Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-11-25

Interesting Facts
About Big MIL

To handle the present output of
the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany fifty acres of timber land
are cut daily.
The Great Southern Lumber
Company lay and take up one mile
Of steel daily in their logging OPP
erations.
To handle the logging at the
camps and on the main line, the
Great Southern Lumber Company
have IN service continually eigh-
teen locomotives.
The mill pond covers 27 acres.
The number of logs cut month
ly to run the mill varies from 49,
600 to 100000, about $500 per
day, or nearly six per minute.
The daily capacity Of the Great
Southern Lumber Company's mill
is 100000 feet.
The entire plant, except saw
mill, is operated electrically-in-
dividual motor drive.
In conjunction with engine
driven alternatOrs used for the
generating of electric power, at
1000-K. W. low pressure steam
turbine is used, which operates on
the exhaust from the engine room
equipment.
A 200O-K. w. low pressure
steam turbine has also been in
stalled, which operates from the
surplus exhaust from engine room
equipment, and the exhaust from
the sawmill.
Normal rating of boilers in
horsepOwer-4,80 800.
Feed water for boilers is heated
by passing same through water
jacketed refuse burner-final
temperature 204 degrees Fahren-
heit. Engine room equipped with:
One 4Ox6O-inch COrliss engine
sawmill, two 28x48-inch Corliss
engines, direct connected to 500
K. W., 2, 800 volts, three-phase
alternators; one 18x36-inch Cor
hss engine, direct connected to
$50 K. W., $500 volts, three
phase alternators; one 1000-K. W.
low pressure steam turbine, one
2000-K. W. low presume steam
turbine. The 72-inch belt in the
lower power ho-se is 244 feet
long and to make it requires the
hides of 545 cattle,
The number of men employed
on the plant averages 1900 daily.
At camps 900 men; Camp E,
200 men. Office rolls about 100
men. Cruisers and contractors
men bring the total dependent on
the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany over $500 men. The Great
Southern Lumber Company in
1913 manufactured 49,407,200
laths, $4,000, 900 shingles and s.
589,236 box shocks and Grating,
while the shipments were: Lum-
Der 1886 cars, lath GIT cars,
shingles 81 cars, total 1903 cars.
Number of feet shipped in 1913:
226, 1854, $40 feet, of which &c.
153,096 was for export. B and
better grades shipped each year
are about so per cent of sales.
This includes timber of which the
latter is about 80 per cent. To-
tai daily shipments average 40
cars. The lumber and timber
docks aggregate in length 1877
feet.
All sawmill refuse formerly
went to the burner, but now the
paper mill uses from twelve to
fifteen cars of refuse daily and
produces high-grade box paper
for the manufacture Of cartons.
The box factory is operated from
waste material only and ships 40
cars of box shocks every month.
Single mill and stave mill are OPP
Grated with waste only. Notwith-
standing the diversion of this
waste cut out to paying by-prod-
ucts, the large mil is still oper-
ated without fuel other than its
own refuse. The slaves manufac-
tured are used at the turpentine
camps. The burner is 149 feet
high Bogalusa has one of the
largest paper mills in the South.