The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-21
Bic STEEL SAW MILL
AND LUMBER PLAN I

have a capacity of converting logs
into lumber at the rate of 125,000 feet
every 10 hours.
Just beyond these saws are other
saws and machinery which trim and
manipulate the product of the band
saws so that the heavy timbers take
on both sides of railway tracks to be
placed on cars ready for shipment. At
the same time the machinery sends
the smaller lumber in another direc-
ton until over a system of rollers and
chains the product is finally loaded on
to small cars which find their way
into the drying kilns. These kilns
are of brick with reinforced concrete
roofs and to almost their full width
having a flooring of steam pipes. The
cars loaded with lumber are rolled in
to the kilns of which there are nine
and there they stay for As hours with
both ends of the kilns closed and
kept in a steam heat of over 200 de-
grees. Having it's steam treatment
the dried lumber is then sent on it's
way to the planer and finishing sheds
where it is converted into flooring, cell
ing, weatherboard, moulding, etc. ready
to be stacked in sheds into which rail
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to parts unknown.
This meager description of the move
ments of the logs from the logging
cars to the boom and from the boom
to the place of shipment in its finish
ed state is not as satisfactory as would
be a personal view of the operations
with the mass of machinery in motion
which is to be an accomplished fact
with the close of next month, but as
it is it may be worth while to return
to the big sawmill.
This structure is fireproof through
out, of steel construction, with rein
forced concrete floors. Around the
sawmill proper for a hundred feet or
more, on each side are what are term
ed the steel docks. These are of steel
with concrete floors and upon these
high docks, of fireproof construction
the first handling of hte lumber and
timber from the logs is done. Here
another interesting operation is me-
chanically performed. This is the dis
posal of the slabs which come from
| the logs. Instead Of this waste ma
terial being taken direct from the
saw to the slab furnace a massive
tower like structure west of the steel
saw mill, the slabs are given a move
ment by machinery so that the por-
tions wanted for further manufacture
are selected and those portions are
to go to the box and shook factory,
now in the process of construction and
for which the machinery has been or
dered and the pure waste material
moves on to the slab furnace and
is dumped into fire which burns con.
tinously day and night.
The next point of interest is the
! boiler room. In here there are IL
great boilers in two batteries of six
boilers each. These boilers are fed
automatic5l by the sawdust and GER
tain of the waste material of the logs
which is sround up by passing through
La LOG This automatic feeding of
the fires under the boilers is SC
thoroughly done, it was said that one
man could look after an entire bat
terry.
These batteries of boilers will furn
ish the steam for the 2OO0 horse pow
er Corliss engine which by direct ac
tion will drive the saws and the 9th
er machinery of the entire mill plant
In the engine room there will also b.
a 300 horse power engine which will
generate the electricity for the bo,
and shook factory in which the mach
inery will be run by individual motor
and also generate electricity for light
ing the mill at night. This system
of electric lighting is of the mos
perfect kind for the purpose of safety
Every electric wire passes throug
specially made iron pipes, thus thorc
: ughly enclosing the electric wires an
the electric light lamps are so aIrant
J ed that no danger can come from wha
is known as short circuiting. Ell
gineer Hill expressed himself as b,
ing especially pleased with havin
the opportunity to thus protect tn
plant from fire from electric wires.
, One feature of the plant notioeabl
to the outside observer is the ropfin
t system which consists of the coverin
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