with and
belongs to the different machines.
The bolter and lath machines are also
run from this shaft The saving in first
cost of shafting boxes and betting is
considerable, but nothing in comparison
to the saving in the cost of repairs and
keeping up the plant. The filing-room
will have a five horsepower motor for
its own use, and will be fitted up with
the latest machinery for bandsaw
work The mill proper is 44x120 feet,
with a 4Sx50-foot platform on end of
mill for sorting lumber, etc. The roof
and sides are covered with galvanized
corrugated iron, and has been built in
a most substantial manner from de-
signs prepared by John Ainsworth, the
capable Superintendent. Most of the
machinery is on the premises and
placed, and the rest is expected to ar
rive next week, and the mill will be in
running order the last of November or
December 1st The mill and box fac
tory will employ about eighty hands.
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