Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-04
VOL. 81.
A Complete Plant.

IHE CAMEkON SOCNli NS'' "oNAN
be interested in home industries, L
shall try and interest your readers with
description of the new mill OF the Z.
r Howard Co. This firm has been
doino business in Emporium for years,
and are very favorably known among
lumbermen throughout the State. This
new mill is ssituated about three-fourths
of a mile from town on the line OF the
Emporium and Rich Valley R. R. and
about the first thing that the visitor
notices is the substantial structure OF
the mill, and also of the lumber yard.
1t looks as though it was built to stay.
Passing from the main road to the mill,
the engine room is reached first. Here
is power plant worth going miles to
see. a three hundred and fifty horse
engine to run to mill. A fifty horse
power combined; McEwen engine and
Dynamo furnishes electric light for the
whole plant that cannot be beaten. A
Snow Underwrighter's pump furnishes
water pressure of 125 lbs. for the boilers
and also for the Syracuse, automatic
sprinkler, that the mill is equipped with
this, in connection with the city water
line gives them fire protection un-
excelled in the State. The whole,
backed by three 100 horse boilers set in
brick ovens and fed with continuous
conveyers, and the entire power plant
in charge ofa very competent engineer,
Mr.. Theodore Newton. Passing from
here to the mill proper, the first floor
is reached. Here is main shafting and
belts. Also the ''Hog" and the "Nig-
ger,"-the business of the "Hog' is to
eat up all the waste stuff or refuse of
any kind, and convert it into fuel for
the three large ovens; the business of
the "nigger" is to handle the tongue
that reaches up through the floor and
turns the logs as needed. Turning to the
right and passing up pair of easy
stairs leads one to the saving floor.
Here is all the saving machines, con-
sistiag of one band mill, ,edger, trimmer,
slashar, lath mill, and wood saws. The
band is one of the largest in the state,
and we believe uses the widest band
saw of any mill in the state, of the
single cut pattern, the lumber passing
from the band down live rollers reach
es the edger, where it is automatically
transferred to the edger man. 1t passes
from here down more live rollers to
the trimmer. Here all bad ends are
cut of, and the lumber trimmed up to
even lengths. Leaving the trimmer ii
runs down more live rollers until it
strikes an automatic bumper, which
throws it on transfer chains, that takes
it along the sorting dock. Here is an
invention of one of the firm, Mr.. Henry
Auchu, and is one of the most labor
saving contrivances used in the manu-
facture of lumber. 1t consists of a live
roller, running the entire length of the
shed, so situated, that by bearing down
on the end next to the truck the lum
Der runs to the truck mainly by its owr
weight, saving the workmen from hay
ing to drag it across the chains to the
trucks by main strength. Another in
vention of Mr.. Auchu, is a log washer
to wash the mud and small gravel from
the logs. Passing to the right AGAR
and going up another pair of stairs, the
filing room is reached. Here is all tn,
latest machines for the care of saws
some of which can do most anythin;
but talk Machines to sharpen th
band saws, others to sharpen roun'
saws, batto rip, and cutoff, others t.
automatically grind knives for tn
Hog and planer, other machines
that should saw break it can b
brazed together again, and if from an
cause teeth are broken out new one
can be cut in again, in fact it is quite
saw shop, able to repair most anythin
in the saw line. The plant is unde
the foremanship, of Mr.. Truman Cal
penter, who is very efficient mil
wright. If the visitor will take th
trouble TO talk with the men, he wi
find them a very fine body of workme
and will say that in twenty-five yeal
saw mill experience in different local
ties, of different states comprising bot
oil and coal country, | have nevC
found such a contcuted body of worl
men, as those employed by the G.
Howard Lumber Co, of Emporium
They aro paid good wages and al
treated like men. 1t is needless to 81
that such treatment is fully apprecia
ed by the workmen. If all compani
would do as well by their men, az
treat them as though they We're mo
then labor troubles would be- uuimoN
and strikes tailr off t.e past. lru
and eapi'aleertam'yH observation-disclosures
as neither can do without the 9th,
Bat from ny oEp.riausr 1 tts cu
country there win always be ul.e
lr-s t..u1 tiu. W#I .un Clover