The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-08

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VIRGINIA & Rainy Lake Co. Start Con
struction Work on Several Additions
to Their Enormous Virginia Plaat.
The importance of the industr,
represented by the Virginia < RAIN
Lake Company to the prosperity o
this city is but family realized b,
many Vir9inians who indirectly
participate in the commercial activ
ity attendant upon the continued
improvement of the plant and addi
tions to the force of employees O
this, the largest numbering concern
IN the world today.
At the present time work in pro
gress and in contemplation at thu
plant means the outlay of hundreds
of thousands of dollars, aud wher
complete will Of necessity add ma
terially not only the to army of men
at the local plant but also to the
vast aggregation of sturdy woods
men who furnish the timber supply
for same and whose hard-earued
dollars filter through the channels
of local commerce. During the pas,
week the company has commenced
work on the erection of new boiler
house Skies feet aud an engine
room 48x68 feet in connection with
the "old MILL" which mill will be
closed the first of the coming month
and torn down to make room for a
new and modern mill structure, liz
x240 feet, to be equipped with two
bands and two reeaws. The power
equipment for this new plant will
comprise complement of IA boil
ers, furnishing power both for this
mill and for the electrically driven
machines for the new planning mill.
Work on the new planning mill is
also commenced this week, as also
the dry kiln and connecting shed,
the entire structure, situate south
west of the old mill being over 600
feet in length, the new planer to be
256x356 feet, the dry 150x350 feet, the
two to be connected by a shed 4Ox
225 feet. These buildings will be
all steel, and will permit of running
full train under cover for loading
purposes.
The improvements at the big new
mill of the plant, which has been
practically rebuilt and greatly en-.
larged during the past sixty days,
make ofathis building a structure
112x33O feet, and when connected up
will be equipped with three band
saws, 81 inch gang saw and two
resaws. Two new boilers are being
added to the power complement at
this mill, making thirteen boilers
in all.
The new planer will be SO feet in
heighth and will contain 80 electri
cally driven machines. A new shav-
ing vault for the care of refuse from
the old mill is under construction,
to be 5Ox75 feet and 70 feet high.
The company has at the present
time several miles of tramways in
their piling yards, but to care for
the increased cut of the big mills
will practically double the capacity
of their yards, pile.driving on these
extensions, to the east of their pres-
ent yard, being commenced yester.
day. ,~nr -
The handsome new Office build
ing fast approaches completion aud
the general offices of the company
will shortly be moved to this city
from Duluth, making of this big
industry a more essentially Virginia
institution.
AT thu: present time force of 1900
men tindlremunerative employment
in the mills and yards, and in con-
junction with the army of woods.
men whose earnings reach the ave.
nues of trade through Virginia, the
total number OF men in the CON-
pauy's employ who indirectly assist
in making of this city the CONNER.
cial center of the range is upwards